7 m. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees with Evenepoel in trouble – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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9 m. ago The Open 2025: first round updates as Fitzpatrick shares lead at Royal Portrush – live

Latest updates from the opening day of the 153rd OpenLive official leaderboard | And you can email ScottPadraig Harrington bogeys the par-three 3rd as well. Two putts from 42 feet far from a gimme and he doesn’t make them. His place at the top is taken by Jacob Skov Olesen: the 26-year-old Dane, making his professional debut at the Open – he finished in a tie for 60th at Troon as an amateur – tramlines a 40-foot putt on 1. Had that not hit the cup, it was halfway to Giant’s Causeway. A sizzling Danish start to the Open.-1: Højgaard (3), Olesen (1) E: Harrington (3), Migliozzi (2) Continue reading...

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11 m. ago Seth Meyers on the Maga schism over the Epstein files: ‘This meltdown has been years in the making’

Late-night hosts discuss unprecedented backlash from Trump’s base over his refusal to release Jeffrey Epstein filesLate-night hosts dig into the rift between Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters over his refusal to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

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20 m. ago Where Winds Meet beta for July – how to join the final playtest for the Wuxia adventure

The new game from Everstone is set to deliver a Wuxia open-world action adventure RPG that players can get truly stuck into and lost in, set across China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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23 m. ago Deserted Taipei and flood damage in Mexico: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world• Warning: graphic content Continue reading...

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30 m. ago 'I'm a world record traveller but there are two islands left on my bucket list'

Lexie, who has 1.5 million followers on Instagram, sat down with the Mirror to share the two islands she is desperate to visit, on the same day Expedia released the 2025 Island Hot List

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35 m. ago ‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in TomelillaIn a small town in Sweden, the local authority is carrying out an unusual experiment.In 2021 one of the team had been reading an article about the concept of doughnut economics – a circular way of thinking about the way we use resources – and he brought it up. “I just mentioned it casually at a meeting, as a tool to evaluate our new quality of life programme, and it grew from there,” says Stefan Persson, Tomelilla’s organisational development manager. Continue reading...

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36 m. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients

This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patientsIn a hospital in Waterloo, London, in the mid-1960s was a psychiatric ward full of sleeping women. Suffering from disorders ranging from post-partum depression to chronic anxiety to anorexia, the residents of the “sleep room” were sedated and woken only to be washed, fed or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). All were under the supervision of psychiatrist William Sargant, who at the time was hailed as a pioneer. Sargant claimed that a combination of enforced narcosis and ECT could fix disturbed minds. Failing that, the treatment would be surgical lobotomy.The Sleep Room is author Jon Stock’s gripping account of a scandal in which female patients were denied dignity and agency by a man who wielded absolute power over their bodies. The book is ably narrated by actors Richard Armitage, Antonia Beamish and Celia Imri...

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36 m. ago Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

Chua/He/Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Graf(Pentatone)The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit. As Chloe Chua points out in her notes, Mozart’s Violin Concertos were written by a teenager – so why shouldn’t a teenage violinist do them justice? Chua – joint winner of the junior Menuhin Competition in 2018, aged 11 – was 15 and 16 when she made these recordings. The framework is conventional – there are no great surprises in the tempos, and she is backed by the modern instruments of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, who give an energised but refined performance conducted by Hans Graf. So far, so traditional. And yet Chua consistently holds the attention with interpretations that are notably mature: balanced, considered and never trying too hard. The faster movements having a gentle momentum, the slow ones plenty of space; everything Chua plays has a clean, focused tone, an unfailingly elegant turn of phrase and a quiet w...

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42 m. ago The Open 2025: Harrington highlight, 'Mr Handsome' and Mickelson on Muirfield

Martin Dempster reports from Royal Portrush with some outtakes from day one of The Open

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56 m. ago Chloe Kelly was left not knowing where to look in awkward Richard Madeley TV interview

Lionesses hero Chloe Kelly is preparing to face Sweden in the Euro 2025 quarter-finals – but she was once left confused by a comment from Richard Madeley during an interview following her Euro 2022 heroics

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57 m. ago Shane Gillis shocks ESPYs crowd with joke on Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

Shane Gillis made a jab at Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein during his opening monologue at the 2025 ESPYs on Wednesday (16 July).

