• Decision a victory for Norwegian Football Federation
• 321 votes in favour of VAR with 129 against

Norway will continue to use VAR in its top flight after a vote among clubs across the country’s football system came out in favour of retaining the technology. An emotive saga that has caused severe ructions iconcluded at the Norwegian Football Federation’s general assembly with 321 votes in favour of VAR and 129 against.

The outcome was effectively decided by grassroots clubs who do not use VAR. Those in the top two divisions had already formally recommended that it be discontinued.

Parents trying to decode youth speak are leaving nothing for the young to identify as their own

For some time I’ve wondered if there is anything – anything at all – young people can have just for themselves, without older people trying to gatecrash the party?

A Tesco Mobile survey has revealed the slang words and phrases that generation Z uses, and which confuse their parents and older people in general. This is the traditional point when one is supposed to muse, baffled, over youth vernacular, perhaps balk at the Clockwork Orange-esque strangeness of it all.

Early mornings, razor-like broken window panes, private property restrictions and territorial fellow recycling collectors – it’s all in a day’s work for a growing cohort of elderly Australians

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Liz Lee peers into a recycling bin, laughs and slams the lid shut.

The 79-year-old has struck gold: the bin is three-quarters full of empty cans, each representing a 10 cent refund at recycling collection points. She reopens the bin and reaches in, passing each can to her friend, Julie Griffin, 63.

Israel had agreed partial troop withdrawal by 9 March, but start of second phase of truce hits impasse

Talks aimed at maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza hit an impasse in Cairo on Saturday , over whether the truce should advance to a second phase.

A Hamas official said the multilateral negotiations in the Egyptian capital had made no progress on Friday, and there was no evidence the talks had resumed on Saturday, the last day of the ceasefire’s first six-week phase.

After a game of high drama that exhibited the very worst of video officiating, a wonder strike, an extraordinary red card and then a sudden-death penalty shootout, it is Bournemouth who continue to dream of Wembley. That will teach the television companies for making this the only FA Cup fifth-round tie not chosen for broadcast.

The victory was nothing more than the dominant hosts deserved ut they went round the houses to get there. Eventually, after Boubacar Traoré had hit the crossbar, it was Bournemouth substitute Luis Sinisterra who was the hero, converting from the spot for a 5-4 shootout win after the game had somehow remained deadlocked at 1-1 after extra time.

With or without the US, Europe must learn to defend itself, and Ukraine, against Russian aggression

The treatment of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by the US president, Donald Trump, during what appears to have been a staged confrontation in the White House in front of the world’s press, marks one of the most profoundly shocking moments in US diplomacy in decades.

In this crass and deeply disturbing performance, the wartime leader of a democratic European country that is fighting against an illegal invasion by Russia, which has seen its citizens killed and cities bombed indiscriminately, was subjected to a vicious, ignorant and mendacious attack that was designed to humiliate.