Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent    SNP leader says he will fight next week’s no confidence vote at Holyrood and take party into general electionHumza Yousaf has said he will not resign as first minister after hours of intense speculation about his leadership.Speaking at an event in Dundee, the Scottish National party leader, who...

Emine Sinmaz and agencies    Dylan Earl accused of organising arson attack in east London and four others charged in connection with investigationA year old British man has been charged with planning an arson attack on a Ukraine linked business and assisting Russian intelligence services.Dylan Earl, from Elmesthorpe in...

Chris Stein    Emil Bove’s line of questioning apparently aimed at undermining Pecker’s role in any purported conspiracyTrump defense attorney Emil Bove has resumed his cross examination of Pecker. We were talking about Hope Hicks, right Bove asked, referring to the former campaign and White House aide to...

Jamie Jackson    Forward’s form has dropped for Manchester UnitedRashford responds to social media post supporting himMarcus Rashford has criticised the abuse he has received this season and said on social media enough is enough .The forward is enduring a disappointing campaign in which he has scored only eight...

Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent    General manager resigns after test event problems at , capacity venue, with shows rescheduledThe beleaguered Co op Live arena has postponed gigs by the comedian Peter Kay for the second time, on the day its general manager resigned over delays to opening the venue.A number of gigs have been...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor    Labour mayor’s lead over Tory rival has narrowed in week before mayoral election in the capitalSadiq Khan has urged young Londoners to vote in the mayoral election, saying a shock victory for the Conservatives’ Susan Hall would be like waking up to Donald Trump in power or Brexit in .With his...

Jessica Murray and agencies    Fiona Beal, , changes her plea mid trial over the fatal stabbing of Nicholas Billingham, , in A woman has pleaded guilty mid trial to the murder of her boyfriend, who she buried in their back garden.Fiona Beal, , was on trial at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Nicholas...

Jane Croft    Inquiry hears firm drip fed’ compensation to Martin Griffiths’ widow as incentive for her to maintain confidentialty’The Post Office sought to hush up the case of Martin Griffiths, a post office operator who took his own life, by drip feeding compensation payments to his widow and lining...

Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem    Prof Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian’s legal team and employer speak out after arrest over podcast commentsThe arrest and interrogation of a leading Palestinian legal scholar based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem marks a new threat to civil liberties in Israel, her legal team and employer have said...

Adrian Horton    Former talkshow host discussed her controversial exit from daytime TV after reports of a toxic workplace in new standup setEllen DeGeneres has addressed the controversial end of her eponymous daytime talkshow after allegations that it was a toxic workplace.While performing the opening night of her...

Peter Beaumont in Sderot    People in city bordering Gaza say Israel will never be safe while Hamas exists but many worry IDF will not achieve its objectiveThe two men, faces blurred and voices disguised, are screened by a dense scrub of fig and trailing vine and thorns in northern Gaza as they film themselves loading a...

Amelia Hill    Doctors’ ability to sign people off work is crucial, say readers, especially for those with mental health problemsGuardian readers have reacted with horror and distress to Rishi Sunak’s plans to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work, in favour of work and health professionals .We...

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent    In garages and gyms across the country, clubs are springing up, as social media makes wrestlers into starsIn the garage of a house in east Birmingham, dozens of people are crowded around a table where two men grapple with each other, fists interlocked, sweat dripping down their foreheads.This is...

Andrew Pulver    The year old American actor has gone from the Disney channel to new classy arthouse threesome drama Challengers, via a massive blockbuster and a hot button TV series. So can she convince as an Oscar contender Actor model producer Zendaya Coleman universally known mononymously, without her last...

Annalisa Barbieri    He is the one who should be saying sorry. There’s no miracle cure, but do consider therapy, and keep good people around youEvery week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family related problem sent in by a readerWhen I was a child I was bullied by my older brother. I am now and I think this has really...

Grace Dent    This is the sort of food invented for British people that you’d have got at a Cantonese restaurant back in Off to Canterbury for a shufti around the cathedral, a meander through its pretty streets and a spot of lunch at Sekkoya, a vast, gorgeous looking new pan Asian restaurant on the Riverside...

