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Ferran Torres gives Barcelona edge over Atlético Madrid as title draws closer | La Liga

Ferran Torres struck late in the first half to earn Barcelona a 1-0 victory over third-placed Atlético Madrid at Camp Nou on Sunday.Victory helped...

Brighton v Manchester United: FA Cup semi-final – live | FA Cup

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature76 min Fernandes’s deflected cross is well claimed by Sanchez above the head...

Tadej Pogacar fractures wrist in crash as Evenepoel wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège | Tadej Pogacar

Tadej Pogacar has suffered a fractured wrist after crashing in Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège race which was won by the defending champion, Remco Evenepoel.The pre-race favourite,...

Body of Spain’s fascist party founder to be removed from basilica | Spain

Nearly four years after Franco’s remains were removed from the hulking Valley of the Fallen mausoleum outside Madrid, those of José Antonio Primo de...

Wolfsburg 2-2 Arsenal: Women’s Champions League semi-final, first leg – live reaction | Women’s Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA record crowd inbound!From 2-0 down in the first leg to secure a...

Emergency alert test UK: phone alarm sounds early for some users but others don’t receive it – live updates | Emergency planning

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThree certainly wasn’t expecting to not deliver the alert to large numbers of...

Newcastle v Tottenham: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature17 min: Stats. “Blocks”?3 - Newcastle are only the sixth side in Premier...

County cricket day four: Middlesex v Notts, Somerset v Lancashire and more – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureTom Price watchPollock can’t resist trying to pull Tom Price to the boundary,...

Champion of the gorillas: the vet fighting to save Uganda’s great apes | Conservation

The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is tucked away in a remote corner of southwest Uganda. Meaning “place of darkness” in the Runyakitara language, this dense,...

Nigel Slater’s vegetarian and vegan soup recipes for spring | Food

Whenever I find watercress in fine condition, I buy enough to make not only salad but also a pot of emerald soup. By “fine...

London Marathon 2023 – live updates | London Marathon

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSlowly and with feeling, Eliud gets us going!Our men’s race will shortly get...

Motherhood on ice: lack of suitable men drives women to freeze their eggs | Women

Selfish career-driven women. Gullible dupes of the fertility industry. Victims of the patriarchy. When leading anthropologist Marcia C Inhorn first embarked on her decade-long...

Russia-Ukraine war live: thousands evacuated after bomb scare in Russian city struck by own forces | Ukraine

Evacuations in Russian city of Belgorod after bomb scareMore than 3,000 people in the Russian city of Belgorod were returning to their homes on...

Cavo, London: ‘The emptiest of empty vessels’ – restaurant review | Restaurants

Cavo, The Now Building, Outernet, Denmark Street, London WC2H 0LA. Sharing plates £13-£28, grilled dishes £19-£90, cheesecake £9, wines from £35When you immediately feel...

Gervonta Davis v Ryan Garcia: 12-round catchweight fight – live | Boxing

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIt wouldn’t be boxing if there weren’t at least a few uncomfortable underpinnings....

Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin ride the storm to lead at Chevron Championship | Golf

Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin have charged up the leaderboard to share a one-shot lead after the third round of the first women’s...

Last remaining Gurkha Victoria Cross recipient dies in Nepal aged 83 | Gurkhas

The last remaining Gurkha recipient of Britain’s Victoria Cross has died in Nepal at the age of 83.Rambahadur Limbu was awarded Britain’s highest military...

Chris Packham calls for ‘every last person who cares’ to join XR | Extinction Rebellion

Wildlife presenter Chris Packham has made a rallying call for “every last person who cares” about the planet to join Extinction Rebellion after thousands...

Eddie Howe is on a higher plane but next level is the priority for Newcastle | Newcastle United

Visitors to Newcastle’s training ground are greeted by a vision of organised chaos. While bulldozers, diggers and cement mixers jostle for space with four-wheel...

‘They just go to Thailand’: the long and costly wait for gender-affirming surgery in Australia | Transgender

Two years ago, Kavitha Sivasamy, an articulate, elegant Canberra lawyer, began to face her fears about undergoing gender-affirming surgery. “It’s really scary to go...

The moment I knew: ‘His accident, in a weird way, was a renewal of our vows’ | Relationships

My husband Craig and I met – against all odds – at the Melbourne county court on jury service. I was only 18 then;...

‘We are neighbours’: Guardiola laughs off Manchester United fans’ treble fears | FA Cup

Pep Guardiola joked that Manchester United fans should not be scared of Manchester City emulating their team by claiming the treble because of their...

Paul Rudd joins football fans for a pint in Wrexham before match | Wrexham

Paul Rudd has become the latest Hollywood star to be spotted in Wrexham to cheer on the football team, before a crucial game against...

The world’s most perfect places are being turned into backdrops for our tourist selfies | Tobias Jones

Last week Italy was, again, struggling with the conundrum of mass tourism. One of the country’s most charming seaside towns, Portofino, has just introduced...

