Parents of teen found dead on island don't believe he chose to stay behind

Christine and Elmore Wonsley said they don't believe their son would've stayed on the island when his friends left by boat.

Appeals court temporarily blocks DOJ release of Biden tapes with biographer

An appeals court blocked the Justice Department from disclosing transcripts and recordings of former President Joe Biden's discussions with his biographer for 10 days.

SK Hynix stock opens at $170 on Nasdaq, as trillion-dollar chip company welcomes U.S. investors

SK Hynix has soared to a trillion-dollar market cap by serving some of the biggest names in technology, including Nvidia and Apple.

White House considering plan to add permanent fencing on Pennsylvania Ave.

In the plan under discussion, the Secret Service and the White House would be able to open and close sections of the fencing, sources said.

Trump purges Election Assistance Commission members, months before midterms

The White House said the Supreme Court's ruling allowing President Trump to fire FTC Commissioner Louise Slaughter provided the precedent for the removals.

‘Brazen attempt to seize control’: Democratic leader vows to fight Trump’s election commission firings – live

Politicians and advocates say dismissals are ‘deeply concerning and part of president’s ‘relentless efforts to interfere with elections’

• Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’

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The Trump administration plans to erect new fences outside the White House, in the latest bid to boost presidential security, the Washington Post (paywall) reports, citing three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans.

According to the people, the White House and Secret Service would be able to close the new fences, planned where Pennsylvania Avenue intersects 15th and 17th streets NW, and prevent pedestrian access in front of the White House if they determine there are security risks.

England v India: women’s cricket Test match, day one – live

Updates from the historic one-off women’s Test at Lord’s
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3rd over: India 15-1 (Smriti 3, Yastikaa 11) Yastikaa isn’t hanging around –clips two fours off Bell, one through square leg, one through backward point.

2nd over: India 5-1 (Smriti 3, Bhatia 1) There’s England’s future, right there, Lauren Filer firing balls down at 70mph plus. Varma done by a belter. Bathetically, Filer follows up with a full toss. It was a slow start but there is now a good crowd filling the bottom layer of the grand stand, and the pavilion is PACKED.

Police say they have launched murder investigation into death of Ann Widdecombe – UK politics live

Police say suspect is white male, and inquiry ‘moving at significant pace’

Immigration policy (see 9.24am) is just one area where Andy Burnham faces an acute challenge when he becomes PM. Here are some of the other stories around this morning about Burnham and what he might do when he takes power.

Jim Pickard, George Parker and Jennifer Williams in the Financial Times say Burnham is considering having a deputy PM based in Manchester running his No 10 North. The deputy Labour leader, Lucy Powell, is well placed to get this job, they report.

Burnham is expected to spend several days a month in Number 10 North. Caroline Simpson, chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, has been lined up to run the new office.

But the transition team has also raised the idea that the new unit could be given political direction by the next deputy prime minister, who would be based in Manchester, according to people close to the situation.

John Bew, a former No 10 foreign policy adviser, has told the Times that Burnham could face an international crisis within weeks of taking office. Bew said:

I’d say there’s a high likelihood of a series of quite challenging contingencies happening.

One is a horizontal or vertical escalation from Putin over the course of this summer and beyond because the war [in Ukraine] is not going well for him.

Some ministers are lobbying Burnham to keep their jobs. In their London Playbook briefing for Politico, Sam Francis and Megan McElroy have a good summary.

Cabinet auditions continue across Westminster. Business Secretary Peter Kyle was at least direct about it, telling the Guardian’s Richard Partington that “I want to stay, I’ll just stay where I am.” He also declared Britain needs “Manchesterism.” In another not-very-subtle intervention, David Miliband used his foreign policy speech last night to restate his support for electoral reform (he previously backed the Alternative Vote at the 2011 referendum, while still an MP) and back a Burnham-style transfer of power out of Westminster (the Arguably substack has the full script). Just before Miliband spoke, Yvette Cooper revealed to Chatham House that she had spoken to Andy Burnham before heading to NATO — meaning she’s already giving him foreign affairs advice.

Potential candidates will … have four days, from Tuesday 14 July to Friday 17 July at 4pm, to submit their nominations.

Residents not already on the electoral register have until 28 July to apply to vote in time for the byelection, and until 5pm the following day (29 July) to apply for a postal or postal proxy vote.

Wimbledon 2026 semi-finals: Sinner v Djokovic; Zverev brings end to Fery fairytale – live

Fery’s magical run ends with crushing defeat by Zverev
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What a walk this is, through the corridor and history, down the stairs, past the trophies and by the board; there goes the fear again.

Aha, here they come…

Berlin’s mayor abandons reelection campaign after ‘tennis-gate’ outcry

Kai Wegner admits poor communication in handling of power blackout overshadowed his other political work

Berlin’s embattled mayor has abandoned his campaign to stand for reelection after failing to recover from a row over his decision to play tennis while large parts of the German capital were hit by a power blackout in January.

Kai Wegner announced on Friday afternoon that he would not run in Berlin’s 20 September election after coming under huge pressure to step down from his party, the Christian Democrats (CDU). Some members wrote an open letter to Wegner this week in which they appealed to him to withdraw his candidacy.

World Cup 2026: ‘violent disorder’ in London after France’s win over Morocco; Spain v Belgium buildup; Jesus takes Portugal job – live

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A 17-year-old girl fell off a truck and died while celebrating France’s World Cup quarter final win over Morocco, emergency services said Friday.

Celebrations erupted across France after the 2-0 win in the United States with hundreds dancing in the streets of Paris, watched by thousands of police on security duties.

Help, my sunscreen stings! What should I do?

The discomfort is no reason to give up sun protection, and is not uncommon – not everyone tolerates every formula well

No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. For instance, when you responsibly apply sunscreen to your exposed skin, it sometimes stings.

“Complaints of sunscreen stinging are not uncommon,” says Dr Aditi Senthilnathan, board certified dermatologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. “We also hear about sunscreen causing burning or stinging around the eyes after sweating.”

