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EasyJet cuts winter losses despite cancelled flights due to Israel-Gaza war

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Airline says demand has rebounded, with strong bookings at its holiday arm

Football coaching boosts wellbeing of troubled pupils, study finds

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Charity that uses football to help pupils build relationships found to improve happiness in Greater Manchester project

Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers : photos of the day – Thursday

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The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world

Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government

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Google workers linked to No Tech for Apartheid denounce ‘flagrant act of retaliation’ in dispute over $1.2bn cloud contract

London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames

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National Theatre, London With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimaging of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir

Political uncertainty in Croatia as ruling party wins most seats but no majority

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Conservative Croatian Democratic Union and second-placed Social Democratic party separately say they will try to form majority

‘My soul mate’: Warwick Davis pays tribute to wife Samantha who has died aged 53

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Harry Potter star described wife, who founded dwarfism charity Little People UK, as ‘greatest love of his life’

Trump lawyers say they tried to serve subpoena to Stormy Daniels last month

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Process server allegedly approached adult film star at Brooklyn nightclub seeking information related to recent documentary

Mark Menzies suspended from role as unpaid trade envoy to Colombia, says No 10 – UK politics live

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MP suspended from role as envoy aimed at boosting trade with Colombia, Chile, Peru and Argentina after allegations he misused campaign funds

76ers and Embiid shrug off boos to set up playoff meeting with Knicks

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Joel Embiid showed why Philadelphia always have a shot at a long postseason run when he’s in the lineup.

FA Cup replays and Premier League winter break scrapped from next season

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The FA has agreed to overhaul the format of the FA Cup in an attempt to secure the future of the competition, with replays to be dropped – starting from the first round proper – and the final moved from its position as the traditional end…

‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’ Did Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?

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Tom Ripley is meant to be a master of disguise – so why does he end up in such a rubbish rug? Here’s where Andrew Scott’s daft do sits in the pantheon of preposterous hairpieces

Husband of jailed Russian blogger signs up for Ukraine war to secure her release

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Alexei Blinovsky reported to have joined unit popular with politicians and VIPs keen to curry favour with the Kremlin

Dining across the divide: ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

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They both vote Labour and listen to The Rest Is Politics, but will they agree on the royal family or arming Ukraine?

Britain’s defence policy is more like one big declaration of war | Owen Jones

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Instead of stockpiling weapons and stoking fears of coming conflict, we should be focusing on keeping the peace

Sydney church stabbing: police charge 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence

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Bishop and priest were injured in alleged terror incident at church in suburb of Wakeley on Monday

Dorset couple find 17th-century treasure hoard while renovating kitchen

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‘Poorton coin hoard’, discovered under floor by Betty and Robert Fooks, expected to fetch £35,000 at auction

Cheeky Little Brown review – raucous solo show about a splintering friendship

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Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Nkenna Akunna’s monologue follows a young woman as she crashes her oldest friend’s 25th birthday party

Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Lars Sivertsen and Sid Lowe as Real Madrid and Bayern account for Manchester City and Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-finals

Eleanor Coppola obituary

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Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book

Women’s Champions League: where the semi-finals will be won and lost

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Chelsea must be wary of Caroline Graham Hansen while PSG will look to capitalise on Tabitha Chawinga’s speed against Lyon

Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie | Jay Rayner

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History is littered with food fads, from pineapples to ‘poultry mania’ – and now, anything involving croissant dough

Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!

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Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles

Yet again, we in Scotland have the lowest life expectancy in western Europe. Here’s how to improve it | Devi Sridhar

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The Scottish government is right to target smoking, drinking and drug misuse. But the root cause remains: deprivation

‘It’s why we went abroad’: Kane relishes semi-final clash with Real’s Bellingham

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Harry Kane says the Champions League semi-final meeting between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid justifies the decisions he and Jude Bellingham made to continue their careers on the continent.

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‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk

How we met: ‘It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time’

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Steve, 65, and Lisa, 67, met in the mid-90s on an early online messaging system while on opposite sides of the Atlantic. They now live together near Cambridge

Scottish gender clinic pauses prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s

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Glasgow-based Sandyford clinic issues update after Cass review found ‘weak evidence’ for use to treat gender incongruence

Reigns Beyond review – sci-fi silliness meets rock band road trip

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iPad/iPhone, Nintendo Switch (version tested), PC; Nerial/Devolver Digital Quick-witted and hilarious, this madcap band tour/space caper is sold short by its premise