1 hour ago Haaland and Marmoush fire Manchester City to comeback win at Bournemouth

Manchester City continue to dream of a silver-lined finish to an underwhelming season. It was a day when Bournemouth were determined to make history by reaching a first semi-final in any major competition and their hopes were high at half-time. Not only had Kepa Arrizabalaga saved an Erling Haaland penalty, they were in front thanks to Evanilson’s scrambled finish.City were on the canvas. They would clamber up in fine style. Haaland had missed other chances and he would be forced off with an injury. But before he went, he had scored the equaliser. The match-winner would be his replacement. Omar Marmoush had been on the field for a matter of minutes and his first involvement was to take a touch before sweeping past Kepa. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Queen's Park 0 Livingston 5: Lions rampant as they seal first cup win in 10 years with five

It is Livingston's first cup win since they last triumphed in the competition back in 2015

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4 h. ago Zoe Atkin crowns stellar season with world freeski halfpipe gold

British skier surpasses silver won in 2023 competitionAtkin: ‘I’m going to eat all the Swiss chocolate I have’Great Britain’s Zoe Atkin reached the crowning moment of her stellar season with a maiden world title on the final day of the freeski halfpipe championships in Engadin, Switzerland, on Sunday. It was third time lucky for the 22-year-old, who won bronze at the event in 2021 and silver in 2023.“I feel amazing, I’m world champion,” Atkin said. “I’m going to go celebrate, I’m going to eat all the Swiss chocolate I have in my bedroom. I’m going to have a drink out on the patio. I’m just so excited.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Competition Concerns: American Airlines & British Airways To Give Up Slots On London

Competition Concerns: American Airlines & British Airways To Give Up Slots On London-US Flights  Simple Flying

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5 h. ago ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

Australia’s richest person has close ties with the US president’s ‘Trumpettes’ and has even styled her company headquarters with Maga-inspired designsListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe founder of a key support group for the US president has praised Gina Rinehart as a “female Donald Trump” and backed a push by the mining magnate to bring Trump’s policy ideas to Australia.Toni Holt Kramer, the president and founder of The Trumpettes USA, told Guardian Australia she had been friends with Rinehart since the first Trump presidency in 2016, describing her as an “extremely brilliant woman”. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Preston vs Aston Villa LIVE: Championship side in the tie and plot upset in FA Cup quarter

Villa face the only Championship side left in the competition, with a place in a Wembley semi-final at stake

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6 h. ago Driver, 50, killed in 'road rage attack' was 'kind and inspirational' primary school teacher who asked pupils to help him propose to his wife

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Bowles, 50, died after police were called to reports of two motorists fighting close to a roundabout, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday evening.

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6 h. ago Revealed: How royal women are inspired by their mothers' make

The saying 'like mother, like daughter' couldn't be more fitting when it comes to the beauty regimes of royal women.

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7 h. ago Preston vs Aston Villa LIVE: Championship side plot upset in FA Cup quarter

Villa face the only Championship side left in the competition, with a place in a Wembley semi-final at stake

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7 h. ago The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams

For one writer, tragedy led to comedy, the sudden loss of a colleague giving her the nudge she neededThere’s nothing funny about your co-worker being assassinated. But it was the death of my beloved colleague and friend Hisham al-Hashimi that led me into the world of standup comedy. I knew it would trash my hard-won career in international security, but I didn’t care any more.Hisham had run a workshop with me in Iraq six months prior to his death, and I’d taken everything so seriously, marching around the hotel yelling about how everything was going wrong. But Hisham always had a lightness in his step, a smile on his face. Every evening, he’d take me to a café, order me my favourite shisha and proceed to tell the most disgusting jokes. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complexIn a brightly lit gallery, they see the 66m-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In a darkened room, they study the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem. In a vast aviation hanger, they behold a space shuttle. And in a discreet corner, they file solemnly past the casket of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the US south.Visitors have come in their millions to the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s biggest museum, education and research complex, in Washington for the past 178 years. On Thursday, Donald Trump arrived with his cultural wrecking ball. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go

