Oil prices wobble as breakdown in U.S.-Iran talks casts doubt over peace process

Oil prices were lower on Wednesday after Iran said it would not meet with U.S. delegates for talks in Qatar, amplifying concern about the peace process.

Ireland set to take presidency of EU in Dublin opening ceremony – Europe live

Ireland’s tasks at helm of bloc include helping navigate talks on fresh Russia sanctions, and Ukraine and Moldova accession

Pistorius talks about changes in the German military reserve system, with “the Bundeswehr building up.”

He talks about reforms needed to allow to mobilise reservists better and more efficiently.

World Cup 2026: France and Mexico shine, Bielsa departs, England v DR Congo buildup, and more – live

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The view from England now, and Jacob Steinberg’s preview of today’s game:

The part where Tuchel earns his corn starts now. England’s target at the World Cup is to put a second star on the shirt but it would be pushing it to say they sailed through the group stage. The surge against Croatia in Dallas is yet to be repeated. Jude Bellingham and Kane are performing in attack, but there are problems to fix in almost every part of the team and there is a banana skin in football form to deal with when England face the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last 32 on Wednesday afternoon.

Trump's annual financial disclosure shows more than $580M in crypto-related income

Trump's 927-page financial disclosure report for 2025 totals more than 900 pages detailing holdings in cryptocurrency and stocks.

Lamborghini reveals new Urus performance hybrid SUV after ditching EVs

Lamborghini is calling the new Urus SE Performante the "fastest Super SUV in the world."

R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog

California jury sides with Maria Avila over 2020 attack that left her requiring skin grafts

R&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9m in damages to a housekeeper who was mauled by a dog at one of his properties.

Maria Avila was working at Brown’s house in Tarzana, California, in 2020 when she was attacked by Hades, a Caucasian shepherd used as a guard dog. At the trial in Van Nuys, California, Avila said she was left with serious injuries to her arm and face, requiring dozens of sutures and skin grafts from her abdomen to her arm. She said was also left with post-traumatic stress disorder, and nerve damage which made it difficult to work.

Starmer to take PMQs as he faces backlash over ‘poisoned chalice’ defence investment plan – UK politics live

Concerns that plan is not properly funded and will take cash from much-needed road projects

Minister and MP ‘furious’ over cuts to road projects to fund defence plan

Andy Burnham has not yet become PM, but already the rightwing papers are exploring how best to present him negatively in the eyes of their readers.

Yesterday the Daily Mail splashed on a story saying Burnham wants “to run Britain part-time from Manchester”. The 10-word intro managed to simultaneously imply that Burnham would be working from home a bit, not fully committed to the job, and anti-London.

I am old enough to remember when Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer came into government complaining from every hilltop that the Tories did just similar by cutting budgets and failing to fully fund them.

It’s no wonder that Team Burnham are, for the first time in this transition I think, properly furious, right? They’ve really avoided briefing until now, but it was made clear to me yesterday they are cross about this because they didn’t know and it’s a big headache.

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is making some wonder: will we have real disclosure soon? | Seth Shostak

The short answer is that there’s nothing to disclose. But that doesn’t mean we won’t make contact with extraterrestrial life

Even before Stephen Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, began unspooling at local multiplexes, the internet was debating whether we would ever experience a real-life disclosure day – when the US government admits that it’s aware of aliens here on Earth, a secret it has supposedly kept since the 1940s.

That would be dramatic news. But don’t hold your breath.

Elle review – this Legally Blonde prequel recreates the genius of Reese Witherspoon’s performance

The original star is behind this TV spin-off, and the casting of charismatic Lexi Minetree. Sadly, the tropey script and lack of campness mean it fails to really sparkle

It’s 25 years since you became a bona fide film star. In the intervening quarter of a century you have stayed a respected actor and become a powerhouse producer. An appetite grows for teen-led dramas that for reasons of nostalgia or muscled ice-hockey players appeal to the generation or two above. You are Reese Witherspoon. What do you do?

Take down the Legally Blonde IP, dust it off and make a small-screen prequel to the box office hit that became a cult classic, of course! You maximise your chances of success by casting a charismatic mini-me (Lexi Minetree) who can capture all the sassiness and sweetness of the original protagonist, Elle Woods, and recreate the genius of your own performance by making her un-self-aware without being imbecilic.

Greetings from London, where Banksy's flag man is a warning cry

As he marches on, his flag blows back into his face, leaving him unaware he is only a step away from a perilous fall. As usual with Banksy's art, the statue presents a sharp critique of society.

Toxic for 100 years: the UK golf course built on chemical waste

Despite contamination at Malkins Bank in Cheshire, it is deemed suitable for golf … and now a children’s play area

One morning in Sandbach, a neighbour appeared at Graham Warner’s door with a large folder: a delivery, she said, from an unidentified source.

“I think you’ll find this very interesting. Happy reading,” she said.

An Aztec-tinged revamp topped with a crinkle-cut tiara: inside the sparkling £1.3bn Olympia reboot

It has hosted everything from Miss World to the Chemical Brothers. Now the vast London venue has become a city within a city boasting offices, hotels, a theatre, commanding views – and even a school

The money shot for the redevelopment of London’s Olympia exhibition centre is a bank of staircases and escalators soaring upwards, Aztec temple-style, to an elevated concourse sandwiched between the colossal barrel vaults of the original exhibition halls. In a modern homage to its historic predecessors, the concourse is also crowned by a glass vault, crimped like a fan, its origami pleats connoting sparkling, flashy newness, a tiara of cubic zirconia among the heritage diamonds.

Looming behind the tiara is what appears to be a cluster of cylindrical towers, but are actually the rounded ends of a steroidal stepped office block, with master-of-the-universe views over London, from Wembley to Crystal Palace. Already ensconced and enjoying those views are the staff of the Premier League’s media production arm, which has a brand-appropriate mini football pitch on its expansive terrace.

