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Sheila Heti: ‘Books by women still get treated differently from those by men’

After her controversial novel about motherhood, the Canadian author has turned the spotlight on her father. She talks about grief, honesty – and her decision not to have children

Inter draw damages Lorenzo Insigne’s hopes of signing off with a Scudetto | Nicky Bandini

The Napoli stalwart, headed for Toronto, scored a penalty but Edin Dzeko’s goal kept the title race wide open

Transfer news: Napoli’s Insigne to join Toronto, Watford sign left-back Kamara

30-year-old forward will move to MLS side in JulyHassane Kamara joins Watford from Nice for £4mThe Napoli and Italy forward, Lorenzo Insigne, has agreed a deal to join the MLS club Toronto FC this summer.

NBA postpones five more games with coronavirus numbers on rise

NBA postpones five more games involving nine teamsHawks star Young, Lakers coach Vogel enter protocolsNets’ Irving into protocols day after return announcedThe NBA on Sunday postponed a total of five games involving nine teams in response to rising coronavirus numbers, raising the number of contests that have been pushed back this season to seven.

Ralf Rangnick lines up Chris Armas for Manchester United coaching staff

Rangnick familiar with coach from New York Red BullsArmas was sacked by Toronto FC in July this yearRalf Rangnick is expected to make his first coaching appointment as Manchester United interim manager, with Chris Armas set to join after the departure of Michael Carrick.

Encounter review – Riz Ahmed can’t save uneven sci-fi invasion drama

A strong central performance isn’t enough to sell a disappointingly plotted follow-up to British director Michael Pearce’s thrilling breakout Beast

The rugby league club that swapped Canada’s capital for a Cornish town

Somehow a club that relocated from Hertfordshire to Ottawa last year has now set up home in Cornwall

Belfast and Boiling Point top British independent film award nominations

Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast and kitchen drama Boiling Point starring Stephen Graham both secure 11 Bifa nods each

Toronto film festival 2021 roundup – from poets to deadly parasites

While overshadowed by its flashier film festival rivals, there were still gems to be found at Tiff 2021, from Terence Davies, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Pearce and more

The Mad Woman’s Ball review – Mélanie Laurent’s compelling melodrama

The actor turns director again for a compelling psychodrama about women subjected to experimental psychiatric treatment

The Forgiven review – Chastain and Fiennes light up darkly comic thriller

John Michael McDonagh’s mostly entertaining adaptation of Laurence Osborne’s novel offers an unusual mix of provocation and penance

Encounter review – Riz Ahmed can’t save uneven sci-fi invasion drama

A strong central performance isn’t enough to sell a disappointingly plotted follow-up to British director Michael Pearce’s thrilling breakout Beast

Introducing Marley Morrison: ‘I’ve told you more than anyone in my life for five years’

Drink, depression, homelessness and football injuries: the road to the director’s first feature, Sweetheart, has been difficult. She even dumped one project when her feelings about her gender identity changed

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain movies head to Toronto film festival

A return to mostly in-person screenings for this year’s festival offers a muted selection of films still hoping for an awards push

From Schitt’s Creek to Kevin Can F**k Himself: the perils of swearing in your TV show title

Once seemingly a fast track to cancellation, TV shows are again dancing around the censors with almost-curse words in their titles. But do they still make viewers go WTF?

Princess Diana film debuts at Venice as film industry aims for return to normality

Festival’s reputation as a predictor of award-winning fare seems set with films from Denis Villeneuve, Jane Campion, Edgar Wright, Paolo Sorrentino and Pedro Almodóvar

Streaming: the best of the Edinburgh film festival 2021

The festival returns with live screenings, but will continue to offer an online edition, with gems from Norway and Iran, plus a 30-year stop-motion passion project

Edgar Wright and Kenneth Branagh to premiere latest at Toronto film festival

The festival, which is often a major launchpad for Oscar-aiming movies, will return to an in-person edition reliant on health and safety precautions

Cher’s films – ranked!

She has just turned 75 and there’s a new biopic in the works. What better time to look back at a film CV that’s full of memorable roles?

Mustafa: When Smoke Rises review – 21st-century folk meets bereft R&B

(Regent Park Songs)Friends lost to gun violence are memorialised on the Toronto singer-songwriter’s tender debut

Motherland Star Tanya Moodie's Secrets From Set: 'I'm Breathless With Laughter Before We Even Film'

“When I read the script before we film, I am breathless with laughter. Literally falling off my chair, I kid you not,” admits actor Tanya Moodie, trying to contain her giggles as we speak on the phone.

Cher’s films – ranked!

She has just turned 75 and there’s a new biopic in the works. What better time to look back at a film CV that’s full of memorable roles?

Rochelle Jordan: ‘I had to learn to not let anybody strangle or suffocate my career again’

Illness and toxic deals held the leftfield R&B star back for too long. Now she returns with a radical rethink

Spring into Super League: late start will create season spectacular | Aaron Bower

Super League has a chance to go hell for leather from the off with firmer pitches and fitter players after a longer pre-season

NBA trade deadline: Lowry stays with Raptors as Oladipo shipped to Miami

Kyle Lowry remains in Toronto after widely reported trade talksMiami Heat make trade for two-time All-Star Victor OladipoChicago Bulls acquire Nikola Vucevic, signaling Orlando rebuildKyle Lowry wound up staying with Toronto after all.

