The 21-year-old became an Old Trafford outcast under Amorim – on Saturday he has the chance to pile the pressure on his former manager

Alejandro Garnacho left Manchester United for Chelsea at the end of August under a cloud. The quintessential Gen Z footballer, who appears to divide his time evenly between having his head up on the pitch and his head down in his phone off it, had made one faux pas too many on social media.

The 21-year-old’s attitude had been slated: he was petulant, self-absorbed; he played for himself and not the team, failing to follow tactical instructions. It was certainly the view of Ruben Amorim, who did not take long after his arrival at United last November to feel the hackles rise when it came to Garnacho.

Scrum-half is savouring every moment of this Women’s World Cup after being cut on the eve of the last one

It is a quiet midweek afternoon on the outskirts of Bristol and, up to now, Natasha ‘Mo’ Hunt has been her normal upbeat self. England‘s scrum-half has been discussing any number of topics, from her love of rugby’s tactical nuances to her croissant-loving fans, with the easy confidence of someone relishing every second of this women’s Rugby World Cup.

Her sparkly-eyed positivity is such that it’s easy to forget she has had to escape the heart of darkness to be here. Three years ago, on the eve of the last World Cup, Hunt was axed from the Red Roses squad and big knockout games such as Saturday’s semi-final against France now mean that little bit more. “When you get hurt that bad it’s never going to go away,” she says softly. “You’re always going to have a little scar.”

IDF tells residents of Gaza City to flee south but closes Salah al-Din road evacuation route

German chancellor Friedrich Merz and Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday acknowledged differences over the Gaza conflict after talks in Madrid, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The two governments hold “divergent views” on the conflict and draw “different conclusions” regarding the situation, Merz said at a news conference with Sanchez.

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Women’s heptathlon – high jump: Johnson-Thompson’s second attempt at the 1.80m … better run-up … and a good clearance! O’Dowda’s third and final chance to get 1.80m now and she manages it as well!

Brooks though cannot match the GB pair and she groans as she fails in her final attempt. That is her out of the high jump. Disappointing given her personal best is 1.84m.

Couple, who were living in Afghanistan, were arrested and held without charge, raising fears for their health

A British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan, the UK Foreign Office has said.

The Taliban released Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, after eight months of detention.

Portugal has also made extradition request for Diogo Santos Coelho who is facing cybercrime charges

A high court judge has ruled that a vulnerable autistic man should not be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges, quashing a Home Office decision.

The UK government has accepted that Diogo Santos Coelho, 25, was groomed and exploited online by adults from the age of 14, leading to him setting up the website RaidForums, to which the alleged crimes relate.

Exclusive: Democratic candidate lays bare tensions with then president during 2024 election campaign

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Kamala Harris has revealed she was “angry and disappointed” when Joe Biden called her hours before her US presidential debate with Donald Trump to suggest powerful associates of Biden’s brother refused to support her.

The former vice-president and Democratic nominee recounts the episode – and other criticisms of Biden – in her campaign memoir 107 Days, obtained by the Guardian before its publication next week.

Kimmel’s sudden defenestration may be a political success for Trump but it’s a dire sign for free speech in America

In Donald Trump’s first term as president, he tried to get the mainstream media in line but largely failed. Yes, he ranted about the enemy of the people, insulted journalists and taught his followers to hate the press. But the guardrails mostly held and the spines of media owners stayed fairly stiff.

This time, his project to keep the media on a tight leash – and therefore control the message – is going much better. At least from the point of view of a would-be authoritarian.

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justice

Is Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.

Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free … or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison.

To make home-brewed beer, why not grow your own hops? They’re easy to propagate from a rhizome or stem cutting, though they need plenty of room

My partner’s childhood home had a collection of beer barrels, each at a different stage of the brewing process, with one always ready to taste. When we moved out of our tiny flat and into a house, a brewing kit arrived in the post as a housewarming gift from his parents, soon followed by a small hop plant from an old friend, which now takes up more room than anything else in the veg patch.

This perennial has proved easy to grow. Once established, you can expect a flush of bines (similar to vines) to emerge every spring, bearing hop flowers, or “cones”, which are ready to be picked about now.

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a meat-rich diet

A collaboration between African and American researchers and a community living in one of the most hostile landscapes of northern Kenya has uncovered key genetic adaptations that explain how pastoralist people have been able to thrive in the region.

Underlying the population’s abilities to live in Turkana, a place defined by extreme heat, water scarcity and limited vegetation, has been hundreds of years of natural selection, according to a study published in Science.

