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Luton v Sunderland: Championship playoff semi-final, second leg – live | Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature44 min I think it’s 31 games since Sunderland failed to score, so...

Internazionale v Milan: Champions League semi-final second leg – live | Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIn Inter’s 3-5-2 system, the most important players are their wing backs, Dumfries...

As Southend face 18th winding-up petition, is there hope for the future? | Southend

Peeling from a boarded-up building outside Roots Hall is an old poster. It shows a glimpse of a possible future, the image that of...

Turbocharge philanthropy, conga to Beethoven, ditch the ukuleles: 10 ways to save classical music | Classical music

1. Turn off your phone and revel in the mysteriousDon’t we all need a bit of time to be alone with our thoughts? Or...

The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody | Deaths in custody

In cities across Australia in 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world, the number 432 was everywhere – displayed on banners...

Gucci show reaffirms Seoul’s status as capital of pop culture | Gucci

Baggy jeans, luxury handbags, K-pop heart-throbs and a 14th-century palace starred in a lavish Gucci catwalk show that highlighted Seoul’s status as a centre...

‘It was apocalyptic’: Tim Richards of Vue on cinema’s collapse and comeback | Film industry

Tim Richards is celebrating a milestone he feared he might not see – the 20th anniversary of the creation of Vue, Europe’s largest privately...

Pompeii dig finds skeletal remains dating back to Vesuvius earthquake | Italy

The remains of two people believed to have been killed by an earthquake that accompanied the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found...

UK’s most literal rock documentary, A Year in a Field, up for film prize | Cornwall

It is a rock documentary but there is no pounding music, no terrible behaviour, no bombastic characters.Instead, the 86-minute film tells the slow but...

‘Everyone is being frisked – how thrilling!’ Fred Again rocks the Outer Hebrides | Fred Again

Other than the odd piper or Gaelic singer, the Isle of Harris is a place usually short of much live music. Visitors comment on...

‘It was wonderful’: Shevchenko on Milan beating Inter in the 2003 semis | Milan

The odds are stacked against Milan going into the second leg of their Champions League semi-final against their city rivals. Two early goals from...

Ukraine: Russia targets Kyiv with massive overnight airstrike | Ukraine

Ukraine was assessing the damage after Russian forces carried out a massive strike of “exceptional intensity” on Kyiv overnight, in one of the biggest...

‘The height of toxicity for women’: revisiting the era of the It Girl | Documentary films

Lose weight. Have money. Give away money. Hire a publicist, even if it bankrupts your daddy. The no-bake recipe for becoming an icon of...

TV tonight: Rebekah Vardy on growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness | Television

Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me10pm, Channel 4A world away from the glossy drama of Wagatha, Rebekah Vardy tells her story of growing up...

‘Separation is the only answer’: Manipur violence fuels calls for separate state in India | India

In towns and villages across India’s north-eastern state of Manipur, some houses have been reduced to ashes while neighbouring properties stand untouched, after an...

Russia-Ukraine war updates: Kyiv air defences at work as Russia launches early morning strikes – live | Russia

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThere were air alert sirens in the southern cities of Mykolaiv and Kherson...

New Zealand hostel fire: at least six dead and 11 missing in Wellington blaze | New Zealand

At least six people are dead and 11 others missing after a “worst nightmare” fire at a 92-room hostel in New Zealand.The Loafers Lodge...

Succession recap: season four, episode eight – nothing is more sadistic than the words ‘Is that even true?’ | Succession

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season four. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episode eight.A pressure-cooker episode, largely set in...

Curtis Jones double for Liverpool damages Leicester’s survival hopes | Premier League

Jürgen Klopp had said there are five millions ways to win a game and in a routine victory that ensures Manchester United can feel...

Punishing heatwave grips Pacific north-west as wildfires rage in western Canada | US news

A punishing heatwave will continue to cook the Pacific north-west this week, after millions of people endured a weekend of temperatures that pushed past...

Briton tells Cyprus court wife begged him to end her cancer pain | Cyprus

A euthanasia case that has gripped Cyprus for more than a year has entered its final phase as a British pensioner accused of murdering...

Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children | Social media

Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the...

How Barcelona won La Liga: the story behind success for a new era | Barcelona

In the end, no one could catch Barcelona, not even the Espanyol fans who chased them off the pitch and down the tunnel –...

‘The Velvet Hammer’: who is Twitter’s new CEO and can she fix its problems? | Twitter

“I see I have some new followers,” said Linda Yaccarino, adding side-eyes and waving hand emojis to a tongue-in-cheek post responding to the social...

US TV shows are ending earlier than usual, and that’s a great thing | US television

It used to be so easy to tell the difference between a British TV show and an American one. The British show would have...