Liverpool complete £60m signing of Jérémy Jacquet from Rennes

• Liverpool saw off competition from Chelsea for defender

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Jérémy Jacquet has officially completed his £60m move to Liverpool, with the defender signing a five-year contract at Anfield, plus the option of an extra year.

Liverpool beat Chelsea and Bayern Munich to the signature of the highly rated Rennes centre-half in January and on Wednesday confirmed the transfer has been completed subject to international clearance. The 20-year-old has cost an initial £55m with £5m payable in add-ons.

Shrinks on the verge of a nervous breakdown: how horror movies came for therapists

From Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You to Jodie Foster in A Private Life, an onscreen parade of psychoanalysts are unravelling before us, tapping into our worst fears

There is an old adage that “every therapist needs a therapist”. Even while the treatment was still in its infancy, Sigmund Freud said all psychoanalysts should “submit” themselves to being analysed. Recent cinema has been acutely aware of that painfully unbreakable cycle. In the likes of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein’s hallucinatory Rose Byrne vehicle in which she plays a therapist and floundering mother caught in a downward spiral, or 2022’s Smile, in which a psychiatrist (Sosie Bacon) is pursued by a malignant metaphor for her poor mental health, therapists are as much at the mercy of their traumas as anyone else.

Rather than being relegated to supporting character status, as they long have been in everything from Good Will Hunting (1997) to The Sopranos, film is finally giving therapists their moment on the couch. Within the space of a month in UK cinemas, two more trick cyclists are taking on lead roles. Backrooms sees Renate Reinsve totally unravel from a secure, calm and collected psychiatrist and self-help author (albeit one who lives alone and subsists on a diet of lacklustre ready meals) to a nervous wreck attempting to navigate the uncanny corridors of her own mind. Meanwhile in Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life, a Francophone Jodie Foster takes on the role of shrink turned sleuth, deciding to investigate the death of a former client without realising she is trying to make up for her shortcomings as a spouse and parent.

Signet City – futuristic parasites feed off 80s social realism in dystopian RPG

A preview of the forthcoming sci-fi game from Gareth Damian Martin showcases their unmistakable talent for innovation and game design

Over the past decade, an impression has taken root among gamers that any real creativity and originality in the industry is to be found in the indie, rather than mainstream, sector. Gareth Damian Martin can claim some responsibility for that. Their first game, 2020’s In Other Waters, merged sci-fi and underwater xenobiology in a uniquely calming and thought-provoking manner, while Citizen Sleeper (2022) and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (2025) were full-blown sci-fi epics with ultraminimal aesthetics and a rare intelligence.

Martin has broken with tradition by unveiling their next game, Signet City, far in advance of its 2027 launch. Set in a dystopian monochrome city, it’s a narrative role-playing adventure with a curious first-person perspective. “You play as a parasite,” says Martin. “And it felt natural that it should be a game where you see the world through the eyes of your hosts, very literally. You wake up in the mind of a person called Sid at the same time as she’s waking up in the river of a city. You’re coming to understand what you are, why it is that you’re in the mind of this person who doesn’t know that you’re there, along with what your capabilities are, and what the world is, through Sid.”

The eternal whirring of the Caitlin Clark conspiracy machine has shifted into a new gear

The Indiana Fever star’s so-called fans are intent on casting her as a victim. The narrative is an injustice to the guard and her fellow players

When Caitlin Clark entered the WNBA she brought along an audience unlike any the league had ever seen: millions of casual fans who weren’t necessarily interested in women’s basketball, but were nonetheless intrigued by this ponytailed wonder shooting three-pointers from the half-court logo. Three years since she became a household name at the University of Iowa, the 24-year-old Indiana Fever star hasn’t just become a potent vessel for culture-war anxieties and grievances. She has been cast in the role of a victim under siege from jealous rivals, negligent referees and league officials who resent her popularity and influence. Every snub becomes an obvious clue in hindsight for her most extreme fans, every controversy an open-and-shut case.

Last week, the WNBA released a poster to commemorate its 30th anniversary, and it hit the internet like a Magic Eye picture from the 1990s. Rubberneckers looked right past the 20 players who made the cut and started asking about the one who didn’t: Clark. “I assume the back side is just a photo of CC,” one Facebook user snarked. “I mean she saved the league.”

5 safety tips to keep you out of the emergency room this summer

Experts share guidance on how to prevent common summertime health risks, such as drowning, fire accidents and heat exhaustion.

Months after he sent a harsh email to ICE, agents tracked him to his home and a hotel

Federal agents went to a Rochester man's home to warn him that an email he sent five months ago could be an illegal threat. He was on vacation but another agent found his hotel hundreds of miles away.

Andy Burnham is about to have a crash course in hardcore geopolitics | Rafael Behr

The likely next prime minister would rather be in Warrington than Washington, but foreign policy will dominate his agenda more than he thinks

If Andy Burnham is lucky, he will get some time to adjust to the pace of life as prime minister before dealing with his first international crisis. It won’t be long.

Donald Trump is an engine of constant turmoil. Aftershocks from his recent military adventure in the Middle East will be felt for years. None of the declared war aims were achieved. The Iranian regime was not toppled. The terms agreed for a ceasefire promise Tehran more generous sanctions relief with fewer conditions than were imposed under the nuclear containment deal that Barack Obama signed in 2015. It is a worse arrangement than the one Trump discarded in his first term as “one of the worst deals ever”. Stocks of US munitions and credibility have been drained.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie review – two goofballs in search of a gig roll back the years

Channelling Bill and Ted, slacker buddies accidentally travel back to 2008, but open up a psychic wound which threatens their band’s existence

With its sheer goofball silliness, and unexpectedly great visual effects work, this ridiculous hellzapoppin’ spectacular from Canadian comic and director Matt Johnson will win you over. But if, like me, you’re coming to this from outside the existing fanbase for his web and TV comedy Nirvanna the Band the Show, you will need some time to catch up, and to acclimatise to the gags and the lo-fi klutz aesthetic. (Although, as I say, the downbeat indie look does cunningly coexist with some sensational digital trickery.)

