Amy Sedghi    The United States has not conducted air strikes in Iraq today,’ the US military’s Central Command saidPaul Scruton, Lucy Swan, Iona Serrapica and Alex Olorenshaw have created a visual guide to Friday’s events in Iran via graphics, video and satellite images.You can take a look at it here: Continue...

Agencies    Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouseA man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush money trial is taking place.The New York City police department said on...

Jonathan Smith and Paul Lashmar    Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homesThe Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion pound payout from the Barbados government.Despite threats to make Richard Drax pay...

John Brewin    WCL updates, . pm BST kick off at the Estadi Olà mpicSign up for Moving the Goalposts Drop John an emailThe teams are in the tunnel, and the Barcelona anthems are ringing out.Barbara Charone is the legendary music biz PR behind Madonna, Keith Richards, Depeche Mode and many more. An American,...

Robin McKie, Science Editor    Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strainInfluenza is the pathogen most likely to trigger a new pandemic in the near future, according to leading scientists.An international survey, to be published next weekend, will reveal that ...

Sammy Gecsoyler    Possible cuts in autumn statement come as experts sound alarm about dire state of UK public servicesStamp duty and national insurance cuts are reportedly being considered by Jeremy Hunt before the next general election.The chancellor has previously hinted there could be another fiscal event ...

Shanti Das, Home Affairs Correspondent    The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdogThe police watchdog for England and Wales has removed a controversial medical term from its incident forms after claims it plays into racist stereotypes and detracts attention...

Donna Ferguson    Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the MaldivesAn underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of coral IVF and recordings of fish noises could offer a beacon of hope to scientists who fear the fragile...

Steven Morris    Panel finds PC Martin Briggs breached professional standards over removal of items before job related fitness testA police trainer who used cutting equipment to remove earrings from three student officers before fitness and safety exercises has been found guilty of gross misconduct.The three female...

Clea Skopeliti    Mitcham residents say the Burn Bullock had been disgracefully neglected’ prior to the blazeA heritage listed pub has been damaged in a blaze that began on Friday night.Three floors of the Grade II listed Burn Bullock in Mitcham, south west London were damaged in the fire, which also destroyed the...

Lauren Aratani in New York    Ex president reduced to silence in court, including this week, when he was forced to face opinions of New Yorkers during jury selectionIn the first week of his criminal trial a historic first for a former US president Donald Trump encountered a dynamic that’s become common for his appearances...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent    The prospect of home loan rates staying high for longer is not the tonic for lenders’ financial results it once wasMortgage borrowers who had been holding out for more affordable rates had their hopes dashed last week, as disappointing economic data raised the likelihood of borrowing costs staying...

Dorian Lynskey    It’s three decades since the government’s attempt to ban raves radicalised an oddball coalition of dance fans, squatters and new age’ travellers. What became of the protesters who tried to kill the bill When Harry Harrison first saw the white paper for the criminal justice and public order bill...

Cassie Werber    I used to think open relationships were a recipe for heartbreak or just a bit tacky. Then we began to experiment. Could seeing other people be the secret to a happy home life I settled back into the train seat and pulled a notebook out of my bag: something extraordinary had happened, and I needed...

Daniel Dylan Wray    The debonair duo have remixed U and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make the most dramatic music possible’Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé are sitting in their record company’s London office, both...

Alice Vincent, Alys Fowler, Claire Ratinon, Matt Collins and Gynelle Leon    How do I know what soil I have Do bulbs come back And how did people garden before Google As the growing season gears up, our experts are here with a barrowful of adviceFew domestic gardens need work every weekend whisper it, but they’re quite good at looking after themselves. Broadly...

As told told to Kitty Drake    Violet and Oliver met in their s and are both revelling in their uninhibited, experimental sex lifeHow do you do it Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyI used to have trouble taking my clothes off with the lights on. Now I’m perfectly happy to hang naked from the ceilingI want Violet...

