Back to the teams, Turkey aren’t going to die wondering – Hakan Calhanoglu is at the base of midfield, and he’s no one’s idea of a defender, and in front of him, the trident of Guler, Kokcu and Yildiz looks nasty. Turkey have, though, been in miserable recent form after qualifying well – their most recent games have been a 1-0 defeat to Hungary, a 6-1 defeat to Austria, a 0-0 draw with Italy and a 2-1 defeat to Poland. It won’t take much to get them going again, but they’ve not actually played since March so might need time to get going.
I bet Gareth Southgate regrets leaving Marcus Rashford out now. He’d feel right at home here.
Doreen Lawrence says CPS’s refusal to charge those alleged to have botched hunt for her son’s killers is ‘a new low’
The mother of Stephen Lawrence said she was left “bewildered, disappointed, and angry” by prosecutors who refused to charge senior detectives alleged to have botched the hunt for her son’s racist killers.
The decision means that despite 31 years’ worth of revelations of failures in the case, no officer has been prosecuted.
Chipmaker dethrones Microsoft and Apple as stock market surge boosts valuation above $3.3tn
Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft, as its chips continue to play a central role in a race to dominate the market for artificial intelligence.
Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.2% to $135.21, lifting its market capitalization to $3.326tn, just days after overtaking the iPhone maker Apple to become the second most valuable company.
Player Kings reopens on Thursday and producers say they look forward to actor ‘returning as soon as he is ready’
Ian McKellen is “recovering well” after falling from the stage during a performance of Player Kings but the West End show will be cancelled until Thursday, the production has said.
The actor, 85, was portraying the Shakespearean character John Falstaff at the Noël Coward theatre in London on Monday when he lost his footing during a fight scene involving the Prince of Wales and Henry Percy.
Improved lighting or markings would have mitigated risk of Ukrainian refugee’s death, Network Rail official tells hearing
Missing safety features on a sea wall in Devon would have mitigated the risk of the death of a Ukrainian refugee schoolgirl who suffered a fatal fall, a Network Rail official has told an inquest.
Albina Yevko, 14, who came to the UK from the war-torn country in 2022, was reported missing on the evening of 4 March last year and was later found unconscious on Dawlish beach. She was airlifted to hospital in Exeter where she died the next morning, an inquest in Exeter heard.
Trump campaign accuses Biden of offering ‘mass amnesty’ to undocumented; senator Josh Hawley vowed to investigate the policy if the GOP regains Senate control after election
Republicans in the House and Senate are in uproar over Joe Biden’s newly announced policy that will allow US citizens’ undocumented spouses and children who have resided in the country for more than a decade to apply for residency.
Missouri senator Josh Hawley vowed to investigate the policy, if the GOP regains control of the Senate following the November elections. The party is seen as having a good chance of doing so, since Democrats are defending two seats in red states and several others in swing states.
Huge disparities in state and private pupils’ access to outdoor physical education must be reduced
Fresh air, outdoor games, exercise: everyone knows children need these things and wants them to be healthy. Now more than ever, with an obesity crisis, lack of affordable housing and rising concerns about attention-hogging smartphones, it is common sense to advocate for access to green space, sports and swimming. But, as the Guardian’s research has revealed, state school pupils are at a massive disadvantage compared with private school ones. Children at the top 250 fee-paying schools, many of which are charities, have more than 10 times as much outside space as the 93% of pupils in England who are state educated (in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the proportion of private pupils is even lower).
The oldest and grandest of England’s schools are more like palaces, with websites and brochures full of pledges about the learning that takes place outside classrooms as well as in them. The contrast with skimpy provision in the public sector, particularly at some of the newest schools set up since regulations on school buildings were loosened in 2012, is shocking. More than 300 schools have under 1,000 sq metres of outside space in total, and at least 20 have no playground or sports pitches at all. There is also a downward trend in the amount of time given over to play and meal times, with headteachers pointing to behaviour and curriculum pressures. At the same time, youth services outside school have been hollowed out by austerity. Little wonder, then, that sports including cricket, rugby and rowing remain dominated by private school alumni.