Johnson had a breakthrough hit in 2023 with BlackBerry, about the once vital and then tragicomically obsolete handset device. Now he and his writing-performing partner Jay McCarrol give us a nerd comedy about time travel, inspired by Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future. But this comedy is not interested in BTTF’s Freudian observations about men’s relationship with women. In fact, women play zero role in this. It’s more in the infantilised male spirit of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in Wayne’s World, or Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

‘Witch-hunt’ in Niger as military regime rounds up LGBTQ+ population

Fears of resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic’ climate

A “witch-hunt” is under way in Niger, where dozens of people have been arrested for homosexuality in the west African state following the introduction of a new penal code earlier this year.

Up to 40 people have been arrested and 16 men, including high-ranking military officials, have been imprisoned across the country, according to local media.

Worst Neighbor Ever review – this shocking look at real-life deaths just feels exploitative

All of these tales of murdered residents are horrifying. But the lack of attempt to really grapple with them makes this feel little other than filler TV

In Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman’s account of his movie-writing career in Hollywood, Goldman remembers hearing a true story about a firefighter who went back in to save a baby he heard crying just as he was about to leave a burning building, escaping with the infant as it all started collapsing behind him. It was, Goldman says, an unbeatable tale of real-life heroism and someone, of course, tells him he should make a movie about it. The problem, Goldman notes, is that what this man did, in its astonishing entirety, is what the hero of a movie is expected to do before the opening credits even roll.

The same principle is true on the small screen. What is a legitimately huge, intensely dramatic and traumatic life-defining event for the people involved is easily flattened almost to nothingness by the demands of the medium. Such is the fatal flaw of second-tier true-life crime documentaries such as Worst Neighbor Ever. This four-part US-based addition to the genre tells four stories about ordinary people who had the terrible luck of finding themselves living alongside … well, the clue is in the title. And, in a country with questionable attitudes to gun control, it often ended in tragedy.

A 1,000kg mammal is wreaking havoc in Tasmania – and Neil the seal is loved for it

The elephant seal has been crushing fences, blocking traffic and bashing into parked cars, in what experts say is play-fighting behaviour

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Bollards, traffic cones, fences and LandCruisers stand little chance against a one-tonne giant known as Neil the seal, now a local legend in southern Tasmania.

Neil – a five-year-old elephant seal – has once again taken up residence in Tasmanian towns. He’s bypassing barricades, crushing fences, lying on roads and bashing into at least one parked car.

Depraved by Daisy Dixon review – a history of dark and dangerous art

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look away

Museums are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Ignore the problems of the past and they’re criticised for being problematic. Rewrite their labels according to changing politics and they’re called preachy and woke. The fact is, history is filled with immoral art. But how do we know it when we see it? And what, if anything, should we be doing about it?

In her timely and punchy new book, the philosopher Daisy Dixon explores some of the most controversial artworks ever produced. She’s interested in how an artist’s character can influence their creations, and the harmful effects those creations can have on the world.

When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot

The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda

Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you can dig for yourself than climate-science denial: heat-stress denial. Across the billionaire press last week, columnists and leader writers minimised the health impacts of the heatwave, particularly in schools. Expect more of this next week, when temperatures are forecast to soar again.

An editorial in the Telegraph (which represents the newspaper’s view) titled “Hot weather alarmism treats the public like children” maintained that “unlike in the seventies, when people were largely trusted to look after themselves, officialdom now feels the need to lecture the public about the risks of hot weather at every opportunity”. Extreme heat warnings are issued and weather maps are “painted in an alarming red”. Outrageous! Instead of issuing warnings, the government should just trust people to “take the appropriate precautions”. We should all “learn to live” with it. Quite right too: whatever happened to the bulldog spirit of ignorance and needless death? Cricket, warm beer, excess mortality: these are the markers of national character.

A moment that changed me: my grandpa risks his life to litter pick – and he taught me a profound lesson

I thought I knew what it was to be a good citizen. But after seeing him scramble up a ditch, beaming with pride at his rubbish-filled bag, I realised what it actually involves

I’ve always thought of myself as a good person: a good citizen and a good member of my community – at least in the ethical sense of the word. I presumed being good required refraining from harming the world and the people within it. An example of this being that I never litter.

However, when I moved home to Staffordshire after graduating in the summer of 2025, my understanding of what it means to be a good citizen – what it means to be “good” altogether – changed significantly.

Smoky chipotle tomatoes and chargrilled courgettes: Thomasina Miers’ barbecued meze recipes | Sunday best

Sweetness and smoke are at the fore of these summer salads

We are at one of my favourite times of the year, but also one of the busiest, with the world seemingly hell-bent on fitting everything in before the summer starts proper. For us, family birthdays abound, with celebrations to organise, cakes to dream up and a constant worry about finding the right presents. Our anniversary is mostly forgotten amid the chaos! What is not forgotten is our deep love of sitting outdoors over long summer evenings that appear to make time stretch magically, languorously. Whether it’s lighting the barbecue or simply turning to my ancient but beloved griddle, a bit of Butch Cassidy-style smoke and swagger is what I am looking for in my food. Chargrilling courgettes brings out their sweetness, and givesthem tantalising, smoky notes, while smoked chillies lend even the freshest salad some attitude. Happy days.

