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index.feed.received.today — 19 mai 2025The Guardian

Mushroom trial live: witnesses to continue giving evidence on day 14 of Erin Patterson murder trial

19 mai 2025 à 03:36

Australian woman, 50, faces three murder charges and one charge of attempted murder over lethal mushroom lunch. Follow live updates

The prosecutor turns to questioning about the website iNaturalist.

McKenzie says she has a profile on the website she describes as a “citizen science” website. She says her profile name is “ChrisMck” and has contributed about 70 posts to the website, mainly about fungi.

She says she has made two posts about sightings of death cap mushrooms. The first was in May 2022 in the gardens of the state parliament house under oak trees.

The second was in Loch in April 2023. Under questioning by Lenthall, McKenzie says she was in Loch on 18 April to visit her daughter:

We’d been for a walk ... my husband and I took our grandson and dog for a walk and we were on the oval sportsground at Loch, surrounded by oak trees. I observed some Amanita phalloides [death cap mushrooms] around the roots, or underneath the oak trees on the western side ... of the oval.

Because of my training at the poisons centre, I’m very aware about the toxicity of the Amanita phalloides.

We need to ascertain the circumstances, for instance it might be a toddler who has a nibble of a little brown mushroom and nothing more.

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© Photograph: Paul Tyquin/Reuters

Ancient India review – snakes, shrines and sexual desire power a passionate show

19 mai 2025 à 01:01

British Museum, London
A lovable elephant deity and a floating serpent goddess are just two of the highlights in this sensual show about three of the country’s great religions

About 2,000 years ago, Indian art went through a stunning transformation led, initially, by Buddhists. From being enigmatically abstract it became incredibly accomplished at portraying the human body – and soul.

You can see this happen in the bustling yet harmonious crowd of pilgrims and gift-givers you meet about a third of the way through this ethereal and sensual show. Two horses bearing courtiers or merchants are portrayed in perfect perspective, their rounded chests billowing, their bodies receding. Around them a crowd of travelling companions, on horseback and foot, are depicted with the same depth. Their bodies and faces are full of life, in a frenetic pageant, a bustling carnival, yet this human hubbub is composed with order and calm.

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© Photograph: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Poor mental health as child limits capacity to work in later life, study finds

Children in Great Britain with serious conditions 68% more likely to have limited ability to work as adults, report says

Children in Great Britain with serious mental health conditions are two-thirds more likely to have a limited ability to work in adulthood, according to research from a leading thinktank.

The report by researchers at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at data from about 6,000 people who took part in the 1970 British Cohort Study, which is following the lives of individuals born in a single week in 1970 across Great Britain.

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© Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Scottie Scheffler runs away with US PGA title after challengers fade away

19 mai 2025 à 00:58
  • World No 1 finishes five shots clear of field
  • Scheffler claims third major of his career

Just another Scottie Sunday. Major number three for Scottie Scheffler, the first outside Augusta National and the latest stride towards golfing immortality. A year on from being bundled into a police cell during his last attempt to lift the Wanamaker Trophy, Scheffler took no prisoners. Dancing to the jailhouse rock. Jon Rahm swung and missed at the new US PGA champion before capitulating under sheer frustration. Nobody else seriously featured.

Scheffler earned himself $3.4m (£2.5m) plus further daylight between himself and the rest at the summit of the world rankings. The most remarkable thing about Scheffler is how unremarkable he makes all this seem. This is a golfer who has walked up to the 72nd green of a major holding six-, five- and four-shot leads. He has no experience of anxiety in such scenarios because of his own ability to steady the ship as others waver.

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© Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

Arne Slot eyes ‘extra weapons’ for Liverpool in transfers and tactical tweaks

18 mai 2025 à 23:30
  • Manager bemoans time-wasting tactics of opponents
  • League champions visit Brighton on Monday

Liverpool will try to add “extra weapons” this summer to take the Premier League champions to the next level, Arne Slot has said. In addition to plans to strengthen the squad via the transfer market, the head coach is plotting tactical tweaks to keep the team evolving.