The Guide #251: From Oasis to Harry Styles, music is mad for football merch

In this week’s newsletter: After a slow burn for many years, the football shirt has crossed over into the world of music fandom in a big way

Something sartorially strange is happening at gigs across the country. Where once there might have been a sea of (often black) cotton T-shirts across the audience, now a note of heavy polyester has been added to the mix. Last month at Outbreak, the UK’s biggest hardcore punk festival, a sizeable minority of attendees were wearing football shirts – though often not in support of any particular team. Instead, in place of club crests and sponsor logos were names of bands at the festival – Fiddlehead, Alexisonfire, Love is Noise – or for the festival itself.

This isn’t a phenomenon restricted to the hardcore scene. On the tube in London, a day after returning from Outbreak, I saw a gaggle of Harry Styles fans returning from one of his Wembley shows, all sporting bright pink football kits with the One Direction man’s name in place of the shirt number. Practically every band or musical subgenre going is represented with a football shirt. Dua Lipa has one. Deftones have one. Gorillaz have one. OutKast, despite not being a going concern for at least a decade, have one, in collaboration with football mag Mundial. Future Islands have two, including an absolutely gorgeous Napoli-inspired number. Oasis – naturally – have one. (And that’s not to forget the host of bands, from Kneecap to Bring Me the Horizon, with their logos emblazoned on actual football kits, a trend that stretches back to the 90s when Wet Wet Wet were sponsoring Clydebank and the Super Furry Animals were lending their name to Cardiff City’s fetching Welsh cup kit.)

Tour de France 2026: Tim Merlier powers to stage seven victory after Bordeaux sprint – live

Updates from the flat 175.1km stage from Hagetmau
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There are six stages categorised as “flat” on the official route guide. Stage 21 in Paris may not quite count for the pure sprinters because of the three ascents of the Côte de la Butte Montmartre towards the end … long story short, the sprinters’ teams cannot afford to mess this up today. If a breakaway was allowed to succeed, the atmosphere would be frosty at dinner tonight for those teams.

Here we go then. The riders are out on the road and have another 3.5km or so until the flag drops. We should see a very decent scrap to form the breakaway.

Is it time to enter the Tillyverse? Seven things you need to know about AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood

Mocked when she made her debut last year, Norwood has now landed her first feature film. Is she the next Scarlett Johansson – or just computer-generated slop?

Could Tilly Norwood be Hollywood’s next big name? She’s been billed as the next Scarlett Johansson, was profiled by the New York Times Magazine, and has just landed her first feature role. She is also AI-generated. Stay with me here!

It seems that the widespread dismay that greeted Tilly (Norwood?) on her first appeance a year ago has done nothing to quell her (its?) ambitions to make it in the movies. She may be nothing but a pleasingly visualised bunch of code, but it seems we are bound to keep on hearing about her. So what do we need to know about Norwood?

New Fed task force members share Chairman Kevin Warsh's embrace of AI

The three members of a task force advising the Fed on artificial intelligence are strong proponents of the technology.

Michigan's cyclosporiasis outbreak grows to more than 1,500 cases

Michigan health officials say the state's cyclosporiasis outbreak has grown to more than 1,500 cases.

Trump not expected to veto housing bill, U.S. official says

President Trump said Friday he won't sign the law, but a U.S. official said he isn't expected to veto it either.

How Trump’s intervention tarnished the World Cup – The Latest

There is just one week to go until the winner of the World Cup is crowned, and it has been a memorable tournament, not least due to the extraordinary intervention by Donald Trump this week that shocked the football world. Lucy Hough speaks to global sports business correspondent Matt Hughes

One million women lost access to humanitarian support in past 18 months, UN report shows

‘Organizations that have kept women and girls alive through the world’s worst crises risk becoming another casualty of war’ a UN Women chief says

At least one million women and girls have lost access to humanitarian and other critical support over the past 18 months, according to a United Nations agency, after “the steepest annual decline” in foreign aid on record.

The report by UN Women, which focuses on advancing women’s rights, gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, found 84% of women’s organizations reported increased demand for their services since January 2025. That month, Donald Trump re-entered the White House and implemented sweeping cuts to US foreign aid.

Scaled-back Alibaba settlement reflects DOJ's approach to food and drug cases

The scaled-backed Alibaba settlement reflects a broader trend by the DOJ of pulling back on criminal enforcement of corporate cases involving the safety of food, drugs, and medical devices.

Arles photography festival review: who needs big names when you’ve got cute animals and alien abductions?

It’s the world’s most prestigious photography show, but Les Rencontres de la Photographie really flies thanks to the jaw-dropping work of eccentrics, amateurs and complete unknowns
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On 16 June 1963, a mechanic from Albuquerque named Paul Villa was allegedly invited – via telepathic messages from an alien crew – to photograph their spaceship. The result was an image of the flying object in the sky. Villa’s account is similar to that of a Swiss man, Billy Meier, who saw his first flying saucer aged five, and has taken more than 1,400 photographs of them since. One of Meier’s flying saucer photographs features in the famous poster that hangs in Fox Mulder’s office in the X-Files. Added to Meier’s image are the words: I Want to Believe.

We Are Not Alone: Alien Images is one of the standout shows of Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles this year, the world’s most prestigious photography festival. The show draws on dozens of examples from private and public archives that present visual “documents” of UFOs, unexplained phenomena and close encounters with aliens. Most of the photographs were made between the 1960s and 1980s, when reports of UFO sightings were at a peak – and in the US, the place that boasted the highest number of UFO sightings in the last century. Of course, all of the pictures turn out to be the result of rudimentary tricks (dangling a dish on a string in front of the camera), cases of misidentification or uncanny accidents of the analogue film. They might be amateur and faked, but they still pull you in thanks to their fascinating, idiosyncratic storytelling.

Police investigating former prince Andrew to visit US to interview Giuffre’s relatives

Thames Valley police reportedly wish to talk to brother and sister-in-law about her allegations of sexual assault

Detectives investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are to travel to the US to speak with the family of his accuser Virginia Giuffre, it has been reported.

Thames Valley police are believed to want to talk to Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, about their sister’s allegations of sexual assault by the former Duke of York. He has denied the claims of Giuffre, who took her own life in April last year, aged 41.

Pentagon releases new set of UFO files: "Unlike anything I had seen"

The U.S. military released a new batch of files related to UFOs, including one report from a Navy pilot who said a mysterious object was "unlike anything I had seen" in 28 years of service.

AI, data center fears could be key in closely watched Michigan Democratic Senate primary

Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary on Aug. 4.

Millions of Americans have until July 10 to claim refunds from the IRS

A federal court ruling enabled some taxpayers to seek refunds tied to COVID-era filing deadlines. But that window expires July 10 — here's what to know.

Repaint, curate trinkets and go ‘curtain crazy’: how to give personality to a boxy, bland apartment

As construction costs rise, soulless white-cube housing is becoming the norm in many cities. Here, new-build residents share how they’ve added character to their homes

You’ll recognise the hallmarks. Banners with renders of utopian urban dwellings – a marriage of contemporary lines, streamlined surfaces, open-plan living spaces and floor-to-ceiling glass, alongside manicured green spaces and lifestyle imagery of young professionals and families. Not necessarily the vision of a quarter-acre block with a white picket fence but in urban centres the Australian dream of home ownership is being recast in the form of white-cube, new-build apartments.

In the US, “5-over-1” buildings are fast becoming ubiquitous, while in Europe, where apartments have always been smaller, there’s a rise in shared-space models with communal kitchens and amenities. Shanaka Herath, a senior lecturer at the school of built environment at the University of Technology Sydney, says: “We know that land costs have been rising, construction costs have been rising, so what the builders do is that they build smaller and more affordable units.”

Will those responsible for global warming ever face the heat? | Fiona Katauskas

They’ve got a chance in hell

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After historic World Cup success, why does Cabo Verde still grapple with identity issues?

The island was a shining light for Africa at this year’s tournament, but its modern relationship with continental solidarity and oneness is far more complex

After World Cup debutants Cabo Verde became the smallest country to reach the tournament’s knockout stages, coach Bubista was understandably emotional about his squad’s historic trajectory.

Before the round-of-32 match against the defending champions Argentina, with whom they went toe-to-toe until a goal deep into extra time consigned them to defeat, he spoke about inspiration and a sense of duty.

A major housing bill is set to become law at midnight — even though Trump says he won't sign

President Trump says he is refusing to sign the bill without Congress first passing his sweeping voter ID bill.

Questions arise over new Air Force One after Trump uses old plane

The Secret Service advised that President Trump take the old plane to depart Turkey, according to people briefed on the situation.

These are America's 10 cheapest states for 2026, where you can still beat inflation 

These are America's cheapest states to live in for 2026, where residents can still beat inflation.

Hegseth frustrated with lack of adherence to grooming rules

Eight months ago, Hegseth told top military leaders there would be "no more beardos" and "fat troops."

A Tour de France picnic and Typhoon Bavi: photos of the day – Friday

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

Lifeguards demonstrate how to escape from a rip current

On sweltering summer days, many are beating the heat with a trip to the sea -- but ocean safety is key to a great beach day. Matt Gutman joined lifeguards to get a rip current safety demonstration.

The bulging in-tray of challenges Andy Burnham faces upon entering No 10

From welfare and defence spending to cost of living and geopolitics, we look at the key issues left over from Starmer

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Andy Burnham is expected to become prime minister in less than two weeks and has promised to significantly change Labour’s agenda and deliver improvements for all parts of the UK.

But he will arrive with a bulging in-tray of challenges and issues left over from Keir Starmer – from geopolitics to the cost of living. Here is what Burnham can expect to find behind the Downing Street black door.

Apache pilots' suspensions lifted after flyby over South Carolina beach

The decision to suspend the pilots quickly led to backlash online and drew the attention of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Trump administration is charging these Minneapolis protesters with conspiracy. Organizers won’t back down

‘Minnesota 15’ indicted after opposing ICE crackdown – just the latest attempt by Trump DoJ to criminalize resistance

Days after pleading not guilty to conspiracy charges, Emmett Doyle took the stage at a dive bar in Minneapolis, and performed an Irish protest ballad. “And you dare to call me a terrorist, while you look down your gun,” he sang during his set.

The tune has particular resonance now that Doyle, a musician and carpenter who the US government claims is an “antifa” domestic terrorist, awaits trial for protesting. “That song has been a source of inspiration for me, in finding courage to face this ordeal,” he said.

Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight

Serbian man reportedly saved by wife hanging on to his legs after window shattered on journey from Greece

A passenger on a Ryanair flight was reportedly almost sucked out of a window after it shattered in mid-air during a journey from Greece.

The man was said to have been lifted out of his seat into the plane’s slipstream and hung headfirst out of the window after an engine failure resulted in parts smashing the acrylic window, according to local reports.

Muchova and Noskova latest in line of Czech talent to contest women’s Wimbledon final

Muchova is more experienced with one major final to her name but her fearless compatriot has youth on her side

It feels somehow fitting that at the end of one of the most open women’s singles events in history, two Czech players should find themselves fighting it out for the biggest title in the game. Saturday’s clash between Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova is the first all-Czech Wimbledon final, but it is also the latest example of a long line of Czech players who have found grass the surface on which to show their best.

Martina Navratilova, perhaps the greatest female player of all time, started the ball rolling when she won the first of her record nine Wimbledon titles in 1978 (she was officially a US citizen by the time she played Hana Mandlikova in the 1986 final).

This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 12)

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.

Book excerpt: "They Stole a City" by Lauren Collins

The New Yorker writer's new book examines how, in 1898, white supremacists staged a coup against Wilmington, N.C.'s multi-racial government – a case study in the sabotage of American democracy.

Meet SK Hynix, the trillion-dollar South Korean chipmaker debuting on U.S. markets

Following a more than sevenfold rally in its stock price over the past year, South Korea's SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq.

How not to be rude in 2026

Do you keep your headphones on at the checkout? Or chat people up then never follow through? You need our expert guide to the new social faux pas – and how to avoid them

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These are America's 10 most expensive states for 2026, where inflation is punishing residents

These 10 U.S. states are the most expensive places to live in America in 2026, with inflation punishing residents to an extreme degree.

Lynette Hooker may have returned to sailboat before disappearance, source says

Investigators are looking into the possibility that a Michigan woman who went missing in the Bahamas earlier this year may not have fallen overboard from a dinghy as her husband has claimed.

Nolan Wells' parents say they "don't believe he decided to stay on the island by himself"

The parents of Nolan Wells, the missing 18-year-old who was found dead on an island off Mississippi, said they don't believe their son volunteered to stay on the island by himself. Christine and Elmore Wonsley and their lawyer, Ben Crump, spoke about the case on "CBS Mornings."

Erling Haaland has already won one prize: the most viral player of the World Cup

Norwegian striker’s following keeps growing, more for the content he creates off the pitch than his scoring record

He is in the running for the Golden Boot, the trophy awarded to the World Cup’s top goalscorer. But Norway’s Erling Haaland has already earned one prize: the most viral player of the competition.

The striker went into the tournament with legions of fans in Norway and in Manchester – or at least in the blue half of the British city.

Protests engulf Indian state after rape and murder of 11-year-old girl

Innocent man lynched by mob in West Bengal as police killing of suspect further escalates tensions

Protests have engulfed the Indian state of West Bengal after the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, the subsequent lynching of an innocent man and the police killing of one of the accused.

Outrage erupted on Sunday after the body of a missing girl was recovered from a pond in a town just outside the state capital, Kolkata.

Charlie Kirk murder suspect told roommate he "wishes he hadn't done it" in police interview

Tyler Robinson is accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In new police interview footage seen in court, Robinson's former roommate and partner told investigators that Robinson confessed to the crime. Carter Evans has the latest details from Utah.

Michael Edwards quits as football chief for Liverpool’s owner Fenway Sports Group

• Edwards’ move linked to multi-club plan being shelved

• Sporting director Hughes may also leave in September

Michael Edwards has quit as chief executive of football for Liverpool’s owner, Fenway Sports Group. The hugely influential Edwards informed FSG in autumn 2025 of his intention to step down once he felt plans for Liverpool’s future were in place. FSG confirmed his exit on Friday, having wanted him to stay.

Edwards’ decision is linked to FSG abandoning plans to add a second club to its football portfolio. He was enticed back to Liverpool in March 2024 to oversee the transition from the Jürgen Klopp era, having been given a much broader remit than he had as the club’s first sporting director, a position in which he flourished from 2016 to 2022.

Football Daily | Mbappé and France are on the march. Who’s going to stop them?

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Marchons, marchons. Fans of France’s remaining rivals at the Geopolitics World Cup – and lovers of business-end big tournament jeopardy – were left sorely disappointed as the favourites steamrolled Morocco. Didier Deschamps’ cohort of strutting roosters had their feathers ruffled by Paraguay’s spectacular heel turn in the last 16, but were largely back in cruise control for their 2-0 quarter-final victory in (a venue near) Boston on Thursday.

With the wealth of signings (Cerci, Stanway, Reuteler) already this summer, I wasn’t expecting any more. But then Arsenal follow in Hollywood’s footsteps and get Ona Batlle after another!” – James Vortkamp-Tong.

Please don’t refer to the USA USA USA as ‘Trump’s boys’ (yesterday’s Football Daily). From what I understand, they are sane, good sportsmen, well-liked, and a team to be proud of, quite unlike the person in question” – James Driskell.

A fellow reader of the France v Morocco MBM commented on how inevitable France look at the moment. This made me wonder, could this team go down in history as Les Inévitables?” – Peter Oh.

That was a rather touching last line reference to Bonnie Tyler (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition). One would like to read a story about the England team – average year of birth around 1998 – playing her classic tune in the locker room and singing along. Until they got to the hooky lyric, ‘Every now and then, I fall apart’. Good luck on Saturday, lads!’ – Mike Wilner.

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Ukraine escalates attacks on tankers near Crimea as Russian fuel shortages bite

The drone strikes form part of Ukraine's campaign designed to choke off supplies and transportation routes in and out of Crimea.

The Batman Part II rumours hint he’s flying into even darker and weirder territory

Introducing a new sadistic psychopath and a corrupt secret society of Gotham grandees would mean Harvey Dent takes a backseat to Victor Zsasz and the Court of Owls

Matt Reeves’ The Batman was a strange beast from the beginning. Perhaps not comic-book weird in the usual sense – no cosmic portals or rubber nipples here – but strange all the same. This was a Gotham where Bruce Wayne seemed to have been styled by the ghost of Kurt Cobain, the Riddler appeared to have escaped from a David Fincher evidence locker, and the whole city looked as if it had been left to soak overnight in rainwater and civic corruption. The expectation was that Reeves would begin rolling back the bizarre in part two, perhaps leaving us with a more orthodox Batverse populated with mobsters and corrupt lawyers. Sebastian Stan seemed central to this, with rumours suggesting he would portray Harvey Dent/Two-Face, perhaps alongside Scarlett Johansson as his wife, Gilda.

In the last week, however, there have been suggestions that the sequel might just be priming itself for something a fair bit freakier. Hollywood industry veteran Jeff Sneider is reporting that the main antagonist this time around could be the Court of Owls, a sinister secret society of Gotham grandees who look at first glance like a murder-bird upgrade on the League of Shadows, but are really something nastier: the city’s masked, devious ruling class, living out of secret rooms and exploiting a property portfolio that probably goes back to the Pilgrims.

One thought on the Clacton contenders: the ‘establishment’ looks a bit different these days, doesn’t it? | Marina Hyde

Nigel Farage has billed his byelection as a clash with the powers that be. To wit: Laurence Fox, a naked celebrity and a man with a bin on his head

Quick look at the Clacton byelection field as it stands: Nigel Farage, Count Binface, Piers Corbyn, Laurence Fox, some bloke who’s been on Married at First Sight and Dating Naked ... anyway, there’s more, but you get the picture. It’s going to be a long hot summer. By the end of this contest Clacton will be begging to be left behind again.

To recap, Reform leader Farage this week delivered an address to the nation on his political future, which can effectively be summarised as “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the messiest bitch of all?” Under fire over his recently exposed penchant for taking mental amounts of money and benefits from Thailand-based cryptophiliacs/convicted fraudsters and their mums, Nigel has decided to seek validation by asking the voters of Clacton to rule on him. So yes, Farage has triggered a byelection – but he’s also triggered anyone who’s ever been in a toxic relationship where their partner forces them into public declarations of loyalty. It’s all very “I always choose you over everyone, Nigel, and I hate that my family are trying to destroy us”.

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Wildfire in southern Spain kills at least 12 amid heatwave

Twenty-three people missing and at least four Britons thought to be among those who died fleeing Almería blaze

At least 12 people have been killed and 23 are unaccounted for after one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires broke out in the south-eastern province of Almería as the country endures its second heatwave of the summer.

The regional government of Andalucía said the victims, four of whom are believed to be British, had died while trying to escape the flames near the village of Bédar in the municipality of Los Gallardos.

Pacific gray whales facing ‘catastrophic’ die-off as climate crisis hits food supply

Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species Act

Climate change is driving a gray whale “catastrophic mortality event” in the Pacific Ocean as melting sea ice depletes food sources and the animals starve, environmental groups warn.

Meanwhile, a range of other issues, like ship strikes, oil spills, microplastic pollution, algal blooms and Russian harvesting are also probably contributing to the die-off that has nearly halved the whales’ estimated population. It fell from 20,000 in 2019 to fewer than 13,000 this year, and the deaths appear to be accelerating.

Extreme heat, flooding threaten millions across U.S.

Tens of millions of people are under heat alerts as soaring temperatures could mean record-breaking heat over the weekend. Rob Marciano has the forecast.

Judge to decide if Charlie Kirk case will go to murder trial after five-day hearing

Tyler Robinson is accused of shooting the far-right activist at Utah Valley University last year

A judge is set to determine whether the case against Tyler James Robinson, the man charged with murdering Charlie Kirk, will advance to trial, as a five-day preliminary hearing comes to a close on Friday.

The US district judge Tony Graf is expected to sift through the evidence presented by the state and Robinson’s defense team in the coming weeks before issuing a ruling.

Wing wizards or worries? England and Norway have choices to make out wide

Thomas Tuchel seems undecided, while Ståle Solbakken has been structured before the World Cup quarter-final

While there will be much focus on Harry Kane and Erling Haaland before England’s match with Norway, they carry no mystery. They will play. They will probably score.

A more complex decision for both Thomas Tuchel and Ståle Solbakken is who they choose to deploy as their wingers. Neither team have completed a game this summer fielding the wide forwards who began it.

‘We didn’t develop heads until we’d evolved an arse. I like that’: Chris Packham’s epic ode to evolution

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get sick of him holding up rocks

It’s impossible to meet Chris Packham without getting into a good mood. This is largely down to his contagious enthusiasm for the natural world, but on this occasion may also be his canary yellow polo shirt and stand-up-as-if-electrocuted hair. His new five-parter, Evolution, tells the story of the single cell that is all living things’ first common ancestor. Known as Luca, it is the indivisible connection between you and your cat, me and an elephant. (That’s an acronym, not poetry, by the way – Last Universal Common Ancestor, the single-celled organism from 4.2bn years ago that branched into everything that now lives.) “There is still a physical connection between me and you, and a cell that existed billions of years ago,” he says. “I find that absolutely brilliant.”

The show seeks to shake up all our preconceptions: “We tend to stop at GCSE and are left with a legacy of thinking that evolution is laboriously slow, we are its be all and end all, and its story is over.” I mean, these aren’t all misconceptions – it is pretty slow, no? “There would have been billions of years when we just had cells floating in a broth in the sea,” he concedes. “We looked at it more as the turning points in evolution’s life, the periods when it moved very rapidly.” Evolution tells the story of different processes via specific animals. It explains breathing through the elephant, reproducing through the ostrich, eating through the bat, thinking through the dolphin, and running through the horse. “I don’t like to use the C word,” Packham says in the opener, watching a tree hyrax that is the improbably close genetic relative of the elephant, “but they are incredibly cute.”

Democrats need to rethink their image of a ‘man of the people’ | Judith Levine

For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked

Ana Marie Cox’s New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner begins with an encounter on the shore with a salt in rubber boots. Learning that she’s looking for Platner, the guy says: “Good man.”

In the 2025 article, Cox is charmed by Platner, who’s as voluble as this guy is terse. She’s impressed by the oyster, calling it a metaphor for “how labor, science, and regulation can still stitch together a community and economy.”.

‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036

In 2036, the actor Samuel West will take to the stage to perform Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s pensive monologue in which an old man, hunched over a reel-to-reel recorder, listens back to the voice of his younger self. West will be 69, the age of Krapp in the play. And remarkably, the tape he plays will feature the sound of himself as a younger man, recorded in 2006, when he was 39 – the age Krapp was on the night he made the recording. Two years later another actor, Richard Dormer, will do the same, using a similar recording that’s currently locked away in a BBC vault.

These are the most improbable commissions of the Samuel Beckett Biennale, which promises to deliver experimental “performed readings” of the playwright’s works in pockets of Ireland and Britain over the next 12 years. It is organised by Seán Doran and run through his cross-border organisation Arts Over Borders. Events will unfold at locations of significance to Beckett’s life and legacy – from Enniskillen, Belfast and Dublin to Folkestone, Reading and Snodland – tracing his footsteps across Britain and Ireland.

Delta expects higher airfare to last, bringing 2026 profit goal in reach, CEO says

Delta is the first of the U.S. airlines to report second-quarter results.

Argentina continue to show ‘heart’ but flaws are apparent before Switzerland clash

Close calls against Cape Verde and Egypt show Scaloni’s side are vulnerable, despite all the brilliance of Lionel Messi

It is among the defining moments of this World Cup: Lionel Messi wandering the pitch in Atlanta with tears rolling down his face. Minutes earlier, Argentina had been down two goals to Egypt and on the brink of elimination in the last 16. Messi had missed a penalty and was set to bear blame for the result. Instead, the Argentina legend created the same magic he always seems to, spearheading a miraculous, three-goal swing in just over 10 minutes and pushing the Albiceleste into the quarter-finals.

And now he was crying. And so were his teammates. And so was his head coach, Lionel Scaloni, who could not contain his emotion in a post-game interview. His own players, the coach says, have taken to calling him el llorón. The crybaby. “I can’t even look at you,” Scaloni told a touchline reporter, in tears. “I’m sorry. I’m obviously very emotional. What a group of players, brother. I’m sorry. That’s it, I have to go.”

Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs

Instagram and Facebook's "addictive" designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union's digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report.

U.S.-Iran fighting appears to pause. And, life inside Israel's military zones in Gaza

Fighting between the U.S. and Iran appears to have paused after two days of clashing amid a shaky ceasefire. And, a look at what life is like inside Israel's expanding zone of control in Gaza.

The Tech Download: Teen social media bans miss a key part of the puzzle: AI chatbots

Teenagers are increasingly becoming dependent on AI chatbots, echoing a familiar problem with social media in the 2010s.

Like Nosferatu on a golf weekend – but England players trust Tuchel and his aura | Barney Ronay

Imposing head coach is a details man who has got the balance of squad spirit right at the World Cup, and is even proving a hit on Mumsnet

Let’s set the world on fire. There’s a section in Bill Buford’s classic football hooligan study, Among the Thugs, where he describes being part of a phalanx of England “faces” steaming through the centre of mid-1980s Rotterdam towards some kind of meet, while their leader – the Top Boy, General or similar – runs up and down the column whispering to his men, saying the “energy is high”, “the energy is high”, “feel it”, “the energy is high”.

As it is currently for this England team, and quite clearly the players can feel it. You will probably have seen the dressing-room video, which has more than 40m views. Declan Rice and John Stones are shown playing a prank on Thomas Tuchel after the electrical storm masquerading as a football match at the Estadio Azteca on Sunday. Rice pretends Stones has injured his shoulder. Stones plays along with it, delivering a minimalist acting masterclass so contained there is almost no acting at all, before raising his fist as the beat drops (song: Talk To You, by ANOTR) and the room falls about in generalised hysteria.

Volkswagen to slash model lineup and shrink capacity — but no word on job cuts

The update followed a high-stakes boardroom showdown with the group's supervisory board.

Taliban declares war on smartphones

A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare and educational facilities. Ordinary citizens worry they'll be next.

Arsenal hail signing of ‘winner’ Ona Batlle after Barcelona summer exodus

• Batlle is fourth arrival after Stanway, Cerci and Reuteler

• Full-back is one of four big Barça free transfer departures

Arsenal have confirmed the signing of the Spain full-back Ona Batlle on a free after her departure from Barcelona, continuing the London club’s busy start to the transfer window.

The 27-year-old is their fourth signing, after Georgia Stanway, Selina Cerci and Geraldine Reuteler, who arrived from Bundesliga teams on free transfers, and the club are understood to have been determined to complete lots of their business early.

‘They made us say he was a martyr’: families at Iran’s largest cemetery mourn those killed in the January protests

Six months on from the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, families remembering loved ones at their graves at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran tell their stories

Family members gather to mourn Sepehr, who was 25 when he was killed in the January protests

A woman at Behesht-e Zahra prays for those killed in January’s protests

Add to playlist: the fluid club deconstructions of Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL and the week’s best new tracks

Housesharing brought the south London trio’s sounds – classical vocals, violin, clubby production – together as they bled through the walls, to shapeshifting effect

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There are many ways to deconstruct club music. On Bristol label Illegal Data, releases might take explosive approaches to scary (Ship Sket) and whimsical (Mun Sing) extremes. More recently, the same label finds Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL filling the club chest-high with liquid: you hear elements sink, dissolve, or float past serenely on the surface.

Schiff launches inquiry into DOJ's closure of baby formula probe

Sen. Schiff is launching a congressional inquiry into why the DOJ shuttered a criminal probe into Cronobacter bacterial contamination at an Abbott Laboratories plant that made baby formula.

Once again Trump brought his wrecking ball to the Nato summit, and once again the alliance survived. But for how long? | Paul Taylor

As the US president swung between threats to take Greenland and promises of help for Ukraine, pledges of a ‘stronger Nato’ were lost in the wind

Nato leaders survived another nerve-racking summit with Donald Trump and the 77-year-old defence alliance lives to fight another day, proving its durability against Atlantic storms. But it will never feel safe as long as the unpredictable, vengeful and ruthlessly transactional US president is in the White House.

As usual, Trump stole all the headlines at the annual summit, with a mixture of Nato-bashing and implausible threats to take control of Greenland and cut trade with Spain. He declared the ceasefire with Iran dead and called Iranian leaders “scum” as US warplanes bombed Iranian targets along the strait of Hormuz. Pitted against such irresistible clickbait, no Nato communique stood a chance of public attention.

Completely nuts: Dutch gallery covers floor in peanut butter to honour late artist

Wim T Schippers asked that his 800lb sculpture be spread smoothly and without ‘educational purpose’

A museum in Rotterdam has paid tribute to the idiosyncratic character of one of the most influential figures in the Dutch arts by spreading 800lb of peanut butter across the floor of one of its galleries.

The hexagonal floor installation, called Pindakaasvloer (Peanut Butter Floor), is a recreation of a work by Wim T Schippers conceived of in 1962 and first exhibited in 1969.

Homecoming parade channels art and power of Rome for Fendi

Maria Grazia Chiuri returns to city of birth with haute couture inspired by kimono shapes and draping the body

“This is a cultural problem, and a political problem,” said Maria Grazia Chiuri before her first haute couture catwalk show for Fendi.

The problem, as the designer sees it, is Italy’s unwillingness to acknowledge fashion’s role in culture by giving it space in museums. To challenge this, Chiuri has bookended her Rome catwalk event with two fashion exhibitions in the city.

