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Vikings tame Lions, Panthers edge Packers on day of shocks Sign up for The Recap newsletter | And email GrahamSteelers 0-7 Colts 4:17, 1st quarterThe Steelers go out with a whimper again and again. Pittsburgh’s second punt goes deep, Josh Downs is there but spills it and the Steelers recover. Instant red zone for Pittsburgh. They edge closer but Indi’s defense forces a fourth down, they go for it and Rodgers fires a fastball at his tight end Darnell Washington. He would have had a walk-in […]

Thousands throw bottles and flares as tensions soar after huge rally to mark anniversary of train station disasterHundreds of riot police separated opponents and loyalists of Serbia’s autocratic president, Aleksandar Vučić in central Belgrade on Sunday as political tensions boiled after a year of persistent anti-government protests.Several thousands of people faced off on both sides of the police cordons with officers in riot gear standing in several rows between the shouting crowds who […]

Patel reportedly became furious after revelation he flew to visit girlfriend as agency fires official who oversees fleetA top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.Steven Palmer, who had worked at the bureau since 1998, was fired as head of the FBI’s critical incident response […]

The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he’s on screen. He absolutely makes this show‘A new generation of knitters is taking the world by storm,” says Tom Daley, striding towards us in his ankle-length woollen poncho. “With just two needles, they are testing the limits of creativity.”And so it proves, as 10 of “the nation’s finest” amateur wool enthusiasts join the Olympic diver (and recently murdered Celebrity Traitor) “to […]

Guardiola: Bournemouth goal was ‘due to the official’Man City manager hails ‘incredibly coachable’ strikerPep Guardiola praised Erling Haaland after the striker’s two first-half goals inspired Manchester City to a 3-1 victory over Bournemouth and took them second in the table, though the manager also criticised officiating at the Etihad Stadium during his nine years in charge.Haaland’s 12th and 13th league goals of the season came on 17 and 33 minutes, Nico O’Reilly’s third for […]

Former president also praises Mamdani’s campaign against rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis SliwaZohran Mamdani, who holds a lead in polling ahead of New York City’s mayoral election on Tuesday, reportedly received a call Saturday from his fellow Democrat Barack Obama – and the former president offered to be a “sounding board” if his advantage turns into victory.Obama also praised the campaign Mamdani had run against his main independent rival, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, and […]

British Transport Police say LNER worker ‘undoubtedly saved lives’ as suspect remains in custodyA “heroic” rail staff member who intervened in a mass stabbing to save the lives of high-speed train passengers suffered life-threatening injuries, police said on Sunday, as a suspect remains in custody.The member of LNER staff was recorded on CCTV attempting to stop the attacker as the train travelled between Peterborough and Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, British Transport Police […]

Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledgeNigel Farage will promise a bonfire of business regulation as he spells out his party’s economic policies in more detail than ever in an attempt to bolster its reputation for fiscal credibility.The Reform leader will give a speech in London putting deregulation at the heart of his economic agenda, while also dropping a commitment made at the last election to deliver £90bn of tax cuts. Continue […]

London mayor says government should stay true to its beliefs and face down those who claim net zero adds to cost of livingKeir Starmer’s government has shown a lack of confidence that it has the answers to the country’s problems, the mayor of London has said, as he called on the chancellor to back green investment in this month’s budget.Speaking on the eve of a summit of world mayors in Rio de Janeiro, Sadiq Khan said the Treasury should be more supportive of the energy secretary, Ed […]

Canada’s Alysha Corrigan for the hosts and England’s Ellie Kildunne for Harlequins help to light up a 47-10 home winIf fans had been told at the start of the day to predict which Canada international would be the star of the Premiership Women’s Rugby London derby, most would have picked out Sophie de Goede. The versatile world player of the year is in incredible form, after her starring role in Canada’s run to the Rugby World Cup final just over a month ago, but she did not have the […]

Jessica Pegula beats Gauff 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2World No 1 Sabalenka defeats Paolini in earlier matchCoco Gauff’s serving woes followed her into the final week of the season, as the American’s title defence at the WTA Finals in Riyadh began with a bruising 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2 loss to her compatriot Jessica Pegula in their first match of the group stages.Despite fighting hard and remaining competitive until the end, the third seed simply could not overcome her 17 double faults against an in-form […]

