84 m. ago Artists who represented Australia at Venice Biennale call for Khaled Sabsabi to be reinstated

Open letter from some of the country’s most distinguished artists ‘strongly protests’ at the removal of Sabsabi and curator Michael DagostinoGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiving artists who have represented Australia at the Venice Biennale over the past five decades – and the estates of a number of now deceased artists who have done the same – have signed an open letter to the board and chief executive of Creative Australia to reinstate sacked artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino.Some of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, including Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Susan Norrie, Fiona Hall, Judy Watson, Patricia Piccinini and Tracey Moffat have signed the petition, as has the estate of Howard Arkley who represented Australia in Venice more than a quarter of a century ago.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Britain's Got Talent fans rumble how young magician 'fooled' judges with bottle trick

Eight-year-old magician Teddy Magic left the Britain’s Got Talent judges amazed with his mind-bending tricks, including a telepathic prank and a shocking champagne bottle illusion

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3 h. ago How I lost 3 STONE in 3 WEEKS. My free method's more effective than any fat jab. I've reversed pre

There comes a time in life when you look in the mirror and simply don't recognise the person staring back. In my mind, I'm still the fit and confident undercover TV reporter.

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3 h. ago Philippe Clement flummoxed by Rangers situation as ball placed in board's court after mass fan walkout

Rangers boss at a loss to explain poor display in 2-0 defeat by St Mirren

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5 h. ago Rangers fall to another lacklustre Ibrox defeat as St Mirren pull off shock

Rangers remain 13 points behind league leaders Celtic, who lost 2-1 at Hibernian earlier in the day

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5 h. ago Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the BookerDavid Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Booker prize with his fourth novel, All That Man Is, nine separate stories “self-assembled in the reader’s mind into a sort of collage-novel” (London Review of Books). His new novel, Flesh, follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young Hungarian ex-convict who makes his life in the UK after serving in Iraq.Tell us how Flesh came to be. I decided to abandon a book I’d started in 2017. It just wasn’t working, so it felt like a weight off my shoulders; nevertheless, I was under contract and had to come up with something. Literally nothing in Flesh is directly autobiographical, but it started with my underlying experience of...

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5 h. ago Mike Dean immediately backtracks on controversial Everton vs Man Utd decision

Everton had a penalty overturned during stoppage time of their thrilling draw with Manchester United, with Mike Dean changing his mind on whether that decision was the correct call

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5 h. ago Elon Musk's 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair shows rare delivery room photo of newborn baby

Elon Musk's 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair shared a rare delivery room photo of her and her newborn son that she sent to the billionaire in new court filings as their custody battle begins.

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6 h. ago ‘Revenge porn’ abusers allowed to keep devices with explicit images

Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis revealsPerpetrators of “revenge porn” offences are being allowed to keep explicit images of their victims on their devices, after a failure by prosecutors to obtain orders requiring their deletion.An Observer analysis of court records in intimate image abuse cases has found that orders for the offenders to give up their devices and delete photos and videos are rarely being made. Of 98 cases concluded in the magistrates courts in England and Wales in the past six months, just three resulted in a deprivation order. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago My boiler has broken and I’m finding solace in a slice (or several) of toast | Rachel Cooke

There are whole chapters in cookbooks dedicated to it and now an endless variety of new things to spread on top, including butters with a waiting listMy subject today is toast, which is much on my mind right now, a buttery ticker tape that calls me constantly to the kitchen. Our boiler has packed up, the new one won’t be installed for a week, and though it’s only the central heating that’s down (the cooker’s fine), the freezing cold has turned me into a toast monster. It’s all I want, a feeling I haven’t had since I was a student and living in a house that was so badly insulated, we sometimes had to break the ice on the water in the loo. How many loaves can a person get through in a week? Come back to me in a few days for an answer. I’ll give you a tour of my chilblains at the same time.What is amazing about toast is the way it has lately become so pimped. This started a few years ago: I first noticed it in Moro Easy by Sam and Sam Clark, a cookbook that came out in 2022 and whose o...

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6 h. ago Why Daniel Dubois had to pull out of Joseph Parker fight as Martin Bakole steps in

Joseph Parker will now meet Martin Bakole on Saturday night after Daniel Dubois pulled out due to illness.

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6 h. ago The intimate getaway where Elon Musk and 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair 'conceived their child'

Elon Musk and his 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair rang in the New Year in St. Barts, where they allegedly conceived their child, court documents said.

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7 h. ago Why YOU should be preparing for death, with a file... Coroner's tips on everything to include in a 'death file'

Let's be honest - none of us like thinking about death. We joke about who will inherit the family Monopoly board, but when it comes to the serious stuff most of us put it off.

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7 h. ago Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk anger, Arne Slot's 115 charges joke, referee apology

Liverpool and Manchester City will renew their rivalry on Sunday, with the Reds looking to repeat their victory at Anfield earlier this season - a game that was marred by controversy

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7 h. ago Elon Musk's 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair sues him for custody of son and demands he take paternity test

In a petition filed with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, St Clair, 26, says the Tesla CEO and DOGE Chief has had no involvement in the upbringing of their son.

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8 h. ago US supreme court temporarily blocks firing of head of federal whistleblower protection office

Trump administration is seeking to oust Hampton Dellinger, head of the office of special counselThe US supreme court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word on the many legal fights over the agenda of Donald Trump’s second presidency.The justices said in an unsigned order that Hampton Dellinger, head of the office of special counsel, could remain in his job at least until Wednesday. That’s when a lower-court order temporarily protecting him expires. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Gasperini claims offence unintended in calling Lookman ‘one of worst penalty takers’

Atalanta manager says: ‘I didn’t want to offend anyone’Striker called manager’s comments ‘deeply disrespectful’Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini said he never intended to offend Ademola Lookman by saying the striker is “one of the worst penalty takers he has ever seen” after their home Champions League defeat by Club Brugge.Belgian side Club Brugge stunned Atalanta 3-1 in the second leg of their playoff tie to dump the Italian side out with a 5-2 aggregate win and reach the last 16. Lookman, Atalanta’s hero last season when they won the Europa League, pulled back one goal for the Italian side when they were 3-0 down. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago England v Scotland referee Pierre Brousset was pulled from Six Nations game at last minute

Pierre Brousset will finally make his tournament debut in a huge clash at Twickenham on Saturday

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10 h. ago England set Australia 352 to win Champions Trophy opener after Duckett hits 165 – live

Over-by-over updates from Group B game (9am GMT)Get in touch with Tanya here | Sign up to the SpinOH MY GOOD GOLLY WHAT A CATCH! Alex Carey has pulled off a blinder to get rid of Phil Salt!1st over: England 12-0 (Salt 10, Duckett 0) Yep the wicket and outfield look like the sort a batter would drool over. England get twelve off the first over as Salt bunts down the ground for four and then flicks off his pads in real style for SIX! Flamboyant from the opener. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago ‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang

An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert’s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media’s most powerful family. This could get messy When some of the mind games and manoeuvres that turned a Murdoch family “retreat” into an ordeal appeared in Succession, the TV drama about squabbling family members of a right-wing media company, members of the real-life family started to suspect each other of leaking details to the writers. The truth was more straightforward. Succession’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, said that his team hadn’t needed inside sources – they had simply read press reports.Future screenwriters have been gifted a whole load of new Murdoch material in the past few days, after two astonishing stories in the New York Times and the Atlantic lifted the lid on the dysfunction, paranoia and despair at the heart of the most powerful family in global media. Continue reading...

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