The Week

History rewritten as wrestler Louis Bruce revealed as Britain’s first black Olympian
Quickfire Barty turns Keys inside out to reach first Australian Open final
However you get a kick out of football, certain kicks deserve to be cherished | Max Rushden
Honours even after England let early advantage slip at Women’s Ashes Test
Fleetwood’s opening 67 at Dubai Desert Classic hints at return to top form
Sevilla say Newcastle offer for Diego Carlos ‘insufficient’ and talks are over
Broncos set to appoint Packers OC as head coach adding intriguing link to Rodgers
High-octane Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis storm into Australian Open final
Barcelona enter race with Tottenham to sign Adama Traoré from Wolves
Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger calls time on ‘exhilarating’ 18-season NFL career
Statue of Kobe Bryant and daughter unveiled at site of fatal helicopter crash
How should cricket adapt to deal with the issue of concussion?
Tragedy at the Africa Cup of Nations – Football Weekly
Powell and Pooran blast West Indies to 20-run victory over England in third T20
Should star quarterbacks now avoid the talent-packed AFC?
No dream ending for Dylan Alcott as Australian Open final defeat ushers in retirement
Female footballers in England get maternity cover after landmark change
Fifa president: more World Cups could save African migrants from death in the sea
Saudi elephant in room overshadows Dubai Desert Classic buildup
On Holocaust Memorial Day let’s commit to ridding football of antisemitism
Tom Harrison can’t even talk a good game any more, so why is he still in charge? | Andy Bull
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics schedule: full programme
Sparks will fly in Six Nations with crowds back and competition fierce | Robert Kitson
The Spin | From gloves to bats, cricket gear buyers are stumped by a lack of clarity
Derby given extra month by EFL to prove they can finish season
Transfer roundup: Rangers agree Diallo loan as Forest reject £20m Johnson bid
Concacaf World Cup qualifiers: five things to look out for
The Fiver | Little victories in the fight to save Derby County
Canada’s Cyle Larin: ‘We can compete against anybody. Playing for this team is special’
Mohamed Salah’s nerveless shootout penalty takes Egypt past Ivory Coast
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster review – a rich survey
South review – startling filmed record of Shackleton’s gruelling Antarctic odyssey
China’s go-to English bad guy Kevin Lee: ‘I’m happy to play a villain’
Sing 2 review – animation sequel has all the gloss but lacks heart and soul
Amulet review – Romola Garai makes directorial debut with smart upscale horror
Flag Day review – Sean Penn shows he’s still got it in tale of unrepentant swindler
And the 2021 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
Bruce Willis films – ranked!
‘Number’s up, PM’: what the papers say as Gray report looms
Cardi B awarded almost £3m in damages in libel case against gossip blogger
‘It was bigger than Cosby’: W Kamau Bell on reckoning with an icon’s fall
Official biography of Terry Pratchett to be published
‘I got 12 years and 74 lashes’: Confess, the band jailed for playing metal in Iran
Theon Cross review – more oomph than oompah from jazz-tuba champion
‘You don’t know me’: Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of using him as clickbait
Glass Animals become first UK band to top global Spotify singles chart
Elton John postpones Dallas concerts after positive Covid test
Australian Open 2022 quarter-final: Auger-Aliassime v Medvedev – live!
