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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Weather watch Starting on time at Derby, Headingley, The Oval and New Road, New Road and that’s your set! There may be interruptions. The Met office says: Sunshine and showers today, heavy in the north perhaps with hail and thunder at […]

When The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas was published in 1933, it made 60-year-old Gertrude Stein famous after decades of obscurity. The book painted a thrilling picture of life among the Parisian haute bohème in the early years of the 20th century. Picasso, Matisse, Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound all made repeat appearances at the […]

Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace) Pedants may protest that Eze’s sublime FA Cup form (quarter-final and semi-final screamers before a winner at Wembley) is inadmissable evidence in a Premier League review. But he was already one of the players of the season long before helping Crystal Palace win their first major trophy. Always capable of the […]

Numbers can be odd, even, prime, square, natural, perfect, complex, rational…and as from today they can also be guardians. Let the numbers be 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. The guardian of x is the next number that shares at least one digit of x. For example: the guardian of 4 is 14, and […]

The Rehearsal 10pm, Sky ComedyEver wondered how many planes have crashed because the co-pilot was “uncommunicative?” Nathan Fielder has – and it’s the premise for series two of his mind-bending social experiment comedy, in which real people “rehearse” in his simulated scenarios. He reconstructs a cockpit and an airport lounge, and even starts TV singing […]

Justin Kelly and I first met in 2008 when I was sent to Los Angeles to interview Gus Van Sant. I breezed into the screening room where Van Sant was viewing a rough cut of his film Milk, and promptly tripped over the film-maker’s Australian shepherd Milo, who was snoozing in the dark. Kelly was […]

Karl-Anthony Towns scored 20 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, and Jalen Brunson added 23 points as the New York Knicks rallied from 20 points down to beat the Indiana Pacers 106-100 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. Towns also had 15 rebounds on Sunday night as the Knicks cut the […]

The day before it happened, remembers Archie Bland, was ‘blissful, summer-ish and free and easy’. The Guardian journalist had spent it with his seven-week-old son Max and his wife Ruth in their new home, watching cricket, chatting to friends and calling relatives across the world who wanted to see the latest edition to the family. […]

Donald Trump has announced that he will pause his threatened 50% tariffs on the European Union until 9 July, after a “very nice call” with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen. The European Commission president announced in a social media post that she had spoken with Trump and secured the delay to give the two […]

Gary Lineker bade farewell to Match of the Day and his career at the BBC on Sunday night in the only appropriate manner: with a montage. There were deep breaths, noises off, the checking of notes. There were tears and celebrations. There was Bobby Robson and Johan Cruyff. There were tributes from colleagues, peers, friends […]