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In the end, it all came down to one kick. One kick from Jorginho, for everything. Earlier misses by Dani Olmo and Álvaro Morata had put Italy in prime position to qualify for Sunday’s final against England or Denmark. With a calmness belying the enormity of the moment, Jorginho rolled the ball into the corner to conclude almost three hours of the highest tension, and break Spanish hearts.It was a semi-final that would have been a worthy final, a game that pulsed and throbbed like a human heart. Spain played probably their best game of the tournament; Italy managed to hold them at bay without ever quite hitting the heights of their earlier matches. Morata’s cool late finish, cancelling out Federico Chiesa’s goal on the hour, turned out to be only the start of the drama at a whooping, enthralled, drained Wembley. Continue reading...

Steven Gallant one of three men who restrained terrorist Usman Khan until armed police arrivedA prisoner who tackled the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker has been told he can be freed from jail.Steven Gallant was one of the three men who restrained Usman Khan during the terror attack in November 2019, in which he killed two people. Continue reading...

Driver and Marion Cotillard brim with nervous energy in this bizarre musical collaboration between Leos Carax and the Sparks brothers, which kicks off this year’s film festivalLeos Carax is the sly anarchist of French cinema whose sorties are sadly few and far between. Now he has broken cover with this barking mad fantasia, an almost entirely sung-through musical tragedy created with Ron and Russell Mael from Sparks, a band once thought to be relegated to YouTube clips of 70s Top of the Pops but now having a moment, thanks to this, together with a forthcoming documentary about them by Edgar Wright called The Sparks Brothers, and indeed their appearance in a Viz comic strip with the great socialist philosopher – Marx and Sparks.Related: Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax Continue reading...

Military also accused of disappearing 24 people and presenting them as guerrilla fighters as part of false positives scandalA Colombian court has accused 10 members of the military and a civilian of forcibly disappearing 24 people and murdering at least 120 civilians and falsely presenting them as guerrilla fighters who had been killed in combat.Related: The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero Continue reading...

Protests mounted across Spain after 24-year-old nursing assistant Samuel Luiz died following attack outside nightclubSpanish police have arrested three people in connection with the killing of a young gay man whose death in a possible homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the country and sparked nationwide protests.Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was out with friends in the Galician city of A Coruña in the early hours of Saturday when an argument started outside a nightclub. Continue reading...

Party doxxes satirical editor, suggesting followers demand he ‘takes responsibility when he leaves his office’Reporters without Borders (RSF) has criticised the far-right Spanish party Vox for suggesting that the head of an editorial group that publishes a satirical magazine that frequently lampoons the party be held to account for its content on the street outside his office.On Tuesday, Vox’s official Twitter account published the person’s name and photograph, and accused the magazine, El Jueves, of “spreading hate against millions of Spaniards on a daily basis”. Continue reading...

Daniel Ortega’s continuing crackdown targets farmer activists, student leader and potential presidential rivalNicaraguan police have arrested a half dozen more opposition figures, including the sixth presidential hopeful to have been detained in a crackdown that started last month.Among those arrested on Monday was Lesther Alemán, a former student leader who returned to Nicaragua after exile but stayed in safe houses. Those detained also included the presidential contender Medardo Mairena and Max Jerez, another student leader. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Experts investigating whether ‘environmental or engineering factors’ contributed to transmission, as pressure grows for purpose-built quarantine facilities

A landmark report by Human Rights Watch has detailed accounts of pro-democracy students and academics in Australia who are being harassed and threatened over their comments relating to China. In some cases, people have been doxxed, and others claim their actions have been reported to Chinese authorities. Reporter Daniel Hurst explains why academics and students are experiencing this harassment, and what Australia can do about itYou can also read: Continue reading...

