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Chelsea v Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup final – live

Manchester United’s road to the final:

R4: Manchester United 7-0 West Brom

R5: Wolves 0-6 Manchester United

QF: Manchester United 3-1 Sunderland

SF: Manchester City 0-2 Manchester United

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West Ham United v Nottingham Forest: Premier League – live

West Ham (3-5-2): Areola; Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell; Coufal, Ward-Prowse, Rodríguez, Soucek, Wan-Bissaka; Bowen, Kudus.

Subs: Fabianski, Soler, Paquetá, Füllkrug, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Álvarez, Emerson, Ferguson.

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© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

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Formula One: Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix updates – live

Imola’s Formula One history is tinged with tragedy, and the circuit’s future looks uncertain – but it has still delivered some extraordinary moments:

Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

George Russell (Mercedes)

Lando Norris (McLaren)

Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

Carlos Sainz (Williams)

Alex Albon (Williams)

Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

Isack Hadjar (RacingBulls)

Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)

Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)

Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)

Liam Lawson (RacingBulls)

Franco Colapinto (Alpine)

Nico Hülkenberg (Sauber)

Esteban Ocon (Haas)

Oliver Bearman (Haas)

Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) – pit lane

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Foreign office supporting British woman after reports of drug-smuggling arrest in Sri Lanka

Former cabin crew member Charlotte May Lee, 21, reportedly accused of trying to bring 46kg of cannabis strain kush into country

UK officials have said they are supporting a British woman arrested in Sri Lanka amid reports a former cabin crew member has been accused of smuggling cannabis into the South Asian country.

MailOnline and the Sun reported that Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was detained at the main airport in the country’s capital Colombo on Monday after arriving on a flight from Bangkok.

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Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass

The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted

Donald Trump is forging ahead with a new section of border wall that will threaten wildlife in a remote area where many rare animals – but very few people – roam.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has invited private sector companies to bid for contracts to erect nearly 25 miles of barrier on the US-Mexico border, across the unwalled south of Tucson, Arizona, one of the most biodiverse regions in the US.

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How to make the perfect pasta al limone – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

Just spaghetti, butter, lemon, cheese and basil. Easy to perfect, and here’s how …

Al limone (no translation needed) is perhaps the perfect primo for this time of year, when we’re still waiting for the produce to catch up with the temperatures. The zesty citrus sings of the south, of heavy yellow fruit against a blue Mediterranean sky, while the butter gives just enough richness to make up for any chilly spring breezes. As Nigella observes, this is a dish that can “equally offer summer sprightliness or winter comfort”.

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© Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food styling: Loïc Parisot.

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Gaza ceasefire talks continue as Israel carries out fresh wave of strikes

Netanyahu signals openness to deal but lays out conditions while territory’s hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ with casualties

• Middle East crisis – latest updates

Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have been continuing in Qatar for a second day as Israeli warplanes and artillery launched a fresh wave of strikes across Gaza, killing at least 103 people, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, signalled on Sunday that Israel was open to a deal with Hamas that would include “ending the fighting” in Gaza, but laid out conditions that have been repeatedly refused by the militant Islamist organisation.

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‘Extreme anxiety and extreme depression’: Jennifer Lawrence says she felt ‘like an alien’ as a new mother

The actor and co-star Robert Pattinson have each spoken about their experiences of early parenthood ahead of the premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love

Jennifer Lawrence has spoken of the “extremely isolating” effect of the postpartum period, while discussing a new film in which she portrays a mother descending into psychosis.

In Scottish art-house director Lynne Ramsay’s moody psychodrama Die, My Love, Lawrence’s character Grace is left alone to look after her newborn in a ramshackle house in the remote woods of Montana while her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) goes off to work.

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© Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

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Urchin review - Harris Dickinson homelessness drama is terrific directorial debut

The Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl actor has made a strong, singular and sometimes surrealist first film behind the camera, with a superb central turn from Frank Dillane

Harris Dickinson makes a terrifically impressive debut here as a writer-director with this smart, thoughtful, compassionate picture about homelessness – engaging and sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory setpiece sequences and challengingly incorrect thoughts about the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots.

