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Stuart Broad: ‘This is the biggest Ashes buildup – I’m loving the circus’ | England cricket team

Three weeks out from the Ashes, at least one of England’s quicks is in good fettle. Jimmy Anderson is worrying over a groin strain,...

International Booker prize announces first ever Bulgarian winner | Books

Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, has become the first book written in Bulgarian to win the International Booker prize.Chair of judges...

‘A real risk to the game’: PCA warns counties not to end year-long contracts | Cricket

The Professional Cricketers’ Association has warned that a move away from year-round county contracts will hasten the rise of white-ball specialists and have a...

James Dean auction offers unseen items showing new side to star | James Dean

It could only be him. James Dean is squinting and smiling, a cigarette hanging from his lip, and wearing a leather jacket and glove....

Sir Alex Ferguson gives talk ‘gold’ to Sale players before Premiership final | Sale

Sale have been tapping into the big-match experience of Sir Alex Ferguson in the leadup to the Premiership final against Saracens at Twickenham on...

Tottenham weighing up approach for Feyenoord manager Arne Slot | Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham are considering whether to make an approach to Feyenoord for Arne Slot, with the manager poised for talks with the Dutch club over...

South Wales police van was pursuing teenagers in Cardiff, force admits | Police

South Wales police have admitted a police van was pursuing two teenage boys on an e-bike before they were killed in an incident that...

Geraint Thomas regains Giro d’Italia lead as João Almeida takes stage 16 win | Giro d’Italia

Geraint Thomas reclaimed the Giro d’Italia pink jersey and sent a message to his main rival for the overall title, Primoz Roglic, with a...

The council has come for our gnomes and pot plants. Your hanging basket might be next | Phineas Harper

Pot plants, garden gnomes and birdbaths are in the firing line of a new war on people simply trying to use or enhance the...

Photie Man: 50 Years of Tom Wood review – a joyous journey to the heart of Liverpool | Photography

Tom Wood likes talking. This is not just the exuberant conversation of a man excited at opening his largest-ever UK show. Talking to people...

Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe review – from the pathetic to the sublime | Def Leppard

“Do you wanna get rocked?” Joe Elliott asks, engaging 23,000 partisan fans with a mischievous glint in his eyes. It’s entirely rhetorical. Introducing Let’s...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – giddy shenanigans with a brilliantly chaotic Puck | Theatre

Michelle Terry’s Puck is an agent of chaos. She slinks and scurries around the stage, revelling in the mess she has made. There is...

UK growth forecast upgraded by IMF; Bank of England governor says inflation has ‘turned the corner’ – business live | Business

Hunt: IMF report shows a big upgrade to the UK's growth forecastJeremy Hunt has announced that the International Monetary Fund had made a ‘big...

‘Ian Dury was a voice for the disenfranchised’: Chaz Jankel, the man who made the Blockheads funky | Pop and rock

Chaz Jankel walked cautiously down a corridor backstage at the Greyhound pub on Fulham Palace Road. Steam emerged from a dressing room, as if...

Perhaps one day this whole age of football will require an asterisk | Football

In 2008 Speedo introduced the LZR Racer, a body-length swimsuit lined with stiff polyurethane plastic panels that dramatically reduced drag in the water. Essentially...

‘A megaproject of death’: fury as Maya train nears completion in Mexico | Global development

Diggers trundle across the chalky bare earth just outside the town of Xpujil, in Campeche state, southern Mexico. The land is being cleared to...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Belgorod governor urges Grayvoron residents not to return yet; Russian PM arrives in China | World news

Belgorod governor urges Grayvoron residents not to return yetBelgorod governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, has just posted an update on Telegram. He has urged Grayvoron residents...

Papua New Guinea’s security deal with the US is a win for Washington – for now | Papua New Guinea

He may have just signed a new defence cooperation agreement with the United States, but the prime minister of Papua New Guinea was determined...

Biden and McCarthy hold debt talks to no avail as default deadline looms | Joe Biden

The US House speaker Kevin McCarthy and president Joe Biden said they had a “productive” discussion on the debt ceiling late on Monday at...

Succession recap: season four, episode nine – what happened to Roman’s ‘pre-grieving’? | Television

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season four. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episode nine.As if their father’s funeral would...

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland review – civil war rages before your very eyes | Television

James Bluemel has said that his new project, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, is not intended to be comprehensive in its analysis...

Newcastle back in Champions League as Leicester cling to hope with draw | Premier League

Shortly before kick-off Newcastle fans unfurled an enormous banner emblazoned with the message: “Bad times don’t last but legends do.”Those words were superimposed on...

Pleas entered for suspect in 2022 University of Idaho student killings | Idaho

A judge entered not guilty pleas on Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the...

‘Not something I am proud of’: even leftwing Greeks turn to Mitsotakis | Greece

New Democracy enjoyed a landslide victory in Greece on Sunday that put it far ahead of the leftwing opposition, which fared worse than forecasted.Despite...

