Author: The Guardian

I have a beautiful daughter who I think is marvellous.She’s in her late 30s and has just completed a master’s degree and bought her first home … on her own. She has lived overseas by herself and is very focused and capable. I’m very proud of her.I know I will probably incur the wrath of some readers for my question but my daughter does not do herself any favours with the way she dresses or the way she lives.She is a little overweight and the clothes she wears are not flattering. That’s her mother’s verdict too, not just mine. She…

Tottenham Hotspur are in talks with Club Brugge over a deal to sign 18-year-old winger Antonio Nousa. The Norwegian is one of the most exciting young players and Brugge are hoping to keep him on loan for the rest of the season for £25m.The Belgian club want to maximize Noosa’s value and rejected Chelsea’s bid for the youngster last summer. Chelsea have maintained an interest in the Norway international but must try to overtake Tottenham in the race to sign him. Spurs have been tracking Noosa for some time and have taken proactive steps to ensure they are in pole…

MondayThere wasn’t much to laugh to about when the Iowa caucus results came in on Monday, although the New York Post, erstwhile endorser of second place candidate, Ron DeSantis, raised a smile with the evidently vein-popping effort it had to put into finding a normal-sounding quote from Donald Trump. “Trump easily wins Iowa caucus in historic landslide, urges unity to ‘straighten out death and destruction’,” was the best they could eke from slim pickings.Results from Iowa famously don’t predict presidential election outcomes; since 1972, when the first caucuses were held, only three winners in Iowa have gone on to become…

Newcomer Alex De Minaur sailed through the first week of the Australian Open with ease as he defeated qualifier Flavio Coboli at the John Cain Arena on Friday night.The No. 10 seed was challenged at times by the 21-year-old upstart, who had to win five matches at Melbourne Park to reach this stage, but the Australian proved too much with a 6-3, 6-3, 6- Stable. 1 win in 128 minutes.De Minaur’s third-round win was his second consecutive against the Italian, taking his winning streak to seven sets after losing to big-server Milos Raonic in the first round on Monday.”I’m happy,…

When I was pregnant – and therefore at the height of my confidence about my parenting skills – I said I’d never be the kind of mother who is dogmatic about screen time. As with breastmilk, refined sugar, sleep and potty-training methodologies, I quickly came to understand that black-and-white thinking around those technicolor pieces of hypnotic technology would only serve to make motherhood even more of a fraught and self-shaming endeavor than it already is.My parents were relatively strict about TV, and then, when a colorful iMac entered our home, about time on “the family computer”. I appreciate the limits…

The World Snooker Tour announced that Saudi Arabia will host the first Snooker Invitational Tournament and introduce a new golden ball to increase the highest single score to 167.The inaugural Riyadh Season World Snooker Masters will take place in March and will see seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan join 2019 world champion Judd Trump and current champion Luca Bressel Now among 10 players.This tournament will introduce a 23rd golden ball, known as the Riyadh Season Ball, which is worth 20 points, but can only be pocketed after completing a maximum score of 147 points. The three-day event will be held…

Populations of wild pigs are crashing due to the spread of African swine fever (ASF), threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on them for food, researchers warn.With a fatality rate of almost 100%, ASF has swept across Asia, Europe and Africa, devastating domestic and wild pig populations over the past 10 to 20 years. The impacts are especially significant in Borneo, in south-east Asia, where bearded pig numbers have declined by between 90% and 100% since it arrived on the island in 2021, researchers said.These pigs were once the most common large mammal species on the island, playing an…

key eventsShow only key eventsPlease enable JavaScript to use this featureLet’s take a quick look at the remaining games: Australian De Minaur defeated Coboli 6-3 in the first set, but 0-1 in the second. An epic is unfolding between Mannarino and Shelton.The French take the top 77-64 But they were eliminated 1-6 in the second game. Shelton now led 2-1 in the third. That has five chess games written all over it. Haddad Maia survived a scare against young player Timofeeva to take the first set 6-5. She led 3-0 at one point, but was dragged back to 3-3. Djokovic…

The prosecution: Sarah It sometimes feels like he thinks I’m Google – or his mum. Why can’t he just look at a clock? Bernard recently broke his left wrist, and as a loving girlfriend, I helped him to tie his shoes and wash his armpits. He stopped wearing his watch then, as it was usually on that wrist. But he got into the habit of asking me the time, even when he was surrounded by clocks, and it became annoying.He’d keep asking me for the time, and I’d think, why can’t you look at the clock yourself? His defence is that he isn’t accustomed…

The Home Office has made a significant shift in the rights of EU citizens in the UK before Brexit, allowing those who missed the deadline to apply for a post-Brexit permanent residence card to remain in the UK.However, campaigners say the decision must be backed up by clearer wording in guidance for case workers, otherwise EU citizens will end up having to “beg” for their rights to be recognized.The change, highlighted by The Guardian, comes after a series of stories of EU citizens facing devastating consequences.Under the Brexit deal, EU citizens living in the UK and Britons living in the…