Frank Dillane is Mike, a guy who has spent five years living on the streets in London: begging, stealing, eating at charity food trucks. Dillane’s performance shows Mike’s nervy, twitchy, live wire mannerisms have been cultivated over what feels like a lifetime of abandonment: he has a kind of suppressed pleading quality as he asks passers by for the “spare change” that fewer people carry in these post-covid times; his open smile has a learned survivalist determination only - what he is is not exactly charm, he is slippery and unreliable, but also intelligent and heartbreakingly vulnerable.

His one non-friend on the street is Nathan (played in cameo by Harris Dickinson himself) who steals Mike’s money which fatefully leads Mike to a despicable act of theft and violence for which he is entirely unrepentant and which leads to a prison sentence and a hostel place, a hotel kitchen job a period of sobriety on release in which it seems as if he is turning his life around, dreamily lost in his meditation takes and even buying a little present for his probation supervisor – to whom he also confides his plans to start a luxury chauffeur business.

But, very disturbingly, it seems possible that what undermines Mike’s fresh start is his restorative justice session with his victim, an encounter which is supposed to be healing and cathartic but which Mike has no idea how to approach. Dickinson shows that he simply doesn’t understand the new register of emotional intelligence now expected of him. Amusingly he objects to the session’s convenor’s breathy, patronising voice and singularly fails to apologise.

But he clearly is, at some level, aware that he has failed a test, failed at being a good person. His job at the hotel kitchen goes south and his new job picking up littler is uncertain, despite a new relationship with a woman working alongside him (a smart performance from Megan Northam) who is much closer to sorting her life out than him. Mike has good mates in the litter-picking job and good mates in the hotel kitchen job.

But it is one of the pickers that offers him some ketamine and things spiral inevitably downwards from there. Did drug addiction mean things were always hopeless, whatever resources his Mike’s personality might have offered, The film does not offer easy answers or answers of any sort.

When it looked as if Mike on the way up or on the way out, he avoided his old acquaintances: when he sees the appalling Nathan in a charity shop, he scurried out. The old ways were contagious. His old life was contagion. But did he get infected by the restorative justice session, which confronted him with evidence of his selfish aggression, evidence which triggered only resentment?

And all the time his plagued with vision-memories of a reproachful woman (his mother?) and a huge mossy, beautiful cave (some fantasy? childhood holiday?) These are the visions of a complex past and a compromised future.

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© Photograph: Devisio Pictures and Somesuch/BFI Film/BBC/Tricky Knot

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A Danish Groundhog Day or tales of millennial angst… What should win next week’s International Booker?

A headspinning novel from Japan alongside a high concept tale from Denmark, and a French account of migrant tragedy … our critic weighs up the contenders

What unites the books on the shortlist for this year’s International Booker prize? Brevity, for one thing: five of the six are under 200 pages, and half barely pass 100. They are works of precision and idiosyncrasy that don’t need space to make a big impression. Themes are both timely – AI, the migration crisis – and evergreen: middle-class ennui; the place of women in society. And for the second consecutive year, every book comes from an independent publisher, with four from tiny micropresses. Ahead of the winner announcement on 20 May, here’s our verdict on the shortlist.

Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, Book I (Faber, £12.99; translated by Barbara J Haveland) is easiest to introduce through the film Groundhog Day: its heroine, Danish antiquarian book dealer Tara Selter, is stuck in time. “It is the 18th of November,” she writes. “I have got used to that thought.” Each time she wakes up, it’s the same day again, same weather, same people passing the window.

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‘I feel free’: the people who quit office jobs for the great outdoors – and would never go back

Fed up with being inside all day? Missing fresh air and nature? Five people who ditched their desks reveal the truth about their new lives

Steve Kell, 59, countryside ranger, Warwickshire Country Parks

I always loved being in nature. But I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was 18, so I got a job at a high-street bank. My grandfather was made up – he was convinced I was going to be the governor of the Bank of England. But over the years I became disenchanted. Then, in my early 30s, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had to take months off work. I couldn’t help thinking about how finite life is. I decided I wanted to do something I really enjoyed.

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Biden ‘failed this country’ by seeking second term, says Beto O’Rourke

Ex-Texas representative, who lost gubernatorial election to Greg Abbott, joins Democrats lambasting former president

Joe Biden “failed this country in the most important job that he had” by deciding to run for another term as US president before dropping out of the election that returned Donald Trump to the White House, where he has unflinchingly assaulted democratic norms, the former representative Beto O’Rourke said recently.

