adminA high school athletics director suspected of using artificial intelligence to create a fake, racist recording of a principal in Baltimore has been arrested by police. Police arrested 31-year-old Dazhon…
adminThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of…
adminHow do Europeans live in such grey, beige places? I’m happy waking up in a pink room. Vibrant colours make you joyful; you will never be sad with pink and red,”…
adminIn their monochrome starkness, Diana Matar’s images of modern America possess a melancholic undertow that is both familiar and unsettling. Whether a deserted backroad fringed with sun-burnished grass in rural…
adminHarry Kane scored once in either half to guide Bayern Munich to a 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday and a welcome boost before Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final first…
adminThe celebrations were not as euphoric as the derby but Brentford marked another momentous step for Everton nonetheless. Despite two separate points deductions totalling eight points, doubts over their financial…
adminEngland have been bathed in Women’s Six Nations glory since 2019 and the winning sunlight warmed their skin once again as their captain, Marlie Packer, lifted the trophy aloft for…
adminIraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”. Transgender people will…
adminBritain’s defence ministry is considering sending troops into Gaza to escort trucks of aid being driven off a giant floating pier built by the US military, a UK defence source…
adminPeter Bernegger has spent the last three and a half years bombarding local election offices in Wisconsin with litigation and accusations of fraud. He’s brought at least 18 lawsuits against…
adminIn the feverish buildup to his final appearance at the Madrid Open, Rafael Nadal made himself abundantly clear. It was not too long ago that he was unsure if he…
adminThere’s much talk of “fiscal pinch points” driving economic policy decisions. But there are moral pinch points, too. Not least when it comes to our children: for many in larger…
admin“The act of hand weaving and dyeing cloth is extremely labour intensive – it can take months to make one piece,” says British artist Ptolemy Mann, who has been creating…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Teams in brief: Palmer starts, Luiz returns Cole Palmer, who was enough of a doubt to…
adminA woman is standing next to a group of Holocaust survivors and their descendants in Trafalgar Square, clutching her dog’s lead and livestreaming her challenge to the pro-Palestine marchers on…
adminThe Bachelor of Buckingham Palace | Wondery The Price of Paradise | Wondery Beef and Dairy Network episode 109: Ted Danson | Maximum FunSplit Ends Radio 4 | BBC Sounds…
adminAn increasingly bitter split between the SNP and the Greens has brought even more Scottish parliamentary seats into play for Keir Starmer, Labour figures believe, amid a desperate fight by…
adminTaiwan has reported that a dozen Chinese warplanes flew sorties close to the island on Saturday, in a sudden surge of military activity just hours after the US secretary of…
adminA former mortuary worker in Arkansas has admitted to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them. On Thursday, the US attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas announced…
adminConservative party staff and activists are secretly operating a network of Facebook groups that have become a hotbed of racism, misinformation and support for criminal damage. An investigation has identified…
adminSouth Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital that included a 21-gun salute and the waving…
adminMoses McKenzie, 26, won last year’s Hawthornden prize, previously awarded to Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, for his 2022 debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, set among Jamaicans and Somalis…
adminThe school assessor’s minimalist judgments are here to stay. But how would inspectors rate the government? Continue reading… Source link
adminThe current Manchester United side, representing English football’s 20-time record champions, seriously struggle to hold on to a lead. It is the puzzle of Erik ten Hag’s vintage, an unwanted…
adminThis week, voters across England and Wales will go to the polls in the last set of local elections before the next general election. But one Conservative MP has decided…
adminJacob Rees-Mogg has said the protests against him at Cardiff University were “legitimate and peaceful, if noisy” after he was chased off campus on Friday, as the incident received cross-party…
adminA body has been found in the search for a man who was last seen in a Highlands village more than a year ago. Rodrigo Falcon, an Argentinian, disappeared in…
adminNorwich and West Brom both dropped points in the battle for Championship playoff places – while Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth and Birmingham will all go into the final day at…
adminBy the end, Sheffield United were probably relieved that their next league assignment in the north-east will be at Sunderland or Middlesbrough. Long before the final whistle brought confirmation of…
adminThese two will be representing English rugby in the semi-finals of the Champions Cup next weekend. If this is anything to go by they will do not just do their…
adminWoah there, cried the nation. Easy, boy. This week’s most arresting visuals came on Wednesday morning when runaway horses brought central London to a standstill. Five working animals from the…
adminA Tory MP and former health minister has staged a dramatic defection to Labour, saying the Conservatives have become a “nationalist party of the right” that has abandoned compassion and…
adminAlongside serving my constituents as their MP, during the junior doctors’ strike I have spent more than 20 night shifts over the past year or so working as a mental…
adminFor the Israeli communities evacuated from the country’s far north in the aftermath of 7 October, there is no longer any doubt about whether full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon…