The players were given four days off after the home draw with Arsenal but return to action on Monday night at Brighton. With top spot secured, thinking has turned to recruitment and Liverpool are set to invest this summer. Slot has been holding meetings with the sporting director, Richard Hughes, over plans to strengthen in certain areas. The Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong is a key target and the club are set to trigger his €35m (£29.5m) release clause.

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© Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC/Getty Images

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 review – this kind, cheesy Lockerbie show just doesn’t work as TV

18 mai 2025 à 23:00

It was an act of terrorism that rocked the world. But though this well meaning BBC drama has some startling and impressive moments, it mainly forgets to actually find any drama

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 was an event so large, so complex and so significant that for a long time it was hard for anyone to take a clear view on it. Many elements remain murky to this day, despite – or perhaps because of – it being an act of terror that was unprecedented in its effect on Britain and the US. The plane exploded over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland, having taken off from London on its way to New York and Detroit, completing a journey that began in Frankfurt. The hunt for the perpetrators soon focused on the Middle East and north Africa. With half the world demanding answers, the families of the 270 people killed found it difficult to be heard.

The hidden human cost of the post-crash chaos is where The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part fictionalisation, initially tries to find its dramatic impetus: the series argues that the dignity of the victims and the sensitivities of their loved ones were trampled. More care should have been taken to respect the dead, it says. But it struggles to turn this admirable sentiment into drama.

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Gary Lineker ‘to leave the BBC this week’ after antisemitism row

19 mai 2025 à 01:03

Presenter expected to host his last Match of the Day on Sunday and will not front 2026 World Cup coverage

Gary Lineker is expected to announce he is leaving the BBC on Monday after apologising for amplifying online material with antisemitic connotations, the Guardian understands.

The Match of the Day host will reportedly not present the 2026 World Cup or next season’s FA Cup after “bowing out by mutual agreement” with the broadcaster.

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© Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Centre-right party wins Portuguese election as far right makes record gains

19 mai 2025 à 00:30

Incumbent Democratic Alliance, led by caretaker prime minister Luís Montenegro, falls well short of majority

Portugal’s incumbent, centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) has won the country’s third snap general election in three years – but once again fallen well short of a majority – as the underperforming socialists were left vying for second place with the far-right Chega party, which took a record 22% of the vote.

By midnight on Sunday, with 99% of the votes counted, the AD – led by the prime minister, Luís Montenegro – had won 32.1% of the vote and taken 86 seats in Portugal’s 230-seat assembly, leaving it far shy of the 116 needed for a majority. The Socialist party (PS) had taken 23.4% of the vote t0 Chega’s 22.6%, and the two were tied on 58 seats each.

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© Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images

Ben Stokes quits alcohol to help hamstring injury rehabilitation

18 mai 2025 à 23:57
  • England Test captain to return against Zimbabwe
  • ‘It’s just getting harder to do everything’

Ben Stokes has stopped drinking alcohol during his latest injury rehabilitation in an effort to be firing on all cylinders for England this summer. The Test captain is set to make his comeback on Thursday in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, having been sidelined since December after tearing his left hamstring in New Zealand.

He rushed back from a similar injury last year but his recovery this time after an operation has been painstakingly managed and Stokes has left no stone unturned to fulfil his vow to return in peak physical condition. Speaking to the Untapped podcast, the 33-year-old said: “After my first major injury, I remember the shock of it, after the initial adrenaline had stopped, thinking: ‘How has this happened? We did have a bit of a drink four or five nights ago, could that have played a part? It wouldn’t have helped.’

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index.feed.received.yesterday — 18 mai 2025The Guardian

Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer, his office says

18 mai 2025 à 22:23

Former US president is reviewing treatment options with family as cancer has spread to the bone

Joe Biden, the former US president, has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his personal office announced on Sunday.

The 82-year-old was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule were found. Biden and his family are considering options for treatment.