Harriet Gibsone    The singer on turning down X Factor, making mistakes and refusing to play by the rulesBorn in London in , Jess Glynne is a singer and songwriter. She shot to fame in , when she featured on two UK No hits, Clean Bandit’s Rather Be, for which she won a Grammy, and My Love by Route...

Kitty Empire    Republic On her th album, the American singer songwriter picks apart her romantic travails in typically unsparing fashion, while her ability to turn sorrow into songwriting gold remains unparalleledIn a time of so many upended certainties, Taylor Swift’s th album arrives as a tale very much...

Alex Clark    The Essex Serpent author on astronomy, her new novel Enlightenment and how her strict Baptist upbringing made its markFor weeks, Sarah Perry has been petitioning the heavens for a clear evening so that she can show me her telescope in action, but tonight the skies over Norwich are cloudy. I must...

Rachel Dixon    Offering exquisite scenery, rare wildlife and spectacular trails, these under the radar national parks are worth tracking downThere is a wild and wonderful water world in the north eastern corner of Spain. The Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici national park, in the central Pyrenees north of...

Giles Richards    Hamilton knocked out in Q and th after errorWorld champion follows sprint win with first in qualifyingMax Verstappen took pole position for the first Chinese Grand Prix since . It was business as usual for the world champion but Lewis Hamilton endured a shocker in Shanghai, knocked out in Q ...

Ben Fisher    Coventry fans will travel in numbers for their FA Cup semi final on Sunday a reflection of their long serving manager’s impactWhen Jürgen Klopp announced in January he would leave Liverpool at the end of the season, it was not just the news itself that seemed strange. The shock, the communal...

Jacob Steinberg    Club’s losses reduced by property deal with sister companyChelsea would have lost . m without hotel salesPremier League clubs reacted with exasperation after seeing that Chelsea eased their financial position with the . m sale of two hotels to a sister company in a deal that...

Barney Ronay    Micah Richards laughing uproariously behind a lighted TV plinth That’s the kind of noise football is being distilled into Before anybody knew anything at all, around the same time a series of speculative bronze age books were being encoded as the foundation of much organised human society, there...

Sid Lowe    The former Arsenal and Spain midfielder, now , is loving playing for his home club Real Oviedo in the second divisionThe day Spain’s history changed for ever, Santi Cazorla scored in the shootout. He scored on his Recreativo de Huelva debut in , the first of goals going back years, got...

Tanya Aldred    County Championship updates from day two’s actionAnd you can post BTL or mail Tanya with your thoughtsIn Division Two, Leicestershire have lost Lewis Hill, so near, yet so far, for ; Harris in sight of his hundred Leics . While Middlesex are enjoying the Lord’s conditiions about as much as...

Sarah Rendell    Lock hopes for a repeat of deafening support at Twickenham as favourites England take on Ireland in Women’s Six NationsThe England lock Zoe Aldcroft calls for the ball as soon as she sees Sarah Beckett has punctured the France defence. The forward offloads to Aldcroft, who beats Émilie Boulard to...

Simon Price    Other fields are plagued with famous people’s offspring too, yet musical genius seems particularly difficult to pass down the generationsTalent, sang Russell Mael of the band Sparks, is an asset. And that asset can be handed down from generation to generation. However, there is almost invariably an...

Kenneth Mohammed    Behind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and the caste system haunt the subcontinentThis year, more than countries and half the world’s population face elections. While many islands in the Caribbean go to the polls, their people are usually more occupied...

Dan Hancox    From films about Play Doh and Barbie to the Shrek experience’, consumer capitalism has run out of ideasWhen it was announced last week that Margot Robbie will follow up the success of Barbie with a film based on Monopoly, my heart sank, did not pass go, and did not collect . Robbie’s...

Jonathan Freedland    Both seem keen to limit hostilities, and key Arab states are ready to resist Tehran. But real change will require new Israeli leadershipWhen it comes to the Middle East, it’s the pessimists who look smartest. Predict the worst and you’ll rarely be proved wrong. If you are, it’s usually because your...

