Qualcomm CEO says AI agents will replace apps — as chip giant works on 40 new AI-powered devices

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said he is bullish on smart glasses which could eventually become as big as the smartphone.

World Cup 2026: France enter fray; Iran feel ‘oppressed’; official cleared over gesture – live

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Iran 2-2 New Zealand: It was a heavy match for Iran’s players as they played out a 2-2 draw against New Zealand after a backdrop of strife in the buildup to their tournament. After the match, the Iran head coach Amir Ghalenoei hit out at Fifa and hinted at resentment toward the US government after being told they needed to leave Los Angeles immediately.

We’ve spent so much time commuting in the air. They didn’t even give us time to recover after the game today. They said we had to leave immediately. It’s very important for us to have time for recovery and yet we were asked to return to Tijuana and we are really troubled by that.

We do not know why they are returning us. I think it’s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us, decisions are made elsewhere, we were supposed to arrive two nights before the game and we were not permitted, we were supposed to stay tonight and return tomorrow lunchtime but I have no idea why, and they haven’t told us.

Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax isn’t far off Labour’s housing policy. Not that you’ll ever hear Starmer say it | Anna Minton

The UK has its own progressive policies such as the second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops?

In April, to mark the day on which Americans are expected to file their taxes, the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, filmed himself on Billionaires’ Row, an enclave of super-tall apartment buildings just south of Central Park. When he took office, he said, he would tax the rich, and now, outside the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238m penthouse, he was ready to make good on his pledge. “Today, we’re taxing the rich,” he said with a flamboyant smile, zooming his face into the camera. It was the opening to a short film unashamedly titled Happy Tax Day, New York.

He went into battle armed with stats. According to Mark Levine, NYC’s comptroller (a senior financial executive), the pied-à-terre tax on second homes will raise about $500m annually fromabout 11,200 properties.

Anna Minton is reader in architecture at the University of East London. Her new book, Superprime: The Sterilisation of the City, will be published by Penguin next year

Spanish households save €10 a month thanks to renewables expansion, report finds

Thinktank says decoupling electricity from gas prices has also helped shield Spain from hikes caused by Iran war

Spanish households save €10 a month on electricity bills because of wind turbines and solar panels installed in the last five years, a report has found.

Typical energy bills would be 19% more expensive if electricity costs were still as tightly coupled to gas prices as in 2021, according to Ember, a climate thinktank. It found Spain’s “strategic” expansion of renewables since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 has shielded Spanish households from the latest rises in fossil fuel prices caused by the Iran war.

40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper keeps favorite Spain to 0 goals at World Cup

Vozinha recorded seven saves Monday, holding Spain's star-studded lineup to a shocking 0-0 draw. The veteran keeper was everywhere as the Spanish team and its fans became increasingly frustrated.

AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data

The rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

New technology is enabling scientists to track how flowering times have shifted by weeks around the world, rapidly identify new specimens and even get crucial genetic data from 180-year-old fungus specimens, potentially opening a “genomic goldmine”. Digitisation and online access to millions of specimens that were until now only accessible in archives is also producing new insights, especially in the global south.

Free as a bird: the Mexicans redefining gender – in pictures

From gymnasts in kitten heels to lovers stalked by a devil, Pieter Henket’s dazzling portrait series, Birds of Mexico City, can feel like being in ‘a museum where the art comes alive’

From cool Marseille to a photo-feast in Arles – an art trail through Provence

The French cities of Marseille, Aix, Avignon and Arles boast a wealth of museums and festivals showing work by contemporary artists. Here’s how to make the most of a dazzling cultural summer

My wife and I moved from London to Marseille a little over five years ago when our British passports still conferred “right to reside” in France. That first winter on the beach, in short sleeves, as our daughters played in the topaz-coloured Mediterranean and the sun set across an ever-clear blue sky, I understood why this part of southern France has always been popular with artists.

I was recently speaking about this with the painter Fanny Nushka and her sailor husband, Benoît Bouchet, on the terrace of Café la Muse in Marseille’s “coolest” neighbourhood. She said: “It took a long time to go back to blue. It’s like being in Paris and painting the Eiffel Tower. It’s dangerous to paint the Calanques [limestone coves] as an artist from here.”

Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster

Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys

The last day of maternity leave, and an unnamed mother of two decides to stage a “yes day”, full of treats and good feelings. Of course it does not go according to plan: the treats are deficient, misjudged and underappreciated; the good feelings are fleeting, quickly upstaged by anxiety, guilt or humiliation. This familiar-sounding scenario is the simple yet bracing premise of Lisa Owens’s second novel, following her impressive first comic fiction of female-centred modernity, 2016’s Not Working.

The academic E Ann Kaplan once wrote that “motherhood is the major emotional experience of my adult life” – certainly a relatable observation, and reason enough why some writers may swerve going through the experience altogether. But when using it as narrative material, the aim is to render the cluttered yet lonely planet of motherhood in some new way, drawing on the energies of honesty and idiosyncrasy to frame a common, universal adventure as something singular and memorable.

UFC boss Dana White says 'never again' to another White House fight night

The headaches over weather concerns in the outdoors show, the logistics of construction of the cage and staging events at federal landmarks and the soaring cost made Freedom 250 a one-off.

G7 leaders open summit talks in France on Ukraine and the Middle East

The talks come on the heels of President Trump's announcement of an agreement to end the U.S. war against Iran. In recent weeks, the Iranian conflict has overshadowed the war in Ukraine.

New York Knicks owner James Dolan urged players to abstain from sex during title run

• Dolan invoked Spartans in surprise April speech

• Owner urged 10 weeks of sacrifice to win title

• Knicks won team’s first championship since 1973

The New York Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years may have been built on many things: Jalen Brunson’s brilliance, Mike Brown’s steady hand, a suffocating defense and a healthy roster when it mattered most.

