Visually effective yet narratively meandering, the star’s moody psycho-thriller-cum-therapy-session is a missed opportunity

Regrets? The Weeknd has a few. In Hurry Up Tomorrow, a celluloid roman-à-clef pegged to his sixth studio album , the Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate puzzles through the consequences of hooking up with a deranged groupie who forces him to reckon with his rock star flings. But it’s viewers who will probably be feeling rueful over nearly two hours lost in the end.

Though technically a thriller, Tomorrow takes inspiration from a real-life moment of weakness: the Weeknd – born Abel Tesfaye – losing his voice while filming The Idol TV series in between a global stadium tour. As with most of his artistic efforts, the Weeknd makes the job of distinguishing his sincere reflections from his satirical self-observations impossibly hard on audiences and smirks when they don’t get the joke. Recall his dizzying Super Bowl half-time show and face-bandage stunt he pulled to promote the After Hours album.

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• Barça’s 28th title caps fine debut season for Hansi Flick
• Lamine Yamal scores stunner in 2-0 win over local rivals

The day the league title race began, Wojciech Szczesny was sitting on the beach in Marbella, lighting up a cigarette, enjoying his retirement; the day it ended nine months on, he was on the pitch at the RCDE Stadium, 1,000km north, celebrating alongside the friends old and new with whom he had just become a champion again. At 35, the Polish goalkeeper had been convinced to come out of retirement for one last job, and what a job it was, a season he hadn’t even expected to play ending with a league and cup double after a 2-0 win at rivals Espanyol.

He was joined at Barcelona by a stellar cast, a whole new generation that includes a kid 17 years and three months his junior – a teenager at the other end of a career that might yet be one of the best there has ever been.

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• St Helens 40-0 Catalans Dragons
• Saints run in seven tries to climb into top four

There are few towns in the land where you can almost feel the pressure to perform well on the rugby league field more than St Helens. Super League’s most successful club have such immense standards given their historical triumphs that any blip is treated with severe and harsh criticism.

Arguably nobody knows that better than Paul Wellens. One of the Saints’ greatest-ever players’ position as head coach has come under immense pressure in recent weeks after scraping into the playoffs last year and underwhelming again in the early stages of this year – so much so, speculation is already brewing about potential replacements.

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Violence over last 48 hours diminishes hope that US president’s visit to Middle East would pause hostilities

At least 80 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on targets across Gaza as faltering talks on a new ceasefire continued and Donald Trump said he wanted the US to “make” the devastated territory “into a freedom zone”.

Trump’s statement recalled the plan he put forward in February for the US to take control of Gaza to reconstruct it as a luxury leisure and business hub. The scheme implied the possible permanent displacement of many or all of the territory’s 2.3 million people and triggered global outrage.

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• World No 1 reaches semis with 6-0, 6-1 demolition
• Sinner to face 11th seed Tommy Paul on Friday

Forty-six minutes into one of the most highly anticipated matches of the clay-court season, Casper Ruud triumphantly raised both hands to the sky and struggled to suppress a smile. Ruud, however, was not cheering the completion of a successful set or even a singular, spectacular point; he was commemorating sarcastically the very first game he had won.

It was the only thing Ruud had to cheer all night as Jannik Sinner pieced together a remarkable statement performance under the lights in Rome, underlining his enduring status as the best player in the world by completely demolishing Ruud, the sixth seed, 6-0, 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open.

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It circumvents financial privilege grounds on which earlier version was rejected by MPs on Wednesday

A new amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content has been tabled, after MPs voted to remove an earlier version on Wednesday.

The amendment by the cross-bench peer and former film director Beeban Kidron will be a fresh challenge to plans to let artificial intelligence firms use copyright-protected work without permission .

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Met counter-terrorism police say 21-year-old Ukrainian faces three counts of arson with intent to endanger life

A Ukrainian national has been charged over a series of suspected arson attacks on two homes and a vehicle linked to Keir Starmer.

Roman Lavrynovych, 21, was charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life.

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Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life

The South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa, whose experimental work has been praised for its “power and simplicity” and explores family ties, myth and post-apartheid life, has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize 2025.

Sobekwa was awarded the £30,000 prize, one of the most prestigious in the industry, at the Photographers’ Gallery in London on Thursday for his work I Carry Her Photo With Me that focuses on the life and disappearance of his half-sister, Ziyanda.

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Trump administration policies on immigration, families and children have been pockmarked by contradictions

Some of the children were too young to stand on their own. Instead, they sat on their parents’ knees or in their parents’ arms, waving American flags. Many of them seemed confused about what, exactly, was even happening.

But these kids were in the midst of making history: their families were among the first to take advantage of Donald Trump’s February executive order granting white South Africans refugee status in the United States, on the grounds that Afrikaner landowners – who make up just 7% of South Africa’s population yet, decades after the end of apartheid, control about half of its land – are facing persecution. While the doors to the US refugee program have been slammed shut to virtually everyone else, these Afrikaners showed up in the US earlier this week, their refugee status promising a path to US citizenship.

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