Scottish PremiershipRangers sink 10-man St Johnstone but Roofe and Lundstram suffer injuriesRangers moved to within two points of the Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic with a 2-0 home win over 10-man St Johnstone that was overshadowed by injuries.
Philippe Clement, who picked up his first trophy as Rangers manager on Sunday after the 1-0 League Cup final win against Aberdeen at Hampden Park, watched on as the luckless striker Kemar Roofe went off after 16 minutes with another injury.
Lor Scoota’s song, Bird Flu, was remixed as a family-friendly sports version in which references to the city’s avian-named sports teams replace drug lingo. Photograph: YouTubeLor Scoota’s song, Bird Flu, was remixed as a family-friendly sports version in which references to the city’s avian-named sports teams replace drug lingo. Photograph: YouTubeBaltimore This article is more than 7 years oldThis article is more than 7 years oldTyriece Watson was killed coming from a peace rally last week – and his life and death embodied the hope and the struggles of young people in the city
MoviesReviewPolish director Patryk Vega’s usually slick technique fails him utterly here in this lurid story about a cop investigating a girl’s kidnapping by the Russian mafia
Patryk Vega is the Polish writer-director whose hardboiled thrillers have found commercial favour both at home and with diaspora audiences: 2018’s The Plagues of Breslau was the kind of full-throttle, unapologetically 18-rated entertainment western producers have largely backed away from. Regrettably, his latest is both globetrotting and dashed-off, and so remorseless that it becomes actively punishing.
California This article is more than 2 months oldAnalysisView on Israel-Gaza emerges as rare divide for California’s Senate hopefulsThis article is more than 2 months oldMaanvi SinghDemocratic rivals Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee and Katie Porter have near identical platforms and Israel-Gaza could be a deciding factor
US politics - live updates Israel and Hamas at war – live updates As three leading California Democrats vie for a rare opening in the Senate, the Israeli offensive in Gaza has exposed rare fault lines in the candidates’ otherwise aligned platforms.
Weather trackerRéunionAnalysisWeather tracker: first red cyclone warning for Réunion since 1989 Matt Hills for MetDeskCyclone Belal is expected to remain a strong storm through the coming week
Active weather is expected to affect northern Australia and parts of the Mascarene Islands in the south Indian Ocean this week, with the monsoon trough a triggering factor in both cases.
The monsoon trough is an area of the Intertropical Convergence Zone that interacts with the larger scale monsoon circulation.
That 1980s sports blogOlympic GamesBen Johnson, Carl Lewis and the drama of the Dirtiest Race in HistoryRichard Moore's account of the 100m final at the 1988 Olympics is perfectly planned, painstakingly researched and brilliantly toldWhen I started writing this blog 18 months ago, there were numerous sporting events that immediately sprung to mind when I considered which topics to cover. One certainty was that at some point I would try my very best to research, investigate, and compose a piece about the 1988 Olympics men's 100m final in Seoul.
ShortcutsBadgersThe environment minister tries to defend his badger cull, but we both know from experience that these animals have an important role to play in Britain's countrysideSo Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, has defended his position on the badger cull by telling Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm probably the only person listening to this programme to have pet badgers as a child."
Badgers do not make good pets. Like Paterson, I had some orphaned badgers as a child and I remember their brief company with fondness.
US militaryObituaryGeneral Norman Schwarzkopf obituaryCommander of the coalition forces that drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait during the Gulf warGeneral Norman Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 78, commanded the coalition forces that won the Gulf war in 1991, driving Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm, whose design proved as effective as he had convinced his superiors in Washington it would be. The US secretary of defence Leon Panetta has described Schwarzkopf as "
Art and designHans Ulrich Obrist: the art of curationBehind every great artist is a great curator. But what do they actually do? Serpentine superstar Hans Ulrich Obrist reveals the delights and dangers of his craft – while Yoko Ono, David Shrigley and more pick their all-time favourite showHans Ulrich ObristOne of my childhood heroes was Sergei Diaghilev. He didn't dance. He wasn't a choreographer. He didn't compose. He didn't direct. But he was, to use a term the writer JG Ballard said to me in an interview, a junction-maker.
NOOKS AND CRANNIESHow come Arabic language is written left to right (like Hebrew) but Arabs write numbers right to left (same as European languages)? David Dreaming Bear, Horsethief Canyon, California USA
It could be said that we actually write numbers from right to left. Take the number 134 for example. You right the hundreds first(1) followed by the tens(3) followed by the units (4). Surely it would make more sense to follow our left to right rule and write the units first followed by the tens etc - 431.