According to much-maligned team owner James Dolan, it may also have required a little self-denial.

‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister Al Carns

Exclusive: Carns, who quit last week, says he was angered by unwillingness to confront sunk costs of legacy programmes

There is “unbelievable” waste and inefficiency at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the former armed forces minister Al Carns has said, adding that every time he would “turn a stone over” he would get another shock.

Carns said that during his time as a defence minister he had been angered by the unwillingness to confront the sunk costs of legacy programmes – and suggested mismanaged programmes such as tanks investment should be scrapped in favour of new technology.

EV prices in UK and EU not likely to dive due to Chinese rivalry, says Xpeng boss

Brian Gu says he sees Chinese car firms competing on quality rather than launching price war as at home

Motorists in the UK and EU should not expect a sharp drop in the cost of electric vehicles despite increased competition among Chinese manufacturers, one of the country’s biggest electric carmakers has said.

Brian Gu, the vice-chair of the manufacturer Xpeng, said that Chinese carmakers could compete on quality to win customers in the EU and UK, rather than unleashing a brutal price war as they have in China.

The old ‘warfare v welfare’ arguments are back – but it’s Britain’s real duty to spend on both | Frances Ryan

While we need protecting from foreign enemies, slashing benefits in favour of defence will make millions less, not more, safe

As the row over the military budget grows, Keir Starmer has spent much of the past few days insisting he’s spending huge sums of taxpayer money on defence. Every single government department has made cuts to fund next month’s defence investment plan (Dip), the prime minister promised, resulting in “the biggest sustained increase since the cold war”. On Sunday, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, told the BBC that cabinet ministers have been asked to look for further reductions to help fund defence.

Now squint and replace the word “defence” with “welfare”. Imagine Starmer – or any prime minister for that matter – boasting they’ve pinched cash from the NHS or schools to boost benefit payments. Indeed, swap “defence” for any sort of progressive cause – think housing, social care or net zero – and you’d be hard-pressed to picture a politician trying to save their career by pledging vast levels of spending, let alone if that spending was lifted from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist

Country diary: A revelation among the ‘clints and grikes’ of my limestone seat | Mark Cocker

Wharfedale, Yorkshire: On the trail of a wood warbler, I find a suite of woodland plants rising up from a fascinating land formation – limestone pavement

Grass Wood is a magnificent fragment of ancient woodland owned and exceptionally well managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It is home to some lovely plants including lily of the valley and herb paris. What became my defining revelation about the place and, in truth, about this whole area was down to a wood warbler.

It is among my favourite birds, so getting to see the individual singing just off the trail required me to enter the trees, rise up a short bank, and then sit for a long time on a rocky ledge. Slowly it dawned on me that the platform on which I rested, while carpeted in moss, was also incised into a tessellated pattern. From these narrow cracks in the limestone arose a suite of woodland plants. It was dense with ash seedlings, ferns and sedges, as well as linear thickets of dog’s mercury, but there – unmistakably where my hand rested – were strips of flowering herb paris.

Here are the District of Columbia's 2026 primary election results

Live election results: Get the latest on U.S. delegate and mayoral primary races in Washington, D.C.

‘I’m not a person who puts up with rudeness’: unpicking fantasy and reality with an Italian football ultra

I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out

I had heard the name Alessandro Casolari on and off for years. From 2016 onwards, when I was researching my book on Italy’s ultras – a cross between English football hooligans and Hells Angels – the nickname “Caso” kept coming up. In the late 80s and early 90s, he had led the ultras in Ferrara, whose football club is known as Spal.

A red-brick city in northern Italy between Bologna and Venice, Ferrara has always felt sidelined, languishing in a marshy land of fog and floods. I used to go there quite often, drawn by its festivals and famous writers and film directors. A few years ago, when I started writing another book, about the Po River, I hung out there again, but I never bumped into Caso.

Sweden votes to back laws reinforcing its immigration crackdown

So-called ‘good behaviour’ legislation fiercely criticised by opposition politicians and rights groups

Sweden’s parliament has voted to escalate the country’s crackdown on immigrant rights, backing laws that allow authorities to revoke residency permits based on a vague criteria of bad behaviour and obliging most public sector workers to report anyone suspected of being undocumented.

The new legislation comes ahead of parliamentary elections in September, pitting the centre-right government, which currently depends on the support of the far-right Sweden Democrats to govern, against a far right that has said its intent is to create one of Europe’s most hostile environments for non-Europeans.

Bleep tests, alcohol bans and Gazza: Italia 90 set the bar for England and sports science | Sean Ingle

Bobby Robson employed a head of human performance for the World Cup and, despite wariness, the players got on board

The eve of Italia 90. Gazza’s tears, England’s heartache, and the cascading emotions of a World Cup that sang and ultimately stung still lie ahead. For now, the sports scientist tasked with acclimatising Bobby Robson’s side to the Italian summer is using cutting-edge technology to assess each player’s fitness: a BBC microcomputer, a dot-matrix printer, and a few clunky Polar heart-rate monitors.

Some in the England setup initially regard Prof John Brewer, the Football Association’s first head of human performance, with suspicion. But after monitoring the squad with a bleep test at Lilleshall before they fly to Italy, again when they arrive, and for a third time after a fortnight’s training in the hottest part of the day, Brewer can prove to the players they have adapted to the heat, and can play their familiar high-tempo game.

From tents to trebles: Edinburgh book festival to set author’s words to music

Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, says director

This year’s Edinburgh book festival is expanding its slate of genre-busting musical events, including staging Japanese Noh theatre at one of the city’s oldest religious sites, Greyfriars Kirk.

Jenny Niven, the Edinburgh international book festival’s director, said such events broke away from the traditional formula of authors sitting in tents, and aimed to attract new audiences and celebrate literature’s interplay with other art forms.