‘Why did people have to die?’: Cameroon mourns after stadium tragedy
In this season’s Premier League look down for the real drama | Barney Ronay
England evacuated from hotel due to fire and Marler tests positive for Covid
Novak Djokovic set for return to action in Dubai ATP Tour event next month
Arsenal striker Vivianne Miedema holds talks with PSG and Barcelona
‘Big Roy’ fits the bill to give struggling Watford a chance of surviving
Tin-eared county chairmen show why English cricket is in trouble | Barney Ronay
Michael Venus labels Nick Kyrgios ‘an absolute knob’ after doubles defeat
England turn their attention to improving death bowling
Sean Payton, coach who transformed New Orleans Saints, resigns from job
Ivory Coast v Egypt has a climactic feel but don’t expect the goals of 2008 | Jonathan Wilson
Fifa urged to tighten rules on money super-agents make from transfers
Vítor Pereira is Farhad Moshiri’s No 1 choice to replace Benítez at Everton
Newcastle make £33.5m offer for Lyon midfielder Bruno Guimarães
Serge Mombo arrested over sexual abuse of young players in Gabon
Championship roundup: Davis helps Nottingham Forest to four straight wins
Tottenham have £37.6m bid for winger Luis Díaz rejected by Porto
Am I OK? review – Dakota Johnson excels in uneven coming out film
Emily the Criminal review – Aubrey Plaza charges taut thriller
Taming the Garden review – fascinating study of a billionaire’s destructive folly
The British film industry is doomed if it can’t make room for new film-makers | Mike Newell
One Shot review – mesmerically schlocky thriller rendered with impressive technique
Liborio review – brooding portrait of a beguilingly charismatic folk hero
Confession review – priest, cop and bloodied gunman face off in church thriller
Peter Dinklage criticises Disney for ‘backwards’ remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jodorowsky animated Dune in development, says crypto group
Oatly ads banned by UK watchdog over ‘misleading’ green claims
‘Let us eat cake’: how UK newspapers reacted to latest No 10 party claims
Jana Bennett obituary
Netflix’s Byron Baes cast appear to flout NSW Covid measures in Instagram videos
Joe Biden appears to insult Fox News reporter over inflation question
Bob Dylan sells entire recorded catalogue to Sony Music Entertainment
I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it
‘I wanted to try cocaine, but Jimi was against it’: Janis Ian on her tough, starlit life in music
‘His passing has left a huge hole in my life’: readers remember Meat Loaf
Cardi B awarded almost £1m in damages in libel case against gossip blogger
Mother nature’s son: the exotic world of songwriter eden ahbez
Brody Dalle testifies that Josh Homme head-butted her so hard she ‘saw stars’
Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Ségal review – a beautiful cross-border conversation
‘Bob wouldn’t be Bob without Rita’: Ziggy Marley on his mother and father
Middlesex chairman condemned for ‘outdated’ views at racism hearing
Nadal survives five-setter as Shapovalov claims officials ‘100%’ favour top players
David Squires on … drones, ghost ships and a weird Premier League weekend
Ash Barty underlines favourite status by trouncing Pegula at Australian Open
Bernal has ‘two successful surgeries’ and in intensive care after training crash
The Breakdown | Elusive back-to-back grand slams remain rugby union’s holy grail
Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers ponder futures after rough playoff exits
Juventus strike €75m deal to sign Dusan Vlahovic from Fiorentina
Eight killed after crush outside Africa Cup of Nations match in Cameroon
Keith Earls: ‘Hank started to take over. I got to a stage where I hated rugby’
Free-scoring Fulham and another new Watford manager – Football Weekly
What is going on at Derby and will club survive? Key questions answered
Rising temperatures threaten future of Winter Olympics, say experts
Joshua rubbishes reports of £15m deal to walk away from Usyk rematch
Injuries to Courtney Lawes and Jonny May hit England’s Six Nations plans
Reece Topley hits high notes after painful winding road back for England | Simon Burnton
Australian Open reverses its ban on ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ T-shirts
Rise and shine: how footballers are harnessing the power of sleep
Sportswashing is associated with certain countries – why not Israel? | Jonathan Liew
I challenged an unjust view of the ideal women’s cricketer. It was the right thing to do | Alex Blackwell
Manchester United’s Van de Beek a loan target for Crystal Palace and Valencia
The Fiver | Watford’s fight against the current with waterway enthusiast Cap’n Roy
‘A no-brainer’: Jill Scott joins Aston Villa on loan until end of season
Watford in advanced talks to make Roy Hodgson their new manager
Firestarter Conte turns up heat on Levy by demanding Spurs signings | David Hytner
One year, no wins: decimated Dover fight to avoid unwanted anniversary
In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand review – queasy softcore-fantasy road movie
Black Medusa review – deadpan North African vengeance noir
John Cameron Mitchell: ‘There’s been a certain sex panic in the air’
Palm Trees and Power Lines review – an unnerving, remarkable debut
Kombinat review – dark, eerie doc on Russia’s ‘socialist city of steel’
Sharp Stick review – Lena Dunham’s comeback is a misjudged experiment
Fight Club gets a new ending in China - and the authorities win
Ana de Armas fans sue Hollywood studio over ‘deceptive’ Yesterday trailer
Adam Boulton: Sky News faces ‘existential’ crisis as TV habits change
‘You can’t have your birthday cake and eat it’: what the papers say about Johnson’s party
Tinie Tempah puts modern heroes in portrait focus for BBC series
Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
Children’s TV makers say British shows could die as ministers scrap £44m fund
Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis
Julian Assange wins first stage of attempt to appeal against extradition
Sarah Palin tests positive for Covid, delaying New York Times defamation trial
‘Brian May has finally become an actor’: say hello to CBBC’s new star, the Godfather of Rock
Google accused of ‘deceptive’ location tracking in fresh round of lawsuits
Paul Dacre’s all for freedom of expression – except when he’s a character in your play | Tim Walker
Vaccine refusers have been asked on to Question Time. Is this a disaster waiting to happen?
