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Japan’s ‘toxic’ dolphin meat contains mercury up to 100 times safe level, test shows | Japan

Marine conservation campaigners have lodged a complaint with police demanding that “toxic” dolphin meat be removed from sale in Japan, after a test showed...

Jonny Bairstow is inaugural winner of new Wisden Trophy Test award | Cricket

Jonny Bairstow has been named the inaugural – and also the 130th – winner of the Wisden Trophy, a new award for the outstanding...

Succession recap: season four, episode four – did Logan mean it … or cross it out? | Television

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season four. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episode four.The post-Logan era began with some...

Mohamed Salah and Diogo Jota doubles help rampant Liverpool hit Leeds for six | Premier League

As Liverpool finally found a cure for the travel sickness which has undermined their season, Mohamed Salah looked simply unplayable and Trent Alexander-Arnold seemed...

‘Public lynching’: Barça’s Laporta hits back at claims of payments to referees | Barcelona

Joan Laporta came armed with four boxes, 633 referee reports and 43 CDs as he finally broke FC Barcelona’s silence over allegations that they...

Tell us about your favourite UK seaside town – you could win a £200 holiday voucher | Travel

Oh, we still love to be beside the seaside … The UK has more traditional kiss-me-quick resorts than you can shake a rock at,...

Leeds United v Liverpool: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature8 mins: Harrison swings in the free-kick from the left, Rodrigo leaves his...

World snooker championship disrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters in Sheffield | World Snooker Championship

The World Snooker Championship is the latest high-profile sporting event to be disrupted by protestors after a Just Stop Oil activist poured a packet...

Todd Boehly tells Chelsea squad season is ‘embarrassing’ in post-game speech | Chelsea

Todd Boehly attempted to rouse Chelsea’s players before Tuesday’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid by delivering a speech in the dressing room after...

Top Republicans visit New York to sound off on debt ceiling and crime – live | Republicans

Democrats hit back at GOP's New York blitzIn 1985, Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the New York Stock Exchange in which he outlined...

Ouija board wonder: how Hilma af Klint’s occult dabblings made her an outcast | Art and design

Angels from the spirit realm told Hilma af Klint that becoming a vegetarian would fuel her creativity. This great Swedish artist, whose pioneering works...

A beginner’s guide to Super Mario | Games

It’s official: the new Super Mario Bros film has broken a long-established trend of lacklustre video game tie-in movies by becoming a vast success....

Calls grow for ceasefire in Sudan as deadly fighting continues | Sudan

Fighting between rival government factions intensified across much of Sudan on Monday morning as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict began to gather momentum.At...

‘I felt alone’: new UK play shows Black women’s experiences with breast cancer | Race

Black women’s experiences with breast cancer will be put under the spotlight this month, in a play looking at six personal stories highlighting the...

Vaseline your pulse points – and melt your mascara! 14 ways to make the most of your makeup | Beauty

Look for items in packaging that can be opened easily, such as a cleanser in a wide pot where the product can be fully...

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend action | Football

1) Will Gunners rue their lost leads?The adage that 2-0 is football’s most dangerous scoreline has long since been dispensed with but Arsenal are...

UK bosses grow more optimistic as energy prices fall, and AI spending boom looms – business live | Business

Key eventsCFO's expect boom in AI spendingDeloitte also investigated CFO views on artificial intelligence – and found that bosses expect “significant growth in capital...

Russia-Ukraine war live: verdict due in treason trial of Kremlin critic; Putin meets Chinese defence minister | Russia

A Russian court is due to deliver a verdict in the case against opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is being tried for treason for...

‘Your childhood can haunt you’: Fatima Whitbread on trauma, triggers, therapy – and how sport saved her | Life and style

In the latest of the many lives of Fatima Whitbread, the former champion javelin thrower has become a formidable reality TV star – and...

Ahmad Jamal, influential jazz pianist, dies aged 92 | Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal, the influential jazz pianist, composer and band leader, has died at the age of 92.His daughter, Sumayah Jamal, confirmed to the New...

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state | China

Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet...

Neil Robertson storms into second round of World Snooker Championship | World Snooker Championship

Neil Robertson delivered an impressive display to cruise into the second round of the World Championship in Sheffield with victory against Wu Yize on...

Four people killed and multiple others injured in Alabama shooting | Alabama

Four people were killed in a shooting in east Alabama on Saturday night at a dance studio during a teenager’s birthday party and multiple...

Sudan fighting rages for second day despite UN-proposed ceasefire | Sudan

Civilians in Sudan have been subjected to a second day of heavy fighting, waking up in the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday to the sound...

