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Badenoch urged to scrutinise business links of Royal Mail bidder Křetínský | Royal Mail

The business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, is being pressed to question the Royal Mail bidder Daniel Křetínský on his business links, after the Guardian raised...

How to turn leftover boiled potatoes into a Portuguese classic – recipe | Food

Today’s recipe has been on our menu at Poco in Bristol for the past 12 years, so it has really survived the test of...

Blind date: ‘I was hoping to find the perfect plus-one for my granny’s 80th next week’ | Life and style

Agnes on TomWhat were you hoping for?A fun and different date with someone interesting.First impressions?A warm smile and kind eyes. He seemed very bubbly...

‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history | Ukraine

When big history is self-evidently being written, and leaders face momentous choices, the urge to find inspiration in instructive historical parallels is overwhelming and...

Former Apollo 8 astronaut, known for Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash | Space

Retired Maj Gen William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble...

‘What the hell, Mum?’ The parents who keep their children’s baby teeth | Australian lifestyle

In the back of my wardrobe, there’s an old chocolate tin that rattles when you shake it. Inside are my two grown daughters’ once...

Scenes of carnage from Maine mass shooting revealed in document release | Maine shootings

Thousands of pages of Maine department of public safety documents released Friday include detailed descriptions of the chaos and carnage surrounding the state’s deadliest...

Gareth Southgate’s new England look worryingly free of energy and resistance | England

By the time the PA announcer had announced a “lap of appreciation”, with what seemed at the time to be viciously mocking levels of...

Six UK airports temporarily reintroduce 100ml liquid limit | Travel

Six regional airports in the UK will temporarily reintroduce restrictions on carrying liquids over 100ml, the Department for Transport has said.The change will come...

Taylor Swift review – as all-powerful as a pop star can be | Taylor Swift

As Cruel Summer fades away and she surveys the audience, Taylor Swift looks startled. She clasps her hand to her chest and shakes her...

Multiparty debate shows an audience tiring of the Labour-Tory slugging match | Rafael Behr

It is called a general election, but Friday night’s multiparty debate was a reminder that it is also a messy array of specific elections.Over...

At least four people die crossing US-Mexico border amid brutal heatwave | US immigration

At least four people have died crossing the US-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, amid the searing heatwave gripping the south-west.Temperatures in El Paso...

Election debate review: everyone struggled to be heard in this seven-way brawl | Leaders’ debates

Emerging as the winner of a seven-way brawl is never easy and, in the second of this election’s televised debates, nobody won. Either because...

Wendell Pierce alleges he was denied rental apartment because he is Black | Wendell Pierce

The Tony Award winner Wendell Pierce has alleged that he was denied a rental apartment in New York’s historically Black Harlem neighborhood because he...

Man who killed unhoused woman with pellet gun gets five years in prison: ‘Her life mattered’ | San Diego

A 19-year-old who fatally shot an unhoused woman with a pellet gun in southern California was sentenced to five years and eight months in...

Revealed: Trump ally Kari Lake gave speech in front of Confederate flag | Republicans

The Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store...

Johnson-Thompson pulls out of European Championships in blow to Olympic hopes | European Athletics Championships

Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s dreams of winning Olympic ­heptathlon gold in Paris next month have been thrown into uncertainty after she pulled out of the European...

England booed off after failing against Iceland once more in Euros warm-up | Friendlies

It was a long way from being the triumphant Euro 2024 send-off for Gareth Southgate and his England players at a sold-out and increasingly...

Spain’s Garciá-Caro pipped to European race walk bronze after early celebration | European Athletics Championships

Unbridled joy turned to devastation for the Spanish race walker, Laura García-Caro, on the opening day of the European Athletics Championships, as a premature...

West Ham agree £25m deal to sign Palmeiras winger Luis Guilherme | West Ham United

West Ham have agreed to sign the Palmeiras winger Luis Guilherme in a deal worth €30m (£25m). The clubs have been locked in talks...

Albert Ruddy obituary | Movies

It is common enough for the lives of actors to be dramatised. Even directors get the biographical treatment on occasion. Producers not so much....

Canada force upset but T20 World Cup still lacking attention in New York | T20 World Cup 2024

You couldn’t buy a USA cricket jersey for love nor money in New York on Friday morning, indubitable proof, if anyone needed it, that...

Jos Buttler’s uptight England must deliver against laidback Australia | T20 World Cup 2024

If the vibe of the captain sets the tone of the team then the first of this weekend’s superclásicos in the T20 World Cup...

