Police say the couple’s teenage children called 911 after a domestic dispute at their Annandale home during divorce

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Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said.

Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference that the murder-suicide took place in the context of “an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce”. The shooting took place at the Fairfaxes residence in Annandale, Virginia, and police arrived on the scene after receiving a 911 call from one of their teenage children shortly after midnight.

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Singer and musician who was a founder member of Clannad and lent an ethereal beauty to the theme of the TV series Harry’s Game

Moya Brennan, who has died aged 73, was a founder member, lead singer and harpist with the Irish folk band Clannad. It was Moya’s ethereal singing voice that contributed to the band’s distinctive sound, particularly on the theme music for the television series Harry’s Game in 1982. Moya later pursued a successful solo career, collaborating and recording with an impressive number of performers across the musical spectrum.

Formed in 1970, the band was initially called Clann As Dobhar (the family from Dore), which was soon shortened to Clannad. The band members were all related: Moya’s brothers, Ciarán and Pól Brennan, were joined by Pádraig and Noel Duggan, identical twins who were Moya’s uncles, though very similar to her in age. For a time, Moya’s sister Enya was also a member, until she left to pursue her highly successful solo career.

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While a church bell clanged intermittently and bits of tumbleweed blew across the pitch at the Emirates Stadium, the Allianz Arena hosted a ding-dong battle that pretty much had it all on Wednesday night. For the second evening in eight days, it was left to Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to pull out all the stops and provide the box-office entertainment as Arsenal once again Arsenaled their way past Sporting in a bore draw to earn their place in Bigger Cup semi-finals. More or less picking up where they’d left off at the end of the first leg, Bayern and Madrid served up a gourmand feast of slapstick goalkeeping, a see-sawing scoreline, much better goalkeeping, near-misses, goals of an at times absurdly high quality, several red cards and no end of post-match salty Spanish tears and recriminations. While Madrid have little or no chance of pipping Barça to this season’s La Liga title, they certainly thrashed them in the ungracious Bigger Cup exit stakes.

The image of Fermín López getting the boot from Juan Musso (yesterday’s Football Daily) clearly shows technique learned from English players. Admittedly, López’s head appeared to be at a dangerous level and one might expect an element of risk from crouching like that. As a life-long Hearts fan, I haven’t forgotten the approximation of a tackle attempted by English full-back Jason Talbot, then ‘playing’ for Livingston, on poor young winger Sam Nicholson in 2015. This was one incident in a match which, I believe, carries the accepted term ‘feisty’ (ie five goals, eight yellow cards and one red). And no, this wasn’t the red” – Ken Muir.

Re: your almost-spot-on analysis of Southampton’s chances of automatic promotion (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), what you and – to be fair – every other publication I’ve read about this in, have omitted to mention is that Ipswich’s game in hand is away to Saints during the week before the last games of the season. Rather pertinent, I’d say” – Stuart Ainsworth.

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More than 100 injured across country after Russia launches nearly 700 drones and dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles

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Russia has carried out its deadliest attack against Ukraine this year, killing at least 17 people, and injuring more than 100, in a wave of drone and missile strikes across the country.

Nine people died in the southern port city of Odesa, with four killed in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old boy. There were three fatalities in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Another person died in Zaporizhzhia oblast.

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Scientists suggest red hair and fair skin were favoured for vitamin D efficiency in study focused on whether human evolution plateaued after advent of agriculture

People with red hair who have put up with teasing or “fiery” stereotypes may be pleased to learn that they appear to be winners from an evolutionary perspective. A large genetics study has revealed that, in Europe, the gene for red hair has been actively selected for more than 10,000 years.

The study did not aim to uncover the reasons for the trend, but focused on the broader question of whether human evolution has plateaued since the advent of agriculture. By analysing DNA from nearly 16,000 ancient human remains and more than 6,000 living individuals, the scientists provided compelling evidence that, in fact, biological evolution has continued apace.

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Als een man parkeert in de Voorburgstraat in Rotterdam-Noord, laat hij zijn pinpas in de auto achter. En dat had hij beter niet kunnen doen. De volgende ochtend ziet hij dat zijn auto open is gebroken en het interieur volledig overhoop is gehaald.

Al die dagen die we vieren en dan is het vandaag toch zomaar Secretaressedag. Een dag waarop mensen vieren dat ze een secretaresse hebben / hadden (foto boven), een dag waarop men een secretaresse bedankt voor wat ze allemaal heeft gedaan (foto boven), een dag waarop we liever vergeten waar secretaresses zoal goed in zijn (foto boven), een dag waarop we secretaresses aanwijzen die we ONMIDDELLIJK op ons kantoor willen hebben (foto boven), een dag waarop we grapjes maken over al die dingen die secretaresses goed kunnen (foto boven), een dag waarop we met secretaresses (ho! mutual consent he) de bezemkast in duiken (foto boven), een dag waarop we secretaresses zeer erkentelijk zijn dat ze de telefoon opnemen (foto boven), dat we blij zijn dat secretaresses afspraken maken (foto boven), vandaag bedanken we de secretaresse hartelijk voor het schrijven van de mail (foto boven), vandaag feliciteren we de secretaresse met 0 fouten in de notulen van de voorbije vergadering (foto boven), vandaag zijn we blij dat de secretaresse ons klankbord is (foto boven) en DANKEN we de secretaresse hartelijk dat we tegen de secretaresse kunnen zeiken over de vrouw / man thuis (foto boven) als de aardappeltjes weer eens niet goed gekookt zijn (foto boven) en dan worden we getroost door de secretaresse (foto boven) en dan worden we verliefd op de secretaresse (foto boven) en dan loopt het uit de hand met de secretaresse (foto boven) en dan kopen we lingerie voor de secretaresse (foto boven) en dan trekken we de lingerie uit van de secretaresse (foto boven) en dan moeten we liegen over de secretaresse (foto boven) enzovoorts waar gaat dit heen. Wij hebben natuurlijk geen secretaresse, maar toch kopen we bloemen. OP DE SECRETARESSE!

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