One person has been arrested at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Carmarthenshire

A witness has recalled the chaos he saw as blood-soaked horses ran loose through central London after breaking free from the Household Cavalry on Wednesday, 24 April.

Air ambulances rush to hospital as two teachers said to be wounded

National Crime Agency questioning three men after fatal boat crossing attempt from France on Tuesday

Watch as German chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes Rishi Sunak to Berlin before they hold a joint news conference on Wednesday 24 April.

Watch as deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden clashed with Labouras deputy leader Angela Rayner during Prime Ministeras Questions on Wednesday 24 April.

Two rampant horses covered a great distance in central London, leaving four injured

The animals, wearing saddles and bridles, were seen running in the road near Aldwych on Wednesday morning

CCTV footage captures the moment a man breaks into a McDonaldas to steal food, before setting fire to his own flat.

Police struggled to hold back photographers surging forward eager to capture the first shots of the former DUP leader

Exclusive: Following widespread backlash, Bajan prime minister Mia Mottley has announced that the acquisition will be paused in light of public anger with the move and a public consultation will take place

Labouras deputy leader uses session to tackle the government on its housing record, accusing ministers of delaying justice on no-fault evictions

Ben Habib said asylum seekers attempting to reach Britain in small boats should asuffer the consequencesa of trying to reach the UK in small boats

Reform UK"s deputy leader Ben Habib appeared to suggest migrants should be left to drown in the English Channel in comments that horrified an interviewer on Tuesday, 23 April.

Aberdeen is the cheapest city, while St Albans in Hertfordshire is most expensive outside of London

Two 19-year-old footballers were arrested and released on bail, police said

Angela Rayner labelled Rishi Sunak a apint-sized losera as she claimed Boris Johnson was the Conservative Partyas abiggest election winnera during a heated Prime Ministeras Questions (PMQs) exchange.

Prime Ministeras Questions descended into chaos on Wednesday 24 April, as a Tory MP opened the session by attacking Labour with a long-winded question.

Angela Rayner told Tory MPs to "stop obsessing" over her council tax and "get a grip" during a fiery Prime Minister"s Questions on Wednesday, 24 April.

The horses are said to have become spooked during a training exercise with a soldier injured

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said it was areasonablea to cut 72,000 civil service jobs to fund Rishi Sunakas pledge to boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2030.

Frank Field was director of the Child Poverty Action Group between 1969 and 1979, and the Member of Parliament for Birkenhead between 1979 and 2019

Grant Shapps said: aThe United States can always be relied on to do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other optionsa

Home secretary said he was being aa bit clunky with my phraseologya

The 61-year-old politician was arrested and charged in relation to historical sexual allegations at the end of March

The mother of Barnaby Webber, who was stabbed to death in the Nottingham attacks, has said the police officer who posted graphic details of the victimas injuries is adesensitised and disrespectfula.

The 16-year-old was wearing just his boxers when he attacked the boys and housemaster at Blundellas School

Blood-soaked horses ran loose through London after breaking free from the Household Cavalry on Wednesday, 24 April.

Warren Dowling started to panic when his inhaler didnat work and died shortly after asthma attack

The horses are said to have become spooked during a training exercise with a soldier injured

Doctors say the ruling sends aa worrying messagea to other doctors, including many who are also concerned about the climate crisis

Father asaw his little daughter die before his eyesa says charity worker after Channel rescue

Swifites asked the pub to check CCTV for sigthings of the singer

The government has been accused of bowing to a group of apro-landlord MPsa

Watch live as MPs and Lords hold a one-off session on arms exports to Israel at the Business and Trade Committee on Wednesday, 24 April.

Emma Webber called the messages acallous, degrading and desensitiseda after they referred to her son being aproperly butchereda

Sister of Albanian asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm calls for independent inquiry into his death

April saw increases to benefits and the state pension

Citizen science survey shows 78 per cent decline in abug splatsa on number plates

The overall winner will be announced on 13 June

Jennifer Aniston has revealed her favourite comfort food - nachos.

Josh OaConnor has revealed which tennis star inspired a alightly suggestivea scene in Challengers.

