12 h. ago Want to own a home steeped in California film, music and sporting history? It can be yours

A Pasadena couple built their ‘forever home’ in 2006

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30 h. ago Michigan State receives $401M gift from Greg and Dawn Williams for school and athletic department

Michigan State has received a $401 million gift from Greg and Dawn Williams, supporting the university’s and athletic department’s fundraising initiatives with the largest donation to the school and one of the richest in college sports history

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34 h. ago The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

In this week’s newsletter: We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWe’ve just inched into December, which of course means Christmas list season. Already, five days in, plenty of publications have shared their cultural best-ofs for 2025 – you can read the Guardian’s best books and songs of the year right now, with our countdowns in TV, film and music coming very soon.Meanwhile, many of you will have been bombarded on social media by screengrabs of your colleagues/friends/enemies’ Spotify Wrapped playlists (though Mood Machine author Liz Pelly has written pretty convincingly about why you shouldn’t share yours). This year’s Wrapped includes a “listening age” feature, which uses the release dates of the music you streamed to determine how horribly out-of-date your tastes are – revealing to some users that they are, in fact, centenarians. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Gwen Stefani, 56, looks half her age as she shows off long legs in VERY short pink dress for festive new music video

GWEN Stefani sizzled in her new festive music video as she showed off her long legs in a racy pink mini dress. The 56-year-old looked half her age as she took the spotlight for her Christmas track Shake The Snow Globe. The music star’s new track has been released for the holiday film Oh.What.Fun starring...

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58 h. ago ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilienceAs you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It’s a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo, sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as “home abroad”.The scene, which depicts the childhood home of Coventry-born curator and artist Hardish Virk, is one of several spaces in an immersive exhibition at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. It traces four decades of the experiences of south Asians as they arrived and adapted to the social, political and cultural changes in modern Britain. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Scott McTominay makes history as Scotland star joins Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic with award win

The Scotland talisman has made history by winning another Serie A gong.

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8 d. ago O come out ye faithful: a joyful roundup of UK culture this Christmas

Beauty and the Beast or Wolf Alice? Queen Marie Antoinette or Count Arthur Strong? Come and behold: the holiday season offers stage, film, music and art that’s worth singing aboutThe 12 Beans of ChristmasTouring to 19 December Last year, character comedians Adam Riches and John Kearns joined forces for an archly silly tribute to crooners Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. Now Riches is back with another leftfield celebrity riff as he gives his Game of Thrones-era Sean Bean impression (as seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his Edinburgh show Dungeons’n’Bastards) a yuletide twist. Rachel Aroesti Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Green days: Ben Ainslie’s new team lead the way on and out of the water | Emma John

The SailGP championship harnesses sailors’ competitive instincts in the cause of sustainability as teams vie to be the greenest of them allBritish sailors have always been a belligerent bunch. Francis Drake, Lord Nelson, Admiral Cunningham and, of course, Sir Ben Ainslie. The most successful Olympian in sailing’s history is also the sport’s equivalent of The Hulk: you really don’t want to make him angry.So perhaps it’s a good thing that there has been plenty to annoy him this year, not least that acrimonious split from his America’s Cup team owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. In true Ainslie style, it only seems to have made him more dangerous. His Emirates GBR team top the SailGP championship going into this weekend’s grand final. And on Wednesday, they were named 2025 winners of its Impact League, which ranks the racing teams on the contribution they have made to their social and natural environment. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Anthony Joshua includes himself in list of best heavyweights in history

The former two-time world champion did not need too long before eventually giving his top five heavyweight fighters in the history of the sport

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1 week ago Adil Aouchiche taking Aberdeen history lessons on TikTok as he swots up on Sir Alex Ferguson's European heyday

The Aberdeen star on he has been researching his club's history ahead of Europa Conference League clash against Noah

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1 week ago Lionel Messi stars as Inter Miami create club history with dominant win

Lionel Messi was involved in all four goals as Inter Miami thrashed FC Cincinnati on Sunday night

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1 week ago Taylor Swift ‘flies 3,500 miles in secret’ to film music video in Croydon shopping centre

The global superstar, 35, is said to have travelled from New Jersey to Hampshire by private jet last weekend for the top-secret shoot

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift 'secretly jets 3,500 miles to film music video in Croydon shopping centre with famous pals'

Taylor Swift reportedly flew 3,500 miles in secret to film a music video in a shopping centre in Croydon. 

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2 w. ago Netflix’s Selena doc sensitively focuses on her incredible life over her tragic death

The 23-year-old ‘Queen of Tejano music’ was murdered just as her music was set to cross over and revealing new film Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy finds new ways to celebrate herThe tragic circumstances surrounding Selena Quintanilla’s death are well documented. In 1995, while on the verge of US pop crossover success, the 23-year-old Queen of Tejano Music was murdered by one of her employees, Yolanda Saldívar.Selena’s life story has already been told in multiple ways, including through a movie, a musical and a podcast series. However, the touching Netflix documentary Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy is the most empathetic and personal look at her life and career to date. Working alongside Selena’s family, who generously opened their archive of rare photos and home videos and sat for extensive interviews, director Isabel Castro uses intimate recollections and vivid primary sources to trace the artist’s ascent. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Golovkin to be elected World Boxing president and lead buildup to 2028 Olympics

Former world champion promises to restore trust in sportWorld Boxing replaced IBA as governing body this yearThe former world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is to be elected president of World Boxing and lead the sport as it heads towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.Golovkin, who won Olympic silver in Athens in 2004 and went on to make the most world title defences in middleweight history, is the only presidential candidate approved by the sport’s independent vetting panel for Sunday’s election. As a result he will take charge of World Boxing, which became the governing body for amateur Olympic boxing this year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ben Stokes calls on his England side to ‘create our own history’ by regaining the Ashes

England have not won an Ashes series since 2015, and captain Ben Stokes is ‘desperate’ for that to change

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2 w. ago New Aberdeen sporting director denies stealing penguin: ‘I just borrowed him’

Aberdeen’s new sporting director, Lutz Pfannenstiel, has a colourful history which includes spending over 100 days in a Singaporean jail

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2 w. ago The tiny island nation one point from becoming the smallest country EVER to reach the World Cup

Most people hear 'Curacao' and think of the blue liqueur that brightens up cocktail menus around the world. But this tiny Caribbean Island is now shaking up something far more intoxicating.

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2 w. ago LeBron James eyes more NBA history as he returns to LA Lakers practice after injury layoff

LeBron James could return to the court when LA Lakers face Utah Jazz on Tuesday night

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2 w. ago David Squires on the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes

Our cartoonist looks back at cricket’s biggest rivalry as we gear up for seven weeks of joy, despair and animosityBuy a Squires cartoon in our Print ShopDavid’s latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...

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