News

Ukraine replaces Soviet symbol on Motherland monument in Kyiv | Ukraine

Ukraine’s national trident was installed on a monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing Soviet symbols in one of the most visible...

Leicester City v Coventry City: Championship – live | Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWe’re here to share joy, so how about this?! Souls of Mischief have...

Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast tomatoes, butter beans and gochujang, and cream cheese puddings with summer berry sauce | Life and style

There is plenty of life in the summer yet. The berries are coming at us in waves of scarlet, ruby and black; the early...

Sweden v USA: Women’s World Cup 2023 last 16 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAfter their underwhelming start to this World Cup the US are probably not...

Luton aim to ‘bring a little chaos’ to Premier League’s established order | Luton Town

Every now and then the sound of drivers beeping their way along the A1081, the dual carriageway that overlooks Luton’s training base, can be...

Friends reunited: the life-affirming joy of finding a missing pet | Pets

Erwin Schrödinger never actually owned a cat, but he might have known a thing or two about how it feels to have one go...

Pavyllon, London: ‘Serious drama, both on the plate and off’ – restaurant review | Food

Pavyllon, The Four Seasons Hotel, Hamilton Place, London W1. Starters £19-£69, mains £28-£179, desserts £18, wines from £38, lunch menu £55.50, tasting menu £148Good...

Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm Nato bid, says Sweden | Sweden

The Swedish authorities have accused Russia of trying to influence how Qur’an burnings are viewed around the world through disinformation campaigns written in Arabic....

Netherlands v South Africa: Women’s World Cup 2023 last 16 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature12 mins: Well perhaps here’s an answer – Banyana Banyana look to hit...

Doris in form as Ireland complete comfortable win over Italy | Rugby union

Caelan Doris shone and Jack Conan suffered an injury scare as Ireland launched their World Cup warm-up fixtures by easing to a 33-17 win...

Great Danes vow to give no quarter in World Cup showdown with Matildas | Women’s World Cup

When the Danish team arrived in Australia for the Women’s World Cup, they set up camp in Perth. It was, coach Lars Søndergaard said,...

The moment I knew: we hadn’t met, I hadn’t seen a picture. But when I read her words a humming started up | Australian...

“Do you prefer Sartre over sport? Bukowski over beige?”These words, written by my now-wife on her dating profile, are how I fell in love...

Daylight shootings and a vast ‘labour force of organised crime’: the challenge of ending Sydney’s gangland war | Crime – Australia

Years before his death opened a new bloody chapter in the history of Sydney’s underworld, Alen Moradian was instructing his minions to bury $2.7m...

Is good posture overrated? Back to first principles on back pain | Science

On the first day of classes at physiotherapy school, all students are made to strip down to their underwear. It’s not a hazing ritual,...

Cherish the Championship, its competitive nature offers football as it should be | Championship

The Premier League champions of 2015-16 play the winners of one of the greatest FA Cup finals. One of the original two super-clubs play...

Charlie Hatton defies conditions to win men’s mountain bike downhill | Cycling Road World Championships

Charlie Hatton claimed a memorable gold medal at the UCI Cycling World Championships, winning the men’s mountain bike downhill in wet and treacherous conditions...

From playboy cricketer to populist politician: how Imran Khan’s promises to Pakistan fell away | Imran Khan

From a playboy cricket celebrity with a British socialite wife to a conservative populist dubbed “Taliban Khan” by opponents for his flirtation with extreme...

Wales v England: Rugby World Cup warm-up international – live | Rugby union

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature20 mins. Cokanasiga, who for all his physical gifts on the wing can...

The Mail is stuck in the past – its sneering ‘Woke List’ is actually a badge of honour | Kathryn Bromwich

The rightwing press is entering its sixth consecutive year of frothing at the mouth over the nebulous concept of wokeness – ie, anyone showing...

Brendan Rodgers revels in Celtic return with emphatic win over Ross County | Scottish Premiership

Brendan Rodgers enjoyed a return to remember as Celtic manager thanks to a David Turnbull double that ensured a 4-2 home victory over Ross...

‘I cried with anger’: the trials and torment when travelling with blindness | Blindness and visual impairment

A few years ago, I was travelling from Cambridge to London and was accused by an irate train guard of faking my blindness. “I...

‘One step at a time’: entrepreneur buys stairwell in London to help startups | London

An entrepreneur who woke up homeless in a stairwell at the age of 15 with his first business idea has spent £25,000 on a...

The week in classical: Prom 19: SCO/ Emelyanychev; Prom 22: BBC NOW/ Bancroft; Prom 24: BSO/ Karabits – review | Classical music

You might expect the composer of a major work that had just received wild acclaim at its first performance to relax a little and...

Guffy review – twisty tale of flawed motherhood | Edinburgh festival 2023

Many people hate spoilers. If you’re one of them please look away now. Because it is hard not to talk about Glenna Morrison’s play...

‘I didn’t trust him. But I was curious about him’: how I made friends with my scammer | Friendship

Listen, 2020 wasn’t my best year. I spent a lot of time in my bathtub – actually, a large clear storage tub in the...

