With a hot tamale trail and the world catfish festival, Mississippi has a culinary scene unlike any other in the States a Yvette Cook travels the Delta region to try some of the greatest soul food dishes and hear the stories that inspired them

Chief executive Thomas Woldbye will give evidence to the Transport Select Committee

New rules aim to curb unruly tourist behaviour as Bali governor enforces strict guidelines

The trio spent a along, cold, dark, wet nighta on the lake before being spotted by a Good Samaritan

Plane Talk: Diverting a plane triggers a multitude of issues

While the protests have been largely peaceful, some violence has broken out between police and demonstrators

The Caribbean-bound flight made a U-turn after a passengeras phone went missing

Passengers onboard Cunardas Queen Anne were told to stay vigilant as they passed through the Sulu-Celebes Sea in the Philippines

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

Study can inform health policy guidelines, researchers say

Fewer trips to the hairdresser is leading to a new colour trend

TV star married partner Jeff Arcuri in a last-minute intimate wedding on the weekend

aItas obviously not a secret,a said the influencer

Unusual beverage demand was made public in 2023

aTheyare fully aware that itas not going to be given to them,a said aSort Your Life Outa presenter

Many of us are concerned about the time we spend on our phones. Hereas how to cut back

The death of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love has brought renewed attention to an aggressive form of brain cancer

Fans assumed a video Paltrow posted was a dig at Markleas Netflix show

TV chef Jeremy Pang grew up on Cantonese food and spent summers eating his way around Hong Kong. As his new show aHong Kong Kitchena lands, he tells Lauren Taylor why the cityas flavours are more familiar than you think, how to master a perfect stir-fry and why dumplings are easier to make than youad expect

Can the man who holds the Guinness World Record for fastest window cleaning a 9.14 seconds! a hold his title? Ralph Jones ventures into the strange and brilliant world of super-fast squeegee-ing

Ever found yourself fumbling around mid-stir-fry, unsure what goes in next? TV chef Jeremy Pang has a simple trick to keep things in order a and shares a speedy noodle recipe to put it to the test

TV chef Jeremy Pang explains how British condiments found their way into Cantonese cooking a and shares his recipe for crispy, tangy pork chops

Sliders, burgers, baos a call them what you like, but these pillowy buns stuffed with sticky, glazed short rib are a street food essential. TV chef Jeremy Pang shares the secret to getting them just right

The aEuphoriaa star has been dating producer Jonathan Davino since 2018

The 31-year-old actor stars in the third season of the hit HBO drama

The First Lady of the United States wore the dress designed by John Galliano to marry Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida

Ashton Hallas unconventional and in-depth morning routine vlogs have sparked a frenzy of parodies and memes

Passengers onboard Cunardas Queen Anne were told to stay vigilant as they passed through the Sulu-Celebes Sea in the Philippines

Hollywood stars were married from 2005 to 2018 and share three children

aHomophobia is alive and well,a actor said

aI thought, no, no, no, no. Our audience are nice people and, they deserve better than this,a presenter recalled

aThe conversation that itas sparked has just blown my mind,a says Philip Barantini

Badu is the latest celebrity to voice her opposition to Elon Musk

aA lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations,a actor says

Live action remake has been subject to controversy in build up to release

New campaign launches as Ed Sheeran calls for urgent government funding of music education in the UK

aThatas why theyare so successfula said the 26-year-old actor

The role was famously played by Robbie Coltrane in the Harry Potter films

This yearas finalists explore diverse themes including challenging power, celebrating nature, and the magic of organ transplants

Longest-ever episode of the beloved Australian childrenas series now has a UK home

The 63-year-old says heas anot trying to compete with 25-year-old leading mena

A star-studded cast and a strangely relatable lead make for a treat in this self-aware Hollywood parody

aIt was disgusting,a breakout child actor recalls of acclaimed instalment

There are two key reasons not to continue the story, he says

Show has become the subject of a national conversation on the influence of the internet on young children

Hit reality show spinoff is set to air later this year

Showrunner highlighted the subtle nod on social media

Former Channel 4 drama head Caroline Hollick said intimacy coordinators aempowera actors

Rowling has previously hit out at the actor on X/Twitter over his support for trans rights

Most of the original cast are returning but a new actor will fill one key family role

Keir Starmer will face Kemi Badenoch at PMQs before the chancellor delivers her spring statement

John Healey, the defence secretary, has been doing an interview round this morning because overnight the Treasury briefed journalists that Rachel Reeves will announce an extra APS2.2bn in defence spending from April in the spring statement. (Presumably that was the story the Treasury press office were hoping would be leading the news bulletins this morning, not the new benefit cuts).