Something had to give in the St James’s Palace Stakes here on Tuesday and it proved to be the unbeaten record of Notable Speech, the favourite, as Richard Hannon’s unshakeable faith in his colt Rosallion was rewarded with victory by a neck in the feature race on day one of the royal meeting. “Quite often, you call these horses something that they’re not,” Hannon said afterwards, and quite often you are disappointed, it’s an occupational hazard. But this lad has never let me down.”
Rosallion had finished a length-and-a-half behind Notable Speech in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket and despite a subsequent win in the Irish equivalent a few weeks later, he was sent off at 5-2 with Notable Speech heading the market at 6-4. Charlie Appleby’s was never a serious threat, however, and a distinct lack of running room against the far rail was a much bigger issue for Sean Levey, Rosallion’s jockey, as they passed the furlong pole.
Donald Trump’s military ran a covert campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine at the height of the pandemic
In July 2021, Joe Biden rightly inveighed against social media companies failing to tackle vaccine disinformation: “They’re killing people,” the US president said. Despite their pledges to take action, lies and sensationalised accounts were still spreading on platforms. Most of those dying in the US were unvaccinated. An additional source of frustration for the US was the fact that Russia and China were encouraging mistrust of western vaccines, questioning their efficacy, exaggerating side-effects and sensationalising the deaths of people who had been inoculated.
How, then, would the US describe the effects of its own disinformation at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic? A shocking new report has revealed that its military ran a secret campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine with Filipinos – when nothing else was available to the Philippines. The Reuters investigation found that this spread to audiences in central Asia and the Middle East, with fake social media accounts not only questioning Sinovac’s efficacy and safety but also claiming it used pork gelatine, to discourage Muslims from receiving it. In the case of the Philippines, the poor take-up of vaccines contributed to one of the highest death rates in the region. Undermining confidence in a specific vaccine can also contribute to broader vaccine hesitancy.
Jos Buttler’s side have had little batting time before Super Eight clash with hosts who won all four group matches
The daytime starts in this men’s T20 World Cup may be kinder to British newspaper deadlines and, they claim more importantly, the television audience in India. But T20 in the Caribbean is really all about the bacchanal after dark; those sultry, steamy evenings under lights, where the white ball flies into stands that are already pulsing to a soca beat.
After four group games before sunset, England will step into the calypso tent at 8.30pm local time on Wednesday night, 1.30am back home, for their first night game of the tournament. They meet a buoyant, unbeaten West Indies at the ground that carries the name of their head coach and two-times T20 World Cup-winning captain, Daren Sammy. The first outing in the Super Eight phase for both teams, it could rival the street party atmosphere of Gros Islet’s famous Friday night Jump Up if the buzz in Sammy’s native St Lucia is anything to go by.
A taster came on Monday night here. Even though both sides were already through, Rovman Powell and his men wowed their supporters with a serious flex of the muscles and a 104-run win over Afghanistan in their final first phase game; a more than handy steelpan tune-up for a date with the defending champions 48 hours later. Not that Andre “Muscle” Russell got much of a go, loosening up those bulging biceps as he sat waiting to bat only to face three balls at the back end.
Instead, it was the uber-talented Nicholas Pooran, a mere slip in comparison, who helped post a tournament high of 218 for five through an incendiary 53-ball 98. Amid the carnage was a World Cup record powerplay worth 92 runs, a fourth over that shipped a record-equalling 36, and Rashid Khan, T20’s great prestidigitator, being taken for 24 in his final set of six. In a low scoring tournament, the green-tinged pitch at the old Beausejour is finally one for batters.
Investment fund supermarket has been offered £11.40 a share by trio of international investors
British investment fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown has said it will accept a proposed offer from a trio of private equity investors, meaning another of the UK’s biggest companies will leave the FTSE 100 index.
In a stock market filing on Tuesday, the company said that the US private equity firm CVC, Denmark’s Nordic Capital and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) had made an offer worth £11.40 a share in cash.
A Conservative candidate has been criticised for sending letters to British-Pakistani voters allegedly insinuating they should vote for him instead of his Labour rival because of her Indian surname.
Marco Longhi, the Tory candidate fighting for re-election in Dudley North against Sonia Kumar, has been accused of using dog-whistle politics and attempting to “alienate British Hindus”.