‘No holiday has attained this level of perfection’: authors on their favourite fictional escapes | Fiction

Geoff DyerI had the pleasure of gorging, earlier this year, on Anita Brookner’s first nine novels, one after the other. A summer holiday for...

Hypnotic and the best conspiracy thrillers | Thrillers

Conspiracy thrillers can excel in two ways. Some strike with enough chilling plausibility to change the way you see the world, or at least...

Alone: the amazingly dangerous survival show where you might get eaten by a bear | Television & radio

Alone (Sunday, 9pm, Channel 4) is reality TV with stakes so high that the contestants spend each night worrying they are about to be...

TV tonight: Zola, Eto’o and Vieira come out of retirement for Ukraine | Television & radio

Game4Ukraine5pm, Sky Max This football match at Stamford Bridge – equal parts fundraiser and morale-booster – is the brainchild of Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Andriy...

Switzerland v Spain: Women’s World Cup 2023 last 16 – live | Women’s World Cup 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSwitzerland may be struggling to find the back of the net themselves but...

Mikel Arteta readies rebuilt Arsenal for another shot at Manchester City | Arsenal

By his own admission it took Mikel Arteta some time to make friends with the face that stared back at him as he raked...

Holl and Unwin strike gold again as Great Britain women hit heights | Cycling

The British Paracyclists Jenny Holl and Sophie Unwin continued their gold medal winning spree at the UCI World Championships in Glasgow, winning the women’s...

Ché Adams sinks Sheffield Wednesday to get Southampton up and running | Championship

The greater challenges may lie ahead for Southampton, both on and off the field when you consider the brewing interest in their star assets....

England and Wales search for signs of progress with World Cup on horizon | England rugby union team

For both England and Wales the road to the Rugby World Cup has been an unusually potholed and winding one. Nine months ago they...

Record rain helps New Zealand emissions fall – but the path to net zero won’t be so simple | New Zealand

In a small coastal settlement, shrouded by the dense forest ranges of Te Urewera on New Zealand’s North Island, three hydropower stations are hungrily...

Art’s new wave: Fiji turns to underwater sculptures to restore its bleached reefs | Fiji

In the turquoise waters of Nacula Island, Fiji, steel sculptures sit on the seafloor, adorned with coral. The artworks are part of a pioneering...

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis | Russia

Ukrainian counteroffensive going slow but could yet pay offThe first casualty of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was wishful thinking, Julian Borger wrote this week. Any...

Uganda’s Mary Cholhok: ‘Netball transformed my life into something amazing’ | Netball World Cup 2023

There are few sights in netball more majestic than Uganda’s Mary Cholhok in full flight. When the 6ft 7in shooter leaps through the air...

Wiegman adapts England approach as World Cup giants pay for complacency | Women’s World Cup 2023

Having 32 teams in the Women’s World Cup rather than 24 made for a brilliant group stage. Just about every group went to an...

Fears of more food inflation as UK harvests hit by cool, wet summer | Food & drink industry

UK farmers have warned that harvests of wheat, oilseed rape, potatoes and other crops have been hit by the cool, wet summer, raising fears...

Talking Horses: Highfield Princess leads way for the mighty Quinn | Glorious Goodwood

John Gosden, Aidan O’Brien or perhaps Andrew Balding would have been the first names to spring to mind on Tuesday morning as likely winners...

The Guide #98: From Love Island to Marvel, culture’s once-dominant forces are on the wane | Love Island

Did you catch the Love Island UK final earlier this week? You didn’t?! You mean to say you missed the crowning of this year’s...

Mauricio Pochettino: ‘We are building something special at Chelsea’ | Mauricio Pochettino

There is a bullishness to Mauricio Pochettino as he holds court at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Chicago and talks about his plans to...

Oyster festival’s shell recycling to help last native bed in Scotland | Scotland

Organisers of next month’s Stranraer oyster festival have promised to recycle the shell of every mollusc consumed at the three-day event to help grow...

Man jailed for life for murder of Tyson Fury’s cousin in Greater Manchester | Greater Manchester

A man has been jailed for life for the knife murder of the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury during a brawl...

Amazonian prime: why Wonder Woman 3 will be the star of the new-look DC multiverse | Wonder Woman

There are scenes in the 2009 graphic novel Wolverine: Old Man Logan that have even the most hardened comic book fan crying into its...

Fabulous frauds, handsy surrealists and scary seaside spiders – the week in art | Art

Exhibition of the weekArt and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection The strange and disconcerting history of art forgery is laid bare by the Courtauld’s...

‘Fighting two enemies’: Ukraine’s female soldiers decry harassment | Ukraine

On both sides of Dokivska Street and the small park leading to the steps of the Unity church in Kyiv’s western Kotsyubyns’ke suburb, hundreds...

You Hurt My Feelings to The Big Boss: the seven best films to watch on TV this week | Television & radio

Pick of the weekYou Hurt My FeelingsJulia Louis-Dreyfus hasn’t always found it easy to locate big-screen roles that allow her sardonic comedy persona and...

Girl Ray: Prestige review – indie trio head back to the disco | Indie

Trading in their urbanite indie for something slinkier, north London trio Girl Ray have been inspired by the heady clublands of 1970s and 80s...