Month: March 2025

Sonia Bompastor channelled compatriot Édith Piaf, saying she wanted her players “to have no regrets” come the final whistle of their Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City, and three first-half goals and a relentless performance overturned the two-goal deficit from the first leg. We have been waiting for Chelsea to move into fifth gear, for […]

It is possible to make a cynical piece of television without anyone who appears on screen having a drop of toxicity in their veins. Documentaries with subjects ripped from the headlines are particularly likely candidates; documentaries centring the recently, appallingly bereaved even more so. We turn, then, to Brianna: A Mother’s Story. Brianna is Brianna Ghey, […]

King Charles went into hospital today after experiencing “temporary side effects” as part of his continuing medical treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace has said. The monarch underwent scheduled treatment for cancer this morning, which required “a short period of observation in hospital”, according to a palace statement. “His Majesty’s afternoon engagements were therefore postponed,” a […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ramirez gave away a free kick but City are loose in their passing. James crosses to Ramirez and she scores. Wow. Share GOAL! Chelsea 3-0 Manchester City (Ramirez, 3-2 on agg) What is happening? Share 43 min: Kaneryd lays the ball […]

The Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard. Alfredo Mantovano, a cabinet undersecretary, made the admission during a classified meeting with Copasir, the parliamentary committee for national security, according to […]

A £150,000 prize for a device that can produce clean water from icy lunar soil has been won by a pair of inventors whose solution involves a microwave oven, a motorised device for feeding woodchips into a barbecue and sound waves. The £1.2m Aqualunar Challenge, funded by the UK Space Agency’s international bilateral fund and […]

Israel’s parliament has passed a law expanding elected officials’ power to appoint judges, in defiance of a years-long protest against Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to drive through judicial changes. The approval of the bill, which opposition parties say will make judges subject to the will of politicians, comes as Netanyahu’s government is locked in a standoff […]

A former RAF pilot who killed a family of four and himself when he drove the wrong way for more than a mile on a motorway wanted to take his own life, an inquest has heard. Richard Woods was almost four times over the legal drink-drive limit when his Skoda Fabia hit a Toyota Yaris […]

There’s a lot of art about birth, death and rebirth, but not a lot of it uses pickles. Preserves, however, are all over Polish artist Rafał Zajko’s biggest solo show yet. Big jars of brine filled with salty cucumbers and little figurines in the shape of cryogenic preservation chambers. That combination of the fantastically sci-fi […]

The problem with the now infamous Signal chat read around the world is not just that sensitive military-operations details were broadcast, but that this reveals a pattern of what appears to be institutional dishonesty inside the Trump administration and the legal ramifications that presents. The leak exposes a system of broken accountability, where high-ranking officials […]