Readers respond to an article describing one child’s experience with the virus and how it has affected him and his family
We were interested to read about life with long Covid and our hearts go out to the children described, and all the sufferers of this condition (Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid, 12 June). However, doctors are still debating the causes of long Covid. We are concerned about the science behind the “microclots” hypothesis as a cause of long Covid and have examined it academically.
The evidence base for “microclots” causing long Covid is tenuous to say the least: the research shows these particles are found in normal individuals and other conditions. This makes it unlikely that they are the cause of long Covid. Indeed, the particles are not actually clots; they are small particles of a protein called amyloid, which are not involved in blood clotting.
A reader whose great-niece is in care calls for systematic change in children’s services and says family-based solutions should be given greater consideration
Your editorial, quoting Sir James Munby’s denunciations of the lack of proper provision of care services for young people, was interesting (The Guardian view on care failures: vulnerable children need homes, not court orders, 13 June). But failures in specialist care provision don’t just affect those young people subjected to deprivation of liberty orders and sent to poorly regulated private residential care, isolated from families and friends.
Children’s services are largely unregulated, confidentiality is highly regarded, and scrutiny avoided. A recent report by Health Equity North, published on behalf of the child of the north all-party parliamentary group, highlighted regional variations in the number of children taken into care in England. One in every 88 children in the north-east – where I live – is in care, compared with one in 140 across England, and children in care homes generally require high levels of support from public agencies.
Approximately 80% of country’s population is experiencing temperatures at or above 90F for long periods of time
More than 270 million Americans – about 80% of the country’s population – are experiencing a kind of heatwave not seen in decades, smashing records with temperatures at or above 90F (32.2C) for long periods of time under a weather phenomenon known as a heat dome.
New York governor Kathy Hochul has announced that she activated the National Guard to assist in any heat emergencies that may develop over the next several days.
Council of 50 random citizens decide how to use money given up by wealth-tax campaigner Marlene Engelhorn
An inherited fortune given away by an Austrian heiress who shunned her millions will go to dozens of non-profit organisations that work on issues including the environment, health and homelessness, a citizen group tasked to manage the fund has announced.
Marlene Engelhorn, a 32-year-old activist who has campaigned for a tax on extreme wealth, announced in January that she would give away the vast bulk – €25m(£21.1m) – of the money she inherited from her grandmother.
England fan sent home after violence before Serbia game
England’s fixture against Denmark in Frankfurt on Thursday has been classified as “high risk” by German police but there will be no ban on the sale of high-strength alcohol at the stadium.
The categorisation brings an increased police presence, as there was for England’s opening Euro 2024 game against Serbia, though officials insisted their priority would be a “de-escalating and communicative approach”.
Fitzpatrick and Fleetwood to play for Great Britain
Scheffler leads US players but DeChambeau misses out
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are set to represent Ireland in this summer’s Olympics at former Ryder Cup venue Le Golf National.
The qualifying period came to an end at the US Open at Pinehurst on Sunday, when McIlroy suffered a devastating runner-up finish to Bryson DeChambeau after holding a two-shot lead with five holes to play.
Pupils have won prizes for proposals to improve facilities that in some cases were so filthy they wouldn’t use them
Germany’s first School Toilet Summit has met, seeking initiatives across the EU’s biggest country to make facilities less off-putting for children driven to holding it in all day rather than visiting the loos that up to half of pupils have said they try to avoid.
The winning answers included the integration of pot plants, disco balls, scent dispensers, mobile phone holders and plenty of soap and toilet paper to make the nip to the toilet – and with it, school in general – a little more pleasant for pupils.
Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll
A Vermont lawmaker was compelled to apologize publicly after being caught on video pouring water into her colleague’s work bag multiple times across several months.
The bizarre behavior is allegedly a part of a campaign of harassment that one legislator aimed at another who represents the same district in the Green Mountain state, independent outlet Seven Days first reported.
Ian Henderson, looking into possible miscarriages of justice, said he came to believe he was dealing with ‘a cover-up’
An investigator appointed to look into concerns about the Post Office’s Horizon IT system in 2012 came to believe that he was “dealing with a cover-up” by the state-owned body, which made “various threats” against him, a public inquiry has heard.