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Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of the oratorio fragment Die Jakobsleiter

The Berlin Philharmonic has never been particularly associated with the music of Arnold Schoenberg, though both Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado recorded his Gurrelieder with the orchestra, and in the 1970s Herbert von Karajan included superlative versions of Pelleas und Melisande and the orchestral Variations in his Berlin box of recordings of the Second Viennese School. But to judge from this impressive collection of five works by Schoenberg, all recorded at concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie between 2019 and last year, Kirill Petrenko is already exploring the composer far more thoroughly than any of his predecessors.

Petrenko’s set does include some of Schoenberg’s best known works. There’s the string sextet Verklärte Nacht in its sumptuous string-orchestra expansion, and the Chamber Symphony No 1, thankfully not in the late orchestral version that blurs the acerbic textures and robs the instrumental writing of its muscularity, but in the original scoring for 15 solo instruments. And a superb account of the Violin Concerto, in which the soloist, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, turns what can sometimes seem a rather four-square, dutifully conventional piece into something constantly surprising, and the Variations for Orchestra, with each event vividly, fiercely characterised.

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The Football Association has launched a racism investigation after the Liverpool goalkeeper Rafaela Borggräfe allegedly made reference to skin colour in a comment overheard by some staff and teammates.

The alleged incident is understood to have been heard while Liverpool were preparing to take a squad photograph, and the club are believed to have promptly looked into the matter internally.

As the fall festivals come to a close, the awards season is slowly taking shape but without a substantial amount of sure things, questions remain

There’s been a longtime dominance of fall festivals in the Oscar race, the majority of contenders premiering at Venice, Telluride and Toronto, leaving little room for other routes to victory. For a 13-year period, between 2007 and 2020, there were only two best picture winners that hadn’t travelled that way, and that pair had both premiered at a festival anyway, just slightly earlier at Cannes.

But since the pandemic shifted how so much of the industry operates, the past few years have seen unusual variation. Coda became the first best picture winner from Sundance, Everything Everywhere All at Once the first from SXSW, Oppenheimer the first non-festival premiere to win since The Departed in 2006 and the past six years has seen Cannes with more best picture wins than any other festival. It’s meant that at this particular time of year, as we sift through the good and bad of the fall festivals, it’s harder than ever to predict the race.

The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him

My earliest reading memory
I read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven, in my bedroom in the deep west of Cornwall. I secretly believed that Rivendell was based on that house, which it clearly wasn’t.

My favourite book growing up
Impossible. I’m inconstant, so it was whatever I was reading at the time. Let’s say Finn Family Moomintroll, which is the most perfect of Tove Jansson’s lovely (and occasionally frankly terrifying) Moomin books.

We know women give birth during war – and too often, they die. But we must do much more to achieve safety and stability

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It was usually when my daughter hadn’t slept that the conversation started. I’d message my friend wondering aloud whether I would get through the day without making some glaring mistake. I was the prime minister of New Zealand. Only the second woman in the world to have a baby while leading a country, and some days were hard.

Yet there was one response, a simple text message from my friend, also deep in the trenches of caregiving, that would stop me in my tracks: “Women give birth during war.”

Jacinda Ardern is a former prime minister of New Zealand

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A project in Brighton to stop harmful chemicals from seeping into a chalk aquifer could set an example for managing such pollution

“The designer claims that you could drink the water from there,” says Nick Bean, an engineer for the local council, at a large shallow basin in a nature reserve in Brighton. It is a blazing summer day and a group of researchers, engineers, students and a city councillor, dressed in hi-vis clothing and safety goggles, are gathered at the site of the city’s new and ambitious project to help manage the toxic problem of road runoff.

After six years, the Wild Park rainscape, formed of a vegetated swale linked to four planted basins, is at the tail end of development. Dry and golden beneath the sun, the landscape, if all goes well, will soon teem with lush greenery and wildlife. But it will also be performing a much more critical function: filtering pollutants from runoff to prevent them from seeping into the precious chalk aquifer that lies beneath the city.

Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas will set out details in a press statement later today

EU energy spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen also offered a bit more detail on which EU countries still import Russian gas via pipelines or LNG, with a caveat that the bloc doesn’t have the data on where it ends up being ultimately used.

She confirmed that eight EU countries are in that group: Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain.

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We interrupt this liveblog for a brief musical interlude. I’m always fond of a World Cup theme song, given their tendency to be either stirring and inspiring or hilarious and overblown, with rather more in one camp than the other. Anyway, here’s the song for the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which starts at the end of the month, and it’s quite good. Well, the choruses are quite good. “Performed by acclaimed Indian singer Shreya Ghoshal, the song is a high-energy blend of rhythm, melody and emotion, and aims to unite fans across the globe,” reads the ICC’s press release. “With catchy hooks like “Tarikita Tarikita Tarikita Dhom” and the heartbeat-inspired “Dhak Dhak, we bring it home”, the song encapsulates the fire and dreams of every woman cricketer stepping onto the world stage.” Enjoy!

