71 minutes ago Oliver Glasner 'positive for the future' as Crystal Palace woe continues

Eagles without a win in their opening eight Premier League games

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86 minutes ago Harrods settling Al Fayed sexual misconduct claims with more than 250 people

Store says it has already settled a number of claims against former owner since 2023Harrods has said more than 250 people are part of its process to settle compensation claims over alleged sexual misconduct by Mohamed Al Fayed.The department store in Knightsbridge, west London, said it had “settled a number of claims with women” made against its former owner since last year. Continue reading...

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96 minutes ago The Franchise review – Armando Iannucci’s superhero satire is saved only by a standout star

This spoof from a team of comedy greats ends up a bit of a mess – largely due to the lack of great jokes. But one actor comes up with the goodsIt is a strange truth that to satirise something effectively, you have to love it – at least a little. You have to see it in the round and understand not just where it fails but where it succeeds, and why some people like it while others loathe it. Good satire doesn’t come from indifference: it comes from disappointment, rage and the desire to show not just how things fail but how they could be better.Jonathan Swift wrote about people eating babies because he was furious. Jane Austen looked at Georgian women’s lot and laid bare all its miseries through laughter. Leaping over a few centuries, the likes of Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister an...

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1 hour ago Mikel Arteta 'honest' as Arsenal boss explains way to fix discipline problem

Gunners saw third player sent off in eight games on Saturday

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1 hour ago Election 2024 live updates: Trump slams Harris as a ‘cognitive mess’; Cheney urges pro

Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set to end busy day of campaigning with events in Concord, North Carolina, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, respectively

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2 hours ago Nottingham Forest’s Chris Wood floors Crystal Palace after Henderson blunder

Chris Wood is keeping some good company these days. His strike midway through the second half, which brought Nottingham Forest their first home win of the season, means that only Erling Haaland and Cole Palmer have scored more than the 16 Premier League goals he has plundered since Nuno Espírito Santo took charge at the City Ground just before last Christmas.The New Zealand forward will be 33 by the time Nuno, starting a three-game suspension from the touchline, celebrates his anniversary but celebrating they surely will be. Thanks to Wood’s fifth league goal of this season, Forest are nestling happily in eighth place in the table after this hard-earned victory over a Crystal Palace team who remain entrenched in the relegation zone. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Middle East crisis live: Israeli airstrike hits front of hospital in south Beirut, spokesperson says

Attack hit entrance of Rafic Hariri university hospital – the largest public hospital in LebanonIsraeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said.They also rounded up men and ordered women to leave the camp, they said. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Jill Biden says it was the ‘right call’ for her husband to drop out of 2024 campaign

The First Lady admitted it might be ‘tough’ for the couple to relinquish power

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2 hours ago Harris and Cheney talk economy, women’s health and Trump in Michigan campaign event – US elections live

VP and former Republican congresswoman meet voters in swing state; Trump holds rally in North CarolinaDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is taking a major step to ...

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2 hours ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing professional welcomed back after 'snub' left fans fuming

Strictly Come Dancing's Lauren Oakley has been left without a partner for the 2024 series but she was back on television screens to present the choreography corner segment on It Takes Two

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