59 m. ago US Open mixed doubles order of play: Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula start time

The new mixed doubles event in New York sees a host of top singles players compete for a $1m prize

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69 m. ago Mo Salah delivers telling response after Declan Rice's 'tough' Arsenal comment

Mohamed Salah became the first three-time winner of the PFA Players' Player of the Year award and was joined on stage with his fellow Team of the Year members in Manchester

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80 m. ago Villagers offer harrowing accounts of one of the deadliest attacks in Sudan's civil war

When rebels stormed into a village last month in Sudan, they gunned down civilians in their homes or as they tried to flee

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82 m. ago ‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland

The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful pastTwo old family photos show the same group: a short-haired woman, a girl in a striped dress, and a man in uniform. But there is one difference between these well-preserved, sepia pictures: in one, the man wears a Wehrmacht uniform; in the other his military dress has been altered to conceal his wartime service.Donated to the Museum of Gdańsk by the son of the girl in the striped dress, these images feature in a new exhibition about the mass forced conscriptions of Pomeranians into the German army. Consisting of photo albums, family heirlooms and oral testimonies of Poles who served in the Wehrmacht, the show asks whether someone can be both a victim of and a soldier for an aggressor, and suggests that confronting these complexities is vital to the national identity. Unsurprisingly, the e...

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82 m. ago We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore | Mark Borkowski

At the same time as we applaud the suffragettes and the likes of Peter Tatchell, Britain is losing the right to protestMark Borkowski is a crisis PR consultant and authorWe must ask ourselves: how would the heroic suffragettes or the remarkable Greenham Common women be regarded if active today? The answer is simple: they would be locked up. Just as they were locked up then. A century ago, women chained themselves to railings, set fires, endured prison and changed the world, and we celebrate their victories without thinking too hard about their methods. Yet today’s laws would criminalise them on sight.Last month, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, wore a commemorative sash celebrating the suffragette struggle. Yet this is the same Yvette Cooper presiding over an age of repressive laws and mass arrests. It’s a paradox: we laud the rebels of the past while shackling the rebels of the present.Mark Borkowski is a crisis PR consultant and author. His BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 documentary, ...

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83 m. ago Name The Footballer Quiz with 1991 born striker to star who married Miss Sweden

How good is your Premier League knowledge over the last 30 years? Time to put your footballing brains to the test in our weekly quiz, where you have to name the player from their Wikipedia page

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92 m. ago Malaysian state threatens to jail Muslim men who skip Friday prayers

Under the new laws in Malaysia’s Terengganu state, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years and finedThe Malaysian state of Terengganu has threatened to jail men who skip Friday prayers without a valid reason for up to two years.Under sharia law in the Malaysian province, first-time offenders could be imprisoned for up to two years, and fined 3,000 ringgit (£527), or both, according to new rules that came into effect this week. Continue reading...

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93 m. ago Lanarkshire knifeman threatened friend over unpaid drug debt

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard Easdale Campbell was wearing a hospital gown at the time, having just been treated for an overdose.

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2 h. ago The corner of Greater Manchester ready for a 'sniff of the big time'

'How far we've come is astounding, but the benefits are going to be huge'

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2 h. ago How to earn money from solar panels: why you could be making £624 a year

The price of solar panels has been dropping, providing an opportunity for homeowners to generate their own power and cut fossil fuel use

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2 h. ago ‘What the hell should I wear?’ The style challenges of a fortysomething man

The certainties of youth are slipping away and I find myself in something of clothing identity crisis. It doesn’t help that what’s ‘cool’ is increasingly hard to pin down. So where does that leave an average bloke just hoping for the best?In September I will turn 44, the supposed first iceberg of ageing. As my own personal A23a approaches, I find myself, when it comes to how to get dressed at least, not older and wiser but but more adrift than ever.It’s not necessarily for want of effort. A while ago I tried on a pair of wide trousers: the big blocky sort that have become increasingly fashionable. I hadn’t worn anything like them before and wasn’t convinced, but was feeling bored with my own wardrobe. When I modelled them in the shop for my wife, she reacted instantly. I couldn’t pull them off, she said. You’re not an art or fashion person, was the implication. She was right; her advice tends to be sound. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Angry Clyde boss blasts side after throwing away lead against Spartans

Darren Young says his side should have been out of sight by half-time as they lost 3-1 at home

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2 h. ago I found a £15 pair of jeans that aren't just 'slimming', but are 'soft and comfortable' too

"I wear these jeans nearly every day, they are a great fit and flattering also soft and comfortable"

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3 h. ago It's the time of year for Cape Verde hurricanes, the longest and most powerful storms

It's the time of year for Cape Verde hurricanes

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3 h. ago Trump hopes he can get into heaven and believes solving Ukraine war will get him there

US president suggested brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine would help him ‘get to heaven’

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3 h. ago ‘It would be a terrible loss’: Ukrainian frontline troops sceptical of ceding land

Near Dobropillia new trenches are visible, drone attacks continue and there is no sign of the fighting easingOver dinner on Monday, a simple barbecue of meat and roasted vegetables, the soldiers of Ukraine’s 150th reconnaissance and strike battalion have other things on their mind. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the White House and Donald Trump has just promised to give Ukraine “very good protection”.When this development is passed on to the group around, one of the soldiers pipes up “From who?” and laughs, such is the uncertainty about who the US really supports. But in reality the troops are not following the news closely. After three and half years, the war has its own momentum, technology and schedule. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation

Stoner was a small child when they began acting professionally – and their experience included extreme pressure, dangerous diets, rehab, dashed hopes and self-doubt. Now, with a new memoir, they consider how they escaped ‘the toddler to train-wreck pipeline’When Alyson Stoner was nine, a wardrobe assistant on the set of a TV show noticed the child actor’s dark leg-hair and told Stoner it was “dirty and unladylike”, and that they couldn’t wear shorts in the show until it was removed. “I started to view my body in a detached way where it was just something to control, to fix, to manipulate for whatever standard was presented to me,” says Stoner. “In this case, the extreme beauty standards of the industry.”It was a lot for a nine-year-old to take on, but by then Stoner had been working for several years – they were a Disney regular, and appeared in films such as Cheaper By the Dozen – and were used to doing whatever adults asked. As a teenager, this would lead to an excessive exercise ...

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3 h. ago Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari

The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice on UkraineSeven is a biblical number, a number dear to ancient Rome, and the number of Cristiano Ronaldo’s lucky jersey. Perhaps it is also now going to be the answer to Henry Kissinger’s (probably apocryphal) question: what number do I call when I want to talk to Europe? Maybe the answer is seven, like the number of leaders sitting at the table in Washington on Monday alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.It’s difficult to say at this stage whether anything good will come from the impromptu White House summit, but European leaders showing up as a group in support of Ukraine was a first. This seven-member format – Nato, the European Commission, France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Finland – truly spoke with one voice. They did so on a crisis, Ukraine, over which they have sometimes been bitterly divided throughout the past three and a half years (remember Emm...

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3 h. ago Trump calls Israel’s Netanyahu a ‘war hero’ and says ‘I guess I am too’

The president made the remarks in a radio interview complaining he was not given enough credit for bombing Iran’s nuclear sites

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4 h. ago New malaria drug for babies offers hope to health workers in Uganda

Swiss medical regulators have approved a new malaria treatment for infants, offering hope to many in Africa

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