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How they compare: Manchester United 1998-99 and Manchester City 2022-23 | Football

How the season unfoldedManchester United: Sir Alex Ferguson’s team were masters of harum-scarum wins in defining matches. To claim the Premier League on the...

Digested week: A beer with Mike Pence to figure out what his deal is? Possibly … | Emma Brockes

MondayIn a reversal of the who-would-you-most-like-to-have-a-drink-with test, candidates declaring for the Republican presidential race this week presented as so singularly unappetising as to beg...

Champions League final tactics: how Inter can trouble Manchester City | Champions League

City against a front twoInter’s deployment of a front two is not an unknown issue for Manchester City to combat but it is an...

World Test Championship final: Australia v India, day three – live | World Test Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAnd if you’re the kind of person who wants to know about Steve...

Christine and the Queens: Paranoïa, Angels, True Love review – a grief-stricken masterpiece | Christine and the Queens

When Christine and the Queens first appeared in the anglophone world in 2015, the name was an alias for Héloïse Letissier: a French artist...

Past senses: English Heritage signs point out historic sites’ sounds and smells | Heritage

Fifty years ago, heritage sites in England were covered in signs saying don’t do this, don’t do that, beware coming closer, danger here, keep...

TV tonight: Lizzo’s live concert will leave you feeling good as hell! | Television

Lizzo: Live in Concert10pm, BBC ThreeAnyone who has seen any of Lizzo’s gigs on her Special tour will readily vouch that this film, directed...

‘We were pioneers’: the Norwegians who transformed the Premier League before Erling Haaland | Erling Haaland

When Alf-Inge Haaland made his Nottingham Forest debut in February 1994, featuring in a resounding win over Leicester, it was the latest step in...

Muchova shocks Sabalenka to set up French Open final against Swiatek | French Open 2023

Iga Swiatek will attempt to win her third French Open title in four years when the Pole faces Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic...

Strength and power of Manchester City can reinforce Premier League dominance | Manchester City

The Premier League is the dominant force in the Champions League: Saturday’s final will be the fifth in six years to feature at least...

Djokovic and Alcaraz ready to serve up French Open feast for the ages | French Open 2023

Carlos Alcaraz arrived in Madrid last May still with plenty to prove. The swiftness with which he joined the elite had already become one...

Jude Bellingham is 19 years old but ready to be Real Madrid’s everything | Real Madrid

Jude Bellingham is a 4, an 8 and a 10 who wore 22 at Birmingham and Borussia Dortmund and could wear 11, 7 or...

Pat Robertson obituary | Evangelical Christianity

Although the concept of separation of church and state is entrenched in the US constitution, the influence of churchmen in political affairs is an...

Five killed in shooting at car wash near Nazareth as Israel sees wave of violence | Israel

Five people have been killed in a shooting at a car wash in an Arab town in northern Israel, police said, the latest incident...

Russian forces accused of blocking flood evacuation efforts in Ukraine | Ukraine

Russian forces in control of a Ukrainian town on the occupied southern side of the Dnipro River near Kherson have been accused of preventing...

Intense fighting reported as Ukrainian forces go on attack south of Zaporizhzhia | Ukraine

A substantial Ukrainian force was pushing an assault against Russian positions in the south on Thursday, in an intensification of fighting that some Ukrainian...

‘It’s unbelievable’: Annecy shocked by knife attack on young children in park | France

It was a sunny mid-morning at the edge of one of France’s most beautiful lakes, framed by mountains and park lawns in the picturesque...

Giant vessel housing asylum seekers could be docked in Plymouth | Immigration and asylum

Plymouth could become the latest site chosen for a giant vessel to house asylum seekers amid calls for the Home Office to be challenged...

Succession withdrawal? Here are the shows to help scratch that itch | Television

This past Sunday, TV watchers not drawn in by The Idol’s soft-core glowering may have experienced a pang of absence, suddenly aware of the...

Supreme court rulings live: Alabama voting districts discriminated again Black voters, justices say | US supreme court

Supreme court: Alabama discriminated against Black votersIn the biggest ruling of the day so far, the court’s liberal justices have joined chief justice John...

French Open 2023 semi-final: Karolina Muchova v Aryna Sabalenka – live | French Open 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMuchova 7-6(5) Sabalenka Sabalenka comes in – Muchova’s tactics have forced her to...

Pet Shop Boys’ 30 greatest songs – ranked! | Pet Shop Boys

30. The Truck Driver and His Mate (1996)Pet Shop Boys’ albums and B-sides are remarkably filler-free, which makes compiling this list hard, even if...

World Test Championship final: Australia v India, day two – live | World Test Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature105th over: Australia 406-7 (Carey 14, Cummins 0) Another sniff of a run...

How we met: ‘He moved in after a month together to care for me – then he kept being amazing’ | Relationships

Spending the summer of 2020 recovering from severe Covid-19 wasn’t something that Adelina had expected to be doing in her late 30s. Before the...

