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It was a result that Andrew Bolt was not expecting and could not countenance.

By 9.46pm the rightwing commentator had penned a piece on the Herald Sun blaming the Australian electorate for the Coalition loss.

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Littleproud says working from home policy “not handled well”

Littleproud is asked about the impact of the Coalition’s bungled work-from-home proposal, which was ultimately reversed due to its unpopularity.

I think we’ve got to be honest – that wasn’t handled well. But I mean, Peter had the courage to say that he got it wrong.

Our parliament is going to be poorer for it (Dutton losing).

We’re going to work through all of those (things). I don’t think nuclear was the reason we lost. I think this was a smick campaign by Labor destroying Peter Dutton.

Turkish president at odds with thousands of Turkish Cypriots who object to his attempts to undermine their secular way of life

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has warned protesters in breakaway northern Cyprus not “to sow seeds of hatred” amid mounting discord over Ankara’s perceived attempts to Islamise one of the world’s most secular Muslim societies.

In a whirlwind visit to the Turkish-occupied territory on Saturday the leader had tough words for Turkish Cypriots who have stepped up demonstrations against policies he openly endorses, not least a controversial law allowing headscarves to be worn in schools.

• World champion bounces back after sprint race penalty
• Verstappen says becoming a father has had no impact

Max Verstappen cannot be faulted for giving his all. Certainly he could do no more than the complete commitment he demonstrated in delivering a remarkable lap for pole position at the Miami Grand Prix. He was equally pleased in the process to be able to confirm that becoming a new father had had no impact on his pace, but the world champion remained unequivocal that he still expected more from his Red Bull team after they were found wanting at his expense in Saturday’s sprint race.

Verstappen claimed pole with an immense lap at the Hard Rock stadium, in what was an enormously competitive session. Anything short of perfection would have been costly and he was on rails, just beating the McLaren of Lando Norris into second and the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli into a superb third place by the tiniest of margins, six hundredths of a second. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was fourth and Mercedes’ George Russell fifth.

State becomes 16th to allow public funds to be used for private schools, which opponents say will benefit mostly wealthier children

The Texas governor Greg Abbott on Saturday signed a law making more than 5 million students eligible to use state funds for private schools, a watershed moment in the conservative campaign to remake public education in the US.

Texas is allocating $1bn for the first two years of the program to offer parents vouchers to pay for school. It is the 16th state to make all students eligible to receive public funds for private education.

• Dent’s grandson announces golfer’s passing at 85
• Augusta native became one of PGA’s longest hitters

Jim Dent grew up in the caddie yards of Augusta, Georgia, eventually working at the Masters and honing his game at the municipal course known as ‘The Patch’. He went on to become one of the PGA Tour’s longest hitters and one of the top Black golfers of his generation.

Dent died on Friday at age 85, a week before his birthday, his grandson posted on Facebook. The PGA Tour said on its website that Dent suffered a stroke the day after Augusta National announced plans for Tiger Woods to design a par 3 course at The Patch.

It’s a terrifying concept: a privileged country being evacuated as it’s about to go underwater. But not even Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg can make this climate crisis dystopia the epic it promised to be

Families Like Ours is a drama – directed and co-written by the Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg – that asks the question: what would you do if your luck ran out? The kind that maybe saw you born with a healthy body, or into a privileged, developed country, or with a skin colour that didn’t invite discrimination among others. Maybe even all of the above. What if life as you knew it – stable, easy, dependable, cushioned – was turned upside down? What then?

The seven-part series is set in Denmark in a near future in which the Dutch economy has recently crashed, flooding the Netherlands’ nearby countries with job-seeking immigrants, eating up capacity and goodwill. Thus there is little of either available when the government announces that the threat posed to low-lying Denmark by global heating and rising sea levels means it must now be evacuated of its six million inhabitants entirely. The country is, in effect, being shut down.