In its news release, the Treasury said:

The chancellor will announce a further APS2.2bn funding increase for defence from April, as she warns that Britain has to amove quickly in a changing worlda.

The funding will be invested in advanced technologies so that Britainas armed forces have the tools they need to compete and win in modern warfare. This includes guaranteeing the investment to fit Royal Navy ships with Directed Energy Weapons by 2027. These weapons can hit a APS1 coin from 1km away and take down drones at a distance of 5km.

In February, the prime minister set out the governmentas commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027 and an ambition to spend 3% of GDP on defence in the next parliament as economic and fiscal conditions allow.

That was the right decision in a more insecure world, putting an extra APS6.4bn into the defence budget by 2027.

Bigger-than-forecast decline in annual rate in February is positive news for chancellor in run-up to Commons address

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UK inflation has fallen back by more than forecast, to 2.8%, providing some positive news for Rachel Reeves before she makes her spring statement.

The Office for National Statistics said annual inflation as measured by the consumer prices index cooled last month, resuming a downward trajectory after an increase to 3% in January from 2.5% in December.

The chancellor will address MPs on Wednesday, warning of tough spending cuts amid rising government borrowing costs

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Rachel Reeves will give her spring statement on Wednesday, with a warning that spending cuts are required because athe world has changeda amid rising government borrowing costs.

After announcing deep cuts to welfare, provoking a fierce backlash within her party, the chancellor will present updated forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the outlook for the economy and government finances.

Trump adviser says he canat explain how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldbergas number was included in the group chat

Donald Trumpas national security adviser, Michael Waltz, said on Tuesday he takes afull responsibilitya for the group chat of senior administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist and leaked highly sensitive information about planned airstrikes in Yemen.

Waltzas comments came one day after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he was added to a group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other high-profile figures discussing aoperational detailsa of planned attacks on the Houthis in Yemen.

Kremlin stipulates maritime ceasefire will start only if it gets sanctions relief on agricultural exports

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to aeliminate the use of forcea in the Black Sea after parallel talks with US negotiators in Saudi Arabia, though the Kremlin said a maritime ceasefire would start only if it received sanctions relief on agricultural exports.

Donald Trump said that the US was reviewing the Russian conditions after the Kremlin insisted it had negotiated concessions with the White House that would mark the first major recision of sanctions since the full-scale invasion of 2022.

OfS inquiry concludes into case of Prof Kathleen Stock, who was targeted over views on trans rights and gender issues

Englandas university regulator has been accused of aperpetuating the culture warsa after fining the University of Sussex a record APS585,000 at the conclusion of an investigation into freedom of speech on campus.

It marks the end of a three-and-a-half year investigation into the universityas handling of the case of Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor who resigned after being targeted by protests over her views on gender identification and transgender rights.

US vice-president says he wants to acheck outa security as Denmark welcomes move to rule out some sites after protests from Greenlandic leaders

Russia launched an overnight drone attack on the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv, which provides the country with access to the Black Sea, and struck Kryvyi Rih in what Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday was the waras biggest drone attack on the city, Reuters reported.

The attack came just hours after the US said it reached agreements with Russia and Ukraine to aeliminate the use of forcea in Black Sea, although it wasnat clear if it came into force immediately after Russia appeared to put forward conditions on the arrangement.

Demonstrators in Beit Lahia called for an end to the war with Israel, shouting aHamas outa, amid the IDFas intense bombing campaign

An Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was attacked by Jewish settlers and detained by Israeli forces has been released from detention.

Hamdan Ballal and two other Palestinians left a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, where they were being held on Tuesday. Ballal had bruises on his face and blood on his clothes.

After the assault, Hamdan was handcuffed and blindfolded all night in an army base while two soldiers beat him up on the floor, his lawyer Leah Tsemel said after speaking with him just now.aa

Public accounts committee also flags apersistent digital skills shortagesa and uncompetitive civil service pay rates

The governmentas ambition to boost efficiency by embedding AI in all aspects of its work risks being undermined by out-of-date technology, poor quality data and a lack of skilled staff, an influential Commons committee has warned.

