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3rd over: India 14-0 (Rawal 11, Mandhana 3) Mandhana stretches to make use of Schutt offering too much width for a single to deep point. Schutt has the ball moving around but Rawal hits against the swing into her to crunch the first boundary of the innings through cover. Rawal repeats the shot for the same result as the fast outfield favours the batters.

2nd over: India 5-0 (Rawal 3, Mandhana 2) Darcie Brown takes the new ball but wastes her opening delivery with a full toss that Mandhana dispatches to deep square leg. Brown is fortunate to get away with a single. Rawal picks up two with a flick to the same region.

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The New Hampshire man accused of opening fire inside a country club last year, killing one person, reportedly confessed to the shooting, telling investigators he aimed to kill the rich. 

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Europa League: Celtic restored a modicum of pride following their first leg humbling, in what is likely to be Martin O’Neill’s final European match as a head coach. Ewan Murray reports from MHP Arena …

Europa Conference League: A Round of 16 tie against Larnaca or Mainz awaits Oliver Glasner’s side after they made short work of their visitors from Bosnia and Herzegovina in south London. Ed Aarons reports from Selbhurst Park …

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With its white text and black-as-night wallpaper, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) website looks a little bit like its admin is the mythical creature itself. Read More

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Lillie West’s fourth album is a hazy, mid-tempo meditation on escape that gets stuck in a numbing mid-tempo mode – though there is a gorgeous moment of release

Over fidgety, impatient keys, Lala Lala – UK-born, US-based Lillie West – declares her intention to leave. “Get me out of America,” she whispers, frustrated, on opener Car Anymore. Yet West’s fourth album (and first for Sub Pop) is about stillness – or trying to fight the urge to run.

After darting between Chicago, New Mexico, Reykjavík and London, West found love in Los Angeles and started to put down roots. But Heaven 2 (produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte) is shrouded in uncertainty, with cloaks of reverb, and lyrics buried beneath breathy deflection. Scammer toys with the romantic tension of threatening to split town, over an austere soundscape of purring synths and crisp snare, while Anywave battles a crisis of self – “If I existed, I don’t any more” – across bleary sirens and a spinning drum machine, like a nihilist sibling to Lorde’s Melodrama.

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Disturbing photos and videos showed the hunter smiling and raising a can of beer while holding the wolf, with red tape tightly wound around its muzzle, before he finally took the animal behind the building and killed it.

Greens first, Reform second, Labour trailing – and the Tories losing their deposit. This felt like a rejection of the status quo

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• Cost of Ten Hag exit then having Amorim may hit £36.3m

• Settlement for Amorim and his staff revealed in filing

Manchester United sacking Ruben Amorim could end up costing the club almost £16m. Amorim’s 14-month reign ended on 5 January after his public attack on United’s hierarchy, with his five coaches also leaving Old Trafford.

A filing to the New York Stock Exchange revealed the potential payments to Amorim and his staff, a day after the club confirmed they had made a £32.6m profit in their second-quarter results to 31 December 2025.

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Javier Milei’s boosters say law will revive employment, but critics decry cuts to severance and longer working hours

Argentina’s senate is poised to approve a sweeping overhaul of labour laws aimed at weakening trade unions and lowering labour costs for businesses.

The government of the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president, Javier Milei, says the initiative will help revive formal employment, after 290,600 registered jobs were lost between December 2023, when he took office, and November 2025.

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Could the royal family’s latest troubles usher in a new era of diplomatic dressing?

As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into police custody last week, his brother King Charles made a “surprise” appearance on the front row at the opening of London fashion week. Styled in one of his staple jaunty ties, clashing pocket handkerchief and British-made suit, it sent the message loud and clear: this was business as usual.

That message persisted when, at the Baftas at the weekend, the Prince and Princess of Wales showed a united front in coordinated burgundy velvet (“Pantone diplomacy”, as the New York Times put it). Catherine’s blush Gucci gown showed not just solidarity in hue but also, arguably, signalled her ethics in a week when the royal family’s came under fire: she’d worn the dress before, on a previous outing.

