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When I call relatives in Sudan, I don’t know if they will still be alive. The world must not look away | Mohamed Osman

Every phone call I make home to Sudan is interrupted by the crackle of gunshots or an explosion in the background. This is followed...

Stately home featured in James Bond films goes on sale for £75m | Property

A 13-bedroom grade-I listed stately home that featured in the James Bond films Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun...

Dining across the divide: ‘He was humble enough to acknowledge the additional barriers for people of my demographic’ | Life and style

Ifrah, 26, BirminghamOccupation Internal auditorVoting record Always Labour. Ifrah says she is a member of Suella Braverman’s “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati”. Remain in the EU...

Dominic Raab bullying allegations: Sunak expected to receive report within hours – UK politics live | Politics

Sunak expected to receive Raab bullying report later this morningRishi Sunak is expected to receive the report into the Dominic Raab bullying allegations later...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA delve into Wisden 2023The five cricketers of the year are: Tom Blundell,...

Consumer firms under pressure over price rises pushing up inflation – business live | Business

Introduction: Investors push large consumer firms over price hikesGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world...

The Thanksgiving Play: Broadway’s funniest and most daring new comedy | Broadway

The Thanksgiving Play came into being, more or less, as a dare. When theater companies told Larissa FastHorse that her script featuring Indigenous characters...

Switzerland unplugged: a hike in the off-grid Bavona valley | Switzerland holidays

When hydroelectric power first arrived in Switzerland’s Bavona valley in the 1950s, residents of its 12 hamlets gathered for a vote. Should they connect...

Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war | Sudan

When I landed in Khartoum in late February, the city was tense. On the short journey to my family home in the suburbs of...

Total solar eclipse 2023 live updates: people gather in Australia, Indonesia and Timor Leste to watch rare hybrid eclipse | Australia news

Key eventsOur celestial livestream will start in 30 minutes, so stay tuned. Coming up in the meantime: more on shadow snakes, the totality, coronas,...

Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time | Proms 2023

For the first time in its history the BBC Proms season will be opened and closed by female conductors, as the festival moves towards...

Judd Trump’s Crucible campaign ended by McGill as Kyren Wilson hits 147 break | World Snooker Championship

Judd Trump became the biggest casualty of the 2023 world snooker championship so far, after the 2019 champion fell to a 10-6 first-round defeat...

Inter survive late goals to set up all-Milan Champions League semi-final | Champions League

Internazionale set up a Champions League semi-final derby with Milan, edging Benfica 5-3 on aggregate after a thrilling 3-3 draw in the second leg...

Haaland on target as Manchester City ease past Bayern to reach semi-finals | Champions League

For Manchester City to sail so serenely past the six-times European champions shows how far Pep Guardiola has already taken them. The big question...

Bayern Munich v Manchester City: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live | Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature40 min: City calm themselves down with some sterile possession. Probably a good...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA reminder what went down in the corresponding fixture earlier in the campaign....

Hike in corporation tax will not deter US investors in NI, says Joe Kennedy III | Northern Ireland

Rishi Sunak’s move to increase UK corporation tax to 25% will not deter US investors from flocking to Northern Ireland, Washington’s new economic envoy...

Calls grow for man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to be charged with hate crime | Missouri

A lawyer for the family of Ralph Yarl, the Black 16-year-old who was shot by a white man in Kansas City, Missouri, after ringing...

From Stephen Lawrence to Sarah Everard: the awful price of 30 years of police failure to reform | Imran Khan

In the 30 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered on a dark street by racists, he has come to be seen as an iconic...

The Orient Express makes its final run to Istanbul – archive, 1977 | Rail travel

The murder of the Orient Express13 April 1977On 20 May the Orient Express will pull out of the Gare de Lyon on its last...

Civilians flee Khartoum as ceasefire fails to hold | Sudan

Thousands of residents have fled Khartoum as fighting continued across the city for a fifth day after a US-brokered ceasefire between the army and...

Cambridgeshire museum to charge entry fee for first time in 100 years | Museums

One of Britain’s oldest purpose-made museums has announced it will start charging an admission fee for the first time in 100 years as it...

‘It was scary’: acts of resistance in Russian-occupied Kherson | Ukraine

One night last June, Liliya Aleksandrova slipped out of her home in occupied Kherson with some bright paints and a dangerous idea. She went...

Dmitry Buriak: GALA GAMES’ UPGRADE TOKEN & AIRDROP event

Gala Games , a leading player in the blockchain gaming arena, recently announced plans for an  updated  version 2 (v2) token giveaway scheduled for May 15th. The...

