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Tom Jenkins’ best shots of Wimbledon 2023 – in pictures | Wimbledon 2023

This year’s tournament saw a changing of the guard in the men’s singles, with 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz beating the veteran reigning champion Novak Djokovic...

Mystery object: Australian police warn public away from huge cylinder found washed up on WA beach | Western Australia

A giant metal cylinder has washed up on a beach in Western Australia, baffling locals and posing a mystery to police.The huge copper-coloured cylinder...

Latest Mission: Impossible shows the ‘silent Asian’ stereotype is alive and well | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

There are many things wrong with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: its ridiculous storyline about AI, its bloated runtime, the plot holes...

Case for abolishing two-child benefit cap ‘overwhelming’, says report – UK politics live | Politics

Case for abolishing two-child benefit cap ‘overwhelming’, says report, as Labour defends saying it will keep itGood morning. MPs have got four more days...

UK mortgage rates stabilise; UK household wealth hammered by rising interest rates – business live | Business

Interest rate rises drive biggest postwar fall in UK household wealthRising interest rates have caused household wealth across Britain to fall by £2.1 trillion,...

Henrik Stenson: ‘LIV players have proven that they are competitive’ | The Open

If Jon Rahm’s dismissal of Brooks Koepka on Masters Sunday was heralded as a victory for golf’s establishment, LIV’s finest hour was still to...

Small wonder: brothers launch model boats to circumnavigate Antarctica | Antarctica

A pair of model ships built by two young brothers have launched on a mission to circumnavigate Antarctica, in what is thought to be...

‘A lot still to be done’: Lib Dems favourites but not complacent in Frome byelection | Byelections

The byelection campaign in Somerton and Frome is notable for several reasons, not least the fact that the Liberal Democrat challenger, Sarah Dyke, sometimes...

‘I’ve had to lie almost every day since’: Lucy Spraggan on The X Factor, sexual assault and survival | Television

Over the last decade, many people have told me they are aware of what really happened to me while I was competing on the...

Russia-Ukraine war live: traffic stopped on Crimean bridge due to ‘emergency’, governor says, as explosions reported | Ukraine

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe bridge was hit by a huge explosion back in October, causing a...

Extreme heatwave live updates: hundreds of millions from US to Europe and Asia hit by severe heat | Climate crisis

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureEarth facing ‘unprecedented’ sea surface temperatures: World Meteorological OrganizationGlobal sea surface temperatures (SST)...

Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests | Iran

Iranian authorities have announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, as “morality police” returned to the streets 10 months...

Women’s World Cup 2023 team guides part 27: South Africa | 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...

Marketa Vondrousova has arrived at last: now her real work begins | Wimbledon 2023

There are few better places to catch a glimpse of the next tennis champions than at the Wimbledon qualifying tournament on the grounds of...

Russians bombard centre of Kharkiv hours after earlier fatal attack | Ukraine

Russia has continued its assault on Kharkiv, with loud explosions heard in the central district on Sunday evening, just hours after one person was...

Wimbledon a ‘dream come true,’ says Carlos Alcaraz after stunning victory | Wimbledon 2023

A beaming Carlos Alcaraz said winning Wimbledon was “the happiest moment of my life”. The 20-year-old Spaniard became the third-youngest man to win the...

Suspect remains at large after four killed in Georgia shooting | Georgia

Authorities in Georgia hunted Saturday for a man who remained at large hours after he was suspected of gunning down three men and a...

Millions in US under warnings as record heat expected to continue next week | Extreme weather

More than 100 million people, around a third of Americans, were under extreme heat advisories this weekend and that record-breaking heat was expected to...

More than 40 pilot whales dead in mass stranding on Isle of Lewis in Scotland | Whales

More than 50 pilot whales have been stranded on a beach on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland, all but 10 of whom have...

Vingegaard survives Pogacar attack in stage 15 to retain Tour de France lead | Tour de France 2023

The game of poker that is the 2023 Tour de France continued in the shadow of Mont Blanc as the defending Tour de France...

‘He could have died’: family calls for better jaundice testing of black and Asian babies | Children

Soon after her son Jaxson was born, Lauren Clarke spotted that his eyes were yellow and bloodshot. “We kept asking if he had jaundice,...

Southern Europe braces for second heat storm in a week | Extreme weather

Southern Europe is bracing for a second heat storm in a week, with Spain, Italy and Greece, along with Morocco and other Mediterranean countries...

Jane Birkin, actor and singer, dies aged 76 | Jane Birkin

The Anglo-French singer and actor Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76, the French culture ministry has announced.The singer had been forced...

Wimbledon men’s singles final 2023: Carlos Alcaraz v Novak Djokovic – live | Wimbledon 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAlcaraz wins the toss and, as per the current vogue, elects to receive....

Coram charity accused of ‘throttling by stealth’ nursery it helped create | Early years education

The UK’s oldest children’s charity has been accused of “throttling by stealth” a renowned state-maintained nursery it helped create with a shared mission to...

Tour de France 2023: stage 15 to the shadow of Mont Blanc – live | Tour de France 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA bit of honest reflection ahead of today’s stage courtesy of French rider...

