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Fifa is accelerating plans to expand the World Cup to 64 teams from 2030 and has opened a tender to research companies to assess the economic benefits on a hugely accelerated timescale

Centre-back defined era of hard Italian defending and collection of honours are eternal proof of his class

More than 80 loved ones spoke of horrors of learning about Robert Bush’s crimes, including mother of a miscarried baby

Ben Cohen says his ice-cream company has been silenced by corporate ownership – and a boycott of Magnum brands could force a sale

The 80s star will no longer appear in role of Herod in London Palladium run, with manager saying decision is ‘in the best interests of my artist’

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

Can progressive Democrats mobilise an anti-Trump coalition and win? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Bhaskar Sunkara, president of the Nation magazine and founding editor of Jacobin

Rescuers say four bodies found in search for team caught in Broad Peak avalanche, after trackers showed rapid descent

Baresi was one of the most recognisable players of the ⁠golden era of Italian football in the 1980s and 1990s

The new UK prime minister Andy Burnham is making the devolution of power away from London central to his programme — and he's also made a permanent PM base in Manchester, at No 10 North. It has made me reflect on the Guardian’s own deep roots in the city. When I became editor-in-chief 11 years ago, the Guardian had just one permanent reporter based in our Manchester office.  I felt we weren’t connected well enough to the city in which we were founded, and indeed to the rest of the north, or the UK, so one of my first decisions was to expand the team. We now have six reporters based in our office in Manchester, and several other journalists too. A couple of years later I set out to explain the Guardian’s purpose in the 21st century, in an essay called A mission for journalism in a time of crisis.  I started that essay by exploring the Peterloo massacre in 1819, a tragedy that is a vital part of Manchester’s radical history, and played an important role in the foundation of the Manchester Guardian.  I also explained the principles of the Guardian’s longest-serving editor, CP Scott, who in 1921 set out a set of values we still abide by today: “honesty, cleanness [meaning integrity], courage, fairness, a sense of duty to the reader and a sense of duty to the community.” Part of Andy Burnham’s appeal appears to me to be the idea that politicians have to stay much more connected with their communities, what some call the “politics of place”. I care about this very much, and it's an idea that underpins Guardian journalism too. The Guardian is now one of the world’s largest English-language news sources, and  having journalistic impact across the world is an important part of our strategy. Our job as we get more global is to connect our international audience together: not by flattening the world out and presenting the bland view from nowhere, but by illuminating many somewheres. The urgent issues and crises the world faces have little regard for the differences between our cities, towns and counties, or indeed for national borders. They affect us all. In recent years, as well as increasing the size of our Manchester office, we have also hired many more reporters based around the UK, outside of London, including our first Wales and Midlands correspondents for decades, a correspondent in West Yorkshire, and our first-ever North-East correspondent.  At the same time, we have increased our reporting teams across Europe, North America and Australia, and hired new reporters in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. Being on the ground matters. Many somewheres.  As I said in a lecture on journalism and technology earlier this year: we are global.  But, at the same time, we have roots. You have to be rooted to rise.  Although the 'Manchester' part of our name was dropped in 1959, I have this old sign on the wall in my London office as a reminder of those roots.