Critics say government not doing enough to help neighbour as record cases deplete oxygen suppliesThe Australian government has been urged to rapidly step up its assistance to Indonesia, amid warnings the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases is fuelling an “escalating crisis right on our doorstep”.With aid groups fearing the Indonesian health system is on the verge of collapse, and with oxygen and bed shortages reported in some hospitals, there are growing calls for the Morrison government to help its most populous neighbour. Continue reading...

Mary Simon takes post at time of strained relations between Canada and First Nations after discoveries of unmarked gravesCanada will have its first ever Indigenous governor general after prime minister Justin Trudeau appointed Inuk leader Mary Simon as the Queen’s representative in Canada.Describing the move as a “historic” step, Trudeau announced Simon’s appointment on Tuesday after coming under mounting pressure to choose a new viceregal. His previous selection resigned after allegations of bullying in January. Continue reading...

Researchers hope to understand genius of artist by reconstructing his genealogical profileA study into the family history of the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci claims to have found 14 living relatives, the youngest aged one.The findings form part of a decades-long project, led by art historians Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato, aimed at reconstructing the genealogical profile of Da Vinci – who never married and had no children, but had at least 22 half-brothers – in order to better understand his genius. Continue reading...

First released in 1981, it is at the top of the iTunes chart this week, alongside many other very old albums and artists. Will our nostalgia loop ever end?Name: Queen’s Greatest Hits.Age: 40. Continue reading...

Mother of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman criticised slowness with which police reacted to concerns about women’s welfare

The director has spoken about race at the Cannes film festival, where he is the first black president of the Palme d’Or jurySpike Lee commented on the US’s current racial justice crisis in typically forthright fashion at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday, saying he hoped the time had come that “black people will stop being hunted down like animals”.Lee, who is the president of the jury that will pick the winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, was speaking at the jury’s press conference on the first day of the festival. Having been asked a question about his 1989 film Do the Right Thing, which contains a scene in which a black youth, Radio Raheem, is killed by police, Lee responded: “I wrote it in 1988. When you see brother Eric Garner, when you see king George Floyd murdered, lynched, I think of Radio Raheem; and you would think and hope that 30 motherfucking years later, that black people stop being hunted down like animals.” Continue reading...

Mother recalls daughters’ lives in victim impact statement, describing evidence as ‘overwhelming’A teenager has been convicted of the murder of two sisters in a London park last year whom he stabbed to death after coming through a government “deradicalisation” programme.Danyal Hussein, 19, murdered Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46. He was said to have drawn up a “contract” in his own blood with a demon to sacrifice women in return for winning the lottery. Continue reading...

Vulnerable and immunocompromised people anxious about 19 July end to Covid rules

The Jamaican legend on the importance of Black Lives Matter, his 800m challenge and lessons of parenthoodThe fastest man in history is pondering just how much more destructive he could have been in the super spikes that have swung a wrecking ball at so many world records. Briefly, there is a battle between Usain Bolt the diplomat and Usain Bolt the competitor. The competitor wins. “Me and a friend were talking about this the other day,” he tells the Guardian. “And I was like, ‘should I be upset?’ Because I know over the years everyone has tried to make spikes different and better but …”Bolt stresses he is not worried about the current crop shredding his 100m world record of 9.58sec or his 200m best of 19.19sec. Yet he sounds uneasy about where the arms race in shoe technology will lead. “How can I argue if World Athletics decide that it’s legal? I can’t do anything about it. The rules are the rules. I don’t think I’ll be fully happy, but it’s just one of those things.” Continue reading...

Distraught parents have gathered outside a boarding school in north-western Nigeria after gunmen kidnapped 140 children, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students in the country. About 1,000 students and pupils have been abducted in Nigeria since December, with most eventually released after negotiations with local officials. Monday’s raid at the Bethel Baptist high school was at least the fourth mass school kidnapping in Kaduna state over the period

Proposed legislation also allows home secretary to impose extra fees for visa applicationsThe UK will block visas for overseas visitors if the home secretary believes they are refusing to cooperate in taking back rejected asylum seekers or offenders.In proposed legislation published on Tuesday, Priti Patel and future home secretaries would have the power to suspend or delay the processing of applications from countries that do no “cooperate with the UK government in relation to the removal from the United Kingdom of nationals of that country who require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom but do not have it”. Continue reading...

