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  • Rust film set shooting
    Alec Baldwin trial dismissed after lawyers say evidence was withheld

    New Mexico judge agrees charges should be dropped after lawyers said state ‘buried’ evidence about live ammunition
    • a woman sings into a microphone

      Taylor Swift
      Singer's candid talk about body image inspires fans, US study finds

    • Live
      Israel-Gaza war: Palestinians forced to move ‘across a landscape of destruction and death’, UN chief says

    • Extreme weather
      Houston swelters in punishing heat as 800,000 without power after Beryl

    • Insects
      Climate crisis has impact on insects’ colours and sex lives, study finds

    • New York
      Judge dismisses Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case

    • Technology
      Meta lifts restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts

    • Democracy
      Rightwing claim of ‘0% chance’ of fair US election heralds bid to undo result

    • Sport
      Women ‘don’t need’ Harrison Butker after controversial speech, says Serena Williams

In focus

  • Woman on podium points to reporters with hands in the air

    Joe Biden
    Bitter tensions as reporters feel misled by White House over Biden health

  • People walk down a street as a man sits on a chair at the side of the street

    Jerusalem
    ‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

    People in Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood fear losing their homes to Israeli settlers determined to seize more land
  • Giovanni Pernice

    BBC
    ‘It’s not going to go away’: Strictly Come Dancing row could take shine off 20th anniversary

    Allegations about dancer Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour may overshadow celebrations of one of BBC’s big brands

Spotlight

  • Naomi Westerman, writer and playwrite photographed near her home in Woolwich, SE London

    Relationships
    When my mother died, I thought her violent boyfriend had won. But she had secretly taken back control

    Ever since I was 14, this man had blighted both our lives. But my mum turned out to be stronger and more resourceful than I had ever imagined
  • Cubanos focused on a game of chess in a loud, busy outdoor market in Havana.<br>P7JEGN Cubanos focused on a game of chess in a loud, busy outdoor market in Havana.

    Cuba
    Revolutionary generation face old age with promises unfulfilled

  • BlindDate 1307 Suzie &amp; Toby

    Blind date
    ‘He tried to bond with the waiter – who was unimpressed’

    Suzie, 23, a solutions engineer, meets Toby, 29, a barrister
  • collage in form of medical bag made up of health supplements/tablets

    Health
    Five doctors on the supplements they swear by, from Vitamin D to lion’s mane

    Which vitamins does a GP specialising in hormones take to help her mood? And what does a medic reach for when someone they live with has a cold?
    • DO NOT USE BEFORE JULY 13 2024. Emma Corrin shot by Christina Ebenezer in London, June 2024, for Guardian Saturday magazine. Styling: Ali & Aniko Hair: Daniel Martin Make up: Gina Kane Set Design: George Lewin Dress by Molly Goddard, earrings and ring by Cartier

      Celebrity
      ‘I’m starting to doubt everything’: Emma Corrin on Diana, being a Marvel villain, and an existential crisis

    • A family photo of a young girl and a man wearing a sombrero in a garden, on a red background

      Extreme weather
      The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

    • tim dowling collage

      The Tim Dowling column
      We’re off to sunny Spain, but I’ve got the airport blues

    • Not just another Game of Thrones thing … Tom Hughes as Titus and Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian in Those About to Die.

      TV
      Those About to Die: this mega-budget Roman epic is as close to actual time travel as it’s possible to get

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer chairs his first cabinet meeting.

    The arrogant, reckless Tory government left behind a mountain of mess. In one week, we’ve begun to clear it

    Keir Starmer
    We are embarking on the hard graft of making people’s lives better – and we will fight every day to restore hope, says prime minister Keir Starmer
  • Taylor Swift performing at the Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich, Switzerland, 9 July 2024.

    I’m a Swiftie, but the staggering size of the Eras tour has left me feeling alienated

    Elle Hunt
    From the prices to the endless album rereleases, I feel like a conscript in a campaign for cultural and economic dominance, says journalist Elle Hunt
    • A Delta airplane waits at an airport gate.

      Why did Delta Air Lines tweet that the Palestinian flag is ‘terrifying’?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Spain's Lamine Yamal after his side's semi-final victory against France in Euro 2024.

      Thank you, Lamine Yamal, for showing us washed-up ex-footballers what true talent looks like

      Ben Makuch
    • England fans at Wembley BoxPark celebrate the Euro 2024 semi-final victory against the Netherlands.

