13 h. ago Taylor Swift champions future husband Travis Kelce and dethrones enemies on four star new album

Our 4 star track-by-track review of Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl album digs deep into all the lyrics and Easter eggs. A celebration of her love for future husband Travis Kelce, along the way she still dabbles in a dose of poetic revenge, with a few new grunge flavours thrown in too. Peak Taylor triumphs again.

Culture

45 h. ago Iowa high school track star shot dead by fellow hunter who mistook him for a squirrel: cops

‘Carson was a fierce competitor in everything he did,’ the school’s assistant football coach said of the teen

Events

61 h. ago 'Maneater' athletics goddess with 'sexy' running style was tipped to be face of decade

Team GB’s new sprinting star Amy Hunt called herself a ‘track goddess’ after her ‘sexy and aggressive’ style saw her clinch a World Championship silver medal in Tokyo

Politics

4 d. ago People may age faster if father smoked during puberty, study finds

The effect is less pronounced if the father started smoking later in life.

Events

6 d. ago John Butler: ‘This system we have doesn’t favour a man who is ultra

The guitar virtuoso on nail hygiene, Batman and the time he shaved a stranger’s back at a Super Bowl party in CaliforniaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI’ve always been fascinated by your fingernails, but I had no idea you do them yourself. Tell us about your nail regime.I started doing my nails about 25 years ago. Once I started touring so much, I couldn’t go back into a salon so I do it myself. It is a fast-drying gel. I’m usually really, really on to doing them because they’re so important – I can’t play guitar in my style without them. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Britain's next Olympic superstar: 'Sexy and aggressive' Amy Hunt, 23, is the 'academic badass and track goddess' with a Cambridge 2:1, a world record at 17, a love for Chaucer... and karaoke!

The Briton burst onto the scene in 2019 when she broke the Under-18 world record for the 200m distance. It was the start of a whirlwind few years, both on and off the track.

Politics

1 week ago Track stars: the world tram driver championship wowed Europe. Now Australia is gearing up for its turn

Teams from 25 cities competed in front of thousands of spectators in Vienna and Melbourne is set to host the 2027 showpieceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTram driver Sally Burgess has never deliberately collided with another object on the track – until last weekend, that is, when she hit a giant ball as hard as she could with the bumper of her tram. The goal: to knock down a series of 2-metre-tall rubber pins, like oversized skittles, lined up on the track ahead.“I said I would smash the ball and I smashed the ball,” Burgess tells Guardian Australia. “Only one pin came down, though. It’s pretty hard to get all those pins down.” Continue reading...

Sport

2 w. ago World Athletics Championships 2025: Kebinatshipi wins men’s 400m, Lyles lays down 200m marker as Gout exits – live

Latest updates from the track on night six in TokyoEnhanced Games targets more GB stars | Mail DanielBack on the track, Yamamoto leads from Tanaka, with Battocletti of Italy third and Chebet fourth.Oli Goldman reminds me that, when reminiscing about the 1991 worlds, I neglected to mention the GB 4x400m quarter changing up their order and Kriss Akabusi taking out Antonio Pettigrew, the individual champion, in the final few strides. I was actually looking for and failing to find photos of the t-shirts made thereafter, featuring Roger Black’s post-race line, “We kicked their butts”, then got distracted. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Sebastian Coe hails ‘mahogany hard’ Keely Hodgkinson and calls Gout Gout ‘real deal’

Pair tipped for greatness before world championships Coe says ‘you have to marvel’ at Hodgkinson comebackKeely Hodgkinson could end her career as one of the greatest of all time while the 17-year-old Australian sprinter Gout Gout is the real deal, Sebastian Coe has predicted on the eve of the world championships in Tokyo.Coe won two Olympic 1500m gold medals, broke nine world records and has known most of track and field’s biggest stars in the past 50 years. So his words carry extra weight, particularly when it comes to the 800m, the event in which he held the world record for 18 years. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago 'Football not handball': Scotland stay on World Cup track in eerie surroundings as star man shows worth

Not many witnessed it in flesh - but Scotland post big win in quest for finals

Politics

3 w. ago Blood moon and lunar eclipse cast an ethereal light – in pictures

Visible from Australia, across Asia, to western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Katie Price the pop star is BACK! Glamour model is releasing new track after surprise chart success after her singing abilities were cruelly mocked

The former glamour model, 47, is trying for another music comeback after her 2017 track I Got U unexpectedly climbed up the iTunes chart last week to number one.

Politics

4 w. ago F1 Italian GP LIVE: Practice start time and schedule with Lewis Hamilton on track in Monza

Follow live F1 updates from Monza with practice on Friday at the final European race of the season

Politics

4 w. ago Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska

Studio versions of the stark, home-recorded album have never been issued, but will appear alongside new Springsteen biopicOne of the great lost albums in rock history is to finally see the light of day, as Bruce Springsteen announces the release of the electric version of his 1982 album Nebraska.The original was famously recorded in the bedroom of his New Jersey home, unaccompanied, on a four-track tape recorder rather than a multitrack studio setup. Springsteen attempted to work the songs up into more fleshed-out versions but felt the studio versions lacked the ghostly drama of the originals, and – to some confusion in his fanbase and record label – insisted on releasing the stark four-track takes. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago NATO chief demands European answer TODAY on how to protect Ukraine as divided leaders meet in France after Putin, Xi and Kim Jong

It comes as leaders from Europe, Turkey, Australia and Canada head to Paris to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on what concrete measures they are prepared to offer Kyiv.

Politics

4 w. ago How to save your England career after a nightmare debut: Those who suffered on the biggest stage reveal their hellish experiences of a start like Sonny Baker's

RICHARD GIBSON: On multiple occasions during South Africa's onslaught at, Baker would have been forgiven for wishing himself away to anywhere other than the end of his bowling mark.

Politics