Conor McGregor is back, but the sensation who changed the UFC is long gone

Five years after his last fight, the Irishman returns to the octagon. His comeback says as much about the UFC’s appetite for its fallen star as it does about McGregor himself

These days Conor McGregor resembles an ace fighter the way a movie set depicts real life. Passing similarities are obvious but anything more than a quick, squinty glance reveals they are not the same.

For the 37-year-old Irishman, the line between genius athlete and performance artist was already blurred by the time he found himself destroyed in front of Dustin Poirier five years ago, yelping foul-mouthed barbs in the painful aftermath of his fourth stoppage loss in seven fights.

‘What’s more American than baseball?’: World Cup brings fans, chants and verve to the national pastime

The crossover in the American sports calendar has made for a compelling collision of cultures, from Scots in Boston to a new English folk hero in Atlanta

First they sang for Harry Kane. Then they sang for Michael Harris II.

The Atlanta Braves center-fielder is not someone many Major League Baseball fans would consider a household name. A local kid made good, he has established himself as an above-average, everyday outfielder and at age 25 is enjoying a career-best season, but his face doesn’t dominate billboards and ads in the way of Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge.

Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night for historic UK exhibition

Cloak-and-dagger operation delivers 70-metre medieval artwork to British Museum, as gathered diplomats applaud

Like the man whose conquest of England almost a millennium ago it recounts, the Bayeux tapestry crossed the Channel in the dead of night, in as much secrecy as possible, landing on the country’s south coast early the following day.

The artefact’s arrival on Friday marked the first time it has returned to England in nearly 1,000 years, and British Museum staff will begin to prepare it for exhibition during its year-long loan.

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Weather tracker: Typhoon leaves people stranded on rooftops in China

Eleven reported dead as flooding also brings danger of snakes, while buildings collapse in Mumbai amid heavy rain

As the first typhoon to make landfall in China for the 2026 season, Maysak has caused devastating damage in southern and central regions. The Guangxi region received intense downpours of up to 280mm in 12 hours, causing rivers to swell and dam walls to break. By Monday morning, flooding across the city of Nanning and surrounding areas had resulted in many people being stranded on rooftops.

Flood waters pose additional threats in China because of the presence of wild and farmed snakes. On Thursday local media reported that hundreds of snakes, including cobras, had escaped from flooded breeding farms. Typhoon Maysak also aided the development of two destructive tornados that swept across central China later on Monday evening. This occurred when warm air from the south, brought up by Typhoon Maysak, collided with cold air in the north.

From hobbitmaxxing to Catholicmaxxing: how well do you know your maxxes?

Maxxing trends – going all in on a particular trait, habit, quality or pastime – tend to burn brightly and briefly. But how many of the following are real?

It started more than a decade ago with looksmaxxing, a disturbing manosphere-based strategy for optimising personal appearance through diet, exercise, surgery or smashing your jawbone. Back then, “maxxing” carried with it an unwholesome sense of overkill for its own sake. Even that extra X – maxing out the word in a way that served no orthographic purpose – seemed to be a symptom.

Over time the -maxxing suffix has come to mean going all in on a particular trait, habit, quality or pastime, generally in a manner that misses the point. Booksmaxxing, for example, seems to be less about reading, and more about coming across as optimally bookish in your dating profile. Sleepmaxxing is about getting as much sleep as you can, rather than as much as you need.

Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York’s Latin American Foto Festival – in pictures

This month Bronx Documentary Center is hosting the ninth edition of the Latin American Foto Festival, on view in New York from 9 to 26 July. The show brings together the work of photographers exploring social, environmental and political issues from across Latin America and the Caribbean

Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns

Two 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a driverless taxi when the company disabled it and alerted police.

No internet, no screen time? FCC weighs cutting subsidy that lowers school internet bills

Many schools rely on consumer fees funneled through the federal government to cut internet costs. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called for ending this program before Donald Trump tapped him for the job.

One of Spain's deadliest wildfires kills at least 12 people, with 23 others missing

Several victims of the fire in the southern province of Almeria, a popular holiday destination, were found inside burnt-out vehicles and were thought to have died while trying to flee the flames.

Man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was not intended target, DHS says

The Department of Homeland Security said the officer who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston was not wearing a body camera.

Baby Rose: Yearnalism review – gloriously cinematic soul from the edge of emotional collapse

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The US songwriter paints an impressively wide variety of shades on her third album, from vintage R&B to melodic soft-rock and balladry worthy of Nina Simone

Jasmine Rose Wilson doesn’t love lightly. On her third album as Baby Rose, the US soul singer uses her fraying contralto to communicate the peaks and troughs of relationships as if on the brink of emotional collapse. On the slow-moving The Reason, Rose is fully aware she’s “gone off the deep end”, while on the vintage R&B of But, Nvm, she tries her best to convince herself everything’s fine while fleeing the scene. “Waiting on a train,” she sings, “to take me somewhere you won’t call my name.”

Such cinematic overtures aren’t accidental: Rose contributed music to, and briefly appeared in, 2025’s romantic comedy-drama Materialists. On the melodically rich soft-rock of Better, which shares the breezy lightness of Olivia Dean’s recent album and would have killed on a Bridget Jones soundtrack, Rose paints a precise portrait of a kitchen-based standoff she eventually wins. Sunday, meanwhile, starts off as a scratchy, Nina-Simone-esque ballad before a string section and guitar turns a musical vignette into an epic.

Wild Gods: The Glorious Abysmal review – truly fascinating songs born of tweed-beating and psychedelic trips

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Inspired by communal Hebridean Gaelic song and ceremonial music, these reels and ballads reveal the fascinating proximity of post-rock and folk rock

A thick, distant rumble, the metallic sheen of an accordion drone and a woman singing a traditional Gaelic lament for the dead: these open Keening, the first track on the most fascinating folk-adjacent set of the summer. Wild Gods is a new project from Argyll’s Jamie Livingstone, a regular collaborator with the Scottish electronic producer Barry Can’t Swim. This release is inspired by the waulking songs of the Hebrides: communal songs traditionally sung by women as they beat and softened tweed before mechanisation transformed the industry’s rhythms.

