Author: The Guardian

timeThere hasn’t been a match between India and Pakistan yet, but this one doesn’t mean much by any stretch of the imagination. Over 75 years, the rivalry has lasted for 59 Test matches, 135 One-Day Internationals and 12 T20 matches, and is as fierce as any international sport. But the stakes in this latest game between the two teams are unfamiliar.Over the past week it has become clear that the success of the entire New York leg of the T20 World Cup will depend on it and the entire multi-million dollar project, which involves building the entire 34,000-seat stadium, has…

Angela Scanlon in 1989 and 2024Angela Scanlon in 1989 and 2024. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair: Maurice Flynn. Makeup: Emma Rankin. Archive photograph: courtesy of Angela ScanlonBorn in County Meath, Ireland, in 1983, Angela Scanlon is a broadcaster and writer. After a stint as a personal shopper in Dublin, she started presenting on RTÉ and wrote for women’s magazines, before hosting programmes such as Robot Wars and The One Show, competing on Strictly and publishing memoir and self-help book Joyrider. She lives in London with her two daughters and her husband, the Irish tech entrepreneur Roy…

Democrats will target Donald Trump’s first full-scale campaign rally since his criminal trial, with billboards labeling him a “convicted white-collar liar.”The ad, paid for by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is the latest sign that the party is preparing to capitalize more aggressively on last month’s guilty verdicts in New York.”Trump is a disaster for Nevada’s economy,” reads the billboard, which will be displayed in Las Vegas, where Trump will speak on Sunday. “Now he’s back. A convicted white-collar hustler. Doting on billionaires and leaving workers behind.A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records…

Adding stickers of your favourite players into an album is arguably one of the few innocent pleasures that remain for football fans. But children and seasoned collectors have discovered that even this gentle pastime has been affected by modern football’s passion for money.The Panini sticker album has been a staple of international tournaments since the 1970s. But after Uefa sold the rights for stickers for Euro 2024 to its American rival Topps, Panini launched an alternative “England 2024” album, using rights held by England, Italy, Germany and France that were not part of Uefa’s deal.It means that fans cannot fill…

That Saturday morning began chaotically. Naomi Clark had been out running and fallen over, miles from home. She limped back and arrived, flustered and sweaty, just in time to log on to Zoom for her blind date.She was ravenous, but in the rush had run out of time to order the takeaway Vietnamese summer rolls she had planned to eat in front of this stranger.She clicked open the call and there was Deej Phillips, her date, beaming back at her. He held up the meal he was about to tuck into, and guess what? He had gone for the same…

South West Water has taken a legal stake in a customer’s home after she withheld her bill payments in a protest over sewage dumping in rivers and the sea.Thousands of water company customers are thought to be withholding payments but this is the first known case of a company enforcing a claim against a customer’s home.Imogen May, of Crediton, Devon, has withheld payment since 2019 and has a £2,809 debt. South West Water won a county court judgment over the debt and has claimed an interest in May’s cottage via the Land Registry. When it is sold, the company can…

The questions1 Computer Weekly exposed which scandal in 2009?2 Which lake contains about one-fifth of the fresh water on Earth’s surface?3 Which actor flew combat missions in the second world war and Vietnam?4 Grupo Globo is a media giant from which country?5 Which 20th-century prime minister won four general elections?6 What phenomenon was launched by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997?7 The quagga is an extinct species of which mammal?8 Which attraction is built on the site of the Coppergate archaeological dig?What links:9 Beethoven (16); Brahms (3); Haydn (68); Elizabeth Maconchy (13)?10 Cuckoo; house martin; nightingale; osprey; turtle dove; swallow; swift?11…

Agnes on TomWhat were you hoping for?A fun and different date with someone interesting.First impressions?A warm smile and kind eyes. He seemed very bubbly and friendly.What did you talk about?How passionate we are about our jobs. Healthcare for trans people. The magical Andrew Scott. Theatre and films. Food. Education systems. Canal boats. Not being from London. Boycotting a certain fish and chip shop.Most awkward moment?I was 10 minutes late because I struggled to find the restaurant, but Tom was very gentlemanly about it, so it ended up not being that awkward after all.Good table manners?Very. We grilled our own food…

When the radio announcer announced an “appreciation lap,” England’s players found themselves applauding a vast expanse of empty red plastic seats with a level of excitement that seemed mockingly mocking. One of the biggest concerns in championship football is peaking too early for the better teams. In this respect at least, England look safe.Instead, they took the nuclear option, the ultimate counterattack, and lost 0-1 to Iceland, currently ranked 72nd in the world, and were booed by schoolchildren. Not just losing, but losing miserably, like a team suffering an excruciating migraine.A certain level of listlessness is understandable. It’s not launch…

Retired Maj Gen William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the famous Earthrise photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.“The family is devastated,” said his son, retired air force Lt Col Greg Anders, who confirmed the death to the Associated Press. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.”The former astronaut had said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program,…