Ian Henderson, a chartered accountant, and his colleague Ron Warmington, who ran Second Sight Investigations, were appointed in 2012 to review cases of post office operators after MPs raised concerns about possible miscarriages of justice involving the Post Office’s Horizon IT system. Second Sight’s fees were paid by the Post Office, which had agreed to cooperate with the investigation.
Pop star was arrested in New York and held overnight for a morning arraignment, police statement says
Justin Timberlake is facing a charge of driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons in New York, local authorities confirmed to the Guardian.
The pop singer and actor was arrested early Tuesday in Sag Harbor and was released on his own recognizance – meaning without needing to post bail – after a brief hearing at the village courthouse, the Suffolk county, New York, district attorney’s office said.
Down in the polls and humiliated on the campaign trail, Sunak looks to his predecessor for help. Truly, the lost and the damned
And so it has come to pass. We were told some time ago, via the Times and sources very close to Boris Johnson, that eventually Rishi Sunak’s plight would be so very parlous that he would turn to Boris Johnson.
At the time, many of us viewed this as merely more evidence of Boris Johnson’s view of the indispensability of Boris Johnson, but now we learn that Sunak believes in it too, because Johnson is apparently being asked to write to tens of thousands of Tory voters imploring them to vote Tory.
Hugh Muir is the Guardian’s executive editor, Opinion
Labour is heading for a landslide win in the election, according to a new projection, but more than 100 Conservative-held seats appear to be on a knife-edge with the results in the hands of millions of undecided or swing voters.
In its first MRP model of the 2024 general election, Ipsos estimated Labour could win 453 seats and the Conservatives 115, giving Keir Starmer’s party a majority of 256 and inflicting the Tories’ worst ever defeat.
The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbidding
The superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimée made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and everywhere else with a presence at once alluring and forbidding. She had something of the young Joan Crawford, or Marlene Dietrich, or her contemporary, the French model and actress Capucine. Aimée radiated an enigmatic sexual aura flavoured with melancholy, sophistication and worldly reserve. Hers was not a face that could simper or pout: it was the entranced men around her who were more likely to be doing that. Hirokazu Kore-eda once wrote an amusing line that all the great French movie actresses have surnames that begin with the same letter as their first names: Danielle Darrieux, Simone Signoret, Brigitte Bardot … and of course Anouk Aimée is absolutely in that brand-identity tradition – although this is a stage name (she was born Nicole Dreyfus) derived from the name of her first movie character and the resonant word “beloved”.
In Jacques Demy’s musicless musical Lola from 1961, Aimée played the title role: a cabaret singer (like Dietrich in The Blue Angel) who stuns men everywhere, but her unattainability is naturally essential to her desirability. In Demy’s later film Model Shop (1969), he revives the Lola character; she is now working at a sleazy “model shop” studio where men can take lurid photos. Other directors found in Aimée that same melodramatic “muse” quality that her air of untouchability perhaps encouraged: Jacques Becker’s 1958 film about Modigliani, Montparnasse 19 had Aimée as the painter’s lover and subject Jeanne Hébuterne.
Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés
Earlier this year, Yasmine Naghdi was struggling in the rehearsal studio. Naghdi is one of the Royal Ballet’s leading dancers and her performance of Swan Lake would be livestreamed into cinemas around the world. But although known for her crystalline technique, she became almost too anxious to hold a pirouette.
Naghdi seems enviably poised today: back straight, eyes shining beneath strongly etched brows. But the impending show literally threw her off balance, she explains. “Performing Swan Lake to 3,000 people [in the Royal Opera House] is stressful in itself but this would be filmed and streamed live to cinemas globally, with the prospect of being on stream thereafter – that’s the version of me that remains out there. So everything has to be perfect. That’s a huge amount of pressure.”
Film taken over Israel, if confirmed, would underline difficulty in intercepting attacks by Lebanese armed movement
Hezbollah has published a video lasting nine minutes and 31 seconds of what it says is drone footage gathered from its surveillance aircraft of locations in Israel, including the sea and air ports of the key northern city of Haifa.
Distribution of the footage was flagged up by the Lebanese armed movement, including on its Telegram channel, advising viewers on several channels to “watch and analyse” what it said were “important scenes”, including the cryptic message that it would show what the “hoopoe had brought back”. The hoopoe is both the name of a drone and a bird seen as a messenger in Arabic mythology.
