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Israeli settlers kill American-Palestinian visiting relatives in West Bank, says family

Ambulances were reportedly stopped from reaching Sayfollah Musallet after attack in which another Palestinian man was shot dead

A 20-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by Israeli settlers while visiting relatives in the occupied West Bank, his family have said.

Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers while he was on his family’s farm in an area near Ramallah. A group then prevented ambulances from reaching Musallet for three hours, according to the family, who said he died of his injuries before reaching hospital.

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Unite attacks Angela Rayner over ‘abhorrent’ handling of Birmingham bin strikes

Deputy PM accused of refusing to engage as union considers cutting ties with Labour

Angela Rayner has been accused of handling the Birmingham bin workers’ strike in a “totally and utterly abhorrent” way by the Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham.

Graham told BBC Radio 4 Today’s programme: “Angela Rayner refuses to get involved, and she is directly aiding and abetting the fire-and-rehire of these bin workers, it is totally and utterly abhorrent.”

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Tour de France 2025: stage eight, from Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Laval – live

Third placed on yesterday’s stage, the 22-year-old Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) has caught the attention of Tour pundits as one to watch. The Scot spoke to TNT Sports about yesterday’s result and also his hopes for Monday’s mountain stage:

On yesterday’s third place finish:

It’s a little bit of a suprise but these kind of stages suit me well. To be behind Pogačar and Vingegaard yesterday gives you a bit of confidence … It’s nice to be able to pay the team back.

[I’m going to] take it easy and try to recover. [I’m] looking forward to Monday, it should be another one that suits me.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), 25hr 58min 04secs

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +54secs

Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), +1min 11secs

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +1min 17secs

Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), +1min 29secs

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 34secs

Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) +2min 49secs

Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +3min 2secs

Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +3min 6secs

Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) + 3min 43secs

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‘Why did he cut off?’: What the report on Air India Flight 171 found

Main points from the preliminary report on the 12 June crash in which 260 people died

A preliminary report from investigators looking at the Air India Flight 171 crash, which killed 260 people on 12 June, has been published.

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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice

Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for Palestine

Read any celebrity-signed open letter advocating for social justice over the past few years and you’ll probably spot Juliet Stevenson’s name. When the veteran actor is not gracing screens or on a stage somewhere, she’s out on the streets brandishing a placard or giving speeches about human rights, gender equality and the Palestinian right to self-determination.

Just last month, she wrote in the Guardian about the British government’s “complicity” in the Gaza atrocities and what she called an attempt to repress civil liberties by proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

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Lions’ flying Scotsmen see off Invitational XV but Cowan-Dickie head injury another blow

  • Invitational AU & NZ XV 0-48 British & Irish Lions

  • Van der Merwe hat-trick leads eight-try rout

The Lions were never going to rival Sir Donald Bradman’s scoring rate at this historic ground, but they did their best to keep Adelaide Oval’s beautiful old scoreboard ticking over. It was certainly the first time the first six tries of a modern-day Lions’s victory have all been scored by Scotland players, allowing the touring team to take the psychological high road to Brisbane for next week’s first Test.

Aside from the premature departure of Luke Cowan-Dickie, who was carried off after misjudging an attempted first-half tackle, and a possible doubt over Garry Ringrose, not involved here, there was almost nothing to ruffle the Lions management. Duhan van der Merwe claimed a hat-trick, Henry Pollock stole in for a typically opportunist second-half score that few others would have made and, defensively, the AUNZ side were barely given a sniff.

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2024 book review: Trump, Biden, Harris and a turbulent election full of what-ifs

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaign

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.

Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.

2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House

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‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

As US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer research.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines have shown promise in treating and preventing cancers that have often been difficult to address, such as pancreatic cancer, brain tumors and others.

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Obama’s former press secretary recalls ‘emotional’ mood in White House after Trump win

Josh Earnest says president brought staff into Oval Office to hear address stressing national unity: ‘It was very poignant’

The hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was first elected president, he recently revealed during a fireside chat at a journalism convention.

Speaking at the 2025 National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference in Chicago, Josh Earnest said it was grueling for the Obama administration to realize it would have to follow through on promises of a peaceful transfer of power despite spending the 2016 election cycle offering dire warnings “about what could or would happen if Donald Trump were given the keys to the Oval Office”.

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Pep Guardiola parties with Gallagher family at Oasis homecoming gig

Manchester City manager pictured backstage with children of Liam and Noel Gallagher at Heaton Park show

The homecoming of Oasis in their long-awaited Manchester gig turned into a family affair with the children of Noel and Liam Gallagher pictured together backstage for a gig many in the city thought would never happen.

More than 70,000 people descended on Manchester to witness the concert in Heaton Park, with the Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, among the crowds.