Luca Guadagninoas thrilling new movie posits that every conversation is a tennis match, and every tennis match is a sex scene a you will be powerless to resist it

Hugh Grant has revealed why he was open to a return as Daniel Cleaver in the upcoming Bridget Jones sequel.

aRoseannea actor makes bizarre joke in askita that she was arapeda by US president Joe Biden

Show has been axed after 14 years

Instrument played by both Lennon had sat forgotten in an attic in the English countryside for decades

aI felt sick,a audience member said

Barker insists decision to ask her to leave was for audience, not himself

American comic Arj Barker ejected a mother and her seven-month-old from his Melbourne show

Listeners are convinced athanK you aIMeea references the reality star

While Richard Gaddas stalker drama continues to dominate the Netflix charts, armchair detectives have attempted to find two of the real-life figures who inspired the series. We must do better, writes Adam White, but itas also baffling that neither Gadd nor Netflix saw this coming

Actor has been a part of the hit CBS show since its 2021 launch

Pop star was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2015 and sentenced to 16 years in prison

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Few actors are brave enough to admit that they turned down some of the most famous films in recent memory, but these ones did, writes Adam White

A photographer who worked for hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion says she was an abusive boss who fired him unfairly

A new trailer has given fans the first glimpse of Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie in Blink Twice.

Broadcaster had recently taken a leave of absence from work to care for her mother, Julia

A comedian who asked a mother and her baby to leave his show in Melbourne has defended his decision.

His song aToo Sweeta climbs to No 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Comedian Richard Gadd wrote and starred in show about his own stalking experience

Netflix show aBaby Reindeera tells real-life story of Gaddas experiences of stalking and abuse

Netflix user spotted secret code in Marthaas emails to Donny

Richard Gadd has asked fans to stop speculating over the inspiration for his Netflix series

The band who wrote and recorded aValeriea are back with a new album after 16 years. They tell Craig McLean how drugs and booze derailed their chart career before they realised how much they meant to each other

Fans have speculated that Swiftas new song athanK you aIMeea is about her feud with Kardashian

Emilio Garcia alleges in a lawsuit that he was inside a moving vehicle with the rapper while she had sex with a woman

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Dyfed-Powys police investigate as emergency services attend Amman Valley school in Carmarthenshire

A school in south-west Wales has been locked down after three people were injured in an incident and one person was arrested, police have said.

Dyfed-Powys police said in a statement they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident at Amman Valley school in Ammanford.

Exclusive: Dmytro Kuleba hails US aid package but says allies need to increase arms production to help fight Russia

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Ukraineas foreign minister has enthusiastically praised US politicians for approving a long-delayed $61bn military aid package for Ukraine, but said western allies needed to recognise that athe era of peace in Europe is overa and that Kyiv will inevitably need more help to fight off Russia.

aHallelujah,a Dmytro Kuleba said when asked for his reaction to Tuesdayas final vote by the US Senate. He said it had been amy belief that we would have a positive outcomea, based in part on the cultivation of religious conservatives, but the west needed to build its defence industry further.

Witnesses describe atotal mayhema as horses a one of them covered in blood a run through centre of city during rush hour

Four people have been taken to hospital after several military horses broke loose during a morning exercise and bolted through central London, colliding with vehicles.

Astonished witnesses described atotal mayhema as the runaway horses, including one white horse drenched in blood, ran through the rush-hour streets.

Guardian-commissioned portrait of abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond among works competing for APS25,000 prize

Claudette Johnson has been nominated for this yearas Turner prize for her work, which includes a portrait of the African-American slavery abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond commissioned as part of the Guardianas award-winning Cotton Capital series.

Pio Abad, Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas will compete for the APS25,000 prize, while the nominated artists will each collect APS10,000 as the prize returns to Tate Britain for the first time in six years.

Former DUP leader faces 11 charges spanning 21 years, as wife, Eleanor Donaldson, charged with aiding and abetting rape

Jeffrey Donaldson has appeared in court charged with rape, gross indecency and other sexual offences spanning 21 years in a case that has stunned Northern Ireland.

His wife, Eleanor Donaldson, appeared alongside him at Newry magistrates court in County Down on Wednesday and was charged with aiding and abetting rape and indecent assault.