Financial concerns could see club drop to lower tier
As few as two senior players contracted for next season
Fears are mounting that Reading’s women’s team may not be able to compete in the Women’s Championship next season because of financial concerns.
The Guardian has learned that discussions are ongoing at Reading regarding the possibility of the team dropping down to a lower tier of the women’s pyramid in order to cut costs, amid uncertainty over a protracted takeover of the club. The Football Association is also understood to be working with Reading’s women’s team to try and find a solution.
This immersive Korean escape room series is hugely watchable, silly fun. Its adorable celeb guests prove something, too: K-celebs are much, much nicer than British ones
Three people are about to become human sacrifices! Who can possibly save them? How about a comedian, a singer and an actor? If they can work together to crack a code and open a locked door, disaster might just be averted.
Agents of Mystery is, like last year’s Zombieverse, an immersive Korean game show with celebrity contestants where enjoyably silly dramas unspool and the famous people, who don’t know what’s coming, must improvise to keep up. This one, though, has a more obvious influence in real-life leisure trends. The six stars – comedians Lee Yong-jin and Lee Eun-ji, singers Karina and John Park, and actors Lee Hye-ri and Kim Do-hoon – enter enclosed spaces that contain a mystery or a puzzle, the solution to which allows access to another place with another enigma to crack. It’s basically a series of televised escape rooms, with famous people as participants. You’re a celebrity, get yourself out of there.
Scottish Labour leader, launching Westminster manifesto, promises party will not raise income tax if it comes into power in 2026
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Anas Sarwar has effectively fired the starting gun on the 2026 Holyrood election campaign as he pledged not to raise income tax if he became first minister.
Sarwar told an audience of candidates and activists at the launch of Scottish Labour’s Westminster manifesto in Edinburgh, “we know change for Scotland is a two stage process” and that voters wanted to “turn the page … on 14 years of chaos under the Tories, and 17 years of failure under the SNP”.
Scientists say new early diagnosis method could improve research into treatments that slow or prevent the disease
A blood test that draws on artificial intelligence can predict who will develop Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before symptoms arise, researchers say.
The test is designed to work on equipment already found in many NHS laboratories and, if validated in a broad population of people, could be made available to the health service within two years.
Ralph Lauren unveils uniforms for Paris ceremonies
Athletes praise “modern, approachable” design
When Team USA walks with the world’s athletes at the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony, they’ll be doing so in snappy tailored navy blazers from Ralph Lauren – and blue jeans.
Cillian Murphy may not rate it now – but this is arguably the most underrated film in the Scream director’s oeuvre
By the time of his death in 2015, Wes Craven’s reputation as one of the finest film-makers of his kind was firmly cemented. The horror maestro had a knack for transforming schlocky material into A-grade popcorn entertainment. Such is the case in Red Eye, the antepenultimate work of his career, and arguably the most underrated film in his oeuvre.
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is the manager of the Lux Atlantic Hotel, a premium resort on the Miami shoreline with a clientele that includes, as the film begins, the deputy secretary of homeland security. Onboard an overnight flight home, Lisa’s seemingly innocuous seatmate Jackson Rippner (a psychotically blue-eyed Cillian Murphy) reveals himself to be a member of a domestic terrorist ring and embroils her in a conspiracy to assassinate the high-ranking official.
Over in Clacton, Nigel Farage’s campaign is actually selling tickets to see him on Tuesday night, at an event for voters billed as “Meet Nigel Farage”. At £3.41 a ticket (some still available at the time of writing), this clearly represents an exciting entertainment opportunity for those unable to afford the £71 that the Reform leader charges on Cameo, where he has continued filming personalised videos for fans and ironists throughout the general election campaign. Nigel seems to have spent a good chunk of Father’s Day filming lucrative Happy Father’s Day videos for other fathers, which – how to put this delicately? – is surely what it’s all about.