• Arsenal threw away lead in 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth
• Manager demands ‘massive performance’ in Paris

Mikel Arteta promised to channel the frustration of Arsenal’s 2-1 home defeat against Bournemouth on Saturday into the mission to beat Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final.

The manager endured the worst preparations for Wednesday night’s second-leg in Paris, where Arsenal will attempt to turn around a 1-0 deficit, going strong with his starting line-up and watching Bournemouth come from behind in the second-half.

• Welshman hits four centuries in 17-14 win over world No 1
• Williams: ‘I can’t believe I’m in another final’

Mark Williams produced a vintage performance to beat the world No 1, Judd Trump, and book his place in the final of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.

Williams, 50, who is bidding to win his fourth title and become the oldest champion in tournament history, rolled back the years as he compiled four centuries and 10 breaks over 50 in a 17-14 victory at the Crucible.

Expert testifying for the defense acknowledged that Memphis officers’ blows had been unnecessary

A police training expert testifying on Saturday as a defense witness in the trial of three former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols acknowledged that kicks and punches to Nichols’s head had been unnecessary and excessive.

Don Cameron took the stand on the sixth day of the trial of Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith, who have pleaded not guilty to state charges including second-degree murder. They already face the prospect of years in prison after they were convicted of federal charges last year.

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In the late 1990s, I received a gentle ultimatum from my housemate: I was welcome to stay, but my cat was not. Prince, my long-legged tabby, was at war with Stanley, my housemate’s much smaller, black and white cat. While Stanley just sat around, comfortable and insouciant, Prince was furiously, ineffectively, trying to mark some territory. The best spot for this, he felt, was the new carpet just below the cat flap. The house was soon dominated by the smell of cat piss, wet carpet and the sound of giant fan dryers.

So I moved, with my cat, to one last share house, then bought a house in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. This was 25 years ago, when a single woman without much money buying her own home did not seem outlandish.

Millie Gibson returns as Ruby Sunday to take centre-stage in a battle with internet conspiracy theorists. No one could accuse this show of not being timely

In a series of Doctor Who with only eight episodes, having a Doctor-lite episode feels something of a luxury. This greatest hits remix of previous episodes like Love and Monsters, Blink and Turn Left, where we only see glimpses of the Doctor in the background, just about earned its place in the run.

Much of the weight of the episode was carried by whether you could invest in hate-watching Jonah Hauer-King as odious grifter Conrad Clark, the podcast host and conspiracy theory propagandist who had gone through what he called the “chore” of getting to know Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) in order to “expose the lies” of Unit.

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“Quali” (ugh) is coming right up at 9pm UK time. That’s 20 minutes or so if my maths is correct. What could possibly happen?

Lando Norris took advantage in a dramatic sprint race in tricky, changeable conditions at the Miami Grand Prix to claim victory from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, with Lewis Hamilton enjoying a well-timed strategy call by his Ferrari team to take third place.

Super League patron Florentino Pérez sets the tone with his destructive acts of pettiness, dragging down a once noble club

Referees have never been so disdained and despised as they are now. Those who do not think they are corrupt, think they are incompetent. Standards, apparently, have never been lower. Clubs and their fans rage about conspiracies. But even in the present context, the scenes at the end of last Saturday’s Copa del Rey final were unprecedented as Antonio Rüdiger threw an ice-pack at the referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea.

And to think this is a club that used to pride itself on its sense of its señorio, its gentlemanliness, to the extent that in Steve McManaman’s day players were given a code of conduct; the familiar line used to be whinging about referees was for the cry-babies of Barcelona.

• Leinster 34-37 Northampton
• Saints cling on for win following first-half blitz

This competition has seen a few remarkable results over the years but few to match this sweetest of Saints days. Maybe Leinster thought that a fourth successive Champions Cup final appearance was a formality against supposedly outgunned English opposition. If so they were made to pay a heavy price as a triple whammy of tries from Tommy Freeman helped Northampton pull off one of the all-time great knockout heists.