Iran twice come from behind to claim draw in World Cup opener with New Zealand

During 101 minutes of action in Los Angeles, Iran were finally able to focus on football. The buildup, of course, had been unprecedented, messy and chaotic. But then, in the aftermath of an entertaining draw with New Zealand, Iran’s captain, Mehdi Taremi, described their World Cup as a “disaster”, explaining how Fifa president Gianni Infantino went into their dressing room to hear their concerns, and head coach Amir Ghalenoei labelled them the “most oppressed” team at the tournament after being forced to return to Mexico after the game.

A charter flight from LAX was scheduled for 11pm local time. It was a lively end to a relatively drama-free occasion, despite pre-match protests and an underlying anxiety around how the team would be greeted by their own supporters. What, really, were the emotions flowing through their veins as they took to the pitch? A few hours earlier Donald Trump, in France before the G7 summit, said a peace deal had been signed after almost four months of war. Infantino, who in effect recently admitted he is powerless to prevent the chaos that continues to plague Iran’s preparations and overshadow their participation, was up in the VIP seats.

Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

The closures, so employees can watch a recorded lecture, will cost the company an estimated 2.1bn won ($1.4m) in sales

Starbucks Korea will simultaneously close all its stores for a mandatory history lesson, after a disastrous promotion that evoked memories of a pro-democracy massacre sparked public and political backlash.

More than 2,000 stores will temporarily close at 3pm on 22 June, the company said, so staff can watch recorded lectures on modern Korean history and engage in “social sensitivity” training. The half-day closures will cost Starbucks an estimated 2.1bn won ($1.4m) in lost sales, according to data firm IGAWorks.

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.

‘Then the firing started’: the Soweto uprising remembered 50 years on

16 June 1976 is not just another chapter in the history books, nor is its aftermath and legacy, say those who took part and their families

The day of 16 June 1976 began peacefully in Soweto. Student leaders at high schools across the sprawling Johannesburg township, to which the apartheid regime had exiled hundreds of thousands of black South Africans, took charge of the morning assemblies. They led their fellow students into the streets and began to march toward Orlando stadium.

The students were protesting against the government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Their teachers barely spoke the white minority language and the students did not want to learn the oppressor’s language. They were tired of the intentionally substandard Bantu education, tired of being second-class citizens.

American doctor who recovered from Ebola back in U.S., says he's "feeling well"

Dr. Peter Stafford, his wife, Rebekah Stafford, and their four children all arrived safely on Monday, according to Serge, a Pennsylvania-based Christian missions organization.

6/15: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Details still slim on U.S.-Iran deal; California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Justice Department is investigating him and his wife.

8 dead in B-52 bomber crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California, officials say

The aircraft was on a routine test mission at Edwards airfield, located in the western Mojave Desert, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base

B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California’s Mojave Desert, officials say

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Eight people are presumed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday morning at a US air force base in California’s Mojave Desert, officials said.

“An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after take-off at 11:20 a.m,” Edwards air force base said in a statement Monday afternoon. “Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable. Emergency response personnel are on scene, and officials are working to account for all personnel.”

Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv’s allies push for peace at G7 summit in France

Leaders urge Donald Trump to stand behind Ukraine and pressure Putin to negotiate; Russia allows sale of substandard fuel amid supply crisis. What we know on day 1,574

World leaders were lining up in support of Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the G7 summit began in France. Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, vowed to “choke off” Russian revenue with further sanctions, writes Alexandra Topping, and to provide hundreds of millions of pounds worth of energy support for Ukraine including enriched uranium for its nuclear power plants.

Summit host Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said as he prepared to meet with Donald Trump that he wanted the US to say “we are with you, we will continue to support Ukraine, and we will increase the pressure on Russia to achieve a meaningful negotiation … The right negotiation is one in which Ukraine and Russia are at the table, but with Europeans and Americans present as well.”

Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, expressed hope that “for the first time, a window can open for diplomacy” on ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported. He added that he wanted to discuss this further with Trump. The US president, who arrived for the summit on Monday, said: “We had a very good conversation yesterday with President Zelenskyy and President Putin, and I think maybe we can do something there. I really do. I think they’re both open to it.”

A drone set fire to ⁠an oil depot in the Poltavskaya area of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said ⁠on Tuesday morning. The regional officials said they ‌closed a local road leading to the bridge across the Kerch strait linking Crimea to the Krasnodar region. On Monday, Ukraine hit two bridges connecting the Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Kherson region with Crimea. In the Krasnodar region itself, ​a popular ‌summer tourist destination, ​disruptions to ​fuel supplies have triggered panic-buying, the regional governor said last week.

A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber plane ⁠of the type used to attack Ukraine crashed on Monday in Siberia’s Irkutsk region during a training flight, the Russian defence ⁠ministry said. The ⁠aircraft’s ​four-person crew ejected safely, the ministry said. The bombers are used to fire cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two Russian drones “deliberately” targeted Kyiv’s monastery quarter in a mass overnight barrage that set the Unesco-listed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra site ablaze and killed 11 across the country. ⁠Amid a chorus of international condemnation, Zelenskyy described the cathedral attack as “one of Russia’s most serious crimes ​against Christian culture to date” and urged G7 leaders meeting in France on Monday to take “decisive and substantive” action against Moscow. “More pressure on the aggressor and more support for Ukraine’s air defence, especially anti-ballistic capabilities,” the Ukrainian president said.

Sri Lanka sees ‘alarming’ rise in cybercrime as scam networks relocate from south-east Asia

Experts say criminal networks favour Sri Lanka due to ease of getting tourist visas and limited regulation on sim cards and internet connections

Experts have warned that Sri Lanka is emerging as a hub for transnational cybercrime, after a crackdown in south-east Asia pushed Chinese-run criminal networks to relocate their vast scam operations.

