66 m. ago Cristiano Ronaldo begs for Lamine Yamal privacy as Barcelona prodigy feels the heat over reaction to trophy lift

Spain star Yamal was filmed walking away from Portugal's trophy lift but CR7 wants narratives to be quashed

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78 m. ago Can you solve it? The deductive decade – ten years of Monday puzzles

Happy birthday to usForgive me the indulgence of celebrating ten years of this column. Toot toot!I began posting biweekly brainteasers at the end of May 2015, originally addressing you folk as “guzzlers” – Guardian puzzlers. The cringy coinage didn’t stick, but the column did, and here we are a decade and 260 columns later. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Everything we know so far about murder investigation after boy dies in Manchester

The probe has begun its second day

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88 m. ago Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, her blue dress almost the only colour in a still, sandy room. Gwen John’s painting The Convalescent shows a subdued yet happy moment, for this woman is free to think and feel. That, we see in Judith Mackrell’s outstanding double biography of Gwen and her brother, was her ideal for living: to be at liberty even if that meant existing in deepest solitude.The quietness of a life spent largely alone in single rooms, reading, drawing, painting and occasionally having wild sex with the sculptor Rodin, is counterpointed in this epic narrative by the crowded, relentless, almost insanely overstimulated life of Augustus John. Lion of the arts in early 20th-century Britain, he was a bigamist, adulterer, father of so many children you lose track (so did he), and an utterly forgettable painter. Continue reading...

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88 m. ago 'I donated my mum's body to Alzheimer's research what happened next was horrifying'

Her son said 'she was strapped in a chair, and a detonation took place underneath her'

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88 m. ago 'I donated my mum's body to Alzheimer's research instead she was blown to pieces'

Her son said 'she was strapped in a chair, and a detonation took place underneath her'

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88 m. ago 'I donated my mum's body to Alzheimer's research but she was blown up in experiment'

Her son said 'She was strapped in a chair, and a detonation took place underneath her to get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED'

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93 m. ago A new start after 60: My voice went and suddenly part of me was missing – then I discovered bellringing

As a lifelong singer and a teacher, Jean Walters was used to making a noise. At 67 she found a new way to do itOne sunny August evening, Jean Walters was sitting in her garden in Meltham, West Yorkshire, when the church bells began to ring. She sipped her glass of wine; the evening seemed idyllic. “A quintessential English country garden,” she thought, and posted on Facebook: “Bells ringing, how lovely!”The next day when the plumber came to fix her toilet, more prosaically, he mentioned that he had seen her post, and being a bellringer himself, gave her the number of the local church’s tower captain. “He said, ‘Come along and try it.’ I did. I loved it. I said to my husband, ‘Did you hear that single bong? That was me.’”Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Manchester murder investigation LIVE updates as boy dies after horror attack

Police have begun a second day of enquiries in New Moston

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3 h. ago Could an alliance of eight small countries turn out to be Europe’s anchor? | Paul Taylor

Amid geopolitical storms and the rise of populism, the ‘Nordic-Baltic eight’ is gaining clout as a bulwark of western resolveWith Europe’s political kaleidoscope spinning wildly in the populist winds, a group of northern countries is gaining weight as a geopolitical anchor. Known as the Nordic-Baltic eight (NB8 in diplomatic jargon), it brings together small northern European states that, individually, might have little clout in international security and politics. But since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, they have wielded growing influence as a pressure group for western resolve, offering an attractive blend of democratic security, defence integration and societal resilience.Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden established their regional cooperation format in 1992, after the end of the cold war, with regular meetings of prime ministers, parliamentary speakers, foreign and defence ministers and senior government officials. It beg...

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3 h. ago How a drug theft sparked bloody gangland war between Daniels and Lyons

Decades of gangland war between the two families began with a cocaine theft in 2001.

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5 h. ago Moment man 'sprints across Heathrow tarmac as planes land' while airport staff chase him on foot 

The man was seen being chased by at least four other men as he raced across the airport grounds near Terminal 2.

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6 h. ago Tonys broadcast hit with sound complaints as viewers beg CBS to ‘turn on the mics’

Broadway awards ceremony is being broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ in the U.S.

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7 h. ago Moment 'fare dodger' is warned he could be committing fraud after only paying for short part of his journey

The train passenger was stopped by a revenue protection officer at the barriers at London Waterloo station after arriving on a South Western Railway (SWR) service.

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9 h. ago Moment thug shows up at his ex's house to burn it down while she sleeps before killing her dog

Adrian West, 61, had subjected Louise Simpson, 53, to a campaign of violent attacks last year which included strangling, punching and kicking before she kicked him out of her house.

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10 h. ago The Gold fans spot nostalgic BBC throwback from 1990s seconds before series 2 premiere

The Gold series two is finally here and fans were already raving about the hit crime drama's return before the episode even began

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10 h. ago Sinner’s mechanical excellence malfunctions against human ingenuity of relentless rival

World No 1’s spellbinding effort dismantled by Alcaraz in the fifth set to conjure theatre in Paris and a rivalry for the agesBy the end, it felt cruel to want more. Look at the state of these men: bedraggled and dishevelled, dragged into a place of wildness and madness, of mental atrophy and physical dismay. You, on the other hand, have spent the last five and a half hours sitting on your couch, eating snacks and gorging on the finest sporting theatre. You want this prolonged for your entertainment? You want more of this? And of course the only real answer is: yes. Yes, please.Twilight zone at Roland Garros. Two sets each, six games each: the shadows ravenous, the noise bestial, every thrill laced with a kind of sickness. By the end, admiration began to meld with pity. Pity for their teams and families, trapped in the convulsions, feeling a spiralling hypertension with every passing moment. Pity for the tennis balls, being smacked and beaten mercilessly across the Paris n...

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11 h. ago PHOTO ESSAY: A young trans woman's journey, and her latest destination: World Pride in Washington

As they get ready in their hotel room, Bella Bautista trades makeup tips with the roommate she has just met.

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11 h. ago Moment frail missing pensioner uses cane to walk along street: Police release CCTV in hopes of tracing 89

Footage shows Malcolm, 89, was last seen on Wednesday walking along Westfield Close in the area of Hull Road in Easington between 8am - 9.30am on the day of his disappearance.

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12 h. ago I hope to do a better job of parenting than previous generations, says new mum Karen Gillan

Karen Gillan has revealed she is trying to 'do a better job at parenting' than 'the previous generation'.

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