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Jofra Archer leads returning England heroes hoping to impress in Barbados | Cricket

It will be a pretty magical moment for Jofra Archer when he walks on to the Kensington Oval on Tuesday, with his friends, family...

‘We must still dare to dream’: Rob Burrow’s final message is shared in film | Rugby league

Rob Burrow’s final message to the world has been shared in a BBC documentary following his death at the age of 41.The former rugby...

Viola’s Room review – Punchdrunk’s gothic tale of puzzling wonder | Theatre

The immersive adventure begins with a sleep. We are invited to lie down as the lights fade and the story begins, narrated by Helena...

Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees | Brazil

The unusually intense, prolonged and extensive flooding that has devastated southern Brazil was made at least twice as likely by human burning of fossil...

‘Manterrupting’: anger as French PM speaks over female head of his party’s EU election list | Gabriel Attal

France’s prime minister has been accused of deliberately seeking to eclipse the head of his party’s list in European elections when he unexpectedly appeared...

White House says ‘ball in Hamas’s court’ over Gaza peace proposal | Israel-Gaza war

The White House insisted that the “ball was in Hamas’s court” on whether to accept a new Gaza peace proposal, despite mixed signals from...

Angela Rayner says she supports Labour policy on nuclear weapons | Nuclear weapons

Angela Rayner has said she has not changed her mind about nuclear weapons even though she supports Labour’s policy to keep and renew them.The...

England v Bosnia and Herzegovina: Euro 2024 warm-up – live | Friendlies

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureEngland have never played Bosnia and Herzegovina before. As one of the favourites...

Real Madrid sign Kylian Mbappé on free transfer with €125m signing bonus | Real Madrid

Real Madrid have announced the signing of Kylian Mbappé seven years after they first tried to bring him to the club. The France forward...

Reality check: is Keir Starmer’s triple lock on nuclear weapons anything new? | Politics

The Labour leader said his party would be “totally committed” to the UK’s submarine-based nuclear weapons programme, and that he would be prepared to...

Faiza Shaheen has been badly let down by Labour – as have voters | Labour

I left the Labour party last year mainly because of what I felt to be the total disregard that the leadership of the party...

Nigerian unions shut down national grid and airports as indefinite strike begins | Nigeria

Nigeria’s main labour unions have shut down the national grid, disrupted airline operations and blocked the gates to parliament as they began an indefinite...

Hunter and Jill Biden arrive for jury selection in gun charges case | Hunter Biden

Jury selection began on Monday in the federal gun case against the president’s son, Hunter Biden, legal proceedings that seriously complicate Joe Biden’s re-election...

Sri Lanka v South Africa: T20 Cricket World Cup 2024 – live | T20 World Cup 2024

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWICKET! Sri Lanka 32-4 (Sadeera b Maharaj 0)Keshav Maharaj is on a hat-trick!...

Police investigate Jonny Hill’s alleged altercation with fan after Bath v Sale | Sale

A police investigation has been launched following an incident that left a supporter with a cut above his eye in an alleged altercation with...

Colin Gibb, singer with Black Lace, dies aged 70 | Music

Colin Gibb, who had huge success as a core member of novelty pop band Black Lace, has died aged 70.His wife Sue Kelly announced...

‘I have boundless love for my son’: Biden says he is ‘so proud’ of Hunter as jury selection begins – live | Hunter Biden

Jury selection begins in Hunter Biden gun trialGood morning, US politics readers. Hunter Biden goes on trial today in Wilmington, Delaware, on gun charges...

D-day landings 80th anniversary: share your stories | D-day

Thursday 6 June will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings when allied troops arrived on the coast of Normandy, which led to...

Bravo for Brest and bye to Mbappé: the complete Ligue 1 season review | Ligue 1

Player of the season: Pierre Lees-Melou, BrestIn his final year in Ligue 1, Kylian Mbappé scored 27 goals to help PSG towards a third...

LA Philharmonic/Dudamel review – an Olympian effort from the transatlantic team | Classical music

Visits to the UK by the leading American orchestras are more and more infrequent; as the European tours this year by the Chicago Symphony...

Beijing accuses MI6 of recruiting Chinese couple as spies | China

China’s secret service has accused MI6 of turning two Chinese state workers and recruiting them as spies.The ministry of state security (MSS), which has...

Security dominating upcoming vote amid Ukraine war, says Estonian candidate – Europe live | Europe

Far-right to take 33% in France: opinion pollA new opinion poll in France has put the far-right National Rally, with its lead candidate Jordan...

Poem of the week: Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Duty Surviving Self-LoveUnchanged within, to see all changed without,Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.Yet why at others’ wanings should’st thou...

French Open 2024: Svitolina v Rybakina, De Minaur v Medvedev in last 16 – live | French Open 2024

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureShareSvitolina* 4-6, 0-2 RybakinaSvitolina is such an easy player to root for. She’s...

