Both the Wallabies and All Blacks are in need of a win as they meet in Sydney
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Englishman Karl Dickson is in charge of today’s contest, and here is talking about the latest law changes for the 2024/25 season. Not everyone in the game is happy with the direction of travel.
It’s a beautiful dry and sunny afternoon in Sydney but a westerly breeze could be a factor when the ball is hoisted to the skies.
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The American pair beat Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev to square affairs at the end of the opening day
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The release follows an offer of terms made this week by rebels in the region
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed after more than one-and-a-half years in captivity in Indonesia’s West Papua region, Indonesian police have said.
The move, reported by police in a statement on Saturday and confirmed by New Zealand’s foreign minister, Winston Peters, follows an offer of terms made this week by rebels in the region
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Deputy PM also says people ‘will have a better life’ within five years in interview with the Guardian
Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings will bounce back, the deputy prime minister has insisted, saying the government would deliver material improvements to people’s lives over the next five years.
Angela Rayner said the prime minister had been underestimated before but predicted he would become more popular as the impact of the changes Labour was introducing began to be felt.
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Sophie, 35, a nurse, meets Harry, 36, a creative director
What were you hoping for?
A fun evening with a good soul, lovely food and a story to tell.
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The band wanted something skeletal, naive and unrehearsed for the new song. I gave them inept, tortured and hesitant
It is Monday afternoon. I am in a recording studio in London with a few members of the band I’m in, George the engineer and Ben, a trusted collaborator. We’re listening to a bare bones version of a new song, but my mind wanders a little; I have only just arrived after a weekend away, so I was not part of the morning’s work that got us here, and I’m barely part of the present discussion. Mostly, I’m here for moral support.
When the song ends and I return to myself, everyone is looking my way.
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These wings are brined in pickle vinegar, then smoked gently over smouldering corn cobs for heaps of heavenly barbecue flavour
Spent corn cobs produce a subtle, sweet-flavoured smoke that’s ideal for barbecuing just about any meat, and without the need for any special equipment or even wood chips. Chicken wings are a great starting point for hot smoking, because they cook quickly and have a lot of surface area to take on that smoky flavour. You’ll need a barbecue with a lid and a bag of lumpwood charcoal.
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Though Fayed cannot be brought to justice, there is power in those who suffered being able to express themselves and condemn him publicly
When I heard about the death of the 94-year-old billionaire businessman and former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed last year, my response wasn’t exactly charitable. Good riddance, I thought, to my one-time employer who had presided over a workplace rife with misogyny and abuse. I was 18 and had just finished my A-levels when I worked at the store in the 1990s. Having grown up in the sticks in Devon, I was desperate to move to London and knew the store employed school leavers on seasonal contracts in the run-up to Christmas. Five days after arriving in the capital, I got a job as a waitress and catering assistant working across Harrods’ many restaurants, plus a room in a house in Putney. I was delighted. My plan had come together.
What I didn’t know was that Harrods was a nightmare for scores of its female employees. In a new BBC investigation, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, more than 20 women allege they were sexually assaulted by their former boss, with five saying he raped them and that the company covered it up. On Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, one of those women, Gemma, gave a devastating account of her time working as one of Fayed’s personal assistants for two years in the late 2000s. The sexual harassment happened from day one, she said, with Fayed making lewd comments and grabbing her breasts and crotch in front of co-workers. Later, while on a business trip to Paris, she says, he raped her. (Fayed sold Harrods in 2010. The current owners have said they are “appalled” by the allegations and apologised to the victims).
Fiona Sturges is an arts writer for the Guardian and other newspapers
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Distracting? Helpful? Totally inappropriate? If you go to the gym, you’ll have an opinion on the rise in people using their phones to film their workouts – and potentially capturing you in the process, too. But Anya Meyerowitz has discovered people are more divided on what to do about it than she first thought
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The comedy star tells Katie Rosseinsky why she finally signed up for the dance show, how she kept it from friends, including Miranda Hart, and why every contestant now has a chaperone
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The three actors play sisters in Azazel Jacobs’ bracing, bruising drama ‘His Three Daughters’. They speak to Annabel Nugent about bonding over word games, playing against type, and the untidy nature of grief
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A classic combination for this easy cake
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Many assumed that the beloved UK icon was dead. Now, a century after the Morris Garages enterprise began, Sean O’Grady experiences nothing less than the rebirth of the MG sports car...
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Ellie Harrison, Annie Lord, Maira Butt, and Greg Evans put together a list of truly awful cinema sex, from ‘Showgirls’ to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
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