“We might very well lose the greatest country that this world has ever known,” the Texan who has unsuccessfully run for the presidency and his state’s governorship said on Pod Save America. “And it might be in part because of the decision that Biden and those around him made to run for re-election.”

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© Photograph: LM Otero/AP

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Dramatic dip in baby hospitalizations for RSV linked to vaccine and treatment

But older children, who had no access to the shots, had higher rates this winter compared with last

New vaccines and treatments are linked to a dramatic decline in RSV hospitalizations for babies, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This past winter was the first RSV season with widespread availability of a vaccine given during pregnancy and a monoclonal antibody treatment given in the first eight months of life to prevent RSV (respiratory syncytial virus).

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Dining across the divide: ‘He asked what I think of Trump. He’s a dangerous idiot’

A Reform-leaning Tory voter and a Labour party member clash over US politics and the BBC licence fee. Could they agree on the climate crisis?

Lian, 57, Darlington

Occupation Former professor of chemistry, now head of growth for a green startup

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© Photograph: Mark Pinder/The Guardian

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What the last Trump presidency can teach us about fighting back | Kenneth Roth

History shows that if western governments mount a defense, the human rights movement will survive this rough patch

As Donald Trump abandons any pretense of promoting human rights abroad, he has sparked concern about the future of the human rights movement. The US government has never been a consistent promoter of human rights, but when it applied itself, it was certainly the most powerful. Yet this is not the first time that the human rights movement has faced a hostile administration in Washington. A collective defense by other governments has been the key to survival in the past. That remains true today.

Trump no doubt poses a serious threat. He is enamored of autocrats who rule without the checks and balances on executive power that he would shirk. He has stopped participating in the UN human rights council and censored the US state department’s annual human rights report. He has summarily sent immigrants to El Salvador’s nightmarish mega-prison, proposed the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and threatened to abandon Ukraine’s democracy to Vladimir Putin’s invading forces.

Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. His book, Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments, was published by Knopf and Allen Lane in February

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This pause in the trade war will be brief. Small businesses, plan accordingly

Trump’s animosity towards China isn’t going to disappear, and his past actions do not bode well for a quick resolution

Donald Trump’s massive Chinese tariffs are on pause. The media debated. Wall Street rejoiced. Many of my clients breathed a sigh of relief. Big retailers jumped for joy. But for how long?

For starters, the tariffs that weren’t paused – a 10% levy on all Chinese goods, plus a bonus 20% tax that somehow relates to fentanyl, are still in place. When you take into consideration existing tariffs on steel from previous Trump and Biden administrations, the effective tariff rate on Chinese goods is actually closer to 40%, according to an analysis done by the Wall Street Journal.

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© Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

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A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve | John Harris

Labour has good ideas and years left to change Britain. Why is it acting as if its time is almost up?

Just under a week on from Keir Starmer’s latest pronouncements about immigration, plenty of people on his own side are still gripped by a queasy sense of fury and disappointment, and it shows no signs of fading away. His aides and allies will now try to gladden left-liberal hearts by emphasising gains from Monday’s UK-EU summit, and the prime minister’s remodelling of Brexit. But the acrid cloud hanging over Starmer will surely remain, and with good reason.

Whatever the surrounding context – and whether or not he was consciously echoing Enoch Powell – his suggestion that Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers” still sounded like a horribly calculated provocation. The insistence that the government was set on closing “a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy, and our country” was even more brazen. So was the suggestion after years of “a one-nation experiment in open borders… the damage this has done to our country is incalculable”. That last claim, in fact, might have been the worst of the lot: a shameful example of a prime minister reducing a story replete with complexity and nuance – and raw humanity – to cheap and nasty hyperbole.

John Harris is a Guardian columnist

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© Illustration: R Fresson/The Guardian

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Kevin De Bruyne ‘probably won’t play’ for Manchester City at Club World Cup

  • Midfielder criticises Fifa for timing of competition
  • Final home game on Tuesday is ‘going to be weird’

Kevin De Bruyne has revealed he “probably won’t play” for Manchester City in this summer’s Club World Cup, with the Belgian critical of Fifa for staging the competition when contracts are still running.

City’s decision not to offer De Bruyne fresh terms means Bournemouth’s visit to the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday and Sunday’s trip to Fulham on the final day of the Premier League season will be his final games for the club he joined 10 years ago. City play their three Club World Cup Group G games in June and De Bruyne’s deal finishes at the end of that month, so he could participate but has decided not to.

