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Andy Murray seals Qatar semi-final spot after win over Alexandre Mller | Tennis

Tennis This article is more than 10 months oldAndy Murray seals Qatar semi-final spot after win over Alexandre MüllerThis article is more than 10 months oldFormer British No 1 recovers after losing opening setMurray to face Lehecka after Czech’s win over RublevAndy Murray will face Jiri Lehecka in the Qatar Open semi-finals after beating the French qualifier Alexandre Müller in three sets. Murray hit back strongly after losing the opening set to win 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in two hours and three minutes against Müller, who defied his world ranking of 170 early in the match.

Edward Burra, transgressive painter of English countryside and dockside bars

PaintingHis cabbages are sinister and his barmaids are transvestites. Edward Burra's watercolours of rural England and Marseilles and Harlem street life are wonderfully distortingNo one has ever been sure what to do with Edward Burra, the British painter whose most celebrated work was produced in the 1920s and 30s. Looked at one way, he's a satirist along the lines of Otto Dix or George Grosz, a social realist with a sharp distorting eye for the human figure writhing and bridling its way through various vanity fairs.

He's the daddy, judge rules on two-year Julio Iglesias paternity case | Spain

Spain This article is more than 4 years oldHe's the daddy, judge rules on two-year Julio Iglesias paternity caseThis article is more than 4 years oldFormer ballerina said her son, now 42, was conceived in week-long affair with the pop star A Spanish court has ruled that the pop star Julio Iglesias is the biological father of a 42-year-old man whose mother said she had a brief affair with the singer in the 1970s.

Host clubs in Tokyo force women into sex work to pay off huge debts

The ObserverSex workA ‘vicious’ multibillion-yen system is pushing vulnerable young women who rack up extortionate bills into prostitution Yuko’s 24-year-old daughter thought she had found the ideal partner when she matched with a man on a dating app three years ago. They were around the same age and both at university, where he was studying medicine. The “match”, though, was the beginning of a nightmare that saw the young woman rack up debts of millions of yen at host clubs – money that she is paying back by dropping out of university and working in Japan’s commercial sex industry.

I am now truly afraid of the woods: behind the hunt for Sasquatch

DocumentaryIn a new docuseries, film-maker Joshua Rofé delved into a myth of a monster that led him to a horrifying murder Audiences who hit play on Joshua Rofé’s new documentary miniseries Sasquatch in the expectation that someone’s finally gotten some straight answers about that elusive hirsute bastard will be sorely disappointed. “I wasn’t hung up on whether I believe in Bigfoot or whether I buy the details of this story. All of that became secondary and fell by the wayside,” Rofé tells the Guardian via Zoom.