⚽ Premier League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Weekend talking points | Email Michael Manchester United: Lammens, Yoro, de Ligt, Shaw, Mazraoui, Casemiro, Fernandes, Dorgu, Diallo, Mbeumo, Zirkzee. Subs: Bayindir, Dalot, Martinez, Mount, Malacia, Ugarte, Heaven, Mainoo, Lacey. Everton: Pickford, Garner, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Coleman, Gueye, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Barry. Subs: Travers, King, McNeil, Beto, O’Brien, Dibling, Alcaraz, Aznou, Iroegbunam. Continue reading...

The 28-point plan outlined last week by the US would have delivered peace on Putin’s terms. EU leaders must help Kyiv resist the bullying There was a grim familiarity to the unveiling of Donald Trump’s latest peace proposals for Ukraine last week. As in August, when the US president invited Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, Kyiv and its European allies were excluded from discussions that ended up echoing Kremlin talking points. Yet again, Mr Trump publicly scolded Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not being more grateful for his ongoing mediation efforts. And as in the summer, Mr Zelenskyy and blindsided European leaders strove to stay polite while scrambling to limit the damage. The salvage operation appears to have been relatively successful, following Sunday’s meeting in Geneva between the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and a Ukrainian delegation. The 28-point plan reportedly drafted by Mr Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Kremlin adviser, Kirill Dmitriev, was in effect a repackaging of Mr Putin’s maximalist demands. A deal premised on the handing over of new territory in the Donbas region to Russia, restrictions on Ukraine’s sovereignty, and drastic limits on the size of its future army, could never be acceptable to Kyiv. Mr Rubio, suggesting a more “refined” framework was now being developed, seemed to at least acknowledge this fundamental difficulty. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

A fragile Cop30 consensus is a win. But only a real bargain between rich and poor nations can weather the climate shocks that are coming This year’s UN climate talks in Brazil’s Belém ended without a major breakthrough. The text of the final agreement lacked a deal to shift away from fossil fuels, delayed crucial finance and the “mutirão” decision contained no roadmap to halt and reverse deforestation. But the multilateral system at Cop30 held together at a point when its collapse felt close. This ought to be a warning: next year’s conference of the parties must strike a better bargain between the rich and poor world. Developing countries are far from united on some issues. Over rare earth minerals China sees any move as targeting its dominance, while Africa sees it as essential for governance. Elsewhere petrostates did not support Colombia’s call for a fossil fuel phase-out. Yet the global south broadly coheres around a simple principle: its nations must be equipped to survive a climate emergency they did not create. That means cash to build flood defences, make agricultural systems resilient, protect coastlines and rebuild after disasters strike. They also demand front-loaded finance to transition to clean, green economic growth. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants Each day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourhood of Mahul on Mumbai’s eastern seafront, down streets lined with stalls selling tomatoes, bottle gourds and aubergines–and, frequently, through thick smog. Earlier this year, doctors found three tumours in his 54-year-old mother’s brain. It’s not clear exactly what caused her cancer. But people who live near coal plants are much more likely to develop the illness, studies show, and the residents of Mahul live a few hundred metres down the road from one. Continue reading...

Simon Levy faces charges over the deaths of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39 A man charged with murdering one woman and raping another earlier this year has been charged with a second murder. Simon Levy, 40, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday over the death of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, whose body was found in south London in March. Continue reading...

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Four main food distribution sites operated by the opaque company had been flashpoints of deadly violence A controversial and secretive private company backed by the US and Israel that distributed food in Gaza has announced the end of its operations in the devastated territory. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which had four food distribution sites that became flashpoints of chaos and deadly violence between May and October, said in a statement that it would shut down permanently, having “successfully completed its emergency mission”. Continue reading...

NBA champion accused of playing in rigged games Could face decades in prison if found guilty Portland Trail Blazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several mafia figures and at least one other former NBA player. Billups, who won a championship with the Detroit Pistons as a player, was arraigned in a federal court in New York City on money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy charges, both of which carry a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison. Some of Billups’ co-defendants are also charged with running an illegal gambling business and engaging in an extortion conspiracy. Continue reading...

Tens of thousands of documents were released as part of Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against the network Tens of thousands of pages of exhibits were released on Sunday as part of voting technology company Smartmatic’s $2.7bn defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. Fox News has strenuously denied Smartmatic’s claims and said the company has vastly overstated its value. In a statement, Smartmatic said Fox’s “attempts to delay accountability won’t work, and its day of reckoning is coming”. Continue reading...

Decision to remove children comes after parents and three daughters ate poisonous mushrooms and ended up in hospital The decision by an Italian court to take three children being brought up in the woods away from their British-Australian parents has sparked a fierce debate in the country over alternative lifestyles. Nathan Trevallion, a former chef from Bristol, and his wife, Catherine Birmingham, a former horse-riding teacher from Melbourne, bought a dilapidated property in a wooded area in Palmoli, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, in 2021. Continue reading...