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Lucy Mangan    They might not be Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but the X Factor judges’ ding dong over Simon Cowell is a joyAll weekend and on into Monday, the row between the TV presenter and erstwhile wife of Les Dennis, Amanda Holden, and the managerial powerhouse Sharon Osbourne has been quite something. In...

Simon Jenkins    Tobacco is already on its way out. The state should not deny adults the right to make personal decisions for themselvesJust because Liz Truss and Boris Johnson both opposed to the government’s proposed new smoking ban hold a belief does not make it wrong. Smoking is unpleasant, but in this week...

Editorial    Both Iran and Israel are calibrating their responses. That does not mean the region should breathe easyThe danger facing the Middle East is not from wild or impulsive action, but from the considered decisions of men who believe they know what they are doing and how their opponents will...

Editorial    The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire and the usual carping suspects will not be pleasedVery recent visitors from Mars may not know of the regular attacks on the National Trust for being woke, but the rest of us have heard plenty. The...

Guardian Staff    Readers respond to Stuart Heritage’s article on coming to terms with baldnessAs ever, Stuart Heritage provides the most reliably funny writing in the Guardian Losing my hair made me miserable. Now I’m as bald as an egg, I couldn’t be happier, April . However, unfortunately I think in this case...

Guardian Staff    The suggestion that the drug may be more helpful than regulated care for mental ill health is dangerous, writes Dr Rachel McNultyRose Cartwright’s article I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness, April claims to expose the fallacy...

Clea Skopeliti    Green members demand meeting after Scottish government abandons pledge to cut emissions by Scottish Greens are to hold a vote to determine the future of the party’s power sharing agreement with the Scottish National party, after the government abandoned its pledge to cut carbon emissions ...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent    Sector may breach the government’s Jet Zero strategy which pledged not to surpass CO figuresEmissions from UK flights are rapidly returning to pre pandemic levels, with CO pollution from aviation on track to reach a record high this year.The increase means the sector may breach a key plank...

Helena Horton Environment reporter    Exclusive: of Welsh dairy farms inspected, of English ones, in Scotland and in Northern Ireland breaching regulationsThe majority of UK dairy farms are breaking pollution rules, with vast amounts of cow manure being spilled into rivers.When animal waste enters the river, it causes a...

Arthur Neslen    Exclusive: Study released at Cop misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academicsA flagship UN report on livestock emissions is facing calls for retraction from two key experts it cited who say that the paper seriously distorted their work.The UN Food and...

Emily Dugan    Exclusive: Former head of policy at illegal migration taskforce details inhumane conversations’A senior civil servant has said Cabinet Office officials making policy on small boats referred to bloody migrants and were expected to leave their humanity at the door .Rowaa Ahmar withdrew a...

PA Media    Attorney general weighing up whether to refer sentences of Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter to appeal courtThe attorney general is considering whether to refer the sentences of two men who were convicted of murdering a footballer on a nightclub dancefloor to the court of appeal for reconsideration...

Clea Skopeliti    Chain changes That’s why mums go to Iceland’ line to reflect fact other people also do grocery shoppingIceland has dropped the outdated That’s why mums go to Iceland slogan to reflect the fact that other people also do grocery shopping.The frozen foods retailer has tweaked its strapline to the...

Nick Robins-Early    Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish born philosopher says was death by bureaucracy’Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long termism...

Rosanna Greenstreet    The Green party MP on her stint as a chambermaid, a brush with the law and the importance of hairsprayBorn in Worcestershire, Caroline Lucas, , studied at the University of Exeter where she gained a PhD in English. She joined the Green party in and went on to become...

Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea    Exclusive: Whistleblowers point to broader sewage scandal, with wastewater systems manipulated to divert sewageWhistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works are manipulating wastewater systems to divert raw...