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© Photograph: Ashley Western/Colorsport/Shutterstock

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Kevin Spacey to be celebrated at Cannes’ Better World gala

Actor will receive a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday for his ‘enduring impact on cinema and the arts’ and ‘decades of artistic brilliance’

Kevin Spacey is to accept a lifetime achievement award in Cannes next week, in what may constitute one of the most high-profile “uncancellings” of the #MeToo era.

On Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actor is set to receive an award for excellence in film and television at the Better World Fund’s 10th anniversary gala dinner at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes.

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© Photograph: Jason Merritt/Radarpics/REX/Shutterstock for Invincible

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Tyler, the Creator review – a fiery performance from a giddy rap god

Utilita Arena, Birmingham
Performing solo to a backing track, the rapper nevertheless generates extraordinary heat with his fluid and furious flow atop foundation-rumbling bass

Fireworks explode, flames burn, smoke engulfs the room and a screech erupts from the audience as a masked Tyler, the Creator emerges from a thick green haze to the gut-rumbling bass of St Chroma. It’s rare to hear such a frenzied response to new songs but it establishes the mood for an evening during which the LA rapper’s most recent work, from 2024’s Chromakopia, is received with the same level of adoration as old favourites. And he runs through the album almost in its entirety.

Performing solo on stage to a backing track, he bounces giddily but gracefully across the vast space. The bass frequently hits outrageously hard throughout the evening, shaking the building’s foundations, such as during the grinding charge of Noid. While effective, the frequent bass drops do sometimes kill some of the detail in the music, as well as perhaps overcompensating for the lack of live instrumentation.

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‘Had I poisoned my children?’ How a widow’s grief sent her spiralling into delusion

When Mary Ann Kenny lost her husband, she hoped therapy or medication would help. But soon she was losing touch with reality – and panicking about what she might be doing to her two young sons

Mary Ann Kenny first met her husband in 2000, at a conference in Dundee. “It was a coup de foudre – ‘a bolt of lightning’,” the 60-year-old languages lecturer says with a smile. “We had finally found what had taken both of us a very long time to find.”

John was from Chester, Kenny was from Dublin, and the couple had a long-distance relationship until he moved to Ireland to live with her in 2008. “We had our two small kids, our lovely house, our friends; it just seemed like we had all our ducks in a row. It had taken a long time to get there – we had our kids a little bit later in life – but I felt that everything was perfect. Then John left my life just as suddenly as he entered it; one day he was there, then he was gone.”

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© Photograph: Bríd O'Donovan/The Guardian

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If Keir Starmer is not robotic enough for you, his AI twin is ready for your questions

Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should be

If you are one of the few people on the planet who fancies a chat with Keir Starmer, then there’s a new AI model for you.

A former chief of staff to a Tory minister has created Nostrada, which aims to enable users to talk with an AI version of each of the UK parliament’s 650 MPs – and lets you ask them anything you want.

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© Photograph: Nostrada

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Everton v Southampton: end of an era at Goodison Park in Premier League – live

The streets around Goodison are rammed. I guess the docks will be nice too, but they’ll never be is heimish.

Also going on:

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© Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

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The right reviled Francis. How will Pope Leo XIV confront the schism in the US church?

Some conservatives rejected Francis for his leftist leanings, but Leo could be able to realize his forerunner’s visions

Rightwing Catholic Americans in positions of power – from the vice-president, JD Vance, to Leonardo Leo – may have breathed a brief sigh of relief when, after the white smoke cleared, Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica donning a traditional red mozzetta with a papal stole.

It was, observers pointed out, a starkly different choice than his predecessor Pope Francis, a reviled figure among many staunch conservatives, who had worn all white on the same occasion in 2013 to symbolize his desire for simplicity and humility.

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This is how we do it: ‘I didn’t want to issue an ultimatum – but sex is non-negotiable for me’

Iris likes to have sex often, but Eva found that the pressures of work had put her off. Now, they’re both in a good place and having more and better sex
How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

Things came to a point when I was considering whether I wanted our relationship to continue if it was sexless

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© Illustration: Ryan Gillett

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‘We will pay a huge price’: Ukraine fears war could drag on for years

Kyiv officials believe Moscow is not interested in peace despite talks in Istanbul and Trump’s intervention

Ukrainian officials believe a largely stalemated war of attrition with Russia is likely to continue for several more years, despite international efforts pushed by Donald Trump to end the fighting.