Sri Lankan police spokesperson Fredrick Wootler said the country was witnessing an “alarming increase of cybercrimes” perpetrated by people entering the country as tourists, and then illegally setting up scam operations targeting people across the world.

Teen accused of killing stepsister on cruise to be jailed pending trial

The teen was initially released pending trial after being charged as a juvenile, but after he was charged as an adult, a judge ruled he was no longer subject to rules regarding juvenile detention.

Cellphone fire on flight "scorched" cabin before landing in Las Vegas

The Federal Aviation Administration said British Airways Flight 271 landed safely at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after the crew reported a cellphone fire on board.

Iran makes its debut at 2026 World Cup amid war, visa restrictions

Iran will kick off its first match of the 2026 World Cup on Monday night against New Zealand. Nicole Valdes reports.

Newsom says Justice Department is investigating him and his wife

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said the Justice Department is investigating he and his wife, Jennifer.

Severe storms trigger flash floods across Texas

Storms have dropped heavy rain across much of Texas in recent days, but the flood risk is only beginning. Jason Allen reports and Rob Marciano has a look at the forecast.

Former ICE leader lands new job consulting on national security and defense

Because of his former job, Todd Lyons cannot engage with the Department of Homeland Security for a year, per federal law.

No comment from DOJ after Newsom says he's under investigation

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the Justice Department is investigating him and his wife. Robert Costa reports.

8 believed dead in B-52 crash at California's Edwards Air Force Base

A B-52 with eight people on board crashed Monday after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Carter Evans reports.

Nvidia plans to raise at least $20 billion in its first debt sale since start of AI boom

Nvidia is set to raise capital in a debt sale for the first time since 2021, when the chipmaker was a fraction of its current size.

Bonnie Tyler out of coma but remains in intensive care in Portugal

Welsh singer, best known for 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, had emergency intestinal surgery in May

Welsh pop star Bonnie Tyler is no longer in a coma but remains “very unwell” in intensive care at a hospital near her home in Faro, Portugal.

The 75-year-old singer received emergency intestinal surgery in May and was placed in an induced coma to aid her recovery.

Mitch McConnell admitted to the hospital, spokesperson says

Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the Republican confirmed to CBS News.

6/15: CBS Evening News

8 believed dead in B-52 crash at California's Edwards Air Force Base; Gov. Gavin Newsom says he's under federal investigation.

Leicester appoint Russell Martin as Wolves unveil César Peixoto as coach

• Martin joins Leicester after relegation to League One

• Ex-Gil Vicente coach Peixoto replaces Rob Edwards

Leicester have confirmed Russell Martin’s appointment as manager, on the same day as Wolves unveiled César Peixoto as head coach, replacing Rob Edwards.

The two Midlands clubs were relegated from the Championship and the Premier League respectively last season and have moved quickly to restructure their setup, with Martin joining Leicester eight months after his nightmare 123-day stint in charge of Rangers came to an end.

Starmer vows new sanctions on Russia and nuclear energy support for Ukraine

G7 told ‘we will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes’, with Russia’s finance networks and shadow fleet targeted

Keir Starmer has vowed to “choke off” Russian revenue with further sanctions and to provide hundreds of millions of pounds worth of energy support for Ukraine, as he met world leaders in France for the G7.

After a torrid political week at home, the British prime minister sought to put himself on the front foot on the international stage at the meeting of the group of seven, which kicked off on Monday in the French spa town of Évian-les-Bains, on the shore of Lake Geneva.

Cape Verde’s Vozinha in tears as cost of visa stopped mother being at Spain draw

• Keeper named player of the match against Euro winners

• ‘I have worked my whole life for this moment,’ he says

Vozinha, the 40-year-old goalkeeper who was named player of the match after making seven saves in his side’s 0-0 draw against Spain, was in tears at full time. The mother of Cape Verde’s World Cup hero was not there to see history made because she could not afford the visa to the US.

The goalkeeper described the game as the moment he had been working towards his “entire life” and said he wished he could have shared the moment with his late grandparents and his mother.

Second Dan Sullivan ineligible for ballot in Alaska Senate race, official rules

An election official ruled a candidate with the same name as Sen. Dan Sullivan was involved in a "determined effort and a deliberate attempt" to confuse Alaska voters.

OnlyFans: Inside the Machine review – monumentally grim and unsexy TV

Amber Haque’s preposterously bleak film shows how hordes of men have turned the ethical answer to sex work into a sleazy nightmare – and how big tech is turning a blind eye. Sound familiar?

In the grounds of a huge house in Manchester, dozens of dejected-looking young men and women – none of them fully dressed – mill around supercars they do not own. Nearby, a young woman with a faraway stare touches her lips in a rough facsimile of sexual availability. Inside, a Twister board lurks next to a pile of discarded clothes.

The whole setup is preposterously depressing, a kind of Requiem for a Dream for the modern-day influencer, but it turns out that the whole thing was designed as a content day for OnlyFans models – a way for them to spiral through outfits and locations and poses at speed for content they can dole out to subscribers over the coming months. Done right, it will make them rich.

Centene to offer buyouts to some employees as health insurer cuts costs

The health insurer Centene did not indicate to how many employees were offered buyouts or how much it is aiming to reduce its workforce.

Oil prices sink, stocks soar after Trump announces deal with Iran

Markets rally on expectations that the agreement will ease global energy supply concerns, though analysts warn gas prices may remain elevated for some time.

Gavin Newsom says Trump ordered DOJ to investigate him and his wife

California Gov. Newsom called President Donald Trump "simply the most corrupt President in American history."

Gavin Newsom says Trump directed DoJ to investigate him and his wife

California governor says Trump is ‘coming after me because I am considering running for president’

Gavin Newsom said on Monday that Donald Trump directed the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate him and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

The California governor said in a video statement that federal agents had knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees in recent days as part of an effort to find a crime, demanding records and “abusing the grand jury process”.

