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  • A man walks with two children between destroyed buildings

    Israel-Gaza war
    Growing hope for ceasefire as Hamas reportedly backs new proposal

    Militant group gives initial backing to plan for phased deal after ‘verbal commitments’ from mediators
    • An older Black man in a yellow polo shirt and black pants walks across a tile-floored room with a couch beneath a bamboo roof and open sky.

      Tropical Storm Beryl
      Tropical Storm Beryl smashes through Caribbean and heads for Texas coast

    • Film
      Jon Landau, Oscar-winning Titanic and Avatar producer, dies aged 63

    • Iran
      Masoud Pezeshkian: the former heart surgeon who became president

    • UK
      Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

    • Kentucky
      Four killed and three wounded in shooting at Kentucky party

    • Health
      Chevron doctrine ruling a ‘gut-punch’ for US health and environment – experts

    • Cannabis
      Medications could be eligible for FDA approval under proposed DEA rules

In focus

  • Protesters in support of Palestinians in Amman, Jordan

    Middle East
    The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza

  • Rishi Sunak illustration ink bleeding

    UK
    ‘A difficult hand played poorly’: how No 10 slipped from Sunak’s grasp

    Initial Brexit success was undone by poor strategy and repeated unforced errors, say expert observers
  • a man in a blue suit looks out from behind a lectern

    Politics
    Democrats in disarray as Trump immunity ruling raises stakes

    With democracy at a moment of maximum peril, millions were pinning their hopes on the Democratic party as a last wall of defence – but the debate changed that

Spotlight

  • The Pine and the Palm along highway 99 in Madera, California.

    California
    A beloved palm and pine tree mark California’s center. Now they’re being cut down

    Local residents are mourning the planned removal of the trees, symbols of the state’s northern-southern divide
  • Andy Murray on Centre Court after a presentation celebrating his career last Thursday.

    Tennis
    ‘Andy Murray has changed culture of sport’: Wimbledon reflects on legacy

  • Simon Tedeschi and Loribelle Spirovski

    The moment I knew
    We could barely make eye contact because of the chemistry radiating between us

    Classical pianist Simon Tedeschi established an online rapport with artist Loribelle Spirovski. But could it transcend an awkward start and a social faux pas?
  • A woman in a coal mine tunnel in Ukraine.

    Ukraine
    ‘We do the job just as well as men’: women take on coal mining

    Women are moving into traditionally male jobs as the call-up of men to the war drives labour shortages
    • Professor Dali Kaafar, Professor and Executive Director of the Cyber Security Hub, School of Computing Future Communications Research Centre; Macquarie University. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Wednesday 3rd July 2024.

      AI
      Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers

    • Location, location, location … a scene from House of the Dragon, part of which is filmed in Cornwall.

      Film
      ‘We made the Maldives from a hotel in Heathrow airport’: Hollywood location scouts reveal their secrets

    • Oliver Waack-Jürgensen of the Berlin Cannabis Club High Ground said: ‘The situation with the authorities is totally unclear.’

      Germany
      Cannabis legalization hampered by most German of substances: red tape

    • Roisin Murphy performing at the Brixton Academy in London, 2021.

      This much I know
      Róisín Murphy: ‘I think our culture is too hedonistic’

Opinion

  • Trump on stage at a rally in front of microphone

    We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025

    Robert Reich
    The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more
  • Taylor Swift, a tall white woman with blond hair and bangs, wears an iridescent body suit on a stage with an orange and purple background.

    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Tim Adams

    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams
  • An older white man in a suit wearing aviators waves from what appears to be the top of an airplane stairway on tarmac.

    Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

    Rebecca Solnit
    Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016
    • Marine Le Pen arriving at the National Rally headquarters in Paris, France, 4 July 2024

      The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent

      Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others
    • Collage of Donald trump reflected in a crown

      The US supreme court utterly distorted the true threat to American democracy

      Lawrence Douglas
    • Marina Hyde

      Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

      Marina Hyde
    • A protest against the far right in Paris, France, 3 July 2024

      France can argue later – now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out

      Rokhaya Diallo

Sports

  • Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva celebrates her third-round victory over the top seed, Iga Swiatek.

    Wimbledon
    No 1 seed Swiatek stunned by Putintseva

    Iga Swiatek was beaten in the third round 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 by Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan in a remarkable match
  • Bronny James is due to play his next Lakers game on Sunday

    NBA
    Bronny James scores four points in Los Angeles Lakers debut

    Bronny James took his place in the starting lineup for Los Angeles and his professional career is formally underway after his Lakers debut on Saturday
    • Khyree Jackson (left) alongside fellow Vikings rookie JJ McCarthy at a May training camp

      Khyree Jackson
      Vikings’ rookie cornerback killed in car crash at age of 24

    • Stefan de Vrij celebrates his equaliser with Netherlands teammate Xavi Simons.

      Euro 2024
      Netherlands 2-1 Turkey: Dutch roar back to win thriller and set up England clash

    • Portugal’s players react as João Félix misses from the spot

      Portugal v France: a galactic battle lost in the black hole of one man’s ego

      Jonathan Liew
    • Wanty's Biniam Girmay crosses the finish line to win stage eight

      Tour de France
      Girmay wins again but day overshadowed by Drege’s death in Austria

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Climate crisis

  • Google’s data centre in the US.