Diego's last dance: the night Maradona played in Toronto

Maradona put on a show for his brother’s team, scoring the winner straight from a corner and reviving the hand of God

Mouthpiece review – double the drama in doppelganger story

Two actors play the same lead in this sometimes self-indulgent but ingenious story of a woman’s identity crisis following the death of her mother

'Sacrificing the communal thrill': film festivals adapt to a virtual age

The global pandemic has had a huge impact on film festivals worldwide. But are there reasons to be optimistic?

Kiwi Jr: Cooler Returns review – clever, easy-going jangle pop

(Sub Pop)The Toronto band’s accomplished second album stands out from the usual run of DIY indie

Revealed: how abusive texts led to discovery of hacking of Al Jazeera

Threatening messages led to monitoring of phone that unearthed evidence of cyber-attack against Qatar-based network

Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using Israeli firm's spyware

Citizen Lab researchers say cyber-attack using NSO Group software likely ordered by Saudia Arabia and UAEiPhones vulnerable to hacking tool for months, researchers saySpyware sold by an Israeli private intelligence firm was allegedly used to hack the phones of dozens of Al Jazeera journalists in an unprecedented cyber-attack that is likely to have been ordered by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to leading researchers.

MLS end of season awards 2020: rise of the Union and a Nagbe screamer

The league had to contend with a Covid disrupted season but still managed to end with a fairytale finish for the Columbus Crew

Giannis Antetokounmpo to sign record-breaking extension with Milwaukee Bucks

Exhale, Bucks fans. Giannis Antetokounmpo, the reigning back-to-back NBA MVP, said Tuesday that he's reupping with the Milwaukee franchise and will stick around for the next five years.

Leigh Centurions to replace Toronto Wolfpack in Super League 2021

Selection panel makes choice from six candidatesToronto pulled out of 2020 season due to Covid-19 pandemicLeigh Centurions will play in Super League in 2021 after a selection panel unanimously chose the Lancashire club to replace Toronto Wolfpack in rugby league’s top division next year.

Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands

After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules

Can the 'awards-bait' movie survive the impact of coronavirus?

The Emmys were held over Zoom and the Oscars have been pushed back – but the enforced shakeup from the pandemic could be just what the awards season needs

Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands

After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules

Consortium behind Toronto Wolfpack revival plans angry at rejection

‘It was Super League or bust,’ says Carlo LiVolsi‘They’re trying to play it safe … instead of what’s best’Carlo LiVolsi, who heads the consortium planning to revive Toronto Wolfpack, has accused Super League clubs of “trying to play it safe” after his proposals to have the club readmitted to the competition in 2021 were overwhelmingly rejected on Monday.

'We were lucky people didn't throw tomatoes': Klaus Voormann on his Beatles and Plastic Ono days

He played with the Fab Four in Hamburg, inspired their moptops, drew the famed Revolver cover, and gigged with Yoko Ono. As his illustrations are published, the great musician relives his fabulous escapades

Super League to replace Toronto with lower-league club as play-offs expanded

Toulouse early favourites to take vacant place in divisionLeigh and London Broncos also likely to lodge applicationsSuper League will return to being a 12-team competition in 2021 after clubs agreed to welcome applications from lower-league clubs who wish to replace Toronto Wolfpack, while also finalising a revamped format for the end of this season, which includes an extended six-team play-offs.

Super League will replace Toronto with lower-league club to keep size at 12

Toulouse early favourites to take vacant place in divisionThis season’s play-offs expanded to include top six teamsSuper League will return to being a 12-team competition in 2021 after clubs agreed to welcome applications from lower-league clubs who wish to replace Toronto Wolfpack, while also finalising a revamped format for the end of this season, which includes an extended six-team play-offs.

Super League clubs reject Toronto Wolfpack’s bid to rejoin in 2021

Board rejects Toronto readmission bid by eight votes to fourNew owners’ failure to provide proof of funding key to rejectionToronto Wolfpack have failed in their bid to be readmitted to Super League in 2021, after clubs overwhelmingly rejected their proposal to return to the top-flight next season.

Can the 'awards-bait' movie survive the impact of coronavirus?

The Emmys were held over Zoom and the Oscars have been pushed back – but the enforced shakeup from the pandemic could be just what the awards season needs

Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands

After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules

Streaming: gems to explore from the London Korean film festival

Interest in Korean cinema has grown thanks to Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and this year’s festival is tiptop

Can the 'awards-bait' movie survive the impact of coronavirus?

The Emmys were held over Zoom and the Oscars have been pushed back – but the enforced shakeup from the pandemic could be just what the awards season needs

Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands

After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules

Can the 'awards-bait' movie survive the impact of coronavirus?

The Emmys were held over Zoom and the Oscars have been pushed back – but the enforced shakeup from the pandemic could be just what the awards season needs

My streaming gem: why you should watch Selah and the Spades

The latest in our series of writers highlighting under-the-radar films is a recommendation for an unusual and intelligent teen drama

Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands

After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules

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