Villa have two points from first four league matchesArroyo took charge in January 2025Aston Villa have sacked their women’s manager Natalia Arroyo with the club second-bottom of the Women’s Super League with two points from four matches.Arroyo was appointed in January 2025 and guided Villa to safety before…

As a new book on the Paisley Park polymath is released, author John McKie explains why Prince’s 1987 album is the ultimate showcase of his geniusBy the early 1980s, Prince had cemented his place as a pop heavyweight with the phenomenal success of his 1999 album, as well as becoming a movie star thanks to Purple…

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a wholeThere was a time, a few decades ago, when the men who owned the world’s biggest…

Demand for Scotland’s most famous export has slumped, with industry facing job cuts and closuresObscured by the Scottish countryside on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy, Cluny bond is, in effect, a small town built to store whisky. By the time the latest set of warehouses are finished on the former opencast coal mine…

The country is struggling to address a rise in attacks, with a record 13 people – mostly children – killed this year for body parts, which some believe can bring good fortuneNot long after midnight in late May this year, three men barged through the door of the small room where Nicole Soalala lived with her family…

As the postseason starts with the wildcard round, our writers pick the dark horses, likely winners and the high seeds at risk of going out earlyThe Mariners. The only active MLB team to have never appeared in a World Series came within a single win of ending that hoodoo last October and appeared poised to go one stage…

Spanish drama about people leaving their old lives behind plays out like a literary novel, with Manolo Solo excellent as a discombobulated gardenerOut of the blue, a woman walks out on her husband. Bags packed and ready to go, at the last moment she crumples up the letter she has written to him and vanishes from their…

Residents say shop threatens Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s last surviving tearoom months after vape shop blaze nearbyIn the heart of Glasgow city centre, nestled between shops, bars, offices and hotels, sits the Mackintosh Tearooms, the last surviving tearoom designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and one of the…

A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach Like many Britons born in the 1980s, the journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones came of age with Tony Blair’s platitudes ringing in his ears. Politics at the turn of the millennium was a story of temporary dispensations…

Four-hour production featuring star-studded cast will be performed at London County Hall A play based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot will come to London for one night only this November – and promises to feature a star-studded cast.The four-hour production of The Pelicot Trial: Tribute…