Eric Trump denies cheating allegations over White House UFC fights

President’s son says screenshots that appeared to show him asking analyst Daniel Cormier for information were ‘fake’

Eric Trump has denied cheating allegations after screenshots shared online appeared to show UFC commentator Daniel Cormier receiving a message from an account under Trump’s name asking whether any of the White House’s UFC fights on Sunday would be rigged.

Several screenshots posted – and then later deleted – on Cormier’s X account showed alleged messages from Donald Trump’s 42-year old son that said: “Anything you can tell me about the fighters tomorrow? Who you got winning?”

Trump trusts Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. It matters for more than interest rates

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is expected to hold interest rates steady this week, but President Donald Trump’s trust gives him room to pursue longer-term changes.

Invasion of the Parakeets review – are we really waging class warfare with birds now?

In this passionate documentary, Chris Packham looks at the notorious nature invaders – and whether we should love or loathe those flashes of neon green in our skies

’Twas a grim February teatime in West Wickham, south London, when I saw my first parakeet. About six of them, in fact. I looked up from doing the dishes, through the window overlooking the garden, and there they were, where no medium-sized members of the genus Psittacula should be. Half a dozen slashes of the most vivid green imaginable against the brown bleakness of late winter in suburbia. Wholly improbable, wholly mesmerising, wholly wonderful. This was 25 years ago and I’ve been a fan ever since.

They have become a far more common sight since then, of course, as the title of Chris Packham’s latest documentary, Invasion of the Parakeets, suggests. There are now an estimated 15,000 pairs in the UK – the largest population in Europe.

Trump declares US-Iran peace deal ‘all signed’ as G7 leaders battle to tie up loose ends

US president says strait of Hormuz will be open from Friday but questions remain over waterway fees and Israeli breaches of ceasefire in Lebanon

• Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran

Donald Trump has declared that the strait of Hormuz will be “completely open” from Friday, as western leaders gathering at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains battled to prevent the fragile US deal with Iran from almost immediately unravelling.

“The deal’s all signed. And the strait ⁠is already partially opened,” Trump said as he arrived at the summit in France, but Israeli breaches of the ceasefire in Lebanon and Iran’s claims about its right to charge fees in the crucial waterway revealed the agreement’s many loose ends.

Canada eliminates human rights watchdog that oversees companies operating abroad

Mark Carney says Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise office hasn’t been ‘effective’ since its 2019 setup

Canada is eliminating a watchdog that investigates alleged human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad, after Mark Carney said the office hadn’t been “effective” since it was set up in 2019.

The move comes as Canada faces criticism from Donald Trump’s administration over its “unacceptable” efforts to combat forced labour.

Italian police dismantle illicit bank used by drug traffickers as global broker

Clandestine operation run by Chinese national in Prato moved €80-100m a year through intermediaries

Italian police have dismantled an underground bank used by drug traffickers through which several hundred million euros are believed to have moved over at least three years.

The clandestine bank, whose logistical base was located in Prato, north-west of Florence, has been run since 2021 by a Chinese national, officials said.

Trump in G7 summit in France as he touts signing of Iran memorandum

President Trump is in France for the annual G7 summit, as the world awaits a signing of a deal with Iran.

Why a cosmetics empire co-founder became a Catholic priest

Scott Vincent Borba was an accomplished business leader, making millions after he co-founded e.l.f. Cosmetics. Then he left everything behind to become a Catholic priest.

UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban

No 10 is worried about retaliation from White House over restrictions to under-16s’ internet use

Ministers have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban announced by Keir Starmer.

Officials said they have spent weeks trying to reassure senior Trump officials and the US president himself that the restrictions were not specifically aimed at US technology companies.

Inspirational Stokes is a great captain – he isn’t perfect and isn’t expected to be | Mark Ramprakash

England Test captain has a lot of credit in the bank and if he comes back hopefully everyone has the compassion to move past his curfew breach

The first Test against New Zealand seemed to be played in fast forward, and since England sealed victory on day four at Lord’s the cricket world has just carried on in the same vein. An often wild match ending with the MCC rushing out a statement reacting to criticism of the pitch would be one of the more memorable events of an ordinary summer, but this time it was practically forgotten within 48 hours.

Celebrating England players threw the England and Wales Cricket Board into crisis, and the week between Tests ended up being so unusual that the shock retirement of one of the great players of the past two decades almost went unnoticed. Ten days ago it looked like England had hit upon a lineup that could stay pretty settled through the summer. Now they have made at least four changes for their next game.

Extreme athlete known for performance with Madonna dies in Base jumping accident in Utah

Andy Lewis, also known for slacklining and tricklining, and an unidentified man were killed in accident in Utah canyon

A weekend Base jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.

The sheriff’s office in Grand county, Utah, confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in Base jumping, a dangerous sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object such as a building, a bridge or a desert cliff overlooking a deep canyon.

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue

There are real concerns about how a social media ban for under-16s will work. But tighter rules could be a step towards a better internet for everyone

There is a long way to go before children under 16 in the UK are blocked from the main social media platforms – as Sir Keir Starmer announced on Monday that they will be. He proposed a date of next spring, although whether, and when, a ban comes in may be up to an eventual successor.

But whatever happens next, a crunch moment has arrived sooner than expected. Until recently, it seemed highly unlikely that the government would seek to restrict the tech industry’s access to children in the way it is now doing. Eighteen months ago, ministers sided with Ofcom in a row over the implementation of the Online Safety Act. Groups including 5Rights argued that companies should be made accountable for harm reduction, as well as obliged to follow new rules. For a mixture of economic and political reasons, the government seemed determined to stay on the right side of big tech and Donald Trump. Its approach was timid.

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Iran deal: a pause is not a triumph | Editorial

The US-Iran ceasefire is welcome. But the US president is trying to disguise a failed war of choice as a diplomatic victory

The US-Iran agreement to halt fighting for 60 days is welcome, because even cynical diplomacy is better than war. But Donald Trump should not be allowed to call this a triumph. He has bought a pause after an illegal war of choice that failed to secure its declared aims, devastated Iran, destabilised Lebanon and sent shocks through energy and fertiliser markets, leaving many people poorer and hungrier. A campaign launched to display US military strength is likely instead to be remembered for demonstrating its limits.

A deal with Iran is better than war with Iran. But the US president is hailing as victory the partial easing of a crisis that he, and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, helped create. The measure of success will not be the reopening of the strait of Hormuz, which war had closed, but whether the next two months produce a verifiable nuclear settlement and put out the flames fanned by the US-Israel attacks.

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11 skydivers and pilot killed in plane crash near Kansas City

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the fatal crash occurred near the Butler Memorial Airport, about 60 miles south of Kansas City.

Vance denies that Iran will receive "billions of dollars of assets" in deal

Vice President JD Vance denied that Iran will receive "billions of dollars of assets" as part of the U.S.-Iran deal that was announced Sunday and is set to be signed later this week.

Crystal Palace confirm Pierre Sage as head coach and plan to back him on transfers

• Sage joins after winning Coupe de France with Lens

• ‘We come here with a lot of ambition,’ Sage says

Crystal Palace are determined to hold on to their best players this summer after confirming the appointment of Pierre Sage as their manager, with the Frenchman to be backed in the transfer market to prepare for their Europa League campaign.

Sage has signed a three-year contract to replace Oliver Glasner, having led Lens to second place in Ligue 1 last season and won the French Cup. He emerged as Palace’s preferred candidate after they missed out on Andoni Iraola and it is understood that the 47-year-old’s preference to play a 3-4-2-1 system was a key factor in his appointment.

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim dies aged 91

The accomplished musician, who recorded over 70 albums in his career, died peacefully in Germany after a short illness

The South African jazz composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91.

His family announced his death in a statement released on Monday.

Skydivers on plane that crashed "didn't have time to jump," witness says

Eleven skydivers and the pilot were killed in a plane crash in Missouri shortly after takeoff on Sunday.

Electricity costs expected to hit record this summer, new analysis finds

A new analysis projects how much Americans will pay for electricity from June to September, depending on their state of residence.

John Oliver on the Makerfield byelection: ‘Labour may never recover from the humiliation if they lose’

The host focused on the political ‘circus’ in the northern UK town as Labour’s Andy Burnham faces Reform

On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host focused on the upcoming UK byelections and the decisive role that Makerfield could play in the race.

As a relatively small area between Manchester and Liverpool in northern England, it’s rare that Makerfield is in the global spotlight – with the exception of the Wallace and Gromit films (the animated comedy duo live in the area’s town of Wigan).

Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully | Zoe Williams

We over-50s should worry less about our crepe necks and sunspots and more about our listening skills – and the pettiness we bring to social media

When I was young, there was a huge list of things you shouldn’t do, or specifically wear, over the age of 30; there were fewer explicit rules about what you should and shouldn’t wear over the age of 50, but they were all implied by the fact that it was 20 years since you’d been 30. Then someone lampooned the whole business – it was strikingly memorable but, teeth-gnashingly, not memorable enough that I can remember who it was – with a definitive list of Never Wear This Over 30, which included “a necklace made of ears”. The entire discourse was buried that day, and I never thought about it again, until the weekend, when I was walking up some stairs with a mirror all the way up. That, I could not help but notice, is a very 90s walking style.

I guess we all learned it from Bez out of Happy Mondays, the man specifically employed (if you would use such a LinkedIn word for it) to bring happiness to the nation with his physical joie de vivre: leading with the shoulders, as if you’re in a ferocious hurry to get to the front of somewhere, with your neck hunched in to bypass the attention of the authorities because of all the drugs you are about to either sell or buy, the rest of your body an afterthought.

Soccer Edition: Watch World Cup highlights from across the NPR Network

The 2026 World Cup is playing out in communities across the country. Journalists from NPR and its member stations are in your city — capturing the excitement and asking the important questions.

Midlife is the perfect time to start trail running – here’s how to get into it

An increasing number of people are finding trail running relatively late in life – and they’re reaping the health benefits

Earlier this year, 62-year-old Karla Wagner placed second in the 100-mile division of the Grandmaster Ultras, an Arizona trail-running event designed for 50-and-over runners in the age group known as “grandmaster”.

For most of her adult life, Wagner, who is from Lander, Wyoming, avoided running because it triggered her asthma. But when asthma meds improved, she added trail running to her fitness mix and became completely hooked in her early fifties.

Hundreds of U.S. cities now have starter homes that cost $1 million

The number of metropolitan areas around the country with basic homes worth at least $1 million has tripled since 2020.

As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: 'America has to grow up'

In America, U.S.A., Princeton historian Eddie Glaude Jr. looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. "The divided soul of the nation is in full view," he says.

Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal

Fox said it will buy Roku for $160 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that it expects to complete in the first half of 2027.

