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• Cambridge win men's and women's Boat Races

  13-04-2025 18:02 via bbc.com
  Cambridge continued their recent dominance over Oxford.
  
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• The Boat Races 2025: Cambridge complete another double over Oxford with crushing wins – live

  13-04-2025 15:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Action from women’s (begins 1.21pm) and men’s racesGet in touch! Email Alex with your thoughtsFriends relish ‘bucket-list’ battle on opposing sidesThe two teams are off! I’m reliably informed the conditions are set for a fast time – but who’s time will be fastest? We’ll know in around 18 minutes.Word from the Guardian’s correspondent, Luke McLaughlin, who’s at Mortlake. Setting the scene perfectly …The buildup has been contentiou
  
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• Arrest warrant issued in Bangladesh for UK MP Tulip Siddiq

  13-04-2025 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Former City minister accused of illegally receiving plot of land from her aunt, ousted PM Sheikh HasinaAn arrest warrant for the former City minister Tulip Siddiq has been issued in Bangladesh with a new allegation accusing her of illegally receiving a plot of land from her aunt, the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.Bangladeshi media reported the warrant was issued by a judge for 53 people connected to Hasina, including Siddiq. There is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and B
  
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• Helicopter in fatal New York crash lacked flight recorders, officials say

  13-04-2025 15:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Aircraft crash that killed all six people on board was on its eighth tour flight of the day, federal investigators sayThe helicopter that crashed into New York City’s Hudson River on Thursday – killing all six on board, including three children – lacked flight recorders, said the US’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).It was also on its eighth tour flight of the day, having already completed seven, according to federal investigators.Reuters contributed reporting
  
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• Liverpool v West Ham: Premier League – live

  13-04-2025 15:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Minute-by-minute updates from this 2pm BST kick-offPremier League table | Top scorers | Email Simon4 mins: Good work from Todibo to hold up Luis Diaz on the Liverpool left, and then to toe-poke the ball away from Jota as it ran towards him in the area.3 mins: The home fans sing Mo Salah’s name. He’s done little of interest so far, but he’s signed a new contract and everyone’s happy about it. Continue reading...
  
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• The Boat Races 2025: Oxford v Cambridge – live

  13-04-2025 15:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Action from women’s (begins 1.21pm) and men’s racesGet in touch! Email Alex with your thoughtsFriends relish ‘bucket-list’ battle on opposing sidesThe two teams are off! I’m reliably informed the conditions are set for a fast time – but who’s time will be fastest? We’ll know in around 18 minutes.Word from the Guardian’s correspondent, Luke McLaughlin, who’s at Mortlake. Setting the scene perfectly …The buildup has been contentiou
  
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• County cricket day three: Surrey v Hampshire, Notts v Essex and more – live

  13-04-2025 15:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from around the county grounds in round twoGet in touch! Email Tanya or comment BTLThings have progressed without too much incident so far this morning at OT, Northants have kept their attacking fields, Lancashire their restraint. Lancs 152-4.Elsewhere in Division Two: Leaning has picked up a second wicket to get rid of the dangerous Geddes (75), Middx 262-7. Singh Dale has dismissed the dangerous Carlson, Glamorgan 175-4 and looking down a sink-hole. And Derbyshire are nine down at Grac
  
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• Manchester City v Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup semi-final – live

  13-04-2025 15:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Minute-by-minute updates from this 3pm BST kick-offGet in touch! Email Xaymaca with your thoughtsManchester City: Keating, Aleixandri, Coombs, Fowler, Kerolin Nicoli, Ouahabi, Park, Casparij, Hasegawa, Prior, MurphySubs: Yamashita, Startup, Layzell, Wienroither, Oyama, Lewis Continue reading...
  
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• Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

  13-04-2025 15:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thoughtCoachella, for the most part, presents a welcome escape from the world – 10-plus hours of live music a day in a corporate-lite fantasy land, time delineated only by set lists and tents. But if there was one band who could speak to our political moment, as they unfortunately but necessarily say – who could bring the feeli
  
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• ‘The time is right for it’: Adolescence team to reboot nuclear war drama Threads

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  UK producers share excitement for ‘bold’ remake of controversial 1980s film set in post-apocalyptic SheffieldWith several wars raging, powerful countries squaring up and the world seemingly tilting towards authoritarianism, it would seem a challenging time to expose television audiences to a notoriously bleak story of a British city experiencing the fallout from nuclear war.Yet a UK team of producers behind the global Netflix hit Adolescence believe it is precisely the right time to
  
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• Readers reply: Why do sunglasses make you look cool?

