• Spanish second seed wins 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
• Musetti suffers leg injury in final set

Carlos Alcaraz stormed back to a 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 victory against an ailing Lorenzo Musetti to win the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.

The second-seeded Spaniard claimed his sixth ATP Masters 1000 title and first since Indian Wells in March 2024. It was the 18th career title for the four-time grand slam winner, who turns 22 next month.

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President’s first stop is Vietnam as China urges US to end trade war and return to ‘right path of mutual respect’

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will visit Vietnam on Monday as he begins a tour of south-east Asia where he will seek to strengthen ties with neighbouring countries amid an escalating trade war.

Xi will visit Vietnam from Monday, before travelling to Malaysia and Cambodia, a high profile tour that Chinese officials have described as being of “major importance”.

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Keelan Kember’s latest is so full of funny one-liners and cheerful performances it feels like a comforting sitcom

Breezy conversational chatter, dry one-liners and sweeping generalisations about the sexes reign in Keelan Kember’s new dating comedy. Having transferred from the King’s Head theatre, the highest stakes here concern whether or not to get breakfast the morning after.

Two young men, who give little evidence of being able to keep their kitchen as clean as Ellie Wintour’s sleek set suggests, attempt to teach each other how to get the girl. One is a player. The other is only ever known monogamy. Cue lots of mock shock about the supposed rules of modern dating. In the era of Andrew Tate, it’s all charmingly innocent, the men’s confusion about women coming purely from boyish eagerness.

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Companies face rising freight costs, disrupted logistics and congested ports as trade networks reel from Trump’s policies

The container ship was halfway across the Atlantic when Donald Trump levied tariffs on steel and aluminium imports to the US from most countries during his first term in office .

At the stroke of a pen on a US presidential executive order about £100,000 was added to the cost of one of the shipments on board, from the UK advanced materials manufacturer Goodfellow, destined for a US customer.

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Taking control of the ailing company wasn’t an easy decision, but it makes sense. Hopefully the nationalisation phobia is passing

The four stately queens were saved . Mary, Vicky, Annie and Bessie are the mighty blast furnaces, though only two are still in action. Jubilation broke out in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire council leader Rob Waltham told me, exhausted from striving to keep the steelworks open. “I’ve just been talking to a family with three generations all working there,” he said. “It’s all the family’s earnings, all about to lose their jobs at once. The eldest retires next week, really afraid his pension might have gone.”

Such was the suspicion of Chinese owners Jingye that workers blockaded the plant on Saturday morning to stop executives entering; they were reportedly worried that they might sabotage the works as the emergency bill in parliament was stripping away their power. Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, told the Commons how negotiations with the owners had come to naught: he said it had become “clear that the intention of Jingye was to refuse to purchase sufficient raw materials to keep the blast furnaces running.” In the Lords, John Reid, former defence and home secretary, blamed Boris Johnson for recklessly allowing British Steel to be sold to a company in a hostile state. “Did it never occur to anyone,” he asked sardonically, “that it may be, in a competitive world, in the interest of the Chinese government to purchase and then close down the British steel industry?”

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

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Full qualifying standings – note that Mercedes were investigated for allowing their cars to leave the garage too early after a red flag and George Russell and Kimi Antonelli were given one-place grid penalties.

Piastri

Leclerc

Russell

Gasly

Antonelli

Norris

Verstappen

Sainz

Hamilton

Tsunoda

Doohan

Hadjar

Alonso

Ocon

Albon

Hulkenberg

Lawson

Bortoleto

Stroll

Bearman

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Campaigners warn NHS rules are putting migrant mothers and babies at risk

A destitute asylum seeker who was billed more than £10,000 for having a baby could afford to pay just a penny a month, leading to calls for an urgent review of NHS maternity charging for migrants.

Kim, 34, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was invoiced and then contacted by a debt collection agency after having an emergency caesarean section.

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Ianis Hagi scored a stoppage-time equaliser as 10-man Rangers roared back from two down to draw 2-2 at in-form Aberdeen and deny Celtic an early title party.

A Dons win over the second-place Gers would have confirmed the Hoops as champions, and that scenario looked all set to come to fruition as Barry Ferguson’s makeshift team – featuring nine changes from the Europa League quarter-final first leg against Athletic Bilbao on Thursday – were torn apart in the first half.

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Former City minister accused of illegally receiving plot of land from her aunt, ousted PM Sheikh Hasina

An arrest warrant for the former City minister Tulip Siddiq has been issued in Bangladesh with a new allegation accusing her of illegally receiving a plot of land from her aunt, the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladeshi media reported the warrant was issued by a judge for 53 people connected to Hasina, including Siddiq. There is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Bangladesh.

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