Before having a child, I had endless days to think about writing. Now, half an hour can suddenly become a window of creativity

Becoming a parent is hard. Eight to 12 hours a day are spent breastfeeding or preparing formula milk and washing bottles. In addition, there is carrying, singing, soothing, putting to sleep, trying to sleep yourself and waking up to repeat this several times a night. So many new activities that before were unknown, filling up every day.

This is time that was once completely at your own discretion, and the new constriction is a shock.

Tania Roettger is a journalist based in Berlin

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Human rights groups and lawyers say policy amounts to ethnic cleansing

Israel’s defence minister has said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory.

Israel Katz said the government would implement a plan for large numbers of Palestinians to leave Gaza “at the right time and in the right manner”, in a statement on Wednesday marking the targeted killing of Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s most recent military commander.

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Hungary’s rich footballing heritage is unlikely to make an impact on Europe’s premier club competition as clubs from small countries stand no chance

Before the Champions League final, I want to spare a thought for one of the eliminated semi-finalists. Diego Simeone impresses me. For 15 years, he has had to push the boulder up the mountain again and again with Atlético Madrid. We at Bayern Munich were knocked out by him during our peak phase in 2016. Now I read somewhere that Simeone should question himself. Yet he asserts himself time and again with inferior means. It is a pity, Sisyphus Simeone has long deserved a Champions League title.

Two other clubs remain whose coaches take a similar approach. Resembling conductors, they pedantically practise distances, sequences, passes, choreograph their defence and orchestrate their attack. Their operating system, ball-oriented zonal marking, is state of the art. Their team behaves like a swarm. Last year, Paris Saint-Germain against Arsenal was the semi-final; this year, they are determining the winner. The right teams are in the final.

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Medics battling the incurable disease in Democratic Republic of the Congo working in ‘agonising’ conditions

When Dr Vladimir Maduali died of Ebola in the early hours of Sunday morning, he was the fourth member of staff at his hospital to be killed by the disease in as many days. Two days later, his colleague Dr Tibenderana Katho Blaisealso died of the disease at the Bunia Evangelical medical centre, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Maduali graduated from the University of Bunia just three years ago and had been working in the Rwampara region, one of the areas of eastern DRC’s Ituri province worst hit by Ebola. The 30-year-old died at Rwampara’s isolation centre, where he had spent two days on oxygen therapy, according to his family.

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Albert Manifold disputes reports about his behaviour and says he always tried to set example

The boardroom turmoil at BP deepened after its ousted chair, Albert Manifold, claimed allegations about his conduct were “lies”.

In a new and lengthy statement, Manifold disputed reports about his conduct, insisting “at no point in my tenure as chairman of BP has anyone raised with me any issue about my conduct or my relationship with my colleagues”.

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Slecht nieuws uit Winterthur, Zwitserland, waar iemand die mogelijk de handleiding voor het Offerfeest verkeerd heeft gelezen op het station op voorbijgangers instak (en daarna een soort van wegjogde, zie video hierboven, waarop de bekende uitspraak "Allahoe Akbar" goed te horen is). "Wie mehrere Augenzeugen übereinstimmend berichten, attackierte ein Mann mehrere Personen mit einem Messer. Ein Video, das Blick vorliegt, zeigt, wie ein Mann aus der Bahnhofshalle rennt. Dabei ruft er: «Allahu Akbar». «Er hatte ein Messer in der Hand», schildert Blick-Leser Danilo P.*. «Alle schrien herum und rannten weg.» In unmittelbarer Nähe befanden sich auch Kinder, wie man auf dem Clip sieht. Offenbar wurden mehrere Personen verletzt. «Ein Mann hatte einen Verband am Hals», so eine Leserin." Gebeurde vanochtend rond half negen, eerste berichten melden vier gewonden. We updaten.
UPDATE 11:25: De politie heeft de dader aangehouden. Het is een 31-jarige man met de Zwitserse nationaliteit. Er zijn uiteindelijk drie gewonden (mannen van 28, 43 en 52 jaar) naar het ziekenhuis gebracht, een van hen is er ernstig aan toe.

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