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South Africa v Australia: third men’s cricket Test, day one – live (guardian)
HSBC profits surge 32%, sparking fresh calls for bank taxes in the budget – business live (guardian)
‘The wind goes in all directions’: Fleetwood prepare wet welcome for Arsenal at Highbury (guardian)
Israel election live: polls open in most consequential vote in country’s history (guardian)
‘The view from the Mournes was CS Lewis’s idea of Narnia’: how Northern Ireland inspired a magical kingdom (guardian)
The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory (guardian)
‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen (guardian)
Michael Gambon: the authorised biography review – a brilliant actor, and a master deceiver (guardian)
Is that a lion driving the car? Alluring images to buy in the Magnum Square Print Sale – in pictures (guardian)
City of Masks review – theatreland ghost story with female phantom of the opera out for revenge (guardian)
Melting glaciers in Dolomites reveal cache of first world war munitions (guardian)
Kylian Mbappé dropped by Chinese brands for ‘offending national sentiments’ (guardian)
TV tonight: incredible photos of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ movement (guardian)
‘It’s a better experience’: shoppers praise Oxford Street pedestrianisation (guardian)
‘It’s the smell of freedom’: Belgrade cleans up after Student List triumph (guardian)
Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn (guardian)
My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard | Polly Toynbee (guardian)
Fritters and chocolate cake: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for cooking with pumpkin (guardian)
‘We want a full apology for slavery’: Commonwealth at a crossroads as king heads to the Caribbean (guardian)
A leaderless revolution has swept Serbia. The world should be watching | Aleksandar Matkovic (guardian)
Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection (guardian)
Cheer up, Scrooge! The merriest Christmas theatre shows, from musketeers to a penguin party (guardian)
The life and death of Jaysley Beck: how her mother turned detective – and took on the military (guardian)
Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds (guardian)
Our loos? They’re inspired by Milan’s Villa Necchi! The reborn planks-and-plasterboard theatre trouncing its flashy neighbours (guardian)
Eagles’ nightmare season deepens as Cowboys hand Philadelphia fifth straight loss (guardian)
Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour review – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier, Kneecap and more (guardian)
G Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up and like many in the queer community, I’m in mourning | Rebecca Shaw (guardian)
Ruthless Brewers close in on World Series sweep after crushing Rays 10-1 in Game 3 (guardian)
US bans vehicles from China’s BYD at Japan military base, calling them ‘unacceptable’ risk (guardian)
Jay-Z picks headliner for 2027 Super Bowl half-time show … Jay-Z (guardian)
Ukraine war briefing: Russia strikes Kyiv hours before truce begins in war-ravaged city Oleshky (guardian)
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to co-host Junior MasterChef Australia: ‘It was an easy yes’ (guardian)
‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims (guardian)
UK shop price inflation ‘highest since 2024’ as retailers struggle to limit price rises (guardian)
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists (register)
Harry Kane claims men’s Ballon d’Or to end England’s 25-year wait for winner (guardian)
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra (register)
Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget (guardian)
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail (register)
Justice department charges ex-FBI director James Comey for third time (guardian)
Escaping Idi Amin review – there’s a happy ending to this awful tale … and it should be a lesson to us all (guardian)
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China (register)
LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key (register)
John Anderson obituary (guardian)
Protest leaders urge French pupils to keep barricading their schools (guardian)
Russell Brand had ‘insane sexual appetite’ and his bad behaviour was normalised, trial told (guardian)
Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year (register)
England Under-15s walk off pitch against Ireland in World Cup after racism allegation (guardian)
iPhone Duo owners report cracks in Apple’s first foldable handset (guardian)