‘He lets the country down’: Sunak provokes Tory grassroots fury for skipping D-day commemorations | Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has provoked fury from the Conservative grassroots after he was forced to apologise for skipping a key part of the D-day commemorations,...

England v Iceland: Euro 2024 warm-up – live | England

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe teamsSharePreambleEngland – now no longer featuring Jarrad Branthwaite, Jack Grealish, Curtis Jones,...

Finn Russell given licence to thrill in final for Bath after Bahamas break | Premiership

Whisked off to the Bahamas by a multimillionaire, escorted from island to island in a speedboat and strapped to a machine described as a...

Labour’s troubles leave voters with a ballot box dilemma | Labour

Nesrine Malik rightly warns the Labour party against alienating its leftwing activists and supporters (Starmer? Sunak? Millions know they are different but still feel...

European elections: Dutch exit polls show progressive alliance just ahead of far right | European parliamentary elections 2024

Left and Green parties in the Netherlands have said the far right can be beaten, after exit polls showed a progressive alliance narrowly ahead...

Cocktail of the week: Los Mochis’ passion fruit caipirosca – recipe | Cocktails

This combines the flavours of the pornstar martini with the structure of the caipirinha, but replaces the vanilla-flavoured vodka typically used in a pornstar...

Biden compares fight against Hitler to resisting Putin in Normandy remarks – live | US news

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureBiden compares fight against Hitler to resisting PutinJoe Biden compared the storming of...

Argentina’s far-right president poised to shut down anti-gender violence agency | Women’s rights and gender equality

Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right president, is poised to dissolve the government department responsible for tackling gender violence, prompting a furious backlash from human rights...

‘The quality of the writing was clear as a bell’: the astonishing talent of Dennis Potter | Television

On the morning of 15 March 1994, the 58-year-old TV dramatist Dennis Potter arrived at South Bank Studios in London, to give his extraordinary...

Joe Biden apologises to Zelenskiy for delay in US military support | Ukraine

The US president, Joe Biden, has publicly apologised to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for the months of delay in American military assistance that...

Guess who’s back? How Eminem is storming to the top of the charts again | Eminem

Last Friday, Eminem released his 62nd single, Houdini. Reviews were lukewarm to woeful. “Eminem loses the magic,” ran the headline in the New York...

Carlos Alcaraz v Jannik Sinner: French Open men’s singles semi-final – live | French Open 2024

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureCalvin Betton, our resident coach, messages on the second semi: “If it’s FH...

Digested week: Murdoch marries as UK politics rumbles on | Emma Brockes

MondaySo much bad news around these days, but at the beginning of this week, like a shaft of pure sunlight, we heard of a...

Euro 2024 team guides part 10: England | England

This article is part of the Guardian’s Euro 2024 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 24 countries...

British Indians: share your reaction to the election in India | India

We would like to hear from British Indians across the UK about their reaction to the election result in India declared on Tuesday. Prime...

Trump’s lead over Biden narrows after conviction, analysis shows | US elections 2024

After a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last week, Republicans rallied around the former president, insisting the verdict would...

Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces step up bombing of Rafah as tanks try to push west | Israel-Gaza war

Israeli forces step up bombing of Rafah as tanks try to push westWith no sign of progress in mediators’ efforts to reach a ceasefire...

You thought nothing could beat the perfect summer dress? Think again | Women

You just can’t beat a summer dress, can you? A summer dress is more than a frock: it is a flag of cheer, a...

UK housing market ‘stable’ in May; world food prices rise again – business live | Business

Introduction: UK house prices stable in MayGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.Stability has...

European elections live: Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses French parliament | European elections

Ireland heads to the polls to vote in local and European electionsRory CarrollVoters in Ireland are going to the polls in local and European...

General election: ‘It was a mistake,’ says Sunak as he apologises for leaving D-day ceremony early – live | Politics

Sunak issues apology over D-day ceremony absenceRishi Sunak has issued an apology on social media for not staying longer at D-day events in France...

The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas review – the power of love | Christos Tsiolkas

Perry is a 53-year-old translator; Ivan is a 55-year-old landscape gardener. One is of Greek heritage, one Serbian. They are both in recovery from previous...

Not guilty: how tech mogul Mike Lynch’s fortunes soared, fell – and rose again | Autonomy

“This is a momentous day in Autonomy’s history,” Mike Lynch declared in a press release on 18 August 2011. He was announcing the sale...

Planes, trainers and automobiles: what to wear to travel

Whether you’re off on a two-week holiday or a weekend by the sea, travelling doesn’t have to mean pulling on your tracksuit bottoms Continue...