70 minutes ago Kevin Muscat insider tells Rangers where his focus REALLY is as Philippe Clement faces 'facts' of surging pressure

It's a tale of two bosses after Muscat picked up another medal with Shanghai Port

Events

96 minutes ago Tottenham fans aim brutal chant at Pep Guardiola as Man City's season continues to collapse

Manchester City have fallen behind Liverpool in the title race due to their poor form, and they another damaging defeat against Tottenham could lead to the gap between them and the Reds getting even wider

Politics

1 hour ago The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

The sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, to a crypto entrepreneur is a grim concept that has little to do with disruptionPaulina Brandberg, the Swedish minister for gender equality and work life, has a phobia of bananas so severe, her aides check rooms for the fruit before she’s due to enter them. Like other sufferers of this most unlikely of conditions, she is triggered by the merest traces of banana: a skin mouldering in a far-off wastepaper basket; a lingering smell; the sense that until recently something bendy and yellow lurked next to the perfectly innocent apples and oranges in the bowl on that coffee table.We can only hope, then, that the minister was – trigger warning – nowhere near the big auction house news of last week, in which a banana sold for $5.2m (£4.1m) at...

Economics

2 hours ago UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

Shabana Mahmood has written to her constituents saying she is ‘profoundly concerned’ about Friday’s Commons voteMPs will be placing the country on a “slippery slope towards death on demand” if they back legislation on assisted dying in England and Wales this week, the lord chancellor and justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said in a letter to constituents before a historic Commons vote on Friday.Mahmood has received numerous letters about the bill from people in her Birmingham Ladywood seat, which has a big Muslim population, and sent out replies saying that she was “profoundly concerned” about the legislation, not only for religious reasons but also because of what it would mean for the role of the state if one of its functions became helping people to die. Continue reading...

Events

3 hours ago Moscow bans adoption of Russian children to countries that allow gender transition

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal

Politics

4 hours ago Hamas says female Israeli hostage is killed and another left fighting for life after IDF airstrike in Gaza

The spokesperson for Hamas' armed wing, said that they had learned of the unnamed hostage's fate after re-establishing contact with captors in northern Gaza Strip

Events

5 hours ago Voices: Rachel Reeves is standing by her ‘tough decisions’ – but for how long?

The chancellor insists that she is not for turning, writes John Rentoul. But with the current cold snap and discontent among farmers, I predict she will, indeed, retreat

Politics

5 hours ago I'm A Celeb's Danny Jones made tearful phone call to McFly bandmate revealing worst fears about show

I'm A Celebrity star Danny Jones has spoken candidly about a phone call he made to one of his McFly bandmates

Politics

5 hours ago Dartmouth sorority and two fraternity members charged over death of student

Won Jang drowned in Connecticut River in July after party where alcohol was supplied by his fraternityA sorority at Dartmouth College and two members of a fraternity are facing charges related to the death of a student who drowned after attending an off-campus party this summer.Won Jang, 20, of Middletown, Delaware, had been reported missing in July after the party. State and local emergency responders searched the Connecticut River and found his body. Continue reading...

Events

7 hours ago Dartmouth sorority, two members of fraternity face charges after student who attended party drowned

A sorority at Dartmouth College and two members of a fraternity faces charges related to the death of a student who drowned after attending an off-campus party

Society