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2026-04-28 03:00:45 (20 hours ago)

‘My life changes on one shot’: Joe Johnson on snooker glory, Princess Diana and his seven heart attacks

After starting the 1986 world championships as a 150-1 outsider victory against Steve Davis led to watching tennis with royalty and being mobbed in Tesco

“It was like a strange dream,” Joe Johnson says as he remembers becoming the world snooker champion 40 years ago as a 150-1 outsider and former gas board and factory worker who was the father of six children. Johnson had never previously won a game at the Crucible and he had struggled for years to make a living as a pro.

It was a time when Britain was “snooker loopy” and Johnson played characters such as Bill Werbeniuk who, in 1985, beat him in the first round while drinking a staggering amount of beer.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 03:00:44 (20 hours ago)

AFC Champions League gets finale fitting of fundamentally flawed tournament | John Duerden

Al-Ahli won for the second successive year, but few outside Jeddah will remember proceedings fondly

As far as head-butts in major finals go, it wasn’t quite Zinedine Zidane in 2006, but Zakaria Hawsawi’s lunge forwards in Saturday’s AFC Champions League Elite final connected with Tete Yengi’s jaw and dropped the stunned Australian, almost a foot taller, to the ground.

With the score 0-0 between Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahli and Machida Zelvia of Japan midway through the second half, it all took place on the touchline of the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, right in front of the referee and the shocked Al-Ahli fans who feared their team’s chances of a second successive continental title had gone.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 03:00:44 (20 hours ago)

Sabastian Sawe’s sub-two marathon feat is the Roger Bannister moment of our time | Sean Ingle

Sunday’s landmark in London was not only unexpected, dramatic and historic – it was a once-in-a-generation moment

A few years ago at the London Marathon, organisers wheeled out an industrial-sized treadmill called the Tumbleator. Then they tempted curious onlookers with a simple question: can you keep up with Eliud Kipchoge? The answer was obvious. But that didn’t stop people trying. Most lasted a few seconds before comically flying off the back into crash mats.

The Tumbleator has a fresh poster-boy now: Sabastian Sawe, who on Sunday claimed track and field’s last holy grail by running a sub two-hour marathon. Imagine sprinting 17 seconds for 100 metres, and then sustaining it across 26.2 miles. Or setting your treadmill at 4min 33sec per mile pace and carrying on for 1hr 59 min 30sec. It sounds ridiculous, impossible, laugh-out-loud stupid … until you realise that is what Sawe did in London.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 03:00:43 (20 hours ago)

Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels?

In the Sierra Tarahumara, gangs ‘disappear’ those who resist their lucrative illegal tree-felling operations

Decades ago, the children of Rochéachi village in the Sierra Tarahumara – pine-covered mountains of north-west Mexico’s Chihuahua state – would run through the forest by night. In the rainy season, they would collect fireflies whose glimmering light would flicker through the hollows of the pine trees.

“We had peace. We used to walk and play and be together,” says one mother of three, who asked to remain anonymous, about the forest she once knew. “Now, children can’t go out to play. We don’t know what might happen.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 03:00:43 (20 hours ago)

It’s time MPs levelled with us: Britain is already at war, and we’ll need to do two things to survive it | Gaby Hinsliff

Cyber-attacks, disinformation and blockading of supplies. This is what living in a war zone can look like now

We are at war. Four words that sound ludicrously melodramatic on a sunny spring day, when all may not be exactly right with the world – but when you can still shut your eyes to a lot of it just by switching off the news and cracking on with life. No bombs are falling, no bullets flying, no sirens sounding. Though the idea that Britain is already under a form of hybrid attack is commonplace in defence circles, politicians still mostly skirt around it; and it was jolting at first to hear the Labour MP (and former RAF wing commander) Calvin Bailey make the case for conflict being our new reality at a conference hosted by the Good Growth Foundation thinktank last week in London. But then he started to unpack his reasoning for why war is no longer what you think it is.

If war can be considered an assault on five fronts – against a country’s political leadership, critical infrastructure, essentials such as food or fuel supplies, civilian population and armed forces – then Britain is arguably now being attacked on the first four without a shot being fired. Think of rampant, Russian-generated political disinformation on social media and attempts to bribe British politicians; of Russian submarine surveillance of the British undersea cables carrying most of our internet traffic, or the four “nationally significant” cyber-attacks recorded every week; of the blockading of food and fuel supplies through the strait of Hormuz. Think, too, of Keir Starmer’s warning in the Sunday Times last week of conflict with Iran coming home to British civilians via “the use of proxies in this country”. He didn’t elaborate, but counter-terrorism police say they are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses and Iranians living in Britain may have been sponsored by Tehran – a thugs-for-hire tactic familiar from the Russian playbook for sowing division and hate.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 03:00:43 (20 hours ago)

What, Howe and why: big questions Saudi owners may ask under-fire Newcastle manager | Louise Taylor

Run of five defeats could lead to awkward queries this week, including why £124m of attacking talent is being underused

Eddie Howe is braced for forensic questioning by Newcastle’s Saudi Arabian owners at a Northumberland country house hotel in the middle of this week. Matfen Hall sells itself as a venue for rest and relaxation but Newcastle’s struggling manager knows that, with his future at St James’ Park in the balance, a scheduled “summit meeting” with the club’s chair, Yasir al-Rumayyan, and other key figures from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) could prove stressful.

“It’s something we do every year,” says Howe, referring to the annual spring event at which the ownership quiz departmental heads. “But obviously things will be slightly harder for me this time.”

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-04-28 03:00:23 (20 hours ago)

Trump appeals for unity, rips '60 Minutes,' after a history of inflammatory rhetoric on both sides

An alleged gunman charged with attempted assassination of Trump at the Washington Hilton raises questions about security lapses and violent political rhetoric.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-04-28 02:57:30 (20 hours ago)

Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant

Artist and sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru, representing Israel, says he believes 'art thrives on openness'; Foreign Ministry: 'Spectacle of false, anti-Israeli political indoctrination'

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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-04-28 02:56:04 (20 hours ago)

Trump administration fires all members of US’ National Science Board

Democrats blast latest move by the administration to radically restructure the federal government.

Times of India

2026-04-28 02:45:35 (20 hours ago)

Claires shuts 154 UK stores overnight as 1300 jobs lost in major high street collapse

Claire's has abruptly closed all 154 of its UK and Ireland standalone stores, resulting in over 1,300 job losses. The teen jewellery giant's decades-long high street presence collapsed due to a combination of online shopping shifts, rising costs, and financial struggles.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-04-28 02:43:18 (20 hours ago)

Northern council head, five others arrested on suspicion of bribery

Police allege suspects were part of scam involving computer service contractors who offered kickbacks to secure tenders in several local municipalities

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New York Times - World News

2026-04-28 02:38:33 (20 hours ago)

8 Memorable Moments From Past British Royal Visits to the U.S.

With King Charles III and Queen Camilla set to arrive for a state visit with President Trump, we look back at some major moments in previous royal trips to the United States.