Judge says interim US attorney for eastern district of Virginia had ‘no lawful authority’ to indict former FBI director and New York attorney general US politics live – latest updates A federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully appointed. Lindsey Halligan, who Trump named the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in September, had “no lawful authority to present the indictment” against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, wrote in her opinion. Continue reading...

After bitter arguments, threatened walkouts and heated all-night negotiations, delegates eventually reached a deal this weekend at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. To unpick what was achieved and what was left out, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, who has been following every twist and turn End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

The sport may have jumped from the gaming-fuelled bandwagon just in the nick of time After many months of campaigning, an unprecedented “strike” when racing relocated to London to make its voice heard and an intervention by a former prime minister, no less, the UK’s second-biggest spectator sport will soon discover whether its concerted, and impressively united, effort to avert a tax hike on racing bets, has paid off. With all due respect to the competitors at Wetherby, Market Rasen and Southwell on Wednesday, the main event for racing will be the 12.30 at Westminster, as Rachel Reeves rises to deliver her much-anticipated budget speech. The only result that can be ruled out with confidence is that gambling duties will be left untouched. There is a gaping black hole to be filled in the public finances and the UK’s gambling industry, which had a Gross Gambling Yield (total stakes minus total payouts) of £15.6bn in the 2023-24 financial year, could scarcely be a more tempting target. Continue reading...

Late equaliser was a kick in the teeth for Eder Sarabia’s plucky promoted side who threatened first win since 1970s “It sounds a little crazy,” David Affengruber said but it didn’t sound crazy at all, not to anyone who had actually been watching. “We only come into this league this year and we’re a little bit disappointed to get a point against Real Madrid,” Elche’s Austrian centre-back concluded, standing at the side of the pitch where, Sunday’s game at the Estadio Martínez Valero finally over, a handful of kids and Endrick were now allowed to run about a bit. It was late and the stands had emptied, 31,024 people heading out the gates and into the night, but he was still in kit and sliders. Together, they’d had a lot of fun yet there was “frustration” too, he said. Which was one way of putting it, as calmly understated as his play, but there were others. And if that was like him, this was like his coach, rarely one to hold back. A little bit disappointed How about bloody annoyed? Eder Sarabia had just watched his side, runners-up in segunda last season, score as many in one night as Madrid had allowed in five; seen a team who hadn’t won since September and a club who hadn’t won against Madrid since the 1970s get a 2-2 draw against league leaders who had only dropped points twice; and witnessed his men match a monster with a budget 19 times bigger, subs more expensive than all of Elche’s players ever, and a left-back whose cost could cover his entire club for a year. But was he happy? Continue reading...

Venues designed for people to smash things up safely are seeing an enormous rise in bookings. But why? And what explains the pronounced gender gap? Name: Rage rooms. Appearance: Full of old appliances and angry women. Continue reading...

I worried about nuclear war throughout my childhood, partly because it was the 80s, and partly because we were always demonstrating against it. On this important day, I knew where I needed to be ... It would have been my late mother’s birthday last Monday, and because I am either astronomically stupid or fathomlessly wise, I elected to spend it at a public meeting about nuclear disarmament. I’d call it a blast from the past, except I feel superstitious about introducing explode-y words too near the nuclear topic. I spent my entire childhood worrying about nuclear war, partly because it was the 80s, and everyone did, and partly because we spent our lives demonstrating against it. We had “Protest and Survive” stickers everywhere, in droll parody of the public information booklet “Protect and Survive”, along with “Nuclear Power? No Thanks”. We were also early adopters of climate change anxiety, while fiercely against the closure of coalmines. If you’re wondering where we expected to get our power from, well, obviously we didn’t need central heating: the combination of political fervour and long johns was very warming. When I say we, of course I mean “my mother”; my sister and I had very little agency in this quest for peace. Continue reading...

Countries that contributed least to historical emissions don’t seek charity but fairness, writes Nirbhay Rana. Plus, a letter by John Green As a researcher working on sustainability and labour-intensive sectors such as fashion and textiles, I see every day how climate impacts are intensifying in regions that contributed least to historical emissions (Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point, 22 November). In India, rising heat, unpredictable rainfall and water scarcity already disrupt cotton cultivation, small weaving clusters and garment production hubs. These communities are expected to adapt and decarbonise, yet they receive almost none of the meaningful support that would make such a transition viable. The gap between what developing nations require and what is currently offered is not only a financial gap, it is also a structural gap created by unequal development. Treating climate finance as a loan-driven obligation rather than a shared responsibility undermines the very idea of a just transition. Debt cannot be the pathway to climate resilience for the global south. Continue reading...

