4 m. ago How 11 Premier League teams could qualify for Europe next season with permutations explained

The race for places in next season's Champions League and Europa League is hotting up - and there is a lot to play for as the Premier League nears its conclusion

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34 m. ago Home Alone 2 director says he fears he will be deported if he cuts Trump cameo

Chris Columbus calls cameo ‘an albatross’ but worries he’d ‘have to go back to Italy or something’Film-maker Chris Columbus says he has come to regard Donald Trump’s cameo in his movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as “an albatross” that he wishes to remove.But, Columbus added, he fears the president’s administration would deport him if he followed through with nixing the scene from more than 30 years ago. Continue reading...

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37 m. ago Dragons' Den star embroiled in bitter trademark row over 'piddle patch' dog toilet

The 'Piddle Patch' was a hit when Rebecca Sloan, 39, appeared on Dragons' Den back in 2022 - but she is now locked in a legal battle with a rival dog toilet maker

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60 m. ago I developed a mystery illness only for doctors to tell me it was terminal when I had a wisdom tooth taken out 

Bob Perry, 70, from Poole, Dorset, who served in the military and later the police as a detective, suddenly became unwell after his retirement in 2011.

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78 m. ago Coking coal to keep British Steel Scunthorpe furnaces burning to be unloaded in docks in race against time

Industry minister Sarah Jones confirmed the shipment had been paid for and the rescue mission was being stepped up on Tuesday

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79 m. ago Helen Flanagan stuns in striking Karen Millen dress at this year's Grand National race

Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan attended the Grand National race at Aintree earlier this month, and she wore a dramatic pink and red dress from the high street

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80 m. ago Trump lashes out at Zelenskyy as Witkoff signals Putin’s wider security demands – Europe live

US president questions Ukraine counterpart’s competency as his envoy outlines ‘detail attached’ to any peace dealDavid Shimer, the former director for eastern Europe and Ukraine on Joe Biden’s national security council, writes for the Guardian today, asking “two key questions for Ukraine’s European allies” as he worries about the US military aid ceasing soon.The war between Russia and Ukraine is approaching a historic turning point: unless the Trump administration adjusts course, US military aid for Ukraine is about to cease.Since taking office, Trump has not approved a single military aid package for Ukraine. Even if Trump were to reverse course and utilize this remaining drawdown authority, the amount available is insufficient to sustain US support for Ukraine over time. To do that, Congress would need to approve additional Ukraine funding, which will not happen while the Republican party controls both chambers and the White House. As a result, the era of US military aid to Ukrain...

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94 m. ago Chosen Family review – fluid directing by Heather Graham ballasts enjoyable romcom

Graham denounces her toxic family and begins a new relationship, before discovering her beau’s preteen daughter to be a tiny psychopath in a tutuFor younger readers not well versed in last-century cinema, Heather Graham was one of the hottest ingenues in Hollywood throughout the 1990s; her greatest performance was arguably as Rollergirl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. Recently, she’s taken up writer-director duties (she made her debut in 2018 with a comedy called Half Magic) while continuing to star as well, and this sophomore effort impresses with its mildly acidic observations of contemporary mores. There aren’t exactly belly laughs in this tale of single yoga instructor Ann (Graham), but quite a few of zingers and bits that stick the landing nicely thanks to fluent direction and good comic timing from Graham and her excellent supporting cast, which is filled out by cracking actors who might not often be given as much spotlight as they get here.That’s entirely fitting giv...

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95 m. ago Race Across the World fans need to watch Jet Lag: The Game while they wait for series 5

Make the wait for Race Across the World series 5 easier by watching this hit show 🏃 ♂️

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95 m. ago Oliver Bearman's dad sends sweet message to Britain's teenage F1 star over radio

Oliver Bearman started dead last at Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix but drove an impressive race to finish within the points, continuing his good form in his debut season with Haas

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96 m. ago Man's life turned upside down on holiday when his brother called to tell him what criminals had done

Eathan Cooper's cloned car registration saw him swarmed by police and threatened by bailiffs

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1 hour ago Man Utd 'enter race for Aaron Ramsdale' as Ruben Amorim makes brutal Andre Onana admission

The Red Devils are reportedly in the hunt for a new goalkeeper this summer, and have been linked with Southampton and England shot-stopper Aaron Ramsdale

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2 h. ago Good American Family star reveals the harrowing scene that 'nearly killed him' to film while telling dark true tale of Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace

Mark Duplass, who stars alongside Ellen Pompeo and British newcomer Imogen Faith Reid in the Disney+ drama has shared how shooting one agonizing scene with Imogen 'killed' him.

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3 h. ago Britain's most hated mother's torment in the school WhatsApp group: I was bullied and called a s*** in the mums' chat

Carla Bellucci, from Hertfordshire, likened the chats to 'school bullying' and says she was repeatedly left out by other mums, who wouldn't invite her to meet-ups.

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3 h. ago Aston Villa are underdogs against PSG but their optimism is not misguided

Villa were in bullish mood ahead of the visit of the French champions despite trailing 3-1 from the first leg

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3 h. ago Arsenal set to lose out on transfer as Premier League rival swoops after Man Utd update

Arsenal and Manchester United have both been linked with a move for Rosenborg starlet Sverre Nypan, but it appears as though Aston Villa are set to win the race for the midfielder

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3 h. ago ‘Charisma in abundance’: why Just Act Normal is the best showcase for new talent since Adolescence

Incredible newcomers! Chickens! Jamelia! The casting director of Stephen Graham’s Netflix smash hit has done it again with this hilariously bleak, utterly unique series. The cast open upOver the last few years, we have found ourselves inundated with sadcoms. Again and again, we’ve been deluged by ostensible comedies that are so concerned with grief and trauma that the laughs end up feeling like a distant afterthought. Striking the right balance between comedy and drama takes absurd levels of effort and craft at the best of times. Doing it with a premise as bleak as BBC Three’s new series Just Act Normal is almost impossible.My hands are tied with embargos, so I have to be vague about certain plot details, but Just Act Normal is a show about three young siblings who decide to struggle on as normal after their mother – a perennially unreliable woman with substance abuse issues – disappears. Their lives are suddenly spent trying to navigate the complex systems of the adult world while ...

Culture

4 h. ago Today's TV with Sara Wallis: creepy new drama The Glass Dome is your next Netflix binge

From criminals in the dock in a C4 documentary to a creepy Netflix drama about an abducted girl, our TV columnist Sara Wallis picks the best telly to watch tonight

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5 h. ago What 40 years as Observer science editor has taught Robin McKie – podcast

Robin McKie reflects on his 40 years as science editor for the Observer and tells Madeleine Finlay about the game-changing discoveries and scientific controversies that he’s reported on during that time. He describes how the discovery of the structure of DNA revolutionised science, what he learned about misinformation from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and why cold fusion and the millennium bug failed to live up to their hype.What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editorSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use itEurope is scrambling to remilitarise. The European Commission is raising a €150bn (£129bn) defence fund and is calling on EU countries to invest €650bn (£561bn) more. Germany has cast aside its government debt limit to invest hundreds of billions of euros in defence. Poland will train every male of fighting age for battle, and envisages an army 500,000 strong. Latvia’s president has urged the rest of Europe to conscript citizens, as Latvia does. Even neutral Ireland is buying combat jets. No wonder Europe’s defence industry is booming. In just a few months, the share prices of several big weapons manufacturers have nearly doubled and doubled again. But, despite this new martial pulse, the continent is still sleepwalking towards disaster.Europe can harden its shell and sharpen its claws, but it has done little to protect its soft underbelly against political manipulation. The US is capitulating to...

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