Several WSL players have sustained similar injuries
The Chelsea midfielder Sophie Ingle sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury during their pre-season match against Feyenoord, the Women’s Super League champions said on Monday.
The 33-year-old Wales captain was forced off in the second half of their 9-0 win over Feyenoord this month and will undergo surgery.
Prisoners fled when the walls of their jail collapsed in the country’s worst flooding in two decades
More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison in north-east Nigeria in the aftermath of the worst flooding there in over two decades, authorities have announced.
There have been 37 deaths in Borno state after parts of its capital, Maiduguri, were overrun by water on 9 September following the collapse of a dam, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). As many as 200,000 others have been displaced. Residents of the city said some areas were still flooded on Monday when the president, Bola Tinubu, visited.
The ruthless policies of Italy’s radical-right prime minister should not be seen as a role model for Keir Starmer’s government
During his first prime ministerial visit to Rome on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly stressed the “upstream” work undertaken by his host, Giorgia Meloni, which had reduced levels of irregular migration across the Mediterranean. “I want to understand how that came about,” said the prime minister, who visited a border intelligence centre in the capital before having lunch with his radical-right Italian counterpart.
Sir Keir’s technocratic tone was deliberate. On migration, as on other matters, he likes to present himself as a sleeves rolled up, practical politician who is concerned only with what works. At a joint press conference during which the war in Ukraine was also discussed, he described this approach as one of “British pragmatism”. But a Labour government committed to a humane migration policy needs a proper moral compass to guide its thinking. It will not find evidence of that in Ms Meloni’s Rome.
Villa make Champions League return in Bern on Tuesday
Unai Emery has said Aston Villa plan to dedicate victory to Gary Shaw if they beat Young Boys in the Champions League after the 1982 European Cup winner died on Monday aged 63. Shaw fell seriously ill this month after being hospitalised with a head injury.
Shaw was part of a revered Villa side that won the First Division in 1981 and then the European Cup and European Super Cup. He is regarded as one of Villa’s greatest forwards and was the only local player in the team that beat Bayern Munich in Rotterdam in 1982.
Move comes amid concerns from suppliers that checks on goods coming from EU could lead to higher prices
Planned post-Brexit checks on fruit and vegetables brought into Britain from the EU have been delayed for the third time, amid concerns from suppliers that they could lead to higher prices for shoppers.
The government said plans to introduce checks on some fruit and vegetables, such as celery and tomatoes, from 1 January would now be postponed by six months, in a move that would give it more time to understand the impact on businesses.
End is near for the 38-year-old but he defied his dodgy hip to score winner at troubled club where every day hurts
Jesús Navas can’t walk but he carries Sevilla. He’s nearly 39, he’s played 963 professional games and he has an arthritic hip. Every day for the last four years, it has hurt. It hurts when he turns up to training each morning at the ground named after him and it hurts when he plays. It hurt when he won the Europa League and it hurt when he won the European Championship, the last man standing somehow. Some days, it hurts so much even he has to stop; soon, too soon but later than he probably should have done, he will stop for good. Every few days, it hurts so much it scares him.
Thursday was one of those days, worse even than before. Never mind playing in primera, he couldn’t play with his kids. He hadn’t slept all night and couldn’t move. The doctor called the coach worried about him and so the next morning … well, the next morning he was back in Montequinto, where he first started going a quarter of a century ago and where the mini stadium by the dressing room is now called the Jesús Navas, looking for the manager Xavi García Pimienta. “Míster,” he said, “I can help.” So he did, which hurt too.
US planemaker says strike of about 33,000 workers, which began last week, ‘jeopardizes recovery in a significant way’
Boeing is freezing recruitment and drawing up plans to furlough “many” employees as the aerospace giant scrambles to curb spending after tens of thousands of its workers went out on strike.
Warning that the industrial action “jeopardizes our recovery in a significant way”, the US planemaker said it would pause most employee travel and suspend non-essential capital expenditures.
Long before they decided All You Need Is Love, even the Fab Four were subject to an onstage bust-up. During their pivotal spell in Hamburg, something Paul McCartney said to bandmate Stuart Sutcliffe about his new engagement to local, Astrid Kirchherr, led Sutcliffe to punch his now very famous bandmate. Years later, Macca explained: “I thought I’d beat him hands down because he was littler than me. But he was strong and we got locked in a sort of death-grip on stage during the set. It was terrible. Then we were locked and neither of us wanted to go any further and all the others were shouting, ‘Stop it, you two!’ – ‘I’ll stop it if he will.’” Sutcliffe left the band to pursue an art career soon afterwards and cruelly died in 1962 of a brain haemorrhage before the couple had got married. Their story inspired the hit 1994 film, Backbeat.
The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar Square
Teresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large boxes marked “Frágil”. They have come from Mexico, holding the face masks of 370 transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Cast in white plaster, each bears traces of the person on whom it was moulded: a bright smear of lipstick here, a false eyelash there; even, in one case, half an eyebrow. Each has a number and a name – Leila, Milla, Maga, Bruno.
One by one, the casts are released from their packing and gently placed on a podium, concave side up, for Margolles to photograph. Dressed head to toe in her trademark black, she works with the respectful precision of the forensic pathologist she once was, beckoning me over to inspect the latest image on her camera. It shows the concave mask plumped back into the face of participant number 144, whose name is Paulina. “Every face has a story attachecd,” says the 61-year-old Mexican artist.
Lord Pannick KC to lead legal team at London’s IDRC
Hearing to last 10 weeks, verdict expected in new year
Manchester City’s lawyers arrived at London’s International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) on Monday as a hearing to examine 115 Premier League charges issued against the club began.