In an exclusive extract from her forthcoming autobiography, the former England goalkeeper reveals how her life unravelled during the Covid lockdowns of 2020In early 2020, on the eve of lockdown, Phil Neville, then head coach of England, dropped Mary Earps from the squad.For the first time ever, I began to feel something unimaginable; I felt disillusioned with football and unsure what I was doing in life, chasing this dream that was constantly in reach but never fully within my grasp. And then, […]

Final: India, 298-7, beat South Africa, 246, by 52 runsShafali and Deepti shine for hosts in Navi MumbaiAt last, 50 years on from their debut on the world stage, India’s dream came true: a first World Cup triumph, in front of a deafening full house in Navi Mumbai, as they defeated South Africa by 52 runs.Laura Wolvaardt struck a magnificent century, going back-to-back after her winning effort against England in the semi-final, but while she finished the tournament with 571 runs – the most […]

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Targeting the negativity of the far right, the big winner of last week’s poll was able to cut through with votersOne of the tightest elections in Dutch history produced an outcome so close that first steps in negotiating a new coalition government have yet to begin. But at a time when the forward march of the far right across Europe is dominating headlines, sapping the confidence of mainstream parties, one uplifting takeaway was immediately clear: a less divisive kind of politics can still […]

From a Van Gogh self-portrait to Gauguin’s dreamscapes, new studies show that seeing original art can calm stress and boost healthIn an era characterised by burnout and doomscrolling, a therapeutic alternative is hanging on a gallery wall. When volunteers at London’s Courtauld Gallery stood before Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear, Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and Gauguin’s Te Rerioa, their stress and inflammation levels dropped compared with those of volunteers […]

Laure Beccuau said ‘upper echelons of organised crime’ unlikely to be involved as one perpetrator remains at largeThe brazen daytime heist at the Louvre was carried out by petty criminals rather than professionals from the world of organised crime, the Paris prosecutor has said, describing two of the suspects as a couple with children.The assertion comes two weeks after thieves parked a stolen truck outside the world’s most-visited museum, used a furniture lift to reach the first floor, […]

Back-row made a big impact with stunning try against Australia but might do well to let his rugby do the talkingThe sporting gods can sometimes be mischievous. Steve Borthwick’s vision of rugby heaven is a cohesive team that consistently delivers without huge amounts of fuss and squeezes the life out of opponents like a white-shirted python. Control, physicality, tactical acumen and work rate will forever be more central to his vision of Test match success than individual front-page […]

Mother of Bella May Culley, 19, awaiting sentencing on Monday, says conditions have improved after transfer to new jailA pregnant British teenager accused of drug-smuggling has been moved to a mother-and-baby unit in a Georgian prison, her mother said.Bella May Culley, 19, who is reported to be eight months pregnant, was arrested at Tbilisi airport in May. Continue reading...

Dr Sam Royston calls for a national delivery plan and sustainable funding, while James Sanderson says it’s time for the hospice sector to wake up. Plus letters from Kate Kirk and Ian SperoYour editorial on hospices (29 October) was right to highlight the crisis in end-of-life care. As the National Audit Office’s report makes clear, unless urgent action is taken, the system will be overwhelmed. More than 5.75 million deaths are expected in the next decade, and over 5 million of those people […]

Former coach and Middlesbrough manager candidatesPereira sacked after 10 league matches without winWolves could turn to their former head coach Gary O’Neil after sacking Vítor Pereira, with Middlesbrough’s Rob Edwards another leading candidate. Pereira was sacked on Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after a 3-0 defeat at Fulham as the Wolves hierarchy acknowledged the squad had lost belief in his methods.Pereira replaced O’Neil last December with the club 19th in the Premier League and […]

In response to an editorial on the uptick in malaria, Prof Heather Ferguson writes that progress against dengue, leprosy, rabies and other conditions could unravelYour editorial rightly warns that malaria could be the “canary in the coalmine” for how quickly and severely decades of global health progress might unravel due to the scrapping of USAID and wavering commitment from countries such as the UK (Editorial, 27 October).Beyond foreshadowing long-term impacts on HIV and tuberculosis, […]

