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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Succession-style scheming in the deep south | Theatre

Roy Alexander Weise does not overtly change the setting of Tennessee Williams’s feverish classic, but he does blur the edges. The director has said...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian security services say they have detained Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges | Ukraine

Russian security services detain Wall Street Journal journalist on espionage chargesRussia’s top security agency says a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been...

Starmer to launch local election campaign with claim Labour is ‘party of lower taxes for working people’ – UK politics live | Politics

Starmer to launch local election campaign with claim Labour is ‘party of lower taxes for working people’Good morning. Keir Starmer is launching Labour’s campaign...

‘The public stigmatizes them’: what it’s like being a teacher in America | Books

For every apple that lands on a teacher’s desk, there’s a dumpster’s worth of garbage that comes flying their way.In one of the more...

Sand, sea and a shipwreck: can this tiny Moroccan town become a sustainable surfers’ paradise? | Global development

The Canary Islands are so close that, on a clear night, surfing instructor Salim Maatoug can see the lights across the water. Fourteen million...

TV tonight: David Harewood’s great US tour of Black pop culture | Television

Get on Up: The Triumph of Black America9pm, BBC TwoDavid Harewood is a wonderful guide on this celebratory and personal, if a bit rushed,...

Ukrainian parents hiding their children in basements in frontline cities | Ukraine

Ukrainian volunteers who have been evacuating civilians from the frontlines of the war with Russia say some parents have been hiding their children in...

Foreign maids and no military service: South Korea criticised over ideas to boost birthrate | South Korea

South Korea’s search for ways to lift its record low birthrate is becoming increasingly desperate, as the country pushes to reverse the trend that...

Arsenal turn tables on Bayern to reach Women’s Champions League last four | Women’s Champions League

The performance was fluid, controlled and blistering as Arsenal booked a place in the Women’s Champions League semi-final for the first time in 10...

‘Your talent will open doors’: the club in Qatar giving African players reason to dream | Football

“Maintain your dignity, maintain your confidence, maintain your belief.” Robert Otiato has been training his Mazrouah FC players for the last two hours and,...

Angry Fox News chief said fact-checks of Trump’s election lies ‘bad for business’ | Fox News

The top executive at Fox News was furious one of the network’s reporters was fact-checking Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, writing...

Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Women’s Champions League quarter-final second leg – live | Women’s Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHave you been reading our Women’s Football newsletter? If you sign up for...

Muir and Reekie leave training camp after shock falling out with coach | Laura Muir

The Olympic medallist Laura Muir and her GB teammate Jemma Reekie have flown home from South Africa after a shock falling out with their...

Barcelona v Roma: Women’s Champions League quarter-final second leg – live | Women’s Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature21 min Paralluelo swivels to clip a pass into the box from out...

‘They’re killing us’: anger grows after deadly fire at Mexican migrant center | Mexico

A loud voice cut through the thick quiet of the night: “¡Justicia! ¡Justicia! ¡Justicia!” Frark Martín Pérez Pérez, 32, chanted angrily, and hundreds followed.Justice...

France captain Kylian Mbappé is leading an exciting new generation | France

It seems like only yesterday that Kylian Mbappé was a fresh-faced teenager, his knee slides propelling Monaco to the Ligue 1 title and a...

Roman Abramovich secretly bankrolled Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest | Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich secretly funded the takeover of a Dutch top division football club and bankrolled it for years during the period that he also...

Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime | Film

You might say that Vincent van Gogh was one of the first Japanese pop-culture otaku (geeks) in Europe. With the 19th-century japonisme craze in...

‘There I was, a tiny speck in a vast universe’ … How awe made my life worth living again | Life and style

For the first two months of this year, I was ill. I don’t mean the kind of ill that you can soldier on through,...

Billionaire chic: the meaning of Gwyneth Paltrow’s court wardrobe | Gwyneth Paltrow

On Tuesday, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Oscar-winning actor turned wellness advocate, appeared in a Utah court over a collision at a ski resort in 2016....

A moment that changed me: I lost my memories in a road accident. A song brought them flooding back | Mental health

The thing about waking up with no memories is that you don’t realise what you’ve lost until people start telling you who you are...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy fears war could be hampered by Washington divisions; Moscow starts drills with new ICBM | Ukraine

Zelenskiy fears war could be hampered by Washington divisionsUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said in an interview that he he worries the war could...

At least 40 dead in Mexico migrant centre fire as rights groups blame overcrowding | Mexico

Rights groups have blamed poor conditions and overcrowding for a fire that killed at least 40 migrants from Central and South America at a...