The trials and triumphs of Sophie Morgan: ‘At 18 I had my hot girl summer. That August I was paralysed’ | Television & radio

‘Pick your battles,” Sophie Morgan says, dressed all in black, looking incongruously gorgeous, like she belongs in a sonnet or a music video, not...

Warring football fans in São Paulo call a truce – for the most unusual reason | Football

In a place that is so passionate about football and where society can be so violent – there are more murders in Brazil than...

Bank of England expected to raise interest rates again after UK inflation dips to 10.1% – business live | Business

Bank of England expected to raise rates in MayThe odds of the Bank of England raising interest rates again next month have jumped.The money...

From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers | Pentagon leaks 2023

Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts air national guard member who was charged on Friday with leaking classified Pentagon documents, has joined a long list...

Solar eclipse chasers descend on tiny Western Australian town to experience ‘wonders of the universe’ | The sun

Eclipse chasers from all corners of the globe have descended on a tiny Western Australian town to watch the sun disappear behind the moon.Among...

Boehly’s Chelsea show the distorting effect of money without sense or love | Champions League

Well, there goes the season. Perhaps summer budget too. Who knows maybe the entire Chelsea 3.0 Blue Sky Project Stage One?With 28 minutes to...

One killed as New York City parking garage collapses ‘to the cellar floor’ | US news

A parking garage collapsed on Tuesday in the Financial District in lower Manhattan, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors...

Netflix to end mailing of DVDs of movies to subscribers after 25 years | Netflix

It’s time to say goodbye to those red envelopes. Netflix announced on Tuesday that it would end 25 years of mailing DVDs of shows...

Real Madrid’s Rodrygo floors Chelsea to seal Champions League semi-final spot | Champions League

The pulse had been faint beforehand and, as expected, it was extinguished for Chelsea well before full-time, this Champions League quarter-final exit sounding the...

Arrest of SNP treasurer overshadows Humza Yousaf’s policy relaunch | Scotland

Attempts by Scotland’s new first minister, Humza Yousaf, to stamp his authority on his already beleaguered administration were scuppered by the arrest of the...

Wagner mercenary admits ‘tossing grenades’ at injured Ukrainian PoWs | Ukraine

A former Wagner mercenary has admitted to killing and torturing dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, in one of the most detailed first-person accounts...

Chelsea v Real Madrid: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live | Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureReal Madrid place faith in same XIIf it ain’t broke, don’t fix it....

A Colombian reporter was murdered after alleging corruption – now a global team is finishing his work | Colombia

“If you’re going to kill me, then kill me. But I’ll tell you up front: you won’t silence me.” In a 37-minute Facebook Live...

Fighting in Sudan in maps, satellite imagery and video | Sudan

Battles have taken place throughout Sudan since Saturday, when a weeks-long power struggle between the army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo,...

UK company mining gold in Amazon on disputed land | Mining

A London-listed company has been mining gold in the Amazon rainforest without approval from the Brazilian land agency or the consent of nearby Indigenous...

How is Britain rising to this inspiring coronation moment? By obsessing about the Sussexes again | Marina Hyde

In the week before Harry and Meghan’s wedding I watched a woman in the Kensington Palace shop buy a mug that featured the entwined...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin visits occupied Kherson region; US journalist appears in Moscow court | Russia

Putin attends military meeting in KhersonRussian president Vladimir Putin has attended a military command meeting in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region which is partly held...

SNP treasurer Colin Beattie arrested in connection with funding investigation, say police – UK politics live | Politics

SNP treasurer Colin Beattie arrested by Scottish police as part of probe into party's funding and financesThe SNP’s treasurer, Colin Beattie, has been...

Italy captures brown bear that fatally mauled jogger | Animals

Authorities in northern Italy have captured a bear that fatally mauled a jogger and became the focus of a battle over what to do...

100 years on, how Yankee Stadium helped give birth to a baseball juggernaut | New York Yankees

A century ago on Tuesday, the New York Yankees came out of the shadow of their Manhattan landlords to christen the ballpark that would...

China’s economic growth beats forecasts; UK jobless rate rises to 3.8% – business live | Business

UK jobless rate rises to 3.8%The UK unemployment rate has risen, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show.The UK unemployment rate for...

High stakes for Ukraine as clampdown on corruption comes under scrutiny | Ukraine

A fierce debate has broken out in Ukraine over allegations that a clampdown on corruption is being used to frame high profile business advocates...

Roman gateway rebuilt in ‘exact spot’ at site of invasion of Britain | Roman Britain

An 8-metre-high rampart and gateway built almost 2,000 years ago at the spot where Roman forces invaded Britain has been reconstructed for 21st-century visitors.The...