‘She’d consumed a kilo of sand’: 11 Guardian readers on the weirdest things their dogs have ever eaten

Never mind leftovers – some dogs will eat anything, from electrics to wasps’ nests. We asked you to tell us about your pets’ most radical experiments in off-menu dining

I adopted my brother’s middle-aged westie, Maggie. She did tend to eat anything unattended, but usually leaned towards actual food. One memorable day, I came home to a living room carpet covered in what appeared to be termite mounds. Maggie had consumed about a kilo of chinchilla bathing sand and a second course of sanitary towels (the ones with wings). The latter contained some kind of absorbent gel, which made the vomit sculptures impressively solid – the vet who checked her afterwards (Maggie was remarkably unaffected, and certainly did not learn any lesson) remarked that it was something of a miracle that she threw it up. If not for my carpet. Fiona, 56, works for a non-profit research institute, Fulford, North Yorkshire

I have a partially sighted two-year-old red fox labrador and a more matronly five-year-old black lab. I have a long daily commute and my dogs come with me. There wasn’t space for a cage that was big enough for both labs in the boot of my small hatchback, meaning they had free access to the whole boot during our two hours on the road. Last year, the younger one, with possible assistance, ate up all the electrics she could get to, pulling them out from under the back seat. She also ate the floor of the boot, the polystyrene around the spare tyre and the backing of the back seats. All done in relative silence during our drive until the car suddenly stopped in the middle of the road as I was driving out of a car park one morning, with all the warning lights flashing. The entire car had to be rewired, costing around £8,000. Thank goodness for comprehensive car insurance. She is no longer allowed to travel in the boot unless she’s in her cage and, thankfully, nothing she ate needed advanced veterinary attention. Rebecca, 51, veterinary surgeon and researcher, Norway

If the UK wants to rejoin the European Union, it first needs to understand it | Timothy Garton Ash

A full return will require a marathon of democratic persuasion, on the continent as much as in Britain. For one side holds most of the cards

As Britain approaches the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the EU, the British are beginning to debate rejoining what they call Europe. But, as in most previous British debates about “Europe”, this is Europe with the Europe left out. The discussion is all about what would be best for Britain economically and the British politics of getting there. Little or no account is taken of what the rest of Europe thinks or cares about. The other day, the Treasury minister Lord Livermore became the first member of the government to publicly endorse rejoining the EU. “Of course,” he told the House of Lords, “the UK will re-enter the European Union because it’s absolutely in our national economic interest.” As if we had only to knock on the EU’s door and – abracadabra! – we would immediately be welcomed back in.

If you asked all sitting British MPs to say when the European Council is next meeting in Brussels, I doubt that more than a handful could give you the right answer. In fact, I wonder how many could immediately tell you what the European Council is. It’s instructive to look at the agenda for that top table gathering of the national leaders of the 27 EU member states, together with the union’s key institutional leaders. Between 6pm this Thursday and lunchtime on Friday, they hope to discuss Ukraine, the Middle East, the EU’s next seven-year budget, global economic challenges, European defence and security, migration and illicit drugs. So they have, to put it mildly, a lot on their plate.

Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist. His new book, Europe in 7½ Chapters, will be published this autumn

Supreme Court rejects case over school club's "Defund Planned Parenthood" signs

The dispute rejected by the Supreme Court involved the scope of students' free speech rights and schools' ability to restrict expression that could be viewed as reflecting their endorsement.

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records

UFO thriller is on track to become director’s best performing original title in the US, taking just shy of $100m in global revenue after opening weekend

Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s thriller in which it is revealed the US has been experimenting on UFOs for almost 80 years, is on track to become his best performing original title in the US.

The film, which opened in 77 territories, took $44m (£32.7m) domestically over the three-day weekend for a global total of about $92.9m (£69.4m) with $7.6m (£5.6m) of that from the UK and Ireland.

Supreme Court won't take up 98-year-old judge's bid to hear cases again

Judge Pauline Newman, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has been suspended from hearing cases because of concerns about her fitness to serve.

Right now, we could be living through a hantavirus disaster. The world avoided that, and this is why | Devi Sridhar

As the isolation period comes to an end for those caught up in the outbreak on a cruise ship, let’s celebrate a good news story

passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship where the hantavirus outbreak first occurred finished their isolation periods this past Sunday. This is a public health success story worth celebrating, because so many worse results were possible. We heard so much about what went wrong during Covid and the various systems that failed, so it’s good to recognise when things go right – even if you won’t hear about it in the evening news.

There were 147 passengers and crew, and on 4 May seven cases of respiratory illness on board were identified as the Andes strain of hantavirus, which has been known to spread from human to human. This was already an extremely unlucky outcome – hantavirus is deadly, with death rates approaching 30% based on recent research, but most strains only spread from animals to humans.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

A year after Meta tapped Alexandr Wang to build a new AI model, Zuckerberg has to sell it

Mark Zuckerberg's mega spending spree began a year ago, when he lured Alexandr Wang to oversee a new AI strategy. The results so far are underwhelming.

3,600 stock trades in 3 months: Breaking down Trump's flurry of investments

President Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities in the first three months of the year — an unprecedented sum for a sitting president.

Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran

From thousands of lives lost to an economic shock likely to plunge millions into poverty, the world is paying dearly

It would be hard to find a human on Earth unaffected by the US-Israel war against Iran. Several thousand have been killed. Millions are paying more each day in steeper food prices or at the petrol pump, and as inflation eats away at the value of their earnings.

For many, the final bill has not yet come, but it will eventually. They will pay for the long-term damage caused by the biggest threat of all to the global economy: uncertainty.

The Russian-speaking mastermind at heart of Starmer-linked arson trial

Two men have been convicted of attacks linked to ‘El Money’ – a Telegram contact who the court heard wanted to see results of their crimes ‘on the news’

Judith Alexander was awake in bed on her phone when about 1am she heard two very loud bangs. It sounded to the prime minister’s sister-in-law like two wheelie bins had been thrown at the door. But when she looked out of a window, she saw smoke and an orange glow.

“We could see the smoke was getting thicker and going upstairs,” said Alexander, in a statement that was read to the court during the trial at the Old Bailey in London over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Keir Starmer.

U.S. peace deal with Iran in question as Israel strikes Lebanon, Trump warns not to 'blow it'

An initial deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz was expected to be signed this week.

Is Lewis Hamilton genuinely a contender to win the F1 world title with Ferrari? | Luke McLaughlin

Stunning Barcelona triumph has kickstarted veteran’s push to win a record eighth drivers’ championship but Kimi Antonelli still stands in way

When the soaring emotions began to settle one question remained. After his life‑affirming maiden win for Ferrari in Barcelona, is Lewis Hamilton in contention for the Formula One drivers’ championship?

