Author: The Guardian

I met Veruni on November 11, 1994. My band, Violent Femmes, played at a club in Baltimore called Hammerjacks. This is your typical greasy rock club.While we were performing that night, I noticed this incredibly beautiful woman staring at me. This is not unusual in my line of work, but she definitely caught my attention. But I was on stage and I was a little busy, so I couldn’t invite her for a beer.A few minutes after the show ended, she walked into the dressing room. Now, the mechanism for this to happen is that our sound guy is not…

This is an edited version of a Full Story podcast from the series, The Tale I Dine Out On.The year was 1979 and I remember it quite fondly. I was a proud resident of south-east Queensland, the Redcliffe Peninsula. I turned 15 and my father got me a part-time job at Coles, which was very funny. They had a ramp that led up to a variety department. They really should have had an escalator because the ramp was incredibly steep. But they obviously thought christ, Redcliffe, we’re not putting an escalator in there. The bastards don’t even know how to…

With the baton likely to be passed at the end of England’s third-day fightback, Joe Root insists Ollie Pope has set a new benchmark for his team-mates in subcontinent conditions and shown they can match India’s Spinners compete.Root, who has five Test centuries and over 2,000 Test runs in Asia, is clearly the go-to batsman for the team to look to for advice. But the former captain told them to look elsewhere after watching Pope’s masterclass in the first Test in Hyderabad, an innings that helped turn a 190-run deficit into 126 lead, 6 wickets behind.”I’ve watched a lot of…

The UK is to pause funding for the UN’s key aid agency for Palestinian refugees after allegations that several of its employees took part in Hamas’s 7 October attacks in Israel last year.The announcement comes after the US state department said it would provide no additional funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency until the allegations were addressed. Australia, Italy and Canada have also paused funding for the agency.A statement from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: “The UK is appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous…

In 1943, a two-year-old boy was found wandering the streets of the Warsaw ghetto at the height of the Jewish uprising, probably smuggled out in a backpack by a policeman.The identity of the child cannot be known. No one even confirmed the name. He spent his early life in an orphanage, still not immune to anti-Semitism and without truly understanding what it meant to be a parent.Five months ago, the boy, now 83, discovered a family thanks to an American woman’s desire to trace her ancestry, a Polish scholar’s curiosity about the plight of Holocaust orphans and advances in DNA…

The US is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years amid a growing threat from Russia, according to a report. Warheads three times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb would be located at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk under the proposals, the Telegraph reported.The US previously placed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath and removed them in 2008 after the cold war threat from Moscow receded. Pentagon documents seen by the newspaper reveal procurement contracts for a new facility at the airbase.A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “It remains a longstanding UK and Nato…

A New York City jury on Friday awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her defamation trial against Donald Trump.Carroll will receive $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive penalties. Trump paid Carroll $18.3 million to $11 million in damages to fund a reputation repair campaign. The $7.3 million is for emotional harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements. Carol was all smiles as she and her legal team left court in a black SUV. They did not immediately answer questions after the court’s verdict.Shortly after the decision was announced, Trump denounced the decision as “absolutely ridiculous”…

The fight between Texas and the federal government over the control of the US-Mexico border has further intensified after state governor Greg Abbott announced he will defy the Biden administration and US supreme court by ordering the installation of even more razor wire to deter migration.On Monday, the supreme court voted 5-4 in favor of the federal government’s power to remove the controversial concertina wire installed along stretches of the border in Texas, at Abbott’s direction. Despite this, Abbott, a hard-right Republican, is intensifying his plans to try and fence off parts of the US border with Mexico.Federal agents were…

West Ham have strengthened their midfield by signing Manchester City’s Kalvin Phillips on loan for the remainder of the season, and they can raise funds for further signings by selling Pablo Fornals to Real Betis. .Fornals’ contract expires at the end of the season and Betis has also considered a loan move, with the intention of making a bid after completing the sale of Luis Enrique to Botafogo. A return to Spain would suit the midfielder, while the £24m sale of a player who joined from Villarreal in 2019 would be a boost for West Ham, Because they want to…

The prosecution: Lara I cringe when he picks up a beaten-up plastic bottle in the gym, and I’m sick of seeing them in our flat My boyfriend John is an almost professional gym-goer, and plays football every weekend. He’s 6ft 4in and always exercising. He constantly gets stopped by other guys, who ask him for workout and muscle-building tips. Fitness is his life.John works in accounting but the gym, counting his protein and maintaining his build, is his side-hustle. But despite this, he is opposed to buying a proper water bottle. He carries around a big plastic one and only…