Arsenal draw shows them feeling the pain of an extended title hunt | Arsenal

Objects in the rear-view mirror may be closer than they seem. For what feels like at least a decade now, from way back in...

Chris Ashton reaches try milestone in Leicester’s thrashing of Exeter | Premiership

Try-scoring 101 for Chris Ashton. English rugby’s most prolific finisher cemented his status as the Premiership’s greatest ever try-scorer by becoming the first player...

This Grand National was an unsettling spectacle for many inside racing’s bubble | Grand National

It has always been something of a double-edged sword that, of the 10,000 horse races in Britain each year, the only one that gets...

James Cleverly in Japan for G7 as UK tilts towards Pacific post-Brexit | Foreign policy

James Cleverly has arrived in Japan for a G7 foreign ministers’ summit to promote a “free and open” Indo-Pacific, as the UK government steps...

Chelsea seal Women’s FA Cup final place as Sam Kerr header sinks Aston Villa | Women’s FA Cup

There is an inevitability to the narrative in any game in which Sam Kerr plays. On Tuesday she capitalised on an error to put...

France v Scotland: Women’s Six Nations – live | Women’s Six Nations

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureI can’t find a clip to show you the Boulard try that was...

Aston Villa v Chelsea: Women’s FA Cup semi-final – live | Women’s FA Cup

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHalf-time reading:Half-time: Aston Villa 0-0 ChelseaVilla will be pleased with that. They played...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature1 min: West Ham with all the ball so far. They’re looking to...

Sudanese army launches airstrikes on rival force’s base near capital | Sudan

Sudan’s army launched airstrikes on a rival paramilitary force’s base near the capital in an effort to reassert control over the chaotic country after...

Tories fear blue wall will crumble at local elections over NHS crisis | Politics

A prolonged NHS crisis stoked by further strikes risks derailing Rishi Sunak’s local election plans amid Tory concern that the prime minister is already...

Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus hollandaise, and lamb with apricots | Spring food and drink

The froth of cherry blossom, fat bunches of asparagus and spring sunshine are here to lift our spirits, but these first spring days often...

The week in TV: Obsession; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?; Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields; Colin from Accounts – review | Television

Obsession (Netflix)Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (ITV) | ITVXPretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Disney+) Colin from Accounts (BBC Two) | iPlayerMany questions are pondered in...

Walking through beauty in Hidcote’s hidden gardens | Gardens

If the previous owner of your garden came to visit, which part would you show them first? That’s what somebody asked Lottie Allen recently....

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv’s forces in ‘unprecedented’ bloody battles in Bakhmut | Ukraine

‘Unprecedented’ bloody fighting over Bakhmut, says KyivUkrainian and Russian armed forces are fighting extraordinarily bloody battles in the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut, but...

Is the bird really freed? A look back at six months of Musk’s Twitter reign | Twitter

On 28 October 2022 Elon Musk tweeted “the bird is freed” as he marked his $44bn acquisition of Twitter.Nearly six months later, it became...

Access to Orthodox Easter ceremony in Jerusalem limited over security concerns | Israel

Thousands of Christians in Jerusalem have celebrated the traditional Holy Fire rite ahead of the Orthodox Easter, despite a security clampdown limiting access to...

Winning suits: step into spring in a versatile shorts suit | Fashion

Without wishing to jinx things, it looks like spring has finally sprung, so turn your thoughts to warm-weather dressing. The shorts suit is riding...

More than 100 animal rights activists arrested after Grand National protests | Horse racing

More than 100 animal rights protesters have been arrested after some invaded the Grand National course and forced the start of the world’s most...

O’Sullivan survives Pang fightback to seal first-round win at the Crucible | World Snooker Championship

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s frank admission on the eve of the defence of his World Snooker Championship crown that he was an “old man” and finding...

Too cramped? Too big? No name: Sydney’s newest art gallery weathers critique in its first months | Art

From the window of his office, the Art Gallery of New South Wales director, Michael Brand, looks out on the sprawling new $344m gallery...

Maybe it’s time to welcome back the old fashioned wing-half – in modern guise | Football tactics

One of the easiest and most misleading pieces of footballing received wisdom is that everything is cyclical. Wait long enough, the great drum of...

Fox wins the chase after animal rights protesters disrupt Grand National | Grand National 2023

On a day when the drama and danger of the world’s most famous steeplechase appeared to purr in perfect synchronicity, two moments quickly became...

Manchester United edge epic over Brighton to make Women’s FA Cup final | Women’s FA Cup

Rachel Williams came off the bench to score a late winner for Manchester United to send them to their first Women’s FA Cup final...