F1 driver had reached first place during Saturday stint Race was on Dutchman’s ‘bucket list’ before F1 resumes The four-time Formula One world champion Max Verstappen’s chances of victory in his 24-hour racing debut at the famed Nürburgring track have been ended by an apparent mechanical issue with his car. Verstappen had been leading in Germany on Sunday morning by over half a minute, sharing a Mercedes AMG GT3 car with the experienced sportscar racers Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella. Continue reading...

They were surprised to agree on some topics. But could the scientist and the lawyer see eye to eye on the future of the monarchy? Want to meet someone from across the divide? Click here to find out how Keith, 48, Leeds Occupation University lecturer in medical microbiology Continue reading...

Experts say slashed funding and growing misinformation are some of the greatest challenges facing public health The hantavirus outbreak, while unlikely to spark the next big pandemic, is shining a spotlight on the ways public health has deteriorated in the US: its ability to test for rare diseases, its expertise on outbreak prevention and response, its ability to battle misinformation and restore trust. “Assuming everything goes well in containing this outbreak, which I hope it does, the takeaway from that should not be ‘we’re fine,’” said Stephanie Psaki, former White House global health security coordinator. “We’re not ready for this type of threat.” Continue reading...

Lisa Nandy told the BBC she did not understand ‘sudden focus on Europe’ from Labour leadership hopeful UK politics live – latest updates The UK culture secretary has dismissed calls for Britain to re-enter the European Union as “odd”, a day after her former cabinet colleague Wes Streeting said the country’s future lies back in the bloc. Lisa Nandy criticised the former health secretary on Sunday, saying his comments over the weekend risked reopening a debate that was settled with the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. Continue reading...

French police fire teargas and UK shops close for safety reasons as hundreds queue for Royal Pop timepiece The launch of limited-edition Swatch watches descended into chaos in several European cities and New York, with French police firing teargas to restore order at a store near Paris. Hundreds of people waited through the night from Friday into Saturday – and in some cases for several days – hoping to buy the Royal Pop timepieces, made in collaboration with the luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Continue reading...

The Marriage Story stars team up with Miles Teller for this sombre and impressive story of shady dealings in 80s New York With this muscular, heartfelt and sombre new picture set in 1980s New York, James Gray again resurrects the spirit of Elia Kazan in a blue-collar tragedy of fraternal loyalty and betrayal; a movie about men and their horror of appearing weak and failing to protect their families. Paper Tiger has that distinctive Gray colour palette: a perpetual late-afternoon autumn of subdued ochres, reds and browns. And there are his keynote family supper scenes, the characteristic presence of the Russian community in New York, and the potent, tribal codes of the NYPD: part mob, part trade union, part masonic clan whose membership responsibilities and perks go on well after retirement. Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller give weighted, intelligent performances at the film’s centre: all three characters, in their different ways, have Springsteenian hungry hearts. Teller is Irwin Pearl, a modest, working-class guy who is a qualified engineer in Queens, doing well at his trade but still concerned about paying for his teen sons’ – Scott (Gavin Goudey) and Benjamin (Roman Engel) – college education. He’s married to Hester, played with forthright authority by Johansson, sporting frizzy hair and glasses that make her look like one of the Golden Girls. Continue reading...

Minute-by-minute report on the action at Old Trafford Manchester United: who to keep, who to sell, who to sign Premier League table | Golden Boot | Email Michael Manchester United (4-2-3-1): Lammens; Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw; Casemiro, Mainoo; Amad, Fernandes, Cunha; Mbeumo. Subs: Bayindir, Dorgu, Heaven, Malacia, Mazraoui, Yoro, Mount, Ugarte, Zirkzee. No great surprises here. Bryan Mbeumo replaces Joshua Zirkzee, while Diogo Dalot is back in at right-back in place of Noussair Mazraoui. For many it is a redundant game at the end of a very long season for Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. There have been many twists, turns and managerial changes but both have achieved their goals; United and back in the Champions League and Forest have survived in the Premier League. Michael Carrick will be announced as the permanent Manchester United head coach in the coming days but it is highly unlikely to be today at this stage. He has done a fine job and gave United little option other than keeping him on. Continue reading...

Actor says Ensemble 84 in Horden, employing local talent, is how a professional repertory company should be It’s a chilly spring evening in what was once a Catholic church in a left-behind County Durham pit village, and Ian McKellen admits he is feeling emotional. “This is the only company of actors in the United Kingdom and it’s in … Horden?” he says. “I’m feeling very emotional. This fulfils all my romantic dreams I’ve had ever since I discovered the joys of theatre-going and acting.” Continue reading...

