Author: The Guardian

Jurgen Klopp’s last dance was performed by tired limbs. Liverpool’s injury list continues to grow, and if the reason for Klopp’s departure is that he is exhausted, then his players may be exhausted as well. Victory at Brentford kept Liverpool top of the Premier League, but only after Curtis Jones, Darwin Nunez (who scored the opener) and Diogo Jota (who provided the goals) ) and other important players were injured. “As long as we have 11 players we will give it our all,” Klopp said after watching Liverpool play what he described as “a very good game in difficult circumstances”.While…

As a parent, you prepare yourself for various milestones: their first tooth, first step, first word. But here we were, my eldest daughter, Raffaella, and I, and it was her first real push asking for social media. She was 14. She had talked about it before, but more in curiosity – this time she was serious. She wanted it; specifically Snapchat. And she was at the negotiating table with that focused, steely look in her eye that I have always admired.I started negotiations with a simple question: “Why?” Her reasons were all to do with not wanting to feel left…

This England team has each other’s backs, so when Ben Duckett sat in front of the tape recorder on his third night at Rajkot – a day shy of his deserved century – it was inevitable that he would step up for Joe Root defends.Unfortunately for Duckett, Root is one of the main issues for the British side. His attempted back-tackle from Jasprit Bumrah in the morning continued an unusual run of low scores that triggered England’s 95-8 defeat in just over two hours. Team India gained the upper hand.Root’s highest score on tour so far was No. 29 on…

I have been with my husband since I was 15. We have grown up with each other through school, university, first jobs and into adulthood; but the one thing that he didn’t sign up for was being lumbered with a perpetually sick person. Four years into our relationship, on Valentine’s Day, I was rushed into hospital and diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease.My days can sometimes revolve around my condition – but so do his. From hospital appointments, to days when I’m too unwell to leave my bed and having to constantly deal with the changing…

timeHe begins to rot from the Root. It happened on the third morning of the five-over match at the sun-drenched Niranjan Shah Cricket Stadium. The moment left those bleary-eyed England fans groaning in their cereals as they rang their alarm clocks on Saturday morning, promising more high-octane Stokes shenanigans. In fact, it may be too early to make ends meet. At 4:22 a.m. UK time, a little before 10 a.m. local time, modern-day England batting prince Joe Root playfully jumped at his crease and tried to throw a ball to Jasprit Bhutto. Jasprit Bumrah reverse tackle.You may be familiar with…

Zara Larsson in 2008 and 2023Zara Larsson in 2008 and 2024. Later photograph: Pål Hansen. Styling: Andie Redman. Makeup: India Rawlings. Archive image: courtesy of Zara LarssonBorn in Stockholm in 1997, pop star Zara Larsson first shot to fame in 2008 as the winner of Talang, otherwise known as Sweden’s Got Talent. She signed to Ten Records in Sweden at the age of 14, and enjoyed homegrown success until her career launched internationally in 2014. Aside from her own albums, including the platinum-selling So Good, which remains one of the most-streamed debuts by a female artist on Spotify, her vocals have featured on hit singles such as…

Inherent in England’s approach under Ben Stokes and Brendan McCullum is that a certain amount of waste is acceptable, but in the middle of the middle Test of this epic five-match series One day this entered the realm of British water companies.That’s where they rested when they hopped on the team bus at 7.45am. Ravichandran Ashwin missed the game due to a family emergency and overnight talk of a possible replacement was silenced by the cold and grueling reality of ICC match conditions. It was a scintillating stage after Ben Duckett produced a stunning unbeaten century the previous night as…

Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling on Friday concludes the nearly century-long history of the Trump Organization in New York in disgrace and ruin. For his financial fraud, Donald Trump must pay $355m in fines. He is suspended for three years from doing business in New York. His sons – Donald, Jr, and Eric, executives of the company – are barred for two years. “New York means business in combating business fraud,” the judge stated in his decision. The Trump brand is now adjudicated to be synonymous with fraud and failure.“In order to borrow more and at lower rates, defendants submitted blatantly…

From Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue to Trump Tower on Wall Street, from Trump World Tower next to the United Nations to the Trump International Hotel overlooking Central Park, Donald Trump has stamped himself in gold letters on New York City’s skyscrapers name.The real estate empire was Trump’s springboard from tabloid news personality to reality TV star and eventually to the presidency, all built on his self-created image as America’s most famous businessman.While Trump’s business acumen and the true scale of his wealth have long been questioned, a New York judge on Friday forever tarnished his gilded image, finding Trump…

Born in Hertfordshire, Rantzen, 83, was educated at Oxford University. In 1973, she began presenting That’s Life!, a popular BBC show which ran for 21 years. In 1986, she founded Childline, and later the Silver Line, which is now part of Age UK. In 2023, she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and joined Dignitas. She supports the UK campaign for Dignity in Dying, which has launched a petition for assisted dying to be debated in parliament. She lives in the New Forest and has three children with her late husband, the documentary maker Desmond Wilcox.What is your greatest…