Ellie Violet Bramley    Patriotic teaware was on show from the prime minister this week the latest round of his mug based messagingUK politics latest updatesRishi Sunak appeared on his Instagram feed on Tuesday morning holding a mug emblazoned with the St George’s flag. Perfect way to start the day, was the...

Jasper Jolly    EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporaryElon Musk became the world’s richest man by evangelising about electric cars and delivering them by the million. Yet in recent months his company, Tesla, has struggled to maintain its momentum: sales...

Skye Butchard    Artists from Dua Lipa to Nia Archives are tapping the boisterous energy of mid s music and even embracing the union jack. Can they avoid the genre’s laddish lows For some, Britpop was a high point for British guitar music: that time when Blur, Pulp, Suede and Oasis thrilled the world with wit...

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent    Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater ManchesterThe Conservatives are not taking accountability for their part in leaving regions such as the east Midlands to suffer with poor infrastructure, growing inequalities and a...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Top chefs say the Games will rebrand French gastronomy as a showcase for plant based food It will boast the world’s biggest salad bar, offer fans vegetarian hotdogs and bring in up to half a million bananas by boat to meet athletes’ insatiable demand for the fruit while avoiding the carbon...

Marina Hyde    Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as presidentAccording to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York court, but they did come out to say he...

Dani Garavelli    The first minister’s latest misstep will worsen his party’s split along culture war lines. It’s a mess, but a boon for Scottish LabourThe Bute House agreement BHA was supposed to stabilise the SNP. Brokered by Nicola Sturgeon in August , the coalition with the Greens at first appeared a...

Andy Beckett    Instead of buy one get one free offers, everyday life now involves carefully comparing prices and feeling increasingly powerless Under capitalism, prices are supposed to be the centre of everything. They are the key agreement between buyer and seller. They are the one clear and reliable piece of...

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Devi Sridhar    This is not a repeat of the Covid pandemic. Yet global governments should follow the US and prepare a responseAvian flu, or H N , is making headlines in the United States. The past few years have seen concerning signs of it spreading across the world whether in chickens in Britain, sea lions in...

Polly Toynbee    Museums have closed and festivals lost funding but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower statusA culture change is on the way when this moribund government of the living dead is gone. Clock watching, we wait for that witching hour on election night when it is blown away by the power...

Fatma Aydemir    Germany’s complicity with Turkey’s repressive regime worries me more than its döner diplomacy Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret, must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of...

Tom Haines-Doran    The Labour leader needs to stop counting the cost of properly investing in railways and instead see the costs of not doing so Dr Tom Haines Doran is the author of Derailed: How to Fix Britain’s Broken RailwaysIs there any hope for Britain’s beleaguered rail passengers We have some of the...

Editorial    Humza Yousaf’s position as first minister is in danger, but the problems predate his leadershipA year ago, Scotland’s newly elected first minister, Humza Yousaf, said that the Scottish National party’s pact with the Scottish Greens giving him a majority in the Holyrood parliament was ...

Editorial    Train services are essential to the health of the economy, society and environment. These proposals are pragmatic and welcomeFailing train services in Britain have often been the butt of jokes, but the chaos is not funny to those who rely on them. For many in the north of England in particular,...

Guardian Staff    Readers respond to the prime minister’s claim that the UK is suffering from a sicknote culture’As a retired GP who spent years looking after people with anxiety and depression in primary care, I find Rishi Sunak’s recent comments about GPs over medicalising the everyday challenges and worries...

Guardian Staff    The problem is that the public eye is ruinous, especially for women, says Dr Catherine MerrickThe headline on Gaby Hinsliff’s article April reads Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same .Well, no, I wouldn’t. I’d just...

John Brewin (now), Dominic Booth and Yara El-Shaboury (earlier)    Premier League: things to look out for this weekendSign up for Football Daily And send John an emailChris Wilder has been in contemplative mood this morning as the spectre of Sheffield United’s impending relegation finally moves in. A loss to Newcastle on Saturday will confirm their place in...

