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Sackings spate shows who matters now: welcome to football’s age of the executive | Premier League

Patrick Vieira gone! Antonio Conte gone! Brendan Rodgers gone! Graham Potter gone! More managers have left Premier League clubs in the past four weeks...

Leicester close in on Jesse Marsch after damaging defeat by Bournemouth | Premier League

Leicester are in advanced talks with Jesse Marsch over their vacant manager’s job and are expected to confirm the former Leeds head coach’s appointment...

Exeter dominate Stormers to reach Champions Cup semi-finals | Champions Cup

The cream has been rising to the top in the Champions Cup across Europe this weekend and here was a spectacular West Country rugby...

Haaland ‘at level of Ronaldo and Messi’ says Guardiola after City thump Saints | Premier League

There is little chance of Manchester City going away. A win that ended in total comfort ticked most of the relevant boxes for Pep...

Tensions run high in Tel Aviv after car ramming attack leaves tourist dead | Israel

On 8 April 2022, a Palestinian gunman entered a crowded bar in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital, and opened fire, killing three people and...

Labour is still in thrall to the low tax regime championed by my friend Nigel Lawson | William Keegan

To listen to the plaudits from the Conservative press after the death of Nigel Lawson at 91 last week one could be forgiven for...

Yvette Cooper was ‘not told’ about Labour’s Sunak attack ad in advance | Labour

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, was not informed or consulted about the release of a widely criticised Labour advertisement that claims Rishi Sunak...

Southampton v Manchester City: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSouthampton v Manchester City is go ...1 min: Manchester City get the ball...

Student faces deportation from UK after arriving early for course at university’s request | Immigration and asylum

An international student who travelled to the UK two months early after being given the wrong enrolment date by his university is facing deportation...

Bartees Strange review – guitar hero tuning up for the indie rock big time | Indie

It doesn’t take long for the exuberant US band leader Bartees Cox Jr, AKA Bartees Strange, to remove his bass and jump into the...

Celtic v Rangers: Scottish Premiership – live | Scottish Premiership

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature44 min: Matt O’Riley is booked for a lung on Tillman, that’s three...

Manchester United v Everton: Premier League – live | Premier League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureEarly team newsOne of Manchester United’s players of the season, Casemiro sits out...

Bring me sunshine: four great spring breaks in Europe | Europe holidays

Amiens, FranceAs my family and I cross the ornate, wisteria-clad iron bridge to our private island, the scent of jasmine floats on the breeze...

‘I Googled “white guy” and there I was’: stock photo models on seeing their faces in everything from ads to ridiculous memes | Life...

Stock images are everywhere, and you probably rarely notice them: on billboards and websites, plastered across adverts, groceries and print media. Shooting original photography...

Murdoch’s change of heart: Was marriage called off over a religious or succession issue? | Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch’s summer wedding to Ann Lesley Smith was called off last week, barely two weeks after it had been was announced, upon the...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow’s forces bombard annexed regions | Ukraine

Casualties and power outages as Russian forces bombard annexed provincesRussian forces used ground- and air-fired missiles, rocket launchers and weaponised drones to bombard the...

The latest lure in the White Lotus’s tales of corruption and greed? The luxury hotels of Thailand | Thailand holidays

It may be a biting satire, a daring piece of social commentary and an irony-drenched exploration of the corrupting power of wealth. But as...

Harris visits ousted Tennessee lawmakers as Republicans accused of ‘overt racism’ | Tennessee

Kamala Harris made an urgent trip to Nashville on Friday to meet with two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled from the state legislature for their...

Brooks Koepka forges Masters lead while Rory McIlroy faces missing cut | The Masters

Seventeen shots separated Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy by the time the Northern Irishman reached Augusta National’s scoring hut at the end of round...

Leinster stride into semi-final as Garry Ringrose sparks demolition of Leicester | Champions Cup

Let’s just say Dublin is not the happiest of English hunting grounds right now. Leicester did at least avoid any red cards but, as...

Burnley promoted to Premier League after Kompany’s claret revolution | Burnley

It looked like a marriage of convenience when Vincent Kompany returned to the north-west of England to take up the role of Burnley manager...

Clarence Thomas defends himself after undisclosed gifts revelation | Clarence Thomas

The US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas said on Friday he was advised the “personal hospitality” extended to him for more than 25 years...

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’ | Tesla

Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us”. The cameras it builds...

Labour strategists to press on with Sunak attack ads despite criticism | Labour

Labour frontbenchers have been left uneasy by a “spectacularly misjudged” advert claiming that Rishi Sunak does not support jailing child abusers, but party strategists...

Arsenal take on history and Liverpool voodoo with elusive title in sight | Arsenal

These days, for reasons of practicality as much as anything else, you very rarely see a team deciding to switch ends after the pre-match...