Activists call on Britain to acknowledge its role in efforts to erase Indigenous cultureThe United Kingdom is facing growing calls to re-examine the troubling legacy of its colonial history in Canada after the discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children.At least 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend such church-run schools as part of the campaign to strip them of their cultural identity, and amid anger over Catholic church’s role in operating the institutions, churches across the country have been set on fire. Continue reading...

Close contacts of people in England who have tested positive for Covid will not need to self-isolate if they have received both of their Covid jabs, or if they are under 18, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has told the Commons. People will still need to self-isolate if they test positive for the virus. 'This new approach means we can manage the virus in a way that's proportionate to the pandemic while maintaining the freedoms that are so important to us all,' Javid said.

28-year-old reported missing after failing to show for work at Tokyo school where she was last seen on 1 JulyPolice in Japan are searching for a British woman who has not been seen for almost a week, with her family describing her disappearance as “completely out of character”.Alice Hodgkinson, 28, was reported missing after she failed to turn up for work at an English conversation school in Tokyo. Continue reading...

He was able to exist so easily in my world that it helped me feel happier there tooIn the summer of 2015, I attended UK Black Pride (an annual event celebrating African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean-heritage LGBTQI+ people). It is one of the few places where I feel truly among family. My difference as a queer person of colour disappears in the sea of black and brown faces dancing in the sunshine – jumping around to the likes of Mark Morrison’s Return of the Mack and Jazzy Jeff’s Summertime; songs that also bring back memories of London in the 90s, the London of my teens.I come from a working-class, multicultural, east London community, but, after graduating from university, I also graduated to the middle classes. At UK Black Pride, I was reminded how far away I now felt from that world and, in that instant, recognised why love seemed to elude me. I dated men from my “circle”: men I’d met working as a lawyer or through university friends. Men who were middle class. Men who were often (but not always) white. Continue reading...

Political rivals and human rights campaigners criticise use of inflammatory campaign material by Vox partyHuman rights groups and politicians in Spain have spoken out after a court ruled that a controversial and false election poster for the far-right Vox party should not be withdrawn because it is legitimate political expression, and because the unaccompanied foreign minors it depicts in a relentlessly negative light are “an obvious social and political problem”.The poster, which Vox used as part of its campaign in May’s bitterly contested Madrid regional election, was put up in a busy rail station in the capital and shows a hooded and masked dark-skinned youth alongside a white Spanish grandmother. It incorrectly suggests that refugee and migrant children in state care receive 10 times more in benefits each month than the average Spanish grandmother does in pension payments. Continue reading...

Four men were jailed for up to 20 years after violent raid on monastery in 2019, says Human Rights WatchFour Tibetan monks were sentenced to up to 20 years jail in secret trials with no apparent evidence of criminal wrongdoing after a violent raid on a monastery in 2019, according to a report from Human Rights Watch, which calls for their release.The raid, details of which the rights organisation says have come to light for the first time, was sparked by police obtaining a phone, accidentally left at a cafe, containing WeChat messages to people in Nepal and evidence of a donation to an earthquake relief effort. Continue reading...

Hospitals struggle to cope as senior paediatrician says cases rising rapidly among minors

Travellers from UK who are double-vaccinated or have recovered from an infection will no longer require quarantine

‘Cows are my favourite animal, so why not buy some?’ says William Woods of his thought processWhen William Woods won €1,000 (£860) in a prize draw the 10-year-old knew exactly what to do: buy a herd of calves.Lockdown had disrupted schooling and impeded meeting friends so spending days in a field tending his own herd seemed a no-brainer for the young farmer. Continue reading...

