20 minutes ago Ivory Coast all out for seven runs in new record T20 international low

The previous low score barely made double figures but Ivory Coast’s top run-scorer managed only four

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33 minutes ago BBC Strictly's Come Dancing's Pete Wicks says 'I'm sorry' after 'horrific' results show

The latest results show of Strictly Come Dancing saw Jamie Borthwick leave the show - with Pete Wicks being saved by the public and sailing through to the next week

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57 minutes ago Pete Wicks issues heartfelt apology to Strictly fans after public vote backlash

Pete Wicks has broken his silence after finding himself in the bottom two once again on Strictly Come Dancing, leaving fans furious as he was saved over Jamie Borthwick

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62 minutes ago Wicked director fumes fans are not seeing film as intended due to cinema complaint

New film Wicked, which adapts the musical into a two-part movie, was released last week and stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, with the second part scheduled for next year

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73 minutes ago The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reactionIt was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. None of us knew that secret talks were going on with Mandela in prison. We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The law had once banned “miscegenation”. And here I was directing Othello, a play about miscegenation, at Johannesburg’s Market theatre.I used to go back there from England regularly. I was closely involved with Barney Simon and Mannie Manim, who co-founded the theatre in the mid-70s on the site of the old Indian fruit market. It was very close to my heart: a place where freedom of thought and freedom of speech could reign.As told to Lindesay Irvine Continue reading...

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85 minutes ago Worrying parrallels between Ariana Grande and her idol Audrey Hepburn: Wicked star is turning into a clone of the actress

Among the hectic Wicked press tour it has been Ariana Grande's increasingly slender frame that has become a big conversation among some of her fans.

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87 minutes ago UK politics live: vote on assisted dying bill impossible to predict, says minister

Jess Phillips says ‘we do not know how this vote is going to go’ with the views of many MPs still unclearGood morning. There is plenty happening today. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, and Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, are both speaking at the CBI conference, where the CBI chief executive Rain Newton-Smith is warning about the impact of the budget on business. Keir Starmer is hosting a meeting at Downing Street about plans to protect women from spiking. “My government was elected on a pledge to take back our streets, and we will never achieve this if women and girls do not feel safe at night,” he says. There will be tributes to John Prescott in the Commons this afternoon. But one issue is going to dominate the week, the vote on the assisted dying bill on Friday, and already that...

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90 minutes ago Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju: World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – live updates

Ding and Gukesh face off for $2.5m in SingaporeExplainer: all your pre-match questions, answeredBluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email himOur Leonard Barden has filed his final dispatch ahead of today’s opening game. Barden, who’s written the Guardian’s chess column every week since September 1955, doesn’t divert from the general consensus in his assessment of the match.The preliminaries are nearly over: who will win? I expect Gukesh to be cautious in the first few games, then to probe and push hard in the middle of the match. Ding’s 2024 form has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can keep his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh looks about right. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Wicked: Cinemas impose a “no singing” rule at select screenings as sing

The audience participation at a cinema screening is similar to the situation Taylor Swift’s film was ‘embroiled’ in

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1 hour ago Marvin Kaleta: Motherwell will bounce back after '10 minutes of madness' at Ross County

The Steelmen fell to defeat in Dingwall and now host Hibs this coming weekend

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