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Carlos Alcaraz sinks Jannik Sinner to claim first Italian Open title

  • Spaniard wins 7-6 (5), 6-1 against home favourite
  • Alcaraz has won last four matches with Sinner

Over the peculiar past three months in men’s tennis, the anti-doping suspension imposed on Jannik ­Sinner also left its mark on his greatest rival. In the No 1’s absence, all eyes and expectations turned to Carlos Alcaraz. At times, the Spaniard has said, the pressure “killed” him.

Alcaraz found his way again by focusing on himself, on approaching his tennis with joy and composure, and in the most highly anticipated match of the season he marked the renewal of their era-defining rivalry with a statement victory by toppling Sinner 7-6 (5), 6-1 to win the Italian Open for the first time in his career.

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The Love That Remains review – startling tragicomic portrait of a fractured family

18 mai 2025 à 22:15

Cannes film festival
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason examines a broken marriage through stunning imagery and quirky fantasy visions, but his new comic tone undermines the pain

Icelandic film-maker Hlynur Pálmason gave us the haunting historical drama Godland and the challenging and bizarre thriller A White, White Day; now he has changed things up with this startling, amusing, vaguely frustrating movie. The Love That Remains is a portrait of a fractured family and a sundered marriage which, with its dreamy piano score, fantasy visions and quirky sequences to go with the dead-serious scenes of purported emotional pain, introduces a slightly disconcerting but certainly intriguing new comic tone.

Pálmason’s visual and compositional sense is as commanding as ever, with some stunning imagery of the Icelandic landscape. But it is flavoured with a new tone of persistent, playful unseriousness, which finally morphs into a tragicomic spectacle of male loneliness. In some places this film doesn’t have the weight and the impact of his earlier work, but it’s certainly engaging.

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© Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes Film Festival

UK-EU talks ‘down to the wire’ as fishing and youth mobility hold up deal

EU ambassadors told to remain on standby for late-night meeting in scenes reminiscent of Brexit talks

Negotiations on a significant reset of the UK’s relationship with the European Union have gone “down to the wire”, with fisheries and youth mobility among outstanding sticking points with hours to go before the start of a crucial summit.

In scenes reminiscent of the Brexit talks, British officials were still trying to reach a compromise with their EU counterparts overnight, as Keir Starmer prepared to host the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, in London on Monday.

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WNBA investigating claims of racist comments during Clark-Reese game

18 mai 2025 à 21:27
  • Fever and Sky met on opening weekend of WNBA
  • Caitlin Clark called for foul on Angel Reese during game

The WNBA says it is looking into allegations of “hateful fan comments” during Indiana Fever’s fiery win over the Chicago Sky on Saturday.

Indiana eased to a 93-58 victory in their season opener against Chicago but the main storyline came when Fever star Caitlin Clark was called for a flagrant-1 foul on her longtime rival Angel Reese, which led to a brief confrontation between the players. The pair’s rivalry started in college and has continued into the WNBA. Clark is white and Reese is Black, and there has been racist and misogynistic abuse online around their relationship.

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© Photograph: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

Europe elections live: exit polls coming in for crucial contests in Romania, Poland and Portugal

18 mai 2025 à 23:03

Centrist ahead in Romania, exit polls show radical right leading in Poland and centre-right expected to win in Portugal

That’s a higher result for Nicușor Dan than perhaps expected. The turnout clearly plays a role here, too.

But these are just exit polls, and they do not seem to account for the crucial diaspora vote.

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© Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA

US PGA Championship 2025: Scheffler holds off Rahm to win third major – as it happened

19 mai 2025 à 01:16

Scottie Scheffler dug deep to pull away from a chasing pack, led by Jon Rahm, that briefly hauled him in

The leader Scottie Scheffler tees it up. If he’s feeling nerves, they’re not betraying him on his face. A huge roar from the gallery for the big man from Texas. He gracefully larrups a gentle fade around the trees down the right and he’s in position A on the fairway. He’s going round with Alex Noren today. No nerves evident from the Swedish veteran, either, as he splits the fairway. A quiet start meanwhile for Bryson DeChambeau: par-par-par. The high-point so far a whip over a huge tree to get himself back into position on 3. He remains at -5.

