• Fit-again Emma Raducanu beats Jule Niemeier 6-4, 6-4
• Katie Boulter closes out 2-0 win against Germany

It has been seven months since Emma Raducanu led Great Britain to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals. So much has happened since then, from her gradual rise back up the rankings to further frustrating injuries, and she arrived in Malaga this week at a different point in her development. As she stepped up to the baseline on Friday evening, it was unclear how rusty she would be after a two-month absence.

Two hours later, Raducanu departed the court having handled the pressure in her stride, setting the tone for her team with a solid, professional opening performance as Britain advanced to the quarter-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup with a 2-0 win over Germany.

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Billionaire alleges Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize AI market and sideline competitors

Elon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer, Microsoft, as a defendant.

Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, California, said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and sideline competitors.

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Morenikeji Adewole, 47, charged with rape on Wednesday and is on remand in prison, the Met Police said

One of London’s most prominent nightclubs has been forced to close after a member of security staff was charged with rape, the Metropolitan police said.

Westminster Council’s licensing committee ruled on Friday that Heaven’s alcohol licence should be suspended for up to 28 days after a woman was allegedly raped in the vicinity of the venue in the early hours of 1 November.

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Wes Streeting speaks out after deaths in Turkey among women travelling for procedures such as butt lifts

Britons should resist the temptation to have cosmetic surgery abroad at “rock-bottom” prices in case they are harmed by substandard care, the health secretary has said.

Wes Streeting spoke out after a spate of deaths among women who had travelled to Turkey for aesthetic treatment such as a Brazilian butt lift (BBL).

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Manager goes into final women’s Merseyside derby at Goodison upbeat despite still searching for their first win

In Brian Sørensen’s previous two seasons in charge of Everton, their first win came away against Liverpool, so as his team sit winless after seven games and prepare to host their Merseyside rivals at Goodison Park on Sunday, those derby victories are on his mind. “It’s just unlucky we have them in round eight instead of round one or two,” he says.

Luck has not been on Everton’s side this term. The 44-year-old Dane is determined to stay positive but naturally wishes he could pick his strongest side. Watching back September’s goalless friendly against Liverpool in preparation for Sunday, he feels a pang of sadness, seeing so many key players since ruled out by injury. The season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained by the Spain midfielder Inma Gabarro in a 1-0 loss to Manchester United, days after the same fate had befallen the Italy midfielder Aurora Galli, brought an ashen look of despair to Sørensen’s face at the time.

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In a country where thousands of migrant workers have died since 2016 a huge building project lies ahead. December’s coronation will stand as surely the most wretched, bloody, damaging act in the history of global organised sport

“People will die.”
Amnesty International

“You can never say again that you did not know.”
William Wilberforce

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Royal Court, Liverpool
Wolf-like property developers are set to evict the grandmother, who is on a night of drug-fuelled abandon, in this enjoyable show

This is Liverpool, so the most frightening set of teeth are those of Cilla Black. Every time the baddies look at them we hear a round of Anyone Who Had a Heart. Laced with poison, they could be fatal.

Did I say Liverpool? I should have said Lidlpool, a city where the middle aisle can save the day and where, in Kevin Fearon’s raucous script, the threat to Grandma comes from two metaphorical wolves. The old woman’s cottage is the only thing standing in the way of a multistorey car park. The lupine property developers, Cash and Carry (Andrew Schofield and Keddy Sutton), will stop at nothing – even Cilla’s teeth – to get her evicted.

At the Royal Court, Liverpool , until 18 January

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The ex-manager netted an international double worth a total of around £500,000 in prize money on Friday

Sir Alex Ferguson has often seemed to lead a charmed existence on the turf since his retirement from football management and he enjoyed another memorable afternoon on Friday with an international double worth a total of around £500,000 in prize money in the space of just 70 minutes.

First, the novice hurdler Potters Charm carried the former Manchester United manager’s colours to a decisive victory in a Grade Two novice hurdle at Cheltenham’s prestigious November meeting. Ferguson himself, though, was in Bahrain to see his seven-year-old gelding, Spirit Dancer, take the $1m Bahrain International Trophy, with a first prize of £472,441, for the second year running.

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Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August discovery of the ‘doomsday fish’

For the second time this year an oarfish, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, reported that last week that one of its PhD students came across a specimen roughly nine to 10ft long on a beach in Encinitas in southern California.

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