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Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Poverty  
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar
Doctors  
Patient satisfaction with GP services in England has collapsed, research finds
Catholicism  
Pope Francis died from a stroke followed by heart failure, Vatican says
Consumer affairs  
Illegal and potentially unsafe ‘energy-saving’ plugs widely available online in UK, report finds
Politics  
Reeves to make case for free global trade at Washington IMF talks
In focus
‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town
Architecture  
‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town
It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?
Ukraine war briefing  
Putin suddenly open to bilateral talks with ‘Kyiv regime’
Food  
‘It was very difficult to hold on to’: are Michelin stars a blessing - or a curse?
Spotlight
Television  
999: The Critical List review – it’s rare to see doctors crack like this
999: The Critical List review – it’s rare to see doctors crack like this
Pass notes  
‘Locking in’: how gen Z are fighting against phones and booze – to become hyper-focused
US  
‘It’s Disneyland for preppers’: why apocalypse-minded shoppers go to Costco
Opinion
All eyes are on Reform right now – but why are they given so much influence?
Zoe Williams
All eyes are on Reform right now – but why are they given so much influence?
It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe
Phil Mongredien
Pope Francis’ approach did not win him friends within the church bureaucracy. But he lit the path for us all
Francis Sullivan
 
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Football  
‘Back where we belong’: Leeds and Burnley savour promotion heroics
‘Back where we belong’: Leeds and Burnley savour promotion heroics
Football  
Brownhill’s double sinks Sheffield United and takes Burnley up
Premier League  
Wood caps Forest’s blistering start at Spurs to refuel top-five dream
Podcast
How Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, and what happens next – podcast
Today in Focus  
How Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, and what happens next – podcast
Just hours after wishing the world a happy Easter, the 267th head of the Roman Catholic church passed away. What was his legacy and who will take his place? Catherine Pepinster reports
Climate crisis
Pollution  
Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds
Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds
Analysis  
Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved
Business
Markets  
US stock markets fall again as Trump calls Fed chair ‘a major loser’
US stock markets fall again as Trump calls Fed chair ‘a major loser’
Aerospace  
Boeing investors brace for fallout from Trump tariffs
In pictures
A life in pictures  
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Photos of the day  
Emperor penguins and a fake crime scene
Emperor penguins and a fake crime scene
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