1 hour ago ‘We have never lived this’: Pep Guardiola details concern after yet another Man City defeat

Tottenham have beaten them twice amid City’s five straight losses

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2 hours ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans fume as they hit out at 'overmarking' of star

Strictly Come Dancing returned on Saturday night for the latest week of the competition and BBC viewers shared their thoughts on the likes of Pete Wicks' scores on social media

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2 hours ago Piers Morgan brutally trolls Erling Haaland after Man City thrashed at home to Tottenham

Manchester City and Erling Haaland endured another afternoon to forget against Tottenham on Saturday evening - and Piers Morgan couldn't wait to rub the striker's nose in it

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3 hours ago Wales hit new low against South Africa as 12th straight loss piles on Warren Gatland pressure

Wales go a whole calendar year without notching a single Test victory for the first time since 1937

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3 hours ago Warren Gatland admits to uncertainty over future after Wales suffer 12th straight defeat

A heavy defeat to South Africa condemned Gatland’s young side to a winless 2024

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3 hours ago South Africa condemn Wales to 12th straight defeat to leave Gatland on brink

Wales 12-45 South AfricaSpringboks score seven tries without reaching top gearAnother week, another record defeat. This time Wales went down 45-12 to South Africa, which is the worst beating they’ve ever had from them in a home game. It’s their 12th straight defeat, at the fag end of a year in which they’ve lost every single game they have played.The worst thing about this one was that they played pretty well, in a way. It was a performance full of grit and determination anyway, but that only leaves you with the uncomfortable truth that this thumping defeat was about as good as it was ever going to get for this team. They simply don’t seem to have anything better in them. Continue reading...

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4 hours 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

4 hours ago Rufus Wainwright: ‘I had a great party trick, but it once blew up in my face’

The singer-songwriter on his most memorable fan, his love of Chappell Roan, and his close friend and nemesis Jake ShearsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you could have a sandwich named after you, what would be on it?I would have a really gross sandwich named after me that nobody would want to eat. The one time I tried to cook – many, many years ago, when I was in college – I decided to make all the things that I love and put them in one dish. And so it was brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese, merguez sausages, extra blue cheese and broccoli. And it was literally grey. So yeah, it would be something revolting like that, between two pieces of cardboard. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Incredible moment farm shop worker clings to shoplifter's bonnet in bid to stop the thief as he makes his getaway

Matthew Henshaw, 20, closed the gate to Mainsgill Farmshop in North Yorkshire but the man made a quick getaway and drove straight into him.

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