The Irish province, beaten in the final in the last three consecutive seasons, looked stunned at the final whistle. But the Saints had led 27-15 at half-time and, even after Leinster had charged back to within three points, the visitors came knocking again via a 63rd-minute score from James Ramm. The final quarter was frantically tense, settled in contentious fashion after an aghast Leinster had a possible 79th-minute score disallowed.

• World No 1 defeats American 6-3, 7-6 (3) in final
• Sabalenka has 4,000 point lead at top of rankings

Aryna Sabalenka defeated Coco Gauff to win her third title of the season at the Madrid Open. The world No 1 won 17 points in a row early in the contest but had to save a set point in the second set on her way to a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory at the Caja Mágica.

It is a third title in the Spanish capital for Sabalenka, who lifted the trophy in 2021 and 2023 before losing to Iga Swiatek 12 months ago. The Belarusian now has a lead of more than 4,000 points over her stuttering rival in the rankings, although the result does mean Swiatek stays ahead of Gauff at No 2.

It was a day when the Arsenal team news threatened to be the news, Mikel Arteta sending a message at the outset. There was precious little rotation from the manager before Wednesday night’s Champions League, semi-final second leg away against Paris Saint-Germain, the tie that cast long shadows here. Arteta wanted to keep his starters in the groove, to generate momentum for the Parc des Princes with a win. So much for the theory.

Arteta rested Jurrien Timber, who had picked up a minor knock in the 1-0 first-leg defeat against PSG but that apart, he went with pretty much his strongest available line-up. It was certainly a contrast to the approach of his PSG counterpart, Luis Enrique, who made 10 changes for his team’s Ligue 1 game at Strasbourg. PSG, who have already sewn up the title, lost 2-1.

People’s Action party retains majority, with sample counts showing it winning all but 10 seats in 97-seat legislature

Singapore’s ruling party has notched a resounding win in general elections, official results have shown, giving the prime minister, Lawrence Wong, the clear mandate he sought from voters.

Wong’s long-ruling People’s Action party crossed the threshold of 49 seats early on Sunday to form a majority government in the wealthy city-state’s 97-seat unicameral legislature, with sample counts earlier showing the PAP winning all but 10 seats.

Ahmad bin Mubarak says he was not able to take the decisions he needed to or to fully exercise his powers

Ahmad bin Mubarak, the premier of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, has announced his resignation saying he was unable to fully exercise his powers.

Bin Mubarak had been entangled in bitter disputes for months with Rashad al-Alimi, who heads the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), two ministers and a member of the PLC told AFP.

Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence service

Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”.

On Thursday, Rubio took to X and wrote: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy – it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD – which took second in the recent election – but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.”

Harry’s gripes about personal security and call for reconciliation with his family elicit mixed responses

It was the usual chaos outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon. Tourists squashed themselves up against the palace gates, e-bikes whizzed around the memorial of Queen Victoria and security staff hurriedly erected impromptu barriers to manage the heaving crowds.

For the family drawing this familiar circus, things have been equally chaotic.

Labour’s Luke Charters says allowing alcohol in the top five tiers of the men’s game would be the ‘modern approach’

A Labour MP has called for trials to assess the impact of lifting a decades-long ban on drinking alcohol in football stands.

York Outer MP Luke Charters said football needs to take a “modern approach” to the issue in a debate on the football governance bill earlier this week.

Mohsen Mahdawi, student detained by Ice last month, pens blistering attack on Trump’s deportation policies

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student freed on Wednesday after more than two weeks in immigration detention, has issued a stark warning about the US’s descent into authoritarianism.

“Once the repression of dissent, in the name of security, becomes a key objective of a government, authoritarian rule and even martial law are not far off. When they look at my case, all Americans should ask themselves: what is left of our democracy, and who will be targeted next?” said Mahdawi in an op-ed for the New York Times.