Prime minister gives joint press conference with Olaf Scholz and denies misleading people over spending plans

With Rishi Sunak in Berlin, it is deputiesa day at PMQs, and Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, will be facing questions from Angela Rayner, Labouras deputy leader. It will be her first time at the despatch box since it was announced that Greater Manchester is fully investigating various allegations relating to the council house she bought and sold before she became an MP, and where she was living during that period. It has been reported that at least a dozen officers are on the case.

Rayner does not have to firm up her position with Labour MPs. She insists that she has done nothing wrong, and most people in the party believe that that the allegtions being made against her are little more than a smear (as Keir Starmer put it at PMQs last week).

Frank was a steadfast, highly successful and diligent campaigner against child poverty. It is largely down to Frank that we have child benefit today, a truly towering achievement.

He gained support and respect from across the political spectrum and defined the concept of the apoverty trapa, now commonly used to describe the difficulties for working people of getting better off while claiming means-tested benefits because of the high rate at which benefits are withdrawn as earnings rise.

Ben Habib says navy or Border Force should not save people who throw themselves into sea if they have refused other vessels

A deputy leader of Reform UK has proposed not rescuing people in the Channel if they scupper their small boats and refuse new dinghies as they should asuffer the consequences of their actionsa.

Ben Habib made the comments in an interview on TalkTV when asked how he proposed to prevent people setting off from France in small boats from reaching the UK.

Deputy Labour leader also criticises watering-down of leasehold reform plans while facing Oliver Dowden at deputy PMQs

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Angela Rayner has accused ministers of aobsessinga over her living arrangements and urged them to focus on implementing long-promised housing reforms instead.

The deputy Labour leader came out fighting at deputy prime ministeras questions on Wednesday, weeks after police opened an investigation into the sale of her council house in 2015.

Police said two 19-year-old men were arrested after a report of a rape was made to them on 19 April

Two Premier League players were arrested at the weekend in relation to an allegation of rape.

Police said the two 19-year-old men were arrested after a report of a rape was made to them on Friday 19 April.

Australian actoras book Rebel Rising will have allegations of incident on set of Grimsby that left her afeeling bullied, humiliated, and compromiseda struck out

The UK edition of Australian actor Rebel Wilsonas memoir will be published with redacted passages relating to her experience on set with Sacha Baron Cohen.

In a chapter titled Sacha Baron Cohen and Other Assholes, Wilson recounts filming the 2016 comedy film Grimsby a released in the US as The Brothers Grimsby a alongside Baron Cohen. aSBC summoned me via a production assistant saying that I was needed to film an additional scene,a she writes.

His sister says the only person he ever presented a serious threat to was himself, yet he was given an indeterminate sentence for stealing a car. The psychological torture was impossible to endure

When Tommy Nicol told his sister Donna Mooney about his prison sentence, she didnat believe him. It was May 2009 and he had stolen yet another car. Nicol was a petty criminal, always nicking motors, and was rarely out of jail. aHe said: aTheyave given me a 99-year sentence.a I said: aThatas ridiculous.a I thought he was confused.a Over the next few years, Nicol occasionally mentioned the sentence in letters to Mooney and asked her to look into it. She admits she didnat give it much thought at the time.

In 2015, Nicol killed himself in prison. He was 37. It was only then that Mooney discovered he had been right all along. Nicol had a four-year tariff (the minimum amount of time he could serve in jail) and an indeterminate sentence, known as imprisonment for public protection. IPP is also called a 99-year sentence because people serving one can, technically, be jailed for 99 years. When they are released, it is on a 99-year licence, which means they can be recalled to prison at any time in their life for even minor breaches, such as being late for a probation appointment (although the Parole Board will consider whether to terminate the licence 10 years after first release).

Senate has voted to pass bill over Chinese-owned video-sharing app that Joe Biden is set to sign into law

• Senate passes bill banning TikTok if owner does not sell it

President Biden is set to sign into law a bill that requires TikTokas Chinese owner to sell the social media appas US operations or face a ban, after the Senate passed the legislation.

Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation, passed as part of a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Footwear from the regimeas concentration camps ended up at the Polish base, and campaigners want them to be salvaged

At the foot of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent to touch the black, moist shapes nestling amid the fungi and leaf mulch. aIave been monitoring this area now since 2015, and always hope I wonat stumble upon anything any more and that one day the entire area will have been cleared,a he said. This, however, was not that day.

