West Indies huddle, high five, and take the field. Plimmer and Bates swing their bats and march out after them.
Anthem time: New Zealand, arms round each other, are relatively restrained with their singing. West Indies, arms also wrapped around each other, are slightly more animated alongside Rally round the West Indies.
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© Photograph: Satish Kumar/Reuters
It’s all in the line of sight
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© Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian
Medications like Ozempic ‘transformed’ diabetes care because they improved health outcomes, say experts
Obesity rates have decreased slightly in the US and while it’s too early to say whether the trend will hold and what’s causing the change, experts believe weight-loss drugs could be playing a role in continuing to lower obesity and reduce related health risks.
These medications – Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and others – are called GLP-1 agonists, and they were originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes. But they also show great promise for treating obesity and other health conditions, like heart disease, kidney and liver issues, sleep apnea, asthma, Covid complications and cancer, among others.
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Maximum effect, minimal effort: how to make a sponge cake in the shape of a giant ring doughnut
When I want an impressive-looking cake with minimal effort, I always reach for my bundt tin; it does all the work for you and you get a beautiful cake every time. Most people worry about getting it out in one piece, and that moment when you turn it upside down can be panic-inducing, but just be sure to grease the tin and all the corners before dusting with flour, and it should pop out easily.
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© Photograph: Laura Edwards/The Guardian. Food stylist: Benjamina Ebuehi. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins. Food styling assistant: Áine Pretty-McGrath.
Some anti-LGBTQ+ people online are promoting ‘methods of attack’, including the filming of incidents, one police officer says
On a cold July morning in Canberra, a man rode his motorbike to meet a person he’d be chatting to on the hookup app Grindr – only to find four men who then allegedly assaulted him.
A month later, Queensland police alleged six people were robbed after being lured to meetings by someone using a fake profile on the app in Brisbane’s south.
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The king and queen’s visit to Sydney and Canberra will be a long way from previous showstopping tours, including those by Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana
When Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip sailed into Sydney harbour on the SS Gothic on 3 February 1954, 1 million people – well over half the population of Sydney - lined the foreshore to greet their monarch.
She was 27, the mother of two small children and had been crowned just eight months earlier. It was the first time a British monarch had visited Australia: the world’s most famous – and most carefully curated – person had come to town.
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