Police hunt suspects after more than a dozen cars set alight in Dorset | UK news

Police are hunting suspected arsonists who caused havoc when they set fire to 13 cars in usually peaceful Dorset neighbourhoods.The apparently random incidents in...

Milan flinch in the shadow of the Curva as moment of destiny awaits | Milan

Defeat was a disaster, but it was the aftermath that made international headlines: Milan’s players and manager silently facing their supporters in the away...

Living in the Alaska rainforest with 1,000 bears: ‘Not the easiest place to be homeless’ | US news

At a bend in a rushing river in the Alaska wilderness, the hatch of a nylon tent unzipped. A slight, curly-haired man in a...

More than 1,600 homeless families left in English hotels and B&Bs past legal limit | Homelessness

The number of homeless families being housed by English councils in hotels and B&Bs for longer than the legal limit is at its highest...

People power: music, film, books and more about the madness and wisdom of crowds | Culture

* * *TheatreNo one does it quite like Punchdrunk. In this immense, immersive company’s hands, a crowd is entirely malleable. With the audience anonymised...

UK tipped to avoid recession; Vice files for bankruptcy protection – business live | Business

Key eventsVice files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionVice, the global news publisher and TV company that was once valued at nearly $6bn (£5bn), has...

Why Trump’s ‘vile’ attacks against Carroll after verdict could be ‘chilling for survivors’ | Donald Trump

After a New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E Jean Carroll, sexual violence advocacy groups and experts are...

TV tonight: Nick Broomfield delves into the life of the unknown Rolling Stone | Television

The Stones and Brian Jones9pm, BBC Two“He was the heart and soul of the Stones, yet most people today haven’t even heard of him.”...

Russia-Ukraine war latest: G7 reportedly set to tighten Russia sanctions; France to send Kyiv military aid – live | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureG7 leaders to target Russian energy, trade in new sanctions stepsLeaders of the...

Thailand election 2023: opposition delivers crushing blow to military rule | Thailand

Thailand’s opposition parties secured by far the largest number of votes in national elections, trouncing parties allied with the military and setting the stage...

China’s war chest: Beijing’s ‘great wall of steel’ faces obstacles to military supremacy | China

Taiwan’s foreign minister says he is preparing for conflict with China. In an interview this month, Joseph Wu said that “we are taking the...

Lewandowski fires Barça to La Liga title but invoke Espanyol fans’ wrath | La Liga

Barcelona’s league title celebrations almost ended in serious trouble when Espanyol fans breached security, invaded the pitch and ran after the newly crowned champions,...

Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback | Climate crisis

By the end of March, the surface temperature of the world’s oceans was above anything seen in the 40 years that satellites have been...

Sam Kerr waits to master the moment as Chelsea’s striker supreme | Women’s FA Cup

Sam Kerr waits. Maya Le Tissier waits. There is a throw-in to be taken and a Chelsea player down injured on the turf and...

Andrey Rublev: ‘I lost them matches because of myself. I couldn’t handle the pressure’ | Tennis

As yet another enormous opportunity rapidly slipped from his grasp in the US Open quarter-final against Frances Tiafoe last summer, a distraught Andrey Rublev...

Brighton thrash Arsenal to leave Manchester City one win from title | Premier League

It is surely over bar the shouting. There was plenty of that in increasingly desperate measure from the Arsenal support but, with their team...

George Ford helps Sale end Leicester’s Premiership defence to reach final | Premiership

They don’t mind telling you that northern rugby matters at Sale but there can be no more compelling evidence than this. For Sale Sharks...

Ajax’s match at Groningen abandoned amid smoke bombs and fan unrest | Ajax

The Dutch league match between Ajax and already relegated Groningen was halted and then called off with only nine minutes on the clock, after...

Chelsea claim FA Cup hat-trick after Sam Kerr sees off Manchester United | Women’s FA Cup

There can never be any doubting of Sam Kerr. Ever. Most players would hesitate before brazenly stating that they had “never been and...

Kevin Sinfield carries Rob Burrow over the line at Leeds Marathon | Motor neurone disease

For Kevin Sinfield it was “a celebration of friendship” as he and more than 12,000 others completed the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon on...

Arsenal v Brighton: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature4 min: Gross sloppily plonks a pass from his goalkeeper out for a...

Turkey elections live: vote could end Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two decades in power | Turkey

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureToday’s election matters far beyond the borders of Turkey. Under Erdoğan, the country...

Chelsea v Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup final – live | Women’s FA Cup

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePrince William has met the players and managers, the anthem has been played...

‘Ed Sheeran can’t go to Tesco, but I can’: the writing partners keeping music stars grounded | Music

Bright lights and public adulation are commonplace for those few singers who regularly hit the charts. But behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such...