FilmInterviewOne Day star Rafe Spall on Anne Hathaway, Ridley Scott and dad TimFrancesca BabbThe Shadow Line actor plays a luckless loser in the adaptation of One Day but admits he's enjoying a 'golden period'"Someone asked me recently," says Rafe Spall, squinting into the August afternoon sunshine, brow furrowed in earnest, "if I had to 'ugly up' to play the part of Ian in One Day." He pauses, looks at me incredulously, and then guffaws with laughter.

Republicans This article is more than 2 months oldOutrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican This article is more than 2 months oldCalls to censure Michelle Salzman, who said, ‘All of them’ when Democrat asked: ‘How many [dead Palestinians] will be enough?’ Outrage continues to grow over a public comment made by a Florida state Republican lawmaker calling for all Palestinians to die. The remarks came during a debate in the state legislature about calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Gaza, which has so far killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, many of whom are children.

OpinionIsrael This article is more than 14 years oldThe paradox of Israel's pursuit of mightThis article is more than 14 years oldMax HastingsForty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palledI first visited Israel in 1969. It was a time when much of the western world was still passionately enthused about the country's triumph in the 1967 six-day war.

US CongressObituaryCharlie Wilson obituaryFlamboyant Texan congressman who masterminded covert US support for the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan warIt is rare for one individual ­seriously to divert the course of ­history. To have done so virtually unnoticed was the astonishing achievement of the former Texas congressman Charlie Wilson, who has died aged 76 after suffering a cardiopulmonary arrest. His accomplishment in launching and sustaining America's largest ­clandestine war – supplying arms to Afghan rebels fighting the Soviets in the 1980s – might have been more understandable had he been a discreet figure sliding greyly through the corridors of power.

College basketballIowa sensation Caitlin Clark drains winner from logo to cap 40-point nightClark pours in 40 as No 4 Iowa beat Michigan State 76-73Iowa guard and nation’s top scorer hits winner at buzzerCaitlin Clark knew her shot at the buzzer was going in, even though she launched it from the Hawkeyes logo near midcourt. So did her coach. “Caitlin has ice in her veins,” Iowa’s Lisa Bluder said. “Everybody knows it.