England 1-2 Germany (Scott 76; Knauff 3 Weiper 33) Lee Carsley’s side face quarter-final against Spain When Lee Carsley expressed his hope that England’s Under-21 players could give Thomas Tuchel “something to ponder” with their performances while defending their European title in Slovakia, their first-half showing against Germany’s second-string side wasn’t what he had in mind. Trailing 2-0 at the break after goals from Ansgar Knauff and Nelson Weiper, there was even a brief moment when the result of the group’s other match between Slovenia and the Czech Republic might have determined whether they progressed to the quarter-finals. But a significantly improved performance in the second half, as Alex Scott set up a frantic finale that could not quite produce an equaliser, at least gives Carsley something to build on as they prepare to face Spain in the last eight on Saturday night. Having beaten the pre-tournament favourites, who are looking for their record sixth title at this level, in the final two years ago in Georgia, the England manager will know that his side cannot defend like they did against Germany. Continue reading...

This tonally uncertain revival mixes folk horror and little-England satire as an island lad seeks help for his sick mum on the undead-infested mainland Here they are again, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombies – though unlike the usual stumbling slow-movers, of course, these things can sprint like Tom Cruise on steroids. Back in 2002, screenwriter Garland and director Boyle had a monster hit with their post-apocalyptic horror thriller 28 Days Later, about a “rage” virus that leaks from a lab and, turning people into aggressive zombies, causes a complete law-and-order breakdown in 28 days; Boyle famously made smart use of then-new lightweight digital tech which let him bring off miracles of unlicensed guerrilla shooting at dawn in the deserted London streets. That was fierce, muscular film-making, though I have never been a fan of zombies whose massed presence (then as now) requires silly, gurning, ketchup-strewn extras who can’t be clearly looked at for any length of time without laughing. (For my money it was only Edgar Wright’s zombie horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, which came out two years afterwards, which fully explored the real, intimate horror of zombie-ism: the gap between being bitten and transforming.) In 2007, a lacklustre sequel, 28 Weeks Later, brought the franchise stumbling to a halt. Continue reading...

Team are in Washington DC for Club World Cup President asks if women could make Juve team Juventus players and staff were involved in an awkward encounter at the White House on Wednesday when Donald Trump attempted to get them to enter into a debate on transgender women in sport. The Italian football giants are in the US for the Club World Cup, and are due to play Al Ain of the UAE at Washington DC’s Audi Field on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

Defense secretary had contentious hearing in which he sparred with Democratic senators over various issues The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, suggested on Wednesday that he would not obey a federal court ruling against the deployments of national guard troops and US marines to Los Angeles, the latest example of the Trump administration’s willingness to ignore judges it disagrees with. The comments before the Senate armed services committee come as Donald Trump faces dozen of lawsuits over his policies, which his administration has responded to by avoiding compliance with orders it dislikes. In response, Democrats have claimed that Trump is sending the country into a constitutional crisis. Continue reading...

Want to get more charts in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch here Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia is one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas ventures. In May the Labor government approved an extension for the project to run for an additional 40 years, from 2030 to 2070. North West Shelf project extension emissions are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions set out in the EPA application Qantas domestic emissions are scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2023-24 as reported to the Clean Energy Regulator Australian total agriculture emissions are the sum of agricultural emissions in the December 2024 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Emissions from all Australian gas plants derived from the primary fuel type in the 2023-24 electricity sector emissions data Switzerland and Ireland total 2023 emissions sourced from Our World in Data Apple’s emissions based on information from its 2024 environmental progress report, with more information about why renewable energy certificates and offsets are excluded here Driving around Australia emissions estimated for doing the M1 “big lap” with a fuel consumption of 6.9L/100km Continue reading...

New manager praises ‘legend’ Ange Postecoglou ‘I know the ethos of the club is massive on attacking’ Thomas Frank intends to build on Ange Postecoglou’s Europa League triumph and turn Tottenham into “serial winners”. The new manager described Postecoglou as a “legend” as he considered how the Australian had ended the club’s 17-year trophy drought with victory against Manchester United in Bilbao on 21 May. It was not enough to save him from the sack after a dismal Premier League season. Frank, who has joined from Brentford on a three-year contract, acknowledged the barriers that his predecessor had broken down. But as he promised in his first interview at Spurs to take risks and play on the front foot, he made it clear that the goal was to create more memories by winning silverware. Continue reading...

Writing to the culture secretary, the carnival’s chair said more money was ‘essential’ to the event’s future, but did not give a figure The future of the Notting Hill carnival could be in jeopardy without “urgent funding” from the government, according to a leaked letter from its organisers. The carnival’s chair, Ian Comfort, has written to the culture secretary to request public money, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Continue reading...