Energy price cap rise ‘will push millions in Great Britain into fuel poverty’

Typical bill will surge by £220 a year from Wednesday, forcing 13.5m homes to spend over 10% of income on fuel

Millions of households in Great Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty after months of volatility on the global gas markets as energy bills rise by more than £220 a year under the government’s price cap from Wednesday.

As the cap on gas and electricity rates rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year, the number of households forced to spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills will increase to 13.5m from almost 11.3m in April, according to fuel poverty campaigners.

Academy school leaders in England face pay cap to curb ‘banker-style’ salaries

Nearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, and at least one more than £500,000

The era of academy school leaders in England receiving “banker-style salaries” and hefty annual increases may soon be over, with the government to introduce limits on executive pay.

Nearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, with pay in academy trusts equating to anything from less than £5 a pupil to more than £150. Only a quarter of the high-earners were women.

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary

Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver district

The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.

The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup schedule and how to watch

With 104 World Cup games being played in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, it's like "a Super Bowl every single day for five weeks," U.S. team captain Tim Ream told CBS News.

Mexico end World Cup knockout drought with last-32 win over Ecuador in Azteca cauldron

They were held up by an electric storm but, after the skies had cleared, Mexico kept the lightning bolts coming. This was a climactic night that utterly engulfed the senses and its ramifications will be far reaching. El Tri have broken a hex that had nagged and gnawed at the nation’s football psyche across four decades, winning a World Cup knockout game for the first time since 1986, and the head turner will be the manner in which it happened. Javier Aguirre’s players cut Ecuador apart in a stunning first-half performance and, on this evidence, woe betide whoever runs into them next.

As it happens that will be England if they overcome the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The last-16 tie will take place on Sunday; it will be the last of this summer’s matches to take place in Mexico, whose co-hosting has felt dwarfed by the behemoth further north. So what a thrill that the Azteca, with all its majesty and mystery, delivered an occasion of genuinely epic quality here. The atmosphere roared, rocked and pulsated throughout. It was an evening that should, for a few days at least, shift the tournament’s focus to a hotbed that sits apart from the self-imposed sterility elsewhere.

Some question why young women should climb mountains but hiking gives me freedom | Mohsina Gufran

Although trekking is unusual for young women in Kashmir, I find strength and enjoy independence when I’m out in nature with my friends

Before sunrise, my two closest friends and I pack water bottles, food and biscuits into our backpacks. We put on whatever shoes we have, pull our hijabs tightly against the cold wind, and leave for the mountains above our village in Kargil, in Ladakh – part of Indian-administered Kashmir.

The things we usually hear on the trail are birdsong, flowing water and our own laughter echoing through the mountains.

‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo

Birds of War is an award-winning docudrama in which its own directors fall in love while reporting the horrors in Syria. They explain why they needed a psychotherapist to complete it

The air is thick with smoke and dust, the ground littered with the twisted remains of burning vehicles. Children scream and sirens blare as activist and videographer Abd Alkader Habak rushes to help the injured after the bombing of an evacuee convoy in Aleppo at the height of Syria’s civil war in 2017. A voice note bubble pops up on Habak’s phone screen. “My bird are you OK?” says BBC journalist Janay Boulos. “Get away from there, run.”

For more than a year, Habak and Boulos have been working to document Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s atrocities against his own people, their connection deepening all the time despite the physical distance. But this exchange represents the moment the pair’s relationship shifts from colleagues to something more. “I don’t want footage,” Boulos says, fear clearly detectable in her voice as she tries to follow things from her desk in London. “I don’t want anything, just please take care. I am here whenever you want to talk.”

‘There are holes in England’: DR Congo ready to produce World Cup shock | Ed Aarons

Former DRC defender Gabriel Zakuani is better placed than most to have a view on Wednesday’s game, and feels it won’t be as straightforward as some think

It took Gabriel Zakuani less than five seconds to turn down an offer to co-commentate on the showdown between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and England in the last 32 of the World Cup. The former Peterborough and Leyton Orient defender and Leopards’ captain has been a regular on BBC Radio 5 Live during the tournament but simply could not face the prospect of having to work during the biggest match in their history.

“I was down to do the England game, but I just said: ‘There’s too much emotion in it. I won’t be able to do it,’” he says.

‘Fine for others to pay more’: can Japan attract more overseas tourists while charging them extra?

Japan has ambitious targets to increase overseas visitor numbers, but there are growing concerns about overtourism. One possible answer is two-tier pricing

Perched dramatically on a hilltop in western Japan, Himeji castle’s striking white-plastered, tiered roofs earned it the moniker “white heron castle”. The sweeping 17th-century complex is regarded as the finest existing samurai fortress, and attracts more than one and a half million visitors a year.

But as Japan seeks to manage greater numbers of foreign tourists, Himeji is one of the attractions raising admission prices for non-residents. The World Heritage site increased its admission fee to 2,500 yen ($15.50) on 1 March, but left the price for those who live in Himeji city at 1,000 yen ($6.20).

Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

Temperatures on the ocean surface have hit a record high, raising fears of another burst of extreme heat this summer.

On 21 June, temperatures outside the polar regions exceeded the extraordinary highs observed at the same time in 2023 and 2024, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.

Millions of Americans could experience hottest July 4th ever

Extremely dangerous heat, coupled with humidity, could result in heat index readings of 100 to 115 degrees from the Midwest to the East Coast, forecasters said.

Kylian Mbappé at the double as France swat aside Sweden in World Cup masterclass

When people form memories of the World Cup, it’s matches like this that do it. France once again won comprehensively, and against decent opposition, but the quality of their attacking play, and the sheer beauty of their goals, were difficult to fully appreciate in the moment. It’s the sort of thing that only comes into true focus upon reflection.