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy do sunglasses make you look cool? Allen Bollands, by emailSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has livedWhen Do Ho Suh was a young boy in Seoul in the 1970s, his father decided to build a family home based on a hanok – a traditional Korean timber house with a curved tiled roof. The one he chose as his model stood in the gardens of the imperial palace and had been built for King Sunjo in 1878.“My father was a painter who had modernised Korean art,
  
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• Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes are a stain on the Catholic church - but this latest refusal to atone is a new low | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The reluctance of religious organisations to offer recompense for the lives ruined fits a pattern of denial and evasionThere are some stories so horrifying that their details embed themselves in your flesh and haunt you for the rest of your days. The suffering of the women and babies – an estimated 170,000 of them – who were incarcerated and abused in the Magdalene laundries and mother-and-baby homes that housed “fallen women” is one such story. It is a scandal that is di
  
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• Go to town! The surprise feelgood effects of walking in the city

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A stroll around historic buildings, cemeteries and winding back streets can lift your spirits just as effectively as communing with nature, according to author Annabel Streets. Let’s put that to the test …When I arrange to meet Annabel Streets, the appropriately named author of a new book, The Walking Cure, I’m presented with a challenge. She wants me to choose a London location I am unfamiliar with, so I can experience her ideas about the upsides of urban landscapes. In the b
  
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• From Gwyneth Paltrow to the Duchess of Sussex, the girlboss is back. In this economy, who can blame them?

  13-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Paltrow talking about KPIs to Meghan waxing lyrical about entrepreneurship, it’s not surprising famous women are cashing in on the world’s obsession with their brandsI expect certain things from a Gwyneth Paltrow interview. Breathless outfit details. Her cooking something unexpectedly indulgent for the interviewer, or appearing more laid-back than her image suggests. Spacey pronouncements. What I don’t expect to read is: “I need to optimize EBITDA” (that’
  
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• How and where to watch the Lyrid meteor shower

  13-04-2025 14:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Annual celestial display is visible for several days in April as the Earth passes through debris left by comet C/1861 G1With the Lyrid meteor shower expected to light up the skies this month, we reveal how to get the best view and what to look for. Continue reading...
  
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• Man dies after explosion at house in Nottinghamshire

  13-04-2025 14:35 via theguardian.com
  Police appeal for information from people living in Worksop as they investigate ‘extremely serious incident’A man has died after an explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire, police have said.Emergency services were called to John Street in Worksop at 7.39pm on Saturday. A major incident was declared and homes were evacuated after the blast, in which a terraced property was destroyed and significant damage was caused to neighbouring properties. Continue reading...
  
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• Cubs rout reigning champs 16-0 in Dodgers’ worst-ever home shutout

  13-04-2025 14:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Chicago score 14 runs in final three innings of victoryLos Angeles ruin solid start from Roki SasakiThe Chicago Cubs had a big night against the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers.One night after being shut out, the Cubs broke out for 14 runs and 15 hits in the final three innings of a 16-0 victory Saturday night, to hand the Dodgers their first home loss of the season and their worst home shutout loss in franchise history. Continue reading...
  
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• World’s largest wooden structure and Thai new year: photos of the weekend

  13-04-2025 14:21 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Thai new year and a porridge bath: photos of the weekend

  13-04-2025 14:21 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Palm Sunday, Thai new year and a porridge bath: photos of the weekend

  13-04-2025 14:21 via theguardian.com
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• ‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011Fourteen years ago, the heart of Oslo was reconfigured by hate. On 22 July 2011, Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb outside the office of the then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, killing eight people and damaging surrounding buildings, before murdering a further 69 people on the nearby island of Utøya.But now the same s
  
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• Mad House: new book exposes Capitol Hill’s absurdity and dysfunction

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater shine a jaundiced spotlight on the foibles and foolishness of the US political classAnnie Karni, once of Politico, covers Congress for the New York Times. Her colleague Luke Broadwater, once a Pulitzer prize winner for the Baltimore Sun, makes the Trump administration his beat.As co-authors, at book length of Mad House, they deliver a sharp and wit-filled portrait of Capitol Hill dysfunction. Generally unflattering, Karni and Broadwater dedicate their bo
  
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• Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hopeRaja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics. His first non-academic book, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, chronicled the 2002 siege of his hometown, Ramallah, while Palestinian
  
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• Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: ‘We just want to stay open’

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to CanadiansThere is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse bestsellers and children’s books by crossing an international border and then sit for an amateur theatre troupe in a regal opera house with each half of your body in two different countries.Standing near the Tomifobia River, a rushing body of water swollen f
  
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• ‘Bureaucratic cruelty’: 9/11 responders and survivors shaken by US health cuts

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  World Trade Center healthcare program for people affected by attacks is in turmoil over Trump officials’ overhaulA program that provides free healthcare to first responders and survivors of the World Trade Center terror attacks has been in turmoil for months, with services cut, restored and cut again as part of the Trump administration’s “restructuring” of the federal health department.Following the most recent cuts, groups representing survivors and even Democratic US se
  