Matt Fitzpatrick might have rendered himself realistically done and dusted. But that’s not going to stop him battling for every shot and a high finish. He’s responded to that bogey-bogey start by raking in long birdie putts on the next two holes to return to his starting point. Meanwhile Jon Rahm’s quest to “play well” begins with par; his playing partner Kim Si-woo drops a stroke, though. So this is where we are now, with the last match preparing to tee off.

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© Photograph: Jared C Tilton/Getty Images

The Phoenician Scheme review - Mia Threapleton shines in Wes Anderson’s muted new confection

18 mai 2025 à 20:48

Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble romp

Wes Anderson has contrived another of his elegant, eccentric, rectilinear comedies; as ever, he is vulnerable to the charge of making films that stylistically resemble all his others, and yet no more, surely, than all those other directors making conventional films that resemble all the rest of their own conventional work.

The Phoenician Scheme is enjoyable and executed with Anderson’s usual tremendous despatch, but it is somehow less visually detailed and inspired than some of his earlier work; there is less screwball sympathy for the characters, and it is disconcerting to see actors of the calibre of Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe and Scarlett Johansson phoning in tiny, deadpan, almost immobile cameos. But there is a likeable lead turn from Mia Threapleton, an eerie visual and aural echo of her mother, Kate Winslet.

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© Photograph: Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Trump’s acceptance of Qatar jet gift is ‘definition of corruption’, senator says

18 mai 2025 à 20:48

Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offer

Donald Trump’s acceptance of a $400m Boeing jet from Qatar is the “definition of corruption”, a leading Democrat said on Sunday, as several senior Republicans joined in a bipartisan fusillade of criticism and concern over the luxury gift.

Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut, condemned the “flying grift” on NBC’s Meet the Press as he assailed the president’s trip to several Gulf states this week that included a stop in Qatar.

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© Photograph: Dave Decker/Shutterstock

MLB suspends Phillies closer José Alvarado 80 games after drug test

18 mai 2025 à 20:17
  • Alvarado tested positive for external testosterone
  • Reliever is suspended for postseason, can return later this summer

Philadelphia Phillies closer José Alvarado was suspended for 80 games on Sunday after a positive test for external testosterone under Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program.

Alvarado, among the hardest-throwing relievers, became the second player suspended this year under the big league testing program after Atlanta outfielder Jurickson Profar.

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© Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP

Sonia Bompastor looks to Europe after Chelsea complete domestic treble

18 mai 2025 à 20:00
  • Side were humbled by Barcelona in Champions League
  • FA Cup secured with 3-0 win against Manchester United

Despite completing the treble ­without losing a domestic game in her first season managing in ­England, the Chelsea head coach, Sonia ­Bompastor, was still not fully ­satisfied as she set her sights on ­adding a first European title to club’s the honours list.

Bompastor’s team, who were 3-0 winners against Manchester United at Wembley to finish their 30-match home campaign unbeaten, were outclassed by Barcelona in the ­Women’s Champions League semi‑finals in April. They celebrated the club’s sixth Women’s FA Cup in 10 years on Sunday, but Bompastor said: “We are super happy but we didn’t win the Champions League, which was also one of our goals.

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© Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Declan Rice seals Arsenal’s runners-up spot to leave Newcastle anxious

After another campaign that is destined to end without silverware, Mikel Arteta will be thankful for small mercies. Sealing second place in the Premier League for a third successive season is not exactly the scenario the Arsenal manager would have envisaged for his side’s last home match when they kicked off against Wolves in August.

Celebrations were noticeably muted as Arsenal’s players paid their respects to the home supporters on the customary lap of honour.

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© Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters

Van Aert wins Giro d’Italia stage nine as Del Toro moves into overall lead

Par :Reuters
18 mai 2025 à 18:29
  • Belgian beats Mexican rival in dash to the finish
  • Primoz Roglic falls further behind after crash

Wout Van Aert battled to victory on stage nine of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, holding off Isaac del Toro, who moved into the overall lead after the pair went for broke and stole a march on the rest of the field.

Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), riding his first Giro, used all his Strade Bianche experience to outsmart Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), with Italy’s Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) coming in third.

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© Photograph: Luca Zennaro/EPA

My Father’s Shadow review – subtle and intelligent coming-of-age tale set in 1993 Nigeria

18 mai 2025 à 17:13

Cannes film festival
British-Nigerian film-maker Akinola Davies Jr makes a strong directorial debut with this deft and intriguing tale of an absent father briefly reunited with his two young sons

Once upon a time in Lagos might be an alternative title for this fervent and vividly intense child’s-eye-view movie from first-time film-maker Akinola Davies Jr. It’s a transparently personal project and a coming-of-age film in its (traumatised) way, a moving account of how, just for one day, two young boys glimpse the real life and real history of their father who has been mostly absent for much of their lives – and how they come to love and understand him just at the moment when they come to see his flaws and his weaknesses.

It is 1993 in Nigeria, a tense time with the country on the edge of disorder due to the imminent presidential election, the first since a military takeover 10 years previously. In a remote village far from Lagos, two young boys (played by bright-spark newcomers Godwin Chimerie Egbo and Chibiuke Marvellous Egbo) are awed at the sudden reappearance of their father, Fola, played by Sope Dirisu, who makes no explanation or apology for having been away for so long on business in Lagos, or for appearing now unannounced. He is a handsome, charismatic, commanding man to whom they make the instant obedient responses “Yes, daddy” and “No, daddy”.

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© Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes Film Festival

Austrians celebrate JJ bringing home first Eurovision win in 11 years

Austrian-Filipino countertenor praised for melding techno with country’s rich operatic tradition in song Wasted Love

Austrians have been celebrating JJ, an Austrian-Filipino countertenor lauded for “singing Austria into the spotlight” after bringing home the country’s first Eurovision song contest victory in 11 years with a song that gives a nod to both the country’s rich operatic heritage and modern music.

JJ, 24, hit all the right notes on Sunday with Wasted Love, an operatic ballad about unrequited love that mutates into a techno club anthem. The 69th edition of the contest was hosted in Basel, Switzerland.

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© Photograph: Dénes Erdős/AP

Suspect identified in ‘intentional’ explosion at Palm Springs fertility clinic

18 mai 2025 à 18:16

Man, 25, who died after car bombing, reportedly wrote he was against bringing people into world against their will

FBI investigators have identified the person suspected of detonating a car bomb outside a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic on Saturday – and dying in the process – as 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus.

A bureau official said agents had determined Bartkus held “nihilistic views” before Saturday’s blast outside an American Reproductive Centers clinic, which also injured four other people.

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© Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Forest survive West Ham’s frantic finale to set up crunch decider against Chelsea

On a weekend that will for ever be remembered for Crystal Palace giving hope to underdogs everywhere, Nottingham Forest continued their push against the established order by reviving their unlikely challenge for Champions League qualification with a restorative 2-1 win over West Ham.

It was not all plain sailing at the London Stadium, where a wonderful late goal from Jarrod Bowen paved the way for a frantic and bad-tempered finale, but Forest are not going anywhere yet. They are a point off fifth-placed Aston Villa after battling to only their second win in eight games and will back themselves to finish the job when they host Chelsea in an almighty showdown at the City Ground next weekend.

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Chelsea 3-0 Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup final player ratings

18 mai 2025 à 17:56

Sandy Baltimore made difference for Chelsea while United’s Celin Bizet struggled in attack and conceded a penalty

Hannah Hampton Calm when called upon but she was rarely tested by Manchester United. Did well when one-on-one with Terland. 6/10

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© Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Mane event: Lions’ road to Australia begins with get-to-know-you coffees

18 mai 2025 à 17:56

Task of bringing together 38 disparate players begins at Richmond hotel, with kit to be collected and friends to be made

When the definitive history of the British & Irish Lions tour this summer is written, there may be a special place reserved for Ted’s coffee van. Taking up position in the car park of the Richmond Hill hotel, here was a focal point, a leafy suburban equivalent of a water cooler around which Andy Farrell’s men could break the ice.