As a performing artiste, Keir Starmer’s market value is probably somewhat below the £3.41 a ticket price point, though Tuesday morning found the Labour leader free-to-air on LBC, for a listener phone-in hosted by Nick Ferrari. This particular venue has been the scene of previous flounderings for Starmer, most notably on Israel being entitled to cut water and power supplies to Gaza, and sex-based rights. But that was then! This is Starmer something-point-zero – the one who is markedly more confident and has a series of endlessly rehearsed defensive plays on pretty much every question. As he put it to Ferrari: “I’m enjoying it, Nick!” And if you enjoy watching the bus get parked, then these are the games for you.
Julian Eltinge conquered stage and screen a century ago, when gender play was normalized. But his biographer says Eltinge was ‘not an easy ally’
Over a hundred years ago, a cis man rose to superstardom as a female impersonator. His proto-drag persona was so popular – and accepted into the mainstream – that he ran his own ladies’ magazine, sold cold cream to female fans, and counted royals and celebrities as superfans.
In the new book Beautiful: The Story of Julian Eltinge, America’s Greatest Female Impersonator, the writer Andrew L Erdman documents the life of a turn-of-the-century performer whose career would still be considered radical more than 80 years after his death. The title refers to a common description of Eltinge, who was known for his elaborate costumes, tight corseting and highly illusionary makeup skills. “He was this perfect, beautiful woman,” Erdman said in an interview. “[Female impersonation] got very normalized in the 1920s … there was a lot of gender play and openness across the spectrum.”
Jordan Bardella criticises footballer’s call for young people to vote against ‘extremes’ in upcoming elections
The French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has criticised the footballer Kylian Mbappé over his call for young people to vote against the “extremes” in parliamentary elections this month.
“I have a lot of respect for our footballers, whether Marcus Thuram or Kylian Mbappé, who are icons of football and icons for youth … But we must respect the French, we must respect everyone’s vote,” Bardella told CNews TV on Tuesday.
There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?
They are known, variously, as far right, national-conservative, radical right, anti-Islam, nativist, and Eurosceptic. Also as extreme right, populist, “alt-right”, neofascist, anti-immigration, nationalist, authoritarian, and assorted combinations of the above.
As the dust settles on the results of this month’s European parliamentary elections, it is worth examining what some of the terms routinely used to describe Europe’s wide array of far-right parties mean – and whether they are always the right ones.
A shocking new Hulu docuseries, Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, returns to 1978 and the tragedy that killed over 900 people on a controlling leader’s orders
In the world of true crime content, Jonestown is an infamous – if often misunderstood – Ur-text: arguably the most well-known, well-publicized and, ultimately, lethal of cults. The Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, is a case study of the worst possible outcome of megalomania, isolation, pressure, sustained coercive control and idealism curdled into paranoia. Jim Jones’s orders on 18 November 1978, are so famous that the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” has entered the American vernacular as a shorthand for buying wholesale into a dubious belief system – though as several survivors testify in a new documentary series, the phrase is misleading and offensive; the deaths of more than 900 people, including over 300 children, from cyanide poisoning was contemporarily characterized as a mass suicide, but the tragedy of Jonestown is more accurately described as a mass murder.
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, a new National Geographic and Hulu documentary series on the four days surrounding the massacre, is an entirely archival – including an hour of as-yet-unseen footage of Jonestown taped around the massacre – and first-person account of the events that led to the deaths of, in total, 918 people. There were 909 at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, informally known as Jonestown, in the remote jungle of north-western Guyana; two at a Peoples Temple outpost in Georgetown, the South American country’s capital; and five, including the US congressman Leo Ryan and NBC News reporter Don Harris, shot on the airstrip at Port Kaituma as they were attempting to leave with a group of defectors. The three-episode series serves as “a historical record”, the series director Marian Mohamed told the Guardian, particularly for “a generation of people who don’t know about the Jonestown massacre”.
Finma watchdog says bank failed to carry out adequate checks of two high-risk business relationships
HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm breached money-laundering rules by failing to carry out adequate checks on the high-risk accounts of two politically exposed individuals, Switzerland’s banking regulator has found.
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) has been banned from taking on any new high-risk customers until it has completed a full review of its business relationships, Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) said.
Border Forensics say dozens of deaths in 2022 at EU’s Melilla border was result of antagonistic security policy
Moroccan authorities took a series of fateful decisions that led to the deaths of dozens of asylum seekers attempting to scale the border fence into the Spanish north African territory of Melilla two years ago, survivors and an investigation by an NGO have claimed.
