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Real Betis v Manchester United: Europa League last 16, second leg – live | Europa League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHalf-time ad break. Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign...

‘Right now, there is not a great deal of trust in the police’: why TV is filled with bent coppers | Television

When I was recovering at home after a brief stint in hospital in 2021, I spent weeks watching British crime dramas. I became adept...

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen tells Senate that US banking system ‘remains sound’ – live | US politics

Yellen to say US banking system 'remains sound' after Silicon Valley collapseWhen she appears before the Senate finance committee this morning, Janet Yellen’s job...

Cheltenham Festival: Stage Star wins Turners Novice Chase – live updates | Cheltenham Festival 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureRyanair Chase (2.50pm) bettingIf you read Barry Glendenning’s feature on Comeback Kid Davy...

Dmitry Buriak presents the best portfolio trackers for tracking NFT investments

Portfolio trackers simplify the process of tracking NFT investments by providing complete dashboards of your assets.  The top-notch NFT portfolio trackers we present below make...

Government makes revised pay offer to health unions, reports say – UK politics live | Politics

Key eventsCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden set to announce TikTok to be banned from government phonesTikTok will be banned on government phones after security...

Brother of man executed by Saudi Arabia says F1 legitimises ‘heinous crimes’ | Formula One

The brother of a man executed by the Saudi Arabian authorities last year has accused Formula One of being complicit in “heinous crimes” perpetrated...

Russia-Ukraine war live: US and Russia race to reach drone wreckage | Russia

US and Russia race to reach US drone wreckageRussia has reportedly reached the site of the US drone, CNN are reporting, citing officials. In...

UK urged to sanction Iranian officials on anniversary of Zaghari-Ratcliffe release | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her legal advisers have marked the first anniversary of her release from an Iranian jail by urging Britain to sanction 10...

Nasa reveals new spacesuit for Artemis moon landing | Nasa

The big, puffy white moonsuits worn by Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts a half-century ago are out of fashion. Lunar haute couture...

Owen Farrell set for England recall in Ireland finale despite injury fears | England rugby union team

England are intending to play Owen Farrell from the start in Saturday’s Six Nations finale against Ireland in Dublin despite suggestions the fly-half may...

Karim Benzema seals inevitable Real Madrid win against limp Liverpool | Champions League

“On the good side of history” declared the banner stretched across the south stand of the Santiago Bernabéu, a place built on epic tales,...

Real Madrid v Liverpool: Champions League last 16, second leg – live | Champions League

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHalf-time entertainment. “What a sheltered life I have led,” begins Richard Hirst. “I...

What Jeremy Hunt’s budget means for pensions, childcare, income tax and more | Budget 2023

Jeremy Hunt’s budget contained several measures to encourage the “economically inactive” back into work and to help parents struggling with sky-high childcare costs.There were...

Oscars 2024: who might be in the running for next year’s awards? | Oscars

After the unlikely success of Everything Everywhere All at Once at this year’s Oscars ceremony (a film that wasn’t viewed as a contender pre-release,...

Cheltenham Festival 2023: Champions Chase headlines day two – live updates | Cheltenham Festival 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureCoral Cup (2.50pm)A false start … trying to get them all in a...

Credit Suisse shares fall 26% to record low as top shareholder rules out investing more – business live | Business

Key eventsRoubini: Credit Suisse crisis is a 'Lehman moment'The high-profile economist Nouriel Roubini, known as Dr Doom, said that a collapse of Credit Suisse...

Budget 2023 live: energy bill support extended as Jeremy Hunt prepares to set out economic plans | Politics

Key eventsSteven Swinford from the Times says he is hearing that parents might have to wait a while for the extension of free childcare...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow should respect international airspace, says UK defence secretary after drone crash | Russia

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSuspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that Znob-Novhorodske in Sumy oblasts was struck six...

Texas woman becomes longest-serving female radio presenter in the world | Guinness World Records

She spent part of her childhood growing up in a tent without electricity or running water, became a voice on the radio at the...

Cameron Norrie races past Andrey Rublev to reach Indian Wells quarters | Tennis

Cameron Norrie powered his way into the BNP Paribas Open quarter-finals at Indian Wells with a commanding straight-sets victory over Andrey Rublev.The 27-year-old needed...

The Holy Land and Us review – this taboo-busting look at Israel and Palestine isn’t afraid of controversy | Television & radio

A documentary about Israel and Palestine that will make viewers on each side sympathise with the other? It’s an ambitious undertaking, but The Holy...

BBC came under No 10 pressure to avoid using ‘lockdown’ in early pandemic, leak shows | BBC

BBC editors asked their journalists to avoid using the word “lockdown” in reporting at the start of the pandemic and to be more critical...

