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Latest updates: PM says most conversations with other leaders harmonious and on other topics, as row with France over Brexit overshadows final day of G75.20pm BSTLeaders at this summit have failed to deliver either the vaccine doses and investment needed to end the Covid pandemic or the real action it will take to stem the tide of climate change. This is an historic missed opportunity that leaves people everywhere dangerously exposed to these crises.Related: Coronavirus live: UK cases up by 2,000 for second week in a row; G7 calls for expert-led study on origins of Covid5.06pm BSTG7 leaders agreed to coordinate their response to the challenges posed by China “much much more closely”, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said after the summit. As Reuters reports, Trudeau said at his news conference:What we really came together clearly to say and put forward today was a need to speak with one voice [on China], a need to coordinate much more closely our working together and our focus. Continue reading...

Analysis: Cornwall summit revives multilateralism but lacks action on climate, vaccines and ChinaBoris Johnson struggled to present an agreement between G7 world leaders in Cornwall as a breakthrough to match the scale of the crises facing the globe.The final communique of the rich nations’ club contained no early timetable to eradicate coal-fired emissions, offered only 1bn extra vaccines for the world’s poor over the next 12 months and made no new binding commitments to challenge China’s human rights abuses. Continue reading...

Lawyers criticise 10-year terms given to four asylum seekers, saying three should have been tried in juvenile courtDraconian prison sentences handed down to four Afghan youths found guilty of starting the fire that destroyed the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last year have been described as a “parody of justice”.Defence lawyers called the penalties “unfair”, saying three of the accused were under the age of 18 at the time and should have been tried before a juvenile court. The asylum seekers received 10-year jail terms each. Continue reading...

DSI Lee Hill says force anticipating increase in violent crimes from release of ‘pent-up aggression’

Football’s coming home, according to the fans inside Wembley. We have heard that before and so the usual disclaimers must apply. But this was an encouraging start for England, at the very least; the first time they have won the opening match at a European Championship – at the 10th time of asking.It was a deserved victory, too, against surely the strongest opposition that Gareth Southgate’s team will face at the group stage. It was an occasion when revenge was in the air, with one or two of England’s players having brought up the semi-final defeat by Croatia at the 2018 World Cup. It is hard to see that anything will ever compensate for that and certainly not a group phase win. Continue reading...

Protest at Plaza de Colón in Madrid draws 25,000 people, including leaders of three rightwing partiesAbout 25,000 people, including the leaders of the three parties on Spain’s right, have rallied in Madrid to protest against the government’s deeply divisive moves to pardon the 12 Catalan independence leaders convicted over their parts in the failed secession attempt almost four years ago.The event on Sunday, held beneath the enormous Spanish flag in the capital’s Plaza de Colón, came almost two and a half years after a similar demonstration against the Socialist government’s handling of the Catalan independence crisis. Continue reading...

Party officially endorses co-leader and top candidate for September election to succeed MerkelGermany’s Green party has said it remains confident of securing the chancellorship and succeeding Angela Merkel at the country’s autumn election despite a drop in the polls, as it officially endorsed its lead candidate for the job.Setbacks in recent weeks have led to the Greens slipping to second place behind Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after commanding the polls for the first time in years. But this did not dissuade delegates from wholeheartedly throwing their support behind Annalena Baerbock at the party’s annual gathering on Saturday. Continue reading...

Work begins next month to swathe monument in blue fabric a year after Bulgarian-born artist’s deathThe Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be swathed in silvery blue fabric and red rope as a posthumous project planned by the artist Christo since the early 1960s finally becomes reality.Work will begin next month on L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a €14m installation at one of the world’s most recognised monuments. The arch will be swathed in 25,000 sq/m of recyclable polypropylene fabric, fixed with 3,000 m of red rope, also recyclable. Continue reading...

Sky News host gets second-highest rank in honours system, the latest in a series of controversial recipientsPeta Credlin, Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff and current Sky News host, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s birthday honours.The controversial broadcaster, columnist and veteran Liberal staffer was appointed to the second-highest rank under the honours system for her contribution to Australian politics. Continue reading...