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• BP dropped its green pledges and turned back to oil. Now the price of crude has collapsed

  13-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  At its AGM this week, the company will face not only the activist investor at its heels, but a global economy being changed from the White HouseAfter Donald Trump’s “liberation day” on Wednesday last week, BP lost almost a quarter of its market value in a share price rout even deeper than the oil giant endured in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The collapse in global oil prices in the wake of the US president’s ­tariff blitz may have wiped billio
  
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• Russian missile strike kills at least 31 in Ukrainian city of Sumy

  13-04-2025 13:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Volodymyr Zelenskyy says dozens killed and wounded on ‘ordinary city street’ while going to church for Palm SundayAt least 31 people have been killed and dozens injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday.Two missiles landed in the crowded city centre. One hit a trolley bus full of passengers. Footage from the scene showed bodies lying in the street, burning cars, and rescuers carrying bloodied survivors.
  
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• Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

  13-04-2025 13:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes“He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he is.” How many times have we heard this about Donald Trump? And how many times has it been proved wrong? Well, maybe this time he really has overstepped. After all, his clowning around with tariffs, sparking trade wars, then suddenly reversing his position, could provoke a glob
  
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• Trump’s bullying must stop but the true costs of globalisation will remain | Richard Partington

  13-04-2025 13:19 via theguardian.com
  
  We cannot return to the status quo before ‘liberation day’, with western economies hollowed out by free-market capitalism Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid. A preacher of voodoo economics, attacking the US’s allies and enemies alike. Condemnation of Donald Trump in the chaos since his “liberation day” has been swift.For most people the self-inflicted damage makes no sense, and rightly so. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour MPs push for Foreign Office to recognise Palestinian statehood

  13-04-2025 13:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Emily Thornberry calls for UK to join France, as Emmanuel Macron says June UN conference must be decisive momentThe Foreign Office is under pressure from Labour MPs to recognise a Palestinian state if Emmanuel Macron, the French president, presses ahead with plans to recognise Palestine at an international conference set for June.France is co-chairing the conference at the UN in New York alongside Saudi Arabia, and Macron has said the conference must be a decisive moment. Continue reading...
  
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• The rise of end times fascism

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop themThe movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Pr&
  
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• RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by SeptemberThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.In an interview during which he a
  
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• Put your baby down to nap near a washing machine, expert says

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researcher warns that dark daytime naps can disrupt babies’ sleep when they properly go to bed at nightBabies should not be put in a dark, quiet room for a nap but in a light room with background noise like a washing machine, an expert has said.Prof Helen Ball, a scientific adviser for the charity The Lullaby Trust who has carried out sleep research with more than 5,000 parents and babies at Durham University, said long daytime naps are like “mini night times” that can disrupt
  
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• No retreat on tariffs, Trump promised. Hours later, he blinked

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the economic and political pressure became unbearable, the US president changed course – but has the damage been done?He vowed: “My policies will never change.” He insisted: “Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.” He boasted: “I know what I’m doing.” And at 9.33am on Wednesday, he entreated: “BE COOL. Everything is going to work out well.”But less than four hours later, Donald Trump blinked. As the economic and politi
  
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• New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala Harris’s chancesJoe Biden plans to write a book about his presidency which ended in his historic withdrawal from the 2024 election, pushed out by senior Democrats convinced he was too old and infirm and replaced by his vice-president, Kamala Harris.Sources close to Biden told news outlets the book could be published next year, by which time Biden will be 83 and doubtless – like other U
  
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• Lauren Sanchez’s all-female space flight is about to blast off – and will challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket blasts off on Monday, with his fiancee, Katy Perry and three others on board. But is it more than just a stunt?Jeff Bezos is blasting his bride-to-be Lauren Sánchez and her “guests” to space on Monday – a plan that might, under other circumstances, contain mixed messages.A crew of six women – Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist who will become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space; the CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; t
  
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• ‘Gaza, it breaks my heart to see you in this state’: three stories from young Palestinian writers

  13-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Authors from the We Are Not Numbers project on their dreams of becoming architects or artists, and a report on how a young woman found fulfilment in fast foodAhmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty that we make Gaza’s stories immortal, on paper’How Gaza inspired me to be a ‘surgeon’ for historic buildingsContinue reading...
  
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• No guarantee British Steel plant will be able to continue, says business secretary

  13-04-2025 12:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Jonathan Reynolds says ‘high trust bar’ now in place for Chinese companies to invest in critical UK infrastructureUK politics live – latest updatesThe business secretary has refused to guarantee that blast furnaces in Scunthorpe will get raw materials in time, saying the emergency government action meant there was now a “high trust bar” for Chinese companies to invest in critical UK industries.Jonathan Reynolds declined to directly accuse the British Steel owner Jin
  
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• British man, 63, dies after falling at Roman aqueduct in Spain

  13-04-2025 12:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Unnamed tourist fell from viewing platform overlooking the historic structure in Segovia, authorities say A 63-year-old British man has died after falling from a viewing platform overlooking the historic aqueduct of Segovia in central Spain, according to local authorities.In a brief statement on Saturday, officials described the man as a British passport holder who had arrived in the city on Thursday with two other people. Continue reading...
  