David Moyes has held his press conference looking ahead to Everton’s short trip to Anfield tomorrow. "We are up against it and we have to go there and fight for everything we can,” was the gist of it. Here are some highlights courtesy of PA Media:

A gleaming new 4K restoration has brought the cultural touchstone back into the spotlight, but what happened to the children who played the Von Trapps?

‘We’re still almost boringly normal,” says Nicholas Hammond, helpfully making an observation that I was still figuring out how to tactfully phrase. “If you sat down with us today, you’re just sitting down with a bunch of people.”

The 75-year-old actor, speaking by Zoom from his home in Sydney, is the oldest living member of the seven-strong youth ensemble who played the Von Trapp children in The Sound of Music 60 years ago. With the indelible musical receiving an anniversary rerelease in cinemas this weekend – in a gleaming new 4K restoration to boot – five of the seven are preparing for another reunion to mark the occasion.

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From breezy swing to scampering synths, folksy harmonies to stark wails of the soul, Salvant’s crystalline vocals shine across her ingenious experiments

When the US-raised French-Haitian singer Cécile McLorin Salvant played Ronnie Scott’s for the first time as a 25-year-old in 2014, the awestruck atmosphere recognised a young multilingual jazz artist of rare gifts – but it was soon apparent that her sublime technical skill as a singer wasn’t the half of it.

Salvant had all the jazz tools: coolly hip timing, improv quick-wittedness, the crystalline sonic clarity of her early model, Sarah Vaughan. But she could also conjure up a dream world of her own that listeners would willingly follow her into. Her new album, Oh Snap, is a set of 12 originals and one cover that she created on her own over four years, before adding her band. She experimented for the first time with computer-generated sounds to draw on grungy pop and intimate folk music and expand on the classical-vocal education and extensive jazz input she acquired while living in France in the 2000s. Salvant says her enthusiasms as a visual artist also liberated her for this adventurous step-change.

Rare atmospheric setup creates perfect conditions for storm formation amid wettest September in decades

The yearly tornado record in North Dakota was shattered in just a few hours as the state experienced an extraordinary weather event. More than 20 tornadoes tore through South Dakota and North Dakota, with the storm system stretching across a 200-mile area, according to the National Weather Service.

Since 1995, the annual average for the state was 29 tornadoes, with the peak season occurring in June and July. However, last weekend’s intense outbreak pushed the total to a staggering 73, surpassing the previous record of 61, set in 1999.

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Lyle Lovett meets brain-scouring distortion on the electronic musician’s surprisingly un-nostalgic collaboration with former Lambchop guitarist Tyler

It may seem as if Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden is arriving late to the country music party but, rest assured, this is not a case of uncharacteristic bandwagon-jumping. For one, the roots of this collaboration with former Lambchop guitarist William Tyler date back to 2020; for two, the pair’s new album doubles as a paean to the 1980s Americana Hebden’s dad played round the house when he was a kid (the record is named after his childhood home in south-west London) – music that Tyler’s Nashville songwriter father was professionally involved in.

Yet despite that neat backstory, the evocative title and the fact it begins with a reworking of country mainstay Lyle Lovett’s beautiful and sweetly bizarre 1987 track If I Had a Boat, 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s is not an overtly nostalgic album, or a particularly coherent one. The retro country influence rarely fuses with Hebden’s soporific synths and brain-scouring bursts of distortion: the aforementioned opener kicks off with a drone that wavers in intensity like the circling of a benevolent alien spacecraft, practically drowning out Tyler’s faithful rendition of Lovett’s soothingly lovely guitar work. Then Spider Ballad combines pointillist synths with an insistent bassline, while the dreamlike Loretta Guides My Hands Through the Radio layers studio chatter and instrument tuning.

Charges follow two incidents in Cobblebank on 6 September that resulted in the deaths of Dau Akueng, 15, and Chol Achiek, 12

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Seven teenagers have been charged with murder after the stabbing deaths of 15-year-old Dau Akueng and 12-year-old Chol Achiek in Cobblebank in Melbourne’s west earlier this month.

The seven males, aged between 15 and 19, were arrested on Friday morning after raids on homes in Melbourne’s north and west by homicide squad detectives. They were interviewed by police before charges were laid in the afternoon.