Benedict Kuria was ambushed by suspected gang members in March while serving in security mission
The relatives of a Kenyan police officer who went missing while working in Haiti have spoken of their anguish and anger at Kenyan authorities over a lack of definitive information about what has happened to him.
Benedict Kuria and some colleagues were ambushed in March by suspected gang members. Haitian media reported that he had died, but Kenya’s police service says a search is continuing.
Findings will be handed down almost five years after the Warlpiri man died during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu
The inquest findings into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker will be handed down in Yuendumu on Monday, almost five years after the Warlpiri man died during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community.
Zachary Rolfe shot Walker three times while trying to arrest him on 9 November 2019 in Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs.
While we work towards net zero, we also need to adapt. And we can pay for cooling measures like splash pads and trees by taxing the worst polluters
There’s a lot to be anxious about as a new parent, let alone in a heatwave when the thermometer in your one-year-old daughter’s room is reading 26C. That’s six degrees higher than the upper limit of the recommended temperature for a child’s room. After scrolling my phone for advice on how to cool her room, I couldn’t help waking up every few hours to check she was OK on the baby monitor.
In the UK, we are unprepared at every level for the extreme weather caused by climate breakdown. Whether it’s unbearably hot buildings in the summer, our damp and cold homes (some of the leakiest in Europe) filled with mould in the winter, our unprotected towns built on flood plains, or our unfit-for-purpose train tracks that get shut down at the slightest weather warning, the climate crisis is already wreaking havoc on public and private infrastructure – and it’s only getting worse.
Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing’s control over Tibet
Leaders from India, the United States and Taiwan offered their support to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on his 90th birthday on Sunday, a landmark anniversary raising geopolitical questions for the future.
Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing’s control over Tibet, the territory it poured troops into in 1950 and has ruled ever since.
Captain Harry Wilson scores in 79th minute to secure 21-18 victory for Australia
Result warns world that Joe Schmidt’s rebuilding side are again a dangerous force
The Wallabies have got their 2025 season off to a victorious start and struck a crucial blow in the quest to win the 2027 World Cup at home with a tense 21-18 triumph over Fiji in Newcastle.
The 79th minute shading of their fierce south Pacific rivals ignites Australia’s hopes ahead of the first Test against the British & Irish Lions in Brisbane on 19 July.
In year since Reform party leader was elected at eighth attempt he has been largely absent from Commons votes and very present in the media
Nigel Farage has had one of the best years of his political career after voters finally elected him to parliament at the eighth time of asking. He is odds on to be the UK’s next prime minister, vying with Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting, with Kemi Badenoch trailing behind.
Here are the key facts and numbers behind his first year in the House of Commons.
Many feel counter-terrorism policies and brazen Islamophobia have increased hostility and isolation experience by community
For many in the British Muslim community, the tragedy of 7 July 2005 lives long in the memory. The bombings sent shockwaves through the nation but also marked a turning point that left many grappling with grief, fear and a new scrutiny of their identity.
Twenty years on, feelings of suspicion, isolation and hostility experienced in the aftermath of the attacks have, for some, only worsened after decades of UK counter-terrorism policies, and a political landscape they say has allowed Islamophobia to flourish.
My daughter has gradually withdrawn from family events. She lives far from us all and doesn’t come home any more after being a real homebird. She hasn’t visited for over a year and didn’t see any of us at Christmas or my birthday, which is not like her.
When I visit her, it’s becoming clearshe isn’t making choices for herself any more – even the simplest ones are made by her partner and she concedes to everything he wants. He is also jealous of any other male family member who is spoken about positively.
As Jurassic World: Rebirth and 28 Years Later become the latest franchise titles to hit the big screen, movie fans are realising a depressing truth
On Monday, the director of the new Jurassic Park movie explained his aim for the seventh film in the series. Innovation it was not. Rather, said Gareth Edwards, it was karaoke. To prepare, he binged Steven Spielberg clips on repeat, hoping to accomplish genre cloning.
