Egypt is inaugurating on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, two decades in the making, with the aim of drawing more visitors to revitalize the country’s tourist industry.
Burnley v Arsenal: The leaders are at Turf Moor this afternoon looking to go seven points clear at the top of the table.
Mikel Arteta has a decent record away at Burnley as Arsenal manager: played four, won two, drawn two – including a 5-0 rout of Vincent Kompany’s side on their last visit.
It’s not just that Arsenal look very good; it’s that it’s very hard to see who could put together a consistent enough run to overhaul them. Liverpool, as Arne Slot keeps admitting, have been worked out; City are also trying to accommodate a number of new players and seem overreliant on Erling Haaland; and Chelsea are blunt without Cole Palmer and look short at the back. Under pressure, there’s a chance any leader can crumble; but nobody looks capable of applying that pressure.
Will Frank grant them freedom? Chelsea punished Postecoglou’s gung-ho tactics on their past two trips to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Frank will surely be smarter. Is a switch to a back five on the cards? Chelsea have conceded from three long throws this season. Spurs could have Kevin Danso chucking balls into the box. They will note that Chelsea have improved at offensive set pieces but are conceding too many chances.
A New York woman who fell overboard during a Taylor Swift-themed Royal Caribbean cruise was allegedly served too much alcohol — as her family blamed the crew for the fatal plunge.
Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed
Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighbourhoods into “war zones”.
At least 121 people, including four police officers, were killed on Tuesday during a police assault on the Complexo da Penha and the Complexo do Alemão, two large tapestries of favelas in north Rio. The operation made global headlines when scores of mutilated bodies were dumped at the entrance to one of those favelas.
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italy’s premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone knew his taste for working-class hustlers. A hookup gone wrong was the instant verdict.
Some deaths are so suggestive that they become emblematic of a subject, the deceiving lens through which an entire life is forever after read. In this weirdly totalitarian mode of interpretation, Virginia Woolf is always walking towards the Ouse, the river in which she drowned herself. Likewise, Pasolini’s entire body of work is coloured by the seeming fact that he was murdered by a rent boy, the crowning act of a relentlessly high-risk life.
Black Caps dominate from start to very near finish
England can only hope there are fewer red faces when they get their hands on a red ball, even if the final action of their white-ball year was in the end not as humiliating as had long seemed inevitable. New Zealand stumbled as they approached the end of what appeared to be another procession, losing three wickets for eight runs in 17 balls to shoehorn some drama into the dross, only for Zak Foulkes and Blair Tickner to see the side home with two wickets to spare.
In truth, on a ground known as the Cake Tin, the tourists were again half-baked, with their key batters not so much laying a foundation as undermining one, leaving the team to limp to an underwhelming total and New Zealand, for all that they faltered, a straightforward target.
Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights
When Rachel Joyce’s bestseller about a retiree’s road trip was turned into a 2023 film, it had a couple of lovely numbers by Sam Lee. Earlier this year, fellow folkie Passenger (AKA Michael David Rosenberg) provided the music and lyrics for Chichester Festival theatre’s production, which transfers to the West End in January. Passenger’s album of renditions of the songs, One for the Road – with a few tracks that didn’t make the musical and an appearance from Jack Wolfe, who played the show’s Balladeer – is available to stream now.
Hosts have golden chance after years of grind against institutional misogyny but epic semi-final makes it a big ask
Psalm 30:5 … “Weeping endures for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” That was one of the pieces of scripture Jemimah Rodrigues was reciting to herself as, battling exhaustion, she shepherded her team towards a stunning win against Australia, the reigning champions, in Thursday’s World Cup semi-final.
India have wept plenty over the years. They lost to Australia in the 2005 World Cup final, felled by a Karen Rolton hundred. More recently, three of the current team – Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma – will remember the sinking feeling of watching their team choke in a run chase of 229 against England at Lord’s in July 2017.
Result of Sunday’s League Cup semi-final could be key to an unlikely return or quest for a fresh managerial face
It feels unwise to be fooled by Martin O’Neill’s self-deprecation. The 73-year-old remains publicly steadfast that his second stint in charge of Celtic will be short term. “I think my remit was that they would be looking for somebody [else] pretty quickly,” he said on Friday. “I don’t think this is a renaissance. I just think this is a fill-in.”
Shock is still reverberating around Celtic Park, not so much about Monday’s resignation of Brendan Rodgers but the follow-up savaging of the former manager by the main shareholder, Dermot Desmond.
England need to turn volume up and lean into tone of exceptionalism that continues to annoy their rivals
A few weeks ago there was a wave of newspaper interviews with the stepson of the king, Tom Parker-Bowles. These seemed at first glance to be about absolutely nothing at all, froth and chatter, a wincing man in a tweed hat talking about how he makes Sunday lunch. Why was this happening? Scanning the text for meaning, the clouds finally cleared. He was launching a cordial.
You might say, do we need … a cordial? What is a cordial? A way of ruining water. A drink that isn’t actually a drink. But this is to miss the point, and in way that is frankly embarrassing and I feel sorry for you. Because this is not any old cordial. It’s not the kind of really crappy cordial you might launch. As Parker-Bowles puts it, devastatingly: “Look, we have Belvoir and Bottlegreen. But they use concentrates. Why can’t we make a really high-end British cordial?”
Feyenoord coach on how a chat with his daughter changed his life, memories of Arsenal and Manchester United and a lunch with Guardiola
Robin van Persie was warming to his theme, imparting wisdom to his children, Shaqueel and Dina, then 14 and 10. “We were at the kitchen table in our new house and I was giving them a speech: ‘You have to find your passion as soon as possible!’” He is, however, self-aware enough to realise how parental monologues are received. “I was ‘passion this, passion that’. It went on and on and on.”
It was Dina who brought him up short. “Yeah, Dad, but what is your passion now?”
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Carney said he had made the apology privately to Trump when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Wednesday
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologised to the US president, Donald Trump, over an anti-tariff political advertisement and had told the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, not to run it.
Carney, speaking to reporters on Saturday after attending an Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea, said he had made the apology privately to Trump when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Wednesday.
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promote a tobacco-free generation’
The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only country with a generational prohibition on tobacco, according to its health ministry.
The move, which was initiated by the president, Mohamed Muizzu, earlier this year and came into effect on 1 November, will “protect public health and promote a tobacco-free generation”, the ministry said.
The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works
Don’t worry, you’re not going mad.
If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are not the only one.
Popular coat’s appearance on cover of Lily Allen’s West End Girl album underlines how ubiquitous style has become
If West End Girl, Lily Allen’s first album for seven years, which details the breakdown of her relationship has occupied the minds of music critics and marriage counsellors, fashion watchers have spotted something different.
The puffer jacket Allen is wearing on the cover is not just a pop of colour in what may become an iconic album cover, it is also a sign of the times – underlining just how ubiquitous this jacket shape has become as winter arrives each year.
A bipartisan pair of senators demand Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth provide military orders for the Caribbean boat strikes targeting alleged narco-terrorists.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania was declared the winner of an election that has set off violent protests and reports of electoral irregularities.
The Canadian prime minister also said that he had asked the province of Ontario not to air the ad that later prompted the president to end trade talks.
President Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, right, attended a dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday.
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