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In case you were not already aware, Chelsea agreed a $1.1million deal with San Diego Wave for USA defender Naomi Girma this week. Here’s what our very own Tom Garry had to say about the historic transfer…

Sonia Bompastor has just all-but confirmed the signing of Naomi Girma. The Chelsea manager told BBC Sport: “Yes, we will probably have to announce something about Naomi soon.”

A Buffalo Bill's Big Brother

Last month, Buffalo Bills rookie running back sensation Ray Davis paid tribute to a man who was like a brother to him, since the day in 2007 that 8-year-old Ray met Patrick Dowley through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in San Francisco. Steve Hartman reports.

How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"

In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a rejected office-seeker shot President James Garfield, reformers won long-sought-after changes: workers hired for their expertise, not their fealty.

How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"

In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president, who would fill the government bureaucracy with his supporters. But after a rejected office-seeker shot President James Garfield, reformers won long-sought-after changes: workers hired for their expertise, not their fealty. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with journalist and historian Scott Greenberger about how a meritocracy finally came to the federal government, and finds out what Mark Twain had to do with it.

Sukkwan Island review – a survival drama takes an ill-advised left-turn

Sundance film festival: Anatomy Of A Fall’s Swann Arlaud plays a father who gets caught in a dangerous situation with his son in a well-made yet frustrating misfire

As writer-director, Vladimir de Fontenay has taken the central novella Sukkwan Island from David Vann’s autobiographical short-fiction collection from 2009, detached it from the surrounding complex constellation of stories related to this main piece and presents it here as a standalone drama of father-son bonding.

The resulting film begins as something forthright and heartfelt; it looks as if it’s going to be a liberatingly scary wilderness adventure out there in the real world away from cellphones, social media etc. But with its strenuous yet subdued performances and weirdly cramped and gloomy narrative, it leads us finally into a blind alley: a twist-reveal which I found fundamentally unsatisfying.

Sukkwan Island is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution

Rabbit Trap review – Dev Patel gets lost in the woods in messy folk horror

Sundance film festival: Strong performances and an eerie atmosphere can’t save an increasingly baffling 70s-set curio

After Rose Byrne’s stress-inducing motherhood-is-hell panic attack If I Had Legs I’d Kick You premiered, 70s-set folk horror Rabbit Trap is providing yet more confirmation to Sundance attendees that children should be avoided. In writer-director Bryn Chainey’s patchy feature debut, his lead couple might not have a child of their own, but a mysterious local stranger would certainly disagree, forcing himself into their household, whether they like it or not.

For a while they do, sound recordist Darcy (Dev Patel) and alternative musician Daphne (Rosy McEwen), charmed and intrigued by the nameless kid (Jade Croot), an unusual and self-possessed boy eager to teach them more about the area. They moved to a remote Welsh cottage from London, both transfixed by the many sounds of nature, hoping it might lead to creative inspiration. Chainey is as fascinated as they are and it’s immediately easy to see why, the film’s ASMR immersion into the specific squishes, gusts and crunches of the countryside around them proving to be entirely transporting.

Rabbit Trap is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution

The anti-abortion movement weighs its next move: ‘We haven’t gone away’

The movement is on the upswing thanks to Trump but a question lingers: what is their role in his administration?

Minutes into the National Pro-Life Summit, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, had convinced its more than attendees to leap to their feet. She was recording a video, and she had a message she wanted them to send to Donald Trump.

“THANK YOU MISTER PRESIDENT!” the crowd in the ballroom thundered, before bursting into raucous applause – complete with wolf whistles.

A tour of the Bronx

Comedian and actress Susie Essman was a kid from the Bronx, and maintains a devotion to this monumental, magical and, at times, maligned slice of the Big Apple. She takes "Sunday Morning" viewers on a tour, joined by such Bronx luminaries as writer and humorist Ian Frazier, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, actor and playwright Chazz Palminteri, rapper and entrepreneur Fat Joe, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson.

Trump's first week: Congress, courts consider their "checks and balances"

In his first week back in office, Trump wasted no time shattering norms – from a blizzard of transformative executive orders, to pardoning January 6 defendants and threatening the territories of other nations.

Trump's first week: Congress, courts consider their "checks and balances"

In his first week back in office, President Trump has wasted no time shattering norms – from a blizzard of transformative executive orders, to pardoning January 6 defendants and threatening the territories of other nations. CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa and presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky discuss the consequential events the world is now witnessing, and how they are testing America's system of checks and balances.

Johnson invites Trump to address joint session of Congress in March

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday invited President Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4.

Democratic lawmakers devising legal obstacles to fight anti-immigration push

California, New York and other states resist by expanding healthcare and education and limiting detention centers

As Donald Trump tightens the nation’s immigration policies, lawmakers in Democrat-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials and help immigrants lacking legal status avoid deportation.

The resistance efforts in California, New York and other states are a counterpoint to the many Republican-led states advancing measures to aid Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, highlighting a national divide.

What is Trump’s game with TikTok? | Lloyd Green

This is what crony capitalism looks like. Trump’s delay contravenes the law Congress passed last spring

The Trump TikTok flip-flop continues as the 47th president has shoved his finger into the eye of Congress. With scant legal authority, he has paused the divestment of the app by ByteDance, its Beijing-based parent. After issuing an executive order on point, the president then held out the possibility that Larry Ellison of Oracle, a Trump-backer, or Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, would scoop-up TikTok.

This is what crony capitalism looks like. Trump’s delay contravenes the law Congress passed last spring, which set a 19 January 2025 divestment deadline. Last week, the US supreme court unanimously held that Congress acted within its constitutional rights to sever the link between TikTok and China.

Is language the key to resolving the WFH v back-to-the-office culture wars? | Emma Beddington

Those who work from home and their office-based colleagues need to understand each other better – and that starts with language. Here’s my new corporate glossary

I note, wearily, that the work culture wars grind on. We are in the midst of yet another push to get staff back in to the office, with Amazon, Morgan Stanley and Asda all desperately trying to stuff the human genie back into its cubicle bottle. Staff at the Office for National Statistics and the Land Registry, among others, have voted to strike to preserve their right to work from home (WFH). Stuart Rose, former CEO of M&S and until November executive chair of Asda, told Panorama that home work isn’t “proper work” and the Mail quotes a “Gen Z CEO” saying he is wrong. Can’t we all just get along?

One possible explanation for the continued conflict is that we have become strangers to each other. Absence made the heart grow more suspicious: our office-based overlords think we WFHers have become an army of side-hustling slackers. We, meanwhile, know them only by their diktats: to us they are as blankly remote and unrelatable as extras in Severance.

Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist

None of us wants to think about death. But pretending it won’t happen may not be the best option

No matter how much we put it off, the bell will toll for each of us. How do we process that eternal human dilemma?

• Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

When I was 16, a good friend of my older brother was killed in a car accident. The vehicle he was driving had slid into a parked truck on a country road. Apparently, there was barely a mark on him, but he had hit his head in the wrong spot, and just like that, his life was extinguished. He was 18.

I remember my mother answering the phone call that conveyed that news and hearing her burst into tears. For about a year afterwards, whenever the phone rang in our house, I felt a surge of anxiety. Death had come near, and I found it profoundly shocking. Years later, and with a decades-old religious faith, I am only partially cured of the discomfort at the thought of death.

Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned

Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey capped a decades-long campaign to restore the reputation of one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th century

In the days before President Joe Biden’s final moments in office, Justin Hansford, a Howard University law professor, received a call from a White House staffer. They told Hansford that Marcus Garvey, the revolutionary Jamaican leader who pushed for the unity of Black people and a collective return to Africa, would soon be posthumously pardoned for mail fraud.

Hansford dialed in Garvey’s son, Dr Julius Garvey, for a three-way call to break the news to him before it hit the newspaper circuit. As he thought of his nearly two decades of legal and advocacy work to help exonerate Garvey, Hansford remembered Garvey’s wife Amy Jacques who began the efforts to pardon him in 1923.

From showers to tiny fish to windmills, Trump’s climate policies are driven by fixations

‘It was striking that the White House memo included toilets and shower heads as a presidential priority,’ said one expert

From crusading against showers he feels don’t sufficiently wash his hair to reversing protections for a small fish he calls “worthless”, Donald Trump’s personal fixations have helped shape his first environmental priorities as US president.

While withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accords and declaring an “energy emergency” were among Trump’s most noteworthy executive orders on his first day in office, both were further down a list of priorities put out by the White House than measures to improve “consumer choice in vehicles, shower heads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers”.

Salt ’n’ pepper chips, hash brown bhaji, hot honey and bacon mash – Poppy O’Toole’s potato recipes

From chef to social-media sensation, the queen of spuds celebrates ‘the glory’ of the humble potato

Potatoes are my heart, so it had to happen,” says Poppy O’Toole, the 31-year-old chef and TikTok superstar once referred to by Nigella Lawson as the “high priestess of the potato”. O’Toole has every reason to be sincere about the humble spud. In November 2020, when she was an out-of-work chef, she made a TikTok video of her “crispy crunchy parmesan roasties”, which quickly got a million views. Since then, she has built up 4.4 million followers on TikTok, 1.1 million on Instagram, and is a regular on TV, whipping up potato dishes on Saturday Kitchen and This Morning. It is only a wonder that it has taken her so long to get around to writing an entire potato-themed cookbook. Next month’s The Potato Book is the fourth in her Poppy Cooks series. “Good things come to those who wait,” she says.

I meet O’Toole for coffee in a cafe in the centre of Birmingham. “You’ll have to excuse me, I’ve got green fingers,” she says. Last night she went to a party dressed as Shrek. She grew up in the West Midlands, lives nearby, and a lot of her training was done here, first under Glynn Purnell at the recently closed Purnell’s, and then under Alex Claridge at the Wilderness. We drool over one of the city’s very best potato dishes, the aloo tuk at Opheem. “Aktar Islam knows how to respect a vegetable,” she says, admiringly. When she was writing The Potato Book, she realised that in all of her previous jobs, she’d been asked to look after the spuds. “They’d be like, ‘Oh yeah, Poppy, do dauphinoise’, or ‘Poppy, do the fondant potatoes’. Maybe I was always meant to be the potato queen.”

Pharma is hopeful about Trump's second term — here's what to expect for drugmakers

Drugmakers hope to see efforts that focus more on cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers while promoting drug innovation and patient access to treatments.

A minister was acquitted of a brutal 1832 murder. A new book revisits the case

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.

Jayden Daniels could make Super Bowl history. Doug Williams says it's about time

Washington Commanders' Daniels could become the first rookie quarterback to play the Super Bowl. Williams, who led the team to a Super Bowl win, says talented Black QBs are finally getting their due.

Australian Open 2025: the best images from women’s and men’s finals – in pictures

As Madison Keys and Jannik Sinner celebrate victory, we take a look at some of the best images from both finals

At least 420,000 still without power in UK and Ireland after Storm Éowyn

Repair efforts hampered by strong winds and rain as Met Office issues new storm-related weather warnings

More than 400,000 properties across the UK and Ireland remain without power after the battering by Storm Éowyn, with repair efforts hampered by continuing strong winds and rain.

In Northern Ireland about 101,000 households and businesses were without power on Sunday while in Scotland the figure was 20,000.

Jannik Sinner beats Alexander Zverev in 3 sets to win second Australian Open in a row

Jannik Sinner claimed his second consecutive Australian Open championship on Sunday, never facing a single break point and using his complete game to outplay and frustrate Alexander Zverev for a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory in the final.

Should Los Angeles be in such a rush to rebuild after the devastating wildfires?

Experts suggest that replicating the conditions that saw neighorhoods burn to the ground may not be the best policy

Gavin Newsom signed a $2.5bn wildfire relief package this week, with the goal of helping Los Angeles “rebuild faster”. Both the California governor and the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, pledged to suspend environmental and other regulations to make rebuilding homes and businesses easier. Donald Trump has reportedly said he wants the city to recover quickly so that the 2028 Olympics, which Los Angeles is hosting, can be “the greatest Games”.

But many environmental and urban planning experts say that Los Angeles should actually be pausing, and taking a moment to consider how and where to safely rebuild communities located in high-risk wildfire zones.

Alex Kapranos: ‘It took me a few years to realise that I didn’t have to drink everything on the rider’

The Franz Ferdinand frontman, and former chef, on songwriting, souffles and celebrating his Greek roots

Alex Kapranos has been a regular at Le Pantruche since he made Paris his most regular home two or three years ago, following his marriage to French singer-songwriter Clara Luciani. The bistro is a 1930s fantasy of a neighbourhood restaurant in Pigalle, set among the guitar shops of the city’s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley or Denmark Street: a dozen tables and a well-stocked bar crowded into a tiny shopfront room; today’s wines by the glass chalked on a board (nothing over €10); a menu that changes according to what seasonal flavours chef Franck Baranger is excited about cooking; casually stylish regulars who all seem to know Martin, waiter and maitre d’, by name.

