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key eventsShow only key eventsPlease enable JavaScript to use this featureKick off the first half!here we go.updated on 15.17 CETExciting young winger/full-back Ange CapuozzoOf course, it doesn’t start from Italy. He dropped out of school late due to illness.updated on 15.16 Central European TimeI’m optimistic about this game For England, that wasn’t enough. New Italy, new dangers. what do you think?You can send me an email or leave a message on XNational anthem time, begins with a typically dull, plodding “God Save the King.”Italy will win the national anthem battle again.updated on 15.12 Central European Timeteam We are walking towards…

Sarah Greene dressed as the Virgin Mary for a nativity play in 1989 and 2024Sarah Greene in 1989 and 2024. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair and makeup: Jessica Mejia. Archive photograph: courtesy of Sarah GreeneBorn and raised in Cork, in the south-west of Ireland, the theatre, film and television actor Sarah Greene was just six years old when she first stepped on stage, performing in local musical theatre and pantomimes. She later attended Cada Performing Arts school in Cork and then the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, from which she graduated in 2006.Greene’s interpretation of Helen in Martin McDonagh’s…

Despite growing up in a country blessed with noble batsmen and crafty spinners, Jasprit Bumrah was only interested in fast bowling. Not just any type of fast bowling. Bumrah, a TV fan as a child, said before the show began that he was “obsessed” with the fast guys who tumbled tree stumps out of the ground with the yorkers.There were suspicions that Bumrah walked like a lumberjack to Ollie Pope when 1.45pm local time hit the second day of the second Test in Visakhapatnam ’s tree stump, it was suspected that some others might have been converted. The middle stump…

From a highway in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh, Azim Khan Ronnie surveyed his fellow worshippers. Ronnie, a Bangladeshi who now lives in France, had travelled back to his home country to attend Bishwa Ijtema. The annual meeting of millions of Muslims from around the world is the second largest Islamic congregation after the hajj, in Mecca.“Every inch of tarmac and pavement was filled with worshippers,” Ronnie recalls. “Thousands of Muslims gathered to pray, bringing buses and lorries to a grinding halt. Many passengers were praying; the drivers were, too. In the background we could see the colourful tents where the pilgrims sleep. Some of…

Megan Schutt’s teammates were in awe of her stingy milestone performance as Australia beat South Africa by eight wickets in the one-day series opener.The visitors were bowled out for 105 at Adelaide Oval on Saturday, with Shute winning 1-for-1 in five consecutive overs. Australia’s Beth Mooney scored an unbeaten 52 to score 106 for two in 19 overs to win the first of the three-match ODI series.Schutte, the sixth Australian to reach 200 international runs, took the new ball and picked up a wicket off her ninth delivery, with her only loss coming from the inside edge. “It’s an incredible…

Born in Greater Manchester, Phoebe Dynevor, 28, landed a role in the BBC drama Waterloo Road in 2009, at the age of 14. She appeared in period dramas The Village (2014) and Dickensian (2015) before being cast in the American series Younger and moving to the US. She returned to the UK to play the female lead in Bridgerton. Her films include The Colour Room, Bank of Dave and Fair Play. Her next project is the upcoming spy thriller Inheritance, and she is one of Bafta’s rising star nominees for 2024. She lives in London.Which living person do you most admire, and why?My mum…

ISick Boy imparted his philosophy to Renton shortly before shooting an unsuspecting dog in the back with an air rifle in an Edinburgh park. “At one point you’ve got it. Then you lose it and it’s gone forever. All walks of life. For example, George Best. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, Lou Reed .Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley.””So we all get older and we can’t hack it anymore and that’s it? Is that your theory?””Yes.”Andy Murray? The severe effects of the severe injury on his body make Sick Boy’s analysis an oversimplification, but the overall…

Three people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris and the suspect has been arrested, police have said.Two of the victims suffered light wounds while the third person was more seriously injured but was not in a life-threatening situation, police added.The detained man, whose nationality was not revealed, went on a stabbing spree at about 8am (0700 GMT) at the Gare de Lyon, which serves domestic trains as well as those heading to Switzerland and Italy.“The suspect did not cry out [any religious slogans] during his attack,” a police source said.…

Los Angeles police arrested two people this week for spraying graffiti on nearly 30 floors of a vacant and unfinished downtown skyscraper.The label covers a large portion of a tower at the $1 billion Oceanwide Plaza, a stalled mixed-use retail and residential project that has been unfinished since 2019. The site is located across from the Crypto.com Arena, where this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony was held. The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday.There were reports of vandalism being witnessed at the site on several nights this week.”I could see people on the balconies marking things,” street photographer Daron Burgundy…

The questions1 Judith and her husband are the only singing roles in which opera? 2 What suffered from a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” last year? 3 What Dorset landmark is claimed to be an image of Hercules? 4 Which poet climbed Mont Ventoux in Provence in 1336? 5 What was first won in 1903 by the Boston Americans? 6 Whose Gannex raincoat is in the Isles of Scilly museum? 7 In the first world war, what was the dual monarchy? 8 Which lake was created in 1730 by the damming of the River Westbourne? What links: 9 Clanton; McLaury; Claiborne; Earp;…