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‘This summer’s story’: sitcom Too Much gives nighties a starring role

Nightdresses are set to follow pyjamas out of the bedroom as daywear, with sales up on the UK high street

In the first episode of Lena Dunham’s new Netflix sitcom Too Much, viewers might be taken with cameos from Dunham, Jessica Alba and the model Emily Ratajkowski, or the burgeoning romance between Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe. But – as far as fashion is concerned – it’s nighties that have a starring role.

Early in the episode, Stalter wears a short frilled red nightie, with her dog in a matching design. Later, she wears a white frilled floor-length design, and it’s clear the item is something of a signature. If it’s a cute quirk for a character, it’s also in line with wider trends.

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Money issues? The financial psychotherapist will see you now

Vicky Reynal’s clients come in looking to discuss finances. But the therapist says our money habits can reveal much about our desires and relationships

I am surprised that Vicky Reynal, a financial psychotherapist, is soft and reaffirming when I meet her. Perhaps I shouldn’t be – she is a therapist, after all. But something about her line of work, helping people untangle their issues with money, had primed me to expect someone more brisk, more clinical.

I think of how many business executives she meets with, how prohibitively expensive her time must be, and how strong her boundaries probably are. I even panic at the thought of logging into our Zoom meeting one minute late, because time, after all, is money.

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty | Moira Donegan

Immigrants are living in brutal conditions at the Florida detention camp, built on a sense of scripted unreality

The concentration camp seems to have been erected largely for the sake of a photoshoot. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis – eager to rehabilitate his reputation among the Maga right in the wake of his humiliating and disastrous 2024 presidential run – has been among the most eager foot soldiers of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. He has dedicated funding to capturing migrants and holding them at facilities like the Krome detention center in Miami, where dramatic overcrowding, the absence of air conditioning, rapidly spreading disease, and a shortage of food, sanitation, and medical care have contributed to an outcry among immigrants imprisoned there and the deaths of multiple detainees, including a 29-year-old man from Honduras, a 44-year-old man from Ukraine and a 75-year-old Cuban national who had lived in the United States since his teens.

For his efforts, DeSantis has received praise from Donald Trump and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. This kind of abuse of immigrants – rounding them up, cramming them into detention centers that are little more than cages, and letting them die there of heat, illness or neglect – is exactly the kind of policy that aligns with the Trump administration’s aims.

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New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets

Centre for animal sentience to look into animal consciousness and the ethical use of AI in how we treat them

If your cat’s sulking, your dog’s whining or your rabbit’s doing that strange thing with its paws again, you will recognise that familiar pang of guilt shared by most other pet owners.

But for those who wish they knew just what was going on in the minds of their loyal companions, help may soon be at hand – thanks to the establishment of first scientific institution dedicated to empirically investigating the consciousness of animals.

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Microdosing: how ‘off-label’ use of weight loss jabs is spreading from US to UK

Private clinics offer reduced doses of GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro to clients outside usual market, but some people are wary

A slim woman standing in a kitchen injects herself in the abdomen. Another jogs. A third kneels on a yoga mat drinking water. The shots are intercut with a doctor telling the viewer: “Usually it’s for people who don’t actually have that much to lose – it’s a bit of a gentler way to get to your target weight.”

The promotional video is from a private clinic in Leicester offering “microdosing”, the latest trend in the weight loss jab revolution.

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Collectors can fight to pay £7m for a Birkin – but the ‘it’ handbag is no longer cool | Lauren Cochrane

As prices have ratcheted up, the bag created for Jane Birkin has lost its bohemian edge and its fashion appeal

The news that Jane Birkin’s original Hermès bag has sold for a record-breaking €8.6m (£7.4m) at auction will no doubt cause some jaws to drop to the floor. However, perhaps it should not surprise – this is a bag design that is often linked to eyewatering amounts of money. Forty years on from the prototype, it’s now less a (very expensive) symbol of style and elegance, and more a way to signal you have a lot of money and you would like everyone to know that.

A Birkin has always been expensive – about $10,000 (£7,400), according to the Guardian last year – but the complicating factor is demand. As was reported, two California residents sued Hermès for a practice known as “tying”, which means customers are expected to pre-spend a sufficient amount on other items, such as homewares or jewellery – some say up to $30,000 – before they are even put on the waiting list for a Birkin. Therefore, wearing one on your arm – to those in the know – shows you have the disposable income that not only means you can buy the bag, but also go through with this practice in the first place.

Lauren Cochrane is a senior Guardian fashion writer

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‘You don’t get a second chance at a shot like this – horses wander off’: Mike Wells’s best phone picture

The former World Press Photo of the Year winner on why capturing a good image remains instinctive in the age of mobile photography

‘Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the variables: the rush to catch the last rays of evening sun, that moment when a sea breeze lifts the ponies’ manes, and whichever way they will amble next.”