The 39-year-old poet, scholar and rock musician was walking in the forest just metres from the perimeter fence of what was once the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp in the German-annexed territory of Poland, and is now a memorial site in Sztutowo, a village 24 miles (38km) east of GdaAsk on the Baltic coast.

The Basque Countryas MondragA3n Corporation is the globeas largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits a and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back

When Marisa FernA!ndez lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, aabove and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldnat face coming in.a

She had a chance to return the favour recently when the store, in Arrasate-MondragA3n in Spainas Basque Country, was undergoing renovations. FernA!ndez, 58, who started on the cashier desk 34 years ago, and now manages the storeas non-food section, volunteered to work extra shifts over the weekend along with her colleagues to ensure everything was ready for Monday morning. aItas not just me. Everyone is ready to go the extra mile,a she says.

Does the actoras recent excited outburst in support of Arsenal FC reveal a deep love of the game a or a cynical bit of media massaging by a lukewarm star?

Anne Hathawayas renaissance has been a wonderful thing to witness. For years now, the actoras reputation has been based on the assumption that she tries just a little too hard, that insincerity lurks behind her desire to be everything to everyone.

For us true believers, this was always heresy a Hathawayas total commitment to the task at hand, whether itas shaving her head or hosting the Oscars, is what makes her Hathaway a so itas a relief to see the rest of the world come around. Part of this change has been down to her willingness to experiment with high fashion. But part of it, in transpires, is that Anne Hathaway is apparently an Arsenal FC fan now.

The 19-year-old climbing protege is backed by dad Tristian, who built a wall in the garden and coached his son to the top

When climbingas Tokyo 2020 debut was announced in 2016, 12-year-old Toby Roberts from Surrey was ainstantly hookeda by an Olympic dream but he would be too young to compete in Japan. Instead he hatched an eight-year plan targeting the 2024 Games, with non-climber dad Tristian supporting as rope-holder, coach, taxi aand banka a even building a climbing wall in the garden of the family home. This summer their shared ambition will culminate high on the Olympic walls in Paris.

Roberts is now 19 and his love for his sport is stronger than ever. He says more than 20 times during this interview that aI love climbing/training/competing/trying harda. His parents Tristian and Marina couldnat be prouder. aItas been a privilege a itas inspiring to see how hard he works,a Tristian says.

They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From suburban Britain to industrial Germany and parched Arizona, we explore a show celebrating green borders

Somewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hill in the middle of a roundabout. The top of the hedge is carefully trimmed with rectangular crenellations, giving it the look of a motte-and-bailey castle, while a second more threadbare hedge encircles the foot of the mound, like another layer of defence. The surrounding streets are lined with more hedges, some neatly trimmed, some left wild, some poking up behind high brick walls, others climbing even higher than the homes they shield.

This single image, taken by photographer Gareth Gardner, somehow encapsulates all of the anxieties and ambitions of the great British hedge. This trophy clump of privet a part defensive barrier, part symbol of domestic pride a stands as a shrubby monument, raised aloft on a grass plinth for all to admire, as they drive past on the way back to their own hedge-fringed homes.

Gardner happened upon the roundabout by chance, in Kingsmead, near Northwich in Cheshire, when he was retracing the footsteps of the late architecture critic Ian Nairn. In the 1950s, Nairn undertook a rage-fuelled road trip from Southampton to Carlisle, railing against what he called asubtopiaa, the kind of mindless identikit sprawl that was taking over the country like acreeping mildewa.

Harry Danielsas TikToks of him singing awkwardly at stars alternate between trolling and displays of love for celebrities a but how does he do it?

Billie Eilish has run from him. Doja Cat stopped her security detail to allow for a sidewalk serenade of Paint the Town Red. Charli XCX let him sing a few bars from I Got It before telling him aYou need to work on it,a turning on her heel, and strutting back to her car.

Harry Daniels stakes out celebrities such as Dua Lipa, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding a and, uh, Joe Biden a and serenades them while filming their responses for TikTok. Most of these interactions appear spontaneous, as if the celebrities are genuinely surprised to be accosted by a 20-year-old man singing at them, usually terribly and oftentimes with their own songs. When Daniels found Jacob Elordi at a restaurant, the Saltburn star stayed across the room next to a bodyguard-type, looking amused but slightly wary as Daniels crooned Murder on the Dancefloor his way.

