34 m. ago Sports quiz of the week: Grand National, Champions League and county cricket

Have you been paying attention to the football, tennis, cricket, horse racing, boxing and baseball? Continue reading...

Sport

34 m. ago Women’s chess takes centre stage with World and European titles up for grabs

Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi are playing in Shanghai for the world crown, while 136 players, six of them from England, compete in Rhodes for the European championshipWomen’s chess takes centre stage this week. In Shanghai and Chongqing, there is an all-Chinese 12-game match for the women’s world crown between Ju Wenjun, 34, the holder, and Tan Zhongyi, 33, the challenger. The pair are closely matched on ratings (2561 to 2555) and level on head-to-head. The prize money pool is $500,000. Thursday’s game one, with Ju playing White in a Sicilian Defence, was a routine draw by threefold repetition in 39 moves.There is live commentary from 7am BST each day from the all-time No 1, Judit Polgar, and England’s popular Jovanka Houska on YouTube. Saturday is a rest day, game three (of 12) is on Sunday. Continue reading...

Politics

35 m. ago Greater Manchester motorway shuts TONIGHT as drivers issued warning

M67 diversions will be in place with traffic delays expected

Events

68 m. ago Ruud van Nistelrooy AXES Leicester star from squad in feud over 100

Ruud van Nistelrooy dropped Harry Winks as the pair clashed over the midfielder's decision to drive 100-miles to training as he still bases himself out of Hertfordshire

Politics

94 m. ago Your Friends & Neighbors to Black Mirror: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm stars as a gentlemen thief in a very entertaining midlife-crisis satire. Plus: Charlie Brooker’s hit series is back with another sensational castManifesting his signature blend of unshakeable self-confidence and understated self-loathing, Jon Hamm stars in this midlife-crisis satire. Coop (Hamm) is a hedge fund manager who, after years gazing down at the world from an ivory tower, finds his life falling apart. His wife has gone, his kids are expensive, his sister’s mental health problems are getting worse and he’s lost his job. “Your biggest mistake,” his boss tells him, “was thinking any of this was ever yours.” At a barbecue hosted by friends, he has an idea: the people around him are awful and undeservedly rich – so why not rob them? Soon, everything is spiralling out of control in very entertaining fashion. Apple TV+, from Friday 11 April Continue reading...

Culture

2 h. ago Met Office issues rare red warning for hay fever sufferers as pollen levels soar

The Met Office has issued a rare red warning for hay fever sufferers as pollen levels are set to soar this week, with millions of people affected in England and Wales

Events

2 h. ago There was almost a crash a week involving cars and trams in Greater Manchester last year

'We're in the hands of other road users'

Events

2 h. ago British Fashion Council cancels London Fashion Week June edition

British Fashion Council cancels London Fashion Week June edition  Vogue Business

Politics

3 h. ago It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul

Meteorite falls are extremely rare and offer a glimpse of the processes that formed our world billions of years ago. When a space rock came to an English market town in 2021, scientists raced to find as much out as they couldBy Helen Gordon. Read by Sasha Frost Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago The far right has seemed unstoppable in Europe. Here’s how Trump’s tariffs could change that | Nathalie Tocci

With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity for the unionDonald Trump has unleashed a trade war on the world, and Europe, considered by Washington to be among the “worst offenders”, is a major target. After hitting European steel, aluminium and cars, this week Trump announced sweeping 20% tariffs on almost all EU imports. Europeans have seen this coming for a long time. Well before his re-election, officials in Brussels were drawing up plans on how the EU might respond to Trump 2.0 and a possible transatlantic trade war.What might the political fallout in Europe be? The good news is that Trump’s trade war puts Trump-friendly far-right forces in Europe in a terribly uncomfortable position. It’s one thing for the European far right to support Trump in principle, or to support the administration’s tyranny over peoples it doesn’t care about, be it Ukrainians, Canadians, Mexicans or Palestinians. It’s quite anoth...

Politics

3 h. ago ‘There are no winners’: global companies respond to Trump tariffs

From UK tailors to Australian farmers to Irish whiskey distillers, firms reveal the impact of US measuresDonald Trump’s sweeping tariffs will upend global trade, adding costs and delays to businesses around the world and threatening a recession.The Guardian spoke to eight businesses about the impact. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago People of State Pension age with arthritis could be due up to £441 each month

Nearly half a million people will receive either £73.90 or £110.40 each week from April 7.

Economics

4 h. ago UK Government urged to speed up replacing RTS meters as 150k Scots homes face energy crisis

EXCLUSIVE: Delays to the roll-out of smart meters means thousands of Scottish households face disruption to heating and higher bills.

Politics

4 h. ago The truth about Hulk Hogan's explosive family feud and his secret plan to get estranged daughter back on side, revealed by insiders

As far as road trips go, Hulk Hogan's two-day visit to Texas seemed surprisingly upbeat this week. Behind the scenes, however, is a very different story.

Society

5 h. ago Crew of New Zealand navy ship that sank off Samoa lacked training and experience, inquiry finds

A lack of training, qualifications and experience among the crew on board a New Zealand navy ship that ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa have been identified by a military Court of Inquiry in a final report into the disaster released Friday

Politics

6 h. ago NASA astronaut reveals his secret to surviving 286 days stranded in space

Butch Wilmore was one of two astronauts rescued from the International Space Station, where he spent nine months after the spacecraft he arrived on suffered technical problems.

Technology

7 h. ago Paul Mescal 'told to get less ripped' as he gears up for role of Sir Paul McCartney in Beatles biopic

It was announced this week that the actor will be starring in the movie alongside Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

Politics

8 h. ago Who was Andrew Pierce's favourite monarch and stars in their own Ladybird book?

This week, Andrew Pierce answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

Politics

8 h. ago St Pancras plans 'turn up and go' trains to Europe after Race Across The World sparks demand for international rail travel

Passengers ‘able to depart for Europe 15 minutes after arriving at station’

Politics

9 h. ago Asteroid which caused panic about deadly collision with Earth is massive, Nasa says

Asteroid 2024 YR4, it appeared, was heading for Earth but more data recorded by the Webb Space Telescope has offered new information about the rocky body in the inner Solar System

Events