Danielle Ward’s father-daughter sitcom has found its feet and is stuffed with sublime one-liners, acerbic wit, daftness, love and joy ‘How’s yer downstairs?” bellows West End Curls manager Rita (Sarah Hadland) at the scrunched-up ball of postnatal exhaustion that is Gemma (Aimee Lou Wood). “I had a C-section, Rita,” sighs Gemma from the depths of her (deeply) distressed leather jacket. “Remember?” “Oh,” replies her boss, crestfallen. “The upstairs, then?” The upstairs, alas, is stuffed. Gemma’s norks are “in agony”, her lactation-based woes exacerbated by sleep deprivation and the fact that her insufferable berk of a mother is currently stuffing the spare room with statement cushions and endless unasked-for reflections on her butcher boyfriend’s cleaver. “It’s been three months now,” says Gemma, fixing Rita with a thousand-nappy stare. “It’s hell.” Daddy Issues series two aired on BBC One and is available on iPlayer. Continue reading...

Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes Your article (Why are flights in the UK so often cheaper than taking the train?, 19 November) states that “it can still come as a surprise when getting on a plane looks like the money-saving choice compared with taking the train”. I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone, given that we’ve all seen eye-watering prices for rail travel and are bombarded with adverts for £20 flights to Nice. We’ve all read the stories of people who flew from one UK city to another via Mallorca or some such location because it was cheaper than getting the train. It does come as a surprise, though, that there’s no tax on aviation fuel. I’m the director of the charity Flight Free UK and I speak to a huge number of people about air travel. They are almost always shocked to discover that there’s no tax on the fuel. Continue reading...

The “solution” to today’s puzzle Earlier today I set a puzzle which is extremely hard to answer if you are not a soap bubble. The four towns Continue reading...

Experts unpack the common myth of menstruating people’s cycles synchronizing when they’re in close proximity for long enough Tell us: what are the best and worst gifts you’ve ever received? To be someone who menstruates means continuously trying to untangle fact from fiction. Is it true that you can’t swim on your period? No. Does the scent of a person menstruating attract bears? Also no. There is one period rumor I’ve always kind of enjoyed, though: when women are in close proximity for long enough, their menstrual cycles will eventually sync up, also known as “menstrual synchrony”. I’ve had several friends over the years claim that my period had yanked them on to my cycle. Body composition: A high BMI is associated with irregular cycles, says Kling. Age: “Menses can be irregular in adolescents and as people approach menopause,” says Jensen. Psychological stress: Depression can disrupt a person’s cycle. Medication, such as birth control. Medical conditions, such as thyroid disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome or menopause. Lifestyle factors, such as smoking, alcohol and caffeine consumption, diet and physical activity. Continue reading...

The introduction of an intermediary court that has not been properly piloted is not the answer when other efficiencies plaguing the system could be tackled first, says Barbara Mills of the Bar Council Your report (MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul, 20 November) confirms that next month the government will respond to the first part of the Leveson review into criminal courts, which includes the potential curtailing of the right to jury trial for certain offences through the introduction of a new intermediary court – the crown court bench division (CCBD). The Bar Council welcomes many of the recommendations in Brian Leveson’s report, but we regard the introduction of an intermediary court as a time-consuming measure that requires legislative change and hinges on increasing court resources that could be better diverted to the existing estate. Continue reading...

Bob Forster doesn’t think an anaesthetist’s wage is unreasonable. Plus a letter from Martin Ryle Your correspondent (Letters, 19 November) recounts her career as a doctor in the NHS where, despite rising to senior consultant, her final year’s salary before tax was just over £100,000, a figure she defines as “a bit pathetic”. To most Guardian readers, that figure is a small fortune. By way of comparison, after 37 years as a primary school teacher, including 24 years as a head, my final salary was £50,000, a figure that I found perfectly acceptable as reward for a challenging and immensely satisfying role. Bob Forster Shipton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire • Presumably the retired consultant anaesthetist Elizabeth Taylor was aware that many of those who worked with her on the wards would have been expected to get by on less than half that amount? I wonder what word she would use to describe their pay? Martin Ryle Lewes, East Sussex Continue reading...

The US president has reportedly asked Paramount for a fourth instalment of the cop comedy starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Whether he wants an acting credit or has suddenly come over all inclusive remains to be seen It is said that by 328BC, having made empires kneel to him, Alexander the Great wept … for there were no more worlds to conquer. Similarly, having solved the Middle East and Ukraine issues with only a couple of technicalities to iron out and put an end to so many other wars as well, Donald Trump may also be tempted to sob at having run out of important tasks. And yet, just as he is about to kneel in anguish on the Oval Office carpet, he is apparently perking up at the thought of one more mighty challenge. Continue reading...

Unimetals, which operates at 27 UK locations, files winding–up petition after failing to find a buyer Business live – latest updates More than 650 workers face the prospect of redundancy after the scrap metals group Unimetals filed for compulsory liquidation. The owners of Unimetals Recycling (UK) filed a winding-up petition for the business on Monday, after failing to find a buyer. Continue reading...