The little grey box a 35 years old this month a has kept you going, helped you through grief and long journeys, and been your companion through childhood

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Not to make anyone feel old, but the Game Boy turned 35 at the weekend.

That small grey box was millions of peopleas first introduction to video games. It was shared among families, played with equal enthusiasm by girls, boys, men and women. When I asked people for their most cherished Game Boy memories last week, almost a hundred people got in touch to share their reminiscences of playing it on the commute to work, on long car journeys, on family holidays and under the covers after bedtime (with a torch for the screen, naturally). The Game Boy liberated games from the TV and brought them into those pockets of free time in everyday life. It felt more intimate, and despite its rubbish screen and rather rudimentary tech, it acted as a private portal to other worlds.

The Italian Unesco site is hoping to reduce over-tourism with the charge a the first of its kind in a major city

After years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism.

While the measure has ignited criticism and derision from some, who argue it is unconstitutional and restrictive of freedom of movement a the Venice mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has compared his abraverya in enacting the charge to that of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo, in daring to go where others have feared to tread.

Brosnan to a| Bolt? Frank Mannionas follow-up documentary to Quintessentially British presents a grab bag of interviews a some with distinctly un-Irish personalities

It features a definition of athe craica but, frustratingly, this long, meandering documentary about Irishness contains only very small quantities of actual fun. Itas a follow-up from film-maker Frank Mannion to his 2022 doc Quintessentially British, but feels like a commission from Aer Lingus: something to watch inflight from Boston to Dublin, soothingly bland, relaxingly dull. Though to be fair, Mannion gets a big laugh when he archly asks a business expert: aWhat is it that brings international business to Ireland. The weather?a

The film is a series of interviews that contain, bizarrely, one or two with people in possession of very famous names but next to no connection to Ireland. Like Usain Bolt, whoas never set foot on Irish soil, but is fond of a pint of Guinness and had an Irish agent. We get a lot of Pierce Brosnan at home in sunny Malibu wearing a green blazer, telling stories that go off on random tangents. (One ends with his wife breastfeeding on a beach in Mexico next to Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell sunbathing topless.)

We donat need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

Iave been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf.

The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: what kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself?

Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024

I wonder if I should award myself an honour, something grand-sounding. How about Most Excellent Keeper of the Belfry? It has a nice ring about it, even if I have done nothing to deserve it. That latter consideration is of course no bar to our fossilised royal family who have this week breezily been giving themselves ludicrous sounding honours as if this were 1724, not 2024.

Camilla is now, as of yesterday, the Grand Master of the Order of the British Empire. What empire, you might ask? Rockall was Ronnie Barkeras pithy response, and that was about 40 years ago.

Norman Baker was the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015

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New polling confirms people care more about jobs and public services than an orchestrated backlash against minorities a Labour, take note

There was a time in the UK when aculture wara conjured up a certain ugliness that disfigures political discourse across the Atlantic. Particular kinds of Americans, went the narrative, aget bitter, cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who arenat like thema, as Barack Obama put it in 2008, nearly torpedoing his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. His opponents put rocket boosters under so-called culture war strategies when he was president a from racist conspiracies about Obamaas birth certificate to unabashed Islamophobia. The Donald Trump phenomenon was forged in those fires.

You can see why the British right would seek to import this poison, because there have been political dividends Stateside. We also already had significant homegrown sources, thanks to our highly aggressive rightwing newspaper ecosystem. Regardless of the provenance, in simple terms, the approach allows you to flood the airwaves, drowning out discussion on substantive issues. When vulnerable minorities are in the firing line, attention is deflected from the rich and powerful. The aculture wara strategy seeks to place opponents on a defensive footing. As Ronald Reagan once summed up: aIf youare explaining, youare losing.a

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

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As David Cameron learned to his cost over Brexit, voters donat judge politicians on policy, they judge on results

• Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome
  

The governmentas current position on the Rwanda scheme is unlikely to boost its electoral hopes a and to understand why, we should look to David Cameron and a particular pre-Brexit failure. Cast your mind back to the moment the former Tory prime ministeras renegotiated deal for our EU membership aexploded on the launchpada ahead of the referendum. He and his team had worked very, very hard. While they hadnat got what they had set out to gain, the deal they came back with (the aemergency breaka on EU migration) felt like a significant achievement. Perhaps it was, amid the constraints imposed on him in Brussels.