British No 1 recovers to win 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) Draper battles through but admits ‘I wasn’t my best’ In the final throes of a tense, uneasy tussle with one of the bigger servers in his sport, Jack Draper was fading. The British No 1, and second seed, had started poorly: he had struggled to find his range on his groundstrokes for much of the occasion and then two match points passed him by. Deep in the third-set tie break, he trailed 2-4. Over the past year, though, a period during which he has established himself as one of the best players in the world, Draper has continually shown his ability to find a path to victory no matter what. In the first week of his grass-court homecoming, the 23-year-old offered a forceful demonstration of his supreme competitive spirit as he recovered to defeat Australia’s Alexei Popyrin, the world No 21, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) to reach the quarter-finals at Queen’s Club. Continue reading...

The handmade posters of immigrants have become a symbol of quiet resistance. Their creators reveal the story behind the project “Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around Los Angeles. At first glance, they appear to be from worried relatives seeking help from neighbors. Continue reading...

Jennifer Abbott, 69, was found dead in her Camden flat with tape on her mouth last week A missing diamond-crusted Rolex watch may be linked to the stabbing of a 69-year-old woman who was found dead in her north London flat, the Metropolitan police has said. Jennifer Abbott, who was known professionally as Sarah Steinberg, was discovered fatally injured with tape on her mouth. Continue reading...

Manchester City 2-0 Wydad AC (Foden 2, Doku 42) Lewis sent off after late VAR decision upheld This midday kick-off in the Philadelphia heat that ended in victory against Morocco’s Wydad AC offered a glimpse of Manchester City’s hopes for the 2025-26 campaign as their Club World Cup defence was given the best start. It told us that Tijjani Reijnders can operate in the No 6 or “Rodri role” for Pep Guardiola despite being bought to scheme primarily as a No 8. It said that City’s high line remains a weakness though mitigation could be found in their big defensive guns, Rúben Dias and John Stones, being substitutes only. Continue reading...

America-first backers such as Steve Bannon urge restraint, while Republican hawks push for intervention US politics live – latest updates Prospects of the US joining Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program risks splitting Donald Trump’s support base asunder, amid sharp divisions on military intervention between the president’s most avid America-first acolytes and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks. Some leading figures in Trump’s “make America great again” (Mega) movement have warned that such a move would amount to a betrayal of past promises to avoid US involvement in long-running overseas wars and could even destroy his presidency. Continue reading...

Hackers known as Predatory Sparrow claim responsibility for rendering Nobitex exchange funds inaccessible An Israel-linked hacking group has claimed responsibility for a $90m (£67m) heist on an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange. The group known as Gonjeshke Darande in Farsi, or Predatory Sparrow, said on Wednesday it had hacked the Nobitex exchange a day after claiming it had destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah. Continue reading...

Hours before the decision, the president called the Fed’s chair, Jerome Powell, ‘stupid’ for anticipated rate hold The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, but signaled it might make two cuts this year, as Donald Trump continues to break with precedent and demand lower rates. Policymakers at the American central bank lifted their projections for inflation this year, as the US president stands by his controversial tariff plans, and downgraded their estimates for economic growth. Continue reading...

Updates from the Group B match; kick-off 8pm BST Read today’s edition of Football Daily | And email Will Ed Aarons on Germany’s main man. He starts on the bench. England (4-2-3-1): Beadle; Hinshelwood, Quansah, Cresswell, Illing-Junior; Scott, Anderson; Hutchinson, Elliott, Nwaneri; Rowe Continue reading...

The age of disarmament is over. But military action only increases the dangers instead of ending the threat Eighty years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 40 years after the US and Soviet Union pledged to reduce their arsenals, the threat of nuclear war has resurged with a vengeance. The age of disarmament is over, a prominent thinktank warned this week: “We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of arms control agreements,” said Hans M Kristensen of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have amassed the equivalent of 145,000 Hiroshima bombs. Israel’s illegal attack upon Iran is purportedly a last-ditch attempt to prevent it joining this club – as Israel did long ago, though does not admit it. While Tehran possesses the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to, US intelligence believes it has not made that decision – and would still need up to three years to build and deploy one. Israel does not appear to be striking Iran because US nuclear diplomacy has failed, but because it fears it might succeed. Many of its targets are unrelated to the nuclear programme, and some even to Iran’s military. Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly invoked regime change: more honestly, regime collapse. Continue reading...

