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One-pan pasta recipes can be a little hit and miss. While one pan implies you won’t need to boil the pasta separately – meaning one less item to clean up – some people find the pasta has a tendency to overcook or undercook. Others are put off by the starchiness, but I like to think of this dish as a risotto-paella-pasta situation, where the starch should be embraced and mitigated with cheesiness and acid.You can totally add frozen corn, or even peas, to this pasta for bonus veg. Just pour some boiling water over half a cup of them while…

On the morning of his 76th birthday earlier this month, Harry Hunter emerged from a bivouac in southern Morocco to line up with more than 800 other runners in the Sahara.But, bar the chorus of Happy Birthday they greeted him with, there was little other celebration of this milestone, which saw Hunter subsequently become the oldest Briton to complete the epic Marathon des Sables, a 250-km (155-mile), seven-day race through rolling sand dunes and rocky mountains.“I ran just over 40km in the heat of the desert sun, and when I got back I had a freeze-dried meal. That was my…

The disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crimes was overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday.In a 4-3 decision, the state of New York court of appeals ruled that the judge who oversaw Weinstein’s 2020 conviction prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings and was mistaken in allowing other women whose accusations were not a part of the 2020 case to testify.“[Weinstein] was convicted by a jury for various sexual crimes against three named complainants and, on appeal, claims that he was judged, not on the conduct for which he was indicted, but on…

Welcome and opening summaryWelcome to our latest live blog on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I’m Martin Belam in London and I’ll be with you for the next while.The White House says it wants “answers” from Israeli authorities after the discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges.Gaza’s civil defense agency said health workers uncovered nearly 340 bodies of people allegedly killed and buried by Israeli forces at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, reports Agence France-Presse. About 30 bodies were reported found buried in two graves in the Al-Shifa hospital courtyard…

In the age of digital distractions, it is easy to struggle to find the time and headspace to get lost in literature. How can you get back into the habit? Librarians share the best ways to rediscover reading, make it a regular habit – and their tips for the most unputdownable books.1. Don’t beat yourself up if you haven’t read in years“A whole combination of things have come together in an unfortunate way to make it harder for people to read,” says Nancy Pearl, who is referred to as “America’s librarian” and lives in Seattle, where she worked for almost…

The final Merseyside derby of Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool reign might well be remembered as the final blow to his dream of signing off with the Premier League title. For the first time in 14 years, and the first time against Klopp, Everton were triumphant against their local rivals at Goodison Park. Victory tasted all the sweeter for Sean Dyche’s team for almost certainly securing their top-flight status at the expense of Liverpool’s title shot.“You lost the league at Goodison Park,” the home crowd bellowed as they rejoiced in a deserved Everton victory, an outstanding Everton performance and the best night…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature19 min: Liverpool have been sluggish, despite dominating possession. Not much happening in the forward line. Calvert-Lewin meanwhile is all over Konate, who is struggling with a player who was a doubt for the game.Share17 min: Another set-piece chance for Everton. Tarkowski loops a header back across and Calvert-Lewin makes Alisson make a save. Everton control the skies here. Van Dijk was nowhere near that.Share16 min: The game seems to have settled after that early excitement. But Everton seem to fancy this more than Liverpool.Share15 min: Everton take their…

Several crew members were injured and two were hospitalised when a car and truck collided during shooting of the Eddie Murphy film The Pickup in Atlanta, Georgia.Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement that the scene that led to Saturday’s accident in Georgia had been rehearsed and all safety precautions were taken. Neither Murphy nor the film’s other stars, including Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson, were on the set at the time.The scene was being shot by a second unit on the production, which generally shoots less central scenes not involving the director or principal actors. The studio’s statement said:…

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators were arrested during a Passover Seder in New York as they closed a major thoroughfare, prayed for a ceasefire and urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to end U.S. military aid to Israel.About 300 people were arrested Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn home where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the Passover Seder. A ritual celebrated on the second night of the festival.The seder was held just before the U.S. Senate passed a military plan that included $26 billion for Israel.Protesters called on Schumer – one…

One evening in 2008, a group of joyriders stole our van, named The Colombian, from a street outside Wellington, New Zealand. My sister-in-law was the first to notice and she alerted her husband, Ant, who immediately drove off in search of it. When he spotted the van parked on the beach, he called the police, who then gave chase as it drove off. After running a few red lights, the joyriders lost control and smashed into a building. The front of the van was crushed in on both sides and the driver’s door was ripped clean off.We woke to an…