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68 m. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 12 route updates to summit finish in Pyrenees as Tadej Pogacar reveals crash injuries

The Tour de France hits the high mountains with a feast of climbing in the Pyrenees, finishing on the summit finish at Hautacam

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70 m. ago Starmer defends lowering voting age to 16, saying people old enough to pay tax should have a say – UK politics live

Plan to give 16 and 17-year-olds vote across UK means nearly 1.5 million more people will be to have say at general electionWhile Rushanara Ali is answering the urgent question in the Commons, Keir Starmer is speaking at the event where he is announcing a “civil society covenant”.There is a live feed here.Why does this government think a 16-year-old can vote but not be allowed to buy a lottery ticket or an alcoholic drink, marry or go to war, or even stand in the elections they’re voting? It isn’t the government’s position on the age of maturity just hopelessly confused? Continue reading...

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72 m. ago When will the cowboy boot trend finally die? Plus three styles to wear instead

From the Fendi runway in 2018 to being on the feet of every fan at Beyoncé’s tour in 2025, the cowboy boot trend has proven it has legs. Though now it’s time for their journey to end, says Maddy Mussen

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74 m. ago A real wag: Superman gets the bleak realities of dog ownership spot on

Hollywood has hitherto been ridiculously soppy over canines. The scrappy, wild and disobedient beast here is as annoying as the real thingSuperman might be one of the most confusing blockbuster films to hit the big screen this year. The tone, as you might expect from a goofball superhero movie that is plainly about the invasion of Gaza, is all over the shop. Too many characters contribute too little to the plot. There are moments when it feels like it was written specifically to provide work for the silly-glasses and ironic-haircut industries. It is a bit of a mess.But that said, one thing is demonstrably true: the dog is cool. As shown in the trailer, Krypto the superdog is Superman’s secret weapon. A mile away from his last screen outing, where he was muscular and proud and voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Superman’s Krypto is scrappy and wild. He doesn’t obey commands. He destroys whatever equipment is put in front of him. Whenever he may or may not save the day, it seems lik...

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95 m. ago Risk of undersea cable attacks backed by Russia and China likely to rise, report warns

Spate of incidents in Baltic Sea and around Taiwan are harbinger for further disruptive activity, cybersecurity firm saysThe risk of Russia- and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea and around Taiwan, according to a report.Submarine cables account for 99% of the world’s intercontinental data traffic and have been affected by incidents with suspected state support over the past 18 months. Continue reading...

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99 m. ago Bryan Mbeumo to Man Utd transfer runs into another problem after Newcastle make move

Manchester United's pursuit of Bryan Mbeumo has suffered a huge blow, with Newcastle now interested in Yoane Wissa and Brentford unwilling to sell both players this summer

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1 hour ago Former major champion reveals why Rory McIlroy will be 'under a lot of emotional stress' as he prepares to tee up at The Open

After finally climbing his mountain and ending his long and agonising wait to win the career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy returns to Northern Ireland this week to play in front of his home fans.

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1 hour ago I hate to be the scowling lesbian at the feast – but here’s what worries me about the new Austen adaptations | Emma Brockes

I love Jane Austen. But a fresh revival of the idea that what a woman needs most is to marry a man is the last thing we needWhat is the main lesson we take away from Jane Austen? I know novels aren’t manuals, but the Austen industry encourages a certain self-help approach to its products – and Austen herself was full of what we no longer call bossy opinions. From the books, there are endless shrewd judgments about how to be a woman of substance. From the screen adaptations, we learn just how nice it would be to have a big house in Derbyshire. There is the general rule of true love overcoming all obstacles. But there is also this: that there is no worse fate to befall a woman than to fail to lock down a man.Two new Austen adaptations are heading our way: a Netflix miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, and a new movie version of Sense and Sensibility. They join Too Much, Lena Dunham’s new show that riffs on our relationship with romcoms – how we use them as templates and ideals – a clear...

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