“I was trying,” he told BBC’s Front Row, “to make it feel nostalgic. The goal was that it should feel like Universal Studios went into their vaults and found a reel of film, brushed the dust off and it said: Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Court documents suggest Israelis were asked to carry out missions that were at first modest but quickly escalated
Before Israel launched its war on Iran last month, its security service uncovered an extensive network of its own citizens spying for Tehran – on a scale that has taken the country by surprise.
Since Iran’s first missile barrage on Israel in April 2024, more than 30 Israelis have been charged with collaboration with Iranian intelligence.
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall
Duncan Campbell on the power of protest
From the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle of Cable Street against the British Union of Fascists in 1936 to the Anti-Nazi League marches four decades later; from the million marchers against the Iraq war in 2003 in London to the massive turnouts across the country two decades later against the war in Gaza, protest has been a vital and constant part of the fabric of British society.
If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations to the United Nations
The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of Donald Trump’s executioner’s axe. The US is the biggest contributor, at 22%, to the UN’s core budget. In February, the White House announced a six-month review of US membership of all international organisations, conventions and treaties, including the UN, with a view to reducing or ending funding – and possible withdrawal. The deadline for decapitation falls next month.
Trump’s abolition of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and scrapping of most aid programmes, has already badly damaged UN-led and UN-backed humanitarian operations, which rely on discretionary funding. Yet Trump’s axe symbolises a more fundamental threat – to multilateralism and the much-battered international rules-based order. The basic concept of collective responsibility for maintaining global peace and security, and collaboration in tackling shared problems – embodied by the UN since its creation 80 years ago last week – is on the chopping block.
In a case full of surprising scenarios, the time and place of the murder were never established, and Nunn was found guilty despite a lack of forensic evidence. He is still maintaining his innocence, but will he ever be freed?
After the murder of his ex-girlfriend Dawn Walker, in 2005, Kevin Nunn insists he told Suffolk police everything. Of course he did, he says – he was desperate to help them track down her killer. He explained how they had split up two days before she was found, how he had gone to her home after she had left a distraught voicemailon his phone and not turned up to work, how he had let himself in with a key she didn’t know he had, and how he went looking for her along their favourite walking routes by the River Lark, north of Bury St Edmunds. He then handed over the pair of boots he had worn when searching for her.
The body of Walker, 37, was discovered close to where Nunn said he had looked for her. Not surprisingly, his footprints were also found. Six weeks after she went missing, he was charged with her murder. Nunn, 64, who has spent 20 years in prison, says telling the truth was the worst thing he could have done. He believes he unwittingly provided the police with everything they needed to build a case against him – the motive, the map and the circumstantial evidence that led to him being convicted of murder.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an antisemitic attack on a Melbourne synagogue is “reprehensible” and demands Anthony Albanese “take all action” to end similar hate crimes.
A 34-year-old man from New South Wales has been charged after allegedly entering the grounds of the East Melbourne Hebrew congregation on Albert Street at about 8pm on Friday and pouring a flammable liquid on the front door of the building, setting it on fire.
Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation
Twenty-nine people have been arrested after protesters gathered in central London holding signs referencing Palestine Action a day after the group was banned as a terrorist organisation.
The direct action protest group was banned on Friday after a last-minute legal attempt to suspend the group’s proscription under anti-terrorism laws failed. It means that, from Saturday, being a member of, or expressing support for, the organisation became a criminal offence, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Culture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ after Bob Vylan Glastonbury row and film featuring son of Hamas official
The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has demanded to know why no one at the BBC has lost their job over the airing of a documentary on Gaza that featured the son of a Hamas official.
A review looking into the broadcast of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is reportedly due to be published next week. The programme first aired in February, but was pulled by the broadcaster after the link between its 13-year-old narrator and Hamas emerged.
Villa Park, Birmingham The biggest names in rock, from Metallica to Slayer, came to pay tribute to the men who created their entire genre – and even in old age, Sabbath’s sound has bludgeoning force
Fireworks burst over Villa Park’s pitch, Black Sabbath wave goodbye, and the inventors of metal leave the stage for the final time. It has not been an epic show – just War Pigs, NIB, Iron Man and Paranoid – but is the farewell this extraordinary band deserve, with an undercard of stadium-fillers and festival headliners come to pay tribute.
