The former president’s motion for a new trial was denied and his argument deemed ‘entirely without merit’ A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to the writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her. Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements ..read more

A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately dismantled and moved somewhere else altogether. “We imagined the project as a changeable system,” says Düsing, co-designer of ..read more

Spaniard eases to 6-1, 6-0 victory over 16-year-old wildcard Veteran to face Alex de Minaur in second round of Madrid Open As Rafael Nadal prepared to enter the Estadio Manolo Santana for what could have been his final match on home soil, like every single match this week could be, much of the 12,400 capacity crowd filled out the walkway around the stadium. He emerged to a prolonged standing ovation, necks craning to catch a fleeting glimpse of his entrance. It was a moment. The start of a final homecoming for the greatest athlete from these lands, but it remains to be seen if he has more to ..read more

Captain reflects on the her mum being a ‘rock’ and the Red Roses’ new coach as they chase another Six Nations grand slam ‘We’re in France and the crowd is going to be hostile,” Marlie Packer says as she looks ahead to Saturday’s Six Nations grand slam decider in Bordeaux with relish. “But we know that can flip on its head because of the French crowd. If they’re not happy with the way their team are playing, they turn on them and give them a bit of a hard time.” Packer will win her 104th cap and, as captain, she also knows England have not lost a Six Nations match in six yea ..read more

Researchers also find zebra finches 20% less likely to hatch from eggs if exposed to noise pollution Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long-term negative effects on their health, growth and reproduction, the study found ..read more

Independent prosecutor Eric Cottier appointed to review case In 2021 23 swimmers were cleared of doping after positive tests The World Anti-Doping Agency has dismissed allegations that it is biased in favour of China as “damaging and baseless” and asked an independent prosecutor to review its handling of the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who were cleared of doping. Wada said that the Swiss prosecutor, Eric Cottier, would be granted “full and unfettered access” to all its files and documents related to the case before reporting back in the next two months before the Paris Olympics ..read more

The director’s 18-minute film Scénarios will premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival accompanied by his 34-minute introduction The final film from the French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival. Scénarios is an 18-minute short that the film-maker finished in 2022 the day before he died via an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland. Godard also made an accompanying 34-minute introduction which is a combination of “still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing” that will be screened alongside it ..read more

Former Household Cavalry officer ran epic 250-km, seven-day race across the Sahara On the morning of his 76th birthday earlier this month, Harry Hunter emerged from a bivouac in southern Morocco to line up with more than 800 other runners in the Sahara. Bar the chorus of Happy Birthday they greeted him with, there was little other celebration of this milestone, which saw Hunter subsequently become the oldest Briton to complete the epic Marathon des Sables, a 250-km (155-mile), seven-day race through rolling sand dunes and rocky mountains ..read more

Late-night hosts talk Trump’s all-caps rants, Kanye West’s new porn venture and Mike Johnson’s delayed Ukraine aid approval Late-night hosts talked Donald Trump’s Truth Social rants, Biden’s potential TikTok ban and House speaker Mike Johnson’s “courage ..read more

Mona Hanna-Attisha launched a program to provide funds during a newborn’s first year – and wants to replicate it across the country Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’ In 2015, Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha alerted the world that children were being poisoned by lead in the water of her home town of Flint, Michigan. Now, as Flint marks the 10-year anniversary of the crisis, she’s set her sights on another target: the underlying poverty that she says allowed it to all happen. “For a long time, I have literally wished for the ability to prescr ..read more