      A weekend of deranged hope, dread and stockpiling flares – it’s the Euro 2024 final

      Marina Hyde
    • Gareth Southgate celebrates after England’s Euro 2024 semi-final victory over the Netherlands.

      Gareth Southgate has proved that quiet competence can lift a nation – it’s a lesson that goes far beyond sport

      Jonathan Freedland

Sports

  • Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, left, drives past Phoenix Mercury's Celeste Taylor in the second half of Friday’s game.

    WNBA
    Fever’s Clark makes history with 13-assist night in win over Mercury

    Caitlin Clark had 20 points and 13 assists for her fifth straight double-double and Indiana beat short-handed Phoenix 95-86 on Friday
  • Tracy Cortez poses on the scale during the UFC weigh-in on Friday at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel.

    MMA
    UFC flyweight chops off hair to make weight for fight

    Needing to lose roughly half a pound in order to get down to 126lbs for her bout against Rose Namajunas, Tracy Cortez cut off a fistful of her hair
    • New Zealand's Mark Tele'a scores a try despite the best efforts of England’s Manny Feyi-Waboso.

      Rugby union
      New Zealand 27-17 England: All Blacks preserve record in Auckland thriller

    • Ewan Ashman

      Rugby
      Scotland stroll past US Eagles in DC with hat-trick for hooker Ewan Ashman

    • Gareth Southgate smiles and stands in front of a door

      Euro 2024
      ‘I can handle whatever comes’: Southgate keeps his cool before Euro 2024 final

    • Anthony Edwards, left, and LeBron James of the United States warm up ahead of Wednesday’s exhibition against Canada at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

      The theory of everything
      USA’s latest dream team is true basketball nirvana

      Claire de Lune in Las Vegas

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Climate crisis

  • A Just Stop Oil activist climbs on to a gantry over the M25 on 10 November 2022.

    Environment
    Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial

  • Traffic in Los Angeles

    Environment
    Lower air pollution may help preserve older people’s independence – study

  • a forest

    Environment
    BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

  • Wind turbines dot the coastline along a giant solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province

    Renewable energy
    China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects

Across the country

  • a man speaks into a microphone

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
    RFK Jr reportedly sent apology text to woman who accused him of sexual assault

  • a rocket launches towards space

    SpaceX
    FAA demands investigation into in-flight failure of SpaceX rocket

    • Republicans
      Tennessee elections chief accused of intimidation for telling 14,375 voters to prove citizenship

    • The election office
      How Georgia state election board’s proposed rules make it easier to challenge results

    • RNC
      Teamsters president faces backlash over ‘unconscionable’ GOP convention speech

    • Artificial intelligence
      AI prompts can boost writers’ creativity but result in similar stories, study finds

    • ‘The new normal’
      Work from home is here to stay, US data shows

    • Maryland
      Baltimore bridge collapse survivor says those responsible should pay damages

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Around the world

  • Side view of Keir Starmer standing at a podium outside No 10. Supporters stand to the side of him

    UK
    Labour to fight 2029 election ‘like an insurgent’ as preparations begin

    Party’s strategist already planning how to secure second term, bolstered by former MP’s appointment to thinktank
  • X logo on a phone that is resting against a laptop keyboard

    Technology
    Elon Musk promises ‘battle in court’ over EU’s crackdown on X’s blue checks

  • Police are seen by a forensics tent after body parts were found at Clifton Suspension Bridge.

    UK
    Human remains found in London house search after bodies discovered in Bristol

  • police escort two men

    Argentina
    Two French rugby players charged with aggravated rape in Argentina

    • World news
      Zelenskiy expected in UK for meeting with European leaders

    • Australia
      PM tells Russian embassy to ‘back off’ in criticism of spying charges

    • Ecuador
      Five jailed over assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

    • Nigeria
      Twenty-two students dead after school in Nigeria collapses during classes

    • UK
      Man jailed for at least 23 years for strangling estranged wife with bootlace

    • Australia
      Two people found dead after Melbourne house fire

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

  • COMBO-FBL-EURO-2024-MATCH51-ESP-ENG<br>(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 12, 2024 shows Spain's midfielder #17 Nico Williams (L) during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Spain and Georgia at the Cologne Stadium in Cologne on June 30, 2024; and England's forward #07 Bukayo Saka during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group C football match between Denmark and England at the Frankfurt Arena in Frankfurt am Main on June 20, 2024. Spain faces England during the UEFA Euro 2024 final football match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ and Adrian DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Spain v England: who will win? And the Southgate verdict – Football Daily