Honeysuckle ends career with Mares’ Hurdle win at Cheltenham Festival | Cheltenham Festival

Honeysuckle, the Champion Hurdle winner in 2021 and 2022, brought down the curtain on her brilliant racing career with a 17th victory – her...

Death threats made against two people opposed to Jeremy Clarkson’s farm plan | Jeremy Clarkson

Death threats have been made against two people who opposed Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm expansion, the local council has revealed.West Oxfordshire district council...

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review – art of poverty and resilience from the US south | Art

Narratives of the great migration and the Harlem renaissance have dominated conversations around African American art in the 20th century, but a new exhibition,...

Boris Johnson ‘Partygate’ evidence to be heard next Wednesday afternoon – UK politics live | Politics

Boris Johnson set to give evidence to privileges committee's Partygate inquiry at 2pm on Wednesday next weekBoris Johnson is set to give evidence to...

Cheltenham Festival 2023: Constitution Hill goes for glory in Champion Hurdle – live | Cheltenham Festival

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureFacile Vega, the favourite for the Supreme, is being backed in, and despite...

Behind the £1 deal that staved off the tech bank’s collapse in the UK | Silicon Valley Bank

Last week, if you had heard of Silicon Valley Bank UK, you probably worked in tech. The bank had only been spun out in...

Bangladesh v England: third T20 international – live | England in Bangladesh 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature19th over: Bangladesh 154-2 (Shanto 45, Shakib 2) Shanto breaks the spell, flicking...

Global markets gripped by Silicon Valley Bank collapse as banking shares slide – business live | Business

Introduction: Bank share sell-off spreads to Asia as SVB collapse shakes marketsGood morning.The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is gripping the financial markets, as...

Russia-Ukraine war: grain deal can be extended by only 60 days, says Russian minister – live updates | Ukraine

Russia to extend critical grain agreement for 60 daysRussian has suggested renewing a crucial deal to allow the safe export of gain from Ukraine’s...

UK to design and build nuclear-powered submarines for ‘historic’ Aukus pact | Aukus

The UK’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet is set to double in size as plans were revealed for the new “Aukus” vessels to be based on...

Gary Lineker’s treatment exposes fact that image of warm, fuzzy BBC was always a lie | Sport

For almost 50 years MI5 had agents embedded at the BBC, vetting job candidates with the specific aim of weeding out prospective left-leaning employees....

The sights, the smells, the songs and the craic of football. Oh, and VAR | Referees

SEEING REDThere are many reasons why, as kids, we fell in love with the absolute mess we know as football. The sights, the smells,...

Barrow men falsely accused of rape tell court they tried to kill themselves | Crime

Three men who were falsely accused of rape by the same woman said they tried to kill themselves as a result of her lies...

Leipzig present a tough Champions League proposition to Guardiola | Sport

The last time RB Leipzig visited Manchester City, they attacked with gusto. They were brave and bold. Christopher Nkunku bagged a hat-trick. A repeat...

Il Trittico review – Scottish Opera’s vivid new staging has humour and heartbreak | Opera

It’s rare to hear Puccini’s Il Trittico, his triple bill of one-act operas, performed as the single work the composer intended. His publisher’s warnings...

Remains of Roman aristocrat unearthed in ‘extraordinary’ cemetery near Leeds | Roman Britain

Skeletal remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed in a “truly extraordinary” hidden cemetery dating back 1,600 years.Bones belonging to the high-status woman...

Tim Heidecker: ‘I’m trying to be an antidote to the toxic side of comedy’ | Stage

Growing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he was supposed to be. “I was a mess,” he says, recalling his school years. “Caught in...

Rishi Sunak unveils £5bn extra defence spending ahead of Aukus summit in US – UK politics live | Politics

Key eventsDan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence editor, has written an analysis of the defence spending announcement (see 9.24am) and the integrated review update. Here...

‘I’m no white man in a toga’: Thalissa Teixeira on having a stab at Brutus | Theatre

I arrive in the aftermath of an assassination. Actors are rehearsing the panic following Julius Caesar’s murder. Some stand aghast, while others scamper –...

Silicon Valley Bank: HSBC announces rescue deal for SVB UK – business live | Business

HSBC acquires Silicon Valley Bank UKNewsflash: HSBC UK Bank plc is acquiring Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVB UK) for £1, after a weekend...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian defence ministry using Bakhmut to ‘deliberately expend’ Wagner forces, analysts say | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePresident Volodomyr Zelenskiy has awarded the Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a soldier...

Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphs at Oscars with major sweep | Oscars 2023

Everything Everywhere All at Once has dominated this year’s Oscars, winning seven awards including best picture in a major night for Asian and Asian...

‘Cocaine Bear, leave Malala alone!’: the best quotes of the 2023 Oscars | Oscars 2023

Jimmy Kimmel… on the main acting categories: “We have nominees from every corner of Dublin. Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the...