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Dorset ‘super reserve’ recreates ancient savannah habitat to boost biodiversity | Wildlife

The mighty aurochs have gone, as have the tarpan horses and the wild boars, but modern-day substitutes have been drafted in to recreate a...

TV tonight: Mo Gilligan is the undisputed king of Friday night comedy | Television

The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan10pm, Channel 4The raucous chatshow and one of the most chaotic and fun Friday late-night fixtures continues. Adrian Lester...

Singer, diva, fashion icon, trailblazer, dancer: the five sides of Tina Turner | Tina Turner

Tina the singer: ‘She put gravel in her voice’Skin of Skunk AnansieI could tell her if she was going off mic, if she’d got...

North Korea slams ‘sinister’ South and allies as live-fire exercises with US begin | South Korea

North Korean media has criticised as “sinister measures” plans by South Korea, the United States and Japan to share real-time data on missile launches...

Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final day of the season | Premier League

1) Defining afternoon awaits ToffeesFor the third time in 29 years, Everton’s Premier League status is on the line on the final day at...

Manchester United hammer Chelsea 4-1 to seal Champions League return | Premier League

To February’s Carabao Cup triumph Erik ten Hag adds the gilded prize of Champions League qualification, and his first year in charge of Manchester...

Revealed: Top England players started less than 40% of Premiership games | Premiership

Frontline England players started less than 40% of their clubs’ regular season Premiership matches in the 2022-23 campaign, the Guardian can reveal, exposing the...

Slot machinations mean Spurs’ search for the right manager drags on | Tottenham Hotspur

There are offers – in football as in life – and there are offers – the kind that, as they like to say in...

Travis Alabanza and Danielle Jawando win 2023 Jhalak prizes for writers of colour | Jhalak prize

Travis Alabanza’s “vulnerable and urgent” memoir exploring genderqueer identities has won the 2023 Jhalak prize, while a coming-of-age novel by Danielle Jawando has taken...

Manchester United v Chelsea: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA reminder of just how close Manchester United are to securing Champions League...

Goodbye to Succession, the defining show of the Trump era | Succession

A fact I think about often when I watch Succession, perhaps the defining fact of the HBO series, is that its first full-cast table...

Hundreds attend London funeral for second world war veteran Peter Brown | Second world war

Hundred of mourners gathered for the funeral of a black second world war veteran to pay their respects to an “inspiration” who had “selflessly”...

The Enormous Crocodile among latest Roald Dahl books to be adapted for stage | Roald Dahl

A slate of Roald Dahl adaptations has been announced, including a family musical based on The Enormous Crocodile, a reading of The Magic Finger...

The top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott | Australian politics

Lenore Taylor remembers the pressure she felt carrying a USB stick from Sydney to Canberra with the contents of a top-secret leak implicating the...

Premier League final-day survival battle is watershed moment for all three clubs | Premier League

I do not envy the players, staff and fans of the three clubs fighting for Premier League survival on the final day but as...

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t rule out further energy bill support, after Ofgem lowers price cap; UK borrowing costs climb – business live | Business

Key eventsChancellor Jeremy Hunt: We're 'willing to do what it takes' on energy bill supportThe chancellor has said he “is willing to do what...

Will an Australian takeover of Skolars revitalise rugby league in London? | Rugby league

Buying a rugby league club in a city that already boasts more than 15 professional football clubs and a handful of union sides seems...

Through pain and joy, Tina Turner wrote herself into pop history again and again | Tina Turner

There is a great photograph of Tina Turner, taken for Vogue by Jack Robinson in 1969, the year she and her husband, Ike, supported...

Holger Rune: ‘I think if everybody was the same, it would be a bit boring’ | French Open 2023

During the quarter-finals of the Italian Open last week in Rome, Holger Rune was deep in battle with Novak Djokovic on one of the...

If football cannot deliver change then its drive to tackle racism has no credibility | Kick It Out

Three years ago the world was stunned by the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of people who had sworn an oath...

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review – boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin | Games

This game never looked especially promising, and now it’s out, it’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer...

‘People didn’t think of her work as fine art’: revisiting the psychedelic creations of Moki Cherry | Art

For the Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry, there was no separation between life and work. As her motto went: “The stage as a...

Chillaxing at Chequers: how Boris Johnson used the PM’s country house | Boris Johnson

When Chequers was gifted to the nation a century ago, the intent was to allow prime ministers two days a week of relaxation in...

Toast mosaics, protruding eyeballs, dogs on scooters: the strange survival of Guinness World Records |

A couple of summers ago, I went to the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. I’d spent a lot of time in the city before, but...

‘This is an epidemic’: inside the Thai clinic taking on westerners’ gaming addictions | Thailand

Muay Thai and meditation, mindfulness and massage: the schedule at The Cabin addiction treatment centre could easily be mistaken for that of a wellness...