Former students of Eltham college receive letter from school’s lawyers accusing them of obstructing investigationFormer pupils at a private school in south-east London who compiled a dossier of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations were shocked to receive a letter from the school’s lawyers accusing them of obstructing investigations into the incidents.The students, who went to Eltham College in Bromley, said they expected to receive a compassionate response after they collected testimonies from pupils past and present alleging sexism, sexual harassment, abuse and assault, and forwarded them to the school, inspired by the Everyone’s Invited anti-rape movement. Continue reading...

When a man acts in anger, we step aside, but a woman gets labelled ‘crazy bitch’. In a personal, ferocious treatise, the author says we need to change the scriptMy mother once told me – no that’s not true – my mother many times warned me: “If you ever sell any of my jewellery after I’m dead, I’ll come back from the grave and bite your toes.”I don’t know if she meant she would nibble on my toes, or fully eat them, but I was petrified of her doing the things she threatened. My mother, after all, was a crazy bitch. Continue reading...

Writer Emily Rapp Black lost her leg aged four. In her new memoir, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, she explains how the work of the Mexican artist, also an amputee, helped her develop a better relationship with her body

The post-Trump landscape, geopolitical concerns and an economic paradox pose threat to White House hopesStanding behind a podium next to the president of Guatemala during her first trip abroad this week, Vice-President Kamala Harris emphasized the renewed commitment of the United States to fighting corruption as part of efforts to confront the root causes driving migration from Central America.But for many, the man standing beside her, Alejandro Giammattei, embodies the challenge in a region where past and current presidents have been accused of misdeeds ranging from embezzlement and bribery to authoritarianism and drug trafficking. Continue reading...

Steady progress against the virus sees a range of controls – but not all of them – removedBoris Johnson is being urged to postpone lifting all further legal restrictions on social contact on 21 June as cases of the Delta variant first detected in India continue to surge. Where are other European countries on their roadmap out of lockdown? Continue reading...

Brazilian president broke local rules as he led thousands of supporters through city’s streetsBrazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, led thousands of motorcyclist supporters through the streets of São Paulo on Saturday – and was fined for failure to wear a mask in violation of local pandemic restrictions.The rightwing president waved to the crowd from his motorcycle and later from atop a sound truck, where helmeted but largely maskless backers cheered and chanted as he insisted that masks were useless for those already vaccinated – an assertion disputed by most public health experts. Continue reading...

The director on his new horror movie set during a pandemic, fearing he’d never work again, and why audiences love Jason StathamFor many of us, much of the past year will have felt like the plot of a horror film. So when, in March 2020, the British writer and director Ben Wheatley, 48, found himself with some unexpected free time, it was clear what the genre of his next project would be. The result, the terrifying and blackly comic In the Earth, went from concept to virtual Sundance premiere in less than 12 months. It is set in the midst of a pandemic that may feel familiar in some senses but, on a two-day forest trek, a scientist (Joel Fry) and a park scout (Ellora Torchia) also have to contend with a malignant woodland spirit and a deranged Reece Shearsmith. Wheatley has an eclectic, never-dull, often grisly backlist that includes Sightseers, Kill List, Free Fire and Rebecca. He lives in Brighton with his creative and real-life partner, Amy Jump.Wind the clock back to March 2020 – is it true you thought that Covid could bring about the end of cinema? And specifically that you weren’t going to work again?

In 1996, our writer identified the suicide victim whose death symbolised the cruelty of Ratko Mladic. As his life sentence is upheld, she recalls a meeting with Ferida Osmanovic’s childrenIn July 1995, a photograph made newspaper front pages around the world. It showed a woman in a white skirt and red cardigan hanging from a tree in a wood outside Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia. The caption read: “The Hanging Woman”.They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and this one said everything about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Continue reading...

Labor’s Penny Wong says it’s disappointing the Australian prime minister did not secure a private meeting with the US presidentScott Morrison has met with Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit and agreed to work closely on challenges in the increasingly contested Indo-Pacific region including China.Regional issues dominated the Australian prime minister’s first face-to-face meeting with the US president late on Saturday – but the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, also attended in what became a trilateral engagement. Continue reading...