Scott McTominay stuns Spain to extend Scotland’s perfect start to qualifying | Euro 2024 qualifying

In November 1984, Steve Clarke stood alongside his father on the north terrace of Hampden Park as a Scotland team inspired by Kenny Dalglish...

Kieffer Moore header helps Wales sink Latvia after Gareth Bale farewell | Euro 2024 qualifying

So far, so good. Wales built on their draw in Croatia by claiming their first Euro 2024 qualifying win courtesy of Kieffer Moore’s first-half...

Eubank Jr likely to be denied permission for revival of Benn fight | Boxing

The proposed revival of Conor Benn’s bout against Chris Eubank Jr is in danger of being derailed because the British Boxing Board of Control...

Russian and Belarus athletes should be allowed to compete as neutrals, says IOC | International Olympic Committee

Russian and Belarusian athletes should be allowed to compete again across all sports as neutral athletes – as long as they have no clear...

Mothers and babies being put at risk due to unsafe NHS maternity services, report says | NHS

Mothers and babies are being put at risk because maternity services are still providing unsafe care, despite a series of scandals that have cost...

‘Before cancer I was really unhappy’: Tracey Emin on the joy of founding her own art school | Tracey Emin

It’s a Saturday morning and the band of the 1st Margate Girls’ and Boys’ Brigade is marching down a side street with pipes and...

One of the biggest safeguarding risks to Black children is the Metropolitan police | Franklyn Addo

Three years ago, frightful details emerged of the strip-searching of a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl by police officers in Hackney. At the time, I was...

Will an Oasis reunion finally happen – and do we really need it? | Oasis

Crashing into our collective consciousness once again, as inexorable as the tides and almost as frequent, is the suggestion of an Oasis reunion. Liam...

Charlotte Edwards after her WPL win: ‘I want to coach internationally’ | Women’s cricket

“It’s been the most unbelievable six weeks I have had in cricket,” says Charlotte Edwards, fresh off the plane after the victory with Mumbai...

Points mean pages: why I’ve embraced the world of online reading challenges | Books

This year, for the first time in my life, I signed up for a Goodreads challenge. I decided on the number of books I...

Putin prepares Russia for ‘forever war’ with west as Ukraine invasion stalls | Russia

One evening in late December, as Muscovites strolled along their city’s brightly lit streets in anticipation of the end-of-year celebrations, a group of old...

Taiwan caught between superpowers as rival leaders visit China and US | Taiwan

Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-jeou stood in front of the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum in Nanjing on Tuesday and called for people on both sides...

‘I saw lightning between their fingers’: DJs on the magic of unusual dancefloors | Music

Smuggled booze, awkward dancing, clumsy kissing and the burning stare of a watchful teacher are experiences that may spring to mind when you think...

Return of the Gedi: space mission that maps Earth’s forests saved from destruction | Trees and forests

Nasa has extended the life of a key climate and biodiversity sensor for scanning the world’s forests which was set to be destroyed in...

‘A swipe at fashion capitalism’: Telfar’s experiment lets customers set prices | Fashion

Demi Elder owns 16 Telfar bags. The 31-year-old from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, tries to catch every drop from the brand, which has been name-checked...

Steve Clarke tells Scotland to forget Euro 2024 playoff and take on Spain | Scotland

Talk of Scotland qualifying for Euro 2024 via the playoff place they have already secured has been banished from the squad, Steve Clarke has...

Southgate will not rest England starters and risk ‘shambles’ going into Euro 2024 | England

Gareth Southgate will not risk a “shambles” at England’s next Euro 2024 qualifying camp by resting players after a long season. The manager was...

Benjamin Pavard’s superb strike helps France deny spirited Republic of Ireland | Football

Benjamin Pavard’s sweet strike edged World Cup finalists France to a Euro 2024 qualifying victory in Dublin as the Republic of Ireland were made...

Succession recap: season four, episode one – Logan gets a sex tape from Cousin Greg | Succession

Let a thousand sunflowers bloom, Romey. A 15-month wait and news that this would be the final season meant anticipation was higher than Cousin...

Unforgotten series five, episode five recap – TV doesn’t get more head-spinning than this | Television

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Unforgotten season five. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episode five and please don’t post spoilers...

Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize | Books

Critic and author Margo Jefferson has won the 2023 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir, described by the judges as “astounding and rhapsodic”.Jefferson’s Constructing...