Beware the opponent with little to play for. Crystal Palace were supposed to be in preservation mode, their attention on more exotic occasions. The ideal opponent for Brentford’s chase for Europe. And yet. Adam Wharton scored his first goal in 94 Palace appearances, a first in the Premier League, his goal wreaking heavy damage. Dango Ouattara’s second goal, a late second equaliser, set up 10, chaotic minutes of stoppage time but Brentford could not find a winner.

The final whistle arrived with Brentford in eighth place, current permutations making that enough for next season’s Conference League but there is final-day drama, and other factors besides, to see out.

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Hill Dickinson Stadium was ­virtually empty by the time Everton commenced their lap of appreciation, interest in the end-of-season ritual having somewhat evaporated along with the club’s European ambitions. Sunderland now carry European dreams of their own into the final day of an ­outstanding Premier League return.

Régis Le Bris’ side leapfrogged their opponents in the table courtesy of a commanding second-half display shaped by effective substitutions and an incisiveness that Everton lack. Brian Brobbey, Enzo Le Fée and substitute Wilson Isidor were all on ­target as Merlin Röhl’s first-half opener was consigned to irrelevance. The Europa or Conference League could be Sunderland’s reward for adapting seamlessly to the top flight should they defeat Chelsea at the Stadium of Light next Sunday.

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Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it

Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his work as a journalist, but can otherwise be a double-edged sword.

While working for a magazine in New York, Stolzoff was approached about a job at a design firm in San Francisco. Now, he laughs at how tortured he felt “having to decide between two attractive career paths”.

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Actor otherwise has ‘no comment’ on Girls creator’s claims about his on-set behaviour as he speaks at Cannes film festival

For weeks, Adam Driver has avoided commenting on allegations made about his on-set behaviour by Lena Dunham in her hit new memoir, Famesick.

But at a press conference for Paper Tiger at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, the actor briefly broke his silence when asked by the Guardian about Dunham’s account. “I have no comment on any of that – I’m saving it all for my book,” he responded, provoking laughter in the room.

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Cannes film festival: The Son of Saul director’s dramatisation of Jean Moulin’s torture by Klaus Barbie both benefits and suffers from its mainstream approach

László Nemes made his Cannes debut 11 years ago with the terrifying, Oscar-winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul, and followed that up with Sunset, his elegant, mysterious drama of pre-first world war Budapest. His next film, Orphan, released in the UK last week, was a comparably enigmatic film set in post-second world war Hungary. But his new film in the Cannes competition is a basically pretty conventionally acted, conventionally directed, conventionally conceived wartime movie shot in the sepia-subdued colours of an old photograph, all about French resistance heroism and French resistance leader Jean Moulin, who went down in history for refusing to talk under torture.

The overall effect isn’t really like Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Army of Shadows; maybe closer to the 70s BBC TV show Secret Army. Nemes’s final scene is even rather sentimentally stirring, though the director then tries to cancel this sugary moment with a final premonition of the death camps. At all events, he undoubtedly brings impeccable craftsmanship, and the performances and production design are strong.

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Rusland voerde afgelopen week een van de zwaarste aanvallen op Kiev in maanden uit, waarbij er volgens Oekraïne 52 doden vielen, waaronder 22 kinderen, en 346 gewonden. Doffe ellende, die Oekraïne gisteren dus beantwoordde met een van de zwaarste en diepste aanvallen op Rusland tot nu toe. Het zou gaan om 600 drones en projectielen verspreid over 14 Russische regio's en de Krim, de Zwarte Zee en Zee van Azov. Rusland claimt dat het hiervan 586 projectielen wist te onderscheppen, en de resterende projectielen vier mensen doodden. Dat onderscheppingsaantal durven we te betwijfelen aangezien meerdere drones o.a. woonflats (ja, ook Oekraïne valt burgerdoelen aan), raffinaderijen en een chipfabrikant raakten.

Zelensky benadrukt dat deze aanval 500 kilometer diep in Rusland plaatsvond, en dat Oekraïense projectielen Moskou's luchtafweer wist te doordringen: "Deze keer hebben de Oekraïense langeafstandsraketten de regio Moskou bereikt, en we maken de Russen duidelijk: hun staat moet een einde maken aan de oorlog. Oekraïense drone- en raketfabrikanten zetten hun werk voort. Ik ben de Oekraïense veiligheidsdienst en alle Oekraïense strijdkrachten dankbaar voor hun precisie. De afstand tot de Oekraïense staatsgrens bedraagt ​​meer dan 500 km. De concentratie van de Russische luchtverdediging in de regio Moskou is het hoogst. Maar we overwinnen het."

En zo blijft had Slavische Slachthuis onverminderd produceren, zonder een einde in zicht, en een wereld die al drie conflicten verder is.

Russische raffinaderij geraakt

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Na een jaar steggelen en zoeken werd onlangs duidelijk dat de zoektocht naar een nieuwe advocaat van Ridouan Taghi is mislukt. Maandag bespreekt het hof hoe het verder moet. Wat gebeurt er als Taghi verstoken blijft van rechtsbijstand? Drie scenario’s.

Rotterdammer Cobus Kaya (echte naam Koos) werkt jarenlang als accountant, maar thuis isoleert hij zich achter gesloten gordijnen. Vier jaar geleden zoekt hij zelfs naar zelfdodingstips op het internet. Inmiddels is hij kunstenaar en hoopt hij andere mannen te inspireren om hun kwetsbaarheid te tonen.

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