Footage circulating on social media appears to show the moment a missile fell near a residential area in Doha. Qatar's defence ministry said its air defences successfully intercepted several missiles. Explosions were reported in Gulf nations including the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, all of which host US military bases US-Israeli attack on Iran – live updates US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far Continue reading...

Regime could try to retain control of streets as US and Israel have expressed no intention of mounting ground invasion Venezula’s Nicholás Maduro was captured. But Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have chosen a different strategy for Iran: to target and aim to kill the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, , and as many other senior regime figures as possible. Though Iranian military sites and its air defence systems were also targeted by coordinated US and Israeli bombing, beginning in the morning, the most significant attack was on Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. Continue reading...

The starkest improvement under the interim manager has been the Slovenian supersub’s attacking potency Benjamin Sesko’s career at Manchester United breaks into two distinct periods. In the first, he played 1,404 minutes of football and scored two goals. In the second, he has played 274 minutes and scored six goals: 702 minutes per goal and then 45 minutes 40 seconds per goal. There’s a very obvious explanation. On 4 January, Sesko toiled in a 1-1 draw at Leeds. He didn’t manage a shot on target. He completed only 76% of his passes. He didn’t attempt a dribble but still lost possession five times. He was caught offside twice. On 5 January, Ruben Amorim was sacked. Continue reading...

From Epstein to tariffs: the strikes function as an attempt to hijack the global narrative and drown out domestic scandal with the thunder of cruise missiles In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq without deciding whether it should. The George W Bush administration failed to ask whether the costs, risks and likely consequences of regime change justified the gamble. The result was tragedy – for Iraq, for the Middle East and for America. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran now follows the same pattern – but with an even narrower logic of performative power. In the run-up to Iraq, Washington devoted enormous energy to planning the invasion. Almost no attention was given to the more important question: was war necessary, and could it realistically produce a stable political outcome? Christopher S Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Continue reading...

Body of Nathan Smith, known professionally as DJ Young Slade, found in pond north of Atlanta in February The son of the rapper Lil Jon drowned after ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms, officials in the US state of Georgia said. The body of Nathan Smith, known professionally as DJ Young Slade, was found in a pond north of Atlanta in early February. Continue reading...

After undergoing double bypass surgery two years ago, the band’s frontman talks about his band’s chaotic reputation, making it up to his fans, and his dream sandwich You and I have something very serious in common – we’ve both had open heart surgery in the last few years. I’m fine, but it changed me, so I was curious to know if it changed you too. Oh, on more than one level. The issue isn’t me dying; it’s having to address mortality. It’s constantly on my mind now. I’m 58, I’m thin as a twig, I grew up on the coast eating fish, I was a vegetarian for 12 years. I did, however, drink – mostly hard alcohol – and I have smoked [Anton periodically drags on a cigarette throughout our hour-long conversation]. I thought I was like a teenager. But my life expectancy, because I smoked, is probably less than five years now. Continue reading...

Comedian Steph Tisdell had a delightful old-fashioned courtship with Jessie – and was struck by her small, everyday acts of kindness Find more stories from The moment I knew series In my early 30s I’d decided I didn’t want to swipe right on another man holding a fish on dating apps and I was taking tentative steps into the world of dating women in my home base of Brisbane. Things hadn’t got off to a great start and as I tried to refine my approach, a friend posed a question that I’d foolishly never really considered: what did I actually want in a partner? Continue reading...

The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive US-Israeli attack on Iran – live updates US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack. At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh all girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for. Continue reading...

Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters The Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a “pro-Kremlin” network in emails to GCHQ despite having claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” about a PR firm’s investigation into their journalism. Simons, who had been a Cabinet office minister, previously ran the thinktank Labour Together. He quit on Saturday, saying his position in office had become “a distraction from this government’s important work.”The Makerfield MP had faced mounting pressure over his role in Labour Together’s commissioning of the lobbying and public affairs agency APCO to investigate journalists reporting on the thinktank’s failure to disclose political donations. Continue reading...

Pakistan 212-8. Sri Lanka 207-6. Pakistan win by five runs New Zealand into semi-finals on net run-rate Pakistan went out of the T20 World Cup despite a five-run victory against Sri Lanka in the Group Two Super 8s match in Pallekele on Saturday. Their inferior net run rate meant Pakistan had to win convincingly against Sri Lanka in order to pip New Zealand and join group winners England in the semi-finals. Continue reading...

Barcelona teenager floors Villarreal in 4-1 home victory Bremen end 13-game winless run against Heidenheim Lamine Yamal scored the first hat-trick of his career as Barcelona beat visitors Villarreal 4-1 on Saturday to move four points clear of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. Barcelona have 64 points while second-placed Real are on 60 points before they host Getafe on Monday. Villarreal remain a distant third on 51. Lamine Yamal put the hosts ahead in the 28th minute after Fermin Lopez robbed Pape Gueye and slipped a pass down the right for the 18-year-old to finish low inside the left post. He doubled the lead nine minutes later with a dazzling solo run, controlling a long ball on the right wing before cutting inside past Sergi Cardona and Alberto Moleiro to curl an unstoppable shot into the top corner. This story will be updated Continue reading...

The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another act of Middle Eastern regime change It was another date which will live in infamy. But whereas President Franklin Roosevelt declared war in sombre tones to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump did it his way. The US president wore a white cap “USA” cap, dark jacket and white shirt open at the collar. He stood at a blue lectern bearing the US presidential seal and a black microphone, with the Stars and Stripes behind him, presumably at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. He released a video on his own social media network, Truth Social, at 2.30am on Saturday – a time when most Americans are asleep but Trump is often found rage tweeting into the night. Continue reading...

