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Manchester United are back: unbeaten since the departure of Ruben Amorim early last month, since when they’ve drawn with Burnley and beaten Brighton, Manchester City and Arsenal. Michael Carrick arrived as interim manager before the 2-0 win against City, and last Sunday’s 3-2 triumph away at the Gunners raised general excitement to Cristiano-Ronaldo-re-signing levels.

The club remains a basket case, of course, and whoever comes in as manager on a permanent basis in the summer will face the same intractable issues experienced by Amorim during his brief and ill-fated reign. In the meantime we can sit back and enjoy Carrick, a man that knows the club, refocusing the troops and getting a bit more from a capable and extremely well remunerated squad.

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Updates from the second T20 in Kandy, 1.30pm GMT start
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“No sign of rain at the Pallekele tonight. It’s a gorgeous sight at present: setting sun poking out the clouds, the grass banks filling up, Jofra Archer bowling leggies on the practice wicket.

That being said, I ventured out to the Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy this afternoon, which used to host international cricket in these parts and is owned by a school, and that was picturesquely tucked up on a hill. There was a school game going on, with one of the kids bowling some fizzy left-arm spin; Rangana Herath would’ve rated it. Worth a visit if you’re ever here. “

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President Trump has threatened to sue discredited author Michael Wolff, as well as the estate of Jeffrey Epstein -- as he insists that the latest mass dump of files related to the pedophile financier absolves him.

Country is already suffering acute fuel shortage; experts say complete cutoff will be ‘catastrophic’ to its infrastructure

It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since 6am outside a petrol station. They’re passing the time fixing a leak on Ribas’s 1955 gold and white Mercury.

A tanker has pulled up on the forecourt in front of them, and so the queue behind is growing fast. Although this station only takes US dollars, at a cost far out of reach of most Cubans, Peña says it’s their only choice. “There is no gas in the national pesos,” he says, shrugging.

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© Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

Have you forgotten how good this spicy soup tastes? Here are nine easy steps to rediscovering the Indian-inspired winter warmer

I have yet to see anyone eating mulligatawny in an Indian restaurant – perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it’s a product of the British occupation, and the very name has an off-putting Victorian feel, which is a shame, because it’s aged a lot better than imperialism. Based, historians think, on the Madrassi broth molo tunny, it’s a lovely, gently spiced winter soup that’s well worth rediscovering.

Prep 15 min
Cook 50 min
Serves 4-6

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© Photograph: Kate Anglestein/The Guardian. Food styling: Lucy-Ruth Hathaway

© Photograph: Kate Anglestein/The Guardian. Food styling: Lucy-Ruth Hathaway

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A race is on to bring Paris Jackson back in line with her brothers, insiders tell The Post.

Miguel Rojas announced last week that he would be unable to participate in the World Baseball Classic because of issues obtaining insurance on his MLB contract. And during the Dodgers’ annual Fanfest event on Saturday, the Venezuelan infielder didn’t hide his frustration with the situation. “Definitely disappointed,” said Rojas, who has never before played in...

Sportsbooks are licking their chops as Super Bowl Sunday turns into the biggest betting bonanza of the year.

Sick silence on Iran The silence is deafening; thousands and thousands of innocent men, women and children are being slaughtered in Iran (“36K ‘slain’ in protest crackdown,” Jan. 26). Hundreds of thousands have been injured. The daily horrific inhumanity is world news, and yet not one group on college campuses, in Hollywood or on the...

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• Alcaraz defeats Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5

• Spaniard is youngest male to win career grand slam

• See live reaction with Daniel Harris

Carlos Alcaraz was a phantom for the first 45 minutes of his maiden Australian Open final. While the Spaniard was painfully tentative on one of the most significant occasions of his career, he was suffocated by the eternal brilliance of Novak Djokovic, who burst into this historic match desperate to take the initiative and set the tone.

A younger version of Alcaraz may have compounded his slow start by overhitting, as was the case during parts of their fateful Olympic battle in Paris 18 months ago, but here he calmly worked his way into the match and then took control. In the process, he pulled off one of the great sporting achievements in recent years, recovering from a set down to defeat Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 and triumph at the Australian Open for the first time in his career.

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© Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

© Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery

The novelist Ian McEwan has advocated for the extension of assisted dying to people with dementia, commenting on the deeply distressing experience of his own mother: “By the time my mother was well advanced and could not recognise anyone, she was dead. She was alive and dead all at once. It was a terrible thing. And the burden on those closest is also part of the radioactive damage of it all.”

My mother, Pamela, a journalist, died of vascular dementia 10 years ago. My father, the football journalist and novelist Brian Glanville, died of Parkinson’s last year after living with the illness for five years. He also had a milder form of dementia. “Radioactive damage” is certainly a vivid description of the impact of caring for someone living with a degenerative illness, but the perception that someone in the last stages of dementia may be “dead” feels wrong when I think of my parents. How are you to know what is happening in someone else’s brain?