After almost 20 years, our much-loved agony aunt is signing off. Here, our readers reveal how she’s helped themDear Mariella, I just wanted to let you know that not long after your column started I wrote to you. I was in utter despair as my husband had left and I think I was having a breakdown. I thought at the time your reply was quite harsh. However, you were right, I did need to get a grip and concentrate on my children. Continue reading...

The 68-year-old was taken to hospital where he was treated for burns to his face, upper body and handsPerth detectives are investigating reports a man was set alight outside an inner city church.Police say the 68-year-old suffered significant burns after he was approached by another man on Beaufort Street in Highgate around 5pm on Saturday. Continue reading...

The new local case is a primary close contact of another coronavirus case and has been self-isolatingVic exposure sites; Qld Covid hotspots list; NSW hotspotsCovid Victoria restrictions explainedCovid vaccine rollout numbers: tracking vaccination progressMelbourne is on track for a further easing of restrictions later in the week after recording one new locally acquired Covid case on Sunday.The Health Department on Sunday confirmed the new case is a close contact of an already infected person and has been quarantining throughout their infectious period. Continue reading...

Children and hospital staff killed in attack on northern city Afrin, which is held by Turkish-backed rebelsShelling of the rebel-held city of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 people, many of them when a hospital was hit, a war monitor said.The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a doctor, three hospital staff, two women and two children died at al-Shifaa hospital, which is held by Turkish-backed rebels, on Saturday. Continue reading...

Lord Evans to call for tougher rules to stop former ministers using contacts and expertise for private gainMinisters could face a five-year ban from lobbying after leaving office and face fines if they break the rules.Lord Evans, chair of the committee on standards in public life, will propose the tougher measures following an emergency review carried out in the wake of the Greensill scandal. Continue reading...

With a general election due next year, Hungary’s government has put the divisive project in the capital’s heart on holdProtests against the construction of a Chinese university in Budapest have energised the Hungarian opposition ahead of elections next year, and forced the government into a rare U-turn.Outrage at plans to build a campus of Shanghai’s Fudan University became a rallying cry for the opposition, drawing thousands to protest in defiance of government regulations Continue reading...

Were you the child whose indignant letter yielded a free bar of chocolate? Séamas O’Reilly puts pen to paper to reveal why we are a nation of complainersThe biscuit was only barely covered. If I’d had to guess, I’d have said 30% of its surface had chocolate applied, and that’s being charitable. Certainly more charitable than the manufacturer of the Jaffa Cake in question, who I pictured as God’s perfect miser; a Scrooge-like figure toiling in a candle-lit factory, peering over their bifocals to smear homeopathic levels of chocolate on one sorry corner of my favourite tea snack. I was 10 years old, and had never had a particularly strong sense of myself as a consumer champion, but this biscuit, this disgrace, roused something inside me.“Dear McVitie’s,” I wrote, addressing the entire company in my missive. “I was shocked and appalled to discover this Jaffa Cake (enclosed) in such a state.” In hindsight, I was savvy enough to moderate my speech to sound adult, but not perhaps worldly enough to consider enclosing the foodstuff itself in plastic before popping it in with my letter. By the time I posted it the following day, I remember already noticing some of its soft greasiness had permeated the envelope, but I reckoned this was probably just the way things were done. Evidently it was, as two weeks later I received a letter apologising for my suboptimal experience, along with an invitation to tour a factory, and two whole boxes of Jaffa Cakes. These, I am happy to report, were perfectly chocolated. Continue reading...

Devonte Brown, 18, of Southwark, charged with conspiracy to murder over shooting of BLM activistA second teenager has been charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson, the Metropolitan police said.The 27-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital. Continue reading...

