• Official under watch after personal details leaked online

• Hearts manager called Celtic decision ‘disgusting’

The Scottish Football Association has vehemently criticised a “hysterical media narrative” and taken a swipe at the Hearts manager, Derek McInnes, while revealing one of its match officials and his family spent Thursday night under police protection after controversial incidents which have dominated the conclusion to the Premiership season.

McInnes called the stoppage-time award of a penalty to Celtic in Wednesday’s win at Motherwell “disgusting”, with that, plus the denial of a spot-kick for Hearts during their fixture at the same stadium days earlier, dominating discussion. Hearts visit Celtic on Saturday needing a draw to become the first non-Old Firm title winners in 41 years.

Property portfolio in spotlight as Reform UK leader faces official inquiry over money accepted from billionaire

A week ago, Nigel Farage was toasting Reform UK’s successes in the May elections, and bragging about his prospects of becoming prime minister.

But there is a saying about a week in politics – and it has been a long seven days for the party leader, who is now facing questions over a £5m gift and his extensive property portfolio.

Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick

Here is a fervent, but repetitive fan-service documentary, perpetually re-using iconic “bad behaviour” clips, all about the tempestuous king of Manchester United (formerly and briefly the tempestuous king of Leeds United).

Eric Cantona was the Frenchman who won the hearts of English football fans in the 90s for his stunning skills, filling the silverware cabinet to bursting having been picked up cheap by Man U having effectively flounced out of French football. He was mentored in those days by that kindly teddy-bear of a man, Sir Alex Ferguson, who is interviewed extensively here, along with David Beckham, Eric’s elderly parents Albert and Éléonore, and of course the gloweringly pugnacious man himself, appearing in what appears to be a deserted church and gnomically quoting Baudelaire.

The film-maker, who won the Grand Prix for A Hero in 2021, condemned both the killing of protesters and the conflict’s bombing campaigns during a Cannes press conference

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has described the deaths of civilians in Iran as “extremely cruel and tragic” during a press conference at the Cannes film festival.

Farhadi, whose new Paris-set drama Parallel Tales premiered on the Croisette on Thursday night, was asked about working free from censorship in France, the war involving Iran, the US and Israel, and the repression of protesters in his native country.

Chancellor says he no longer views US as land of opportunity amid ‘deeply polarising’ social climate

Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, already embroiled in a row with Donald Trump over the Iran war, has said he would not advise his children to study or work in the US in the current climate.

Speaking to a conference of young Catholics in Würzburg, the conservative leader, viewed by many as a transatlanticist, said he no longer saw the US as the land of opportunity.

DEN HAAG (ANP/BELGA) - De Belgische voormalige wielerkampioene Jilke Michielsen is op 19-jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van botkanker. Dat werd vrijdag bekendgemaakt op haar Instagramaccount, waar ze de afgelopen tijd verschillende updates plaatste over haar gezondheid.

"Niet zagen, gewoon genieten" staat in het bericht waarin haar overlijden bekend werd gemaakt. Zagen is Vlaams voor klagen.

Drie jaar geleden kreeg Michielsen de diagnose terminale botkanker, waardoor ze haar wielercarrière moest stopzetten. Begin deze maand maakte het wielertalent bekend te moeten stoppen met haar chemotherapie omdat ze geen bloedcellen meer aanmaakte. "Mijn lichaam kan niet meer volgen", schreef ze toen op Instagram.

Michielsen werd in 2022 Belgisch kampioene op de weg bij de junioren. Dat jaar werd ze ook Belgisch kampioene op het onderdeel omnium.

MANCHESTER (ANP) - Andy Burnham, de man die vaak wordt genoemd als mogelijke opvolger van de Britse premier Keir Starmer, mag van zijn partij meedoen aan een tussentijdse verkiezing voor een zetel in het parlement, meldt de BBC. Dat is een eerste stap naar een mogelijke machtsovername door de populaire burgemeester van Manchester.

Burnham wil meedoen aan de verkiezing in Makerfield, waar de parlementariër Josh Simons speciaal opstapt om ruimte te maken voor Burnham. Toch was het niet vanzelfsprekend dat de selectiecommissie van Labour zou toestaan dat Burnham de kandidaat van de partij zou worden. In januari blokkeerden commissieleden, vrijwel allemaal bondgenoten van Starmer, dat Burnham zou meedoen in een ander kiesdistrict.

Starmer staat nu onder grote druk om op te stappen, maar het is niet duidelijk wie van zijn partijgenoten hem in dat geval zou moeten opvolgen. Alleen parlementsleden komen in aanmerking, dus Burnham moet sowieso eerst de verkiezing winnen.

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.

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