Kapranos was introduced to the restaurant by the producer of Franz Ferdinand’s new album, who has a studio round the corner. He loves it here for many reasons, he says, but specifically for the everyday miracle of its Grand Marnier souffle. Before he was a rock star, Kapranos was a chef himself, most notably at Glasgow’s outpost of London’s Groucho Club, Saint Judes, so he knows what’s involved. “At Saint Judes, we used to do this thing called an inside-out chocolate pudding,” he says. “When it was perfectly executed, you had this wonderful light crust a bit like a cannoli. And then you would just tap it gently, and the whole thing would collapse in on itself and this gooey, delicious chocolate would ooze out. But to get it right was literally a margin of about 10 seconds of cooking. And if you fucked it up, that meant you had to start again. We didn’t even try souffles – but when they do them perfectly each time here, I’m still just awestruck.”

Meliz Berg’s secret ingredient: dried mint

This distinctive but often overlooked dried herb is brilliant in meatballs, and balances salty cheese or sweet dried fruit

It’s my favourite dried herb. Dried mint, I think, is one of those ingredients, especially in Cypriot cuisine, that has such a distinctive flavour profile, just a teaspoon can immediately change a dish. We use it a lot in cakes and pastries such as pilavuna. This is a Cypriot pastry filled with cheese, but the dried mint offsets that saltiness.

It pairs incredibly well with hellim [halloumi], another quintessential Cypriot ingredient. So if we’re making any kind of pasta dish, there’s no parmesan – instead we use finely grated hellim with dried mint.

Want good luck this year? Try these Lunar New Year traditions from NPR readers

Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs. 

What does the inauguration’s authoritarian-chic fashion tell us? Designers are suddenly eager to dress the Trumps | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The first time round, high fashion shunned the president’s family. Now industry figures are flocking to them

Mussolini once said that “any power whatsoever is destined to fail before fashion. If fashion says skirts are short, you will not succeed in lengthening them, even with the guillotine.” For that reason, far-right authoritarian movements have long attempted to capture the fashion system. We can argue endlessly about whether the new Trump administration can be compared to fascism. I think that it meets most of the key traits identified by Umberto Eco, but others will disagree. Regardless of your stance, it’s fair to say that the women of the Republican party have deployed fashion in ways that send a political message.

Though men especially like to highlight fashion’s supposed vapidity (tell that to Roland Barthes, I always think) it is an art form and a visual language that has much to tell us about the state of the world, and is as worthy of analysis as any other aspect of culture. The rise of the tradwife – and the modest, floral prairie dresses so beloved by these rightwing influencers, which then trickled down to the high street – has mirrored the shift in the US much further to the right. As this new administration inevitably comes to roll back more women’s rights, I wonder how it will be reflected in fashion. Prairie dresses are on the way out, but there are other styles to replace them.

Madison Keys’ mental breakthrough helps her unlock potential at last

Years of personal work have enabled the Australian Open champion to showcase her talent on the biggest stage

“Lots of therapy,” said a delirious, exhausted Madison Keys as she finally appeared at her post-match press conference in the early hours of Sunday morning. Flanked by an enormous trophy on one side and a glass of champagne on the other, the American was still in the early stages of digesting her emotions after finally achieving the dream she had been chasing since she was a child.

After becoming the oldest first-time women’s singles Australian Open champion in history at 29 by defeating the No 1 seed, Aryna Sabalenka, in an incredible three-set battle on Saturday, the question posed to Keys was when and how she had come to the realisation that things needed to change.

Donald Trump says residents of Greenland want to be part of US

President tells reporters he believes US will take control of island, after reports of ‘horrendous’ call with Denmark PM

Donald Trump has said he believes the US will take control of Greenland, after details emerged of a “horrendous” call in which he made economic threats to Denmark, which has said the territory is not for sale.

Speaking onboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said: “I think we’re going to have it,” and claimed that the Arctic island’s 57,000 residents “want to be with us”.

Australian Open final: Jannik Sinner downs Zverev to win third grand slam

• World No 1 wins 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to claim men’s singles title
• Sinner successfully defends trophy he won in 2024

As he worked hard to maintain the momentum he had built in his third grand slam final, there was just one fleeting moment where Jannik Sinner was seriously under pressure. Down 5-6, 30-30 on his serve in the second set, as Alexander Zverev tried desperately to steal the set, the German pounced on a forehand and flitted forward to the net. Sinner responded to the danger by producing one of the most brilliant points of the tournament, chasing down every last shot before slipping a pinpoint backhand winner past his flailing opponent at the net.

It was another demonstration of supreme mental fortitude from an incredible tennis player who continues to establish himself as a potential all-time great. After wresting control of the match again, Sinner closed out a ruthless, efficient performance with a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over Zverev, the second seed, to win his second Australian Open title.

South Korean president indicted for insurrection over martial law decree

Impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeoul could face years in prison after six-hour imposition which set off political upheaval

South Korea’s prosecutors indicted the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on 3 December, the main opposition party said.

The charges are unprecedented for a South Korean president, and if convicted, Yoon could face years in prison for his shock martial law decree, which sought to ban political and parliamentary activity and control the media.

Churches have a long history of being safe havens — for immigrants and others

For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the U.S. government.

‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies

In first week in office, president has made false claims on topics from immigration and economy to Panama canal

Donald Trump had been US president again for less than 15 minutes when he made his first factually dubious claim.

“The vicious, violent and unfair weaponisation of the justice department and our government will end,” he said early in his inaugural address. There is no evidence that former president Joe Biden ordered the justice department to prosecute Trump and no violence took place.

‘A slice of 1970s Babylon restored’: living the office dream at the Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke

With its lush terraces, themed gardens and calm interiors, this trailblazing office building by Arup Architects has been treated to a subtle £32m makeover that still has wellness at its heart

“Wellness” is all the rage at the fancier end of modern office development. Anxious to entice valuable employees away from the comforts of working from home, or from defecting to rivals, companies offer them spas, gyms and views of greenery. Proposals for gigantic office blocks in the City of London now come garnished with shrubs and trees and other forms of urban parsley dozens of storeys up in the air. There’s a related mania for running green stuff up the outside of all kinds of buildings. All too often these plans exist more in the realm of gesture than reality, and come without full consideration as to what it actually takes for plants to flourish some distance from the ground.

