Watch highlights as Mert Muldur and Arda Guler score spectacular goals to help Turkey to a 3-1 victory against tournament debutants Georgia in their opening Euro 2024 Group F match at the BVB Stadion Dortmund.
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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
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