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Australia’s women’s side, AKA the Wallaroos, defeated their Fijian counterparts overnight. Angus Fontaine has the story:

“The Wallaroos have sent a warning shot to the world with a powerful 43-7 victory over Fiji in Suva to give coach Jo Yapp’s new-look Australian side a welcome jolt of confidence as they prepare for the Rugby World Cup in England this August.”

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Bournemouth get the ball rolling. Zabarnyi goes long down the right, looking for Tavernier. Too long. Goal kick.

The teams are out! Arsenal in their famous red shirts with white sleeves, Bournemouth in a third kit which [MBM reporter squints, adjusts pince-nez] “draws its inspiration from our seaside roots, finished in deep lagoon green with an aquatic themed design on the front featuring subtle seashells and waves.” We’ll kick off after a verse or two of North London Forever.

Evertonians paying their final visit to Goodison Park were not hard to identify afterwards, they remained in their seats for one last, lingering look around the old place. A woman turned back as she reached the exit and waved goodbye. Goodison’s penultimate fixture, however, proved an occasion for Ipswich to savour as they make a dignified return to the Championship.

Everton were two goals up and cruising towards a first home win in three months when Julio Enciso changed the complexion of the contest with a stunning finish. David Moyes’s side suddenly had doubt where previously they had control and a late header from substitute George Hirst completed the recovery for Kieran McKenna’s spirited side. Another two-goal lead blown by Everton and an opportunity wasted against a relegated, depleted and limited opponent.

Jamie Vardy ended Leicester’s long wait for a home goal in the Premier League as they defeated Southampton 2-0 in a clash between two already-relegated teams.

Vardy’s opener at the King Power Stadium was the 38-year-old’s 199th goal in a Leicester shirt and set Ruud van Nistelrooy’s side on their way to a first win since January. Jordan Ayew added a second before half-time for the Foxes to leave Southampton still needing one more point to avoid a share of the competition’s lowest-ever total – Derby’s 11 from 2007-08.

Over five-year period Oksana Shahar – who cares for her son – was paid a small amount more than carer’s allowance earnings limits allow

It was three weeks after Christmas when the bombshell letter arrived. Guy Shahar and his wife, Oksana, looked at each other in stunned disbelief.

They had followed the Guardian’s investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal that has left thousands of families with crippling debts and criminal records. Not once did they think they would join them.

• RB Leipzig’s Poulsen strikes in injury time to seal 3-3 draw
• Bayern can still be crowned champions on Sunday

RB Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen scored a stoppage-time goal to snatch a 3-3 draw against Bayern Munich on Saturday and delay the Bundesliga leaders’ title celebrations by at least a day. Poulsen struck seconds before the end to leave Bayern on 76 points, nine ahead of Leverkusen, who travel to Freiburg on Sunday. Bayern, with two games left to play, will secure their 34th league crown should Leverkusen fail to win.

It was supposed to be triumphant afternoon for Bayern, but they found themselves on the back foot from the start with the hosts piling on early pressure. Leipzig had two big chances before Benjamin Sesko completed a quick break with a superbly curled shot past Jonas Urbig in the 11th minute.

Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration

Ministers will crack down on international students applying for asylum in the UK in a move designed to tackle migration figures, after a series of bruising losses to Reform in the local elections.

An immigration white paper setting out the proposed reforms in mid-May will include measures to bring down the numbers of UK student visa holders who make asylum claims, the Guardian understands.

Zinc Nacional will move ‘most polluting’ operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area

• Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emerges

A factory processing US hazardous waste in Mexico has promised to relocate what authorities call its “most polluting” operations following a Guardian investigation.

The plant in the Monterrey metropolitan area recycles toxic steel dust sent by the US steel industry and recovers zinc, according to that reporting, which was produced in partnership with Quinto Elemento Lab, a Mexico investigative journalism unit. It revealed evidence of heavy-metals pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods.

