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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Arteta has made three changes from that game at the Bernabéu; both full-backs are rotated, with Zinchenko and White replacing Lewis-Skelly and Timber. Leo Trossard replaces Thomas Partey, which means Mikel Merino will likely drop into midfield. Meanwhile, Liam Delap is […]

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a severe bout of pneumonia, marked Easter Sunday by making a brief appearance to bless thousands of people who had gathered for mass in St Peter’s Square, and by holding a short meeting with the US vice-president, JD Vance. The 88-year-old pontiff – who nearly died during his recent, […]

Zelenskyy says Russia has intensified shelling and use of drones despite ceasefire In a new post on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched 26 assaults from midnight up until midday local time (0900 GMT). Citing a battlefield update from Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s military chief, Zelenskky noted an increase in Russian […]

Mussels, ribbons of pasta, herbs and cream is a perfect marriage for a spring lunch. I sometimes fill a puff-pastry case with such an assembly or present it in a white porcelain dish with a splodge of creamy potato in the retro style of coquille St Jacques. (And when exactly did I last see that […]

Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens celebrate their 70th birthday. But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian […]

For his next trick, perhaps Comrade Farage will belt out all the verses of The Red Flag and tell us that his favourite book is The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Brother Nigel has popped up on the government’s left flank by demanding the immediate nationalisation of the steel industry. He’s also expressed a solidarity with trades unionists […]

Look around you and before too long you are likely to spot a chore jacket. I saw a particularly fine example on a dad last weekend at a heritage railway. As warm days stretch into still-cold evenings, beer gardens are full of them. They are worn down allotments and in towns, and I have a […]

A byelection in a normally safe Labour seat was Keir Starmer’s first big electoral test as Labour leader. A similar scenario now provides his first test as prime minister. The loss of Hartlepool to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2021 provoked the biggest crisis of Starmer’s time as opposition leader, forcing sweeping changes in personnel and […]

During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment began to grow in communist Czechoslovakia, a group of friendly foreigners began arriving in Prague, on flights from Helsinki and East Berlin, or by car from West Germany. Among them were 11 western European men, a Swiss woman named Maria Weber and a Lebanese carpet dealer called […]

Are you here for the puzzle championship?” asks a smiling fellow competitor as I join the queue of puzzle enthusiasts. I most definitely am. But my smile drops as she continues: “That’s all the niceness you’ll be getting from me today, then.” She is, of course, joking but, as with most jokes, there is a […]