Author: The Guardian

I first set eyes on the Bayeux tapestry thanks to a wrong turn. My husband was driving us across France, missed an exit, and we accidentally ended up in the town of Bayeux.I live in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, but having grown up in Sweden, I’d only been vaguely aware of the tapestry. I knew 1066 was a significant date for the English, but history lessons had bored me at school. I’d always had a love of needlework, though – my grandmother taught me to embroider – so we decided to see it.Walking along the 70-metre tapestry, which portrays William the Conqueror’s…

Son Heung-min says Tottenham Hotspur have had enough time to deal with an “unacceptable” defeat at Newcastle and are ready to mount a strong response against Arsenal in Sunday’s derby.Spurs won’t need any extra motivation heading into their home game against their local rivals. But Son said Saturday’s 4-0 defeat to Newcastle – the club’s heaviest defeat of the season and possibly its worst performance – had sparked widespread discussion.”This is an unacceptable result and unacceptable performance – for me too,” Son said. “As a team we talked a lot about this game and the performance. Everyone knows how to…

The prosecution: Sade I know I’m perennially late but by changing the clocks, Fatima makes me feel infantilised My good friend and housemate Fatima changed the clocks in our flat without telling me, putting them forward 20 minutes. At first I thought, “What a violation.” But on reflection it was probably not the worst thing to do.It’s true that I’m often chronically late. I always think I have more time to get ready than I actually do, and end up being 20 minutes late for everything. Once I had a hospital appointment and was running late, so I asked Fatima to drive me.…

Philadelphia 76ers All-Star center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a facial paralysis he says has affected him since before the qualifiers.After scoring 50 points in the Sixers’ Game 3 victory over the New York Knicks, Embiid took the podium wearing sunglasses and said he was battling various symptoms including blurred vision and dry eyes.Embiid said he first started experiencing the pain “a day or two” before the Sixers’ April 17 play-in game against the Miami Heat. Embiid scored 23 points and 15 rebounds to help the 76ers enter the playoffs.Embiid complained of migraines, but “thought it was…

Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer.Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Currently, surgery is the main treatment although radiotherapy, medicines and chemotherapy are also sometimes used.Now experts are testing new jabs that are custom-built for each patient and tell their body to hunt down cancer cells to prevent the disease ever coming back.A phase 2 trial found the vaccines dramatically reduced the risk of the cancer returning in melanoma patients.…

Keller Williams scurried onto the stage, looked out, and screamed, “Wow! Yes!”Long-suffering Bears fans felt his joy.Williams is headed to the Windy City with the goal of becoming the franchise quarterback Chicago has been seeking for decades.”My goal is to make it to February as long as possible,” Williams said, referring to playing in the Super Bowl for a team that hasn’t hoisted the Lombardi Trophy in nearly 40 years.The 2022 Heisman Trophy winner kicked off a historic NFL draft on Thursday night, with five other teams selecting quarterbacks in the first 12 picks, a record of five and four…

China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has warned the US that the recent improvements in the two countries’ relations were being jeopardised by “disruptions” which could take them back to a “downward spiral” leading to rivalry, confrontation and even conflict.Wang was speaking at the start of a meeting in Beijing with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, at a time of renewed tension in the relations between the superpowers.Blinken’s three-day visit to China comes five months after a largely successful summit between US and China leaders Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, which was followed by a decrease in tensions over…

Pep Guardiola said he used Liverpool’s defeat to Everton to remind Manchester City players of the dangers of football ahead of their 4-0 win over Brighton on Thursday night.Manchester City broke out on the south coast 24 hours after Liverpool’s 2-0 derby defeat as Phil Foden scored twice and Kevin De Bruyne and Julian Alvarez added one each to ensure they Continue to control your own destiny in the title race.Guardiola will take his side to relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest on Sunday, a point behind leaders Arsenal with a game in hand. Although Guardiola says City are still serious contenders, they…

Almost 10 years to the day, Steven Gerrard slipped, Liverpool lost control of their destiny in terms of the Premier League title race and Manchester City nipped in to win it.The talk in recent weeks and certainly since Arsenal and Liverpool lost on the Sunday before last has been about whether City might have a slip of their own in them, something that – frankly – they have never done previously under Pep Guardiola when the trophy has been within their grasp, the focus narrowing over the run-in.The theory – or maybe just the hope from Arsenal, in particular –…

ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell it if it exhausted all legal options to fight legislation that would ban the platform from U.S. app stores, four sources said.Sources close to the parent company said the algorithm TikTok operates on is considered core to ByteDance’s overall operations, making the sale of an app with the algorithm highly unlikely.Although TikTok is extremely popular, with more than 1 billion users, it still operates at a loss and accounts for only a small portion of ByteDance’s total revenue and daily active users. They said the parent company would rather have the app…