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The Open 2025: second round updates from Royal Portrush – live

✇The Guardian
Par :Scott Murray
18 juillet 2025 à 08:30

A good moment for Repubblica Italiana on the greens. Matteo Manassero – who as a 16-year-old played with Tom Watson in the first two rounds of the aforementioned 2009 Open, en route to finishing in a tie for 13th, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Silver Medal awarded to the leading amateur – makes a 25-footer on the par-three 3rd. Meanwhile his compatriot Francesco Molinari walks in a putt of similar distance on the par-five 2nd. A pair of birdies. Manassero is currently +2, Molinari level par.

Zach Johnson is part of a small but significant footnote in Open history. In winning the 2015 staging at St Andrews, he became only the fourth man, after Bob Martin, Willie Park Jr. and Seve Ballesteros to win the Open on a Monday. The 49-year-old Iowan has started well in his quest for a garden-variety Sunday victory this time, with a fine opening round of 70 yesterday. He’s off to a flyer today, too, sending a gentle draw into the 1st green, from 156 yards to 16 feet, taking the deep bunker at the front out of play, then tidying up for birdie, the first of the morning so far. There were only 12 birdies on the opening hole yesterday, so this is no mean feat. He’s now -2.

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© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

How destruction of Hotel Oloffson is symbol of Haiti’s gang crisis

✇The Guardian
Par :Etienne Côté-Paluck and Natricia Duncan
18 juillet 2025 à 08:15

Once a haven for the world’s rich and famous, the landmark hotel was burned down this month as violence gripped Port-au-Prince

There was an outpouring of grief in Haiti when the Hotel Oloffson, a cultural and architectural landmark in Port-au-Prince, was set ablaze on the night of 5 July, in what local media described as retaliation by armed gangs after a police operation in its vicinity.

For many, its ruins are a stark and sobering symbol of the state of a capital city on the verge of collapse, and a sign that a once vibrant culture may be fading as violent criminal armed groups continue their reign of terror.

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© Photograph: Jenny Matthews/Alamy

© Photograph: Jenny Matthews/Alamy

© Photograph: Jenny Matthews/Alamy

Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov review – how it feels to lose a father

✇The Guardian
Par :Camilla Grudova
18 juillet 2025 à 08:00

The International Booker winner explores Bulgarian family life under communism in this moving depiction of a son’s bereavement

The Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov was published quietly in the Anglophone world for years before he won the 2023 International Booker prize with Time Shelter, about an Alzheimer’s clinic that recreates the past so successfully, it beguiles the wider world.

He is perhaps now Bulgaria’s biggest export. Ever playful, never linear, his new novel Death and the Gardener consists of vignettes of a beloved dying and dead father, told by a narrator who, like Gospodinov, is an author. Gospodinov has spoken publicly about losing his own father recently, and the novel feels autobiographical in tone. When we read “My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden,” it is not the beginning of an Archimboldiesque surrealist tale, but rather a more direct exploration of how we express and where we put our love.

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© Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty Images

© Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty Images

© Photograph: Chunyip Wong/Getty Images

Be more ‘squee’: the big business of tiny accessories

✇The Guardian
Par :Chloe Mac Donnell
18 juillet 2025 à 08:00

Like celebrity bodies on the red carpet, everything from bottles, bag charms and even the bags they’re attached to are shrinking in size – but are bigger signs of status than ever

When it comes to attention-seeking fashion, bigger is usually better. A giant designer bag. Shoulder-grazing earrings. A straw hat the size of a bike tyre. Recently, however, there has been a shift. Like celebrity bodies on the red carpet, accessories are shrinking. Everything from bags to water bottles are noticeably downsizing.

In April, Uniqlo released a micro version of its mini shoulder bag. The original banana-shaped hit, which has become the brand’s bestselling bag of all time, measured 28cm by 17cm. Its £12.90 offspring has been scaled down to 21.5cm by 11.5cm and, like a matryoshka doll, comfortably nestles inside its progenitor.

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© Photograph: Uniqlo

© Photograph: Uniqlo

© Photograph: Uniqlo

Captain Harry Wilson backs Wallabies to surprise British & Irish Lions in first Test

✇The Guardian
Par :Reuters
18 juillet 2025 à 07:39

  • Australia’s No 8 says team will try to ‘win every moment’ on Saturday

  • Nick Champion de Crespigny and Tom Lynagh come into injury-depleted squad

Australia captain Harry Wilson said the Wallabies were confident of beating the British & Irish Lions in the first Test at Lang Park on Saturday despite being heavy underdogs after losing several key players to injury.

The Wallabies have won only four of their last 11 Tests and on Saturday will be without regular fly-half Noah Lolesio and their best Test player of the last two years, loose forward Rob Valetini.

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© Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

© Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

© Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

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