Secures top-two finish at DP World Tour Championship
McIlroy finishes on -10 as Tyrell Hatton wins event
Rory McIlroy edged out Eugenio Chacarra to claim a record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title with a second-place finish at the DP World Tour Championship, where Tyrrell Hatton sealed a five-shot victory.
Spaniard Chacarra had held a slender 533.93-point lead over Masters champion McIlroy going into the season finale at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
Continue reading...When Trump was first elected, Republicans held every lever in Arizona – now they’ve been swept in a blue tidal wave, and the road to rebuild could be fraught
When Donald Trump was first elected to the White House in 2016, Republicans held every lever of statewide power in Arizona, from the governor’s office to both US Senate seats and majorities in the legislature. Over the next decade, as Trump tightened his grip on the party, Democrats began chipping away at that dominance, gradually turning the longtime GOP stronghold into a political battleground.
Then came the November midterm elections. Democrats swept every statewide office on the ballot – from governor to the obscure post of mine inspector – and secured a lawmaking trifecta unseen since 1966.
Continue reading...As he passes Kenny Dalglish’s appearance total, it is important to remember that it is the left-back’s journey that sets him apart
Andy Robertson may not be Scotland’s greatest player, but he is indisputably their finest captain. It counts as sacrilege, even to generations who have watched Kenny Dalglish only on YouTube, to reputationally place Robertson above the Liverpool hero on the basis of a cap haul that will reach 103 in St Gallen on Monday. Dalglish’s international career ended at 102 and the curious events that meant he missed the 1986 World Cup.
There is no requirement to compare a left-back in 2026 to a forward from decades earlier. Dalglish and Robertson are men in different positions in essentially a different sport. Instead, Robertson’s march to the top of the cap pile gives cause to laud his contribution.
Continue reading...Experts warn that sweeping changes elevate health secretary RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine agenda and personal profit
The Trump administration is finalizing a rule to reimburse doctors who diagnose, treat and counsel patients with side effects from vaccines in what experts believe is an attempt to undermine trust in vaccines and to create an evidence base on their purported risks.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also announced the creation of a vaccine “injury” research center at the National Institutes of Health and has sought to reshape the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) – actions that point to Kennedy’s longtime activism against vaccination as well as the profits he and his network have made from vaccine lawsuits.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Shepard Fairey says image will hold PM accountable over promise to get people off the streets
The “Hope” portrait of Barack Obama by the US street artist Shepard Fairey came to symbolise a historic 2008 presidential campaign, became one of the most ubiquitous and reproduced political portraits of modern times, and ended up in the Smithsonian.
Fairey’s latest work, of the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, may not elicit the same response but will, he hopes, deliver a hard-hitting message: one of a promise made.
Continue reading...Would a person who grew up under a communist regime and a recent Reform voter see eye to eye on immigration, Brexit and assisted dying?
Ilyan, 49, London
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Continue reading...Poaching, trafficking, insurgencies and traditional medicine all threaten the central African primates, but a rehabilitation centre offers a haven in Cameroon
Every morning in central Cameroon, the primatologist Sheri Speede wakes to a daunting task. At the Sanaga-Yong sanctuary, which she founded in 1999, there are 75 chimpanzees to feed four times a day and monitor for physical or behavioural issues.
Of those, more than 30 need to be given routine birth-control medications, four are babies requiring round-the-clock care, and two are rowdy teenagers currently being integrated into new social groups.
Veterinarian Sheri Speede at her Sanaga-Yong sanctuary, which is home to 75 chimpanzees
Continue reading...From Aristotle on, we’ve learned to see long-lasting relationships as more valuable. But what does that leave out?
In Russian, a poputchik is a stranger you meet on a journey who you end up confessing everything to because you know you’ll never see them again. Like the English “fellow traveller”, poputchik was repurposed to describe Marxist sympathisers, but the original meaning intrigues me most.
The idea that we might safely unburden ourselves to strangers, or have their secrets bestowed upon us, is deeply embedded in Russian culture. It’s there in Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata: as the windows tremble and the tundra passes in a hypnotic blur, Pozdnyshev tells his life story of marriage, betrayal and murder. Or in Venedikt Erofeev’s 1970s satire Moscow to the End of the Line, in which a retired cable fitter drunkenly hops a train and unfurls a sublime monologue on politics, society, love and, of course, vodka. A Russian friend jokes that this is “therapy, Soviet-style”.
Continue reading...High-profile crimes and disease outbreaks obscure the fact that the big ships are largely safe – and seeing record numbers of bookings
This month, there has been a swell of stories about things going wrong on cruises.
A man was arrested in Texas after he allegedly killed a woman during a voyage through the Caribbean. A pianist on a Royal Caribbean cruise from California was rescued by two fishers in the Pacific Ocean after he went overboard. And Singapore seized the MV Odyssey, a US-operated cruise ship that was supposed to offer retirees a “permanent” life at sea. The operator ran out of money because of increased fuel prices and dropped all its passengers off in Cambodia.
Continue reading...Nearly 2 million children are housed in dire conditions, anxious families are living out of carrier bags. There’s little sign of the hope our PM promised
Two days after the Christmas of 2024, Andy Burnham put up a post on X that linked to a piece about housing in the Guardian. The then mayor of Greater Manchester, who was beginning to find his voice as a frank critic of Keir Starmer’s new government, did not mess about: “The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose,” he said. “No other policy, achievable within a parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits.”
In his first Labour conference speech as party leader and prime minister, Burnham reprised much the same argument, promising “the biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar era”. But by that point, he had also served notice that his commitment to a thoroughgoing council house revival might not be quite as cast iron as it seemed. The previous month, having insisted that all of the £39bn Rachel Reeves had promised to spend on the Starmer government’s Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) until 2036 should go on homes for social rent, he made something of a brazen U-turn, announcing that the allocation of the first £10bn would reflect the existing social homes target of 60%. But this was leavened with another bit of old-time Labour religion: “Councils built this country out of a housing crisis once before. Backed properly, and trusted to get on with it, they will do it again.”
John Harris is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Ambassadors say presence sends powerful signal of solidarity and support amid escalation in Russian strikes and warnings
The warning from Moscow was blunt. Western diplomats should immediately leave the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. If they failed to do so they would be “in mortal danger”. The statement added that Russia would not responsible for any “potential negative consequences” if its advice was ignored.
European envoys in Kyiv responded to the Kremlin’s threat last month with a loud raspberry. Denmark’s ambassador to Ukraine, Thomas Lund-Sørensen, took to social media to say that he was staying. So did the ambassadors from Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, France, Poland and Estonia. Even the Americans indicated they would not be budging.
Continue reading...frank_breech has added a photo to the pool:
It was great to run into Takei-san again. Unfortunately, it was smack-dab in the middle of the destruction (redevelopment) of our town. Still, we managed to grab a drink and commiserate (not sure how to say 'commiserate' in Japanese) before his last train back home.
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