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Emma Stone has won the Oscar for best actress for Poor Things at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Stone won for her role as Bella Baxter in the period fantasy comedy adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray; it is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef. The character, the result of a child’s brain implanted into an adult’s body, has proved controversial due to the film’s copious sex and nudity.Stone had to see off a field including the hotly-tipped Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of…

Wells stared at the wooden spoon. Another failure from these youngsters, another credible effort, but the challenge in the final quarter against a French team that could attack and beat as relentlessly as they did was just too much.As the game approached an hour, Wales led 24-20, leading three to two. But when a team comes at you from as many angles and in as many ways as France did, it’s the test of holding them back that ultimately tells you the answer.Three tries in the final quarter swept the hosts away, leaving them bottom of the table, four points…

Everybody has felt it, the notion that Jürgen Klopp’s end-of-season departure will turbocharge Liverpool to the Premier League title, the team and supporters riding a wave of emotion to glory.Since the manager dropped the bombshell towards the end of January, Liverpool have barely put a foot wrong, apart from losing at Arsenal. Here against Manchester City, they pushed as if their lives depended on it.It was Alexis Mac Allister who lit the touchpaper at the start of the second half, scoring from the penalty spot to cancel out John Stones’s opener for City midway through a first half that the…

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has warned there is no guarantee the team will be able to retain three-time world champion Max Verstappen if he chooses to leave, as the fallout from another tumultuous weekend remains.After a fiery race in Saudi Arabia, Red Bull’s off-track misery far overshadowed Verstappen’s second dominant win of the season in Jeddah, which included the 26-year-old world champion Threatened he might quit Red Bull. Horner admitted Red Bull could not stop Verstappen if he wanted to join another team. Asked about the possibility of Verstappen leaving before his contract expires in 2028, Horner admitted…

In her first interview since delivering her widely ridiculed rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Republican senator Katie Britt refused to apologize for invoking a story about child rape that she implied resulted from the president’s handling of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border – even though the abuse occurred years earlier in Mexico while her party controlled the White House.Britt, 42, appeared on Fox News Sunday and denied hiding the fact that the rape and sex trafficking case to which she referred had actually occurred during the presidency of George W Bush. She also…

key eventsShow only key eventsPlease enable JavaScript to use this featureHalf time: Wales 17-20 FranceWell, that’s interesting. Two attempts per person. There were a lot of mistakes on defense and a lot of bold moves on offense. It’s fast and loose. No complaints here. More of the same please!share40 minutes: France dominated the scrum, which meant Ramos could rally on the front foot. But again, the support line more than promised, and there was a forward pass. That’s half of it.share39 minutes: Fiku continued to roll after contact to avoid the Jackal, so Wales had the chance to clear it…

It’s in almost every pop song, but I have never heard anyone call the person dearest to them “Baby”. That said, I don’t live in Britain or the US. My father sometimes called my mother “Darling” and I have often heard “My dear” or just “Dear”. Jean Drummond-Young, Winterthur, SwitzerlandSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com.Readers replyI remember male friends using it affectionately in the US, as in: “Get your ass up to the bar and get those beers in, Pete Baby!” PeteTheBeatIt’s quite simple when you think about it. Calling one’s partner Baby, as in so many songs and movies, is…

The first official photos of the Princess of Wales following abdominal surgery have been released to mark Mother’s Day.On Sunday morning, the Prince and Princess of Wales posted a photo of Catherine sitting in a chair surrounded by their three children on their social media accounts, along with a message thanking well-wishers for their support.”Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the past two months,” the message read. “Happy Mother’s Day to everyone. C.”Kensington Palace said the photo was taken by the Prince of Wales in Windsor earlier this week.Catherine has been recovering from abdominal surgery since…

Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country’s top labor watchdog, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), by having it declared unconstitutional. Some labor experts warn that if those efforts succeed, US labor relations might return to “the law of the jungle”.In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s SpaceX as well as Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal papers that advance novel arguments aimed at hobbling and perhaps shutting down the NLRB – the federal agency that enforces labor rights and oversees unionization efforts. Those companies are…

timeThe lay preacher was working at Wheaton Road ahead of Saturday afternoon’s kick-off, holding a battered loudspeaker in one hand and a tattered Bible in the other. It’s been a while since his appearance at Twickenham but he used to be a regular here on match days.He’s definitely back to the old days and thinks England fans could take advantage of the good news after the second half against Scotland at Murrayfield. “We have faith, we have faith, we have faith,” he roared. “Today we are confident.” The lads in flat caps and wax jackets queuing up at roadside pie…