The team has made history. These players are destined for greatness. Our [quarter-final] performance was very good against a [Switzerland] team playing at home, which we knew would be a challenge. We managed to keep a clean sheet, which was one of our goals. We’re in the semi-finals – objective accomplished.
I can already promise that we will give Spain a tough battle, just as they will fight us with everything they have. Then we’ll see who comes out on top in the end. I think [the win against France] will give us another huge mental boost. The girls really wanted to prove what they’re made of and that we can overcome such setbacks and come back.
Owens has claimed that the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that the French president is controlled by the CIA
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are suing rightwing commentator Candace Owens for defamation.
In a suit filed on Wednesday in Delaware against Owens and her businesses, the Macrons say Owens has engaged in ongoing defamatory attacks against them in order to elevate her media platform, gain more audience and make money.
FSA says ‘loads’ of fans at their first tournament
Pre-match fan marches enhancing overall experience
England fans are being backed to “bring the absolute vibe” to St Jakob-Park on Sunday, with an expanded travelling Lionesses support expected at the final in Basel.
The 34,250-capacity arena is sold out and that includes the 2,000 allocation for England fans. Official resale tickets are unavailable but that is unlikely to stop the Lionesses’ travelling support, who have been planning for this moment for some time.
Condemnation is rightly growing. But until concrete action is taken, western allies will remain complicit with these horrifying crimes
July has been one of the deadliest months of the war in Gaza, with Israel killing one person every 12 minutes. The UN says more than 1,000 Palestinians have died trying to get food, mostly when they attempted to collect aid from hubs.
Behind these visible deaths lies the horror of systematic starvation: “minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed”, in the words of Prof Alex de Waal, an expert on humanitarian crises. More than 100 aid groups warned that it is spreading fast. At least 10 people died of hunger and malnutrition on Tuesday alone, said Gaza’s health ministry. Parents watch their children wither. Adults collapse on the street.
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‘It’s been pretty tough … racism is still going on’
Carter brought off bench in semi-final win against Italy
Jess Carter has thanked England fans for their “unbelievable support” after revealing she had been racially abused on social media at Euro 2025. The Lionesses defender said if her decision to speak up stopped just one instance of abuse then it would have been worth it.
Carter said on Sunday that she was stepping away from social media, because of what her teammates labelled as “online poison” aimed at her throughout this tournament. Before the extra-time win against Italy on Tuesday, England’s substitutes stood arm-in-arm with Carter on the sideline to show their support after deciding not to take the knee before kick-off.
Wicketkeeper’s participation at Old Trafford in doubt
After the row about time-wasting at Lord’s came an unscheduled 10-minute delay on the opening day in Manchester, but this time no one was grumbling. Rishabh Pant was being driven off on a golf buggy nursing a suspected broken foot, the agony on his face as clear as the egg that had swollen up within seconds.
This was a very Pant way to get injured, India’s zany wicketkeeper having attempted a reverse sweep off Chris Woakes only to bottom-edge the ball on to his right boot. England burned a review for the lbw but it was as good as a wicket, Pant retiring on 37 and his further participation in this pivotal fourth Test left very much in doubt.
Families spoke of grief as the court heard how DNA and video footage helped link Bryan Kohberger to the crimes
Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for the murders of four University of Idaho students, a crime that shocked the quiet college town of Moscow nearly three years ago.
The sentencing hearing allowed the families of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves to speak publicly about the devastation they’ve endured since 13 November 2022, the day their loved ones were found fatally stabbed in an off-campus home.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, convicted in Venezuela of triple homicide in Madrid, is one of 10 US nationals flown to Texas
A Venezuelan American murderer and ex-US marine, who killed three people in Spain in 2016, was released to the US during last Friday’s high-profile prisoner swap between the US, El Salvador and Venezuela, according to media and NGO reports.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, who was convicted last year in Venezuela of a triple homicide in Madrid, is one of the 10 US nationals that arrived in Texas last Friday.
Salvador Plasencia is the fourth of the five people charged in connection with the Friends star’s death to plead guilty
A doctor pleaded guilty on Wednesday to giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the Friends star’s overdose death.