Kylian Mbappé drew alongside Lionel Messi in the race for the golden boot here with another brace of unerring finishes. Michael Olise should have had a hat-trick but made do with two assists and a virtuoso performance that left jaws across the floor of the New York-New Jersey stadium. At this point it is very hard to see beyond Didier Deschamps’ men, and there is equally the sense that there is more to come.

Details emerge of Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding events at MSG

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding plans include a rehearsal dinner and a late-night celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York City, according to sources familiar with the security planning.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce plan to host 2 events at Madison Square Garden, sources say

While there's still no official word from Taylor Swift or Travis Kelce on their wedding, some law enforcement sources are talking details. Jo Ling Kent has more from Madison Square Garden.

Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows

President’s crypto ventures have eclipsed in revenue much of his property portfolio that took decades to accumulate

Donald Trump raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released on Tuesday shows, giving a substantial boost to his annual income.

In his second term, the president and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”. Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real estate and royalty deals.

Aspen Acres Fire burns dozens of homes in southern Colorado

The Aspen Acres Fire has destroyed 55 homes in Custer County and more than 100 structures in Pueblo County.

How elementary schoolers are celebrating America 250

Tony Dokoupil visited an elementary school in New Jersey where students celebrated the country's 250th birthday with some historical figures.

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's order

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

Maps show heat dome forecast to scorch major U.S. cities this week

A heat wave will blast much of the eastern U.S. this week, and forecasters say temperatures will feel even hotter because of the high humidity that's arriving with it.

Supreme Court upholds state transgender athlete bans in girls' and women's sports

The Supreme Court upheld state laws from West Virginia and Idaho that restricted participation by transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports.

Trump makes millions off of Trump meme coins, financial disclosure reveals

President Trump's annual financial disclosure report showed he made more than a billion dollars in cryptocurrency last year, including hundreds of millions from selling Trump meme coins. Weijia Jiang reports.

Trump calls Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling "too bad," asks Congress to intervene

The Supreme Court gutted one of President Trump's signature policies, rejecting his effort to end birthright citizenship. Jan Crawford has more details.

Extreme heat settling over U.S. heading into July 4

A heat wave is affecting more than 200 million people across large parts of the U.S. this week and is forecast to persist through July 4. Tom Hanson reports and Rob Marciano has the forecast.

States can ban transgender participation in girls and women's sports, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court justices weighed in on whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing in female school and college sports. Jan Crawford has more.

Pakistan roof collapse kills 14 children at tutoring centre

Local officials said preliminary reports showed the centre was unregistered and operating inside a privately owned residential building

Fourteen children died after ⁠the roof of a tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of ⁠Lahore on Tuesday, ⁠rescue ​officials have said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence ⁠investigation.

Punjab’s emergency service said rescuers found children and a 30-year-old female teacher ⁠under the rubble of the private after-school facility. The ​children killed were aged ‌five to ‌16 with most below nine.

Age-defying pro-athletes amaze fans, inspire generations

Forty is not what it used to be, at least not if you're a professional athlete. 44-year-old Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon, albeit losing to a 20-year-old. 41-year-old LeBron James just announced he'll be playing another year, though leaving the Lakers. Mark Strassmann has the story.

Tennis has moved on but Serena devotion at sporting vigil is still at a high | Jonathan Liew

Williams’s comeback at Wimbledon elicits disbelief and reverence among fans during her defeat by Maya Joint

The shapes and the silhouettes are the same. The movements are effortlessly familiar. The way she gathers the ball before she serves: not so much bouncing it as toying with it, batting it around her ankles, as if considering what an appropriate punishment might be. All this is as it ever was, like the words of a song you know by heart. So why does it still feel so strange?

It is a little before half past seven on a warm Wimbledon night when Serena Williams comes back from the dead. And no, this is not literally true (although she has cheated death more than once), but not a million miles away from what it feels like. Some spectators have brought old photos of her, and are holding them up as she walks on to court, like mourners at a vigil. As if they’ve managed to summon her through the force of their collective devotion.

Trump says Council of Economic Advisers head Pierre Yared is leaving

The Council of Economic Advisers has provided the president with information and advice on both domestic and international economic policy since 1946.

Record chip rally adds $2 trillion in combined value to Micron, Intel and AMD in second quarter

Wall Street poured into chipmakers not named Nvidia in the second quarter, as the artificial intelligence boom expanded to include more suppliers.

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President Trump calls Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling "too bad"; extreme heat settling over U.S. heading into July Fourth.

House GOP agenda stalls over holdouts' insistence on SAVE America Act

The holdouts blocked Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to merge the SAVE America Act with the annual defense policy bill before sending it over to the Senate.

Jamaican delegation to travel to UK to lodge formal slavery reparations petition with King Charles

Visit to monarch planned for 6 September and will take Jamaica’s mission for reparatory justice to the ‘next level’

Jamaican officials will travel to the UK in September to formally lodge an unprecedented petition with King Charles to seek legal guidance on their slavery reparations claim from Britain, the country’s government announced on Tuesday.

Speaking in the parliament of the Caribbean nation, Olivia Grange, the culture minister, confirmed that the trip was planned for 6 September, and was intended to take Jamaica’s mission for reparatory justice to the next level.

This number helps explain why many Americans are down on the economy

American workers' share of the nation's income is at its lowest point in almost 80 years, as more of the economy's gains flow to corporations and investors.

New student loan rules take effect July 1. Here's what to know.

Loan revamp affects how much students and families can borrow to pay for college, as well as their repayment options.

Ronald Koeman resigns as Netherlands head coach after World Cup loss to Morocco

• ‘We fell short. Responsibility rests with me’ he says

• Netherlands players subject to online racist abuse

Ronald Koeman has resigned in the wake of the Netherlands’ last-32 defeat by Morocco on Monday.

