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Tour de France 2025: stage one sets battle for yellow jersey around Lille – live
Le Grand Départ, starting and ending at Lille Métropole
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According to the Tour’s live coverage, the peloton has stopped at Porte de Paris, one of Lille’s city gates, where an orchestra is playing the Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
And the Tour de France 2025 is off! Well, the controlled, 11km slow rollout before the official race starts is on. There are 184 riders taking part and the TV coverage is showing quite a few smiling faces as they parade around during the neutralised start in Lille.
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© Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters
Trailblazing Harlem Globetrotter Lynette Woodard says she never saw a penny from merch sold in her name
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Wimbledon 2025: Sinner, Djokovic and Swiatek in action on middle Saturday – live
Day six updates as the third round continues at SW19
Play on Centre Court starts at 1.30pm (BST) | Mail Billy
While we wait, let me delve into my reserves of Wimbledon anecdotes and pick one out from middle Saturday in 2012. Five hours and 31 minutes I sat on Court 2 watching Jack Draper’s conqueror, Marin Cilic, drag out a five-set epic against Sam Querrey in the third round.
In the end it was 7-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 17-15 to the Croatian – the second longest match in Wimbledon history. The umpire, Mohamed Lahyani, had also been in the chair for that Isner v Mahut marathon two years earlier.
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© Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
NBA 2025-26 power rankings: Where Knicks stand among league’s best
‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
The life of a social media creator can be high in glamour and status. The well-paid endorsement deals, the online followers and proximity to the celebrity establishment are all perks of the industry.
But one hidden cost will be familiar to anyone coping with the 21st-century economy: burnout. The Guardian has spoken to five creators with a combined audience of millions who have all experienced degrees of workplace stress or fatigue.
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© Photograph: PR handout
‘You know it when you see it’: experts size up scientists’ attempt to define cool
Sought-after status moves in mysterious ways that elude rules and norms, say the initiated
It has puzzled philosophers, scholars and those aspiring to be cool for generations: what is it that makes someone cool? Now it appears that the alchemical code has finally been cracked.
There are six specific attributes needed to be cool, according to a study published this week by the American Psychological Association.
ChatGPT
Pretending not to be “on the pen” (using weight loss jabs) when you are
Cowboy boots
Labubus
Using corporate jargon outside work. For example, posting holiday photos on Instagram with the caption “highlights from Q1”
Talking about sleep scores
Giant adult sippy cups
Birkin bags
Including your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator result in your dating bio
Being a member of a library
Good service – anywhere
The Row’s monthly Spotify playlists
Asking questions
Restaurants where you don’t have to shout at each another to be heard
Curaprox’s colourful toothbrushes
Ordering an object to view at the V&A East Storehouse
Not being a TV snob
Using lamps rather than the “big light” in a room
Being OK with ageing
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© Photograph: Carl Timpone/BFA.com/Shutterstock
‘We felt abandoned by Francis’: Pope Leo heads to traditional papal residence for summer break
Longstanding tradition set to resume as new pontiff opts to spend summer holiday in Castel Gandolfo
When, soon after being elected in 2013, Pope Francis broke from longstanding Vatican tradition by choosing not to spend his summer holiday in the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo, a sleepy hilltop town overlooking a lake about an hour south of Rome, residents were taken aback.
One shopkeeper, Anna, compared the perceived rejection to a divorce, while another said it slightly ruptured a sense of belonging.
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© Photograph: Sandro Barbagallo/Musei Vaticani
‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon
Logging, drug trafficking and the climate crisis endanger the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, on the border with Brazil
In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a young anthropologist, travelled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to investigate reports of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Along the Las Piedras River, people in Monte Salvado, a Yine Indigenous village, described how every summer, “aislados” – those who avoid sustained contact with outsiders – would appear across the river.
“They were coming into the fields and taking bananas,” says Huertas.