    Explainer
    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

  • Smoke rising from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 which flared due to strong winds, near Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada, in May 2024.

    Canada
    As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced

  • Jordan Bardella speaks to reporters at a farm

    France
    Far-right win in French election could deal blow to climate policy, say experts

  • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

    Environment
    Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

Across the country

  • White woman, pink blazer, holds up finger and speaks into clutch of microphones.

    Donald Trump
    Stormy Daniels gets more than $900,000 from GoFundMe after alleged threats

    Daniels says Trump supporters have inundated her with threats to rape and murder her daughter and other family
  • a woman plays the guitar

    Music
    Hackers leak alleged Taylor Swift ticket data to extort Ticketmaster

  • A middle-aged white man in dramatic silhouette man looks ahead.

    US elections 2024
    Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to not ‘take sides’ with respect to 9/11 if elected president

  • An empty lifeguard chair on a beach with silhouettes of people and buildings in background

    New York
    Two teenagers die while swimming at Coney Island

    • Republicans
      Intra-Maga row for Missouri’s attorney general seat reveals exaggerated résumé

    • Economy
      206,000 June jobs added to US economy as labor market cools slightly

    • Texas
      Solo shark bites two and makes contact with two others at Texas beach

    • Georgia
      Federal judge blocks ‘most severe’ law on bail fund restrictions

    • New York
      Three dead after truck strikes group on Fourth of July in New York City park

    • Bird flu
      US reports fourth case of bird flu in humans

Around the world

  • Iranian reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian greets supporters outside a polling station in Tehran on Friday

    Iran
    Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins presidential election

    Victory reflects deep dissatisfaction with direction of country and could bring greater cooperation with west
  • An aerial view of a flooded area of Rangpur district in Bangladesh.

    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh floods leave at least eight dead amid fears situation could worsen

  • Journalist Rula Jebreal stands in a garden.

    Italy
    ‘Defending democracy is paramount’: Rula Jebreal warns against Meloni rule

  • Can-can dancers perform in red, white and blue costumes front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret club at night with illuminated signs and windmill sails

    France
    Moulin Rouge in Paris celebrates installation of new windmill sails

    • Analysis
      French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears

    • Spain
      Hundreds in Canary Islands protest against influx of migrants

    • UK
      King Charles ruffles feathers as he drops royal patronage for pigeon racing

    • Hurricanes
      Hurricane Beryl: Britons join global aid effort amid Caribbean devastation

    • Middle East
      The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza

    • Carlo Maria Viganò
      Vatican excommunicates its former ambassador to US

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    Weekend
    Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast

  • Mikel Merino of Spain celebrates scoring his team's second goal

    Football Weekly
    Spain end Germany’s dream and France squeeze past Portugal – Football Daily

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    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn? Politics Weekly UK - podcast

  • Parliamentary election in Britain<br>Incoming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street, following the results of the election, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?

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    Today in Focus
    Labour’s landslide victory – podcast

  • Illustration with colourful arrows representing the main political parties and black and white images of political and media figures including George Osborne, Clive Myrie and Nicola Sturgeon

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: a guide to the night - podcast

  • A close-up image of a blue-grey coloured single sperm cell on black background

    Science
    ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast

Culture

  • Composite of Longest Con book cover and older man sitting at a desk.

    Books
    ‘Stealing with both hands’: veteran reporter Joe Conason details the right wing’s graft

    Former Village Voice and New York Observer firebrand’s new book looks at US conservatism’s swindle of its own constituency
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

    Books
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner: ‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’

  • ‘Don’t spend any time crying over me. Go, party!’: Dave Bayley

    Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley
    ‘I’m a short shorts guy’

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Film
    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

  • Dawn Hollyoak

    TV
    Great British Bake Off contestant Dawn Hollyoak dies aged 61

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    Books interview
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’

Lifestyle

  • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

    Family
    For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

    I was there through their infirmity, incontinence, our cohabitation - and suddenly I was fired
  • Models wearing bermuda shorts on the catwalk

    Bermuda moods
    Summer’s chicest shorts are knee-length

  • A wasp in a glass of red liquid and ice, against blue sky and sea

    Life and style
    59 summer problems solved – from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

  • Mike Hohnen with his cat Bootsy and neighbour Enid Morrison in Rozelle in Sydney’s inner west

    Cats
    ‘The cat has changed my life’: how Bootsy turned a street of strangers into a community

  • Taylor Swift performs on stage at Wembley Stadium

    Money
    Are pricey VIP Taylor Swift packages worth the cash?

  • Ron Arad’s house - London

    Interiors
    House of curiosities: at home with Ron Arad

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  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch party for the election results in central London.

    UK general election 2024
    Share your reaction to the election results

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  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso
    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis

  • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

    Environment
    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors

    The fastest birds in the world, peregrine falcons are sought after for racing and can sell for up to £250,000 in the Middle East. Poaching is a constant threat, with eggs and chicks stolen to supply the hidden market. Now, there are nationwide efforts under way to ring and take DNA from wild chicks – but just reaching their nests can be perilous
  • Young people gather on a hilltop called the 'roof of Tehran' to watch the sunset. Photo: Stefanie Glinski

    Afghanistan
    ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

    More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking education elsewhere
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    ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

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    TV
    ‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work

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    UK general election
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    Joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • A person dressed as Abraham Lincoln

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