“Last night I took the decision to end my stint as head coach of the Dutch national team,” Koeman said in a statement on Instagram. “We all shared the dream of making history at this World Cup, but we fell short. No one is more disappointed by that than I am. As head coach, the responsibility ultimately rests with me”.

US and European diplomats continue standoff over top Bosnia and Herzegovina post

European powers resist Trump administration’s pick for high representative after incumbent pushed out

Diplomats from the US and Europe have been unable to resolve their differences and agree on a new top international envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a standoff which has become a transatlantic test of wills over influence in the Balkans.

A meeting in Sarajevo to select a new high representative, a post with far-reaching powers, ended without a compromise, in a spat that has undermined western cohesion in the region in the Trump era.

6/30: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, transgender athlete bans; Democratic Socialists of America to be tested in Colorado primary.

Toddler rescued from rubble six days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes

The boy, identified as Klieber Moran, was the only reported survivor found on the sixth day of the ongoing search

A child has been rescued from the rubble in Venezuela, six days since the country was hit by devastating twin earthquakes.

The boy, identified by the Reuters news agency as Klieber Moran, was rescued early on Tuesday, the only reported survivor on the sixth day of rescue efforts, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Patient being tested for Ebola virus at Glasgow hospital

Patient reported to have been admitted to the Queen Elizabeth university hospital in the early hours of Tuesday

A patient is being tested for the Ebola virus at a Glasgow hospital, the Press Association has reported.

It is understood the patient was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth university hospital in the early hours of Tuesday.

Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds

Poll finds use of AI tools for health advice is correlated with belief in vaccine falsehoods, such as shots causing autism

Adults in the US who frequently seek out health advice from artificial intelligence chatbots are more likely to believe myths about vaccines, according to a poll released on Tuesday by health research firm KFF.

The survey, which was conducted in May and polled a representative sample of 2,480 US adults, found that use of AI tools and chatbots correlated with belief in falsehoods such as vaccines causing autism or that the measles vaccine poses more danger than the corresponding virus. The connection remained while controlling for factors such as age, race, education and political partisanship.

Blue Origin pivots to redesigned launchpad after explosion in push to fly by end of 2026

Blue Origin won't be "rebuilding the same pad," and will instead adopt a configuration that was in development for a larger variant of its New Glenn rocket.

Private equity in youth sports draws bipartisan scrutiny in Congress

Democratic and Republican members of Congress expressed alarm at the trend of private equity investment in youth sports.

Zverev overcomes grass allergy and Blockx to advance to Wimbledon’s second round

• French Open winner beats Belgian 6-4, 6-7, 7-6, 7-6

• Zverev’s big serves breaks down tough opponent

Alexander Zverev’s serve is at once among the most potent and also the most perplexing weapons in tennis. When it is working as it should, which is about 98% of the time, the German feels all but unbreakable. And in whatever time is left, it can all fall apart.

Zverev, who was the No 3 seed last year, managed to succumb to Arthur Rinderknech in the first round, in a match that stretched to two days, despite hitting 76% of his first serves – the best strike-rate in the tournament – and winning all but three of 28 service games. “Dominant but defeated,” as Wimbledon’s statbot put it.

How the Supreme Court ruled on Trump's agenda this term

The court's decisions cemented Mr. Trump's authority over vast swathes of the government, while delivering significant setbacks to his agenda in other areas.

Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says

Sen. Mark Warner wants to create a federal registry of trusted AI agents and ensure autonomous bots operate like fiduciaries.

Erling Haaland fires Norway into last 16 with dramatic winner against Côte d’Ivoire

Decision vindicated. The Norway coach, Ståle Solbakken, had taken a major gamble in resting almost his entire side in the final group game against France, drawing stiff criticism, not least from those who had paid hundreds of dollars to witness a showdown between Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé. As Solbakken said, the decision would stand or fall on the result of this game.

Norway are in the last 16, players and fans celebrating with a communal Viking row led by Martin ­Ødegaard, and therefore his policy can be considered justified.

Crews unloading equipment outside MSG, fueling Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce wedding rumors

Crews were seen unloading covered equipment from trucks into Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, fueling rumors that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce could be holding their wedding there this weekend.

Egg producers reach federal and state settlement after price-fixing probe

Three U.S. egg producers will be required to provide 53 million eggs to food banks and to pay a $3.3 million financial penalty.

Cleveland Fed President Hammack says AI could fuel inflation, rate hikes may be necessary

"We've got inflation that's too high, and it's been too high for the past five years," Beth Hammack told CNBC's Sara Eisen.

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Candice Carty-Williams, Patrick Freyne and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

I just finished reading Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam. I absolutely adored this book, a fantastic combination of violence and vulnerability set on Manchester’s Curry Mile. I became completely attached to the three main boys, and I loved all of the perspective shifts to different characters throughout the book. I fully weeped at the end – it was an unexpected but completely understandable ending. 10/10, everyone should read this.

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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, blocks Trump order

President Donald Trump attended oral arguments in the case, underscoring his staunch opposition to granting automatic citizenship to many immigrants' babies.

Pope Leo pleads with ultra-conservative sect not to ordain own bishops

Pontiff warns that defiance by Society of Saint Pius X would be ‘schismatic act’

Pope Leo has made a last-ditch attempt to persuade a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics to abandon plans to ordain its own bishops without Vatican approval, calling the “schismatic act” a “sin of extreme gravity”.

The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), founded in the Swiss village of Ecône in 1970 to oppose liberalising reforms in the Catholic church, plans to ordain four new bishops at its seminary there on Wednesday.