The report by the cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) found that more than 20 government IT systems identified as alegacya, meaning out of date and unsupported, have yet to be given funding to improve them.

Researchers say findings achallenge mytha about monogamy while also showing no significant gap in sexual satisfaction

Non-monogamous people are just as happy in their love lives as those with only one partner but are not asignificantlya more sexually satisfied than traditional couples, research suggests.

Polyamory, open relationships and swinging are among the many forms of consensual non-monogamy. Polyamory has become increasingly mainstream, with a recent poll showing that one in 25 Britons have experienced it. A further one in 14 said they would be open to exploring it.

Pet escaped from her pen when her owners were holidaying on Kangaroo Island, which is famous for its native wildlife

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A miniature dachshund that went missing 16 months ago on Kangaroo Island in South Australia has been spotted alive and well a but continues to evade a team of volunteer searchers and wildlife experts who say they are aamazeda the dog survived for so long in the wild.

Valerie weighed less than 4kg, had a pink collar and awould never leave [the] sidea of her owner, Georgia Gardner, before she went missing in November 2023.

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Residents say they are still ashocked and horrifieda after farm animals shot dead in East Hatley

The last time Mick Marshall can recall a crime happening in Hatley, John Major was still the prime minister. aWe got broken into in 1996 and thatas it. That was a long time ago,a he said.

The 81-year-old runs the Hatley Shop and Post Office with his wife, a quaint little shop shrouded in green shrubbery. The Cambridgeshire village, which is hidden up a long country road lined with small farms, is so quiet that some days Marshall nary serves a soul. aSometimes we donat have any customers, sometimes itas two or three,a he said.

News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networks

At the same time as the sound of clanging pots and pans rang out through the streets of opposition strongholds in Istanbul on a recent evening, marking another mass anti-government demonstration, a different reality was being broadcast to viewers of Turkish pro-government channels.

Public television showed the president, Recep Tayyip ErdoAan, speaking to a gilded conference room after an iftar dinner. He boasted of his governmentas achievements, of hiring new teachers and attracting youth to an aerospace and technology conference.

Signal chat including the top editor of the Atlantic causes White House chaos. Hereas your roundup of key US politics stories from 25 March 2025

Donald Trumpas national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said he took full responsibility for a stunning leak of military plans in a Signal chat, while Trump intervened to defend him, saying it was athe only glitch in two monthsa.

aI take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated,a Waltz said in an interview with Fox News, in which he conceded: aitas embarrassinga.

Resentment is natural when youave been wronged, but over time it can become bitter and self-defeating. Psychologists explain how to move on

At some point in the late 70s, during a Brownies meeting, something happened to Deborah that she has never been able to forget. Well, she canat actually remember exactly what the incident was, but she knows the perpetrator a another girl, who still lives in her town. aI think she might have pushed me,a says Deborah. aI think she might have said something mean to me.a Whatever it was, she has held a adeep grudge against her for 46 yearsa.

It affected her deeply at the time. Deborah (not her real name) had been bullied at school, but says she doesnat hold grudges against those people. Brownies was different a it was supposed to be a safe, happy place, and this girl ruined it for her. It hasnat had a huge impact on her life, but the grudge a and the negative association a seeps into her mind every time she spots the woman. aIt happens quite a lot.a She might bump into her in a shop or drive past her. aSheas always been a shadow in my life.a

An unimpeachably brilliant cast, plus astonishing guest stars (Efron! Theron! Scorsese!) create wonderful chaos in this tale of a movie studio executiveas calamitous attempts to climb the greasy pole

The war between art and commerce is an ancient and bloody one. The chair of Continental Studios, Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston) is keen to deliver a decisive blow with the hammer of his newly acquired IP. Because aif Warner Bros can make a billion dollars off the plastic tits of a pussyless doll, we should be able to make TWO billion off the legacy brand of Kool-Aid.a He has just fired his long-serving studio head, Patty Leigh (Catherine OaHara), for her preference for art and is on the verge of promoting studio executive Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) to the big job. Whatas a guy a even if he is a devoted cinephile who dreams of adding his contribution to the illustrious roll call of meaningful movies, even if Patty has been his friend and mentor for years a to do? He kisses the ring, takes the job and grabs the Kool-Aid man by the hand. And with that we are off to the races for 10 fast, furious and farcical episodes of Rogenas new Hollywood satire The Studio, created with his partner since their Superbad-minting days, Evan Goldberg.