adminSeventy-six people in Kenya have died because of flooding triggered by torrential downpours since March, the government has said, warning residents “to brace for even heavier rainfall”. Kenya and its…
adminMohamed Salah ruined Jürgen Klopp’s attempt to play down his touchline row with the winger by saying there would be “fire” if he stopped to speak after Liverpool’s faltering title…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Look forward to the other semi. Share Suzanne Wrack previews the match. Share Starting lineups Chelsea:…
adminA climber is dead and another seriously injured after falling about 1,000ft (305 metres) while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali national park and preserve,…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Tonight’s match officials Referee: Darren England. Assistants: Simon Bennett and Dan Robathan. Fourth official: Dean Whitestone.…
adminWhen Roger Newman was just 10 years old, doctors told his parents that his haemophilia could now be treated with a commercial blood product promoted by the drug industry as…
adminHamas has said it is studying the latest Israeli counterproposal regarding a potential ceasefire in Gaza, a day after media reports said a delegation from Egypt had arrived in Israel…
adminWay back in the mid-1990s, when the web was young and the online world was buzzing with blogs, a worrying problem loomed. If you were an ISP that hosted blogs,…
adminTraditionally known for hosting champion tennis matches and rock ‘n’ roll legends, Melbourne‘s Olympic Park has now been transformed into a gamer’s paradise. Australia’s largest esports event, Dreamhack, is here…
adminStaring into the abyss… Am I really reaching anyone out there?” Lisa Kaltenegger is laughing about the unsatisfactory experience of teaching astrophysics over Zoom during Covid lockdowns, but she could…
adminA commercial blood product at the centre of the biggest treatment scandal in the history of the NHS was approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among…
adminA Waitrose billboard erected in a wonky fashion as a marketing stunt was fenced off by council staff amid public safety fears. The retailer erected an askew billboard on Lindore…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature It seems the Red Roses got a healthy drenching on arrival. As was forecast, it’s been…
adminThe woman police say is responsible, remains on the run over 24 hours after the incident, which took place about 11.30pm on Friday in Wishart. Police pulled over the Nissan…
adminUsing a carpool or transit lane can help you cut through traffic. What happens, though, if you’re in a rush but don’t have a passenger? The answer isn’t to use…
adminJudd Trump has revealed he rejected offers to join a rival snooker tour after cruising into the quarter-finals of the world championship with a 13-7 win over Tom Ford at…
adminOn 4 May, Rishi Sunak faces a set of local elections that risk further destabilising his premiership and emboldening his critics. Here are five contests that will reveal how the…
adminThe human rights lawyer and campaigner Baroness Shami Chakrabarti was born in Kenton, north-west London, in 1969. She studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as an…
adminBritney Spears and her estranged father have agreed to settle a legal dispute that continued between them even though it had been more than two years since a court had…
adminIs it over yet? Watching as his side contrived to drop more points with some weird and wasteful finishing at the London Stadium, Jürgen Klopp could at least tell himself…
adminDerby are back. Not yet anywhere near their highest heights; the quest for Premier League football remains an ambition for some unspecified point in the future at the conclusion of…
adminThe Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum’s president said. Such a move would give visitors, many of…
adminSexism and Sonia Sotomayor A month ago Josh Barro (a man) at the Atlantic wrote a piece headlined Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now. Around the same time the Guardian’s Mehdi…
adminBeing 10 years younger than my older siblings meant I was bombarded with music from a young age. My older sister, Jane, and brother, John, played records relentlessly. My sister…
adminBritain’s most revered academic institutions ought to stop worrying about their outdated image, since they now offer the best route to global influence, according to British historian Professor Rana Mitter.…
adminA 13-year-old boy has discovered a “holy grail” Lego octopus which spilled into the sea from a shipping container in the 1990s. The octopus is one of nearly 5m Lego…
adminDirector, cast and critics all agree: Civil War, the movie depicting America tearing itself to bloody bits while a cowardly, authoritarian president skulks in the White House, is not about…
adminIt’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool. The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger…
adminNewcastle United make two changes in the wake of their midweek 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace. Lewis Hall and Tino Livramento replace Emil Krafth and Harvey Barnes, who both drop…
adminIn November 1983, a new television series that focused on working-class labourers debuted on ITV. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet told the story of seven men who felt it necessary to leave…
adminDoubles are a delicious and popular Caribbean street food. They’re made up of two soft, puffy fried breads (or baras), hence the name doubles, stuffed with a filling of tasty…
adminBad Faith, a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, opens with an obvious, ominous scene – the storming of the Capitol on 6 January…
adminWhen Michael Gove announced the first delay to post-Brexit checks on plant and animal products coming into the UK from the EU, he was keen to make one thing clear.…