Although four vaccines are available, some shots are deemed by some more desirable than others

Colombian health workers struggling to cope as malnutrition and dirty water ravage new arrivals in Maicao’s swelling shanty townsA seemingly endless lake of cardboard and tin shacks surrounds the perimeter of a former airport runway in Colombia’s desert-like city of Maicao. Known locally as La Pista, the area is home to more than 2,000 families, and is one of 44 informal settlements to have emerged around the city in the past two years.The old airport has become a landing strip for desperate migrants and bi-national indigenous Wayuu people fleeing the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, where the basic essentials of life are hard to come by. Continue reading...

Military officials say troops turned off power and slipped away without notifying new commanderUS forces shut off the Bagram airfield’s electricity supply and did not notify the base’s senior Afghan officer when they departed on Friday, prompting puzzlement and anger among Afghan soldiers there.The airfield’s new commander, Gen Mir Asadullah Kohistani, only discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, he said on Monday. Continue reading...

High court says home secretary must bring back Sudanese man so his trafficking and torture claims can be investigatedPriti Patel must bring back to the UK a small boat asylum seeker she removed to France in the next 14 days, the high court has ruled.In a ruling published on Tuesday, the day that Patel launched her nationality and borders bill, which she hopes will make it easier to remove asylum seekers who arrive in small boats, Mr Justice Wall ordered that the home secretary use her “best endeavours” to bring back a 38-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker from Darfur who can only be identified by the initials AA. Continue reading...

Courtney Harriot, Paul Green and Cleveland Davidson jailed for allegedly trying to rob police officerThree innocent black men who were jailed nearly 50 years ago over a corrupt police officer’s claims they tried to rob him have had their convictions overturned by the court of appeal.Courtney Harriot, Paul Green and Cleveland Davidson, all aged between 17 and 20 at the time, were arrested on the tube in London while travelling from Stockwell station in February 1972. Continue reading...

Nation with Hans Christian Andersen-inspired football song is hoping for fairytale win against EnglandPeople dancing on buses is not something you see every day in Denmark. Rule-abiding Danes tend to keep their celebrations low-key – but not this summer.Football fans brought traffic to a standstill in Aarhus after Denmark beat the Czech Republic in the Euro 2020 quarter-finals and even scaled public transport to broadcast their euphoria and belt out another round of Re-sepp-ten – first a hit for Denmark’s national team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The anthem’s crowd-sourced lyrics are laden with Hans Christian Andersen imagery and feel particularly apt this year. Continue reading...

Parliament fails to renew law barring Arab citizens from extending citizenship rights to spousesThe Israeli parliament has voted down an extension to controversial legislation that bars Arab Israelis from extending residency or citizenship rights to Palestinian spouses, in an early blow to the country’s new coalition government.After a marathon all-night voting session that ended on Tuesday morning, the Knesset decided not to renew the law in a 59-59 vote. The outcome is widely seen as a stinging defeat for the prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who failed to unite the coalition’s disparate ideological wings in what he reportedly himself referred to as a “referendum” on the new government. Continue reading...

Workers and residents exposed to dangerous levels of toxic dust in wake of 2019 fire, lawyers claimFrench and Paris authorities are facing further legal action over worrying lead levels around Notre Dame Cathedral in the wake of the devastating fire two years ago.Lawyers for a branch of one of the country’s most powerful unions, which has joined forced with a health association and local residents, will submit a legal case on Tuesday for “endangering life … by persons unknown”. Continue reading...

Suspects aged 15-39 accused of attempting to make the explosive TATP in makeshift hostel laboratoryHong Kong’s national security police say they have arrested nine people on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity after uncovering what they described as an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city.According to police, the suspects were aged 15-39 and included six secondary school students, a teacher, an unemployed person and a management-level university employee. Continue reading...

