Brexit Party Tories plan to vote for Brexit party in EU elections – surveysThe Guardian - Andrew SparrowConservative members and activists are likely to abandon the party in vast numbers in the European parliament elections in favour of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, two surveys have suggested. A questionnaire
Greece Greece to ask Germany for billions in war reparationsThe GuardianGreece is poised to send Germany a formal diplomatic note detailing its demand for billions of euros in wartime reparations after MPs voted overwhelmingly for the emotive issue to be raised officially.
Bristol Old Vic Last orders for Bristol pub linked to Robinson Crusoe and Treasure IslandThe Guardian - Steven MorrisA beloved Bristol pub with connections to Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island has called last orders for the final time, leaving the future of the waterside black and white timbered building in doubt.
Emperor Akihito End of an era in Japan as emperor prepares to abdicateThe Guardian - Justin McCurry in TokyoThe imperial palace grounds in central Tokyo are bathed in spring sunshine. Joggers completing lunchtime circuits of the moat artfully dodge groups of foreign tourists. Office workers tuck into lunches
Justin Trudeau Provincial election losses may help Justin Trudeau's green agendaThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoFor months, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has been dogged by an ever-deepening political scandal that has dragged down his popularity and threatened his re-election prospects. In yet another Trudeau
Books In brief: Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece; The Road to Grantchester; Hey! Listen! – reviewsThe GuardianReel Art Press, £50, pp336 This sumptuously produced book is both a fine tribute to Sergio Leone’s 1968 masterpiece and an insightful look into how a piece of cinema can gather an almost mythic reputation
World News Sri Lanka caught off-guard by attacks despite its violent recent pastThe Guardian - Simon TisdallCoordinated bomb attacks on worshippers attending Easter church services and multiple other targets across Sri Lanka were the work of terrorists or religious extremists, a government minister has suggested.
Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion: protesters to offer to 'pause' climate actionThe Guardian - Press AssociationClimate change protesters who have stopped traffic in a series of peaceful demonstrations across London will offer to vacate some sites in exchange for the mayor, Sadiq Khan, acting on some of their demands.
Play buttonCalifornia California authorities seek woman who dropped seven puppies in dumpsterThe Guardian - Associated Press in Coachella, CaliforniaAuthorities are trying to identify a woman who was captured by security cameras tossing seven newborn puppies into a dumpster in southern California. The Riverside county Department of Animal Services
Sri Lanka World leaders express horror at Easter attacks in Sri LankaThe Guardian - Patrick GreenfieldWorld leaders have expressed their solidarity with the Sri Lankan people and voiced their horror at a series of explosions at churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 200 people and injured hundreds
Music (UK) BBCSO/Davis/Batiashvili review – clarity, lyricism and ecstatic coloursThe Guardian - Tim AshleyThe programme for Andrew Davis’s concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra consisted of three 20th-century works of quite extraordinary beauty. Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto and a suite from Debussy’s
Sports 'Worst Olympian ever': how a young skier triumphed over trollsGuardian US - Davy Rothbart for California Sunday, with photographs by Erin BrethauerIf you happened to tune in to the Winter Games last year during the women’s halfpipe skiing competition, you might have caught one of the Olympics’ most perplexing moments. Halfpipe, which was introduced
Vodka Emily Maitlis: ‘I always think, Oh my God, I’m exhausted, I want vodka and bed'The Guardian - Gaby HinsliffAs Emily Maitlis takes over as the lead inquisitor on Newsnight, she talks to Gaby Hinsliff about the stories behind the headlines, getting emotional over Grenfell and her now infamous ‘eye-roll’… In mornings,
Media Industry Former 5 Live presenter will never work at BBC again, staff toldThe Guardian - Jim Waterson Media editorThe former 5 Live presenter George Riley will never work for the BBC again, staff have been told, after multiple accusations of sexual assault were made against the presenter. At least eight women had
Play buttonSri Lanka Sri Lanka explosions: what we know so farThe Guardian - Haroon SiddiqueA series of explosions has rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Here is what we know so far: At least 207 people have been killed and 450 more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches holding