Paul Cattermole was the endearing wild card in S Club 7’s peppy pop pack | Pop and rock

In the post-Spice Girls pure pop boom, the all-singing, all-dancing S Club 7 came to epitomise a certain turn of the millennium optimism. Their...

Michael Roberts obituary | Fashion

The preferred medium of the fashion journalist Michael Roberts was Canson art paper, which he scissored freehand into crisp-cut collages, or snipped into minute...

Paul Cattermole, singer with S Club 7, dies aged 46 | Pop and rock

Paul Cattermole, the singer who found huge success with pop group S Club 7, has died aged 46.A statement from his family said he...

King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links | King Charles III

King Charles III has prompted a “big moment” for the British monarchy by supporting research into its historic links with the transatlantic slave trade...

‘Like a blocked gate I can’t climb over’: a Windrush victim’s DWP impasse | Windrush scandal

When Joseph Mowlah-Baksh applied for disability benefits in February, he received a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions asking to see his...

Joe Biden calls Tennessee’s expulsion of two Black Democrats for gun control protest ‘undemocratic’ – live | US politics

Democrats in Tennessee are planning to reveal their next moves later on Friday in the wake of the “racist” expulsion by Republicans from the...

The Masters 2023: second round – live | The Masters

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureGary Woodland, having taken one step forward early in the round, takes his...

The Woman Who Turned Into a Tree review – horror fable of a divided self | Theatre

A woman in blond wig and sparkly skirt starts to talk but, before she can begin, a stranger who looks exactly like her (doppelganger,...

Ditching white shorts is striking but periods’ link to injury is bigger issue | Women’s football

Until very recently female footballers rarely talked about periods in public. Most fans were unaware that some leading internationals detested playing in white shorts...

Party Down is the rarest kind of reboot: it actually has something to say | Culture

My favourite series of the year so far – and yes, I know that it’s only April – doesn’t feature hideous mushroom-headed zombies staggering...

Ai Weiwei smashes it, Steve McQueen stuns and Brookside goes ceramic – the week in art | Art and design

Exhibition of the weekAi Weiwei: Making SenseLego and marble are among the materials in this exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s grand designs. Design Museum, London,...

Britain’s rare canaries threatened by Brexit, bird hobbyists warn | Brexit

Cute fluffy yellow plumes may be synonymous with Easter, but bird hobbyists have warned that a rare canary species bred for centuries in Britain...

Tim Hecker: No Highs review – ambient music that reflects our polluted world | Experimental music

The rise of always-on streaming threatens to reduce ambient to a genre of convenience: palliative soundscapes to study and relax to. Tim Hecker has...

Essex mental health inquiry pointless without legal powers, say families | Mental health

Bereaved relatives have said an independent inquiry into the death of almost 2,000 mental health patients across NHS trusts in Essex is not “fit...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Pentagon investigating leak of US and Nato files – report; Macron and Von der Leyen’s last day in China | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMore now in the leaked Nato files.Information in the documents also details expenditure...

China sanctions Taiwan’s de facto US ambassador after president’s talks with House speaker | China

China has imposed further sanctions on Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the United States, prohibiting her and family members from entering the...

The Masters: LIV rebel Koepka crashes party to join leaders Rahm and Hovland | The Masters

Greg Norman may have the last laugh. Given the trauma Augusta National caused the Australian during his playing days, it would surely be an...

Kelly seals glory again as England win Finalissima in penalty shootout | Women’s football

It was deja vu at a jumping Wembley, as Chloe Kelly scored the winner in the inaugural Finalissima, this time in a penalty shootout....

California: stunning shift as parched reservoirs replenished by storms | California

Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California’s drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars...

England v Brazil: the Finalissima – live | Women’s football

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHalf time: England 1-0 BrazilEngland thoroughly deserve the lead at the break and...

Ben Foakes steadies ship for champions Surrey at Lancashire on opening day | County Championship

Ben Foakes doesn’t slip comfortably into contemporary boxes. He stays away from social media and plays his game, his way. And on the first...

Protests in Tennessee as Democrats face removal for gun control demonstration | Nashville school shooting

Thousands of protesters flocked to the Tennessee state capitol on Thursday to support three Democratic lawmakers facing expulsion for their role in a gun...

Questions – and conspiracy theories – swirl around Sturgeon’s knowledge of raid | Scotland

When Nicola Sturgeon thought she had finished her resignation press conference at Bute House in February, and was gathering up her speaking notes, she...

Paris brasserie favoured by Macron set alight as pension protests continue | France

Hundreds of thousands of people have continued to demonstrate across France against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the pension age to 64, with clashes...