Author: The Guardian

No matter how your phone gets soaked – you’re caught in a downpour, you drop it in the bath, or you fall in a pool – perhaps the best-known folk remedy is to put the device in a bag of rice. The dry, absorbent rice should help suck out the moisture, rescuing your device, so the theory goes. Experts have pointed out that’s a bad idea for years – and now Apple is officially warning users not to do it.“Don’t put your iPhone in a bag of rice. Doing so could allow small particles of rice to damage your iPhone,”…

Doyle Malen scored a fine goal against his former club in Tuesday’s last-16 first leg tie against Borussia Dortmund at the Philips Stadium, but Luke de Jong’s second-half penalty earned PSV Eindhoven It was a tie.Dutch international Malen shot hard from a small angle in the 24th minute, but the home team created better opportunities and finally pulled the ball back after De Jong scored from a penalty kick.The goal took PSV’s unbeaten run in all competitions to 31 games and set up an even tie for the second leg in Dortmund on March 13.”We should make the game calmer,”…

Ruby Franke, a mother of six who gave online parenting advice via a popular YouTube channel, was sentenced to four prison terms of between one and 15 years each, on aggravated child abuse charges on Tuesday.Franke, 42, who had 2.3 million followers on her now-deleted 8 Passengers video channel, was arrested in the southern Utah city of Ivins last August after her malnourished 12-year-old son, with open wounds and bound with duct tape, climbed out of a window at the home of Jodi Hildebrandt, owner of a self-improvement counseling business, to ask for food and water from a neighbor.One of…

Andy Murray took the first step out of the worst slump of his career by beating France’s Alexandre Muller for much of the match before going into Qatar Open with 6-1 confidence towards the end. Second round. 7-6(5) win.Murray, who has never lost more than four games in a row in his 21-year career, has lost six straight on the court in Doha, with his last victory coming in October. “The last few months have been really difficult for me on the court,” he said later. “Didn’t win a lot of games, lost a lot of close games, and it…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature54 min: After a very poor giveaway by City, Wissa wins a free kick from about 30 yards while surrounded by four blue shirts with nowhere to go. Not the best sequence for the champions, but Brentford can’t make them pay.51 min: A nicely struck attempt from Rodri just outside the area, but it sails just wide right of the target.49 min: City keep possession for more than three minutes in the final third before winning a corner. Can they convert? It’s played short to Bobb, who gives to…

An eight-year-old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest chess player to defeat a grandmaster.According to the “Singapore Star” report, 806-year-old Ashwath Kaushik performed for three hours at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open in Switzerland. After defeating 37-year-old Polish grandmaster Jacek Stopa on Sunday in a chess match.Kaushik broke the age record set just days earlier when Serbian Leonid Ivanovic (8 years and 11 months) defeated 59-year-old Bulgarian Mirko Bochev.”It’s a very exciting and amazing feeling to be able to beat my first grandmaster on the chessboard, and it’s classical [chess] So I’m very proud of myself,” Kaushik, an Indian citizen…

Donald Trump finished 45th and rock bottom of a list ranking US presidents by greatness, trailing even “historically calamitous chief executives” who failed to stop the civil war or botched its aftermath.Worse for the likely Republican nominee this year, his probable opponent, Joe Biden, debuted at No 14.“Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,” Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the political scientists behind the survey, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.Rottinghaus,…

England and Wales Cricket Board’s failure to respond to Lord Botham’s criticism of a major report into discrimination in the sport shows England and Wales’ failure to respond to criticism of discrimination in the sport, chairman told MPs The cricket board lacks a “backbone”.A report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, released last June, found that racism is deeply entrenched in cricket and that women in the sport often suffer sexism and misogyny. Research finds cricket remains an elite sport with little focus on addressing class barriers.The 68-year-old former England all-rounder and Durham University chairman Botham described the…

Peel 500g of pumpkin or butternut squash and cut the flesh into pieces roughly 2cm square. Put a pan of water on to boil, then place a steamer basket or colander over the top. Tip the cubes of pumpkin or squash into the steamer and cover with a lid. Steam for about 8-10 minutes until tender at the point of a knife.Peel and finely slice 1 large onion. Warm 4 tbsp of groundnut or vegetable oil in a large, deep-sided frying pan over a moderate heat, then add the onion and let it fry for about 8-10 minutes until it…

The brightest known object in the universe, a quasar 500 times brighter than the sun, is “hiding in plain sight,” researchers say.Australian scientists have discovered a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole ever discovered. Its mass is about 17 billion times that of the solar system’s sun, and it devours energy equivalent to one sun every day.It takes more than 12 billion years for light from celestial bodies to reach Earth.Scientists from the Australian National University first discovered it using a 2.3-meter telescope at the university’s Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran, New South Wales. They then confirmed the discovery…