At least 27 migrants and asylum seekers died when up to 2,000 people tried to climb over the fence on 24 June 2022 – the deadliest day in recent memory along the EU land border with Africa – while 70 others are still missing and unaccounted for.
The manifesto promises minor common-sense reforms to the planning system. But the headline proposal for new towns won’t amount to much. Where is the bold modernism of the postwar Labour government?
With his sleeves rolled up, his hands in his pockets and the frown of a building inspector encountering flammable cladding panels for the umpteenth time, Keir Starmer stares out in black and white from the cover of Labour’s election manifesto next to a single word: “Change.”
The word is printed in bright red in Labour’s official election typeface: a bold and curvy font called Poppins – an apt, if unconscious, allusion to Starmer’s ambition to become the stern but caring nanny for the nation. One who, unlike his incumbent opponent, might have an umbrella at the ready.
Sir Ian prides himself on never missing a performance. I too fell off stage in a version of Henry IV and was taken to hospital – I didn’t want to go in case my understudy was better than me
I was deeply sorry to learn of Sir Ian McKellen’s accident, falling off the stage of the Noel Coward theatre in London on Monday night while playing Falstaff in Player Kings. After following him across the world as his understudy in King Lear in 2007, I know his dread of disappointing his audience. No matter how tired he was or how ill he felt, Sir Ian was always there. He is of the old school of actors who pride themselves on never missing a performance. A vanishing breed.
I only missed one performance in my 50-year sojourn on the stage. It was in 1970 and I was playing Hotspur at the Ludlow festival, peculiarly in the very same play in which Sir Ian has just met his accident. It was also during a major football tournament, in my case the World Cup. The week started inauspiciously when England, the holders, were knocked out by Germany after being 2-0 up.
This Celtics team, while not quite as luminously talented as peak Steph Curry Golden State, have much of their predecessors’ machine-like air of inevitability
A blizzard of confetti across the parquet floor at TD Garden; the words “Jaylen Brown finals MVP” no longer a punchline used to taunt the Massachusetts basketball faithful but solid, unarguable reality; the Larry O’Brien trophy in the hands of Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck; and Boston confirmed, with their 18th championship, as the most successful franchise in NBA history.
Were these the worst NBA finals – for neutrals, at least – in recent memory though? A 4-1 scoreline certainly suggests so, and the manner of the Mavericks’ capitulation on Monday night – gamely keeping pace for the first 10 minutes of the first quarter before Boston made the title all but secure by half-time – applied a weak punctuation mark to what had been a rousing Dallas effort in Game 4. In the end, Kyrie Irving failed to show up on the court that once sang his name, the Mavericks supporting cast reverted to mediocre type, and the velvet hands and magic buttocks (and dodgy knee, and injured chest) of Luka Dončić simply had nothing left to give against a Boston outfit that was too smooth, too strong, too powerful at both ends of the court. With this 18th title, after 16 Larry O’Brien-less years, the Celtics now move ahead of their historic rivals the Lakers in the NBA’s all-time championship tally.
Lessons from Ebola and Covid were not learned, say Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as they launch report calling for urgent action
World leaders are “gambling with their children’s and grandchildren’s health and wellbeing” by failing to prepare for a future pandemic, a new report warns.
Amid surging cases of H5N1 bird flu in mammals, and an mpox outbreak in central Africa, two senior stateswomen have said the lack of preparation had left the world vulnerable to “devastation”.
Keir Starmer has called for a review into late kick-offs at football matches, warning they are increasing costs for supporters who want to travel to games.
The Labour leader told the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast he wanted a new football regulator to look into whether the Premier League should be allowed to hold games late in the evening, such as at 8pm on Saturdays.
Every Friday morning Damien Jordan can be seen walking back and forth in the local park, staring at the grass. He’s checking for dog mess and drug paraphernalia; in the next 10 minutes 30 or so of the pupils of Fairlight primary in Brighton will hit the park for their weekly football practice.
With a playground that measures just 800m2 and more than 400 children, there is no room for sports on the school grounds, so about a decade ago Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight, started practice at the park. It is just one of the ways that he, like other heads, is finding to cope with the issues many state schools are fighting; shortages of green space, shortages of staff and time, and shortages of cash.
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