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2nd over: India 6-0 (Rohit 1, Gill 5) Josh Hazlewood takes the new ball and immediately goes to work on his familiar line and length. But when the Australia quick overpitches, Gill opens up and times a straight drive to the rope. A first boundary for India.

1st over: India 2-0 (Rohit 1, Gill 1) Mitchell Starc is right on the money from the get-go but is unable to find an opening-over breakthrough. A fitter-looking Rohit nudges a quick single from the first ball and Gill adds another to mid-off. Rohit ends the over with a rush of blood and the former skipper’s swing and a miss is one to forget.

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Not knowing whether art originated in someone’s heart or a data centre is a major enjoyment-killer

Governing party faces potential loss of Senedd control amid Reform and Plaid Cymru surge in Welsh heartlands

Political turmoil and tax threats have accelerated investment flows to safe havens, asset managers say

Acknowledging the strange nature of work, and injecting some humour, can make us feel better

His absence shaped me. But as my father lay dying in a Stockholm nursing home, I longed to hear him explain

My father died nine months ago and last night he drove me home in a taxi.

We knew something was wrong when my father stopped taking his insulin and started leaving his flat at night without his shoes because there were “people in the plants” and the floor was made of “muddy water”. After several tests, he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which causes hallucinations and a rapid decline in cognition.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish novelist and playwright. His most recent novel, The Sisters, is his first written originally in English

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© Illustration: R. Fresson/The Guardian

© Illustration: R. Fresson/The Guardian

Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo word they could think of, the differences that emerged were revealing. The length of each list, for example, varied widely.

While native English speakers in the UK and Spanish speakers in Spain rattled off an average of 16 words, Germans more than tripled this with an average of 53 words ranging from intelligenzallergiker, a person allergic to intelligence, to hodenkobold, or “testicle goblin”, someone who is being annoying.

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With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes

Juwayriya Adwan, 12, al-Mawasi, Khan Younis

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The idea of ditching friends if they err has become more and more popular in the last few years. But it’s important to recognise our own failings ...

There aren’t many experiences in life that feel the same at six as they do at 60. Where, even if you’ve advanced in wisdom as well as age and can intellectualise the circumstances and better disguise your pain, the raw emotion is identical. However, being left out by your friends hurts just as much when you’re an adult as it did when you were a kid in the playground.

An old lady – her words – Mumsnet message board contributor posted an impassioned plea for advice this week, after her girl squad – not her words – began chatting about the theatre season tickets they had bought. This was the first she’d heard of it.

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© Photograph: Posed by models; Frazao Studio Latino/Getty Images

© Photograph: Posed by models; Frazao Studio Latino/Getty Images

Mason Shipley kicked a 45-yard field goal in OT and Texas beat Kentucky 16-13, despite a sub-par outing from Arch Manning and the Longhorns defense.

Aaron Glenn has preached patience recently when it comes to a Jets' turnaround. How does message that message play to a veteran like Quinnen Williams?

Harris said she believed the snub — which was widely seen as a political favor to organized labor — was mishandled and had lasting repercussions.

Cal Raleigh’s 64th home run of the year wasn’t his longest. Just the most satisfying.

The Scarlet Knights have not beaten a ranked team in 16 years, the longest active streak in college football.

Limp Bizkit rocker Sam Rivers – the nu metal band’s founding bassist – died at the age of 48 on Saturday, the group announced in a somber social media post.

See all the best fashion moments from the fifth annual fundraising gala held in Los Angeles Saturday night.

Air China said in a post on Weibo that "a lithium battery in a passenger's carry-on luggage stored in the overhead compartment spontaneously ignited."

The Packers are finally en route to Phoenix to face the Cardinals.

Gavin Newsom says safety concerns forced state officials to close a portion of the busy Interstate 55 on Saturday

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has accused Donald Trump of “putting his ego over responsibility” over a military showcase that involved firing live artillery shells over a major highway in the state’s south.

Newsom said safety concerns over the event forced state officials to close a portion of the busy Interstate 5 near the US Marine Camp Pendleton base on Saturday.

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As Air’s Moon Safari played in background, Andrew Stafford watched himself falling in love, in a new way

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Although it’s now long deleted, my old X account served at least one useful purpose in life. My profile image had me looking up quizzically at a ragdoll kitten on my shoulder. That cat (once mistaken for a parrot by a bone-headed rightwing pundit) is no longer with me – but my other ragdoll, Priscilla, became a minor social media celebrity.

In April 2021 I was eight months post open heart surgery, seven months single, about to turn 50, and not about to die wondering. So, I hit Bumble. She didn’t fess up until later but the first woman to message me was one of my X followers – really, one of Priscilla’s. “Oh,” she said to herself, “it’s the man with the cat on Twitter.” And swiped right.

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London film festival
Despite the odd laugh, the story of the boxer’s path from Sheffield gyms to global stardom and his break with mentor Brendan Ingle feels dramatically underweight

There’s a really good cast here, in a movie with a real-life story to tell: how Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle mentored a cheeky Sheffield kid from migrant Yemeni parents, “Prince” Naseem Hamed, teaching him to stand up to racist bullies and turning him into a media-friendly world champ in the late 90s, nurturing his showboating arrogance and his lethal fists. But, after becoming wealthy, Hamed brattishly turned against Ingle, cutting him out of the action, and turning him into a combination of John Falstaff and Broadway Danny Rose. Pierce Brosnan plays Ingle; Amir El-Masry is Hamed and Toby Stephens is bullish London promoter Frank Warren who saw the goldmine that Ingle had discovered.

But the movie frankly lacks the Prince’s fancy footwork: the boxing sequences run smoothly but the all-important drama between them is repeatedly flat and one-note. There is no nuance or light and shade in the depiction of Hamed himself, and that otherwise outstanding performer El-Masry isn’t given the chance to show any subtlety or much of what might make his character really interesting – although he’s clearly been training and looks very plausible in the ring.

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Significant crowd sizes in major cities like New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles were observed Saturday during "No Kings" protests against the Trump administration.

The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now.

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The Rangers recovered from a sluggish opening five minutes to take a 4-3 win over the Canadiens on Saturday night, snapping a three-game losing skid.