Can Matt make a Kool-Aid movie that satisfies his inner cineaste and the gaping studio money maw? Why, it certainly seems so when Martin Scorsese (played, inimitably, by Martin Scorsese) turns out to have a script about just that subject! Well, indirectly about just that subject. Actually about the Jonestown massacre, whose 918 victims are supposed to have killed themselves by drinking a| yes, you guessed it! And starring Steve Buscemi as Jim Jones. This is going to work out great.

At a party, a man looked my child up and down in admiration, before praising her looks. I saw her visibly shrink. So I taught her the value of bad manners

My daughter is beautiful. At least, Iave always thought so and, like many mothers of babies and toddlers, I enjoyed the recognition of her gorgeousness from others. aIsnat she cute?a aHer eyes are so pretty!a aWow, what lovely thick hair!a

There are, of course, many other wonderful things about my youngest a her voracious appetite for books and wicked comic timing for a start a but, as she morphed from baby to toddler to young lady, I noticed how strangers commented on her looks much more than they did with my son.

Bad Manners by Amy Beashel is published on 27 March (HarperNorth, APS16.99). To support the Guardian and the Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

Wallace Collection, London
Artworks abya Perryas new alter ego a an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith a sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more straightforward

Grayson Perry is fascinated by outsiders a outcasts, nonconformists, the marginalised and the deviant. He has frequently assumed the outsider position, delivering commentary on class, gender and Britonsa petty snobberies. Across his career, he has pronounced on how his medium of choice (ceramics), his crossdressing, or his engagement with popular culture have excited the disapproval of cliques including the art world. Now, as a member of the Royal Academy, a knight of the realm and a ubiquitous presence on TV, that anti-establishment stance is under some strain. He shall hereafter be referred to as Sir Grayson, to keep him in his (elevated) place.

Delusions of Grandeur is a classic Graysonian bluff a a title that carries its own takedown (who does he think he is?). Though it is a bluff of a distinctly wanting-to-own-Gailas-and-eat-the-chocolate-babkas-too variety. This exhibition coincides with his 65th birthday, and the Wallace Collection is hung with banner photographs of the artist, glamorous in sheeny tights and a vast bouffant. If nothing else, Sir Grayson is happy to play along with someone elseas belief that he is worth celebrating on a grand scale.

What looks like an example of cloning is explained by a typo in an insureras claims reference number

Last summer I took my old Kia to a branch of the car broker webuyanycar to sell, only to discover that its database showed a car with my registration number had been awritten offa and an insurance claim paid out.

This came as a shock. I have not been in an accident nor made any claims. I called up my insurer, which confirmed there was nothing on its records, and it told me to call the policy underwriter.

Initially the underwriter said it had no record of a claim either. However, after it consulted a national database, it could see that in February 2024 one had been paid out on my car.

It gave me the insureras name a 1st Central a and the claim number. However, when I called up, the company told me it had never insured a car with that registration and did not have any record of the claim.

A group of strangers gather in a big fancy house and one has a big secret they must protect at all costs. Sure, this US gameshow is derivative, but itas also utterly gripping and hysterical. Welcome to your new obsession

Sometimes, the best way to describe a new competition series is to triangulate it between a couple of shows that already exist. So Fame Academy was The X Factor meets Big Brother, and The Great British Sewing Bee is Bake Off meets Project Runway.

However, this is impossible to do with Netflixas new competition series, Million Dollar Secret. Thatas not because it is so fiercely original that it defies comparison. No, it is because Million Dollar Secret is The Traitors. It is transparently, baldly, shamelessly The Traitors. Million Dollar Secret feels like the result of a careful scientific procedure designed to make something as identical to The Traitors as humanly possible, while remaining just legally distinct enough to prevent it from being sued into oblivion by All3Media.