The idea of achieving wellbeing through multistorey vegetation is not new. It was put into practice a half-century ago with a building known officially as Gateway House, then Mountbatten House and now Plant, more popularly known as the “Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke”. Designed by Arup Associates and the plantsman James Russell (1920-96), it provides six levels of gardens stepping up a sloping site, arranged so that its interiors would never be far from views of greenery, transporting office workers from the mess of roads and office blocks in which it stands up to a world of lush terraces that seem to flow into the surrounding hills. Created during a time when Basingstoke was a “London overspill” area – a government designation that brought with it a smidgin of the forward-looking ideals of new towns, of providing new lives for escapers from the crowded metropolis – Gateway House was to be a model enlightened workplace for the then-200-year-old paper-making company that commissioned it, Wiggins Teape.

International peacekeepers killed as fighting rages around eastern Congo's key city

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead. M23 has made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling the eastern city of Goma.

Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory

US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel

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Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip, after ordering the US military to restart shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel.

The US president said he wanted Gaza residents to move to neighbouring nations, and that they could be displaced “temporarily or could be long-term”, after a phone call with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Saturday.

Rare manuscript from middle ages that inspired Disney castle to go on display for first time in 40 years

Les Très Riches Heures, a ‘book of hours’ made by artists felled by the Black Death, will be shown in France this summer

A celebrated manuscript from the middle ages that inspired a Walt Disney castle but has been unseen by the public and scholars for more than 40 years will go on display in France this summer.

Pages from Les Très Riches Heures (The Very Rich Hours) – an elaborately decorated prayer book from the 15th century – will be exhibited at the Château de Chantilly, north of Paris, after a costly restoration. It has not been seen, even by historians and academics, since the 1980s.

From gay clubs to Maga anthem: the absurd, contested history of the Village People’s YMCA

A barely recognizable version of the band performed the 1978 classic at Donald Trump’s inauguration, the latest chapter in a strange tale of disco, feuds and showboating

Jim Newman was over it. “Hell no!” Newman, a Village People member for eight years in the 2010s, wrote in a 15 January Instagram post. “Neither myself or any of my band mates will be performing at Trump’s rallies.” Newman had received a slew of texts asking if he would be on stage with the president in the leadup to the inauguration, and he wanted to set the record straight. “Our Village People would never ever perform at a Trump rally; we would never give him the rights to use those songs.”

Donald Trump has been slowly adopting the song as a campaign anthem since 2018, playing it at rallies and dancing on stage to it. It became a favorite at anti-lockdown rallies, DJ Steve Bannon has spun it and Trump helped it hit No 1 decades after its release on Billboard’s dance/electronic sales chart. It all peaked with a performance of the song by a group calling themselves Village People but containing only one original member, the “cop” Victor Willis, at the inauguration ball. The song was co-written in 1978 by Willis and the French songwriting/production duo Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo.

New accents: the company reshaping Brazilian film by showing ‘ordinary’ life

Filmes de Plástico has filled cinemas and won acclaim by focusing on Black characters living in poor urban areas

After arriving late several times at work, a librarian is dismissed from his school. The HR employee tasked with presenting the bad news offers him a lift, their conversation deepens and by the end of the night they discover they have a lot in common – including a shared history of mental health treatment – and end up falling in love.

In The Day I Met You, the scenarios, the characters’ professions and the actors playing the protagonists – Renato Novaes and Grace Passô – challenge the conventions of Brazilian romantic films: two Black actors in their 40s defying the genre’s usual slender body standards.

Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’

As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band

In the video for the Manic Street Preachers’ latest single, Hiding in Plain Sight, we see bassist Nicky Wire getting ready to do his job. He sits in front of a lightbulb mirror, applies glittery eyeshadow, black eyeliner, then stands to add a feather boa, a sailor cap, a jacket covered in badges and home-sewn patches. The other two members of the Manics, guitarist James Dean Bradfield and drummer Sean Moore, along with backing singer Lana McDonagh, guitarist Wayne Murray and keyboardist Nick Nasmyth (who play in the Manics live shows) are playing their instruments. Also, because it’s the Manics, everyone’s reading books: Camus’ The Plague, Cynan Jones’s The Dig, Angharad Price’s The Life of Rebecca Jones. “The mirror is a trap that saves/Or a debt that makes you pay,” sings Wire, surrounded by Polaroids of the band when they were young: skinny, obstreperous, beautiful. “I wanna be in love /With the man I used to be/In a decade I felt free”.

It’s curiously defiant, the video. “Yeah, it’s got a bit of resistance to it,” says Wire. “It’s a warped nostalgia. It’s not pretending I can go back.”

Scores killed in hospital attack in Sudan’s besieged El Fasher, says WHO

About 70 people, including patients, believed to have been killed in attack blamed on rebel Rapid Support Forces

About 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the head of the World Health Organization has said, the latest in a series of attacks as the African nation’s civil war has escalated in recent days.

The attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal hospital was blamed by local officials on the rebel Rapid Support Forces, a group that has recently faced apparent battlefield losses to the Sudanese military and allied forces under the command of army chief Gen Abdel-Fattah Burhan.

Another convicted January 6 US Capitol attacker rejects Trump’s pardon

Jason Riddle says he rejected pardon because ‘it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable’

At least one more person who was convicted in connection with the 2021 US Capitol attack carried out by Donald Trump supporters has rejected a pardon from the president, saying he believed his actions “weren’t pardonable”.

In an interview published Friday by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), US navy veteran Jason Riddle said: “It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable.

Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults

In 2022, around 16% of the 20 million people with cancer worldwide were under 50. Cancer has always been markedly more of an older person’s disease, says Lynn Turner, director of research at Worldwide Cancer Research. But between 1990 and 2019, the incidence of the disease in under-50s rose by 79%, according to research published in the British Medical Journal in 2023. That short timeframe means the rise cannot be explained by genetic factors, according to Tracey Woodruff, director of the University of California, San Francisco’s programme on reproductive health and the environment.

Many of these “early-onset” cases are happening in wealthier countries, says Kathryn Bradbury, senior research fellow at the University of Auckland’s school of population health. The rates are striking because younger populations are mainly non-smokers, says Mary Beth Terry, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. About two-thirds of cancers in under-50s occur in women, she adds.

Did a secret obsession lead a "genius" to murder a Yale grad student?

Kevin Jiang, 26, a Yale graduate student and former Army National Guardsman, was gunned down in New Haven, Connecticut. What appeared to be a road rage incident soon unraveled into a story of obsession and premeditation.