The botched London-Birmingham line is symbol of malaise in British politics. Getting it done would signal renewal One day there will be a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham. Maybe. Not soon. When HS2 was first proposed, an opening date for the first phase was planned for December 2026. After multiple delays and cost overruns, a revised target of 2033 was set. That is no longer realistic, according to Heidi Alexander. The transport secretary told MPs on Wednesday that two more years are likely to be required, blaming the last Conservative government for mismanaging the whole project and wasting billions of pounds in the process. Continue reading...

Latest from 3pm ET/8pm BST kick-off at Hard Rock Stadium Email alexander.abnos@theguardian.com with your thoughts Sign up to Jonathan Wilson’s weekly football email Alex will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Barney Ronay on Real’s new signing: On Tuesday morning the Miami Herald carried a story about a Local Man arrested in Florida’s Polk County for breaking into a stranger’s house to make himself dinner and have a bath rather than going home to face his wife after an argument. Continue reading...

Killing of Canadian national was ‘significant escalation in India’s repression efforts’ but leaders shake hands at G7 Canada’s spy agency has warned that the assassination in British Columbia of a prominent Sikh activist signaled a “significant escalation in India’s repression efforts” and reflects a broader, transnational campaign by the government in New Delhi to threaten dissidents. The report was made public a day after Mark Carney shook hands with Narendra Modi at the G7 and pledged to restore diplomatic relations in a very public attempt to turn the page on the bitter diplomatic row unleashed by the murder of the Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Continue reading...

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Supreme court ruled that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming treatment did not discriminate on basis of sex The US supreme court on Wednesday ruled to uphold a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors – a decision, legal analysts say, that is sure to have a sweeping impact not only on transgender and non-binary individuals across the US, but on anybody who wants to argue that they have been discriminated against on the basis of their sex. Forty per cent of trans people between the ages of 13 and 17 live in the 27 states that have so far enacted bans or policies that restrict youths’ access to gender-affirming care. Although advocates have launched more than a dozen lawsuits over the bans, most remain in effect. Wednesday’s decision in the case, United States v Skrmetti, may pave the way for the rest to take effect. Continue reading...

William Buick on board in Prince of Wales’s Stakes win Royal family have second favourite beaten at meeting The only British stable to wrest Royal Ascot’s top trainer award away from Aidan O’Brien over the course of the last decade continued its strong run through this year’s meeting here on Wednesday, as John & Thady Gosden’s Ombudsman, in the Group One Prince of Wales’s Stakes, followed up the success of Crimson Advocate, in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes, for a 59-1 double on the day. The feature race, though, was not an easy watch for either the joint-trainers of Ombudsman or his backers at 7-1, at least until William Buick, his rider, finally managed to extract him and find running room with around a furlong to go, after being caught in a series of pockets. Buick was forced to switch twice in the straight, but when he did eventually take aim at the lead, Ombudsman’s response was immediate and overpowering. Continue reading...

‘We want to get our freedom on our own terms, not through US bombs,’ said one Tehran resident Despite a substantial internet blackout, news spread quickly in Iran on Tuesday night: the US was considering joining Israel in its war on Iran. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now … Our patience is wearing thin,” the US president, Donald Trump, said on Truth Social on Tuesday night. He added three minutes later in a second post: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” When Mehnaz*, a 24-year-old student activist in east Tehran, heard the news, she did not think of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Instead, she thought of her fellow students who were detained, shot and executed by Iranian security forces during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests. Continue reading...

Work and pensions secretary publishes her welfare reform bill, but concessions do little to placate angry Labour MPs Britain’s benefits system faces collapse without cuts to disability payments, Liz Kendall has said, as the government published plans that put it on a collision course with dozens of angry Labour MPs. Kendall published her welfare reform bill on Wednesday, confirming it would lead to benefit cuts for 950,000 people by 2030. She said the country’s £326bn social security net might cease to exist if costs continued to escalate. Continue reading...

There have been many chances to avert this ‘appalling mess’, but, fuelled by political puff and short-termism, the project has become a farce When was it obvious that HS2 was an economic turkey at risk of becoming “an appalling mess”, as transport secretary Heidi Alexander described today’s position? A fair case can be made for 2013, a year of two neon-lit warnings of trouble ahead. One was a scathing report on HS2 from the National Audit Office (NAO), the first of many, when the project was still at the planning stage. The NAO concluded it was impossible to say whether the programme was likely to deliver value for money; the cost and benefit estimates were “uncertain”; there had been “past errors in the underlying model”; the Department for Transport had “poorly articulated” the strategic need for a transformation in rail capacity and how HS2 was supposed to rebalance economic growth. In short, there was “a weak foundation for securing and demonstrating success in the future”. Continue reading...