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it

aThe first thing to say is that Iam a terrible swimmer,a says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were ahorrible, traumatica a the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resortas huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. aThis sounds quite pretentious, but itas this idea of becoming one with the horizon,a says Butchart. aItas almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when youare immersed in water. Itas transformational.a

Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britainas lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Mermaidcore trend which has been all over TikTok in recent years. Among the 200 exhibits are the first Olympic solo swimming gold medal won by a British woman, a selection of menas Speedos from the 1980s and the iconic red swimsuit worn by Pamela Anderson in Baywatch. Though the exhibition tells the story of swimming through the lens of design and fashion, Butchart was keen to avoid the kitschy stereotypes of abathing beautiesa that often accompany the theme, and to take a deeper dive into the politics of the swimming pool.

aItas transformational.a Amber Butchart photographed at the Walpole Bay Tidal Pool in Margate. Photograph: Alun Callender

Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotechas Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap

When Yaw Bediako lost his father to liver cancer, it set the Ghanaian immunologist on a journey to know more about the disease. He quickly realised the burden of cancer in Africa was much greater than he had thought a accounting for about 700,000 deaths every year a and that very few scientific papers about the disease on the continent were available.

aI realised that cancer is this huge disease in Africa that doesnat really get much research attention,a he says. aBut itas not just an African problem, itas global a| It stands out as a problem that does not distinguish between geographies or socioeconomic class.a

Itas Groundhog Day: the party may change but even under Labour, the script remains stubbornly the same

It is time to resuscitate Margaret Thatcheras catchphrase: aThere is no alternative.a With a twist, of course. Back then, aTinaa was deployed in favour of an economic model that gave us badly distributed low growth, shambolic rip-off privatised utilities, a housing crisis and social insecurity. It is now devastatingly clear that there is no alternative to discarding this failed experiment.

Yet this week, our supposedly Labour chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will take a scalpel to departmental budgets already devastated by 15 years of austerity. Our government has robbed most pensioners of the winter fuel payment, and announced APS5bn worth of cuts to disability benefits, which strip support from citizens unable to independently clothe themselves, or who need an aide to use the toilet. By the time of the next election, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, all households will have suffered a fall in living standards, but the poorest will be clobbered twice as hard. This, under the rule of a party founded to represent the interests of ordinary people.

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

The fighter wonat be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the countryas politics by endorsing him

Middle Ireland feels grievously insulted by the US president. On St Patrickas Day, when the globe traditionally turns green, Donald Trumpas official guest at the White House was not the taoiseach bearing a bowl of shamrock, but an unelected stooge recently found by a civil court jury liable for the rape of a woman in a Dublin hotel. Fear and loathing of the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who is facing civil trial in the US for alleged sexual assault of another woman in Florida, is one of middle Irelandas most unifying forces.

aWe couldnat think of a better guest to have with us on St Patrickas Day,a gushed Trumpas press secretary Karoline Leavitt on 17 March, rubbing salt in the wound. McGregor was given access to the Pentagon, met the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz. In the Oval Office, McGregor and his family posed for photographs with the US president, a man also found liable for sexual assault. Prominent in the photographs was Elon Musk, the worldas richest individual and Trumpas unelected jobs slasher. McGregor presented Musk with a box of his own brand cigars. Four days later, the Dubliner, self-styled athe notoriousa, announced he intends to contest the Irish presidential election later this year.

Justine McCarthy is a journalist, author and an Irish Times columnist

The youthful energy of street protest is breathing life back into failing progressive parties a and itas a model that could be applied everywhere

• Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and political commentator

After 22 years of power grabs, the seizure of all state institutions and severe oppression aimed at reshaping Turkish citizens into Islamofascist minions, Turkey is striking back against President Recep Tayyip ErdoAanas authoritarianism. In cities across the country, including the regimeas strongholds, protests have been ongoing for the past week.

Istanbul mayor Ekrem AdegmamoAluas detention on bogus corruption charges this week galvanised the people; within days, the protests evolved into something bigger a a national riot demanding democracy, dignity and freedom. The protests reminded many of the Gezi uprising of 2013, yet this time the young people who we thought had lost all hope for the future under ErdoAan and during the severe economic crisis took to the streets, risking limitless police violence by attending public gatherings which are now banned.

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and political commentator, and author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

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Jordan Henderson is a great English leader. But he has been encouraged and applauded for the very same acts for which minority ethnic players are castigated and stigmatised

How shall I lead thee? Let me count the ways. I lead thee by stepping up and being vocal, around the dressing room, setting standards in training. I lead thee quietly by example, you know, the not-much-of-a-shouteraand-a-screamer-but-when-he-speaks-people-listen kind. I lead thee by having been there, done that, won�everything in the game. I lead thee by never backing down from a challenge. I lead thee by sheer gravitas.