After the inconclusive breakup of the first direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul on Friday, and despite the US president’s planned calls with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, they see no evidence that Moscow is serious about peace.

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© Photograph: UKRAINE’S 93RD MECHANIZED BRIGADE PRESS SERVICE HANDOUT/EPA

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Elton John says UK government being ‘absolute losers’ over AI copyright plans

Songwriter says he thinks it is a ‘criminal offence’ to let tech firms use protected work without permission

Sir Elton John has called the UK government “absolute losers” over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission.

The songwriter said it was a “criminal offence” to change copyright law in favour of artificial intelligence companies.

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‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It

It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift the lid on its chaotic creation

Twenty years ago this month we were plunged straight into the middle of an omnishambles. It was a moment in time when petrified politicians lurched from crisis to crisis, scrambling desperately to control the narrative as their endless gaffes derailed even the vaguest attempts to change this country for the better. But am I talking about the tail-end of the Blair years or the televisual tour-de-force that was Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It?

It could be either. It could even be right now – such was the show’s prescient genius. This was a satire that didn’t just mimic the government’s calamities but seemed somehow to foresee them. Over its seven-year run, The Thick of It came up with farcical policies that the government went on to adopt (pet asbos, anyone?), coined new words in the dictionary (the aforementioned omnishambles) and, in Malcolm Tucker, created one of the great malevolent forces of British comedy. Here’s how they did it …

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© Composite: BBC/Mike Hogan

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Central Coast Mariners complete fairytale after A-League Women grand final shootout

  • Central Coast 1-1 (aet) Melbourne Victory; Mariners win 5-4 on pens
  • Bianca Galic slots winning penalty to seal Mariners’ first championship

The weight of the world was on Bianca Galic’s shoulders. After 120 minutes of football, nothing could separate her Central Coast Mariners and Melbourne Victory and the first shootout to decide an A-League Women grand final was needed. Eight successive penalties had rippled the back of the net to that point, with only Alana Jančevski’s initial attempt failing to do so. It meant that the game, a title – a fairytale – all came down to this.

The 26-year-old bent down to adjust the ball. At the end of the third game that had been played on AAMI Park across the weekend, and after rain had blanketed Melbourne the day prior, the penalty area at both ends of the pitch was churned up. Player of the match Isabel Gomez had slipped as she struck her shot on goal, the relief pouring over her as Victory keeper Courtney Newbon proved just unable to get enough of a touch on the ball to keep it out.

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‘We’re in the last, hard yards’: quiet hopes for UK-EU reset at crucial summit

Monday’s meet-up could provide the piece of the jigsaw to unlock UK growth and draw a line under the Brexit years

For veterans of the Brexit years, such as Keir Starmer, the next 12 hours will feel painfully familiar. Negotiations will go until the final hours. But this time, there is belief on both sides that things can be different.

For the UK, Monday’s UK-EU summit is the most crucial piece of the three-part jigsaw to unlock growth, after the recent deals with India and the US.

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© Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

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Women’s FA Cup final, last Premier League game at Goodison Park and more – matchday live

  • All the buildup to the Women’s FA Cup final, 1.30pm KO
  • Share your thoughts with matchday live or post BTL

Jamie Vardy will be having a goodbye party when he bids farewell to Leicester this afternoon. The 39-year-old wanted to end his Foxes career on 500 appearances and at the King Power Stadium, meaning he will not feature on the final day of the Premier League season next weekend. Today also happens to be the 13th anniversary of Vardy’s move to Leicester, marking what is set to be a full-circle occasion.

Be sure to also message me with any thoughts, feelings or score predictions for any of today’s games. I want to know what you’re up to, where you’re off to and what you’ll be watching this afternoon. Also, let me know if you have any stand-out memories of Goodison or any favourite Jamie Vardy moments. I want to hear from you!

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David Hockney’s rarely seen early works united in new London exhibition

Exclusive: In The Mood For Love, curated by grandson of early Hockney champion and art dealer, John Kasmin, will feature works from 1960-63

When one of David Hockney’s iconic swimming pool pictures sold for $90.3m (£70.3m) in 2013, he became the world’s most highly valued contemporary artist. Now paintings, drawings and prints that he sold for a few pounds in the 1960s are being brought together for the first time in a new exhibition.