Louise Taylor    Newcastle manager wants to build team around midfielderPSG and both Manchester clubs admire Brazil internationalEddie Howe has revealed that Bruno Guimarà es’s m release clause expires in the final days of June and hopes that will save Newcastle from a summer of transfer speculation centred on...

Robert Kitson    Scrum half guides playoff chasing Bears around at a whirring tempo and he also has his eye on an England Test recallTrying to catch lightning in a cider bottle would be only slightly harder right now than containing Bristol’s dazzling attacking game. The Bears have been averaging points per...

Guardian sport and agencies    Atlanta selected the Washington QB with No pick in the draftCousins signed m contract with Falcons this offseasonBears tap Caleb Williams with No pick as six QBs go in top The Atlanta Falcons provided the shock of the first round of the NFL draft by selecting quarterback Michael Penix Jr...

John Brewin    Sign up now Sign up now Sign up now Sign up now This. Means. More. Anyone can beat anyone. Every game is a contest. The most passionate crowds. Local heroes. Cult heroes. Excitement to the last minute of the season. Commentators treating every kick with a growling portentousness. Clubs spending...

Jamie Jackson    Manchester City playmaker and partner expecting third childGuardiola: It’s a question of time. He can improve a lot’Pep Guardiola has said the the third child Phil Foden and his partner are expecting may help the Manchester City playmaker reach his full potential.Foden was the champions’ standout...

Greg Wood    Six weeks after his Cheltenham milestone, trainer will become the first based in Ireland to win since Vincent O’Brien in It’s done but not quite dusted yet, was Willie Mullins’s assessment earlier this week of the race for the National Hunt trainers’ championship race, but he knows as well...

Jack Snape    With an eye on making the team final in Paris, the Commonwealth Games champion wants her sport back in the spotlightGeorgia Godwin may be the queen of Australian gymnastics, but sitting on a throne is not on her to do list.She is the Commonwealth Games all around gold medallist, seven time...

Natasha Ion and Wil Crisp    Exclusive: Environmental groups say bank is misleading public over sustainable’ financing for Eni as company vastly expands fossil fuel productionBarclays is being accused by environmental groups of greenwashing after helping to arrange bn . bn in financing for the Italian oil company Eni...

Rebecca Ratcliffe , south-east Asia correspondent and agencies    Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Ni oMillions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually hot weather forcing schools to close and...

Lauren Herdman and Matt Andrews for MetDesk    Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least people and damages farmland and infrastructure Eastern Africa has experienced heavy rain in recent weeks, with flooding in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi. About , people have been displaced or otherwise affected in each country, with ...

Jonathan Watts    World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Ni o effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as causeFossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the death trap conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found.Scientists...

Steven Morris    Teenager remanded in youth custody for trial in May after playground stabbing in CarmarthenshireA year old girl has appeared in court accused of attempting to murder two teachers and a fellow pupil in a school playground stabbing in Wales.The deputy head of Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford,...

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent    Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry bailed for trial on charges of breaching the Official Secrets ActTwo men charged with spying for China have appeared in court in central London.Christopher Cash, , and Christopher Berry, , spoke only to confirm their names and addresses when they appeared...

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent    Attorney general decides atrocity that killed people merits further scrutiny amid new evidenceNorthern Ireland’s attorney general has recommended a new inquest into a bombing by loyalist paramilitaries that killed people, including two children, in Belfast in .Brenda King decided the...

Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot    Gideon Falter was in running to be adviser but government’s antisemitism tsar warned against appointmentWho are CAA, the group headed by campaigner in Met police antisemitism row The Home Office considered appointing campaigner against antisemitism Gideon Falter as an adviser to its counter...

Helena Horton Environment reporter    Group banned plants removed from habitat’ from its shows causing uproar from enthusiastsA furious row has blown up in the UK’s leading succulent society over the practice of taking desirable specimens from the wild, with the chair resigning in protest over the behaviour of his fellow...