Where did Covid come from? The BBC goes in search of answers | Podcasts

Podcasting’s love affair with the news continues apace. A couple of weeks ago, Jayde Adams’s Welcome to the Neighbourhood returned for a second series...

The best films of 2023 so far | Film

AlcarràsCarla Simón’s award-winning story of a peach farmer struggling to make ends meet asks many important questions about our relationship with the land and...

‘Storm clouds’ over UK housing market as housebuilder warns interest rate rises will hurt – business live | Business

Introduction: ‘Storm clouds are gathering’ for the property market, warn surveyorsGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and...

TV tonight: Davina McCall gets her coil changed on camera in this brilliant documentary | Television

Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution9pm, Channel 4Kudos to any woman who is up for being filmed while getting her coil changed in the name of...

Russia-Ukraine war live: first Kherson dam flooding deaths; UN nuclear watchdog to strengthen presence at Zaporizhzhia plant | Ukraine

Three die in floodingThree people have died as a result of flooding from the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, local...

Brothers, breadwinners, fathers: the lives lost in India’s train disaster | India

Stretching 40,000 miles, India’s train lines are often described as the pulsing arteries of the country, carrying life, work and opportunity from the icy...

Singapore bids farewell to horse racing to free up land for housing | Singapore

More than 180 years of horse racing in Singapore will soon come to an end, as the “land scarce” city state closes its only...

Novel about 18th-century black Briton Charles Ignatius Sancho wins RSL prize | Slavery

If anyone’s life is worthy of a book, it’s that of Charles Ignatius Sancho. The acclaimed writer and composer was born on a slave...

Declan Rice delivers pulsating final act to push West Ham over the line | Europa Conference League

Declan Rice could never have dreamed this. Almost a decade after being released as a teenager by Chelsea, West Ham’s captain and talisman has...

Jarrod Bowen strikes at the last to earn Conference League glory for West Ham | Europa Conference League

It was David Moyes’s moment. Off he went, racing down the touchline, only stopping when he was front of the fans behind the Fiorentina...

Labour donor Dale Vince: ‘I do want to influence policy but not by buying access’ | Dale Vince

Dale Vince has been condemned in the rightwing press as a hippy turned eco-tycoon who donates thousands of pounds to Just Stop Oil –...

‘I still hate LIV’: Rory McIlroy calls for consequences over breakaway players | Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy has dismissed any sense of imminent peace in golf by insisting golfers who “irreparably harmed” the PGA Tour will not breeze back...

‘Former estate agents’: the strange life of the Barclay twins | Barclay brothers

From humble beginnings growing up in a west London house so close to the railway line the window frames rattled when a train passed,...

Fiorentina v West Ham: Europa Conference League final – live | Europa Conference League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureDavid Moyes’ pre-match thoughts It was a difficult decision. Thilo Kehrer and...

Ex-Italian prime minister and health minister cleared of Covid culpability | World news

Italy’s former prime minister Giuseppe Conte and the former health minister Roberto Speranza were not responsible for the alleged mismanagement of the country’s first...

Canada wildfire smoke: millions in the US under air quality alerts – live | Wildfires

Tens of millions under air quality alerts as Canada's wildfire smoke spreads across USTens of millions of Americans are currently under air quality alerts...

Autocorrect can be ‘ducking’ annoying, but we’ll miss its accidental poetry when it’s gone | Coco Khan

Anyone who has spent any time in the world of Instagram wellness will be familiar with the notion that gratitude can ward off the...

Michael Caine announces debut thriller to be published in November | Film

Deadly Game, the debut novel from Michael Caine, will be published in the UK and US in November, it has been announced.The actor, 90,...

‘A watershed’: Meta ordered to offer mental health care to moderators in Kenya | Meta

Meta has been ordered to “provide proper medical, psychiatric and psychological care” to a group of moderators in Nairobi following a ruling in a...

What does golf’s blockbuster ‘merger’ mean for the game and its players? | Golf

The playing of a Presidents Cup, for so long the Ryder Cup’s poor relation, in Saudi Arabia now has to be on the table....

World Test Championship final: Australia v India, day one – live | World Test Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAfter a refreshing cuppa, we have a bowling change. Umesh Yadav revving up....

Prince Harry gives further evidence in Mirror Group phone-hacking trial – live | Prince Harry

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe second day of evidence continues where we left off yesterday – with...

Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published | Edward Snowden

The phone call came at an unfortunate moment.It was late May 2013, early evening, during a leaving drink for a colleague in a busy...

UK house prices ‘in first annual fall since 2012’; hackers ‘issue ultimatum to BBC, BA and Boots’ – business live | Business

Rupert JonesHouse owners or prospective buyers are set to face higher borrowing costs, as mortgage rates continue to climbUK lenders have been raising rates...