From the local sports team to local businesses, Saginaw is intimately intertwined with its northern neighbor

There are few entities that embody the close, fraternal ties between the US and Canada quite like the Saginaw Spirit junior ice hockey team.

In a place whose fortunes have been more down than up in recent decades, the Dow Event Center hockey arena in Saginaw, Michigan, comes alive with more than 5,000 fans once these young stars take to the ice. A huge banner depicting the players adorns the main street into the city.

A feasibility report using historical maps and ecological data is raising excitement: ‘It would be a slow process’

On the eve of the gold rush, California was teeming with grizzly bears – as many as 10,000 of them. They were so popular that the Bear Flag Republic – a short-lived attempt by a group of US settlers to break away from Mexico in 1846 – used the animals as their mascot; an image that still adorns California’s flag.

But by the mid-1920s, the bears were all gone. The last documented sighting of a grizzly bear in California was in the spring of 1924 in Sequoia national park, a lonesome bear wandering among the trees.

Custodians of global wealth have reacted with anger at attempts by people like Trump and Truss to revolutionise the economy

You say you want a revolution, sang the Beatles back in 1968. And that seems to be the interpretation of electoral results across the industrialised world.

From the seismic shifts in recent US and German elections to the rise of Reform and the Green party in the UK, electorates are signalling that they reject the status quo.

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Will you bounce straight back next season? Will they?
CW: “I doubt we will. The only hope I have is that the gap has become so big that we end up being promoted again simply by being less rubbish than 21 other teams. Southampton and Ipswich will probably be the top two.”

SG: “We should be there or thereabouts, so long as the managerial appointment is a sound one. The one appointment the owners got right since buying the club was done via the previously-mentioned Wilcox, so hopefully his replacement, Johannes Spors, can repeat that trick this summer. As for Leicester, I get the unhappiness that fills the air there at the moment, but barring any significant EFL penalties, they’ll be title favourites again.”

Anything you envy about your opponents?
CW: “At least they can score goals. I’ve seen us score three in this calendar year and I’m a season ticket holder and regular away dayer. Honestly, getting relegated to League One for the first and only time in our history in 2008 was about ten times more enjoyable than this.”

The broadcaster, a target of president’s sweeping cuts to US media agencies, could be back on air as soon as next week

Voice of America (VoA), the US-taxpayer funded news service for overseas listeners, could be back on the air as soon as next week, after a federal appeals court granted a temporary stay on an executive order dismantling the broadcaster.

VoA was effectively shut down after Trump signed an order on 14 March dismantling or shrinking seven agencies including the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat

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Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose rightwing leader, Peter Dutton, failed to brush off comparisons with Donald Trump and ended up losing his own seat.

Albanese’s Labor party scored an unexpectedly comfortable win on Saturday, after a five-week election campaign dominated by the cost of living and global economic uncertainty.

The not-for-profit, which has been recording anti-Muslim hate crime for 13 years, now faces an uncertain future

For 13 years, Tell Mama has been the government-funded not-for-profit tasked with recording anti-Muslim hate crime and helping victims get justice.

For its pains, staff faced death threats from the far right, a risk so serious it necessitated an office change at the height of the hate. There have been critics too within Britain’s Muslim community, who, according to the Tell Mama leadership, were intolerant of the organisation’s tolerance.

Two groups join forces for peer-reviewed research after key contributors on Congress-mandated report dismissed

Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.

On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) said that they will work together to produce over 29 peer-reviewed journals that will cover all aspects of climate change including observations, projections, impacts, risks and solutions.

Actor returns to York theatre where he started out 46 years ago, after cementing status as one of UK’s greatest actors

It’s been 46 years since Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut at York’s Theatre Royal. Returning to the venue last week for Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape, the 67-year-old English actor is a world removed from the young upstart once advised by Rada to do something else for a living.

In the intervening four decades Oldman has steadily become one of the greatest actors of his generation, whose versatility and intense performance style have earned him numerous accolades including an Oscar, three Baftas and a Golden Globe.