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• The ghostly allure of Dungeness, Kent

  13-04-2025 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s an arid and mysterious place, yet it’s precisely these charms that captivate visitors – and our writer‘It’s a Marmite place, you either love it or hate it,” says the lady making us coffee at Ness Café, as we gaze across the flat, arid landscape that is Dungeness beach, a chunk of Arizona on the Kent coast. Certainly it’s not for everyone. Some find it too bleak, depressing even. Others lean into it, the endless stretch of shingle and the loom
  
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• ‘His ability to switch from a loving partner to a monster kept me in a permanent state of stress’

  13-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Michelle’, a victim of coercive control, tells how she is still recovering after seven years of hell with an abusive partner. Why then was he jailed for just 30 months?Robert Rawson, 62, appeared at Liverpool crown court last month to plead guilty to charges of controlling and coercive behaviour and perverting the course of justice.In a harrowing impact statement, his victim, “Michelle” told the court that during their seven-year relationship, Rawson had put a tracking a
  
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• Harvey Weinstein to stand trial this week in redo of #MeToo case

  13-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Re-examination puts one of biggest #MeToo victories back in court as backlash against women’s rights unfolds in USHarvey Weinstein goes back on trial in New York this week in a redo of the #MeToo-era case in which the disgraced movie mogul was convicted of sexual criminal assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree, but acquitted on three other counts, including the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault.The legal drama begins with jury selection that is expected to las
  
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• Is actor Michael Sheen the right person to rescue Welsh theatre?

  13-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Amid closures and financial cuts, Sheen is using his clout to stimulate interest and investment in the Welsh stage. A celebrity force for good? Or is he taking the spotlight away from other, vital arts organisations?Can one star save Welsh theatre? On a spring morning in Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre (WMC), 180 people are thronging for the answers. We’re in the Awen bar next to the gorgeous 1,900-capacity Donald Gordon theatre, which last summer staged the hit play Nye, about NHS
  
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• Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi

  13-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize itWhere do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany, spea
  
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• Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

  13-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The National Theatre is worried about a shortage of skills from costume designers, to set creators, to computer techniciansThe decline of drama as a school subject has had a serious knock-on effect on the live entertainment business. While it is harder now for a budding star to imagine a stage career, the more immediate impact is on theatres’ skills and craft departments.The problem is a top priority for Indhu Rubasingham, two weeks into her high-profile job as artistic director at Nationa
  
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• Airstrike destroys parts of Gaza City hospital as Israel intensifies offensive

  13-04-2025 10:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Civil defence agency says al-Ahli hospital hit as IDF operations cut off access to southern city of RafahSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageAn Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday as Israel continued its military offensive in the war-battered Palestinian territory and cut off access to the southern city of Rafah.The Palestinian civil defence agency said Israel’s air force fired missiles at al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hos
  
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• Iraq veteran and film-maker Ray Mendoza: ‘Writing Warfare with Alex Garland was like going to a therapist’

  13-04-2025 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The former US Navy Seal on working alongside the Ex Machina director to produce a war movie that’s as true to life as possibleRay Mendoza, 45, served for more than 16 years as a US Navy Seal and training instructor before leaving to work as a Hollywood military adviser, specialising in choreographing gunfight sequences for movies including Alex Garland’s Civil War (2024). It’s with Garland that he’s now co-written and co-directed the film Warfare, a claustrophobically imm
  
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• ‘They called it black gold’: but should cuttlefish be on our menus?

  13-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s a delicacy in France and Spain, and springing up at the UK’s restaurants, but is the trend for dining on cuttlefish sustainable?It can be braised low and slow or grilled in a hot flash, covered in sauce and canned or stirred through a paella. Cuttlefish, a cephalopod closely related to squid, is the seafood menu offering du jour.In March a cuttlefish risotto was added to the menu at Rick Stein’s The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall. In Cardiff, at Heaneys, you can f
  
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• No union and forget staff toilet breaks, but hey, at least Bezos can buy Venice for his wedding | Catherine Bennett

  13-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a triumph of bling over restraint, the bride will get a hen do in space and a party on a super-yachtWell done us. It can’t be long before Jeff Bezos personally extends his thanks, as he did when we – Amazon employees and Amazon customers – paid for his flight to sub-orbital space, but let’s not wait. As soon as Monday, when his fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, is due with five friends on a rocket trip, Amazon givers could be witness, again, to the kind of unfettered exc
  
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