Play buttonWorld News Ukraine elections: comedian leads polls as final round of voting beginsThe Guardian - Shaun Walker in KyivVoting is under way in the final round of Ukraine’s presidential election, where pre-vote polling suggests the most likely winner will be Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old actor and comedian with no experience
Title race, top four, promotion and relegation – what's still at stake?The Guardian - Niall McVeighThe title race Manchester City (86) are one point clear of Liverpool (85) after beating Tottenham on Saturday. Jürgen Klopp’s side must respond with a win at Cardiff on Sunday, but City still have a game
Books The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins review – bold and timelyThe Guardian - Hannah BeckermanCollins’s writing throughout has a visceral and immediate quality Near the beginning of Sara Collins’s impressive debut, her eponymous heroine, a Jamaican slave brought to Georgian England and “gifted”
Lifestyle (UK) Shrubs for shady plotsThe Guardian - James WongIf you are a regular reader, it will probably come as no surprise to you that I am fascinated by horticultural trends. While these can often be dismissed as faddish, I believe they are essential for driving
Play buttonWorld News Dutch engineers build world's biggest sun-seeking solar farmThe Guardian - Daniel BoffeyDutch engineers are building what will be the world’s largest archipelago of islands made up of sun-tracking solar panels. Growing resistance to the construction of wind turbines or fields of solar panels
World News Romanian hospitals in crisis as emigration takes its tollThe Guardian - Shaun Walker in SloboziaGabriela Dumitru was supposed to retire years ago, but instead, she’s working longer hours than ever before. The 65-year-old is one half of a team of two doctors at the neonatology ward in Slobozia, a
Travel Pastures new: a family farmstay in Austrian TirolThe Guardian - Gemma BowesHay fever. Animal allergies. Arachnophobia. Sensitive skin. I should have paid more attention to my personal hindrances before saying that I liked the sound of sleeping in the hay barn at Wolfseggstall,
Play buttonTerence Crawford Terence Crawford retains title when Amir Khan can't continue after low blowThe Guardian - Bryan Armen Graham at Madison Square GardenAmir Khan may have been looking for a way out during Saturday night’s frightful beating at the hands of Terence Crawford. With one wayward left hand, Crawford gave it to him. Khan, who was floored in opening
Film (UK) On my radar: Neil Jordan’s cultural highlightsThe Guardian - Kathryn BromwichBorn in County Sligo in 1950, director and writer Neil Jordan studied Irish History and English at University College Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham award and the Guardian
Mountain Biking First family of mountain biking prepare to open a new front at the World CupThe Guardian - Simon BurntonThe Athertons’ ride started when Dan, then 15 and the eldest of three siblings, first took to the BMX tracks around their home near Exeter and encouraged his brother, Gee, and sister, Rachel, to join A
Opinion (UK) Carlsberg’s honest new ad campaign leaves a funny aftertasteThe Guardian - David MitchellWhat went through Orson Welles’s mind, I wonder, when he first growled the line “Probably the best lager in the world” into a microphone? He may have been pondering his fee. He may have reflected on how
Tripoli Airstrikes hit Tripoli as Haftar steps up assault on Libyan capitalThe Guardian - Reuters in TripoliSeveral airstrikes and explosions shook Tripoli overnight in an escalation of an assault on the Libyan capital by the warlord Khalifa Haftar. A Reuters reporter and several residents said they saw an circling
West Yorkshire Arrests made over fire on Ilkley Moor in YorkshireThe Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondentArrests have been made in relation to the fire sweeping across Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, police have said, as firefighters continued to battle the blaze. More than 70 firefighters were at the scene,
Books Srećko Horvat: ‘The current system is more violent than any revolution’The Guardian - Andrew AnthonyWe have to transform society so that it would be impossible that Buffett or Bezos can be the richest person in the world Up until the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, foreigners were not allowed to visit
Books The Brink of Being by Julia Bueno review – we need to talk about miscarriageThe Guardian - Katy LindemannLosing a baby is such a big part of so many lives yet we’re mainly living it in the shadows, weighed down by feelings It is estimated that one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and yet it is an