General election: Labour dismisses Tory announcement of plans to amend Equality Act – UK politics live | Politics

Labour say Tories have had 14 year to amend Equalities Act and Badenoch announcement is 'a distraction from election campaign'Labour has this morning dismissed...

Russia-Ukraine war live: China hits back over Zelenskiy’s peace summit claims | Ukraine

China hits back over Zelenskiy's peace summit claimsChina has never “fanned fire or fuelled the flames” of the Russia-Ukraine war, a spokesperson for the...

Israel-Gaza war live: Blinken urges Israel and Hamas to take ceasefire deal as fresh strikes reported in Rafah | Israel-Gaza war

Opening summaryIt’s just gone past 9:30am in Gaza and Tel Aviv. Welcome to our latest live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and the...

The Colour of Dinosaurs review – fascinating family show with raptor-ous revelations | Stage

Adaptations are a safe bet in children’s theatre: turn a much-loved picture book into a stage show and you’re guaranteed a head start in...

China and Hong Kong reportedly detain dissidents ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary | Tiananmen Square protests 1989

Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have arrested or put under surveillance several dissidents ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre this week,...

Online fashion group Shein expected to file prospectus for London listing soon – business live | Business

Introduction: Online fashion giant Shein to file prospectus for London floatGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets, and...

Asylum seekers report widespread abuse in Home Office accommodation | Immigration and asylum

Hundreds of complaints about ill treatment from staff looking after asylum seekers in hotels and other accommodation have been lodged with the Home Office,...

This much now seems clear: Sunak can’t avoid a Tory collapse, but he might shape a resurgence | Katy Balls

Tory politicians who cut their teeth on the 1997 general election campaign have a story they like to tell. They watched John Major get...

European and Canadian central banks expected to cut interest rates this week | Interest rates

Borrowers in the eurozone and in Canada are expected to get some relief from high interest rates this week.After recent drops in inflation, the...

Trade convoys ‘squeezing out’ Gaza aid, humanitarian organisations say | Gaza

Aid shipments into southern Gaza are being squeezed out by commercial convoys, humanitarian organisations say, at a time when Israel’s military push into Rafah...

Sally Buzbee steps down as Washington Post executive editor, to be replaced by Telegraph veteran | Washington Post

The Washington Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, has stepped down after three years at the top of one of the US’s most respected news...

Maldives to ban Israeli passport holders from entry in protest over Gaza war | Maldives

The Maldives says it will ban Israelis from entering the country, known for its luxury resorts, with the office of the president making the...

Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv mourns prominent combat medic and journalist killed in action | Ukraine

Donald Trump risks being a “loser president” if he wins November’s election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Zelenskiy has said,...

Yuka Saso triumphs at US Women’s Open after superb final-round 68 | US Open

Japan’s Yuka Saso overcame an early four-putt to overturn a three-shot deficit and win her second US Open title on a dramatic final day...

‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death | Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Alessandra Sampaio fell to her knees and wept as she clambered on to the boat’s deck and came face to face with the remote...

Mexico prepares to elect first female president as violence erupts at polling centers | Mexico

Two people were killed in violence at polling centers on Sunday in the midst of Mexico’s historic election expected to make leftist Claudia Sheinbaum,...

Euro 2024 team guides part 1: Germany | Euro 2024

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...

Minority ethnic heart failure patients ‘36% more likely to die’ in UK | Health

Minority ethnic patients with heart failure are more than a third more likely to die than their white counterparts, according to research.The study, by...

Three charged with invading pitch during Champions League final | UK news

Three people have been charged with invading the pitch during the Champions League final at Wembley on Saturday, the Metropolitan police said.Yevhenii Lubnenko, 29,...

John Swinney says SNP facing its biggest challenge for years | Scottish National party (SNP)

John Swinney has described July’s general election as “the biggest challenge the SNP has had for years” as he used his party’s official campaign...

With policy battle lines set, Sunak and Starmer prepare for TV combat | General election 2024

When the history of Keir Starmer’s resurrection of the Labour party comes to be written, one of the most important turning points will be...

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes review – TV so good it’s worth the BBC licence fee on its own | Television

Eighty years ago this month a young bloke from south London called Wally Parr was floating through the night in a flimsy wooden glider...

PM must face questions about hedge fund at heart of financial crash, says Labour | General election 2024

Rishi Sunak must face questions about the fortune he earned at a hedge fund which engineered a deal at the heart of the financial...

Cancer rates among under-50s in UK have risen 24% since 1995, figures show | Cancer

The number of people under 50 being diagnosed with cancer in the UK has risen 24% in two decades, a sharper increase than any...

Diane Abbott says she intends to ‘run and win’ as Labour candidate | Labour

Diane Abbott has said she intends to “run and win” for Labour in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, days before a meeting of the...