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Barcelona hold on to end Chelsea’s Women’s Champions League dream | Women’s Champions League

When at last the final whistle went and 70,000 people erupted, Barcelona’s anthem booming round the Camp Nou at last taking the tension away,...

Jerry Springer: the man who changed US television for better and worse | Jerry Springer

I’ll never forget the time I went to a taping of The Jerry Springer Show with two of my closest high school pals. This...

Meloni praises Sunak’s immigration policies on visit to No 10 | Rishi Sunak

The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has praised the work undertaken by her British counterpart, Rishi Sunak, to fight people traffickers and clandestine immigration...

Barcelona v Chelsea: Women’s Champions League semi-final, second leg – live | Women’s Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature13 min: In the break in play for Rolfo to get some treatment...

Jerry Springer, influential US talkshow host, dies aged 79 | Jerry Springer

The talkshow host Jerry Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati whose work was vastly influential in daytime TV worldwide, has died. He was 79.Springer’s...

Two men guilty of conspiring to sell history-changing Anglo-Saxon coins | Crime

A jury has found two men guilty of conspiring to illegally sell a cache of Anglo-Saxon coins that experts say helps transform our understanding...

Ivory displayed at Prince William’s palace despite his criticism of trade | Monarchy

For more than a decade, Prince William has spoken out vehemently against the use of ivory, calling it “a symbol of destruction, not of...

Microsoft says EU ‘more attractive’ post-Brexit after takeover blocked; CBI to be renamed in wake of scandal – business live | Business

Microsoft: 'The English Channel has never seemed wider'Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets.Microsoft has strongly criticised...

‘Kendall will be arrested’: your predictions for how Succession will end | Television

‘Marcia’s son will take control’All family members, board members and senior figures will backstab and sabotage each other for control at the top. Each...

‘A true genius’: Denniz Pop, the late Scandi-pop architect behind Max Martin, Robyn and NSync | Pop and rock

In producer Denniz Pop’s old studio in Stockholm, above the mugs of coffee and overflowing ashtrays, sat a cherry red light that he would...

County cricket: Warwickshire v Surrey, Middlesex v Kent – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJofra watch:Stuart Broad presses play:DIVISION TWO TABLE1 DURHAM (played 3) 402 WORCESTERSHIRE (played...

Sudan crisis live: UK nationals urged to reach Khartoum airport now amid uncertainty over ceasefire extension | Sudan

UK's Cleverly urges nationals in Sudan to move now as end of ceasefire nearsBritain may not be able to continue evacuating its nationals in...

James Corden says goodbye to a changed late-night TV ecosystem | James Corden

It’s fitting that, as James Corden closes in on the end of his tenure as the host of The Late Late Show, the most...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia pounds Bakhmut; US and EU welcome China’s call with Zelenskiy | Russia

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureNumber of injured in Mykolaiv strike rises to 23Zelenskiy has posted a video...

US House passes debt ceiling bill in tactical victory for Kevin McCarthy | US politics

House Republicans narrowly passed sweeping legislation on Wednesday that would raise the government’s legal debt ceiling by $1.5tn in exchange for steep spending restrictions,...

Bali influencer backlash intensifies as island cracks down on problem tourists | Bali

Luiza Kosykh claims she didn’t know the 700-year-old tree she posed naked in front of was sacred. However, the viral shot captured by the...

Caernarfon Castle’s £5m revamp takes its story beyond English imperialism | Wales

Over the centuries Caernarfon Castle, built by Edward I of England from 1283 as he battled the Welsh princes, has come to be been...

Hellraiser Luca Brecel rocks Ronnie O’Sullivan to reach World Snooker semis | World Snooker Championship

The seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan crashed out of the World Snooker Championship with a 13-10 defeat by Luca Brecel, who revealed he got “drunk...

Police hunt suspect after woman found dead in Glasgow | UK news

Police are searching for a man at a country park in Scotland after a schoolteacher was found dead nine miles away.Marelle Sturrock, 35, was...

Sheffield United seal promotion to Premier League after sinking West Brom | Championship

It has been assumed - perhaps even expected - that Burnley and Sheffield United would be playing Premier League football next season for quite...

Last images taken by Japanese journalist killed in Myanmar in 2007 released | Myanmar

The family of a Japanese journalist killed while reporting on Myanmar’s 2007 Saffron Revolution have released his last pictures, sharing footage from a recently...

BRB2 review – great start for Carlos Acosta’s young squad | Dance

A new ballet company – you don’t get to say that very often. This one is the younger sibling of Birmingham Royal Ballet, a...

‘Like a Bond movie’: Britons describe perilous journeys to escape Sudan | Sudan

After embarking on a perilous escape through military checkpoints and continuing clashes, British nationals evacuated from Sudan have spoken of their nightmare ordeals.More than...

Chelsea v Brentford, West Ham v Liverpool, and more: clockwatch – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSome newsy football bits from today, if you missed any:Updated at 19.11 BSTBT Sport...