Leaders of the G7 industrialised countries are meeting in Cornwall this weekend to discuss vaccines, the pandemic recovery and the climate crisis

Clash with EU leaders over Brexit risks overshadowing G7 summit as PM responds to calls for UK to honour its word

Annual pilgrimage will be restricted to 60,000 vaccinated adults from within the kingdom

The premier said he was ‘raring to go’ after recovering from falling down stairs at a rental home on Victoria’s Mornington PeninsulaVictorian premier Daniel Andrews has announced he will return to work on 28 June, saying his “vertebra has almost fully healed and my ribs are well on track”.Andrews revealed his plans on a Saturday night Facebook post, saying he had been given the all-clear by doctors to return to work, more than three months after he fell and fractured his spine and ribs. Continue reading...

The former West Indies fast bowler has written a book about his experiences of encountering racial prejudice, with contributions from famous names such as Usain Bolt and Naomi OsakaIn his playing days in the 1970s and 1980s, the West Indian cricketer Michael Holding didn’t speak out against racism, although he saw it all around him. “I chose not to confront it because I was being selfish,” he says. “You saw what happened to athletes when they tried to speak up. Their careers came to an end.”He remembers John Carlos and Tommie Smith, the two African-American athletes who famously raised black-gloved fists at the 1968 Mexico Olympics during the medal ceremony for the 200m. “There wasn’t enough pressure on people to heed a black man calling out back then,” he says. Continue reading...

Travellers in Ireland and UK affected by cancellations and almost 500 jobs at risk as airline goes into liquidationTravellers have been left stranded in cities in the UK and Ireland and nearly 500 jobs are at risk after a regional Irish airline announced it was going into liquidation.Aer Lingus said a number of regional flights had been cancelled after the operator, Stobart Air, ended its contract with the Irish airline. Continue reading...

Andy Lau plays a bomb-disposal officer in this old-school action thriller with tricksy, Infernal Affairs-esque storytellingThe “2” in the original title of this film would suggest this Hong Kong-action thriller is a sequel – or more likely a prequel given its ending – to the 2017 film Shock Wave, which like this starred megastar Andy Lau and was directed by one of his regular collaborators, Herman Yau. In fact, there’s no connective narrative tissue at all between the films, apart from the fact that the hero in both works for the Hong Kong police department’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) bureau, or bomb disposal unit. Still, the end result offers a regular drumbeat of suspense-followed-by-explosion throughout – one long tick-tick-boom symphony, in fact – which makes for fitfully stimulating entertainment.Lau plays Poon Sing-fung, the EOD’s most reckless yet heroic debomber, who is best friends with his superior, Tung (Ching Wan Lau), and in a happy romantic relationship with pretty police officer Pong Ling (Ni Ni). The couple’s happiness is mostly represented in the early scenes by her looking simperingly at him while he laughs in a reckless yet heroic fashion. But one call-out goes wrong, and just when Poon thinks he’s saved everyone in a squalid flat, a cat in a booby-trapped microwave blows up and Poon loses half of his left leg. Nevertheless, he puts everything into building up strength in his remaining limbs in order to return to his old job, which not so coincidentally dovetails with Lau’s real-world support for the Paralympics and disabled athletes. Continue reading...

The Queen caused G7 world leaders to break out into laughter as she cracked a joke when they posed for a photo at an evening reception hosted by the monarch on Friday. ‘Are you supposed to be looking as if you're enjoying yourself?’ she asked as they posed for photographers, to which Boris Johnson could be heard replying: ‘Yes, definitely. We have been enjoying ourselves in spite of appearances’

Although a few states have seen large increases in vaccination rates among Black and Latino Americans, most are still trailing behindWhen vaccines became increasingly available throughout America, US health officials moved quickly to try to convince large numbers of Americans to get vaccinated. But amid the mass vaccination rollout, Black and Latino communities, who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, have been left behind in vaccination efforts, creating racial disparities about who was more likely to get a Covid-19 shot.Amid federal and local efforts to address vaccine disparity, vaccination rates for Black Americans and Latinos lag behind the general population, leaving many communities of color still unprotected against the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading...

