Brad Pitt details first AA meeting after ‘difficult’ Angelina Jolie divorce: I ‘needed to wake the f–k up’
Royal Festival Hall, London
Closing out a Simz-curated Meltdown festival, and with a host of star guests helping out, these songs gain extra nuance as orchestra and star meld perfectly together
Not many can say that they’ve reloaded a symphony orchestra. But as the Southbank Centre erupts after the opening horns of Gorilla, Little Simz has to run it back, starting the track again in the manner of a rowdy club set.
Backed by the majority Black and ethnically diverse Chineke! Orchestra and her own live band, Simz – closing out the 11-day Meltdown festival which she curated this year – performs a set that is equal parts genuine and genius. The energy in the room is overwhelming, overcoming any misgivings about performing to a seated crowd.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Pete Woodhead
© Photograph: Pete Woodhead
Dust settles after impassioned protests but military presence unnerves California leaders – and threatens to inflame already tense situation
Shortly before last November’s presidential election, before anyone could envision him defying his “America first” political base and launching a bombing raid on Iran, Donald Trump offered a preview of how and why he would want to deploy the military on US soil.
It was, the president said, to deal with “the enemy within”.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
© Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
One in 10 long-term couples keep separate homes – and they have much more sex than those who cohabit. But there are some unexpected downsides …
Name: Living apart together.
Age: At least since Victorian times.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Posed by models; Maskot/Getty Images
© Photograph: Posed by models; Maskot/Getty Images
Flamengo, Botafogo, Palmeiras and Fluminense are not as rich as European clubs but they have heart and heritage
“The graveyard of football is full of ‘favourites’,” warned Botafogo manager Renato Paiva in what has proven to be this summer’s coldest line in sweltering United States heat. Gritty draws achieved by Palmeiras against Porto and Fluminense against Borussia Dortmund at the Club World Cup were enough to start a conversation. But the underdog heroics of Brazil’s other two clubs have shaken up how we see club football across the world.
For the first time since Corinthians shocked Chelsea in Yokohama in 2012, when some Brazilian fans sold their homes and vehicles to make the trip, the reigning Copa Libertadores champions have beaten the Champions League winners. Igor Jesus, who has been strongly linked to Nottingham Forest, scored the only goal of the game as Botafogo beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, a special setting for Brazilians given it is where they won the World Cup in 1994 and honoured the recently deceased Ayrton Senna.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters
© Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters
Copper-coated figures will be hoisted on to cathedral’s reconstructed spire after devastating blaze of 2019
Sixteen giant statues are to be hoisted back on to the spire of Notre Dame in the latest step of the cathedral’s €700m (£600m) reconstruction after the devastating fire of 2019.
The copper-coated figures, each weighing almost 150kg, escaped the blaze because they were removed from the Parisian landmark for renovation just four days before flames consumed the roof and destroyed the spire.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images
Gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, may have bee suffering mental health crisis, police say
The man who opened fire outside a Michigan church filled with worshippers before he was struck by a vehicle and then fatally shot by security staff had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member, police said.
The gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, did not have any previous contacts with local police or a criminal history, but may have been suffering a mental health crisis, the Wayne police department said in a news release.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP
© Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
Continue reading...© Composite: Various
© Composite: Various