Billy Evans, father of Holmes’s children, says company can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva

Elizabeth Holmes’s romantic partner – the father of her children – reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing company that is strikingly similar to the one that landed the Theranos founder in federal prison.

The fundraising comes as Billy Evans, an heir to a hotel fortune, is pitching his new company, Haemanthus, to potential investors, according to the New York Times. Evans’s pitch: a health-testing company that can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva.

• Fans gathered at training complex after defeat to Celta
• Club condemn ‘aggression and vandalism’ in statement

Sevilla players were forced to sleep at the club’s training ground following “extreme violence” from supporters after their 3-2 defeat by Celta Vigo.

A club statement released on Sunday strongly condemned “organised vandalism” at the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios training complex. Footage on social media appeared to show fans with pyrotechnics gathering outside the training ground on Saturday, with an access gate being damaged.

The annual event is the first one to take place since the Leeds Rhinos star's death last year.

Julian Kingma travelled Australia photographing the lives and deaths of people who accessed assisted dying, and those who care for them. He thinks about death differently now

Julian Kingma was afraid of dying.

In this regard, perhaps the award-winning portrait photographer is not much different from the rest of us. But Kingma’s obsession with mortality had stalked him since childhood – and spilled over into adulthood.

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She said, ‘Come and stay at my house. I’ll look after you and we’re going to get you into rehab’

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By the time I was 19, my life had spiralled out of control – I was homeless and destitute, my infant son was living with my abusive mother and I was addicted to heroin. I’d had a pretty dodgy childhood; my father died when I was very young and I was left with my mother. At 16, already very traumatised by what I’d experienced at home, I ran away and ended up living in Sydney. It was 1996.

The city at the crossroads of France, Germany and Switzerland gears up amid global tensions over diversity and inclusion.

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The White Lotus breakout shows himself to be a strong emcee but he’s not given enough to work with in a middle of the road episode

This week’s Saturday Night Live starts off the same as the last several Mother’s Day episodes have, with members of the cast – Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández, and Kenan Thompson – standing front and center with their mothers. Mercifully, we’re spared their treacly tribute when Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) barges on stage and kicks them to the curb, proclaiming, “It’s me again, invading all aspects of your life.”

• Briton beats Veronika Kudermetova 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 in Rome
• Raducanu will face Coco Gauff in fourth round

At the end of a bruising, high-quality first set of her third battle in Rome, Emma Raducanu had good reason to seethe. After the significant effort it took to take control against Veronika Kudermetova, Raducanu balked at the chance to serve out the set. She returned to her seat trailing, her opponent carrying all the momentum.

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