The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

The director’s Adrien Brody-starring tale of a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor building a new future in the US moves him into the big league

Bold, confrontational and oversized in every way imaginable, Brady Corbet’s wildly ambitious three-and-a-half-hour-plus epic The Brutalist represents a near-perfect symbiosis of subject with film-making style. It’s a huge, uncompromising cinematic statement about the creation of a huge, uncompromising architectural statement. It’s a paean to purity of creative vision in the face of petty ignorance and tightened purse strings, of noble personal sacrifice in the name of art. The kinship between the misunderstood modernist architect who finds worlds of both opportunity and pain courtesy of the fickle whims of wealthy American philistines and Corbet, a former US child actor turned independent film-maker, is there for all who choose to see it.

The uncharitable may suggest that there’s a degree of self-lionisation at play in Corbet’s audacious third feature film (his previous pictures were The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux). But even the uncharitable would agree that The Brutalist is a remarkable achievement, the kind of immense and audacious passion project that is usually out of reach to all but a select few celebrated auteurs and veteran directors.

Mardi Gras the Balkan way – alternatives to Venice carnival

In Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, the legacy of Venetian occupation lives on in a series of spectacular carnivals that these days have a local twist

My guide Jovana Markic scoops up a glass of wine from a street table in Kotor old town and raises a toast: “Abrum!” The table is unguarded and not linked to any particular restaurant, but people are happily helping themselves to free vino and food. Jovana says this is normal.

It’s a welcome gesture for visitors coming to Kotor, on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, for the masked Mardi Gras carnival (3-25 February this year). Abrum means welcome in the local dialect and comes from ombra, Venetian for a little glass of wine.

The best new novelists for 2025

Welcome to our annual selection of the year’s finest debut novels. We have a proven track record in picking authors that go on to be loved by readers and win awards … from Douglas Stuart and Sally Rooney to Caleb Azumah Nelson and Bonnie Garmus. Here are 2025’s gems

For the 12th year running, writers and editors on the Observer New Review spent the busy weeks before Christmas immersed in dozens of forthcoming debut novels, seeking out the titles we reckon deserve to be in everyone’s hands over the months ahead. Whatever your taste in fiction, this list gives you a heads-up on the future prize winners, mega-sellers and word-of-mouth hits that change the literary conversation. From Shuggie Bain to Conversations with Friends and The Miniaturist, and from Caleb Azumah Nelson to Bonnie Garmus and Sheena Patel – all found early champions here. Colin Barrett, one of last year’s picks, just won this year’s Nero debut fiction prize, awarded last year to Michael Magee, one of our 2023 picks.

Our search for the year’s best debut novels only ever has one rule: the writers we choose must live in the UK or Ireland. After that, anything goes. The class of 2025 includes authors whose manuscripts were snapped up before they’d left university, and some who didn’t put pen to paper until a later-life left turn. Some are published by independent presses, others by cash-splashing corporates trumpeting the spoils of multiway bidding wars, television rights already in the bag. There are novels on this list that were written at dawn, through lunch breaks, whenever the nine-to-five allowed, and at least one that was written on the cushion of a six-figure advance – a pressure of its own. Several authors here are already well known for their short story collections. Nothing mattered to us but the novels themselves.

The strong showing from writers in Ireland and Northern Ireland makes sense when you hear them talk about the subsidised literary magazines and development agencies that helped them grow. Surprise, surprise: arts funding is transformative. Those kinds of fortifying networks exist in Britain too, yet the mood feels more atomised, less collegiate, not least since the White Review – a magazine that broke many new names – ceased to publish after Arts Council cuts in 2023.

If there’s a theme among this year’s books, it might be care – parent-child relationships recur in a variety of guises – but their style and subject differ as widely as their paths to publication. There’s a dizzyingly transcontinental ecological epic about Hindu nationalism, set everywhere from the Chagos Islands to the Arctic Circle. There’s a spare, slender tale of embattled gay love in 1980s south Wales. There’s a pacy page-turner about escaping coercive control, and a filthy comic romp about an “Islamic State bride” in Iraq (really). And that’s just for starters; we loved every one of these outstanding novels, and we think you will too. Here’s to yet more excellent reading.
Anthony Cummins

A lot of eco fiction is very worthy. My book has car chases!

As a teenager, sex is all-consuming … grotty but still erotic, even romantic – shenanigans in cinemas, shenanigans behind cinemas

How a MIT grad student planned a Yale student's near perfect murder

When Kevin Jiang was killed on Feb. 6, 2021, no one had any idea why he may have been targeted. But detectives would soon discover that someone had a secret plot to kill him.

Will the return of King Maga to the White House mean a Trumpification of British politics | Andrew Rawnsley

Donald Trump poses dilemmas and dangers for the Tories as well as Labour, and presents opportunities to the Lib Dems and Reform

We can list those people who expect to profit from the second coming of Donald Trump. They include the billionaire tech tycoons who were on conspicuous display at his inauguration, the oil companies who will be liberated to “drill, baby drill”, crypto-pushers and, um, Sir Ed Davey.

I don’t know whether you’ve clocked it, and I’m pretty certain that the target won’t have, but there’s been a flurry of Trump-hostile activity by the Lib Dems since he won the US election. Sir Ed describes the American’s return to the White Office as “a dark, dark day for people around the globe”, refers to him as a “dangerous, destructive demagogue” and greeted his oath-swearing as a “threat to peace and prosperity”.

‘We’re mobilising’: Indigenous Australians speak of treaty and independence as change the date and failed voice referendum fade

‘This day we mourn everything that has happened and what is still happening’, says one Wiradjuri man

• Reflection, recollection and resistance: Invasion Day 2025 – in pictures
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The smell of smouldering gum leaves swirls through the air as Wiradjuri man Neenan Simpson blows it towards the thousands that have gathered in Sydney’s Belmore park.

“This day we mourn everything that has happened and what is still happening,” he said, with the smoking mound now sitting at his feet, moving with the wind.

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UK haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough | Anand Menon and Joël Reland

Five years on, it’s unclear how a proposed UK-EU relationship reset would repair damage to the economy

Five years since Brexit, the UK wants to reset the EU relationship. A simple question of sitting down with the EU and negotiating, surely?

Sort of, though not quite. It’s easy to see why a self-professed growth-obsessed government might seek to be closer to the EU. It’s less clear why it’s seeking what it is, or whether achieving any of it will be easy.

‘I sense Brussels is ready to be bold and ambitious’: hope mixes with anger on Brexit’s fifth anniversary

The union jack was lowered in Brussels this week in 2020. Today, despite the problems caused by leaving, a yearning for ‘Breturn’ flowers

Andrew Moss despairs, even now, when he thinks back to the end of January 2020. It was a painful, traumatic time for anyone building an export business in the UK.