The former Real Madrid manager’s desire to sign and create mentality monsters breaks with previous club policy The Chelsea end was mostly empty by the time the players went to collect their losers’ medals. There was no grand ovation for the beaten team. The disconnect was evident after defeat to Manchester City in the FA Cup final, underlining how one of Xabi Alonso’s first challenges as Chelsea’s new manager will be to lift the mood and get players, fans and owners pulling in the same direction after a hugely disappointing season. Many people are wondering why Alonso has agreed to take over on a four-year deal. Why, after running into player power and reluctance to build a project at Real Madrid, would you choose Chelsea? Just how big is the payoff? Continue reading...

A casual arrangement became something more substantial for Shani and Can, who are happy living in the moment • How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously I was used to telling people that I could only offer them adventure, but with Shani that wasn’t true Continue reading...

Union representative concerned about safety as workers rush to finish repainting DC pool before 250th celebrations Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time for the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, a union monitoring the site has warned. Trade union scrutiny has focused on the reflecting pool on the US capital’s National Mall – scene of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream speech” – after it was drained of water and fenced off from the public to allow contractors the chance to upgrade it by 4 July. Continue reading...

The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its environmental promises. From air travel emissions to heat-related dangers, the 2026 edition will be even worse Soccer fans are increasingly watching preparations for the 2026 World Cup through their fingers. The most popular sporting event on the planet is awash in controversy, whether it’s the eye-watering ticket prices, the question of Iran’s participation while the president of one of the host countries threatens war crimes against it, or the role that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement may or may not play in policing the event. And yet, lost in the political pyrotechnics is a fiasco that carries as much long-term peril as any: the tournament’s staggering contribution to runaway climate change. The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, but it is also on track to be the “most polluting” World Cup ever, with total greenhouse gas emissions hitting nearly two times the historical average. Scientists conservatively project that the tournament will generate around 9m tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Air travel comprises approximately 7.7m tons of this carbon budget, and more than four times that of the average for tournaments held between 2010 and 2022. The researchers note that the worst-case upper estimate for air transport is about 13.7m tons of CO2. That may sound bad, but that’s just because World Cup emissions have never been worse. Continue reading...

A decade after Theresa May spoke of radical reform, the mutual faces a bid that is testing the limits of democracy In July 2016, in a canalside conference centre in central Birmingham, Theresa May took the stage for a speech that would formally launch her Tory leadership bid. The home secretary of six years was seen as a safe pair of hands, including by the business community still reeling from the shock result of the Brexit referendum. What business had not banked on, though, was a social reform platform that would see May pledge to rein in corporate Britain and give workers and consumers seats on company boards. Continue reading...

Wave of almost 600 drones launched across 14 regions, after Moscow’s deadly three-day attack on Ukraine last week At least four people have been killed in a large-scale retaliatory strike by Ukraine on Russia’s regions, including Moscow, Russian authorities have said. The wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones struck overnight across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean peninsula and the Black and Azov seas, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday, with the region around the capital among the worst-hit. Continue reading...

Hampstead theatre, London A first love is rekindled on stage and off in Sarah Ruhl’s metatheatrical romance and farcical send-up of hammy old musicals It doesn’t take long for the protagonists of Sarah Ruhl’s 2011-set romantic comedy – two actors who have been cast in a 1930s melodrama called The Last Kiss – to realise they’ve signed up for a theatrical flop in the making. The director is hopeless, all wafting hands and evasive “just trust your instincts”; the young supporting cast are as wooden as the boards they’re tentatively treading; and the bombastic script feels ludicrous to the pair’s naturalistically trained ears. There is also a whopper of an art-imitating-life situation afoot: the pair, elusively named He and She, are portraying but also happen to be first loves, reuniting to crackling chemistry despite She and her character each being married with a grownup daughter. Continue reading...

Updates from around the grounds on day three Sign up for The Spin | Email Tanya or post below the line A very happy Ben Aitchison, having a match to remember: “It was great fun. I’ve just said to Wayne, we were having a laugh out there and really enjoying ourselves. That’s what makes it so much easier when you’ve got someone at the other end who it is a joy batting with. There were balls out there that were doing all sorts and we couldn’t get near to them, so you just had to laugh it off and then go again. “I nearly didn’t go out as second nightwatchman last night because I got told at the last second to get my pads on and I was almost not ready. So it could have all been very different. I definitely didn’t think that (a hundred) was going to happen this morning, but obviously very happy. Continue reading...

Dana White announces McGregor’s return for UFC329 Controversial Irishman has not fought since 2021 The former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion Conor McGregor will make his return to the UFC octagon on 11 July in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White has announced. The Irishman, who has not fought since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier in July 2021, will face Hawaii’s Max Holloway in the main event at UFC 329 in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with the contest taking place at lightweight/welterweight. Continue reading...