Guardian readers respond to a study claiming the benefits of viewing works of art“The research clearly shows the stress-reducing properties of viewing original art,” says Dr Tony Wood of King’s College London (Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals, 28 October). I dispute this interpretation as the study was clearly not designed to allow for the stress-reducing differential between the environments in which participants viewed original artworks or […]

Betting shops | Prunella Scales | Obama again | Sofa dogs | Sofa cats | Riot WomenBetfred has said it would close all 1,287 of its high street betting shops if Rachel Reeves raises taxes on the industry (Betfred says gambling tax rise in budget will force it to shut all its UK shops, 19 October). What further encouragement can she need?John SaxbeeHaverfordwest, Pembrokeshire• As great as Prunella Scales’s character was, I never really cared for Fawlty Towers (Obituary, 28 October). But I […]

There have been wackier weeks in the history of Celtic, but not many of them. This one concluded with their 73-year-old interim manager being serenaded by an adoring support having guided the team past the 10 men of Rangers and into Scotland’s League Cup final. Will Martin O’Neill still be in charge when Celtic return to Hampden Park in mid-December? O’Neill claimed he did not even have any knowledge of when the final would take place. He was sticking to his theory that Celtic would have […]

Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairsThe former Guardian journalist and historian Richard Gott has died aged 87.Gott’s career at the Guardian began in 1964 and included spells as foreign correspondent, leader writer, features editor and literary editor. Continue reading...

Large-scale William Scott works feature in exhibition that tells story of artist’s friendship with Mark RothkoThe story of how one of the UK’s great abstract painters was inspired by ordinariness – and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American artistic giant – is being told in a new exhibition in the West Country.Three large-scale paintings by William Scott (1913 –1989) have been loaned to the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, not far from the artist’s home and studio in the […]

Anfield captain calls some takes ‘absolutely ridiculous’Liverpool ended run of four defeats with win over VillaVirgil van Dijk has called Wayne Rooney’s criticism of him and Mohamed Salah this season “lazy” and has hit out at “ridiculous takes” during Liverpool’s recent bad run.Rooney, talking on his BBC podcast, had said there had been a lack of leadership from the Liverpool captain and Salah this season and that their body language had not been right. From late September to […]

Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lostIf you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalised, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see a generation of lost boys around me. I see young men trying to make sense of a world that seems apathetic to our voices.I’d be the first to admit that there are serious issues facing young men my age […]

Officers did not find additional devices in a sweep of building, authorities sayThere was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard University’s medical school that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said.Police at the Massachusetts Ivy League university said in a statement that an officer who responded to a fire alarm encountered two unidentified people and tried to stop them. But they ran from the campus’s Goldenson building before the officer got to where […]

Bodies of missing man and 17-year-old daughter who had fallen 200 metres found on Sunday morning in South TyrolFive German climbers, including a 17-year-old girl, have died after being swept away by an avalanche in the Italian Alps, rescuers have said.Italian media said three groups of climbers – believed to have been travelling independently of one another – had been caught in the torrent of snow as it pulsed down a mountain near the Swiss border in the north-eastern region of South Tyrol […]

Waitrose chocolates will also be used to lure loyalty card holders in to the central London storeJohn Lewis is to open a VIP space at its Oxford Street store in London as part of a drive to lure customers back, after years in which it has lost ground to rivals including Marks & Spencer.The retailer is to unveil the John Lewis Lounge on Tuesday, with access for members of its loyalty card scheme, weeks after reporting group losses had nearly tripled to £88m in the first half of this year. […]

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsOf all the baddies ever dreamed up in novels, films, stories, plays, poems, myths and songs, who is the absolute worst? Excluding monsters and real people – imaginary human villains only. Carrie, LondonPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next […]

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsHow much washing do the average person’s clothes really need? How often should clothes be washed, and do they really need to go on a machine cycle lasting two hours or more? Even the quick cycle seems to take a long time. Karen Stafford, East GrinsteadSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading...