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Champions League: Mourinho’s Real Madrid stage wild comeback on Roma return

14 October 2026 at 17:43
  • Mourinho’s side score three late goals from 3-1 deficit

  • Dortmund latest team beaten in Norway by Bodø/Glimt

José Mourinho enjoyed a Roma reunion to remember as Real Madrid completed an astonishing comeback by scoring three late goals to claim a 4-3 away win in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Marten de Roon gave the hosts a deserved opener before Kylian Mbappé struck back on his 100th Champions League appearance to level the scores at the break. Two Donyell Malen strikes in the space of six minutes early in the second half seemed to take the game away from the 15-time European champions as Roma ran rampant.

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© Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

© Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

© Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world

14 October 2026 at 10:00

Amid economic sanctions and ongoing conflict, a new initiative is returning Iran’s artists to the international spotlight

When the call came early one morning, Tehran resident Elham Issari knew it must be urgent. The voice on the line was offering something precious. “Miss Elham,” he said excitedly, “I have a single tube of white paint! It’s overpriced and I know it’s overpriced but, if you want it, you have to buy it right now because there’s this other guy in this other city who wants it and you have to tell me within the next five minutes.”

The tube of white paint would have cost Issari 5m tomans (about $36), she recalls. “I was like, I don’t think so, because that’s overpriced, and the next thing you know is it’s 4am and I’m on YouTube watching how to make lead white in your backyard without getting lead poisoning.”

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© Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Continuum: Artist Relief for Iran, presented by Duran Art Projects. © Aryan Dabbagh, 2021.

© Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Continuum: Artist Relief for Iran, presented by Duran Art Projects. © Aryan Dabbagh, 2021.

© Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Continuum: Artist Relief for Iran, presented by Duran Art Projects. © Aryan Dabbagh, 2021.

A dominatrix and her tightly bound client: Giada Ripa’s best photograph

14 October 2026 at 09:39

‘Karen is a Japanese dominatrix and “rope artist” who ties up her clients in a way that echoes how samurai bound their prisoners. Clients are mostly men with high-pressure jobs’

Ten years ago, my dad called to say he had found these amazing images hidden under piles of maps and stuff in an attic in our family home in Piemonte, northern Italy. He had come across a leather-bound album of 53 black and white photographs: portraits of Japanese “native types”, reflecting the 19th-century colonial way of representing people, cultures and views of Japan.

It turned out we had a treasure in our hands: it was an album of photographs by Felice Beato, the first foreign photographer to arrive in Japan in 1863 at the end of the Edo period and on the eve of the Meiji era.

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© Photograph: Giada Ripa

© Photograph: Giada Ripa

© Photograph: Giada Ripa

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