Dr Salvador Plasencia became the fourth of the five people charged in connection with Perry’s death to plead guilty. He stood next to his lawyer and admitted guilt to four counts to judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett in federal court in Los Angeles.
League rules mandate suspension for non-participation
Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba will not appear in the MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday despite being selected for the event, with both Inter Miami players now in line to be suspended from their club’s next match as a result.
Messi and Alba had been absent from the All-Star festivities this week in Austin, Texas, which culminates in Wednesday night’s friendly match against an equivalent select squad from Mexico’s LigaMX. Alba had been scheduled to take part in Tuesday evening’s All-Star skills challenge, but was withdrawn. No explanation was given for Alba’s withdrawal, and MLS has not commented publicly on Messi and Alba’s absences.
Few could have predicted the speed at which the piano-playing striker has burst on to the international stage
On the afternoon of Wednesday 2 April, Arsenal’s Michelle Agyemang was sitting pitchside at St George’s Park, watching her England Under-19 teammates cruise to a European Championship qualifier victory against Belgium, unable to play because of suspension.
With the senior Lionesses also based at the national football centre that week, the England manager, Sarina Wiegman, and many of her staff came along to observe the 6-0 win and several of the England players – including the captain, Leah Williamson – chatted with Agyemang in the seating area. Little could the 19-year-old have known that, just over three months later, she would be the Lionesses’ saviour – twice – in the knockout stages of Euro 2025.
Barcelona have signed Marcus Rashford on a season’s loan from Manchester United with an option to buy. The forward joins after falling out of favour under Ruben Amorim at his boyhood club.
“I’m very excited,” Rashford said in remarks to the Spanish club’s own media. “I think it’s a club where people’s dreams come true and they win big prizes. And what the club stands for really means a lot to me as well. It feels like home and this is a big factor in my choice to come here. For me it’s a family club and people are comfortable here, it’s a good place for good players to showcase their skills.”
You can’t blame DeGeneres for wanting to escape a toxic atmosphere. But she is of the exalted class who can buy themselves out of a bind
You may remember the first half of 2020, when, as light relief during the early stages of the pandemic, we could look towards the banks of celebrities trying to raise our spirits and come together in mutual hostility. Schools and industries had shut down, key workers were struggling, but the one certainty in life that remained undisrupted was that, as long as Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman kept sharing their inspo-content, we would never run short of a laugh. Covid ended and now we have Donald Trump – and guess what, some of that dynamic is back.
It’s different this time because the threat is different, but for anyone living in the US who has glanced, longingly, towards Europe or Canada and wondered about the possibility of moving, comments made by Ellen DeGeneres this week may strike a familiar note; specifically, the extraordinary tone deafness that only high net-worth individuals can hit when trying to share in a common experience. DeGeneres and her wife, the actor Portia de Rossi, moved to rural Oxfordshire last year and this week, DeGeneres was interviewed on stage in Cheltenham and gave us some insight into exactly what happened.
European leaders urge Ukraine to uphold EU standards after president backs legislation weakening anti-graft watchdogs
European leaders piled pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday to reverse a contentious decision to weaken the powers of two anti-corruption agencies, as demonstrators took to the streets of Kyiv for a second day.
Ukraine’s European backers including Germany, France and Sweden raised concerns about new legislation, which the Ukrainian president approved on Tuesday night. They warned it could hamper Kyiv’s attempt to join the EU and hinder the fight against corruption.
David Lammy seemingly believes Israel and its supporters will always be able to act with impunity – but the status quo surely cannot hold
A terrible tipping point in Gaza has been reached. The number of people admitted to hospital or dying from starvation has surged. The journalists’ union for Agence France-Presse (AFP) has issued a statement warning that “without intervention, the last reporters in Gaza” will die of hunger.
This is horribly shocking, but it is no surprise: after all, we are now more than 140 days into Israel’s total siege on Gaza. In May, Israel abolished the UN’s effective method of delivering aid in favour of a dystopian system in which Palestinians are forced to compete for a trickle of often unusable aid, and are shot at while doing so. About 1,000 civilians have been murdered while seeking food since the end of May. “There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled,” declares Alex de Waal, one of the world’s leading experts on hunger. Under the Geneva conventions, “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited”.
Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
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James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengeance, strongmen and joy
When he was still in his 20s and studying for a master’s degree in acting, James Ijames was advised to take a swerve away from all things Shakespearean. His tutors thought his southern accent, the product of an upbringing in North Carolina, was not conducive to declaiming Elizabethan verse. Believing them, he did just one professional Shakespeare production in 10 full years of treading the boards.
Now Ijames is righting that old wrong, although he does not see it quite that way. Fat Ham, his latest drama, is based on Hamlet and features a queer protagonist called Juicy, who is commanded by the ghost of his murdered father to avenge his death. Significantly, Juicy hails from a Black American family in North Carolina. “The thing I kept hearing over and over,” he says, “was that my regionalism – the slowness of my southern accent – would make it difficult for me to do Shakespeare. I did avoid it for those reasons. That’s a little bit of what’s in this. I wanted to take this thing I was told I couldn’t access and see if I could make it work for me.”
Revealed: Guardian analysis provides a detailed picture of surging arrests and a detention system that’s stretched beyond capacity
In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest a record number of people in June.
A Guardian analysis of arrest and deportation data has revealed that Trump is now overseeing a sweeping mass arrest and incarceration scheme.
In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024.
Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records.
Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions.
Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people.
The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US.
The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country.
Decision is first ruling in series of attempts by Donald Trump’s administration to release more information on the case
Lawmakers are calling for the release of an Afghan interpreter, who worked with the US military for years in his home country, who was seized by armed, masked Ice agents after a routine appointment for his green card.
The former wartime interpreter, identified only as Zia for his safety and that of his family, aided American troops in Afghanistan for about five years during the war and fled the country with his family after the Taliban resumed power in 2021.
Zia has done everything right. He’s followed the rules. He has no criminal history.
Following the rules are supposed to protect you. It’s not supposed to land you in detention. If he is deported, as so many of the people have articulated today, he faces death.
What happened to him is the worst kind of abhorrent violation of basic decency. Put aside the legal causes and the issues here for unmasked agents to snatch someone off the street with no warning, no counsel, no opportunity even to know who is doing it while it’s in process is un-American.
To Zia, we have your back. We’re going to fight for you. We’re going to leave no stone unturned.
Our credibility is at stake. We have families who have risked everything not just for themselves, but for their entire family. They have risked their health and safety. And in the name of standing up for the promises of our American democracy, that could not have been easy at the time. So this betrayal has to be that much more difficult in this moment.
This isn’t about one person. This is about thousands of people. This is about our veterans. If their word means nothing when they’re on the battlefield, risking their lives, and being saved in so many instances by the support of people like Zia who are giving this services as their family and their own lives are being threatened and tortured, then what does that mean for our word going forward?
In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024.
Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records.
Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions.
Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people.
The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US.
The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country.
Yellow jersey’s team accused of ‘arrogance’ by rivals
Jonathan Milan won a rain-soaked sprint finish in Valence to take his second stage win in this year’s Tour de France, after a treacherous finish from which race leader Tadej Pogacar, and nearest rival Jonas Vingegaard, both emerged unscathed.
In what was probably the final stage of the 2025 Tour suited to the sprinters, others were not so fortunate after a downpour made the final kilometres through surburban Valence horribly greasy.
Prosecutors say Michael Gann stored explosive devices on SoHo rooftops and threw one on to Williamsburg Bridge
A man has been charged for allegedly crafting and attempting to detonate homemade explosives in New York City.
Federal prosecutors say 55-year-old Michael Gann, who lives in Inwood, New York, used chemicals bought online last month to manufacture multiple explosive devices.
By focusing on certain areas – like nutrition, exercise and positive connections – you can age well in every decade
Staying healthy in your 50s, 60s and 70s means adapting to wear and tear, but also embracing all the different ways to thrive. By focusing on some common areas – like nutrition, exercise and meaningful connections – you can age well in every decade.
Here’s what you need to know to extend the quality of life in these decades.
Footage shows the pedophile at Trump’s 1993 wedding and the two attending a Victoria’s Secret fashion event in 1999
Newly uncovered photos and video footage published by CNN show more links between the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, including Epstein’s attendance at Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples at the Plaza hotel in New York in 1993.
The media organization said on Wednesday that Epstein’s attendance at the wedding ceremony was not widely known.
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