Praise rarely comes striker’s way but after match-winning hat-trick at Betis, cult hero was showered with it

This could have only felt more right if you read about it on Teletext. On Saturday afternoon Kike García, the 6ft 1in, 12 stone, 35-year-old Deportivo Alavés centre-forward with a bit of the 80s about him, a player from the recent past who doesn’t always get a lot of goals but always gives every little thing he has got, scored the perfect hat-trick to defeat Real Betis 3-1. Right foot, left foot, header and the lovable lump from La Mancha who everyone assumes is Basque, all mud and guts, the man whose coach once called him a “hard-working oaf”, left the Benito Villamarín with the match ball under his arm, something for the cabinet at home. But that, he said, was not the best thing about it, not now, and he meant it too, which is the best thing about him.

“I’m not Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi; they’ll have 900 of these,” García said, exaggerating just a weensy bit, when another battle was over for another week and victory was secure at last, the bus waiting outside to head back to Vitoria, a few beers on board. Between them, those two have actually scored 80 in La Liga alone; as for García, in a 16-year career that has taken in tercera , segunda b, and segunda , that led him to the Championship with Middlesbrough, and didn’t reach primera until he was 27, until now he had only two: for Real Murcia against Mirandés a decade ago, and for Eibar against Alavés in 2021. That said, the second of those might just have been the best hat-trick La Liga has ever seen – you can insert your own apart from Messi asterisk here , and Rivaldo would certainly like a word – three goals that filled an empty ground , bringing a little hope where there was none. And this one wasn’t bad either.

Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?

The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors’ performances.

In an interview with moving-image tech publication Red Shark News , The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect “that not even locals will spot any difference”, Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s voices into AI software, as well his own.

Range of positive side effects observed among people with diabetes paves way for new treatments

People with diabetes taking medications found in weight-loss jabs have a reduced risk of 42 conditions, research has found, paving the way for such drugs being used to treat a host of health problems.

The most comprehensive study of its kind showed that psychotic disorders, infections and dementia were among conditions found to be less likely to occur when using GLP-1RAs, which are found in the medications Saxenda, Wegovy and Mounjaro.

A highly politicised inheritance tax campaign is unlikely to add heft to the sport’s arguments over betting restrictions

It was free-to-enter for the seven-race card at Fakenham on Sunday – but only if you arrived in a tractor, and parked in the middle of the track where the ITV Racing cameras – which were making a rare excursion to the Norfolk course – could see you. Around 50 turned up as part of a protest that David Hunter, Fakenham’s veteran chief executive, said earlier this month would “illustrate the sense of frustration the rural community and businesses have about this devastating farm inheritance tax that Keir Starmer’s government is determined to implement.”

Hunter’s initial hope that the infield would “filled with line upon line of tractors” was not entirely fulfilled, but it still made for an arresting sight as the leaders galloped down the short home straight. So much so, in fact, that George Freeman MP, the Tory member for nearby mid-Norfolk, was moved to talk about a “rural revolt … [which] will be driven by farming and the rural service economy, but also by racing.” If racing “gets together with farming and the broader rural economy,” he added, “we could win this.”

• Striker believed still to be keen to give his best for club
• United manager had said forward had ruled himself out

Marcus Rashford is ready and available to play for Manchester United, the Guardian understands, after Ruben Amorim indicated the forward had ruled himself out of contention for the defeat by Brighton on Sunday .

Rashford has not played for United since 12 December and declared five days later that he was “ ready for a new challenge ” after being left out of the squad for the Manchester derby.

The answer to today’s queueing condundrum

Earlier today I set you the following logic problem, as a retrospective commemoration of World Logic Day. Here it is again with the solution – and a comment about how it relates to the real world.

Queue eye

Security forces struggle to tamp down on rising leftwing violence as 11,000 people remain displaced

Colombia ’s security forces are struggling to contain a surge in leftwing guerrilla violence that has now killed more than 100 people in five days and threatens to derail the country’s troubled peace process.

Even as thousands of soldiers rushed to quell violence near the north-eastern border with Venezuela – where more than 80 people have been killed and 11,000 displaced by days of fighting – the defense ministry reported a similar outbreak of fighting in a remote Amazon region.

Human rights bodies have long criticised the tests as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people

Denmark has announced it is abandoning the use of highly controversial “parenting competency” tests on Greenlandic families, amid fury over the way that they have been routinely used on people with Inuit backgrounds, often resulting in the separation of children from their parents.

Campaigners have been warning about the discriminatory impact of the psychometric tests used in Danish child protection investigations – known as FKU (forældrekompetenceundersøgelse) – for years. Human rights bodies have long criticised them as being culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities living in Denmark, which once ruled the Arctic island as a colony and continues to control its foreign and security policy.

Ceasefire celebrations replaced by shock and sorrow as people begin to assess the scale of devastation

• Middle East crisis – live updates

After the first night in Gaza for more than a year without the sound of drones or bombing overhead following the successful implementation of a ceasefire, people in the besieged Palestinian territory have begun returning to destroyed homes and searching for missing loved ones.

The truce that took effect on Sunday with the release of the first three hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 90 Palestinians from Israeli jails was greeted with euphoria as a large influx of desperately needed aid supplies entered the strip.