The returning Bill Ward adds the swing other Sabbath drummers have never managed, Tony Iommi churns out those monstrous riffs, Geezer Butler flits around them on bass, and Ozzy Osbourne … is Ozzy Osbourne, a baffled and discomfited force of nature.
Some two dozen girls still unaccounted for after summer camps swept away as Guadalupe River rises 26ft in 45 minutes
Rescuers searched on Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed at least 50 people – with more rain pounding the region.
The flooding in Kerr county killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and at least eight people died in nearby counties.
Captain says England were not good enough on the ball
Jess Carter: ‘We were a bit scared, not aggressive enough’
Leah Williamson admitted England were not good enough on the ball and said “cheap, one-versus-one defending” cost the Lionesses badly in their 2-1 defeat against France, but vowed her side would improve before facing the Netherlands on Wednesday.
The defending European champions looked second-best to France for large portions of their meeting in Zurich and the Lionesses captain said: “When you’re losing the ball really cheaply, and then you’re in emergency defending, and when you’ve done four or five counterattacks in a row against quality like that, it is tough, but we hold ourselves to higher standards, in the individual battles.
“The positive is that I’ve not seen us like that, in terms of turning over the ball so much, for a while now, so yes [while it is] really frustrating, I think that’s how we’ll take today. Tomorrow, back on it.”
Kipyegon runs final 300m in 44 seconds to set record
Chebet is first woman to run 5,000m inside 14 minutes
Faith Kipyegon bounced back in spectacular style from the disappointment of failing to run a four-minute mile in Paris by shattering her 1500m world record in Eugene.
On a day when the women’s 5,000m world record also fell in the 50th running of the Prefontaine Classic, the 31-year-old Kenyan looked to be odds against to break her record at the bell. Yet Kipyegon was able to find an extra gear as she ran the last 300m in a staggering 44 seconds to break her previous world record by 0.36sec.
Decision to play Chelsea forward left England outnumbered in midfield during damaging opening defeat at Euro 2025
The hour mark was approaching when Sarina Wiegman rolled the dice or, perhaps more accurately, reached for the comfort blanket. A salvage operation of this scale had not been part of anyone’s masterplan, but at least Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly knew exactly how to move the dial at a European Championship. They were the history makers at Wembley in England’s most recent appearance on this stage; if it was going to be anyone, it surely had to be them.
There were to be no heroics this time, even if Selma Bacha’s late clearance was ultimately all that came between Wiegman’s players and a draw. That statement is, in itself, illusory because the manager must face questions about her selection here. She had plumped for Lauren James’s explosive gifts in the No 10 position, sticking to the claim that the Chelsea forward was ready to ramp up her recovery from injury, but the call backfired badly. England were misshapen and leggy where it mattered; the game simply got away from them and so, with another ill-conceived step against the Netherlands, could their Euro 2025 campaign.
George Ford marked his 100th cap in style as he kicked 15 points to steer England to a highly impressive 35-12 victory over Argentina in the opening game of their two-Test series. In front of a partisan full house at the Estadio Uno in La Plata, an hour’s drive south of Buenos Aires, the century maker displayed his customary calm to steer the tourists through troubled waters early on.
England were reduced to 13 when losing two players to the sin-bin before half-time, yet somehow made it to the interval ahead thanks to Ford’s drop goal. From there they were the only team in the contest. In a remarkable transformation Steve Borthwick’s team bagged four second-half tries, three in seven minutes between the 42nd and 49th minute.
G García 10, F García 20, Mbappé 90+4; Beier 90+2, Guirassy 90+8
Real Madrid have set up a date with Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup semi-final, despite a chaotic last 10 minutes, giving Kylian Mbappé a chance to face his former side on a big stage after he scored a fantastic acrobatic goal in a 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund.