Tina Turner and rugby league: an enduring partnership that changed the face of the game | NRL

It has been 28 years since Tina Turner featured in her final campaign as the soundtrack of rugby league, yet such is the reverence...

Tina Turner obituary | Pop and rock

When Tina Turner, who has died aged 83, walked out on her abusive husband Ike in Dallas, Texas, she feared it would spell the...

Harry Maguire’s place in England squad under threat, admits Gareth Southgate | England

Gareth Southgate has admitted his loyalty to Harry Maguire will be difficult to maintain if the England defender continues to remain on the sidelines...

Enciso rocket halts Manchester City and confirms Brighton’s Europa League spot | Premier League

Manchester City had already sewn up the Premier League title, their fifth in six seasons; a three-peat complete. They have a couple of finals...

Brighton v Manchester City: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature12 min: That Gilmour chance was the result of some over-confident passing out...

‘All hat, no cattle’: Ron DeSantis, the ‘anti-woke’ Florida governor running for president | Ron DeSantis

The official Florida governor’s website invites visitors to “Meet Governor DeSantis”. But anyone who clicks on that option is greeted with the message “Governor...

Tina Turner: legendary rock’n’roll singer dies aged 83 | Tina Turner

Tina Turner, the pioneering rock’n’roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness.She had suffered...

La Liga president apologises for saying Vinícius Júnior was ‘manipulated’ | Vinícius Júnior

The La Liga president, Javier Tebas, has apologised for suggesting Vinícius Júnior was being “manipulated” when the Real Madrid winger called out racism he...

Arsenal didn’t win the title for you Dad, but watching them try helped me | Arsenal

“Come to see the Arsenal … you’ve only come to see the Arsenal …” The refrain continues, as it always will, repeated in the...

Senior judge to lead Greek caretaker government until fresh June election | Greece

Greece will hold fresh elections on 25 June, with the country led by a caretaker government headed by a senior judge until the vote,...

Putin’s threat hangs over tiny Moldova, but its people filled me with hope | Nathalie Tocci

While Russia’s war on Ukraine rages on and Kyiv prepares its counteroffensive, Moldova, the former Soviet republic sandwiched between Ukraine and the EU, is...

UK funding cuts to east Africa ‘insulting and shortsighted’, say aid organisations | Global development

The UK has been accused of taking the “insulting and shortsighted” decision to cut humanitarian aid to east Africa at a time of chronic...

‘It will kill the community’: residents fight to save London warehouse district | Housing

Since Ata moved to the UK five years ago he has found his home in London’s warehouses. The aspiring actor was drawn to the...

Cardiff: commissioner concedes police may have chased boys before deaths | Cardiff

The South Wales police and crime commissioner has conceded that officers may have pursued two teenagers shortly before they were killed in a road...

Pushing Buttons: Street Fighter 6 is a perfect KO for both newbies and longtime fans | Games

When I got my first job on a games magazine, there were a few games on constant rotation at my grubby office, and at...

No rhyme or reason: why is poetry missing from the new Caffè Nero book awards? | Books

When I first saw the news that Caffè Nero is establishing a new set of writing prizes, I was thrilled. Since the Costa book...

‘Why would anyone put themselves through this?’ Melati Suryodarmo’s 12 hours of hell – review | Performance art

Wearing a white smock, a woman stands on a field of charcoal lumps. All day, Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo has been crushing charcoal to...

Bears, burlesque and Phil Collins: the Disney songs that ruled our youths | Walt Disney Company

Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book, 1967)“Look – for – the” – and then the pub-piano thump of that first chord triggers a singalong reflex...

K-pop tourism: how Tossa de Mar became a hot spot | Spain holidays

The 9 o’clock bus from Barcelona to the Costa Brava resort of Tossa de Mar is packed, mostly with young Asian women.Seventy-five minutes later...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Beijing and Moscow to cooperate at ‘new level’; West prepared to support Kyiv ‘for years’, says Sunak | Russia

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureUS popular support for Washington’s backing of Ukraine has faded a little but...

‘He’s fighting for our future’: Pakistan’s young voters rally behind Imran Khan | Imran Khan

In a recent video address to tens of thousands of viewers, Imran Khan waved a piece of paper at the camera bearing the result...

Honda to return to F1 in 2026 as engine manufacturer for Aston Martin | Formula One

Honda are to return to Formula One as the works engine manufacturer for the Aston Martin team in 2026. The partnership represents a hugely...

South China Sea shipwrecks give clues about historic Silk Road trade routes | Archaeology

Two 500-year-old shipwrecks in the South China Sea, filled with Ming-era porcelain and stacked timber, provide significant clues about the maritime Silk Road trade...

Taiwan’s choice: who will replace Tsai Ing-wen as president amid China tensions? | Taiwan

Three popular former mayors are vying against each other to replace Tsai ing-wen as president and lead Taiwan through one of the most dangerous...