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Russell pips Verstappen and Piastri to Canadian F1 GP pole as Norris struggles

  • Mercedes’s George Russell shares front row with Red Bull rival

  • Championship leader Piastri third; McLaren teammate Norris seventh

George Russell put his Mercedes on pole position in Canada for the second year in a row, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen alongside on the front row.

Oscar Piastri, McLaren’s Formula One championship leader qualified third, with the Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli in fourth place.

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© Photograph: Francois Tremblay/Hasan Bratic/DeFodi Images/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Francois Tremblay/Hasan Bratic/DeFodi Images/Shutterstock

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England crash out of World Cup as Littler and Humphries humbled by Germany

  • World’s top two players suffer shock defeat

  • German duo ease to 8-4 victory in Frankfurt

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries were left reeling as England’s hopes of retaining the World Cup of Darts were torn apart by Germany. The world’s top two players slipped to an 8-4 second round defeat at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, where Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko made the most of the backing of a partisan home crowd to seal a comprehensive victory.

Littler and Humphries, who both received MBEs in King Charles’s birthday honours, were made to pay for missed doubles, with the 18-year-old in particular turning in an off-colour display in a country where he has endured previous disappointments.

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© Photograph: Florian Wiegand/Getty Images

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‘Tennis repairs you’: the 101-year-old fuelled by iced coffee who still plays competitively | Jo Khan

Henry Young is proud to have played on centre court during the Australian Open but does not want to be seen as remarkable just for playing at all

Henry Young doesn’t mind being asked about his secret to a long, active life – it comes with the territory when you’re a 101-year-old competitive tennis player. It has its perks, like getting to play on centre court during the Australian Open, but what he does mind is that it’s considered so remarkable that he is playing at all. That he is seen as extraordinary and there must be some magic trick that keeps him going.

“What bugs me is that people give up their tennis when they have some kind of injury,” Young says. “I’m a monument to the medical profession because I’ve had so many injuries and I just persevere, and then tennis repairs you.”

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© Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian

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‘A giant parenting group’: how online comedians are making a living by laughing about the chaos of kids

Comedians like the UK’s George Lewis, Farideh Olsen from Canada and Sean Szeps in Australia have huge audiences because ‘if we can’t laugh … we’re going to sob uncontrollably’

Many Instagram-frequenting parents of small children will have seen George Lewis’s sketch about two toddlers discussing their feelings of abandonment and relief wrapped in a game of peekaboo.

“It was a normal day, I was just playing with Dad. And then he put his hands in front of his face and he was just gone,” the British comedian and father says in the widely shared video. “He was behaving so erratically.”

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© Composite: George Lewis, Sean Szeps, Farideh, Getty

© Composite: George Lewis, Sean Szeps, Farideh, Getty

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The moment I knew: I worried he was a playboy, then a friend reassured me

From the first offer of breakfast mimosas, Jens Radda knew Lachie was a kindred spirit – but he was cautious. Then a mutual friend confirmed his feelings

During Melbourne’s sixth lockdown in 2021, I was bored out of my mind in my suburban sharehouse and craving connection. I’d been following an Instagram account for a drag performer called Iva Rosebud at the behest of a mutual friend who felt our work was similar.

I’d been watching them from a distance for some time when one Friday night a message arrived suggesting a collaboration. Obviously it piqued my interest; it’s not like I had anything else to do – who knew how long the lockdown would go on for?

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© Photograph: Jens Radda

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As a trans Australian, I was kicked out of a UK toilet. This is not the open-hearted Britain I remember | Jack Nicholls

I used to be proud of my birthplace for its cosmopolitan tolerance. Visiting now, it feels like stepping back decades

I was visiting family in London when the British supreme court handed down its unexpected ruling: under the Equality Act, sex was now considered “binary” in law, which meant transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces of their gender identity. The Labour government, which had come into office promising us “dignity”, capitulated. But, not to worry, soothed a minister, Pat McFadden, “There isn’t going to be toilet police.”

A few days later the toilet police got me.

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© Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

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