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Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Liverpool and Manchester City meet once again in the Premier League, but Sunday’s clash has been given a unique kick-off time as Pep Guardiola’s side arrive at Anfield for a potential title decider.Jurgen Klopp’s Reds hold an excellent home record against Manchester City and Guardiola’s only victory at Anfield came in the season when matches were played without fans due to the pandemic.Liverpool defeated City 1-0 at Anfield last season, in an ill-tempered clash packed full of…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USThree inmates who escaped from prison in Grenada have been charged with killing two Americans after allegedly hijacking their yacht last month.Ron Mitchell, 30, Atiba Stanisclaus, 25, and Trevon Robertson, 23, were charged with two counts of capital murder “by intentionally causing” the deaths of Ralph Hendry and Kathleen Brandel, the Royal Grenada Police Force announced.The three suspects were also charged with escaping lawful custody, housebreaking, robbery, and two counts of kidnapping. Stanislaus was separately charged…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter West Ham boss David Moyes felt his side were wrongly denied a late penalty as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 meeting with Freiburg.The Hammers were denied what looked a clear spot-kick for handball in stoppage time after the referee refused to change his decision despite checking the pitchside monitor.The ball struck the arm of Freiburg youngster Noah Weisshaupt in a crowded penalty area, but after a long…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsCara Delevingne has preemptively hit back at criticism she feels she’s likely to receive for her forthcoming role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret.The British model and actor will join the award-winning West End revival from 11 March until 1 June 2024, along with Luke Treadaway who will take over as the Emcee.In a new interview for ES Magazine, the 31-year-old spoke about the prejudice she receives as a celebrity performer.“Even if I did the best…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSweden has officially joined Nato – ending decades of post-Second World War neutrality to become the alliance’s second new member since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The ratification cements Nato’s presence in the Nordic region with all countries now members, and makes the Baltic essentially a “Nato sea” right on Vladimir Putin’s doorstep.Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken presided at a ceremony in which Sweden’s “instrument of accession” to the alliance…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Brighton’s European adventure turned into a nightmare after they were blown away by Roma to suffer a 4-0 defeat at the Stadio Olimpico.Roberto De Zerbi had guided the Seagulls through to the Europa League last-16 with a four-match winning run in the competition, but first-half goals by Paulo Dybala and Romelu Lukaku put the visitors on the ropes in Rome.Worse was to follow after the break with Gianluca Mancini and Bryan Cristante able to score in quick…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsNationwide Building Society has launched a proposed £2.9 billion takeover of smaller rival Virgin Money in a move that will create a UK lending giant.The move took the City by surprise and is set to catapult Nationwide into second place in the mortgage and savings market.The planned takeover will bring together Britain’s fifth and sixth largest retail lenders, creating a combined group with around 24.5 million customers, more than 25,000 staff and nearly 700 branches.The…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThey were the scenes of the two worst atrocities Hamas carried out during their lethal raid into Israel. More than 415 children, women and men were slaughtered, another 60 were taken as hostages, some of them to die in captivity.The fields where the Re’im music festival took place, and Kibbutz Kfar Aza, have become shrines, five months on, to that dark day. The scars of what happened, the burned and shattered buildings, the places where…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Fara Williams feels diversity has taken a step back since she and the other football-mad kids on her Battersea estate replicated Wembley finals in cages and dared to dream of one day playing in the real deal.The 40-year-old, England’s most-capped footballer of either gender, made her Lionesses debut as a 17-year-old in 2001 and hung up her boots two trophy-laden decades later.Much has improved as women’s football has evolved into what the ex-midfielder’s former England team-mate Karen…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsIt would have been so easy to make Nye a straightforward hero story: Michael Sheen resplendent in the title role of the underdog son of a miner smashing political elitism to found the NHS. Instead, Sheen spends this intriguing, dream-like play shuffling about a hospital barefoot in baggy pyjamas, haunted by flashbacks to the morphine highs of his career.Writer Tim Price and outgoing National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris have turned this welfare state origin…