Xabi Alonso’s Madrid looked entirely in control for the vast majority of the match, until a remarkable stoppage time made things nervy and Thibaut Courtois’s last-gasp save preserved the victory. That incredible conclusion to an otherwise pedestrian match also included a late red card given to Real Madrid’s Dean Huijsen, the impressive new arrival in central defence, who will miss the semi-final as a result of bringing down Serhou Guirassy right after Mbappé’s stupendous volley for Real Madrid’s third.
England are not out, but they are down, the folded bodies of the players in white shirts at the close told the extent of the challenge ahead. The Lionesses were lacklustre and were punished, kicking off their European title defence with a 2-1 defeat by an impressive France team and handing Sarina Wiegman’s first major tournament defeat outside a final.
After a promising and pressing start fell away, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Sandy Baltimore delivered for a resurgent France. Keira Walsh’s late strike from a corner reduced the reigning European champions’ blushes but the late charge was not enough and England have a lot of work to do to escape the tournament’s group of death.
Seven-time champion cruises to 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 victory
Win is Djokovic’s 100th in singles at Wimbledon
Novak Djokovic last lost a match at Wimbledon to anyone other than Carlos Alcaraz in 2017. And even that defeat, to the Czech player Tomas Berdych, was down to an elbow injury that forced him to retire.
It is a staggering run, stretching over eight years and 45 matches. Yet rarely has Djokovic played as well as he did here against his fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic on Saturday night. Over the course of three destructive sets, Djokovic hit 60 winners to just 19 unforced errors as he put a masterclass of spin and subtlety, guile and laser-like power, to a wildly appreciative Centre Court.
Violence and shootings tend to surge during the summer, especially on one of the deadliest days of the year
Friday’s US Independence Day holiday was marked by multiple shootings across the US, including one in Indianapolis that left at least two dead and five wounded as a police chief voiced frustration over the latest acts of violence in his city.
Indianapolis metropolitan police chief Chris Bailey told reporters early Saturday morning that the Fourth of July mayhem a day earlier was “completely unacceptable and unnecessary” – and that parents and guardians needed to better control their children.
Reports indicate defense secretary unilaterally acted to halt shipment even as Pentagon suggested US arsenal is stocked
Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons have run too low, it has been reported.
A batch of air defense missiles and other precision munitions were due to be sent to Ukraine to aid it in its ongoing war with Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022. The aid was promised by the US during Joe Biden’s administration last year.
Elder José Arteaga Hernández in custody after the non-fatal attack on Miguel Uribe Turbay in a Bogotá park in June
The alleged mastermind behind the shooting of a conservative Colombian senator and presidential candidate has been taken into custody, almost a month after the attack, law enforcement authorities have said.
Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias “Chipi” or “Costeño”, was arrested in the north-western part of the capital, Bogotá, on Saturday, national police director Maj Gen Carlos Fernando Triana told reporters. Authorities had previously accused him and other suspects of being near the Bogotá park where Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot on 7 June.
Quarter-final: Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 Bayern Munich
Doué 78, Dembélé 90+6
Paris Saint-Germain were a goal up and two men down, deep into stoppage time, when they went on one last run of hundreds here. Suddenly, as had happened so many times in a breathless afternoon in Atlanta, the pitch opened up and players poured into the space. They should have been exhausted, but off went Vitinha through the middle, Ousmane Dembélé sprinting alongside and soon joined by more men. He smashed the bar with the first shot but Achraf Hakimi got possession back, dribbled through three and set up the Frenchman to score the goal that ended it.
Actually, “ended” may not be the word, because although that was the 95th minute, there was still time for Bayern Munich to have a penalty given and taken away again. Ultimately, though, by adding to Désiré Doué’s 78th-minute opener, Dembélé had secured PSG’s passage to the Club World Cup semi-finals. Bayern were out. Worse, they had watched Jamal Musiala carried off at half-time, unlikely to return for a long time having suffered a suspected broken ankle in a challenge from Gianluigi Donnarumma who, seeing the grim sight, was close to tears.