On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of ­international concern. The ­following day, the UK finally exited the European Union.

The big picture: a gaggle of visitors gather beneath London’s Shard

Photographer Andy Hall​’s atmospheric new series captures the capital’s eerie financial heart

For the past seven years the Observer photographer Andy Hall has been wandering the City of London with his camera – post-Brexit, through the eerie emptiness of the pandemic and beyond – to document the changing faces of the capital’s former citadel; home to about 8,000 people, daily workplace for about 600,000 more. His pictures, now collected in a fabulous book, The Same for Everyone, examine the atmosphere and soul of the engine of the British economy, with its exposed Roman foundations and its thicket of tabloid-named towers (the Cheesegrater, the Gherkin, the Walkie-Talkie) jostling for head space above the vaults of the Bank of England.

This 2023 image of a gaggle of City visitors with the peak of the Shard behind them conjures some of the airier strangeness of that landscape, in which bright minds spend long days at terminals trying to bend figures in their favour. The group here appear to have come upon this odd civilisation unexpectedly and are in search of bearings and landmarks.

Polls open in Belarus with Lukashenko’s 30-year rule set to be extended

The 70-year-old former collective farm boss has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994

Belarusians began voting on Sunday, with president Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule.

Lukashenko – a 70-year-old former collective farm boss – has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994.

Hydrating face masks: 10 of the best

For brighter, healthy-looking skin a weekly hydrating mask is a winter essential

I have long eschewed the arduous multi-stepped skincare regime that once upon a time promised us our “best skin ever!” This was because very quickly I realised two things: 1) I lacked the commitment to the game, and 2) I discovered that using tons of products all at once is really confusing for the skin – imagine 15 people trying to speak at the same time. Yeah, exactly. Also, using a million and one products – particularly those with active ingredients – won’t necessarily deliver great skin. Instead, it will give you the gift of super-sensitised skin and an annoying catch-22 situation that will have you going around in circles as you constantly battle new skincare issues. I say all this to reiterate that minimising your skincare steps is definitely a good idea. However, certain steps should remain in place – such as face masks, particularly a hydrating mask. Drenching skin with hydration at this time of year is a no-brainer. Especially when they work overnight… Oh the ease! And yet many of us either forget or simply use them in a state of emergency. A great hydrating mask should be used at least once a week. It will plump up skin leaving it looking more healthy, awake and youthful. Your makeup will sit better and your skin won’t retain the same tone as the grey weather.

1. Laneige Cica Sleeping Mask £30, lookfantastic.com
2. Youth To The People Superberry Hydrate + Glow Dream Mask £47, spacenk.com
3. Beauty Pie Triple Hyaluronic Acid Hydra-Glow Sheet Mask £20, beautypie.com
4. REN Evercalm Ultra Comforting Rescue Mask £40, renskincare.co.uk
5. Farmacy Honey Potion Plus Ceramide Hydration Mask £37, sephora.co.uk
6. Dr Jart+ Vital Hydra Solution Hydro Plump Overnight Mask £30, drjart.co.uk
7. Hello Sunday The Recovery One Glow Face Mask £27, hellosundayspf.com
8. Clinique Moisture Surge Overnight Mask £42, boots.com
9. Tata Harper Hydrating Floral Mask £85, tataharperskincare.com
10. Emma Lewisham Supernatural Sleeping Mask £74, emmalewisham.co.uk

Trump's Q&A on Air Force One goes from the plane's color to TikTok and Canada

President Donald Trump popped in to the plane's press cabin while flying from Las Vegas to Florida to share his thoughts since taking office in a 20-minute Q&A with reporters.

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to 'just clean out' Gaza

President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting to "just clean out" the war-torn area.

I’ve lost contact with my mother and feel I’m the family pariah | Ask Philippa

Is there room for a more exploratory – rather than confrontational – dialogue?

The question I grew up as the scapegoat in a toxic family where my mother played her children off against each other. I went no-contact with her a few years ago and keep my interactions with my siblings to a minimum.

I am now the divorced mother of four young adults, all living away from home. I have a male relative who, with his partner, has become close to two of my children. Initially I welcomed this, but it has increasingly come at some cost to me. The relative has been expressing astonishment that a person who is such a mess (me, apparently) could have brought up such wonderful children. By doing that, they are trying to cause a rift between myself and the children. They have also become very friendly with my ex-husband, despite the latter never being interested in cultivating any sort of relationship with them until I ended the marriage.

Rediscovered Munch painting with ‘intriguing mystery’ to go on display in UK for first time

Striking image will be unveiled at National Portrait Gallery in March, as part of a major exhibition of the Norwegian master’s portraits

At first glance, it is a striking portrait by Edvard Munch, painted in 1892, a year before the Norwegian master was to create his most famous masterpiece, The Scream.

But peer closely at the man’s sleeve along the bottom edge and two embracing, ethereal figures in a mysterious moonlit landscape are revealed.

CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

Finding suggests the agency believes totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely, but assigns a low degree of confidence to the conclusion

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released on Saturday that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.

The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns. It was declassified and released on Saturday on the orders of president Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in as director on Thursday.

U.S. farm workforce threatened by Trump's deportation plan

About 42% of U.S. farm workers are undocumented, and Trump's plan to deport millions of migrants could uproot the industry's workforce.

Senate approves Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem has been confirmed as the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Mr Nobody Against Putin review – a teacher fights back in a powerful documentary

Sundance film festival: A primary school teacher in Russia pushes back on cruel nationalist propaganda in a fascinating and daring look at everyday encroachment

Pavel Talankin is, by his own admission early in the extraordinary documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, not the person you or he would pick to be the hero of the story or to take on an oppressive regime. To stand up to Vladimir Putin takes a considerable amount of courage and a not inconsiderable amount of resources; Pasha, as he is known to his students, is a teacher at a small primary school in Karabash, a mining town in the Ural mountains remarkable only for its renowned levels of toxic waste, and would have been more or less content to remain the titular nobody far from Moscow. He loves his hometown, its smokestacks and Soviet buildings, but most of all loves the curiosity and enthusiasm of his students, all filmed by Talankin in his capacity as school videographer.

But Talankin has always cut a bit of a non-conformist streak – he is the one teacher with a Russian democracy flag in his classroom, a safe haven for the school’s punks and artsy weirdos, or anyone with a desire to speak freely. He is openly alarmed, to the extent one can be, when the school begins enacting Vladimir Putin’s new “patriotic education policy” following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He keeps doing his job, filming the new blatantly nationalist curriculum, the lies about the necessity of invasion told as fact, the forced military drills and oaths of loyalty forced on initially bored and apathetic children.