How does train wifi work and why is it under threat in England? | Rail industry

Wifi for train passengers in England may be axed as the government seeks to cut costs. The move is being pushed by the Department...

Mark Cavendish’s longevity and breadth of success almost unique for a sprinter | Mark Cavendish

The words “end of an era” should not be lightly used, but when Mark Cavendish hangs up his wheels later this season the term...

James Cleverly’s use of £10,000 an hour Succession-style jet branded ‘ludicrous’ | James Cleverly

In the cut-throat world of hit TV show Succession, it is the go-to private jet for the Roy dynasty, providing a backdrop to the...

‘We can’t breathe! We can’t see! We can’t hear!’ – meet the real-life MerPeople | Television

In a Las Vegas casino, a man lifts up his phone to film the creatures swimming in the 117,000-gallon aquarium at the Silverton hotel....

Pete Brown – the final interview: ‘Music gives you a focus, you can see a goal ahead’ | Music

Pete Brown’s camp invited me to the studio in April for what was likely to be his last ever record, due to health issues....

Swagger, power and all-star cameos: Foo Fighters roar back with new drummer | Foo Fighters

Were he not already a singer, multi-instrumentalist, writer and occasional actor, Dave Grohl could earn a living making life’s lemons into lemonade. The ex-Nirvana...

Talking Horses: Dettori gets up to speed on Arrest before Derby farewell | Horse racing

“It’s a lot of lasts,” Frankie Dettori said at Epsom on Monday morning, shortly after giving Arrest, his final Derby ride, a spin around...

‘I stood there with my mouth open. It was a utopia’: 50 years of Olivia, the lesbian cruise company | Travel

Jai Henrietta still remembers the first time she went on an Olivia Travel vacation: “I just stood there with my mouth open. Seeing 2,000...

The Tories have form with far right conspiracy theories. This time it’s ‘cultural Marxism’ | Samuel Earle

This week, London played host to the National Conservatism conference, an orgy of rightwing anxieties about threats to the west and the future of...

Postal desert island: Mull’s residents cut off from civilisation by Royal Mail | Money

The allure of the Isle of Mull is its sense of apartness. In summer, flocks of tourists make the 45-minute crossing from the mainland...

China bars Micron chips in escalation of tech clash with US – business live | Business

Key eventsUK government cuts stake in NatWestIn the UK, the government has cut the taxpayer’s stake in NatWest bank, which it bought in the...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Bakhmut remains ‘epicentre’ of combat, Ukraine says; Brazil’s Lula ‘upset’ not to meet Zelenskiy at G7 | Ukraine

Bakhmut remains 'epicentre' of combat, Ukraine's armed forces sayFighting is continuing in Bakhmut, Ukraine’s armed forces have said in their morning update after Russia...

Country diary: Precious temperate rainforest, dripping with wildlife | Birds

The map’s contour lines, tight and strained, warned of steep slopes careering down towards the Afon Tywi. Otherwise, it showed little of what to...

US and Papua New Guinea set to sign security agreement amid Pacific militarisation concerns | Papua New Guinea

The United States is scheduled to sign a new security pact with Papua New Guinea on Monday amid concerns in PNG about increasing militarisation...

US debt ceiling talks ‘productive’ as Biden and McCarthy to meet 10 days from deadline | US economy

US president Joe Biden and House Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy have held a “productive” phone call on the continued impasse over the debt ceiling...

Manchester United still need ‘miracle’ to win WSL title, claims Marc Skinner | Women’s Super League

Marc Skinner believes Manchester United require a “miracle” to overhaul Chelsea and win the Women’s Super League on the final day of the season,...

Depp v Heard review – Amber and Johnny make for profoundly depressing television | Television

In 2019, Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation, after Heard wrote an article published in the Washington Post in which she...

Lucía García keeps Manchester United’s WSL title hopes alive with derby winner | Women’s Super League

The Women’s Super League title race will go to the final day of the season after an injury-time winner from Lucía García gave Manchester...

Greece’s general election: centre-right party far ahead as votes are counted | World news

Greece’s general election has failed to produce a winner despite the centre-right party of incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis clinching 41% of the vote...

Manchester United v Manchester City: Women’s Super League – live | Women’s Super League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature25 min: City are playing a bit of possession-based football now as they...

‘Money is his best novel – it’s not even close’: the cream of Martin Amis’s writing | Martin Amis

Money (1984)Ad-man John Self shuttles on the red-eye between London and the “smiting light and island rain” of New York, trying to make his...

From ‘exquisite beauty’ to ‘lingering horror’: the secret world of Australia’s herbarium | Books

At the National Herbarium of New South Wales, specimens of plant species are treated with reverence. They are kept in temperature-controlled sealed vaults, in...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureGuardiola says it’s not especially special doing three in a row, every title...

West Ham v Leeds: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureKick-off! West Ham 0-0 LeedsCan Leeds bag some valuable points? Or will West...