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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...

Man found guilty of murdering pregnant wife at Arthur’s Seat | Edinburgh

An abusive man who pushed his pregnant wife from the Edinburgh landmark, Arthur’s Seat, days before she was set to leave him has been...

Standards watchdog mulls investigating MPs’ smears of Partygate inquiry | House of Commons

Parliament’s standards commissioner has left the door open to launching an investigation into attempts by Boris Johnson’s allies to disparage the credibility of the...

Premier League Hall of Famer, club legend and bang average gaffer | Football

NEVER GO BACKWhen Frank Lampard was spotted at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday watching Chelsea and Liverpool play out a game that resembled 22 drunks...

Clarence Thomas must be impeached over revelations of megadonor gifts, says AOC – live | US politics

AOC: Clarence Thomas must be impeachedNew York congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has called for conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment. AOC’s calls follow reports...

Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Étoiles … review – epic score soars in Utah’s superb recording | Classical music

The Utah Symphony would be justified in regarding Des Canyons aux Étoiles … (From the Canyons to the Stars …) as its signature work....

Darlene Love: ‘Elvis was pure joy. In three days I felt I’d known him all my life’ | Music

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is the greatest Christmas song of all time. But if you’re too modest to claim that yourself, which song...

Indian archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection | Monarchy

Five years ago, Buckingham Palace marked its summer opening with an exhibition celebrating the then Prince Charles’s 70th birthday with a display of his...

‘We swap mystical ideas and tips on facial hair care’: the caretakers of Andrew Weatherall’s legacy | Andrew Weatherall

When the DJ, producer, artist and raconteur Andrew Weatherall died in February 2020, aged 56, a quite extraordinary burst of activity began. As Weatherall’s...

Kostiantyn Kryvopust spoke in detail about Binance NFT Marketplace

Binance NFT Marketplace has quickly become a dominant force in the industry. In this comprehensive review, we explore the ins and outs of this exciting...

When Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield and never looked back | Arsenal

There’s no bad way to win a league title. It’s a uniquely rewarding achievement, nine months in the making, so anytime, anyplace, anywhere will...

From Google Maps to Pokémon Go, John Hanke is programming the future | Games

It’s not often you meet someone who’s genuinely changed the world, but that’s what happens the day I greet Niantic CEO John Hanke. Sipping...

UK housing market stable as prices rise again in March, Halifax says – business live | Business

Key eventsWith the exception of Greater London and the North East, all areas of the country experienced a slowdown in the rate of annual...

Russia-Ukraine war live: ‘powerful’ blasts in occupied Melitopol; Von der Leyen and Macron in China | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureUkraine willing to discuss future of Crimea if its forces reach border –...

Who is Paetongtarn Shinawatra? The political scion aiming to become Thailand PM | Thailand

Her father was ousted by a military coup in 2006. Her aunt was forced from power in 2014. Now 36-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the...

Commissioner vows to clean up Met as force faces biggest crisis since 1970s | Metropolitan police

Scotland Yard is battling its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s, its commissioner has warned, as new evidence emerged of the widespread bungling of...

Report says British equestrianism rife with bullying and racialised experiences | Equestrianism

Bullying is “commonplace” in areas of British equestrianism and racialised experiences “emerged strongly”, a hard-hitting report commissioned by the sport’s national governing body has...