Mr Nobody Against Putin is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution

Trump’s anti-DEI order yanks air force videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female pilots

Official cites review of course curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where new recruits get basic training

Donald Trump’s order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has led the US air force to suspend course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the US military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, a US official said on Saturday.

The famed Black aviators included 450 pilots who fought overseas in segregated units during the second world war. Their success in combat helped pave the way for Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.

How much money is a U.S. president's signature worth?

There's a huge market for signatures of former U.S. presidents like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. Barry Petersen spoke with a collector about the price of American history.

New Alvin Ailey exhibit reveals struggle, strength of legendary choreographer

It has been 35 years since Alvin Ailey, one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century, died of complications from AIDS. The dancer and his work are now being remembers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Jericka Duncan reports.

Trump deportation plan creates uncertainty for undocumented U.S. farm workers

Bird flu, climate change and rising costs are just a few of the issues threatening the U.S. farming industry. Now, President Trump's mass deportation plan could add to the challenges. Nancy Chen spoke with farmers who are voicing their concerns.

Kia recalls 80,000 cars over possible seat belt and air bag issues

Kia has issued a safety recall impacting the Niro, the Niro EV and the Niro plug-in models built between 2023 and 2025. Kia said owners will be notified if they need to make repairs.

Trump during his Los Angeles visit says "You don't need FEMA"

As President Trump visited Los Angeles and met victims who lost their homes in the area's historic wildfires, he suggested that the future of FEMA is uncertain. The damage caused by the Palisades and Eaton fires is now estimated at up to $275 billion. Elise Preston reports.

Trump fires more than a dozen inspectors general, including those he personally appointed

President Trump's firing of inspectors general serving as government watchdogs at multiple agencies has sparked bipartisan backlash. The president didn't give Congress a 30-day heads up or a detailed explanation about the removals, as he's required to do by law. Willie James Inman has the details.

"CBS Weekend News" headlines for Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025

Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Weekend News" with Nancy Chen.

Roman Kemp: ‘Here’s all my faults. Have ’em. Enjoy’

With famous parents, Roman Kemp always knew people would make certain judgments about him – but he never guessed he’d become an advocate for mental health. Here, he talks about radio, tattoos – and the event that changed his life

I apologise if you hear any buzzing,” says Roman Kemp, the 31-year-old radio and television presenter, leaning back in his chair. I’ve done interviews in some strange scenarios, including a sauna (twice), but this is a new one. Kemp, who is in Northern Ireland filming the BBC One quizshow The Finish Line, is video-calling me on his day off from the tattoo parlour. As he holds the phone to his face, an artist is at work inking a portrait of Thierry Henry on to his shin. “On my right leg I want to try to build as many of my favourite footballers of all time,” Kemp explains. “So I started out with original Ronaldo and we’re currently doing Thierry, and then we’ll add from there. So it’s a work in progress but yes, as I’ll show you… Very much happening.”

Kemp spins the camera, just in time to catch the needle tracing his skin. Isn’t that quite painful? “Once you go past a certain amount of tattoos, you earn the right to use numbing cream,” he replies. “When I first started having them, especially some of the bigger ones, a lot of parlours want you to have the full experience. And I just suffered for many hours, and hated it. I’m too much of a wuss to do it any more to myself. I refuse to sit here in pain.”

‘Our job is to be truthful not neutral’: Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and fighting for the truth

Christiane Amanpour has spent four decades as a celebrated journalist and war reporter. With disinformation rampaging through the media, she talks about the threat of technocracy, Donald Trump’s second term – and why facts are more important than ever

Just occasionally, in more than 40 years of reporting the world’s troubles, Christiane Amanpour has forced herself to step away and pause for breath. One of those moments for rebooting came over Christmas and new year, when she took a holiday in South Africa. I met her on the day she got back to work at the CNN offices in London, from which she makes her nightly news programme, and Saturday’s The Amanpour Hour. There is a powerful sense of her team buckling up for the tumultuous year ahead. “What I cover is the international reverberations of what America does in the world and what might be coming back at America,” she says. “The good, the bad and the ugly.”

Amanpour’s choice of holiday destination was, inevitably, not unrelated to the immediate challenges of that role as kickstarted by the second inauguration of President Trump this week in Washington DC. Before that she wanted to holiday somewhere, she suggests, that represented a robust spirit of hope. She had always regretted missing out on perhaps the greatest good news story of our lives: the release of Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison and his subsequent rise to power. “I was covering all the really bad stories, the Rwanda genocide, the Bosnia war,” she says. “And I’ve always felt a little sad I missed that, because I do strongly believe that good things happen in this world. I don’t ever want to only focus on the bad. South Africa is obviously still a huge work in progress, but it was just phenomenal to see it, even as a holiday.”

In Las Vegas, Trump once again pitches no taxes on tips

President Trump's pitch to stop taxing tips is popular with everyone -- except for economists.

Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city

Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Sunday

Large numbers of troops from Rwanda have been pouring across the border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help rebels seize the regional capital of Goma before an emergency UN meeting about the crisis takes place on Sunday, intelligence officials have warned.

Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) soldiers are believed to have secretly crossed into the eastern DRC over the past few days to assist a lightning offensive by the M23 militia.

Exclusive: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok

The aim is to place oversight control in the hands of American software company Oracle and other investors. Under federal law, TikTok must split apart from China, or face a nationwide ban.

Tuskegee Airmen lesson removed from U.S. Air Force curriculum, memo says

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

Trump suspends some funding for refugee resettlement groups, memo says

Resettlement agencies were told on Friday some of their federal funding awards were "immediately suspended."

Manchester City’s big guns ride to rescue after Khusanov’s nightmare start

Debutant’s error handed Chelsea the lead but he was bailed out by the performances of more experienced teammates

It took fewer than six minutes of Abdukodir Khusanov’s debut for the £33.8m centre-back to be given a round of sarcastic applause for making a successful five-yard backpass to Ederson. Needless to say, things had not started well for the 20-year-old Uzbekistan defender.

Without trying to offend the good people at Belarusian club Energetik‑BGU and Lens, stepping into the spotlight of Manchester City against a Chelsea team with Champions League ambitions was always going to be a tricky first assignment for someone who had been in the country less than a week.

CIA believes Covid-19 likely caused by lab leak, NBC News reports

"CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible."