American Airlines brings grab-and-go lounge to New York's JFK

American Airlines is opening a grab-and-go lounge at New York's JFK

The Guardian view on Colombia’s election: Trumpism has gone transnational | Editorial

A warning from Latin America about US money, platforms, data and paranoid politics should not be dismissed lightly

When Colombia’s leftwing presidential candidate, Iván Cepeda, conceded defeat last week, he did so with notable grace. His ally, the outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, was much less composed. In a series of social media posts, Mr Petro argued that Donald Trump had interfered in the contest that brought the far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella to power. The claim should not be taken as proof of a stolen election. But nor should it be dismissed as paranoia.

Mr Trump did publicly endorse Mr de la Espriella. His razor-thin win was in contrast to the scale of his alarmingly rightwing programme. He promises mega-prisons, a war on rebels, a shrunken state, renewed oil exploration, fracking and corporate tax cuts. This won’t be easy. Mr Petro’s Pacto Histórico is the largest party in the country’s congress. Unsurprisingly, Mr de la Espriella wants to govern through executive decree coupled with militarised state power. He aims to “disembowel” the left.

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Less than 40% of U.S. households can afford a starter home, study finds

The typical non-homeowner household earns about $7,000 less than what's needed to buy an entry-level home, according to LendingTree.

Matthews criticises ‘unfair’ funding after Australia crush West Indies to race into final

• Semi-final: Australia, 127-2, bt West Indies, 125-7, by 8 wkts

• ‘Our girls have to fight a lot to even be competing,’ says captain

The West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, criticised the “unfair” distribution of funding in global cricket after her team were beaten resoundingly by Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-finals.

Australia chased down their 126‑run target with eight wickets and seven overs to spare, after a 63-run partnership off 36 balls between Beth Mooney and Ash Gardner enabled Australia to win at a canter. The six‑time champions will face the winner of Thursday’s semi-final between England and South Africa in the final on Sunday. After another convincing performance, they will surely be huge favourites to take home a seventh title. West Indies, by contrast, have failed to win a single tournament in the past decade.

Six feared dead after ‘bizarre’ sinking of charter boat off Canadian coast

The vessel, thought to have been carrying 10 people, did not issue a mayday call before sinking in the strait of Georgia

Search teams in Canada have launched a recovery effort for six people believed to have drowned in a “bizarre” sinking of a fishing charter off the coast of Vancouver.

Police and rescue crews praised a couple who were passing in their yacht for making a critical mayday call and saving stranded passengers by pulling them onboard their craft.

David Clayton-Thomas obituary

Singer, songwriter and frontman of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears

It was thanks to the folk singer Judy Collins that David Clayton-Thomas, who has died aged 84, joined Blood, Sweat & Tears and helped to drive the band to the forefront of the exploding late 1960s rock scene. Clayton-Thomas, a singer and songwriter, had been performing in Toronto with his own groups, the Shays and the Bossmen, and had scored a hit with the latter band on the Canadian chart in 1966 with his anti-Vietnam war song Brain Washed.

Collins was a friend of the drummer Bobby Colomby, one of the founders of Blood, Sweat & Tears, and knew they had just lost their vocalist and keyboard player, Al Kooper. When she heard Clayton-Thomas sing at a gig in New York, she suggested him as a replacement, an inspired notion that helped to power Blood, Sweat & Tears into the big time.

‘They will attack me if I stay’: immigrants in South Africa flee for safety amid violence and anti-foreigner protests

More than 2,000 anti-foreigner protesters march through Durban city centre as the arbitrary deadline passes for undocumented migrants to leave the country

South Africa was holding its breath on Tuesday as mass anti-immigration protests were held across the country. They come after a weeks-long campaign against foreigners that has seen at least four killed and tens of thousands fleeing for safety.

In the coastal city of Durban, where violence had been expected, the streets were unusually quiet and shops were shuttered as tension hung thick in the air.

US supreme court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump agenda

Court rules against Trump administration on policy that people born in the United States are citizens

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The US supreme court has upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, affirming that nearly all people born on US soil are American citizens and rejecting a central pillar of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

The president had issued an executive order on the first day of his second term that sought to deny automatic citizenship to the children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said this order violated the 14th amendment of the US constitution.

Supreme Court takes up challenges to AR-15 bans

The Supreme Court agreed to take up challenges to so-called assault-weapons bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut.

I pushed myself too hard at the gym – and ended up in the hospital

Reckless exercise can lead to exertional rhabdomyolysis, a condition that has risen due to the popularity of high-intensity workouts

In January 2025, I attended my first bootcamp class.

I had spent the day hunched over my laptop, anxious and craving an intense workout that would dispel my worries. I booked the class at a nearby gym, and the five-star reviews promised the all-consuming exercise I wanted: “Militant style instructor, but very motivating,” read one. Another: “Hardest workout of my life; extremely rewarding.”

‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?

Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant

On first hearing, it is a position that sounds reasonable. “When our share of global emissions is less than 1%,” Rishi Sunak argued when he was the UK prime minister in 2023, “how can it be right that British citizens are now being told to sacrifice even more than others?”

Sunak is not the only world leader to have cited such figures while delaying cuts to pollution. In 2019, Scott Morrison, Australia’s then prime minister, used his country’s 1.3% of global emissions to reject any suggestion Australia was not “doing our bit” on climate breakdown. In July, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, pointed to his country’s 2% share of global emissions while supporting loopholes in European climate targets. A few months later the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, followed suit, flagging the EU’s 6% share.

Blake Lively files to receive $8m in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio

Attorneys slam ‘scorched-earth tactics’ from Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios over $400m countersuit against the actor

Blake Lively has filed for $8m in fees and costs that she says resulted from her battle against Justin Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios.

That figure is to cover the legal costs that Lively incurred from January to June 2025 in her fight against her director and co-star in the 2024 film It Ends With Us, as well as a petition for damages that was still pending when Lively v Baldoni was settled in May 2026.