Games fakers: Olympic ‘pseudo-volunteers’ plan to disrupt Paris 2024 | Paris Olympic Games 2024

An anti-Olympics collective is aiming to disrupt next year’s Paris Games by recruiting fake volunteers. Saccage 2024, which translates as “Destruction 2024”, has already...

‘I’m going for it like crazy’: Suzy Eddie Izzard on her one-woman, 19-role Great Expectations | Stage

First names first. What does the artist formerly known as Eddie Izzard, who recently announced she was adding “Suzy” to her name, wish to...

Dmitry Buriak: The ultimate guide to the NFT NFL collection

Welcome to NFL All Day, the destination for exclusive collectible digital videos showcasing the NFL's most memorable games. As an enthusiast, you'll have the opportunity...

The best and worst Doctor Who fashion – ranked! | Fashion

14. Matt SmithThe last incarnation of the Doctor in the original Doctor Who series, Sylvester McCoy’s turn has all the playful madcap maximalism of...

The Bank of England is wrong again: workers aren’t to blame for inflation | James Meadway

The Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill provoked derision this week when he claimed that inflation means those in Britain need to accept...

Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut | Theatre

She has the smile. That’s the first thing to note about Sex Education’s Patricia Allison as Kath, whose enigmatic expression matches that of a...

Top 10 aunts in fiction | Fiction

Aunts have always had a place close to my heart. Long before I was one, they were some of my favourite characters in fiction;...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian military aircraft intercepted in international airspace, says Germany | Ukraine

Russian military aircraft intercepted in international airspace, says GermanyThree Russian military aircraft flying without transponder signals have been intercepted in international airspace over the...

The Killing of Sister George review – cruel comedy is an uncomfortable watch | Theatre

As lead characters go, June Buckeridge is an odd one. In the 1965 play by Frank Marcus, she is the leading light of a...

Dead Ink wins Republic of Consciousness prize with Missouri Williams’s ‘astonishing’ debut | Books

Dead Ink Books has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for Missouri Williams’s “astonishing” debut novel The Doloriad. Yet while Dead...

New boss starts at crisis-hit CBI; sell-off at First Republic triggers fresh banking fears – business live | Business

New CBI boss starts today as crisis continuesThe CBI’s former chief economist Rain Newton-Smith is taking over as director general of the business lobby...

‘We were blown away’: how we chose the Women’s prize shortlist | Women’s prize for fiction

Being a judge for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction has been an honour and a huge responsibility: not least because it’s the one...

Sudan conflict: second UK flight lands in Cyprus; UN chief warns fighting could cause ‘immense suffering for years’ – live | Sudan

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe UK military could be ready to use force if needed to protect...

Escaping Khartoum: one woman’s dramatic flight from Sudan | Sudan

Eibhlin Priestley was two months into a research trip to Sudan when the fighting broke out in Khartoum. The PhD candidate was preparing to...

Kenya ‘cult’ investigation widens as death toll reaches 90 | Kenya

The death toll at a ranch in Kenya owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers...

Chizuko Ueno: the Japanese writer stoking China’s feminist underground | China

To find evidence that China’s feminist movement is gaining momentum – despite strict government censorship and repression – check bookshelves, nightstands and digital libraries....

Temperate rainforests to be restored in Wales and Isle of Man | Trees and forests

Two temperate rainforests in Wales and on the Isle of Man have been named as the first to be restored by the Wildlife Trusts,...

Nelly and Nadine: Ravensbrück, 1944 Storyville review – a radical tale of lesbian love in a concentration camp | Television

A middle-aged woman hovers anxiously in her idyllic French farmhouse kitchen, its table strewn with reams of yellowing papers. Among them is her grandmother’s...

Arteta urges Arsenal to relish ‘beautiful experience’ of Manchester City clash | Arsenal

Mikel Arteta wants Arsenal to savour the “beautiful experience” of a potential title decider against Manchester City at the Etihad but accepts his players...

O’Sullivan frustrated against Luca Brecel but still opens up big lead | World Snooker Championship

Ronnie O’Sullivan cut a frustrated figure despite fashioning a 6-2 advantage at the end of the first session of his World Snooker Championship quarter-final...

Eubank Jr and Smith urge Conor Benn to give up on plans to fight outside UK | Boxing

Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith have urged Conor Benn to abandon his plans to resume his career outside Britain and to accept any...

Belafonte is gone, Poitier went before him. They were the titans who uplifted our world | Candace Allen

The ping today of a WhatsApp message and my heart wrenching at the news. Harry Belafonte. Gone.Not that he hadn’t earned his rest at...

Bans, bigots and surreal sci-fi love triangles: Harry Belafonte’s staggering screen career | Film

In the middle of the 20th century, Harry Belafonte was at the dizzying high point of his stunning multi-hyphenate celebrity: this handsome, athletic, Caribbean-American...

‘Thrown under the bus’: Melanie Sykes says she quit TV after bad treatment by men | Television

For years, Melanie Sykes was a regular face on TV, in shows such as Today with Des and Mel, The Big Breakfast and The...