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

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature1st over: Australia 1-0 (Healy 1, Litchfield 0) More accurate start for Kate...

Carlos Acosta: ‘At 50, I have to dance in a way that I can still walk off, and not call an ambulance’ | Carlos...

Carlos Acosta was one of the greatest classical dancers of the modern age, with a career that took him from the backstreets of Havana...

Ben Stokes’s wild-ride Ashes captaincy asks: what do you really want from us? | Ashes 2023

It’s the week after Christmas 2021 and England’s men have just lost the Ashes. Again. After two years of preparation and planning, they have...

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia shoots down nine Ukrainian drones over Crimea, Moscow official says | Russia

Russia shoots down nine Ukrainian drones over Crimea, Moscow official saysRussia’s air defence forces and fleet in the Black Sea intercepted nine Ukrainian drones...

Lark, Bury St Edmunds: ‘Clever, relaxed, and hugely enjoyable’ – restaurant review | Food

Lark, 6A Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1UZ (larkrestaurant.co.uk). Snacks £2.50-£7, plates £11-£28, desserts £10-£12, wines from £25 a bottleSome words are more...

How Britain became the G7’s inflation outlier – in one chart | Inflation

The UK has a longstanding problem with inflation. Since the 2008 banking crash, bouts of inflation felt across the world have sent prices higher...

Five arrested after climate protest at Ineos oil refinery in Scotland | Climate crisis

Five people have been arrested after environmental activists staged a day of resistance at the Ineos oil refinery near Falkirk.Four people climbed on to...

Kohler-Cadmore’s stunning catch helps Somerset sink Essex and win T20 Blast | Vitality Blast T20

They have waited. Oh my, they have waited. They have suffered. Oh my, they have suffered, tears and sweat so often combining to form...

‘You are not lost’: the infinite attraction of paths and meandering trails | Walking

A narrow path wound up the mountain, disappearing from view as it entered the Pyrénéen oak forest. To one side sheep milled nervously, trying...

The moment I knew: she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen, and I fell in love – twice | Australian lifestyle

In 2018 I attended a dance performance called Sinkhole in Melbourne. In the gallery where the performance took place, there were benches along two...

Money and profile, sure, but what does Lionel Messi bring to Miami on the pitch? | Lionel Messi

Inter Miami are now the fifth most-followed American sports franchise on Instagram, their numbers leaping from 900,000 to almost nine million. They are having...

The Sun’s splash, Huw Edwards and the drama that gripped Britain and shook the BBC | BBC

It was a grim sort of guessing game played across Britain last week: who was the mystery BBC broadcaster who had reportedly paid £35,000...

Revealed: Metropolitan police shared sensitive data about crime victims with Facebook | Metropolitan police

Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it...

Carlos Alcaraz set for another shot at toppling monumental Novak Djokovic | Wimbledon 2023

An hour after one of the biggest occasions of his career had ended in despair, Carlos Alcaraz was still processing how things had gone...

Vingegaard gains a second on Pogacar after Rodríguez claims epic stage 14 | Tour de France 2023

Every second counts in the 2023 Tour de France, as the defending champion, Jonas Vingegaard, and his closest rival, Tadej Pogacar, again demonstrated as...

Woman dies two months after husband killed by suspected gas leak on honeymoon | Scotland

A woman has died two months after her husband was killed by a suspected gas leak from a broken fridge while on honeymoon in...

Can the England women’s football team pull off the World Cup dream? | Women’s World Cup 2023

As the small flames began to lick out of the sides of the dry tinder nest cupped in the hands of the representative of...

The week in audio: Where Should We Begin?; The Girlfriends; The Crossbow Killer; Get Birding – review | Podcasts

Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel (Esther’s Office Hours) | StitcherThe Girlfriends (iHeart Podcasts/Novel) | Apple PodcastsThe Crossbow Killer (Radio Wales) | BBC...

‘An evil person a few blocks over’: Long Island town reels after arrest of serial killer suspect | New York

The arrest of the 59-year-old Long Island architect Rex Heuermann, accused of the murder of three women, has brought relief to residents of Massapequa...

Sustainable smartphones calling? The eco-friendly new design rules to extend the life of your handset | Smartphones

The current status quo of smartphone design, repair and longevity could finally be upended in favour of users – and the planet. That is...

HS2 threatens one of UK’s best Indian food streets | HS2

Friday lunchtime and the dining room at Chutneys is in full swing. Happy customers, many longtime regulars, are tucking into the buffet, returning for...

Wimbledon women’s singles final: Marketa Vondrousova v Ons Jabeur – live | Wimbledon 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJabeur said ahead of the final: “I think a final is a final....

Tour de France 2023: stage 14 in the mountains to Morzine – live | Tour de France 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThey're racing on stage 14And we’re off…the riders aren’t holding back and Neilson...

‘You’ll have more empathy, you’ll have more fun’: the man who wants to transform our relationship with sleep | Sleep

Professor Russell Foster CBE, head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, has some relationship advice. One of the...