By any of these measures, Jordan Henderson is a leader. He was a leader for Liverpool, raising standards and setting the tone for 12 golden years. He was a leader for the NHS and the LGBTQ+ community off the field. He was still a leader when he left Liverpool and moved to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to create a in his words a apositive changea in the country for his beloved LGBTQ+ constituents.

• Alvarez, FernA!ndez, Mac Allister and Simeone on target in 4-1 win
• Argentina the first South American team to secure qualification

Brazil were humiliated 4-1 by bitter rivals Argentina in South American World Cup qualifiers as the pressure mounted on manager Dorival JAonior after his side were comprehensively outplayed and fortunate not to lose by more.

After edging Colombia 2-1 at home on Thursday, Brazil came crashing back to earth against the world champions, who started the rout with a close-range strike by JuliA!n Alvarez four minutes after kick-off.

Arsenalas Spanish forward on fighting to win support for womenas football, leaving a successful Barcelona team and the stress of winning the World Cup

When Mariona Caldentey was a student, reading sports science at university, she could see the Camp Nou scoreboard from her bedroom window on the top floor of 63 Travessera de les Corts. On the nights when she and her flatmates didnat stroll across to the stadium, they would hear goals before they saw them on TV. They played too, becoming league champions, but never imagined themselves over there. aOur reality was Astroturf pitches with no stands,a she recalls.

Yet in April 2022, eight years on, 91,648 people came to watch them, breaking Barcelonaas own world record set a fortnight before. aIt all happened so quick; one day weall realise what we achieved, all we did for change to come,a she says.

Plus: managers sacked just before cup finals, and teams with goal differences higher than their league position

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aUzbekistan are playing Kyrgyzstan in a World Cup qualifier this Thursday,a notes Ben Jones. aIs this fixture the highest combined Scrabble score for a pair of Fifa nations? Bosnia and Herzegovina might have something to say, but Iam looking for a combined score from two teams who have actually played each other.a

Uzbekistan (25 Scrabble points) beat Kyrgyzstan (30) 1-0 to close in on a first-ever World Cup qualification a and Benas question inspired a flurry of tile-totting emails. Before we dive in, some ground rules. To try and keep things relatively simple, weall stick with the country names in English that are used by Fifa. So no long official names e.g. aKingdom of a|a a and weare using the English language Scrabble scoring system.

Iran v Laos (last played in 2004) is the lowest Scrabble score for an international fixture, notes Andrew Hastie.

Pete Tomlin suggests Venezuela v Brazil (38pts) as South Americaas highest-scoring fixture, and New Zealand v Papua New Guinea (45pts) for Oceania.

Chris Roe adds that in English football, Sheffield Wednesday v Wolverhampton Wanderers is worth 75 points, opening a whole new can of worms.

A 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple is among buildings destroyed after dry and windy weather saw mostly contained blazes spread again

Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Koreaas worst ever are ravaging southern regions, killing 18 people, destroying more than 200 structures and forcing 27,000 people to evacuate, officials said on Wednesday.

Han Duck-soo, South Koreaas prime minister and acting president, said five days of fires had caused aunprecedented damagea and asked agencies tackling the disaster to aassume the worst-case scenario and respond accordinglya, according to Yonhap news agency.

People living near Kasungu national park say they are living in fear after translocation of 263 elephants by International Fund for Animal Welfare

People living on the edge of a protected area in Malawi are taking legal action against an NGO that moved more than 250 elephants into the area, which they say have killed at least 10 people.

Villagers near Kasungu national park, which is Malawias second largest and crosses the Zambian border, say they are living in fear for their livelihoods and safety after 263 elephants were introduced in July 2022, causing a sharp spike in human-wildlife conflict. Ten people claiming to be affected by the translocation from Liwonde national park have begun legal action against the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw), demanding that the conservation NGO construct adequate fencing to protect the 167 villages around the park and compensate local people for the damage caused by the elephants.

Award-winning film set in fictional town has already made its debut at Cannes but censors have refused to approve it for domestic release

Indian film censors have blocked the release of critically acclaimed film Santosh over concerns about its portrayal of misogyny, Islamophobia and violence in the Indian police force.

Santosh, written and directed by British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri, is set in north India and has won international plaudits for its portrayal of a young widow who joins the police force and investigates the murder of a young Dalit girl.

Santosh is currently on release in UK cinemas

Expeditions may be more challenging than previously thought due to presence of toxic particles

From a distance Mars looks beautiful, but sending astronauts to explore the planet might be more challenging than first thought, due to the presence of toxic dust. A new study identifies some of the health hazards and discusses the kind of personal protective equipment that astronauts might need.