Good Ange is now Bad Postecoglou and caught in the Premier League doom spiral | Jonathan Wilson

Irritable and resentful, the Spurs manager is not unique in being unnerved by a remorseless league where every game is a test

Long before he began experimenting with the mind-expanding potential of psychedelic mushrooms, Timothy Leary was a psychologist. In 1957, he came up with the interpersonal behaviour circumplex, which sought to represent personality using two dimensions: power and love. While relationships on the power axis were oppositional – that is, dominance inspires submission and vice versa – on the love axis they are reflexive: hostility inspires hostility and cooperation inspires cooperation.

This was subsequently developed by Emily and Laurence Alison at the University of Liverpool. In their 2020 book Rapport, they use animals to express the four basic characteristics: a lion for control, a mouse for capitulation, a T-Rex for assertiveness and a monkey for cooperation. None of these are intrinsically good or bad: the lion could be inspiring and supportive, but he could also be patronising or dictatorial. And nor are many people represented by a single animal.

Trump's first week in office: Crypto industry cheers executive order, task force

The president's executive order on digital assets and the SEC's crypto task force could set off a flurry of changes for crypto operations in the U.S.

Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as defense secretary; Vance casts tiebreaking vote

Pete Hegseth's nomination once appeared on shaky ground amid allegations that included sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement.

Exclusive discounts from CBS Mornings Deals

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Tilak Varma denies England as India edge to dramatic victory in second T20

• England 165-9; India 166-8 – India win by two wickets
• Tilak’s unbeaten 72 proves vital in nail-biting chase

This was a night of push and pull in Chennai, a match undecided until the final hit, the 20-over game at its best, initially belonging to Brydon Carse but ending with the roar of Tilak Varma. The India No 3 was both responsible and electric in a chase of 166, an unbeaten 55-ball 72 providing his side with a 2-0 lead in this five-match series with England.

Carse excelled, his 17-ball 31 followed by three crowd-silencing wickets. With India requiring 40 from 30, but with three wickets in hand, the match was turning towards the visitors. With Jofra Archer’s heat to take in once again, Varma had much to do.

Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures

For 10 days in the summer, the forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture are lit up by himebotaru, a type of firefly endemic to the region. Photographer Kazuaki Koseki has attempted to capture the phenomenon in his Summer Faeries series, compiled over a period of eight years. “The spectacle of fireflies flying through the summer forest is like the twinkling of a starry sky,” says Koseki. “That sight is fantastic enough to forget the awe of the night forest.” In recent years, the fireflies’ habitat has been increasingly endangered by deforestation and the tourism industry. “The unpredictability of the fireflies’ trails of light highlights the urgency of our planet’s climate crisis, while at the same time holding a strong and enduring hope for the future.”

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Slovakian PM rejects calls to quit as tension grows over shift towards Russia

The latest protests come after private meeting between Robert Fico and Vladimir Putin in December

The Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, has rejected calls for his resignation after tens of thousands demonstrated against his government’s policy shift closer to Russia.

About 60,000 people protested in the capital, Bratislava, on Friday and approximately 100,000 turned out for rallies in cities across the country, the largest demonstrations since Fico returned to power in 2023.

New home design might be key to limiting winter power outages

Power outages related to winter weather are happening twice as often as they did decades ago. It's partly because storms are becoming more intense, but also because of an aging power grid. One solution: Designing homes that can power not only themselves, but their communities.

Los Angeles family says they will rebuild medical practice that served neighborhood for decades

On a visit to Los Angeles, Michelle Miller reconnected with a family who built a medical practice that served residents in Altadena, devastated by the Eaton Fire, and neighboring Pasadena for over 50 years. The business is destroyed, but the family is still looking toward the future.

The Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story

A gripping play in London’s West End tells how agreement of the first climate protocol in 1997 was a triumph, as scientists share new warnings about the scale of the crisis

As material for a West End show, the backroom machinations of an international climate conference sound unpromising.

Pedantry, boredom and delegates fighting over the wording of treaty clauses do not sound like the stuff of high drama. Nevertheless, Kyoto, a Royal Shakespeare Company production by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson now playing at Soho Place in London, has been widely praised by critics and rapturously received at its opening this month.

The ‘house next door’: Rudolf Höss's villa opens to honour Auschwitz victims

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, House 88 with its chilling past has been turned into centre to combat hate

The villa where Rudolf Höss and his family lived stood immediately next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The garden wall of the villa was the wall of the camp.

At Christmas time, they put up a tree in the living room and festooned it with ornaments and candles. In the garden, there was a pond, a sandpit, a slide, several picnic benches and a greenhouse with exotic plants. At night, Höss tucked his sons and daughters into bed and said: “Schlaf schön meine Kinder” – sleep well my children.

Alabama woman becomes longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant

Towana Looney of Alabama has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant.

New giant pandas from China make U.S. debut

Two new giant pandas from China made their debut in Washington D.C.'s National Zoo on Friday. The bears arrived in the nation's capital in October, but spent several months acclimating before being introduced to crowds. It's the latest in the "panda diplomacy" between China and the U.S.

Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down

Lab-grown rocks and fewer weddings have put a huge dampener on the market. On the bright side, a big dazzler is now affordable for many

Diamonds are woven through the tapestry of human history. The ancient Greeks were enthralled by their remarkable hardness. The Koh-i-Noor alone has been at the centre of invasions, murder, superstition and larceny. Millions of marriages have been launched using diamonds as the symbol of their everlasting lustre.

So the idea that diamonds might somehow lose their value seems unnatural. And yet prices are falling fast and show no signs of stopping. Natural diamonds cost 26% less in shops than two years ago, a drop during a time of high inflation that would be extraordinary were it not dwarfed by the poor fortune of their identical twins, lab-grown diamonds, which are now 74% cheaper than in 2020.

Trump visits North Carolina, California disaster zones; talks about dismantling FEMA

President Donald Trump toured disaster zones in North Carolina and California in his first official trip since retaking the White House. During the visits, Trump said he was considering dismantling FEMA and shifting disaster management responsibilities to the state.

Paul McCartney says he fears AI will rip off artists, cause control hurdles

Paul McCartney told the BBC that would make it harder for artists to retain control of their work and undermine Britain's creative industries.

Why this China-made BYD Shark pickup is drawing attention in the global truck market

BYD has not announced plans to sell the Shark in the U.S., but it has entered countries such as Mexico, where GM, Ford and Toyota sell pickup trucks.

Kia recalling 80,000 vehicles over improper air bag deployment

The affected vehicles are the Kia Niro from 2023-2025, Niro EV from 2023-2025 and the Niro plug-in hybrid from 2023-2025.