But voters donat grade politicians on effort, they judge by results. And compared with what they wanted a and indeed, what Cameron had promised a the terms he came back with were entirely inadequate. Instead of a definite end to freedom of movement, there was a time-limited and arcane mechanism that might never have been used at all. What was supposed to be the foundation of his referendum campaign turned into a self-inflicted disaster.

The alarming rate of racism against people from east and south-east Asian communities is rarely discussed. Where is the strategy to tackle it?

I was elected a member of parliament in December 2019, just months before the Covid pandemic changed all of our lives. As Britainas first MP of south-east Asian descent, I am well aware of the fact that, for members of east and south-east Asian (ESEA) communities, the pandemic marked a horrifying rise in racist hate crime directed towards us. This experience was not new and, four years on, it has not gone away.

During the pandemic, hate crime against the ESEA community rose by almost 70%, underpinned by a xenophobic framing of the virusa origin. In 2021, the figures remained about 50% above those in 2019. But many of us know that these statistics do not paint the full picture, and the situation is graver than the data suggests.

Sarah Owen is the Labour MP for Luton North

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Iam one of the 2.5 million users of Slovene a and English and German speakers would do well to be curious about us

A couple of years ago, I received an invitation from a German cultural institution to present my debut short story collection, which was translated into German that year. The terms and conditions were generous: we pay you (a lot, as far as I was concerned), we host you for as long as you wish (I decided on three nights), we will arrange a host who loves your book a and if you need anything else, do tell us!

There was one diplomatically laid out request, however. The producers wanted me to speak German at the event. They heard me speak it fluently in a video interview and figured I could easily do it again. As a rookie, and the greenest author to have ever walked the Earth, I swallowed my anxiety and agreed to it. I kindly asked them to send me the hostas questions in advance, so I could prepare for this premiere of mine. I didnat mention that Iad never spoken German in front of a live audience, nor that I intended to translate my answers from Slovene to German and learn them by heart. I had done that for the video interview as well. I wasnat only industrious, you see, I also had an excellent memory.

Ana Schnabl is a Slovenian novelist, editor and critic

I thought finding Karma a yes, that is the catas name a would make me beloved and cherished by my neighbourhood. Unfortunately, not so much

A couple of weeks ago I went to go see a woman about a cat. The woman was my neighbour (weall call her L) and she had lost her tabby, Karma. (Thatas the catas name a Iam not saying L had it coming.) Karma had been gone for weeks and her family was distraught. The entire neighbourhood had been trying, without luck, to look for her.

And then, one day, when I was looking out of the window, I saw Karma peeking out from the dilapidated shed at the bottom of my garden, just a couple of doors down from her official home. I was thrilled. Not just because Iad get to reunite the pet with her family but a rather more selfishly a I thought this might elevate me to alocal heroa status in my Philadelphia neighbourhood.

After years of failed gimmicks and polarisation under the Tories, Britain is ready for a more grown-up approach

aLook, if people donat like the mug, they donat have to get the mug,a Ed Miliband said, exasperated. We were on a train to Manchester for a televised leadersa debate, a month before polling day in 2015. The mug in question bore the slogan acontrols on immigrationa. It was one of a set of five, each branded with a campaign pledge. aOther mugs are available,a the then Labour leader reminded me.

But the border control one had provoked paroxysms of indignation from the left and sneering disbelief from the right. Milibandas frustration was palpable. His advisers spelled out the logic: the slogan was uncontroversial; the alternative to controlling immigration was not controlling immigration, and no one ever won an election promising that. On paper, it was a rational campaign priority.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

• 45-year-old Dutch coach understood to fit Anfield profile
• a!10m compensation could prise him from KNVB Cup winners

Liverpool have opened talks with Feyenoord over appointing Arne Slot as their new manager with the 45-year-old open to the idea of succeeding JA1/4rgen Klopp at Anfield.

Slot has emerged as the frontrunner for the Liverpool job with his track record of improving young talent, success on a relatively modest budget, European experience and a style of play that is not a dramatic departure from Kloppas, all appealing to Anfieldas recruitment team.