From Line of Duty to #JusticeforBarb: TV’s obsession with shock early deaths
Taylor Swift criticises Damon Albarn for saying she doesn’t write her own songs
How we made: Billy Bragg’s A New England
‘Art is appropriation’: folklorist Jake Xerxes Fussell connects forgotten tunes to our times
Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of raping her on music video set
‘Warm, loving, generous – but he had demons’: inside the life of Meat Loaf
Vote with your feet: film, music, art and more to engage you politically
jeen-yuhs: what can we learn from the new Kanye West documentary?
Genesis Owusu, Banoffee, Nick Cave and more: the best Australian albums of 2021
‘After seeing Aretha Franklin you’re never the same again’: Elvis Costello’s honest playlist
Georgia Maq, Tame Impala, Augie March: Australia’s best new music for January
‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60
Klein review – composer explodes convention into brilliant fragments
D Double E review – grime originator unites the generations
Kanye West and Drake review – the end of an overcooked beef
Jagged Little Pill review – Alanis Morissette musical has moments of silliness and transcendence
Young T & Bugsey: Truth Be Told review – a stream of smooth, self-serious rap
Guinea v Gambia: Africa Cup of Nations last 16 – live!
Chiefs v Bills: did we just witness the greatest two minutes in NFL history?
Cornet outlasts Halep in Australia heat to reach first grand slam quarter-final
Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action
Brendan Taylor to get cricket ban over delayed reporting of spot-fixing plot
Martina Navratilova says Tennis Australia is ‘capitulating’ to China over Peng Shuai
Is the Premier League title race back on? – Football Weekly
France scrum-half Antoine Dupont is rugby writers’ Personality of the Year
Everton to hold talks with Vítor Pereira as manager search continues
Talking Horses: let’s hope for Shishkin v Energumene II at Cheltenham
Ellia Smeding named as 50th and final Team GB athlete for Winter Olympics
Atlético revel in ‘madness’ of wildest win yet – but will it be a turning point? | Sid Lowe
Boost for Joe Root after Ashes as he wins men’s Test cricketer of the year award
Topley’s superb return helps England survive ‘scary’ West Indies six barrage
PK Subban ‘embarrassed’ for ice hockey after alleged racist abuse of brother
De Minaur exits Australian Open in frustrating straight-sets loss to Sinner
Danielle Collins ends year of pain by reaching Australian Open quarter-final
Keith Yandle: the NHL ironman closing in on 1,000 consecutive games
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Premier League postponements are a betrayal of a club’s younger players | Josh Gowling
France favourites and England rebuilding in unusually unpredictable Six Nations | Andy Bull
Pandemic’s reality hits Ryan Fox but New Zealander keeps faith
Milan face derby day of reckoning as Juve clash falls flat on shabby stage | Nicky Bandini
Hertha Berlin go missing in Bayern ordeal to complete week of ‘disgrace’ | Andy Brassell
The rise of Reims shows youth is the future in Ligue 1 – but for how long?
Darboe and Colley leading streetwise Africa Cup of Nations debutants Gambia
Sam Kerr breaks Philippines resistance as Matildas reach Asian Cup last eight
Football transfer rumours: Dele Alli and Yves Bissouma to Newcastle?
Milan draw with Juventus as De Jong scores late winner for Barcelona
There Will Be No More Night review – chilling meditation on modern warfare
My streaming gem: why you should watch Calibre
You Won’t Be Alone review – spellbinding tale of a body-switching witch
Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘My family could not be more different to the one in The Souvenir’
Rossy de Palma: ‘Almodóvar always leaves space for a little bit of life to come in’
‘I got really lucky’: Caitríona Balfe, star of Belfast, on fame, family and fans
Ian Alexander Jr, son of actor and director Regina King, dies at 26
Arnold Schwarzenegger unhurt in four-vehicle Los Angeles crash
Netflix could lose 750,000 UK subscribers as Disney takes control of hit shows
Sarah Palin takes on New York Times in defamation trial
Google warns of ‘devastating’ impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned
Court of appeal to hear challenge over media ban from Prince Philip’s will court case
Glasgow becomes Gotham for Batgirl as Scottish film industry booms
Online safety bill ‘a missed opportunity’ to prevent child abuse, MPs warn
Proposed anti-trolling laws could worsen online abuse, Australian law experts say
‘It’s a show about love’: Desert Island Discs celebrates 80 years on air
Turkey: prominent journalist detained for insulting president Erdoğan
The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy | Sonia Sodha
What’s the game with the name?
If influencers don’t believe in fairytale endings, who will? | Eva Wiseman