The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profitIt may be the oldest art form in the world, practised 5,000 years ago by Ötzi the iceman and his fellow copper age Europeans. But with its more recent associations with red-light entertainment and gangland crime, modern tattooing has long been shunned by the galleries that turn lines on canvas into financial assets.A new initiative in Berlin concedes that the tables have turned. With tattoo studios in the German capital booming but many artists struggling to make a living, the Works on Skin project specialises in selling works by established and emerging contemporary artists that are not to be hung on a wall but to be etched on the human body. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago World Snooker Championship prize money theory emerges as Ronnie O'Sullivan fears raised

Ronnie O'Sullivan has not played competitively since January, and fellow snooker legend Mark Williams suspects fans won't see the Rocket at the World Championship

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8 h. ago Woman left 'shaken' after armed robber threatened her with scissors before making off with designer handbag outside San Carlo

The armed robber made off with a gold Rolex and red Hermes handbag

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9 h. ago Of Mice and Men review – a tepid revival of Steinbeck’s dust bowl classic

Octagon, BoltonSarah Brigham’s new production is beautifully designed but struggles to capture the drama’s claustrophobic tensionBefore it got into the hands of readers, John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men first got into the jaws of the author’s dog. The dog would find less to get its teeth into with this muted theatre adaptation.A pair of itinerant friends find work at a ranch in the Great Depression-era US south. George is brashly confident and protective over timid Lennie who has a mental disability that’s stigmatised by the workers. In Sarah Brigham’s production, Lennie is played by Wiliam Young, who has learning disabilities. There is a softness to his Lennie, calling George’s name like a squeak. His dangerously nervy, busy hands constantly brush his beard or arms, while the production uses puppets for the animals he pets. His posture mirrors theirs: drooping like a sack of barley, folding in on himself.Of Mice and Men is at the Octagon, Bolton, until 12 April Continu...

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9 h. ago Real Madrid 'prepare' shock £90m transfer raid for Manchester United star

Cash-strapped United could be left with major dilemma over inspirational captain

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9 h. ago Stacey Solomon's new sleep collection makes hair shinier overnight and currently has 30% off

The Beauty Sleep Full Collection from REHAB has been designed to give you perfect beauty sleep, working to repair and nourish your hair and skin while you sleep

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9 h. ago How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI

Guardian readers share the ways and reasons they are preparing their children and students for a future that may necessitate familiarity with generative artificial intelligenceSince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has trickled down from adults in their offices to university students in campus libraries to teenagers in high school hallways. Now it’s reaching the youngest among us, and parents and teachers are grappling with the most responsible way to introduce their under-13s to a new technology that may fundamentally reshape the future. Though the terms of service for ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other AI models specify that the tools are only meant for those over 13, parents and teachers are taking the matter of AI education into their own hands.Inspired by a story we published on parents who are teaching their children to use AI to set them up for success in school and at work, we asked Guardian readers how and why – or why not – others are...

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10 h. ago Construction worker turned kiltmaker set to light up New York City for Tartan Week

Graeme Bone, from Auchinleck, has designed and produced five outfits for the Dressed To Kilt fashion show.

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10 h. ago Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian home

A creative couple’s house in the Romagna countryside is where sculptural simplicity meets curated eclecticismTucked into the rolling hills between Bertinoro and Cesena, Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba’s home is not just a place to live, it is a testament to the seamless fusion of art, nature and design. For the celebrated sculptor, artist and designer, whose whimsical creations have captivated the design world, this sanctuary is both a refuge and a continuous source of inspiration.“When I first visited the land, I was struck by its natural beauty,” he recalls. “The terrain had a peculiar shape – an almost perfectly rectangular hilltop. As I explored, two roe deer wandered past, an almost magical encounter. That was the moment I knew I would build my home-atelier right here.” Continue reading...

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