Max Ojomoh strikes final blow as dogged Bath battle past Harlequins | Premiership

Rugby has long been a game of contrasting styles. Festival rugby is some people’s idea of heaven; others dismiss it as akin to basketball,...

‘I am the führer. I’m the king’: new book lifts lid on life inside Boris Johnson’s chaotic No 10 | Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson fell out with his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings after growing tired of being treated like a “young and inexperienced king” who...

Chelsea cling tight to WCL hopes after Graham Hansen gives Barcelona edge | Women’s Champions League

Emma Hayes’ Champions League dream remains alive. Chelsea’s 1-0 home defeat to Barcelona in their semi-final first leg provided enough positives and a narrow...

Sam Smith review – some genuinely moving moments | Sam Smith

A giant golden statue of the goddess Aphrodite lies recumbent on the stage. The action of Sam Smith’s gig plays out atop, along and...

Ireland v England: Women’s Six Nations – live | Women’s Six Nations

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSome stats ahead of this one for you. England’s starting squad has 485...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature3 min: Kerr clatters Leon after a long ball from the back gives...

Somerset v Lancashire, Kent v Essex, and more: county cricket – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA few early images from the Saturday’s play:In case you missed it yesterdayScores...

Not being able to have a baby was devastating – then I found people who embraced a childfree life | Life and style

It was my hen do in the Lake District and my friends had organised a game of Mr and Mrs. The idea, for the...

Former top civil servant who worked under Dominic Raab dismisses ‘activists’ claim – UK politics live | Politics

Former top civil servant who worked under Raab dismisses 'activists' claimSimon McDonald has denied Dominic Raab’s claims there were civil service “activists” in the...

From festivals to glamping: 20 great UK campsites with a difference | United Kingdom holidays

For active peopleRock climbing, ShropshireWild Contentment is a small, off-grid campsite in a meadow at the far end of a dairy farm near Oswestry....

Blind date: ‘We’re already planning his trip to visit me in France’ | Dating

Deborah on GrahamWhat were you hoping for?It was impossible not to speculate about a musical man whose loving daughter felt inclined to submit his...

Curating the war: Kyiv museum exhibits objects left by Russian soldiers | Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, the day Russia mounted its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oleksandr Lukianov went to work – but it was anything but...

Montevideo Maru: wreck of ship sunk in Australia’s worst maritime disaster found after 80 years | Australia news

The wreck of a ship caught up in Australia’s worst ever maritime disaster has been found 4,000 metres under the sea, 80 years after...

Suspect in shooting of six-year-old over stray basketball arrested in Florida | US news

The North Carolina man who is accused of shooting a six-year-old girl along with her parents after a basketball with which the child was...

Ronnie O’Sullivan takes commanding lead after Vafaei’s ‘disrespectful’ break | World Snooker Championship

Hossein Vafaei smashed into the balls from his opening break as he fell 6-2 behind to Ronnie O’Sullivan in their second-round match at the...

Arsenal’s title hopes hit despite Saka rescuing draw against Southampton | Premier League

Conventional wisdom had it that the league title would be decided at the Etihad next Wednesday but Arsenal may have effectively handed it to...

Cyclone damage shows New Zealand’s beekeepers are unprepared for climate change | New Zealand

Two months after a cyclone swept away thousands of beehives in the fertile fruit bowl of New Zealand’s North Island and left thousands more...

Williamson’s woe could be difference between winning the World Cup or not | England women’s football team

Picking over the bones of what Leah Williamson’s anterior cruciate ligament injury means for England feels brutal. Cruel even. Because, in reality, none of...

A ruinous record? England, Ireland and a fight for Six Nations credibility | Women’s Six Nations

“We need to make these games more competitive,” said the England head coach, Simon Middleton, in the build-up to Ireland v England, a match...

Canadian professor convicted in absentia of 1980 Paris synagogue bombing | France

A Lebanese-Canadian university professor has been convicted in absentia of a bomb attack on a Paris synagogue more than 40 years ago that killed...

How an Arctic snow school aims to respond to climate crisis with Inuit help | Arctic

Alexandre Langlois was surprised to learn that snow that has stayed on the ground for a couple days in the Arctic can be heard...

When climate despair spills over into righteous violence, can that ever be right? | Natasha Walter

The new film How to Blow Up a Pipeline raises loudly the question that many protesters are asking quietly: what happens when peaceful climate...

‘It feels worse’: Britons on race issues since Stephen Lawrence murder | Stephen Lawrence

The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence led to a profound and lasting impact on attitudes to race in Britain. On the 30th anniversary of...

Gunfire and shelling in Sudan’s capital as Eid ceasefire hopes dashed | Sudan

New efforts to halt fighting in Sudan failed on Friday, as residents of the capital Khartoum reported intense shelling and gunfights between soldiers and...