Up on the hill, overlooking the Thames, with local artists tending their watercolours next to the house Ronnie Wood once owned, it was all a far cry from the cut and thrust of a Test series in Australia but, in keeping with the Lions’ serene buildup, 10 days after Farrell named a squad that was low on controversy the tourists gathered for the first time.

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European football: Lazio’s late penalty deals hammer blow to Inter title bid

Par :Reuters
18 mai 2025 à 23:28
  • Napoli lead Serie A by point after draw at Parma
  • PSV pip Ajax to Eredivisie title with 3-1 win at Sparta

Inter’s title hopes were dealt a crushing blow when a late Pedro penalty earned Lazio a 2-2 draw at San Siro, to leave the Serie A champions one point behind Napoli going into the final game of the season.

With Napoli held to a 0-0 draw by Parma, Inter missed the perfect opportunity to move into pole position at just the right time, but Yann Bisseck went from hero to villain, conceding the 90th minute penalty after opening the scoring.

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© Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPA

Crystal Palace’s FA Cup triumph left their fans in tears – I was among them | Ed Aarons

18 mai 2025 à 17:38

There was a sense of disbelief at Wembley as the team I support ended a wait of almost 120 years to win a major trophy

When Marc Guéhi and Joel Ward went up to collect the FA Cup, we were there. Although it still seems like a dream. The sense of disbelief that Crystal Palace supporters felt when the full-time whistle at Wembley ended their wait to win a major trophy will probably take a few more days to fade away given it’s taken almost 120 years to become a reality. But with most of the 30,000 wearing red and blue having travelled from south London in hope rather than expectation, finally, it was our moment.

After an agonising 10 minutes of stoppage time that seemed to take an eternity, the emotions of defeat in Palace’s two previous FA Cup finals came pouring out. Everywhere you looked there were grown men – including me and the former Guardian stalwart Dominic Fifield – moved to tears. The comedian Mark Steel just kept shaking his head, unable to comprehend what had just transpired. It even spread to the royal box, where the chair, Steve Parish, who had been pictured with his head in his hands moments earlier, was greeted with a bear hug from Palace’s largest shareholder, John Textor.

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© Photograph: Ed Aarons/The Guardian

Verstappen wins Emilia-Romagna GP to close gap on F1 title rivals

18 mai 2025 à 17:31
  • World champion closes gap in drivers’ title race
  • McLaren’s Norris and Piastri second and third

What better way might Max ­Verstappen have marked his determination to stay resolutely in the title fight than with an emphatic victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, appropriately ensured with one of the best overtaking moves of his career.

He has always maintained that, despite Red Bull’s struggles with their car, his commitment was ­unwavering and he demonstrated it with a piece of relentlessly controlled dominance to take victory at Imola.

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The Guardian view on Britain’s new aid vision: less cash, more spin. The cost will be counted in lives | Editorial

18 mai 2025 à 17:27

With development assistance cuts, ministers have traded responsibility for rhetoric and borrowed from Donald Trump’s playbook

Last week, the government justified cutting the UK’s development budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of gross national income – the lowest level in more than 25 years – by claiming Britain’s role is now to “share expertise”, not hand out cash. With a straight face, the minister responsible, Jenny Chapman, told MPs on the international development committee that the age of the UK as “a global charity” was over. But this isn’t reinvention – it’s abdication, wrapped in spin. No wonder Sarah Champion, the Labour MP who is chair of the committee, called Lady Chapman’s remarks “naive” and “disrespectful”. Behind the slogans lies a brutal truth: lives will be lost, and Britain no longer cares. Dressing that up as the “new normal” doesn’t make it less callous.

