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Player and brother Andre Silva died when car veered off road and burst into flames after suspected tyre blowout
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Reports suggest 24 have been killed and 20 children remain missing
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Japan 24-19 Wales: The tourists wilted in the heat and were kept scoreless in the second half
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Holders face France in Zurich as Wales face the Dutch
Here’s someone who knows the pressures – and might one day coach the Lionesses, Emma Hayes, The Guardian’s columnist for the Euros.
When you are the holders, the most important thing to get right is your internal hunger and understand you’ve got a target on your back in every fixture. To counter that, you have to find another level in yourself because a title cannot be won the same way you won it before.
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Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
Doctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as Israel continues to restrict the humanitarian aid that can enter the beleaguered strip.
Dr Ahmad al-Farra, the head of paediatrics at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, said his ward had only about a week’s worth of infant formula remaining. The doctor has already run out of specialised formula meant for premature babies and is forced to use regular formula, rationing it between the infants under his care.
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As an online life coach touts self-obsession as the next step in our journey towards personal growth, Helen Coffey asks whether hyper-individualism has robbed us of our sense of community and compassion – and our ability to be happy
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The Lionesses open their Euros defence with a blockbuster against France in the ‘group of death’
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Max Fosh, 30, said he embarked on the elaborate scheme ‘because I’m incredibly petty’
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As Joey Chestnut, the Ronaldo of speed eating, regains his world hotdog crown, he’s holding up a mirror to our world
The Big Dog is back. And the Big Dog is hungry. Hungry, above all, for dogs. Joey Chestnut has fulfilled his sporting destiny by reclaiming his world champion crown at the legendary 4 July hotdog eating contest in Coney Island, New York. Chestnut, AKA The Silent Warrior, is basically the Messi of elite eating. Or rather he’s the Ronaldo, relentless in his perfectionism, possessed of an alluring competitive arrogance, and with the GOAT-level numbers to back it up: winner of the Mustard Belt now 17 times and the world record-holder as of 2021, when he ate 76 hotdogs in 10 minutes, a huge uplift on his debut in 2005 when he ate a frankly pathetic 32 hotdogs.
Above all, Chestnut had a point to prove. He was banned from competing last year over a controversial sponsor deal with a plant-based hotdog alternative. Losing the title was a kind of Icarus moment. No one is bigger than the sport. Eating had to rein him in. And so this time around it wasn’t about the $100,000 (£73,000) prize. It was about legacy.
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Bernard Hinault was the last home champion as the sport has gone international, with winners from Colombia and Slovenia
Age is not just about the policemen getting younger and trying to figure out how to operate an iPhone. It may also be when you are able to tell your children that you once saw an actual French cyclist wearing the actual yellow jersey of the Tour de France having actually just won la grande boucle.
It’s 39 years, 11 months and about three weeks since I watched a tired and slightly diminished-looking Bernard Hinault get out of a car in a backstreet in Lisieux – once the massive crowd pressing on the car doors had been moved on by the heavies – before pulling on that maillot jaune, getting wearily on to his bike, before spinning past, time after time in the late-evening sunlight in the town’s annual post-Tour critérium, an exhibition race which still takes place on the first Tuesday after the Tour.
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Since the first time I saw Djokovic win at Wimbledon, in 2011, he has carried himself with the air of a born champion
Moments after he had beaten Dan Evans in almost perfunctory style on Centre Court to advance to the third round of the championships for a record 19th time, Novak Djokovic bumped into an old friend in the corridor on the way to his own match.
“Good day at the office?” Gaël Monfils inquired, smiling as old pros do. The French veteran paused before heading for Court 18 and a much smaller audience, adding: “At this age, we need these types of days.”
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After Donald Trump banned Iranians from entering the US, one of the co-hosts, there are different views on what should be done
“It’s offensive for any football fan to be prevented from participating in the World Cup, not just Iranians,” Ali Rezaei of Tehran’s Borna News Agency says. In March, the national team became the second to qualify for the 2026 World Cup that will be hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States. In June, Donald Trump authorised the dropping of bombs on Iran and hit the country with a travel ban. As things stand, while the national team will be able to enter the US next summer, fans – and perhaps media – will not.
Residents of Tehran and other cities may have had enough to deal with of late, but still, being barred from entry stings, even if Iranians have long found it difficult to get into the US. “If the US government has issues with the Iranian regime for any reason, it should not result in discrimination against Iranian citizens,” Behnam Jafarzadeh, a writer for leading sports site Varzesh3, says. “If someone hasn’t committed any illegal activity, why should they be punished? It’s not just about the World Cup – the policy needs to change in general.”
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A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?
Lorries thunder over the A14 bridge north of Cambridge, above steep roadside embankments covered in plastic shrouds containing the desiccated remains of trees.
Occasionally the barren landscape is punctuated by a flash of green where a young hawthorn or a fledgling honeysuckle has emerged apparently against the odds, but their shock of life is an exception in the treeless landscape.
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Rose Jones was told to repay £2,145 after she unwittingly breached ‘draconian’ carer’s allowance regulations
A young carer who had looked after her disabled mother since she was eight said she was “amazed” and “overwhelmed” after Guardian readers paid off her £2,000 fine for a mistaken breach of widely condemned benefits rules.
Rose Jones, 22, was ordered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to repay £2,145 after joining a government youth employment scheme that meant she overstepped “draconian” carer’s allowance earnings regulations.
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We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that
Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex
Do people from different cultures and environments see the world differently? Two recent studies have different takes on this decades-long controversy. The answer might be more complicated, and more interesting, than either study suggests.
One study, led by Ivan Kroupin at the London School of Economics, asked how people from different cultures perceived a visual illusion known as the Coffer illusion. They discovered that people in the UK and US saw it mainly in one way, as comprising rectangles – while people from rural communities in Namibia typically saw it another way: as containing circles.
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This week TravelSmart is out and about in the capital, winding down alleyways, delving into centuries-old pubs and wandering through London’s best food markets.
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Son of legendary boxer arrested less than a week after losing fight to Jake Paul
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Dubois’ physio says the fighter has the ‘best physique’ of any athlete he has ever seen. This is one of the workouts he is using to forge undisputed levels of fitness.
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Actor says studio scrapped director Joseph Kosinkski’s plans after Cruise discovered he ‘would not be driving much’
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Marvel’s troubled ‘Blade’ movie helped director Ryan Coogler make his successful horror film
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From the brink of quitting football, Hampton has proved everyone wrong to cement her place as England’s No 1 for Euro 2025
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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ actor said he had ‘an amazing run’ in his comedy career
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The Euros winning goalkeeper announced her international retirement in May and said it was the ‘right time’ to end her England career
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Sir Keir Starmer celebrates his first year as prime minister with the largest parliamentary majority in a quarter of a century — a commanding mandate that has brought both opportunity and scrutiny.
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Three back-to-back incidents linked to the Jewish community are being investigated
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Video from a bridge has captured the scope of deadly flash flooding in Texas which has killed at least 24 people.
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A tougher test will be expected as the Lions take on the Sydney side
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