• Former Wolves manager in frame for summer overhaul
• Pursuit of RAoben Amorim may stall on a!15m buyout clause

West Ham have held productive talks with the former Wolves manager Julen Lopetegui over replacing David Moyes this summer.

Lopetegui, who has been out of work since last summer, has been on West Hamas radar for several months and made a strong impression during discussions over the job. A final decision has not been made and there are alternative options to the 57-year-old Spaniard, who has spoken to Milan about replacing Stefano Pioli.

• Spaniardas downbeat assessment of possible Paris farewell
• Player preparing to play at the Madrid Open on Thursday

Rafael Nadal has cast doubt on the likelihood of a farewell appearance at the French Open. The 14-time champion returned to action in Barcelona last week after suffering another hip issue at his comeback tournament in January following a year out.

Nadal defeated Flavio Cobolli before losing to Alex De Minaur in the second round and is now preparing to play at the Madrid Open. But, at a press conference before the tournament, Nadal gave a downbeat assessment of his current physical state.

• Surrey fast bowleras squad inclusion now in the balance
• Player has anxious wait for results from proposed scan

England have seen their forthcoming selection for the T20 World Cup complicated by a back injury to Jamie Overton and now face an anxious two-week wait to discover the full extent of the all-rounderas problem.

Though uncapped in T20 internationals, Surreyas Overton is understood to have been lined up as a wildcard pick for Englandas title defence in the Caribbean and USA in June. It follows a strong run of form in franchise cricket and the withdrawal of Ben Stokes from selection.

• Ex-footballer disqualified as director for three and a half years
• John Barnes Media failed to pay more than APS190,000 in tax

The former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes has been banned as a director after his company failed to pay tens of thousands of pounds in tax, following an investigation by the HM Revenueas Insolvency Service.

The investigation revealed that between 2018 and 2020, John Barnes Media a which offered media representation services a failed to pay more than APS190,000 in corporation tax and VAT. His ban, which started on Wednesday, prevents him from being involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of the court.

The leagueas annual circus will descend on Detroit this week. We look back on some of the draftas oddest and infamous moments

Teams spend years plotting their draft strategy. But once the clock starts ticking, things do not always go as planned.

• Clark reportedly will sign eight-year, $28m contract with Nike
• Deal would be richest ever for a womenas basketball player

Caitlin Clark appears to be on the cusp of setting another record.

The most prolific scorer in NCAA Division I history and the No 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft will continue her association with Nike by signing a $28m contract that spans eight years and includes a signature shoe.

British Medical Association says decision to take Dr Sarah Benn off medical register for five months asends worrying messagea

Doctors groups are calling for urgent consideration of the rules for medical professionals who take peaceful direct action on the climate crisis, which they say is the agreatest threat to global healtha, after a GP was suspended from the register for non-violent protest.

Dr Sarah Benn, a GP from Birmingham, was taken off the medical register for five months on Tuesday by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), the disciplinary arm of the General Medical Council (GMC), over her climate protests.

Gas and coal accounted for just 2.4% of power generation for an hour last week, data shows, amid azero-carbon grida plans

The share of Great Britainas electricity generated by burning fossil fuels plummeted to unprecedented lows this month, ahead of plans to begin running a azero-carbon grida for short periods from next year.

Electricity generated by burning gas and coal fell to a record low of just 2.4% for an hour at lunchtime on Monday 15 April, according to an analysis of data from National Gridas electricity system operator (ESO).

High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones accounted for 80% of power interruptions over the last 20 years

Power outages in the US are rising, as climate-related extreme weather strain an already burdened energy grid.

Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years.

Rights chief also warns Britain will be ajudged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gazaa

The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of adeliberately destabilisinga human rights on the global stage for its own political ends.

In its annual global report, released today, the organisation said Britain was weakening human rights protections nationally and globally, amid a near-breakdown of international law.

Media regulator says no clear consensus among British public to ban politicians presenting on news channels

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Nigel Farage will be allowed to present his nightly GB News programme throughout the general election campaign, Ofcom has confirmed, after the media regulator said there was no clear consensus among the British public to stop politicians presenting shows on news channels.

The founder of the Reform UK party, which has the backing of 10% of voters in opinion polls, will be allowed to keep broadcasting until polling day providing he does not stand as a parliamentary candidate.