Kevin Watkins of the London School of Economics analysed the cuts and found no soft-landing options. He suggests charting a sensible course through this wreckage, noting that harm from the cuts is inevitable but not beyond mitigation. Dr Watkins’ proposals – prioritising multilateralism, funding the global vaccine alliance (Gavi) and replenishing international lending facilities – would prevent some needless deaths. Ministers should adopt such an approach. The decision to raid the aid budget to fund increased defence spending was a shameful attempt to cosy up to Washington. The cuts were announced just before Sir Keir Starmer’s White House meeting with Donald Trump, with no long-term strategy behind them. It’s a deplorable trend: globally, aid levels could fall by $40bn this year.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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© Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP

Chelsea win Women’s FA Cup as Baltimore’s double sinks Manchester United

18 mai 2025 à 17:20

Unflustered, unrivalled and unbeaten. Sonia Bompastor’s Chelsea team were at their clinical best as they completed a 30-game unbeaten domestic treble with a 3-0 win against Manchester United in the FA Cup final.

For the most part, United weren’t that bad, Chelsea were just better when it mattered most, again and again and again, two goals from Sandy Baltimore, arguably the Blues’ player of the season, sandwiching Catarina Macario’s headed effort.

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The kindness of strangers: we worried we’d have to sleep in our car when a lovely couple welcomed us in

We assumed we’d be able to find accommodation during Vancouver’s 1986 World Expo, and we were wrong

I was visiting the US as a 23-year-old with my mother and her sister. On a whim, the three of us decided to road trip across the border to Vancouver to catch the tail end of the city’s 1986 World Expo. We assumed we’d be able to find accommodation when we got there – and we were wrong.

With no mobile phones or Google to guide us, we traipsed from one hotel to the next, before the inefficiency of such a tactic dawned on us and we headed for Vancouver’s visitor centre. I remember the centre being busy, packed with other panicked accommodation hunters, and close to shutting up shop for the day. But there was a lovely woman who made it her mission to help us, tirelessly telephoning every accommodation provider she could think of – motel, hotel, bed and breakfast, caravan park – all without success.

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© Illustration: Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

18 mai 2025 à 16:41

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.

Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.”

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Caitlin Clark downplays fracas with Angel Reese as rivalry reignites: ‘I went for the ball’

18 mai 2025 à 16:18
  • Both players say clash was just part of basketball
  • Fever and Sky met on opening weekend of WNBA

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese agreed on one thing Saturday: their dustup during the teams’ WNBA season opener was just part of basketball.

Both stars downplayed the on-court fracas that occurred in the third quarter and which spurred Indiana to a 93-58 victory over the Chicago Sky. It started with Reese grabbing an offensive rebound and Clark slapping Reese’s arm hard enough to jar the ball loose and knock Reese to floor.

When Reese got up, she tried to confront Clark before Indiana center Aliyah Boston stepped in to calm tempers down. Clark’s third personal foul was upgraded to a flagrant 1 while Boston and Reese each drew technical fouls after a replay review by the referees.

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Donald Trump is losing patience with Russia, says Finnish leader

18 mai 2025 à 16:07

Alexander Stubb says Putin’s intransigence could pave way for ‘bone-crushing’ sanctions package

Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin, Finland’s president has said after a lengthy conversation with his US counterpart.

Alexander Stubb said Trump and Putin, who are scheduled to speak by telephone on Monday, must not decide the fate of Ukraine over the head of its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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© Photograph: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters

Arsenal v Newcastle: Premier League – live

18 mai 2025 à 18:45

2 min Newcastle have already beaten Arsenal three times this season: 1-0 in the league at St James’, 2-0 in both legs of the Carabao Cup semi-final.

1 min Newcastle kick off from right to left as we watch. This could be lots of fun.

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Could a British Fox News personality fix Republicans’ losing streak in California?

Steve Hilton, once an adviser to David Cameron, sees signs of Democrats’ grip on the state slackening – but the Trump factor could prove tricky

California is usually regarded as a political graveyard for ambitious Republicans, but Steve Hilton, the smiling, bald-headed former British political consultant turned Fox News personality, has a few theories of how to turn that around.

Theory number one is that the Democrats, who have not lost a statewide election in almost 20 years and enjoy a supermajority in the California legislature, make the argument for change more or less by themselves, because the state has become too expensive for many of its residents and is mired in a steep budgetary crisis.

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© Photograph: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images

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