It began on the 30-yard line and led to the announcement of their engagement on Tuesday. Here’s a look back at their two-year romance

It’s a love story; she said yes. Taylor Swift, not long ago hailed as the world’s most famous “childless cat lady”, is tying the knot. She announced her engagement to footballer Travis Kelce, her partner of two years, on Instagram on Tuesday. The post was liked more than 14.5m times in just two hours, and reportedly crashed the platform for many users.

Kelce is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. He and Swift publicly debuted their relationship in September 2023, when she attended the Chiefs’ game against the Chicago Bears in Kansas City, Missouri. (The Chiefs won.) The fact she popped up in Kelce’s private suite alongside his mother, Donna, and other friends and family, and left with him for a private afterparty, led fans to speculate that this wasn’t their first date.

The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitude

Paolo Sorrentino has rediscovered his voice, his wan humour and his flair for the surreal and sensational set piece; this wintry, elegant movie is a welcome reassertion of his natural style after the facile and weirdly humourless affectations of his previous, very disappointing film Parthenope. It is a dry comedy of grief and regret which wears its dreamy melancholy and ennui like a well-tailored if fussily old-fashioned suit, and it returns Sorrentino to the various mysterious tableaux of political power that recurred in Il Divo from 2009, about political mandarin Giulio Andreotti, and his 2013 film The Great Beauty about a dissolute journalist and hedonist bidding a bittersweet farewell to everything he holds dear.

And above everything else, Grazia returns Sorrentino to the star of those films, 66-year-old Toni Servillo, his male muse and alter ego, an actor able to suggest fathomless depths of sadness or lenient humour with a single smile. (Oddly, that last film Parthenope assigned the Servillo-esque role of the knowing outsider to Gary Oldman, who had to play a bafflingly supercilious version of the author John Cheever.) Maybe this film, concluding as it does on a distinctive note of euphoric sentimentality, does not add up to quite as much as the director thinks; but it intrigues, it exhilarates and it shows that Sorrentino is Italian cinema’s heir to Antonioni.

Likened to a ‘trade embargo’ and an ‘earthquake’, it could cut exports from affected sectors by as much as 70%

Donald Trump’s tariff of 50% have come into force on most US imports from India. The US president followed through on his threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over its purchases of discounted Russian oil.

Prime minister admits ‘systemic discrimination’ after thousands of girls and women fitted with IUDs without consent

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has apologised for the first time for the forced contraception scandal in which thousands of Greenlandic girls and women were fitted with contraceptive coils without their permission or knowledge.

Describing it as “systemic discrimination” against women and girls by the Danish healthcare system, Frederiksen said that because they were Greenlandic they were subjected to “both physical and psychological harm”.

• Vingegaard regains red jersey after team time trial

• Israeli team stopped by protesters with Palestinian flags

Jonas Vingegaard regained the red jersey after stage five of the Vuelta a España in a dramatic team time trial in which Israel Premier-Tech were delayed by pro-Palestinian protesters on the route.

UAE Team Emirates-XRG won the stage but Visma-Lease a Bike’s second-placed finish allowed Vingegaard to regain the lead from Groupama-FDJ’s David Gaudu.

There are signs of ministerial courage in making the case for closer ties to our neighbours, but the government could go further and faster

Britain’s relationship with the European Union was not a prominent issue in national debate when Sir Keir Starmer became prime minister, and Downing Street has striven to keep it that way. Labour strategists have seen Europe as a fissile topic, and Sir Keir’s opposition to Brexit in the 2016 referendum as a liability with swing voters. The prime minister has moved Britain closer to Europe, but in timid increments. The summit that formally “reset” relations early this year was long on statements of ambition, but short on substance. The government’s private recognition that economic logics impel Britain back into a European orbit has been in constant tension with fear of making that case in public.

The balance now appears to be shifting. In a speech on Wednesday, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet Office minister responsible for EU relations, made the argument for closer regulatory alignment with Brussels in newly combative terms. The government is negotiating an agreement that would eliminate costly checks and licence requirements for food and drink exports to the continent. Mr Thomas-Symonds expanded his advocacy for that plan into an attack on Conservatives and Reform UK for peddling “snake oil” and willing Britain to fail by denying the need for closer EU cooperation.