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© Photograph: AP
I was sexually assaulted by a celebrity after starring in a cult film at 19. My quest for justice changed the course of my life
Not long after Jenny Evans was brutally attacked by a high-profile figure, all the details appeared in the press. Her mission to find out what happened would reveal tabloid spying, phone hacking, police misconduct – and lead to a dramatic change of career
Jenny Evans had just starred in her first film when everything came crashing down. Twin Town was a riot of drugs, fast cars and bad behaviour labelled the “Welsh Trainspotting”. She had a wonderful time making the movie, which was released in 1997. There was a feelgood atmosphere on set, and she got on brilliantly with her fellow actors (Twin Town launched the careers of Rhys Ifans and Dougray Scott). “Friends of the cast and crew were coming down from London to Swansea because the vibe was so good,” she says. “It was a great group of people doing something fun. It was a blast.” Twin Town became a cult success, and the 19-year-old from Abergavenny found herself hanging out with celebrities and looking forward to a career in the movies. Then she was sexually assaulted by a high-profile figure and his friend.
Almost 30 years on, she has written a powerful memoir. The assault is just the starting point. Don’t Let It Break You, Honey is the astonishing story of her fight for justice and how it led to a career in journalism, exposed corruption in the British press and the Metropolitan police, and played a role in the phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the News of the World.
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© Photograph: Josh Adam Jones/The Guardian
Dealmakers hit pause on M&A as caution rules the boardroom
Inside Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s heartbreaking split: ‘All she wants is consistent love’
Between horror and hope ordinary Iranians brave an uncertain future
Wimbledon picks, best bets Saturday: Marton Fucsovics vs. Ben Shelton odds, predictions
Joyful Parisians take a historic plunge into the Seine River after 100 years
Christie Brinkley admits she’s a ‘fool for love’ despite four failed marriages
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To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong review – a singular new voice
This blackly comic debut is an astute and funny examination of the pain and pleasure of first love
The heart is a peculiar organ. It wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson wrote. Especially when you’re young and have no previous experience of love and desire, or the deleterious effects of time on both. This is the core subject of 24-year-old Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, published by the consistently adventurous independent press Les Fugitives.
When the unnamed narrator, a third-year psychology student, meets fellow student Luke in their campus kitchen, she falls hard. They begin sharing meals and confidences in her room, which bears a “suicide beam” running the length of the ceiling. This memento mori is archly juxtaposed with the narrator’s breathless infatuation, which feels as if “some great transition was occurring inside me, something was aligning, I could actually feel it”. She finds herself “wide open and completely soft like a small trembling animal held in two hands, two hands which could crush it completely but which would not”.
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© Photograph: Maria Calinescu
Conrad Black: The West dominates. Don’t believe lies to the contrary
Michael Higgins: Total capitulation! UPenn forfeits gender ideology for Trump funding
Michael Taube: Why Doug Ford’s gaze has turned to speed cameras
‘It really felt like I was in a fairytale’: Mustafa Seven’s best phone picture
The Turkish photographer on outsmarting the tourists to get the perfect shot
Mustafa Seven and his friend Hazem were attempting to escape the tourists in an Austrian village when they took this image. Rumoured to have inspired Disney’s Frozen franchise, Hallstatt has been known to attract up to 10,000 visitors a day during high season. Seven had seen many Instagram shots of the place and was curious to visit. He was taken aback by what he found.
“There were tourist buses and people everywhere,” he says. “Frankly, neither of us like taking landscape photos, but the fairytale surroundings pulled us along. When I realised every image I’d shot had someone in the frame, we decided to change our route and walk up the slips of the village instead.”
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© Photograph: Mustafa Seven
‘Like working in a volcano’: stories from six countries in Europe on a day of extreme heat
How chefs, street performers and cheesemongers struggled to get their jobs done in record-busting temperatures
Hundreds of millions of people across Europe suffered an extreme heatwave this week, with temperatures smashing records as the continent sweltered.
With the human-caused climate emergency pushing the mercury ever higher, early in the summer Europe is experiencing troubling temperatures.
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© Photograph: Agents Rurals de Catalunya/AP
Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe
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Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts
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Canada’s Indigenous Groups Demand a Say in Carney’s Race to Build
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
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Iran Looks to BRICS for Allies, Testing a New World Order
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Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests
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U.S. Science Cuts in Antarctica May Embolden China and Russia
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