In 1981, Wells won the World Press Photo of the Year for an image shot in Uganda depicting a malnourished boy’s hand resting in the palm of a Catholic priest. “When I was working in the 1970s and 80s, unless you could afford a motor drive for your camera, you often got just one chance at the critical shot,” Wells says. “You could never tell whether you really had captured the moment until you got back from Africa, or at least out of the darkroom. That image wasn’t well lit or well composed, just grabbed in the moment as an Italian missionary priest showed me the hand of a starving boy, one of those they were trying to save by emptying their mission’s grain stores.”

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‘History’s most devastating document of war’: the simple yet graphic details of the Bayeux tapestry

Hand-stitched depiction of Battle of Hastings pulls viewers into story of friendship and betrayal, vengeance and despair

“Angli et Franci” – these Latin words embroidered on the Bayeux tapestry may be the first time those cartoon rivals, the English and the French, were named together. But in one of the shifts from triumph to horror that make this epic work of art still gripping almost a millennium after it was made, the full sentence reads: “Here at the same time the English and French [or Angles and Franks] fell in battle”. Below the black lettering, horses and chainmailed riders are thrown about and upside down in a bloody tangle. In the lower margin lie corpses and a severed head.

Now, in an unprecedented piece of cultural diplomacy between the Angli and Franci, this 70-metre long Romanesque wonder, preserved for centuries in Bayeux, Normandy, is to go on show at the British Museum. In exchange, Sutton Hoo treasures and the Lewis chessmen will go to France. When it opens in September 2026 this will surely be one of the British Museum’s most popular shows ever – for every British schoolchild learns this is not just a work of art, but a document of our history and who we are.

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Starmer and Reeves promised honesty about public finances. Can they stay the course?

Labour is being pulled one way by a desire to cut debt and the other by slumping poll ratings. With growth nowhere to be seen, tax rises loom

During the first televised debate in the run-up to last summer’s general election, Keir Starmer used a phrase that received enthusiastic – and unanticipated – applause from the Salford audience.

“I don’t pretend there’s a magic wand that will fix everything overnight,” he told them. Labour strategists were surprised by the clapping, and encouraged him to deploy the line again in future.

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Women’s Euro 2025: England fully fit to face Wales as eyes turn to Sweden v Germany – live

Dare mention Alessia Russo was a good pick for player of the match after her three assists against the Netherlands, without an afterword on Lauren James also being superb or highlighting the performances of Jess Carter or Hannah Hampton or any of the others in an all-around strong showing, and you will be accused of being influenced by PRusso.

The not-so-witty merging of PR and the player’s name has become an insult online, used to denigrate anyone who suggests that Russo may be quite a good player. Your opinion cannot possibly be right; it’s Russo’s good PR team that has led you to believe that she is good. You have been influenced, you are a sheep, you have been blinded by the shiny Adidas adverts and the magazine cover shoots. Open your eyes, they scream into the online abyss, Russo is an average player, someone else was better, anyone else was better.

Suzanne Wrack has written about how the online abuse of England’s lead striker has been exposed as specious by the selfless displays make Russo key to Lionesses’ success:

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AUNZ Invitational XV v British & Irish Lions: rugby union – live

If you’re on the same page as Sam Warburton you’re probably on the right page.

The former Lions skipper reckons Owen Farrell’s inclusion is a no-brainer. I agree and that makes me feel safe.

I understand where everyone is coming from because Owen Farrell hasn’t played international rugby for a couple of years. But having played with him, anyone who’s been in the room with him is like: ‘That guy is someone you need.’

That talent, skill doesn’t go. He’s still been playing top flight rugby, it’s not like he’s just suddenly wilted away. I think it’s the right call.

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People waiting for aid among dozens reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

Gaza civil defence said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on Friday

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday his country had achieved victory after Kurdish rebels destroyed their weapons, ending their decades-long armed struggle against Ankara, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

Erdoğan said:

Turkey has won. Eighty-six million citizens have won.

We know what we are doing. Nobody needs to worry or ask questions. We are doing all this for Turkey, for our future.

It is with great urgency and concern that we are writing to you regarding the Israeli defence minister’s announcement on Monday of his plans to forcibly transfer all Palestinian civilians in Gaza to a camp in the ruined city of Rafah without allowing them to leave.

The defence minister’s plans have been described by a leading Israeli human rights lawyer, Michael Sfard, as ‘an operational plan for crimes against humanity. It’s about population transfer to the southern tip of Gaza in preparation for deportation outside the strip.

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England v India: third men’s cricket Test, day three – live

  • Updates from the third day’s play at Lord’s

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46th over: India 158-3 (Rahul 54, Pant 31) The first inspection of the ball comes after only 13 deliveries. Archer sniffs when he’s told to continue with the current ball, then sends down a sharp lifter that is fenced through the vacant backward short leg area by Rahul. The resulting single brings up an important fifty partnership inside 13 overs.

There’s an occasional bit of extra bounce but no sideways movement whatsoever. England have another 34 overs of old-ball toil ahead.

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