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Wigan hold off Warrington but are left with worries for Wembley rematch | Super League

Wigan struck a potentially significant psychological blow for next Saturday’s Challenge Cup final with a narrow victory over their Wembley opponents, Warrington. Even though...

More than 2,000 officers police protests and Champions League final in London | Police

More than 2,000 officers have been deployed across London, including more than 400 from outside the capital, to police the Champions League final, a...

Starmer must introduce wealth tax after Labour wins election, top Blair aide says | Labour

A key New Labour adviser who worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Downing Street says there is an “overwhelming economic and ethical...

On my radar: Kevin Barry’s cultural highlights | Kevin Barry

Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1969, writer Kevin Barry, who now lives in County Sligo, won the 2007 Rooney prize for Irish literature for...

Whatever happens next, the Donald Trump effect will continue to stain politics the world over | Simon Tisdall

As Americans stared at their TV screens early on Thursday evening, listening to the 34 Donald Trump “guilty” court verdicts rolling out one by...

‘She just says blah blah’: why Italy’s downtrodden are turning against Giorgia Meloni | European parliamentary elections 2024

Sitting in the dark, cramped dining room of her home in Tor Bella Monaca, a densely populated council estate on the outskirts of Rome,...

South Africa to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority | South Africa

The African National Congress (ANC) party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political...

The Derby 2024: 245th running of Epsom’s showpiece race – live | The Derby

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMarket mover for 2pm race …Astral Beau 9-1 into 7--1Full details via OddspediaThat...

Owen Farrell leaves shores as one of England’s greats with last starring role | Saracens

Owen Farrell cut a lone figure as he walked round the perimeter of Franklin’s Gardens applauding fans, most of them backing Northampton. And, here’s...

Three inmates taken to hospital after disorder at Welsh prison | Prisons and probation

Three prisoners have been taken to hospital and an air ambulance was dispatched after disorder at a privately-run prison where 10 inmates have died...

Man found guilty of murder of partner in London a day after breakup | UK news

A man who stabbed his partner 17 times after she said she wanted to end their relationship has been found guilty of murder.Leon Murray,...

Should academic institutions boycott Israel? Two scholars debate | Flora Cassen and Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé: ‘Israeli universities are complicit’The academic boycott of Israel is part of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign that started in 2005. It...

French Open 2024: De Minaur v Struff, Mertens v Rybakina on day seven – live | French Open 2024

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureElena Rybakina, world number four, is warming up in light gold on court...

Finding a job in Ireland is easy. Finding a place to live is the hard bit | Economics

Ireland’s economy is “absolutely booming,” says Stephen O’Dwyer, the founder and owner of Dublin’s Tang cafe/restaurant chain. “But it has left people facing a...

Everton assessing ‘all options’ after proposed 777 takeover falls through | Everton

Everton say they are assessing “all options for the club’s future ownership” after 777 Partners’ proposed takeover fell through.The club’s owner Farhad Moshiri was...

UK voters do not want extremes of left or right, says Keir Starmer – UK politics live | Politics

Starmer: 'I think you win from the centre ground' because people don't like 'extremes of right or left'In an interview in the Times, Keir...

Israel-Gaza war live: Hamas views US ceasefire plan ‘positively’ but Netanyahu vows to continue war | Israel-Gaza war

Hamas says it responds 'positively' to plan for Gaza ceasefireAs we mentioned in the opening summary, the US president, Joe Biden, has urged Hamas...

Russia-Ukraine war live: energy facilities hit across Ukraine in overnight strikes | Ukraine

Russian drones damage energy facilities in five regions across UkraineRussia launched a barrage of missiles and drones on Saturday morning, damaging energy facilities in...

Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – hard times in Madrid | Fiction in translation

Alana S Portero’s debut novel became something of a sensation when it was published in Spain last year. It spent seven weeks on the...

What links Dolly Parton with Charles Dickens? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions1 An administrative error caused which town to lose its city status in 1998?2 Which cetacean has the largest mouth of any animal?3...

Tin Oo, NLD founder with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies aged 97 in Myanmar | Myanmar

Tin Oo, one of the closest associates of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and co-founder with her of the National League for...

Thai island of Samui weighs ‘White Lotus effect’ against environmental cost | Thailand

Along the beachfront on the Thai island of Samui, vendors are busy setting up tables covered with souvenirs and sunglasses. Staff stand outside massage...

Lexi Thompson bids farewell as Nelly Korda misses cut at eventful US Open | Golf

Wichanee Meechai became the latest surprise in a US Women’s Open filled with them. She started Friday with four straight birdies and matched the...

Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying shame’ | California

For 73 years it reigned, unique and serene, on a high plateau overlooking the Pacific Ocean: the Wayfarers Chapel, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s midcentury...

Ukraine war briefing: Belgorod under fire after OK for strikes with US weapons | Ukraine

Air raids were declared in Russia’s Belgorod city on Saturday morning. It comes after the White House approved strikes using US-supplied weaponry into...

Scientists develop cheap and quick spit test for prostate cancer | Prostate cancer

Scientists have developed a spit test that could “turn the tide” on prostate cancer worldwide by spotting the disease earlier, detecting where men are...

Things Can Only Get Better group ban Labour from using song | General election 2024

The pop group that sing Things Can Only Get Better – which became an anthem for Labour at the 1997 general election victory –...

Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul postponed after Tyson’s health episode | Boxing

Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul has been postponed after the 57-year-old Tyson fell ill on a flight last weekend.Tyson and Paul said Friday...

Emma Hayes will not change ‘American DNA’ of USWNT as she takes reins | USA women’s football team

Emma Hayes has no desire to change the “American DNA” of the United States women’s team as she steps onto the sidelines for the...

Tories pledge £20m each of levelling-up funds to 30 more towns | General election 2024

The Conservatives have promised to give another 30 towns in the UK £20m each in levelling up funding over the next decade if they...

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies after assault in prison | Canada

Robert Pickton, a notorious Canadian serial killer who fed his victims’ remains to his pigs on his farm near Vancouver, has died after being...

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live review – Andrew Lincoln is back! | Television

Like many, I had to remove myself from The Walking Dead’s viewership around the time Negan took his bat to the heads of two...

Katoto caps France comeback to hurt England’s Euro 2025 qualifying hopes | Women’s Euro 2025 qualifiers

It’s not a disaster, yet, but a 2-1 defeat to France dealt a hefty blow to England’s hopes of avoiding the Euro 2025 playoffs,...

Fin Smith edges Northampton to victory over Saracens to reach Premiership final | Northampton

The champions are gone; the league leaders march on. It was a choke tackle at the end that finally finished Saracens off, initiated by...

Man charged over murder of Amie Gray in Bournemouth | UK news

A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Amie Gray, who died after she was stabbed on a Bournemouth beach last Friday,...

Jennifer Lopez cancels US tour: ‘I am completely heartsick’ | Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez has canceled her 2024 North American tour, representatives for Live Nation confirmed.“Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family...

Biden urges Hamas to accept Israeli plan for Gaza ceasefire: ‘Time for this war to end’ | Israel-Gaza war

Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new peace deal he said Israel has put on the table, offering a permanent ceasefire and...

The making of Jude Bellingham: boy with Ronaldo haircut who became face of Real Madrid | Jude Bellingham

This week Jude Bellingham offered a glimpse into the mind of a phenomenon by quietly admitting he had envisaged these days, just maybe not...

Father and son in Scottish Highlands probably died from fall, police say | Scotland

A father and his 12-year-old son who were found dead after going missing in the Scottish Highlands probably died as the result of a...

England v France: Euro 2025 qualifying – live | Women’s Euro 2025 qualifiers

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe Euro 2025 qualifier between Scotland and Israel at Hampden Park was delayed...

‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages | Vermont

Vermont has become the first state to enact a law holding oil firms financially responsible for climate damages, after the Republican governor, Phil Scott,...

Which parties could South Africa’s ANC go into coalition with? | South Africa

South Africa is facing the uncertain possibility of a coalition government after a collapse in support for the ruling African National Congress party in...

Actors win apology from English charity watchdog in row over board ‘coup’ | Charities

The actors Dame Penelope Keith and Dame Siân Phillips have won a hard-fought apology from England’s charity watchdog after it admitted to blunders in...

Six of the worst: the school floggings suffered by the beaten generation | Private schools

Sebastian Doggart’s article resonated with me (‘It gives me no pleasure, but I am going to have to beat you’: was I the last...

South Africa may face coalition future after Jacob Zuma’s MK upends election | South Africa

South Africa is facing the uncertain possibility of a coalition government after the former president Jacob Zuma’s new party upended the country’s elections, contributing...

Trump holds press conference after guilty verdict: ‘If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone’ | Donald Trump trials

Donald Trump said on Thursday: “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone” at a press conference called the...

Former Mossad chief expresses ‘disappointment’ over alleged threats to ICC prosecutor | The Mossad

A former head of the Mossad has described his disbelief and “disappointment” at allegations his successor at the Israeli intelligence agency threatened a chief...

Boeing production cap extended as regulator steps up safety checks | Boeing

Boeing faces continued limits on the number of planes it manufactures as well as increased safety inspections after the US aviation regulator called on...