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In Trump’s first term, activists focused on lobbying and voting. Now tactics are shifting to nonviolent civil disobedience

On 24 January, Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents while he was helping another civilian in Minneapolis who had been knocked to the ground – just weeks after an ICE agent killed Renee Good. In response to this second killing of a Minnesotan, demonstrations spread across the United States to protest the Trump administration and its ultra-violent immigration enforcement tactics.

Minneapolis has been in a state of sustained protest. Its general strike on 23 January mobilized tens of thousands of Minnesotans to participate in an economic blackout and march in the streets. Solidarity protests, strikes and marches also took place across the country, including the Free America Walkout, which involved more than 900 local actions across all 50 states on the anniversary of Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

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© Photograph: Craig Lassig/EPA

© Photograph: Craig Lassig/EPA

There are lots of guidebooks for parents of young children – but what happens when your offspring hit adulthood? A psychotherapist shares her guiding principles for raising grownups

When one of my daughters turned 18, our relationship hit a crisis so painful it lasted longer than I knew how to bear. I was a psychotherapist, trained in child and adult development, yet I was utterly flummoxed. Decades have passed since then, but when I recently spoke to her about that time, a flood of distress washed through me as if it were yesterday.

This is how my daughter, now a mother herself, put it when I asked her to describe that era:

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© Illustration: KLAUS KREMMERZ/The Guardian

© Illustration: KLAUS KREMMERZ/The Guardian

From building resilience to boosting artistic creativity, there are unexpected benefits to being rebuffed

Rejection hurts. Whether in a professional, social or romantic setting, there is a particularly painful sting to the discovery that one has been judged undesirable in some way. If you have ever experienced proper rejection – and that would be most of us – it may stand out in your mind for a long time, like a boulder lodged in the landscape of memory.

And it can hurt literally. The late anthropologist Helen Fisher, who studied human behaviour in the context of romantic love, showed that rejection and physical injury have much in common. In 2010 she led a study of people who had been recently rejected romantically. Functional MRI scans of their brains revealed that areas associated with distress and physical pain were more active. The passage of time did seem to reduce the pain response for Fisher’s participants, but for some people rejection can resonate for months or years. This overlap in the brain’s response to what we think of as physical and mental pain isn’t limited to romance. Social psychologist Naomi Eisenberger scanned the brains of people who were socially excluded from a ballgame in an experiment. Her results showed that “social pain is analogous in its neurocognitive function to physical pain, alerting us when we have sustained injury to our social connections”.

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© Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian

© Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian

Exclusive: Thousands of pounds unlocked to fund more diversity initiatives in diocese of capital

• What is Project Spire and why is it dividing the church?

Church of England clergy will be encouraged to promote antiracism in sermons as senior figures unlock thousands of pounds in funding to promote diversity initiatives in London.

Church Commissioners, the body that manages C of E assets, is funding the Diocese of London, which covers more than 400 parishes and 18 boroughs north of the River Thames, to boost inclusion work as part of the three-year Racial Justice Priority (RJP) project.

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© Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Carlos Alcaraz completes career Grand Slam with victory over Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.

A Florida Airbnb host has been accused of walking around a resort outside of Disney World naked and engaging in a sexual act with a vacuum cleaner. Kevin Dale Westerhold allegedly exposed himself in front of properties and was seen naked in hallways at the Windsor Hills Resort in Kissimmee, Florida, according to Ring footage...

• Stevenson seals title in fourth weight class with win

• Britain’s Benn enters ring, sparks buzz as future foe

Shakur Stevenson described his dominant victory over Teófimo López as the product of discipline, preparation and years of studying his opponent, after producing what many observers viewed as the finest performance of his career at Madison Square Garden.

The unbeaten American outboxed López over 12 rounds to become a four-division world champion, a moment Stevenson said validated his long-held belief that he belonged among boxing’s elite.

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© Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP

© Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP

• Centre-back scores emotional goal against Newcastle

• Slot: ‘Everyone was cheering for Ibou in dressing room’

Arne Slot revealed Ibrahima Konaté was not due to face Newcastle after the recent death of his father. The centre-back was rewarded for responding to Liverpool’s defensive crisis with his first Premier League goal at Anfield.

Konaté returned from compassionate leave after three matches out to cap Liverpool’s convincing 4-1 comeback win against Eddie Howe’s team. The France international was in tears after scoring in front of the Kop and admitted he did not “have words to describe what I feel right now” after the poignant goal.

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© Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

© Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Greenland, the world's largest island, offers tourists an arctic escape with ice fjords, hot springs, wildlife and more. Discover Nuuk's museums, UNESCO sites and direct flights.

Florida couple accused of luxury car title fraud scheme faces criminal charges after allegedly submitting fake invoices for vehicles at their dealership.