He has made smash hit shows for Netflix and has adapted Harry Potter for the stage. Yet the in-demand writer’s latest show Falling is new territory for him – a love story I hear Jack Thorne before I see him. We’re meeting in a quiet cafe in Hampstead, north London, to discuss his very first love story for TV, Falling. I catch snatches of him chatting with various waiters – “Thank you, good sir” and “Lovely, lovely” – before he appears in front of me, all smiles but a little nervous, too. Which is surprising given this is the writer who had a hand in hits such as Skins, Shameless and the This Is England trilogy, co-created a cluster of brilliant adaptations (His Dark Materials, Lord of the Flies, Enola Holmes) and is steadily building up a vast canon of work inspired by disturbing but fascinating real-life stories (National Treasure, Toxic Town, The Hack). Most notably, he also co-created the Netflix series Adolescence, winner of endless awards, including and viewed by 140 million people and counting. The ridiculous thing is that Thorne’s theatre career is as illustrious as his TV work. There’s the small matter of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on stage (an experience that Thorne found rewarding but, with all eyes on him, “not always a lot of fun”); plus his takes on A Christmas Carol and the chilling Let the Right One In. He drew on his family’s own experiences with IVF for the screenplay to the movie Joy, and is currently co-writing Sam Mendes’s highly publicised but super-secret four-film series about the Beatles (“I’m not allowed to talk about that”). Continue reading...

Naegohyang FC due to play Suwon FC in semi-final of Asian Women’s Champions League on Wednesday A North Korean women’s football club has arrived in South Korea for an AFC Women’s Champions League semi-final, marking the first visit by athletes from the isolated state to the South in eight years. The delegation of 27 players and 12 staff entered the country on Sunday before Wednesday’s match between Naegohyang FC and South Korea’s Suwon FC Women in Suwon. Continue reading...

Former Liverpool and Madrid midfielder starts on 1 July Alonso feels ‘immense pride to be manager of great club’ Chelsea have confirmed the appointment of Xabi Alonso as their new manager. The Spaniard has signed a four-year deal and will start work in pre season. He becomes the sixth permanent manager of the BlueCo era. The former Real Madrid head coach will take charge of the Blues from 1 July in what is his first managerial role in the Premier League. Continue reading...

Despite the ban on disposables, waste professionals say the mountain of discarded devices is a £1bn-a-year issue It is 2pm and Ana, 47, has just started the afternoon shift at the Suez recycling plant near Birmingham city centre, standing beneath a sign reading “Non-ferrous sorting station” with a bucket of vapes in front of her. Sorting and dismantling them is part of her job as a site operative. Recycling them is not simple. Each bucket holds between 40 and 50 devices, and over the course of a shift, she gets through about half a bucket. Using a hammer, she has to smash each vape open, pry out the batteries and separate each component into a different container. Continue reading...

Lisa Nandy says no candidate has launched a challenge to Keir Starmer, despite ‘feverish speculation’ around Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting Asked about former health secretary Wes Streeting’s call for the UK to re-join the European Union, the culture secretary called the stance “a bit odd” Lisa Nandy said the government was “trying to take a far more pragmatic approach” of forming a closer relationship with the EU, “rather than re-opening the Brexit wars”. The sort of fights we have been prepared to have in recent years, the fight for renters, the fight for workers, the fight for football fans – people need to see more of that from us. I think Andy can come and bring that perspective and that fight and that energy to this team.” Continue reading...

⚽ Reaction and buildup on another busy Sunday ⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Email Xaymaca Premier League Manchester United v Nottingham Forest (12:30pm) Brentford v Crystal Palace Everton v Sunderland Leeds United v Brighton & Hove Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers v Fulham Newcastle United v West Ham United (5:30pm) Dundee v Aberdeen (2pm) Livingston v Kilmarnock (2pm) St. Mirren v Dundee United (2pm) Southend United v Wealdstone Chelsea 0-1 Manchester City Celtic 3-1 Hearts Falkirk 2-5 Rangers Hibernian 0-1 Motherwell Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United Everton 1-0 Leicester City Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal London City Lionesses 2-1 Aston Villa West Ham United 1-4 Manchester City Continue reading...

Exclusive: Then-home secretary justified proscription of group in newspaper column despite advice it might unfairly impact trial of six activists Yvette Cooper wrote a newspaper column about Palestine Action despite prosecutors warning it could prejudice criminal proceedings against six activists from the group, it can be revealed. The then-home secretary wrote the column justifying Palestine Action’s proscription even though the Crown Prosecution Service advised it might unfairly impact a trial concerning a 2024 break-in at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s factory. Continue reading...

Labour’s sometime safest seat in the UK, birthplace of Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock, last week sent no Labour delegates to the new Senedd Reminders of the Labour movement’s roots are inescapable in Tredegar, south Wales: murals pay tribute to party giants Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock, both of whom were born here. The Workmen’s Hall Library is long gone, replaced by a car park, but the Cambrian Inn, which hosted early trade unions and Chartist groups, survives. The Tredegar Medical Aid Society, which Bevan used as a model for the NHS, was across the road; today it is a heritage centre paying tribute to the public health pioneers and the area’s coal-mining and steel-making past. Continue reading...