During Apollo missions to the moon, astronauts suffered from exposure to lunar dust. It clung to spacesuits and seeped into the lunar landers, causing coughing, runny eyes and irritated throats. Studies showed that chronic health effects would result from prolonged exposure. Martian dust isnat as sharp and abrasive as lunar dust, but it does have the same tendency to stick to everything, and the fine particles (about 4% the width of a human hair) can penetrate deep into lungs and enter the bloodstream. Toxic substances in the dust include silica, gypsum and various metals.

Ted Hui received letter offering reward for information about his family after China accused Australia of interfering with its internal affairs

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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has described another threatening letter sent to an exiled Hong Kong dissident in Australia as areprehensiblea, a athreat to our national sovereigntya and athe safety and security of Australiansa.

The anonymous letter, mailed from Hong Kong and sent to Ted Huias Adelaide office, offered his colleagues $203,000 for information on his whereabouts and his family. It arrived just days after Chinaas foreign ministry accused the Albanese government of interfering with its internal affairs.

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The Argentinian film-maker, whose movies blur the lines between gay and straight, discusses what inspired him to make his latest work a queer romcom The Astronaut Lovers

Marco Bergeras films often begin, in one way or another, with a knock on the door. A young gay man steps into a summer house, or sometimes a luxury villa, typically inhabited by a group of attractive young men on holiday. As homoerotic tension simmers, the hyper-masculine environment is charged with banter, dares, and provocative games. The Argentinian directoras films test the fragile boundaries of homosocial spaces, blurring the lines between gay and straight as characters navigate complex emotions. His settings become pressure cookers a or at times, ticking time bombs a of unspoken dynamics, male bonding, and the perils of repressed desire.

Itas these elements a heightened by homoerotic scenes and prolonged shots of the male body a that have made Berger one of the most prolific and successful film-makers in Latin America and widely pirated globally. aIam obsessed with telling the story of two men in a summer house because summer creates the perfect conditions for exploring male desire,a Berger says. aThe clothes come off, and the skin is exposed. Itas the perfect setting.a

Chloe Dalton, Helen Scales and Clare Mulley are also in the running for the APS30,000 award, with the winner due to be announced on 12 June

The Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry, Labour MP Yuan Yang and the doctor Rachel Clarke have been shortlisted for this yearas Womenas prize for nonfiction.

Foreign policy expert Chloe Dalton, marine biologist Helen Scales and biographer Clare Mulley also remain in contention for the APS30,000 prize.

Rose Ayling-Ellis is inspirational as she meets a retirement community ready to learn new skills. Plus: the finale of an excellent true crime drama. Hereas what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC One
Itas not an easy pitch for deaf actor and Strictly champion Rose Ayling-Ellis to teach sign language to a retirement community. But she finds a group of enthusiastic 65-95-year-olds, some of whom are experiencing hearing loss. Along with charismatic teacher Marios Costi, she determinedly starts a two-part experiment to highlight the increasing need for signing. This is moving, inspirational television a with added bingo and karaoke. As one of the students says: aWeare not old people; weare recycled teenagers.a Hollie Richardson

A man moves in with his employeras widow in this playful but dreamlike and inscrutable drama from Alain Guiraudie, the director of Stranger By the Lake

Writer-director Alain Guiraudie must surely now be said to match Quentin Dupieux for the weirdest sense of humour in French cinema. But is comedy exactly what is happening here? Because this has to be one of the strangest films of the year a or the most deadpan of deadpan in-jokes. At one point, I thought I saw the performer playing a police officer almost laugh, but perhaps every single actor here was on the verge of cracking up throughout the shoot. It could be that every time Guiraudie yelled aCuta everyone burst out laughing.

You could also call Misericordia queer cinema, with the word aqueera also working in its non-sexual sense. Guiraudie made his international breakthrough with his 2013 film Stranger By the Lake, but itas now clear that the seriousness and vehemence of that psychosexual drama are atypical of the directoras real instincts, which are towards waywardness and playfulness and unreadable, inscrutable mischief. And here, as sometimes in the past, he looks as if he is making it up as he goes along.