Lord Pannick KC from Blackstone Chambers, who is leading City’s legal team, was pictured arriving at the IDRC, close to St Paul’s Cathedral in central London. The hearing is reported to have been scheduled for 10 weeks, with the independent commission’s verdict not expected until the new year.
David Miliband-led humanitarian organisation urges Labour to make ‘effective and compassionate’ decisions
Keir Starmer should drop the pursuit of Italy’s “costly and ultimately ineffective” migration deterrence policies if the UK is to put an end to people dying in the Channel, a global charity led by David Miliband has warned.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), where the former Labour foreign secretary is president and chief executive, said the UK government should instead give refugees access to safe routes so they are no longer forced to make dangerous crossings.
FBI investigating after Secret Service agents spotted gun barrel in bushes at former president’s golf club
The FBI is investigating what it has described as an attempted assassination of Donald Trump after Secret Service agents spotted the muzzle of a rifle poking through a fence close to where the former US president was playing golf at his club in Florida. A suspect has been arrested and an assault rifle was recovered at the course.
The incident occurred at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Demands were mounting on Sunday for Donald Trump to receive protections on a level with a sitting president after a would-be assassin was narrowly foiled from carrying out what the FBI is investigating as an attempt on the life of the Republican nominee, the second against him in as many months.
Joe Biden on Monday said he believed the Secret Service – which has been plagued by staff shortages – needed more resources.
The son of the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide what the son described as “humanitarian” aid to troops defending the country from Russian forces that invaded in 2022.
A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to the Guardian that the suspect in Sunday’s case is 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh – though law enforcement has not officially named him and there was no immediate indication of a motive.
More US adults are opting out of parenthood, but what does growing older without kids really look like?
A growing number of adults in the US are opting out of parenthood. In 2023, 47% of adults younger than 50 said that they are unlikely to ever have kids – up 10 percentage points from 2018, according to a Pew Research Center report.
The Pew report surveyed differences between non-parents aged 50 and older, and under-50 adults who do not have kids and are unlikely to in the future. The older cohort’s top reasons for not having children were that it just didn’t happen (39%) and that they didn’t find the right partner (33%). Meanwhile, the younger cohort’s most common response was that they just don’t want kids (57%; other top responses were “wanting to focus on other things” (44%), concerns about the state of the world (38%) and not being able to afford a child (36%).
As fake pills send teen overdose deaths skyrocketing, these high schoolers are filling an information void with films and peer-to-peer education
Eli Myers was only 15 when his close friend and classmate Chloe Kreutzer died from taking a counterfeit Percocet pill filled with fentanyl.
Initially, he said, the response from officials at his Los Angeles high school was stony silence. Even years later, the information he and his classmates got about the risks of fentanyl poisoning amounted to little more than a droning lecture in health class, he said.
A visual neuroscientist realized he saw green and blue differently to his wife. He designed an interactive site that has received over 1.5m visits
It started with an argument over a blanket.
“I’m a visual neuroscientist, and my wife, Dr Marissé Masis-Solano, is an ophthalmologist,” says Dr Patrick Mineault, designer of the viral web app ismy.blue. “We have this argument about a blanket in our house. I think it’s unambiguously green and she thinks it’s unambiguously blue.”
The answers to today’s counter-intuitive conundrums
Earlier today I set you these two puzzles, which are extracts from my new book Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong. Here they are again with solutions.
Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents
When Luke Harris takes his daughter to the doctor, he strolls down well-kept streets with “smooth sidewalks and curb cuts [ramps] for strollers at every intersection”. If the weather looks rough or he feels a little lazy, he hops on a tram for a couple of stops.
Harris’s trips to the paediatrician are pretty unremarkable for fellow residents of Zurich, Switzerland; most Europeans are used to being able to walk from one place to another in their cities. But it will probably sound like fantasy to those living in San Antonio, Texas. That’s because, according to new research, 99.2% of Zurich residents live within a 15-minute walk of essential services such as healthcare and education, while just 2.5% of San Antonio residents do.
Party spokesperson says new PM has ‘complex equation to solve’ and is unlikely to appoint ministers this week
The new French prime minister, Michel Barnier, has continued negotiations with potential ministers as he struggles to form a government to end the country’s political deadlock.
The veteran politician and former EU Brexit negotiator, appointed by the president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier this month, had promised to form a new administration this week after “listening to everybody”.
Allowing the use of British long-range missiles against Russia would be a mistake of potentially nuclear proportions
The greatest disaster to emerge from the war in Ukraine would be a collapsed Nato. For the prime minister, Keir Starmer, to be signalling confusion over British missile use shows how much he still has to learn.
Throughout the past two years, Nato’s efforts to avoid an east-west escalation along Russia’s border have been disciplined and impressive. With Vladimir Putin ruthless, unstable and isolated, cool heads have been vital. The muscular posturing of British defence chiefs in the past week – and of Starmer himself – has been senseless. It has merely fed the scepticism towards Nato of the possible next leader of the US, Donald Trump.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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As his heavy metal band Body Count return, the vocalist and actor will answer questions about his varied career
With a scorn-dripping voice put to work on everything from classic hip-hop to gnarly heavy metal, Ice-T is one of America’s most iconic MCs – and as he and his band Body Count get ready to release their new album Merciless, he will be answering your questions.
Now 66, Ice-T was born in New Jersey but was orphaned as a young teenager and moved to Los Angeles, getting a taste for rock music from his cousin’s record collection, then rap after joining the US army. Following his discharge – and some petty criminality – he became a distinctive and authentic voice in his city’s burgeoning gangsta rap scene in the late 1980s, delivering crime stories such as 6 In the Mornin’ as a self-described “self-made monster of the city streets”.
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