John Kasmin, an art dealer who first recognised Hockney’s potential in the early 1960s when the artist was studying at the Royal College of Art (RCA), told the Guardian that Hockney’s prices then “rarely ever went above 20 quid”.

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Israel systematically targeting hospitals, Gaza health ministry says, after scores die in new IDF strikes – Israel-Gaza war live

Gaza officials says hospitals are overwhelmed but are being repeatedly hit by Israel as reports say more than 100 people died in new strikes

As a reminder, South Africa has taken Israel to the UN’s top court and accused it of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel denies the charges.

Here are some examples of who else has accused Israel of genocide.

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© Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters

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Saints’ fightback defies Itoje and provides perfect Champions Cup final sendoff

Comeback to see off Saracens highlights Northampton’s cutting edge – and how quickly a game can change

It ended with the Lions captain in forlorn negotiation with the referee. Australians may be encouraged that Maro Itoje was unable to work his magic to save Saracens’ match, to save their season.

They desperately needed the win – in a way that Northampton did not – but they were staring down the barrel of the most dramatic of last-minute defeats, 28-24, courtesy of Tarek Haffar’s second try. There were two passes in the buildup, both of which looked forward, but by the arcane procedures of the television match official protocols the decision-making was constrained by the referee’s initial instinct, which was that the try was good.

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Original Sin: book on Biden’s health decline reopens Democratic party’s wounds

The book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson presents a scathing account of a president cocooned from reality – and fuels questions about his role in the party

George Clooney “felt a knot form in his stomach” as a frail and diminished Joe Biden approached him, apparently failing to recognise one of the most famous actors in the world. “George Clooney,an aide eventually clarified for the US president. “Oh, yeah!” Biden said. “Hi, George!”

The excruciating encounter at a glitzy Los Angeles fundraiser last June is one of several damning anecdotes contained in Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, an upcoming book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

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© Composite: Guardian Design / Getty

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Ten dead in ‘brutal’ attacks by Isis-linked militants on Mozambique wildlife reserve

Thousands have been displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa’s biggest protected areas

One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of attacks by Islamic State-linked extremists, which have left at least 10 people dead.

Conservationists in Niassa reserve, Mozambique, say decades of work to rebuild populations of lions, elephants and other keystone species are being jeopardised, as conservation operations grind to a halt.

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© Photograph: WCS Moçambique

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The bin fire strikes back: United and Spurs’ song for Europe is a bit of tasteless fun | Jonathan Wilson

Wednesday’s all-English Europa League final in Bilbao is a huge game that shows football still has a sense of humour

The best thing about football is what a silly, mercurial game it is. You can have all the money or political clout in the world. You can put in place meticulously thought-out projects. You can think and prepare and invest and plan, and football will still spit out a Europa League final between Tottenham and Manchester United. Strategise that.

Thousands will travel to Bilbao without tickets, many will end up sleeping rough, the phone network may collapse. It will be chaotic and anarchic and at its heart will be a game between two teams desperate for victory, whose presence in the final is utterly bewildering. And in that bonkersness may lie brilliance.

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© Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images

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This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein Lubrano

Evidence shows that arguing our case rarely convinces others. It’s social relationships and actions that have that power

  • Sarah Stein Lubrano is the author of Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds

It may seem paradoxical to write this in an opinion piece. But it needs saying: arguments alone have no meaningful effect on people’s beliefs. And the implicit societal acceptance that they do is getting in the way of other, more effective forms of political thinking and doing.

I’m a researcher who studies the intersection of psychology and politics, and my work has increasingly led me to believe that our culture’s understanding of how political persuasion works is wrong. In the age of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the rise of the far right, commentators have endlessly opined on the problems of fake news, polarisation and more. But they’ve mostly been looking in the wrong places – and have focused too much on words.

Sarah Stein Lubrano is the author of Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds

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© Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie/AP

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Russia fires 273 drones at Ukraine in largest attack since start of war

One woman killed in Kyiv region in air offensive that follows first direct peace talks between the two sides

The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and wounded at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday.

The attack came two days after Ukraine and Russia held their first direct talks since 2022 and a day before a planned phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

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© Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

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