Typically, in a sport where there are innumerable competing voices, it depends who you ask. But with the 41-year-old’s consummate display at the Circuit de Barcelona‑Catalunya securing his first victory for Ferrari, there is no doubt Hamilton remains among the elite drivers on the grid.

KFC leans into boneless chicken, new drinks as chain tries to regain market share

KFC is facing more competition from legacy giants and upstarts alike, thanks to the growing global popularity of chicken.

Man arrested over 2017 ‘Putney pusher’ incident on south-west London bridge

Police say 44-year-old arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm, after woman pushed into path of bus

A man suspected of being the “Putney pusher” who appeared to shove a woman into the path of a bus while jogging on Putney Bridge in south-west London has been arrested nine years after the incident.

On Monday, the Metropolitan police force – which had closed the case in 2018 – announced the arrest of a 44-year-old man on suspicion of causing attempted grievous bodily harm.

Shergar’s sad demise has racing fans hoping famous colours sparkle at Royal Ascot

The all-time great’s Stud is represented by Daryz at the premier Flat meeting of the year on Wednesday

There are high hopes for a royal winner at Ascot this week, when the king and queen are expected to have a runner on the first four days of the meeting. Many fans, though, will also hope to see the green and red of the Aga Khan Studs in the winner’s enclosure after the weekend brought final closure in the ill-starred story of Shergar, whose 10-length winning margin in the 1981 Derby remains the all-time record.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Princess Zahra Aga Khan, the daughter of Shergar’s owner and breeder, Aga Khan IV, confirmed what had been the general wisdom in racing for many years – that the five-year-old stallion was shot not long after being kidnapped from Ballymany Stud in County Kildare by an armed IRA gang in February 1983.

Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath

Hayward Gallery, London
Butcher bags, human sacrifice and cavernous black holes … in a world of dry art this stunning exhibition forces us to confront religion and mortality

It’s the clinging, transparent PVC that does it, a horribly surgical-looking, synthetic skin covering each of Anish Kapoor’s three paintings – can we call them that? – entitled Plastic Sacrifice I, II, III. They resemble a serial killer’s trophy art. Through the wrapping you gawp at three-dimensional purple and crimson entrails that slop off the wall, forming valleys and protuberances that, it seems, would collapse all over the floor if the carnage wasn’t contained by these butcher bags.

Sensationalist and macabre? Rembrandt’s painting Slaughtered Ox is just as visceral as it contemplates the flayed, hollowed body of a huge ox hanging upside down, its yellow fat and blood-dark meat a mirror of our own doomed flesh, not to mention the crucifixion. In the age of smartphones and minuscule attention spans, Kapoor gives artistic depth a go, addressing God and mortality, those themes of the old masters, in a metaphysical rollercoaster ride of a show, a divine bloodbath.

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’

Move is part of broad effort to open public lands to industry and other uses, threatening wildlife and ecosystems

The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks, which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.

The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears into contact with humans, and otherwise damage pristine public lands and parks.

‘It’s more exciting than ketchup!’ How chilli crisp became the hottest condiment – and how to make your own

This crunchy, spicy wonder has made a fortune for its Chinese creator – and inspired hundreds of British-Asian versions. Time to get tasting …

Walk down the specialist aisle in most British supermarkets and you will find a red jar with the kindly face of a middle-aged Chinese woman staring back at you. Branded Lao Gan Ma, meaning “old godmother”, these jars contain chilli crisp – a spicy, crunchy and moreish umami condiment that has made made hundreds of millions for Tao Huabi, the woman on the label. Doused over steaming dumplings, fried eggs, noodles and even ice-cream, Lao Gan Ma’s chilli crisp has become a social media sensation in recent years and has spawned a thriving cottage industry of independent chilli crisp producers in the UK.

“It’s such a convenient shortcut to flavour when you use it as a condiment,” says Fuchsia Dunlop, an expert in Chinese cuisine. “Every Asian cuisine has a form of chilli oil, but China and Lao Gan Ma invented chilli crisp and now the western world is more interested in authentic flavours, thanks partly to social media.” People, she says, want to have their own taste of that authenticity. “It’s far more exciting than a bottle of ketchup!”

Former American businessman detained in Myanmar after alleged financial misconduct

Adam Castillo, founder of AGS Myanmar, was detained Thursday at Yangon International Airport. The U.S. State Department is aware of a reported detention but hasn't commented further.

‘I call this dish Frida Kahlo Against the World. It’s hot and horny!’ My thrilling week of Fridamania in Mexico City

The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she daytripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, our writer finds Kahlo’s spirit alive in her home town

‘Today you’re going to eat art,” says Federico Valdez, a chef at the School of Mexican Cuisine and a man so passionate about food he has the word Queso (Cheese) tattooed on his forearm. “Today,” continues Valdez, “you’re going to eat history.” What unfolds, in a sun-filled dining room lined with Mexican flowers, books and artefacts, is a three-course feast inspired by Frida Kahlo, her life, her art and her loves, including her first lesbian affair.

The starter, inspired by her childhood fascination with revolution, is a lightly spiced Mexican take on pirozhki, the Russian favourite. The main dish – served with pulque, an agave-derived drink Kahlo loved – taps into her rebellious spirit. “It’s called Frida Against the World,” says Valdez, as we are presented with a giant stuffed chilli that sits amid a nutty, beany sauce similar to the one eaten at Kahlo’s wedding to Diego Rivera, then the most famous artist in the world, now much more in her shadow.

U.S. and Iran reach deal to end the Mideast war, with agreement set to be signed Friday

The deal follows weeks of mixed messaging from both Washington and Tehran on the trajectory of the conflict.