Trump's massive defense budget, depleted war machine, spark U.S. state battle for business and jobs

Trump's huge defense budget request and a race to replenish weapons stocks while building hypersonic missiles lead to war between U.S. states for jobs.

Musical fruit or unsung hero? A beginner’s guide to cooking with beans

Long before becoming TikTok’s latest main character, food cultures around the world have been soaking and stewing beans to delicious effect. And yes, you can tone down the side-effects

For months, TikTok home cooks have been spilling the beans on the nutritional power of soaking and simmering pots of cannellini, borlotti and black beans. There are more than 13,000 TikTok videos under the hashtag #beantok, with cooks claiming the humble legumes have alleviated their anxiety, perimenopause and inflammation. Pair that with “fibremaxxing”, and the bean has found itself recast from back-of-the-pantry afterthought to wellness main character.

But for many cooks and chefs, none of this is new. Many beans we eat today are native to the Americas and arrived in Europe by the 16th century, and were so readily adopted into Mediterranean cooking that it’s now hard to imagine those cuisines without them. “The Tuscans are even known as ‘mangiafagioli’: bean eaters,” says food writer Emiko Davies, who points out that beans were once the everyday nutrition of a largely peasant population.

Medicare will start covering obesity drugs for the first time. Here's what patients should know

The move could unlock millions of new patients for Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and expand access to medications that were previously out of reach for seniors.

Spider-Man’s web of lies: what would actually happen if you were bitten by a radioactive spider?

Aside from perhaps a tingling in the nether regions, your newfound spidey abilities might leave you a lot worse for wear than the franchise would have us believe

This year, perhaps more than any other, is make or break for the MCU. Once such an unstoppable pop culture colossus that even Martin Scorsese had a take on them, superhero movies have spent the last half-decade wobbling dangerously. The recent commercial disappointment of DC’s Supergirl is a sign that the public is still fatigued from all the endless variations on a theme, and it is into this minefield that Marvel plans to release two huge movies in the coming months, in the form of Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Will these films succeed where previous MCU films have suffered? Perhaps not now that science has revealed that Spider-Man is a lie. A new press release from Glasgow’s Kelvinside Academy has revealed precisely what would happen if Spider-Man was a real person who actually existed, and it isn’t pretty.

Labour MPs tell Burnham to ignore ‘deluded’ calls for more North Sea drilling

Critics debunk economic claims as research finds Rosebank development would produce estimated 250m tonnes of CO2

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Scores of Labour MPs have urged the prospective prime minister Andy Burnham to rule out the “tin-eared” and “deluded” development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, which new research indicates would produce as much carbon dioxide as the UK does in 10 months.

Estimates seen by the Guardian show that Rosebank, which mainly contains oil, would produce about 250m tonnes of CO₂ over its lifetime. That is the equivalent of about 70% of the UK’s annual emissions.

Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers

Craig Gillespie’s far-out adventure is something of a quirky oddity compared to bigger blockbuster outings – so why is it failing to fly at the box office?

James Gunn’s Superman was the major make-or-break moment for DC’s latest cinematic reboot. And yet its follow-up may ultimately prove just as revealing, not least because it offers up a first real indication of the kind of universe Gunn intends to build once the novelty of the man of steel’s return has worn off. Will every chapter of the DCU be chained to the kind of world-saving spectacle we remember from the older Zack Snyder films? Or is there room for stranger, smaller stories to take place in the same shared reality?

With Supergirl, the answer appears to be yes. Craig Gillespie’s film heads in some unexpectedly far-out directions, makes one particularly bold change from its source material, Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s acclaimed comic Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and quietly suggests that DC’s greatest strength may lie not just in trying to out-Marvel Marvel. Here’s the lowdown for those who’ve seen it – and don’t forget to let us know your thoughts in the comments on how this affects Gunn’s wider universe.

Classroom nap and a looming wildfire: photos of the day – Tuesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Food you can rely on for a decent picnic | Kitchen aide

Scotch eggs, fresh baguettes, arancini and tinned fish are all dependable dishes that won’t hamper a feast at the park or beach

What failsafe dishes can I take to a picnic? They’re so often disappointing.
Alice, by email
Ah, picnics … Idyllic in theory, tricky in execution. We’re really talking about food that’s structurally sound (and therefore travels well), can be eaten alone (or with salad) and is comfortable when left to sit around for a bit, which is why the humble scotch egg is such a strong contender. “I’d definitely bring a plastic container full of those,” says Luke Larsson, head chef and co-owner of Khao Bird in Soho, London, who, perhaps unsurprisingly, favours a Thai-style version. “Ours start with a soft-boiled egg wrapped in sai oua sausagemeat, which is a northern Thai sausage packed with turmeric, chilli, herbs and aromatics,” he says. That’s then coated in panko breadcrumbs and deep-fried. “Leave to cool slightly before packing them up, so they stay crisp,” Larsson adds, and pack some chilli jam or nam jim for dipping.

“I’m a big believer that picnic food should feel nostalgic,” Larsson says. “Unfussy things that you actually want to eat on the grass with a drink in hand.” Which brings us nicely to the jambon beurre, a sandwich that’s often demolished by Manon Lagrève, author of La Saison, after a family bike ride in France. “It’s always an occasion to make a delicious sandwich,” she says, so “get the best baguette you can, ham from the butcher’s, then I like to add comté and a few cornichons. And don’t forget the salted butter.” Rather than messing about with constructing barriers to stop any moisture from soaking into the bread, Lagrève recommends packing all the elements individually, popping them in a cool bag and constructing the sandwiches on arrival: “That enhances the picnic vibe too.”

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Do you really, really love your job? Then you're not alone, according to surprising results from this survey

Those surveyed showed a 78.9% rate of workers who "reported feeling positive at the end of their shifts."