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Jonny Bairstow’s catch sums up shock of the old with Bazball England | Ashes 2023

The best part was probably the celebration, the ball clamped in the outer webbing of Jonny Bairstow’s right glove, legs splayed, arms wide. For...

Stuart Broad enters 600 club as England’s attacking call pays off | Ashes 2023

If the weather forecast for the back end of this fourth helping of Ashes drama is to be believed then a make-or-break second day...

Trump seeks to downplay legal challenges after target letter; new E Jean Carroll trial rejected – live | US politics

Trump jokes about his legal challenges after receiving target letterDonald Trump sought to downplay his legal challenges while railing against special counsel Jack Smith...

Driver who killed pregnant woman in 123mph M66 crash jailed for 12 years | Greater Manchester

A man who killed a pregnant woman as he filmed himself speeding at 123mph has been handed a 12-year prison sentence.Adil Iqbal, 22, was...

‘Fighting a losing battle’: waves of wildfires leave Canada’s volunteer firefighters drained | Canada wildfires

Earlier this summer, a wildfire crept – and then sprinted – towards Fox Creek, a community of fewer than 2,000 in north-west Alberta. At...

County cricket: Middlesex v Surrey, Essex v Kent and more – live | County Championship

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWe’re underway again at Headingley, but no great joy for Sussex who have...

Top 10: good sex in fiction | Fiction

The hotly publicised Bad sex in fiction awards return this winter and I for one have sorely missed its moist nipples, whimpering grunts and...

EU sends water bombers to help fight wildfires around Athens | Greece

The EU has weighed in with help to combat wildfires in Greece, dispatching four Canadair water bombers as the battle to douse blazes that...

Tour de France 2023: stage 17 through the Alps to Courchevel – live | Tour de France 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature148km to go: Mads Pedersen and Luka Mezgec drop out of the breakaway...

The Ashes 2023: England v Australia, fourth Test, day one – live | Ashes 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureLet’s start our correspondence on an upbeat note.“Difficult to argue with Mark Ramprakesh’s...

Daniel Morgan murder: Met admits failings and pays damages in settlement with family | Daniel Morgan

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has admitted the force prioritised its reputation in its handling of the Daniel Morgan murder case over...

Civil war ‘has been embarrassing’: Laurie Canter hopes for golfing peace | The Open

The softly spoken can provide strident analysis. Laurie Canter looked on from afar – partly through his own volition, partly because he lacks the...

UK interest rates expected to rise less sharply after drop in inflation – business live | Business

UK interest rates expected to rise less sharplyIn the City, investors are rethinking how high the Bank of England will need to raise interest...

Extreme weather live: heatwave red alerts expected for more cities in Italy; Greece wildfires spread | Climate crisis

Red weather alerts expected for more Italian citiesThe World Meteorological Organization says the heat wave in the northern hemisphere isset to intensify. An estimated...

‘Oh God, I envied his voice!’: Andrew Ridgeley on ego, angst and loving George Michael | Pop and rock

Live Aid, 1985. In front of 72,000 people and a global audience of more than a billion, George Michael is on the brink of...

Ports rebuff UK plan to house asylum seekers on cruise ships | Immigration and asylum

Controversial plans to house asylum seekers on redundant cruise ships have been thrown into disarray after two vessels were unable to find somewhere to...

Call Me a Lioness: Melanie C, Self Esteem and more record song for Women’s World Cup | Music

The high drama and unplumbable emotional depths of England’s footballing adventures have long been heightened by song, from official tournament tie-ins such as New...

John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate | National Archives

Sir John Betjeman was dismissed as a “songster of tennis lawns and cathedral cloisters” evoking an “aroma of lavender and faint musk” five years...

Barbie review – Ryan Gosling is plastic fantastic in ragged doll comedy | Barbie

Are Barbie dolls demeaning or empowering? Director Greta Gerwig and her co-writer Noah Baumbach opt for the latter theory in this beamingly affectionate and...

‘So grateful’: Australian sailor who survived three months adrift off Mexico back on dry land | Mexico

An Australian sailor who was rescued by a Mexican tuna boat after being adrift at sea with his dog for three months has said...

Phoenix’s vulnerable residents suffer through record heat at night | Arizona

Even after the sun sinks below the horizon in Phoenix, Arizona, the concrete cityscape continues to cook. In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave...

Progressive Democrats protest Israeli president’s address to US Congress | Israel

Democratic divisions over Israel were on stark display on Tuesday, as lawmakers prepared to welcome Isaac “Bougie” Herzog, the president of Israel, for an...

André Onana: bold risk-taker is a brave signing for Manchester United | Manchester United

The Johan Cruyff Arena, 9 April 2022, and André Onana is being booed by his own Ajax fans, at his home ground, during a...