Sunday predicted to be warmest day of 2021 so far, with parts of UK hotter than CaliforniaFootball fans are expected to enjoy the hottest day of the year so far this weekend, with temperatures hitting highs of 29C (84.2F).The mercury will soar on Sunday afternoon, just as England take on Croatia, potentially making it the warmest 13 June on record. Continue reading...

The neuroscientist and psychiatrist explains Zoom fatigue - and why the conditions of the pandemic can induce an ‘altered state’

The Brexit sausage war is nothing new: it follows an inglorious lineage that stretches all the way back to Hogarth’s Gin LaneIt’s summer at last! Time to gather a few neighbours round, start a fire, and throw another sausage war on to the flames. This one is about the complicated triangulation between the EU, Northern Ireland and Westminster over frictionless trade. Still awake? Let’s put it in terms “the public” can understand and, as former Brexit chief negotiator David Frost did, thunder about the right of “the shopper in Strabane” to get their favourite sausages or chicken nuggets. In fact, from Hogarth’s Gin Lane, right through to the pasty tax, politicians have scored political points around food, as a distraction from more important matters, such as whether children get fed.If you were of telly-watching age in 1984, there might be a familiar whiff to Frost’s words. In Yes, Minister the not overly competent but endlessly fortunate minister, Jim Hacker, grappled with a rumoured proposal from Brussels to have the British sausage renamed the “emulsified high-fat offal tube”. Westminster is traditionally reluctant to get involved in our personal relationship with our shopping baskets and arteries. It still feels the pain of burnt fingers from the “hot pasty tax”; or Edwina Currie’s throwaway 1988 remark about the prevalence of salmonella in British egg production, which crashed consumer confidence overnight (it was reported that the industry had to slaughter four million hens). The knotty issues around processed meat products are delegated to food and health campaigners who would like Britons to eat a lot fewer, for the sake of our health, our waistlines and the welfare of the animals who end up in them. Continue reading...

It’s been a tumultuous five years for Andy Murray: countless injuries, a new metal hip, four children and a bout of Covid. Can the former world No 1 really battle his way back to brilliance at Wimbledon?Is he or isn’t he? One minute Andy Murray, one of Britain’s greatest living athletes, tells me he’ll be back on the court at Wimbledon this month, playing well in the tournament that made his name. And the next, he doesn’t sound so sure. “The test is being on court with the best players,” he says in a break in training, “and that’s something that, right this second, is difficult to give a definitive answer to.”The joy of sport is its unpredictability, but Murray’s not talking about that. His body has been through such immense stress and strain – throughout his career, but especially over the past few years – that he can’t rely on it. He genuinely doesn’t know what it can do. Continue reading...

Who’ll be player of the tournament? How will Wales do? And is World in Motion better than Three Lions? We consult a panel that includes Krept and Konan, Shura and Alex Horne

Key figure in 2019 anti-government protests was imprisoned for more than six months under national security law imposed by mainland ChinaThe Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during 2019 anti-government protests that triggered a crackdown on dissent by mainland China.Chow, 24, was greeted by a crowd of journalists as she left the Tai Lam women’s prison on Saturday. She got out of a prison van and into a private car without making any remarks. Continue reading...

For 16 years, I have met up with five friends for an annual yomp in the English countryside – and we are enjoying that companionship more than ever

New channel is keen to reject comparisons with Fox News despite positioning itself as ‘anti-woke’

People evacuated from Traralgon given the all clear to go home but heavy rain continues to impact large parts of the stateTens of thousands of Victorian residents remained without power or telecommunications as heavy rainfall and flooding continued to impact large parts of the state.Communities without phone coverage and unable to call triple-zero included: Trentham, King Lake, Dandenong Ranges, South Gippsland, Gembrook, Pyalong, Don Valley, Healesville, Lancefield and Woori Yallock. Continue reading...

Luca, 24, medical librarian, meets Charlie, 26, executive assistantWhat were you hoping for?

EU leaders expected to stress potential consequences of failing to find resolution, putting onus on UK to compromise

Peers and mayors also among voices calling for wall of hearts to become national landmark