Long-serving MP dedicated Westminster career to tackling social issues including child poverty and modern slavery

Tributes from across the political spectrum have been paid to the former Labour minister and welfare campaigner Frank Field, who has died at the age of 81.

Lord Field, who dedicated his career in Westminster to tackling social issues, including child poverty and modern slavery, served as an MP for 40 years.

Lisa Stansfield says difficulties young people face in getting a start are adisgustinga, at inaugural ceremony in Manchester

More should be done to help talented emerging musicians from the north of England, top artists have said at the inaugural Northern music awards in Manchester.

The awards, run by the music therapy charity Nordoff and Robbins, took place in a packed Albert Hall, with winners including the former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson a who beat Sam Fender and Self Esteem to pick up artist of the year a the Courteeners, Aitch and Mel C.

Action could cause tube stations to close at short notice on Friday and into Saturday, says TSSA union

Customer service managers on London Underground are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over terms and conditions.

Members of the Transport Salaried Staffsa Association (TSSA) will walk out on Friday and ban overtime until 5 May.

Passengers numbers this year predicted to hit 82.4m but airportas future uncertain, with proposed APS6bn sale in doubt

Heathrow is expecting its busiest ever summer holiday season but faces uncertainty over its long-term future as the proposed APS6bn sale of the UKas biggest airport remains in doubt.

The airport said on Wednesday that the summer getaway this year was expected to be athe busiest on recorda and promised to have arobusta plans in place to keep the airport arunning smoothlya, even if staff strikes held last year are repeated.

GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown

Children in England could face the worst exam results in decades and a lifetime of lower earnings, according to research that blames failures to tackle the academic and social legacies of school closures during Covid.

The study funded by the Nuffield Foundation predicts that national GCSE results in key subjects will steadily worsen until 2030, when it expects fewer than 40% of pupils to get good grades in maths and English.

FTSE shows amore staminaa and is on track for its sixth consecutive session of gains, the first such winning streak since August 2023

Heathrow is expecting its busiest ever summer holiday season but faces uncertainty over its long-term future as the proposed APS6bn sale of the UKas biggest airport remains in doubt.

The airport said on Wednesday that the summer getaway this year was expected to be athe busiest on recorda and promised to have arobusta plans in place to keep the airport arunning smoothlya, even if staff strikes seen last year are repeated.

Dabrafenib with trametinib can halt growth of some tumours for more than three times as long as standard chemotherapy, study shows

The NHS is to offer children with brain tumours in England a groundbreaking new targeted drug therapy to tackle the disease a a development charities are hailing as the biggest breakthrough in decades.

Gliomas are the most common type of brain cancer in children but experts say the standard treatment of chemotherapy can be brutal and gruelling, and also carries the risk of side-effects such as weight loss, seizures and headaches.

Berlin restores ties with UN agency after review says Israel has provided no evidence of terrorist links

• Middle East crisis a live updates

Germany has said it will restore cooperation and funding to Unrwa operations in the Gaza Strip after an independent review said Israel had not provided evidence to back up claims that hundreds of employees of the UN agency for Palestinians were members of terrorist organisations.

Berlinas foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday that following Mondayas publication of the review, conducted by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, the German government would soon resume cooperation with the UNas Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).

Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls

Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say countryas hijab rules have been brutally enforced since the countryas drone strikes on Israel on 13 April.

A new campaign, called Noor (alighta in Persian), was announced the same day the Iranian regime launched drone attacks against Israel, to crack down on aviolationsa of the countryas draconian hijab rules, which dictate that all women must cover their heads in public.

Maximilian Krah will remain German far-right partyas top choice despite accusations against Jian Guo

A far-right German politician has said he will continue to run for the upcoming European parliamentary elections despite allegations that his adviser was spying for the Chinese government.

Maximilian Krah, who is the lead contender for the Alternative fA1/4r Deutschland (AfD) party, told journalists in Berlin: aI am and will remain the main candidatea after an emergency meeting with party bosses on Wednesday morning after the allegations came to light.

University president Minouche Shafik warns of aalternative optionsa if talks fail; Yoav Gallant says protests ainciting terrorisma

• US campus protests over Israel-Gaza war a in pictures