‘We will not back down’: Hollywood stars on the actors’ strike | US actors’ strike 2023

In the first week of the Screen Actors Guild strike that’s disrupting the film and television industries, Hollywood actors have been speaking on and...

Black Venus review – female bodies reclaimed in spectacular style | Art

Sarah Baartman was a South African woman who was enslaved and brought to London in 1810, where she was exhibited as a freakshow called...

‘Not always king’: fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur | Dinosaurs

Whether they had sharp teeth, vicious claws or were simply enormous, dinosaurs were creatures to be feared. But a newly identified fossil shows that,...

Women’s Ashes: England v Australia, third one-day international – live | Women’s Ashes

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature18th over: England 90-2 (Knight 37, Sciver-Brunt 41) The partnership is worth 72,...

Will high interest rates burst the new car bubble and will drivers hand back keys? | Automotive industry

Britain’s car buyers are a nation of borrowers: more than four in every five new cars bought by individuals in 2022 was paid for...

Tour de France 2023: stage 16 individual time trial from Passy to Combloux – live | Tour de France 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureDries Devenyns: The 39-year-old Belgian Soudal-Quick-Step veteran posts the quickest time of the...

‘Trump can beat Biden’: another warning from White House whistleblower Miles Taylor | Books

Miles Taylor is many things but he is no longer Anonymous. That was the word he hid behind in writing a damning essay in...

Shadow minister plays down claims Labour split over two-child benefit cap – UK politics live | Politics

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell plays down claims Labour split over two-child benefit capLucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary, has played down claims that...

‘The more you look, the odder it all gets’: Usos y Costumbres – review | Art and design

‘I am the curator of my own misery,” reads a 2010 text by Douglas Gordon. Originally drawn in ballpoint pen direct on a gallery...

Ons Jabeur has shown how to live with defeat – like it’s the end of the world | Sport

Play to win, obviously. But if you must lose, then try to lose like Ons Jabeur. Lose like you mean it. Lose and be...

UK food and drink manufacturers cut prices for the first time since 2020 as inflation pressures ease – business live | Business

UK food and drink manufacturers cut prices for the first time in more than three yearsGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of...

Extreme heatwave live: Rome braced for record 43C heat; second day of US-China climate talks begins | Climate crisis

Rome braced for record 43C heatTemperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphere on Monday, with the mercury in...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow launches wave of airstrikes across Ukraine; Crimea bridge reopens to road traffic | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureRoad traffic partially reopens on Crimean bridge struck by explosionPartial road traffic opened...

John Kerry aims to put China tensions aside at crucial climate talks | Climate crisis

John Kerry, the US climate envoy, has called for more rapid action to confront the climate crisis in a crucial visit to China that...

Women’s World Cup 2023 team guides part 29: Colombia | Women’s World Cup 2023: Guardian Experts’ Network

This article is part of the Guardian’s Women’s World Cup 2023 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the...

Kent court finds man guilty of murdering partner on holiday in Peru | UK news

A man who strangled and buried his partner while on holiday in Peru has been found guilty of her murder.Jorge Minaya-Garay killed Karla Godoy,...

University Challenge review – Amol Rajan is lighter, kinder and more passionate than Paxman | University Challenge

It felt fitting that one of the colleges competing in the first episode of series 53 of University Challenge was Cambridge’s Trinity. Most long-running...

England’s bravado and belief win out over the chaos, so bring on Old Trafford | Ashes 2023

I’m not sure why England insist on naming their team two days before the start of each Test. Of course players like clarity about...

Labour MPs urge Starmer to rethink two-child benefit cap decision | Labour

Keir Starmer’s decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap if Labour wins power has exposed deep splits within the party, as he faces...

Jane Birkin’s Gallic style booms on resale sites after her death | Fashion

Though Jane Birkin was not born in France, her style – which turned wicker baskets, cropped T-shirts, men’s blazers and dishevelled fringes into fashionable...

Extreme temperatures recorded across northern hemisphere | Extreme weather

Temperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphere on Monday, with the mercury in parts of Italy poised to...

Brazil’s Geyse: ‘Marta has her story built and I am building mine’ | Women’s World Cup 2023

Geyse would rather play football for hours than speak to journalists. She is an introvert, but when paired with those she feels comfortable with...

Elton John tells court Kevin Spacey attended charity ball at his home | UK news

Elton John has told a court that Kevin Spacey attended a charity ball at his home and stayed overnight after arriving by private jet.The...

‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot | Metal

When the members of all-female Indonesian metal trio Voice of Baceprot finished middle school in their teens, they were at a crossroads. Their parents...

Democrats fear a Joe Manchin No Labels presidential run could hand Trump the White House – live | US elections 2024

Democrats fear Joe Manchin, No Labels could hand White House back to TrumpWest Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is headlining today at the event in...