  • A sculpture of an avocado at the town's entrance in Ziracuaretiro, Michoacán. Photograph: Marco Ugarte/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias – podcast

  • Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump sit side by side at an official meeting, leaning over a small table between their chairs as they talk to each other

    Politics Weekly America
    Anne Applebaum on autocracies and signs of America’s move to join them

  • Ollie Watkins applauds the crowd after the Euro 2024 semi-final

    Today in Focus
    Euro 2024: is it coming home? - podcast

  • Seagulls

    Science
    ‘Lesbian’ seagulls and ‘gay’ rams: the endless sexual diversity of nature – podcast

  • A young man interviews a young woman in a Tim & Dee TV YouTube video

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl and the making of TikTok stars – podcast

Culture

  • Orlaine McDonald author photo

    Review
    No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald – a true-to-life tale

    This refreshingly honest debut explores a south London family shaped by the pain of emotional neglect
  • BFFs … Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at the UK Press Conference for Deadpool &amp; Wolverine.

    Film
    ‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring bromance to London

  • Sarah Gristwood.

    Books
    ‘Who am I without him?’: what I learned about grief from reading other women’s diaries

  • self-righteous book

    Books
    Tom Gauld on the best books for the summer – cartoon

  • Katy Perry.

    Review
    Katy Perry: Woman’s World review – what regressive, warmed-over hell is this?

  • Eminem

    Music
    Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) review – guess who’s back, with less bite than ever

Lifestyle

  • Tolami Benson watches the Euros

    Fashion
    Euros v Wimbledon: who are the style champions in summer fashion battle?

    Players, fans and celebrities have pulled out all the stops to make a stylish impact. We score the best looks
  • Yotam Ottolenghi's tomato salad with ricotta and a coriander seed and lemon oil.

    Ask Ottolenghi
    Why do you always use so many ingredients?

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    Sweltering temperatures
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From our global editions

  • Keir Starmer sits alongside Joe Biden at the Nato summit

    Keir Starmer
    Mr Starmer goes to Washington: how the PM made his world stage entrance

  • Dr Isabel Hyman, a research scientist at the Australian Museum, inside a room full of breeding tanks of Campbell's keeled glass-snail

    Australia
    How scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

  • Yellow building with a mauve roof, still standing, surrounded by debris

    Hurricane Beryl
    Solitary wooden house on Union Island escapes fury of Hurricane Beryl

  • The remains of a pig footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus)

    Extinct wildlife
    ‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets

In case you missed it

  • Joe Biden at the Nato summit on Thursday.

    The US politics sketch
    Gaffes, stumbles and missteps – for Biden, the cracks were showing

  • People walk down a street as a man sits on a chair at the side of the street

    Israel
    ‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

    People in Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood fear losing their homes to Israeli settlers determined to seize more land
  • A collage of men in hard hats and oil rigs against a backdrop of a map of Mexico

    The Latin oil rush
    Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

    Once providing half of Mexico’s revenue, the debt-laden state oil firm has been in decline for years. But government efforts to revive it in pursuit of energy self-sufficiency is stalling the drive for renewables
  • pile of illustrated bodies

    Israel-Gaza war
    Why researchers fear the Gaza death toll could reach 186,000

    Mona Chalabi
  • a man in a suit and sunglasses looks ahead

    A running list
    The Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to step down

  • An illustration showing silhouettes of a man smoking, a woman drinking, hands holding a pot of sunscreen, a knife, fork and spoon and a white ribbon

    The experts
    Oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

  • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

    Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw
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In pictures

  • Tony and Cherie Blair pose for pictures at the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant, Mumbai.

    India
    Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event

    Guests arrive at the extravagant wedding of power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
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    Smart shot
    ‘There is mystery and it’s also slightly disturbing’: Phil Doherty’s best phone picture

  • People stand amid the rubble of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Kyiv, fires in California and Spain’s Lamine Yamal at Euro 2024

  • A colourful fluffy coot chick swims in a lake near Rottweil, Germany. The coot chicks bright plumage are a method of survival with parents tending to feed the brighter more vibrant chicks over the less colourful ones

    The week in wildlife
    A rare blue frog, a cheeky heron and climbing bears

  • A man in a fur jacket next to a thermometer

    Environment
    Heatwave tourism in Death Valley

  • Shelley Duvall in 1983

    Shelley Duvall
    A life in pictures

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