A cheesy broccoli, bean and walnut bake, and a baked carrot and crisp bean salad doused in orange, tahini and sesame oil

I am so here for the butter bean renaissance. No longer are they reserved for soft, brown stews (although I love those, too); you can use these legumes to make so many vibrant, flavour- and texture-packed meals. Both of todayas dishes are nourishing and would make excellent sides for a weekend feast, but theyad equally also be fabulous for a midweek dinner.

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2021: Despite Thatcher and Reaganas best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world

By Jill Lepore. Read by Kelly Burke

Protesters took to streets after President ErdoAan had his rival arrested. What will happen next? Sami Kent and Ruth Michaelson report

It has been more than two decades since Recep Tayyip ErdoAan became Turkeyas president. Over the years, ErdoAanas regime has become increasingly authoritarian, eroding press freedoms and removing checks to his power. But in the last week mass protests have erupted. Pouring on to the streets of Istanbul, thousands have defied government warnings and a crackdown by riot police to ensure their voices are heard.

Today in Focus producer Sami Kent, who has written a book about the history of Turkey, talks to Michael Safi about the background to the protests. ErdoAan has jailed the one remaining political rival to his power a Istanbulas mayor, Ekrem AdegmamoAlu. The two men share a similar background and, explains Kent, were both seen as modernisers offering fresh views. ErdoAan was also mayor of Istanbul and was also jailed a coming out of prison a political hero. Now it seems history is repeating itself.

The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachevas visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war

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Imagine creating fan fiction in your head about Gwyneth Paltrow shading Meghan Markle, and the whole time, Meghan is in Gwynethas kitchen eating pie.

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Contrary to popular belief, ADHD entails much more than attention challenges.

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If you"ve been searching for a way to visibly clear your pores of blackheads, give a" double cleansing a" a try.

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"I admit it"s the most boomer thing Iave ever done, but it makes so much more sense."

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Like an interactive toy that"ll keep hyper-active young"uns from pestering sleepy seniors, and microchip feeders you can "pair" with specific cats.

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Whether you"re hosting or just going all-in on the holiday experience, this list will get your place Easter-ready in no time.

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It"s all about buttery, soft comfortability, and we are here for it.

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Wi-Fi extenders that really work, college student-approved power banks, and other gadgets you"ll be happy you bought.

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One reviewer says itas so powerful, aItas like having a professional cleaning service right in the palm of my hand.a

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One reviewer says, athe medicine holder is a game-changer!a

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If you have an hour, then you have time for these quick improvements.

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Study can inform health policy guidelines, researchers say

Fewer trips to the hairdresser is leading to a new colour trend

TV star married partner Jeff Arcuri in a last-minute intimate wedding on the weekend

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Unusual beverage demand was made public in 2023

aTheyare fully aware that itas not going to be given to them,a said aSort Your Life Outa presenter

Many of us are concerned about the time we spend on our phones. Hereas how to cut back

The death of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love has brought renewed attention to an aggressive form of brain cancer

Fans assumed a video Paltrow posted was a dig at Markleas Netflix show

TV chef Jeremy Pang grew up on Cantonese food and spent summers eating his way around Hong Kong. As his new show aHong Kong Kitchena lands, he tells Lauren Taylor why the cityas flavours are more familiar than you think, how to master a perfect stir-fry and why dumplings are easier to make than youad expect

Can the man who holds the Guinness World Record for fastest window cleaning a 9.14 seconds! a hold his title? Ralph Jones ventures into the strange and brilliant world of super-fast squeegee-ing

Ever found yourself fumbling around mid-stir-fry, unsure what goes in next? TV chef Jeremy Pang has a simple trick to keep things in order a and shares a speedy noodle recipe to put it to the test

TV chef Jeremy Pang explains how British condiments found their way into Cantonese cooking a and shares his recipe for crispy, tangy pork chops

Sliders, burgers, baos a call them what you like, but these pillowy buns stuffed with sticky, glazed short rib are a street food essential. TV chef Jeremy Pang shares the secret to getting them just right

The aEuphoriaa star has been dating producer Jonathan Davino since 2018

The 31-year-old actor stars in the third season of the hit HBO drama

The First Lady of the United States wore the dress designed by John Galliano to marry Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida

Ashton Hallas unconventional and in-depth morning routine vlogs have sparked a frenzy of parodies and memes

Passengers onboard Cunardas Queen Anne were told to stay vigilant as they passed through the Sulu-Celebes Sea in the Philippines

Hollywood stars were married from 2005 to 2018 and share three children