The eight-hour journey provided plenty of time to snuggle up on the back seats - and it turned out this wasn’t just a holiday romanceA meet-cute on the Annapurna trail might sound like the premise for a romcom, but, at 19, I was thin-skinned, surly and hadn’t developed the knack of talking to girls my age. Besides, I wasn’t there for a holiday romance; I was in Nepal with my best friend, Sam, and his mother, in whose home I was living at the time.It says a lot about my state of mind back then that I deemed a bumper quiz book essential for a walking holiday in Nepal. After two solid performances, my Cambridge college was through to the quarter-finals of University Challenge, and bringing the book was a sign that I was finally taking it seriously. Continue reading...

Gladys Berejiklian will announce on Wednesday if greater Sydney lockdown will continue beyond Friday night

Larry Rudolph wishes Spears ‘all the health and happiness in the world’ as singer’s future remains uncertain amid conservatorship battleBritney Spears’s manager Larry Rudolph, who has managed the singer since her mid-90s breakthrough, has resigned and said the singer possibly intends to retire.In a letter sent to Spears’ conservators, father Jamie Spears and Jodi Montgomery, and first reported by Deadline, he wrote: Continue reading...

NSW flags lockdown announcement on Wednesday; police investigate Cairns hotel quarantine escapee; Australian Grand Prix cancelled

Covid pandemic means only a limited number of VIPs will be allowed in 68,000-seat stadium

Man charged with assault and obstructing police after incident involving chief medical officerA second man has been charged with common assault and obstructing police after England’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, was accosted in a central London park, the Metropolitan police said.Jonathan Chew, 24, of no fixed address, was charged on Monday and will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday. Continue reading...

You’ve seen the film, now read the director’s own novelisation. And it turns out that his way with words is infectious and funQuentin Tarantino’s most recent film, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, seemed to split audiences along generational lines. Despite its charms and Tarantino’s customary flair, I came out of it frustrated and a bit bored, wondering if it was finally time to divorce this film-maker who’d shaped the sense of cinematic possibility of anyone who grew up in the 1990s. Tarantino’s essential shallowness, which in the past he has alchemised as aesthetic vitality, and his adolescent moral outlook had come to seem dismayingly inflexible: I didn’t feel he could surprise me any more. But everyone a couple of decades older than me, who remembered the late 1960s televisual and cinematic golden-age Hollywood so lovingly elegised, seemed to adore the film.Now Tarantino has surprised us all by turning his hand to writing books, beginning with this novelisation. It’s far better than I expected it to be. Anyone who admired the movie will have a great time with this spin-off work. Interestingly, it is not a straightforward translation of the events in the film. The two versions of Rick and Cliff’s story do share a number of scenes, but even those are altered and lengthened and there numerous new scenes and characters, some of them real-life figures (Steve McQueen has a cameo). Continue reading...

Unseen is an ongoing series of polaroids taken during the past 15 months of pandemic and lockdowns in London. Using household cleaning products, photographer Nicola Muirhead ‘disinfected’ each image to metaphorically reveal this unseen virus in her pictures Continue reading...

Liverpool MP and family questioned by officers as Scottish supporters celebrated Euro 2020 match nearbyKim Johnson, the Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, has accused the Metropolitan police of institutional racism after she and her family were stopped by officers in central London last month.Johnson, who became Liverpool’s first black MP when she was elected in 2019, said they had arrived in Covent Garden near the end of the England v Scotland Euro 2020 match when they found themselves surrounded by police officers. Continue reading...

NSW Health agrees to request for St Joseph’s College Year 12s to access Covid vaccine as many boarders are from Indigenous or remote communities

Just a few footsteps separate bed and bathroom in an unusual rental that appeared on CraigslistBeing single can be tough. But should you be so despondent about your lack of a partner that you can barely make it from the bed to the bathroom, one Vancouver apartment might be the answer.An ad for a “micro studio” posted on Craigslist this month described the apartment – which includes new flooring, a window and a single bed, but does not include a kitchen – as “ideal for a single individual looking to live downtown at an affordable rate, and who does not need much space”. Continue reading...