Captain continues his glorious form by smashing a host of batting records to put India in position to level Test series
The sound of Shubman Gill’s bat could stop traffic. The man’s forward defence lands with the crack of John Bonham’s drum. It is a shot no one really notices in the moment but demands everyone’s attention as soon as it’s over because of the way noise resounds around the ground in the split second afterwards, like a teacher smacking his hand down on a table to get the pupils to shut up.
It is the very model of the shot. His bat comes down like Gandalf’s staff. Pick it, clip it, stick it on social media and you could have kids all across India striding out of their ground to pat the ball back the way it came.
Sometimes it really is better to travel than to arrive. After a thoroughly enjoyable journey to their first major tournament, Wales collided with the 2017 European champions and were left dizzy and disorientated. During the course of an instructive 90 minutes in the shadow of Lucerne’s Mount Pilatus, Vivianne Miedema scored her 100th international goal. Perhaps even more significantly Andries Jonker’s side did enough to suggest it would be thoroughly unwise to assume England and France are destined to fill Group D’s top two places.
After conceding three soft goals and regularly being saved by either the woodwork or their quietly impressive goalkeeper, Olivia Clark, Wales will almost certainly be watching the knockout phase on television. No matter; Rhian Wilkinson’s players should eventually come to look back on this chastening evening in central Switzerland with real pride at their part in a landmark piece of national football history.
Girmay second, Pogacar and Vingegaard in front group
Ganna withdraws; Simon Yates and Alaphilippe struggle
Crosswinds, crashes and chaos characterised a frenzied opening stage of the Tour de France, won by Jasper Philipsen in Lille Métropole, where the 27-year-old also took the first yellow jersey of his career.
The Belgian sprinter, winner of three stages in the 2024 Tour, was given an armchair ride by his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammates into the long finishing straight of the Boulevard Vauban, where he expertly dispatched rivals, Biniam Girmay, of Intermarché Wanty, and Søren Wærenskjold, racing for Uno-X Mobility.
Hopes that pause to the killing may be agreed were boosted despite 24 Palestinians being killed including 10 seeking aid
Israel has continued to launch waves of airstrikes in Gaza, hours after Hamas said it was ready to start talks “immediately” on a US-sponsored proposal for a 60-day ceasefire.
The announcement by the militant Islamist organisation increased hopes that a deal may be done within days to pause the killing in Gaza and possibly end the near 21-month conflict.
Billionaire says his new political party could try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issues
The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.
Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. On Saturday, without immediately elaborating, the former Trump adviser announced on X that he had created the so-called America party.
Old Glory Club has at least 26 chapters with participants including military personnel, lawyers and civil servants
A nationwide US network of dozens of far-right, men-only fraternal clubs has what members describe as “literally hundreds” of participants who include past and currently serving military personnel, lawyers, civil servants, and prominent antisemitic influencers, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The Old Glory Club (OGC) – which has at least 26 chapters in 20 US states and until now has drawn little attention – exemplifies the alarming rise of organized racist political groups in the past few years but especially during the rise of Donald Trump and his return to the White House.
Pressure grows on Pedro Sánchez to call snap election as latest resignation adds to corruption allegations
Pedro Sánchez’s efforts to reset Spain’s ruling socialist party after damaging corruption allegations that threatened to topple his coalition government have suffered a severe setback after a party official resigned over accusations of sexual harassment.
The prime minister had hoped this weekend’s meeting of the federal committee of his Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) would help the party move past weeks of scandals that have undermined the ethical and anti-corruption pledges on which it came to power seven years ago.
Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia
It was on a US-bound flight in March, as Brian Sandberg stressed about whether he would be stopped at security, that the American historian knew the time had come for him to leave his home country.
For months, he had watched Donald Trump’s administration unleash a multipronged attack on academia – slashing funding, targeting international students and deeming certain fields and even keywords off limits. As his plane approached the US, it felt as though the battle had hit home, as Sandberg worried that he would face reprisals over comments he had made during his travels to the French media on the future of research in the US.
The courts have failed to reckon with coercive control and survivors’ trauma. Same with the court of public opinion
Wouldn’t it be nice if, just now and again, bad things happened to bad people? Wouldn’t it be refreshing if violence against women was taken seriously instead of being treated like one big joke?
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