Football This article is more than 2 months oldEngland’s Under-17s dumped out of World Cup by Uzbekistan as coach sees red This article is more than 2 months oldAsian side win 2-1 against 2017 champions in IndonesiaJamoliddin Rahmatullayev sent off for kicking ball awayEngland’s Under-17s were dumped out of the World Cup by Uzbekistan despite the Asian country’s manager being shown a red card for deliberately kicking the ball into the stands.

Russia-Ukraine war at a glanceUkraine This article is more than 1 month oldExplainerThis article is more than 1 month oldUkrainian military moving to defensive positions, UK’s MoD says; Russian tax revenue from oil exports slashed by 32%, US says See all our Russia-Ukraine coverage Ukraine’s armed forces are taking up a more defensive posture, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in its latest analysis of the conflict, after their summer counteroffensive failed to achieve a major breakthrough against Russia’s army and as winter weather sets in after almost 22 months of war.

UK newsSpeedboat crash: husband tried to turn vessel at high speedNick Milligan and his daughter died when family fell into the water in Cornwall last year, says reportA television executive and his daughter were killed in a speedboat accident after he reached across his wife and tried to execute a "an exceptionally unusual" tight, high-speed turn, an official investigation has concluded. Nick Milligan, who was a senior executive with BskyB, his wife Victoria and their four children were thrown into the water.

Quiet intimacy … Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (detail), by Johannes Vermeer. Photograph: Wolfgang Kreische/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, DresdenQuiet intimacy … Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (detail), by Johannes Vermeer. Photograph: Wolfgang Kreische/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden2023 in CultureArt and designOur critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

The ObserverBiologyThey behave like ants and can live for more than 30 years, but what's really captured the imagination of scientists is the fact that naked mole rats don't get cancerDoctor Chris Faulkes, who has been working with them almost every day for the last 25 years, has long since learned to love naked mole rats, but, as he concedes, since they are "pretty much blind and live underground in the dark, they are not necessarily naturally selecting on good looks"