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The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday

This past week Team USA won gold in both the women’s and men’s ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, presenting Donald Trump with a golden opportunity. Instead of seizing the easy political points, he embraced his chance to ingratiate himself with the boys by inviting them to the State of the Union address. He followed up his offer of a military jet shuttle to Washington DC with a lament that he would have to also invite the women’s team. It was a bit that lit up the locker room with laughter.

The women’s gold medal had been a prime opportunity for Trump to live up to his stated commitment to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports”, a claim made last February when he sought to position himself as the figure saving women’s sports. Instead, he decided to make a joke at the expense of Olympic champions.

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The cellist reunites with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara for five stunning tracks that are boundary-pushing yet populist

US cellist and composer Tomeka Reid and her frequent guitar soulmate Mary Halvorson have collected so many compliments for their jazzily genre-loose innovations over the past decade and a half, that they don’t need to waste a moment proving anything to anybody. These two fearless musicians have played alongside the tough, cerebral Anthony Braxton, and Reid has been part of that great Chicago avant-jazz institution, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). But if they ever considered extending a conciliatory hand to the jazz-averse, it might sound like this entrancing and aptly named set.

This is the fourth release by Reid’s quartet featuring Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. Over five tracks and almost 50 minutes, they race and cruise through jiving swingers, fast brush-shuffles, Latin-jazzy harmonies, hip-hoppish fuzz-guitar burn-ups, and sensuous acoustic-cello reveries.

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A former Colorado businessman who grabbed the neck of a 15-year-old boy and tossed him to the ground when the teen slashed water on his wife inside an In-N-Out avoided jail time because of a sweetheart plea deal.

Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby, ice hockey, skiing, boxing, cricket and motor racing?

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GM Matthew Wadsworth won in Ryde on tiebreak, Scottish GM Matthew Turner also shared first, while in Graz Scotland’s Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 15, qualified for the IM title

In just two years, the Isle of Wight Masters at Ryde school has become established as one of Britain’s most popular events. Its scenic ambience, impressive organisation and competitive spirit have combined to attract a strong international entry.

Last weekend GM Matthew Wadsworth emerged first on tie-break ahead of IM Tobias Koelle (Germany) and GM Matthew Turner (Scotland) after the trio all scored 7/9. Wadsworth also won in 2025.

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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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An Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings hopes to drive home the reality of such tragedies. ‘I’ve never been so frightened,’ says its director

Steve Hartman has been a CBS correspondent since 1996. In the US, he is known for his feelgood human interest stories. This month he has reported on the retirement of a well-loved New Jersey postman after 33 years on the job and a truck driver who has spent two decades building a balsa wood scale replica of New York City.

But since 1997, Hartman has also been reporting on school shootings, which have become a horrifyingly common feature of American life. (CNN reports that there were at least 78 in 2025, though there is no universal definition of a school shooting, which means that numbers vary depending on the source. Other reports suggest a much higher figure.)

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© Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix

I am, like millions of others, dutifully fasting from dawn to dusk this month. My faith does not define me. It refines me

• Nazir Afzal is chancellor of the University of Manchester and a former chief prosecutor

As Ramadan begins, Muslims across Britain prepare for a month of fasting, reflection and charity. For most of us, it is a time of spiritual discipline and generosity. For too many of us, it is also a time when the drumbeat of anti-Muslim hatred grows louder.

I have never liked the word “Islamophobia”. It sounds abstract, almost clinical. What we are dealing with is not a vague fear. It is hostility. Suspicion. Discrimination. Abuse. So, I call it what it is, anti-Muslim hatred.

Nazir Afzal is chancellor of the University of Manchester and a former chief prosecutor

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World Health Organization report also finds one in seven adolescents across continent use vapes and e-cigarettes

Teenage girls in Europe have the highest rate of tobacco use in their age group around the world, while one in seven adolescents across the continent use vapes and e-cigarettes, figures show.

The data, based on analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO), shows that Europe is on course to maintain its status as the world’s biggest consumer of tobacco up to 2030, and reveals “particularly concerning” trends of tobacco use among women and young people.

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Dear Abby advises an elderly man whose partner has fallen out of love with him due to his health and finance issues.

By-election result shows split in leftwing vote which could be replicated at May local elections

Beloved California news anchor Dick Cable passed away on Wednesday from an illness. He was 89.