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‘I look up to her’: Phoebe Litchfield learning from captain Alyssa Healy at Women’s Cricket World Cup

  • Young gun inspired by Healy’s back-to-back centuries and 7,000 international runs

  • Australia has locked in semi-final place and next plays England

Phoebe Litchfield may go on to become an all-time batting star for Australia, but for the moment the young gun is simply enjoying the best view in the house as her fellow opener and skipper shows her the path to success.

Litchfield watched in awe from the other end as Alyssa Healy first caned India on Sunday then Bangladesh on Wednesday for thrilling back-to-back centuries that have helped to push the champions into the semi-finals in their Women’s Cricket World Cup title defence.

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© Photograph: Unnati Naidu/SPP/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Unnati Naidu/SPP/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Unnati Naidu/SPP/Shutterstock

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Leather-wearing Democratic state lawmaker Scott Wiener to challenge Nancy Pelosi for California House seat 

Wiener, who has represented San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area in the California Senate since 2016, had previously said he would wait until Pelosi, 85, retired to run for her long-held congressional seat, but multiple outlets reported on Friday that the state lawmaker will announce candidacy for Congress next week. 

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Israel says it has received body of another hostage from Gaza amid dispute over handover delays

Red Cross passed coffin from Hamas to Israeli military, with the remains to go through a formal identification process

The Red Cross had handed over the body of another hostage from Gaza to the IDF, Israel said early on Saturday, amid a dispute over delays in the return of remains under the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

The Israeli military and security forces received the coffin from the Red Cross inside the Gaza Strip, and it was to be sent to the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Forensic Medicine in Israel. Israeli authorities said the family of the deceased would be notified first after a formal identification process.

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© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

In 2021, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, finally removed the Confederate statues that had inspired a series of violent and eventually deadly white supremacist rallies in 2017.

The statue of Robert E Lee, which had been surrounded by white men with torches in a famous far-right propaganda image, was melted down. But the statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, which stood at the heart of a 2017 Ku Klux Klan rally, was given to a California-based arts non-profit, which pledged to use it for “transformation, not further veneration”.

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© Photograph: Ruben Diaz 2025/courtesy of The Brick

© Photograph: Ruben Diaz 2025/courtesy of The Brick

© Photograph: Ruben Diaz 2025/courtesy of The Brick

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