adminPolice were called to a house fire early on Friday morning, which police are treating as suspicious, while homicide detectives continue to interview her partner. A man was seen on…
adminIn the introduction to his new book The Anxious Generation, titled “Growing up on Mars”, Jonathan Haidt tells a fanciful piece of science fiction about a child conscripted into a…
adminFor Sara Melgarejo, the wait at Santiago airport was agonising. The 65-year-old had travelled about 30km north from San Bernardo, a working-class suburb of the Chilean capital, for the reunion. She…
adminThe army has said it is too early to know for sure if two military horses that suffered serious injuries after running loose through London will return to duties. Seven…
admin“Agency” is a current buzzword in opera, well-worn but still valid and usually preceded by “female”. Women, abused, controlled, dying, were long assumed to have no free will. A radical…
adminOne of the largest legal proceedings in German history is due to start on Monday with the first of three trials of a group of far-right conspiracists who planned to…
adminA man has died and eight others have been taken to hospital after an “unusually strong batch” of heroin circulated across north Devon, police have said. Four people were arrested…
adminHumza Yousaf has written to the leaders of other parties to invite them to talks in an attempt to find “common ground” as he fights for his political future. The…
admin“There is no friendship on the pitch,” says the Lyon forward Eugénie Le Sommer. Paris Saint-Germain’s full-back Sakina Karchaoui echoes those sentiments: “Before the match and after the match, yes,…
adminCarol Decker in 1988 and 2024Carol Decker in 1988 and 2024. Later photograph: Pål Hansen. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair and makeup: Abbi Rose. Archive image: Steve Speller/Alamy Born in Liverpool…
adminAs Dukes balls whistle around the shires and white Kookaburras are carted to all parts in the Indian Premier League, England’s thoughts turn to the Caribbean and a T20 World…
adminMilan are close to appointing Julen Lopetegui, which puts him out of the running to replace David Moyes as West Ham’s manager. Lopetegui was one of the frontrunners for the…
adminSebastian, 51 I was really worried about how it would affect Teresa. There’s this whole stigma that a ‘real’ man has a working penis I was diagnosed with prostate cancer…
adminIt is our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering globe of light whose sporadic and unpredictable output has baffled astronomers for years. But now the study of Boyajian’s star is being…
adminA man who raped his wife and was controlling and threatening towards her and their two children attempted to manipulate the family court into believing he was a victim of…
adminBrisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters has played down concerns over Reece Walsh’s fitness, confirming that the superstar fullback did not suffer an injury in the win over Wests Tigers. Walsh…
adminA man, who allegedly took part in a riot outside of a Wakeley church following the stabbing of a Sydney bishop, has become the tenth person to be charged over…
adminA few weeks after Emily Henry’s second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 2021, she noticed a “giant” spike in sales. Her editor and agent had…
adminFrom a mural in Birmingham commemorating poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the Observer’s favourite food shops: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in April 2024 Continue reading… Source link
adminCody Weightman has appeared to suffer a dislocated left elbow for the third time in less than two years. Just weeks removed from the second occurrence and wearing a protective…
adminLeaseholders hit with large and unjust service charges should have the right to refuse to pay up, Sadiq Khan has said, amid concerns that the government has backed away from…
adminThe federal government has committed $160 million to establish a national firearms register, to track ownership and distribution in real-time. The historic funding will be outlined in May’s Budget and…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature West Ham v Liverpool line-ups West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, Emerson Palmieri, Soucek, Alvarez, Bowen,…
adminConservative MPs looking for a new party leader need to allow Rishi Sunak to “get on with the job”, Grant Shapps has said. Amid speculation that Sunak could announce an…
adminWorth remembering: Annie “St Vincent” Clark’s college band was called the Skull Fuckers. The guitarist is no stranger to coaxing hairy sounds out of her instrument, nor to drilling down…
admin‘Can you read what it says?” It was 1992 and I was standing in Samarkand’s impressive Registan Square, looking up at Arabic inscriptions on 15th- and 17th-century buildings, when an…
adminUsually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts shape both our cultural…
adminA group of people have been rescued from a sinking boat off the coast of Sydney, with a teenager and two adults winched to safety by helicopter. Footage of the…
adminFour Vietnamese nationals have been arrested in London after an investigation into alleged people smugglers advertising small-boat crossings of the Channel on Facebook. The joint UK-French investigation alleges the group…
adminMikel Arteta has been getting advice from Arsène Wenger as Arsenal prepare for Sunday’s north London derby almost exactly 20 years after “the Invincibles” won the club’s last Premier League…
adminA 30-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly breached security at Sydney Airport, running onto the tarmac. Police responded to a call from Sydney International Airport on Friday, after…
adminKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Friday’s round up Three Essex players fielded in snoods at Chester-le-Street, with Jordan Cox adding a…
adminI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed…