With Gaelic archival recordings and melodies rooted in Celtic ceremonial music also being stirred into this bubbling brew, these eight tracks reveal the occasional, fascinating proximity between post-rock and folk-rock. After Keening, 10-minute Carlene’s Pin marries Susannah Stark’s gorgeous Gaelic vocals to clanging Bad Seeds guitars, folk fiddle, and a bassline recalling Godspeed You! Black Emperor at their most defiantly uncheery. Rest and Be Thankful, named after both a classic Scottish reel and a famous A83 viewpoint where couples are known to meet to have sex, is deliberately built up as a tender ballad, before moments of joyous folk dance strut and erupt; a shimmering interlude follows. Ortha, named after a Celtic incantation, reflects another of Livingstone’s inspirations: a transformative ayahuasca experience.

‘Being a billionaire is so tacky!’ Musical firebrand Lido Pimienta on exploitation, class struggle – and going ‘Enya mode’

After beating Leonard Cohen to Canada’s biggest music prize and splicing dembow with classical, the cross-cultural artist is now confronting Colombia’s new president

When I speak to the Colombian Canadian musician Lido Pimienta, it’s in the run-up to Colombia’s presidential election, and she is worried. One of the two remaining candidates, Abelardo de la Espriella, “is so rightwing he wants to open up our beautiful country to fracking and the influence of the US,” she says – and at one point in his campaign, De la Espriella said he wanted to “disembowel” the left. He later waved that away as a mere figure of speech, but Pimienta fears that leftwing artists like her “would be target number one” for a De la Espriella presidency. He ended up winning in a narrow victory that brought praise from Donald Trump and a promise of “a new era, a change of order”.

Despite the potential risks, the singer-songwriter has never shied away from speaking her mind. Since the release of her breakthrough second album, 2016’s La Papessa – which beat Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker, the last album released during his lifetime, to win Canada’s prestigious Polaris prize – 39-year-old Pimienta has made ebullient, genre-defying records that hiss with indignation at racism, colonialism, misogyny and music industry expectations.

Week in wildlife: a froggy lunch, a surf-loving penguin and an ambitious treehopper

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever: how conflict, aid cuts and misinformation fuel a deadly threat

The rapid spread of the virus has been intensified by misinformation and violence towards volunteers and treatment centres

Nearly two months after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an Ebola outbreak in one province, the virus is continuing to spread rapidly, reaching more parts of the country and infecting more people.

According to government data from 8 July, 1,759 cases and 600 deaths have been recorded. The virus has also spread to Uganda, where there have been 20 confirmed cases, including two deaths.

Lucky and The Hawk: the seven best shows to stream this week

Anya Taylor-Joy is looking to break away from her criminal past with one last career-crowning heist, while Will Ferrell stars in a fun new comedy as a washed-up golfer

A suitcase full of money in a swanky Vegas hotel room. It’s a conventional way to start a thriller, but even if Lucky never threatens to shatter any paradigms it fulfils its edgy, twisty brief. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Lucky, a woman who thinks she’s pulled off a career-crowning heist with lover Cary (Drew Starkey), only to wake the following day with a belting hangover in an empty bed. Worse still, while the cash has gone, its original owners haven’t – and soon she has Annette Bening’s mob boss Priscilla on her tail as well as the Feds. Lucky doesn’t hold much back – the first episode is basically one long chase scene – but as long as you leave plausibility concerns at the door, you’ll have a blast.
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Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds

The actor and activist tells the story of her brutal childhood in the deep south with eloquence and defiance

When Laverne Cox was eight years old and growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she saved up her pocket money and bought herself a fan decorated with Japanese geishas. The fan became her favourite plaything, a prop to be used while dancing in imaginary music videos or recreating scenes from Gone With the Wind in which she cast herself as Scarlett O’Hara. “I lit up, animated, whenever that fan was in my hand,” she recalls in her memoir.

But when Cox, who was raised as a boy, began fanning herself with it at school, her teacher, Mrs Ridgeway, yanked her furiously out of the classroom, paraded her and her new accessory in front of the other teachers, and then phoned her mother, Gloria. When Gloria came home that evening, she exploded with fury. She said Mrs Ridgeway had told her she too had a son who had been an effeminate child who was now living on the streets of New Orleans and wearing a dress. “You want to be in a dress on the streets in New Orleans?” shouted Gloria, who would habitually call Cox a “sissy” and other homophobic slurs. She then signed her up for conversion therapy, which duly failed. It did, however, reinforce the message that there was something deeply wrong with Cox and that she was ultimately unlovable. Three years later, she tried to kill herself.

‘I was like, “Oh my god, I can be taken seriously”’: the women inspired to become lawyers by Legally Blonde

As the classic courtroom comedy drama turns 25 meet the associates and attorneys who took Elle Woods’ pioneering spirit and ran with it

Angela McCarthy, senior associate at Lawrence Stephens, London

South Korea chip maker SK hynix rides AI boom raising $26.5bn in huge US listing

SK hynix, a supplier of advanced memory chips, has seen profits skyrocket thanks to the global race to build AI datacentres

South Korean chip maker SK hynix set pricing for its mega US listing on Friday, aiming to raise $26.5bn as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world’s biggest ever stock sales.

The Asian semiconductor giant plans to issue the equivalent of about 18m shares on Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index later in the day.

Deadly H5 bird flu found in local Australian seabird for first time

Native greater crested tern – a common coastal bird – tests positive for disease after being discovered at Robe on SA’s Limestone Coast

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The first case of deadly H5 bird flu in local wildlife has been recorded in a bird found on the South Australian coast, with experts saying the discovery is an escalation of the disease’s arrival in the country.

Separately, tests on a young fur seal found on the New South Wales Central Coast returned a negative result for H5 bird flu on Friday night. The animal was found at Blue Bay and died on Thursday with tests undertaken as a precaution, the NSW government said on Friday

Ramingining fashion: a celebration of Yolngu culture and design – in pictures

A remote arts centre in Ramingining, East Arnhem Land has staged its inaugural fashion week, providing an opportunity to celebrate local Aboriginal artists, models and community

• The headline and a caption of this article were amended on 10 July 2026 to correct a misspelling of Yolngu