As rain fell, incessantly, on Tyneside, Eddie Howe wandered around the pitch alone, his face taut and in an apparent daze. The final whistle had just gone and Newcastle manager’s knew any lingering hopes of a top-six finish were surely blown with it. Continue reading...

Burnley’s spirited fightback counted for nothing as Mikkel Damsgaard struck in injury time to earn Brentford a dramatic 4-3 victory at Turf Moor. The Brentford manager, Keith Andrew, looked to celebrate his new long-term deal with a comfortable win amid a mutinous atmosphere when first-half goals from Damsgaard, Igor Thiago and Kevin Schade put the visitors three up. Continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson watched on as Hearts defeated Aberdeen 1-0 to move seven points clear of Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership. Ferguson, the last manager to win the title with a team that was not Celtic or Rangers when his Aberdeen side were back-to-back champions from 1983-85, was at Tynecastle as a guest of the Hearts coach, Derek McInnes, and he saw Cláudio Braga score what proved to be the only goal of the game just before the half-hour mark. Continue reading...

The contrasting strengths of Liverpool and West Ham are reflected on the balance sheet, the team sheet and ultimately the score sheet. Arne Slot’s side improved their prospects of qualifying for the Champions League with a commanding victory at Anfield, underpinned by their newfound prowess at set pieces. In the week Liverpool announced record overall revenue of £703m in their latest accounts, most of it ploughed back into the bank balances of a title-winning team, West Ham warned they will have to sell players this summer whether they avoid relegation or not having suffered a £104.2m loss in the same financial year. Their prospects of staying up appear increasing slim, despite Nuno Espírito Santo’s team impressing in flashes at Anfield. Continue reading...

CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the move on Friday night. It came after an agreement between Anthropic, a rival AI company that runs the Claude system, and the Trump administration broke down after Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be used for mass surveillance – nor for autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input. Continue reading...

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, a new wave of challengers targets incumbents, driven by fury at Donald Trump They are impatient, unafraid and hungry for change. Inspired by Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in last year’s New York mayoral race, a wave of insurgents is mounting primary challenges against Democratic incumbents ahead of November’s midterm elections. The emboldened lineup of primary challengers – often, but not always, from the party’s progressive wing – has been fuelled by anger over the party’s tepid response to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, complicity in the war in Gaza and a crushing affordability crisis. Continue reading...

Designers seek to shake off controversy over January show with emphasis on ‘instantly recognisable’ womenswear Neither Dolce nor Gabbana would comment on the all-white casting that clouded their menswear show in January, though it seems they read the headlines. More than a third of the looks at their womenswear show in Milan on Saturday were modelled by women of colour. Instead, they wanted to talk about identity. Not politics, but more tellingly, theirs. “Our collections speak to us, our identity, our values,” said the pair after the show. “We never wanted to follow trends.” Their aim instead, they said, was to make “instantly recognisable” clothes that “when you see [them] … you think: ‘Oh, that’s Dolce & Gabbana,’ without reading the label.” Continue reading...

Members of Congress swiftly denounced the president’s military action against the Islamic Republic alongside Israel US-Israeli attack on Iran – live updates US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far Donald Trump’s failure to build a case with the US public for striking Iran and then going ahead apparently without even alerting Congress’s key national security experts – the so-called “gang of eight” – has fuelled fierce domestic criticism of the military action against the Islamic Republic on Saturday. Belying the gravity of Saturday’s attacks, the president spent just three minutes of Tuesday’s State of the Union address trying to explain why the need to act against a regime that had been a strategic foe for decades had suddenly become so urgent and whose nuclear facilities he claimed to have “obliterated” in previous strikes last June. Continue reading...

Lucy Powell calls for party to make more use of Greater Manchester mayor after Gorton and Denton defeat Andy Burnham would have won the Gorton and Denton byelection, Labour’s deputy leader said as she called for the party to make more use of the Greater Manchester mayor. Labour fell to third in the previously rock-solid seat on Thursday, with the Greens winning a fifth seat in parliament and Reform UK coming second. Continue reading...

Missiles and bombs landed across the country, hitting key security and political targets in Tehran including the residence of the supreme leader US-Israeli attack on Iran – live updates US and Israel strikes on Iran – what we know so far The US and Israel have announced the beginning of an unprecedented joint operation against Iran, beginning with a wide-ranging bombing campaign aimed at regime change. Israeli jets and US missiles struck hundreds of targets across Iran, sending residents fleeing in panic from major urban centres. Among the targets were Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, and Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as weapons facilities across the country. Continue reading...

Dutch rider triumphs on debut in Belgian Classic Van der Poel launches attacks on Muur of Geraardsbergen The Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel broke away 16km from the finish line and soloed to victory at the season-opening cobbled classic Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday. The former road race world champion entered the classic on the back of a record eighth cyclo-cross world title where he was unbeaten all winter. Continue reading...

⚽ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Scott Leeds United are going well, just one defeat in their last eight games, so if it ain’t broke, etc. They name the same XI that started the 1-1 draw at Aston Villa. Manchester City’s big news: there’s no Erling Haaland. Rayan Cherki takes his starting spot, the only change from the 2-1 win over Newcastle United last weekend. Continue reading...

Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying Nomma Zarubina, 35, now sits in a New York jail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to charges that she lied to the FBI about her contacts with the FSB, Russia’s biggest domestic intelligence service. But, in a playbook that comes straight from the cold war, the striking-looking Zarubina – known as “Alyssa” to her Russian handlers – was tasked with meeting prominent Americans in order to lure them into the orbit of Moscow intelligence. Continue reading...