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Star says her older sister, an actor and film-maker, died in her home, in nature, at peace'Jamie Lee Curtis has announced the death of her sister, the actor Kelly Curtis, at the age of 69, describing her as talented" and jaw droppingly beautiful".Jamie Lee said her sister had died in her home, in nature, at peace" on Saturday, having had roles in films including Trading Places (1983), in which the pair both appeared, Magic Sticks (1987) and The Devil's Daughter (1991). No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

Modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to share data, reducing errors and duplicationSharing access to patients' health data across NHS providers in England could result in 20,000 fewer A&E visits a year and save 20m annually, the government has claimed, before the second reading of the NHS modernisation bill on Monday.The bill, which would also abolish NHS England, sets out measures including single patient records (SPR) for every person receiving health and social care in England, requiring GPs and hospitals to securely share data as part of the government's 10-year health plan. Continue reading...

Fans estimated at hundreds of thousands fill north London streets to celebrate women's and men's teams' triumphsAbout 75 people had to be rescued from height and 16 people were arrested during Arsenal's victory bus parade on Sunday, emergency services said.What were estimated as hundreds of thousands of fans lined the streets around the Emirates stadium in north London to celebrate the Gunners winning the men's Premier League for the first time since 2004 and the women's team lifting the first ever Fifa Women's Champions Cup. Continue reading...

Social housing landlords to be able to evict perpetrators, while right-to-buy tenancy requirements to riseSocial housing landlords will be able to evict domestic abuse perpetrators under a new bill, which will also increase the length of tenancy required before residents qualify for the right-to-buy scheme from three to 10 years in England.The government said the bill, which will be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, would fix the long-term decline in social housing" and offer new protections for social tenants who were subjected to domestic abuse. Continue reading...

The Bristol trip-hop group will perform in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in AugustMassive Attack are set to tour Australia for the first time in 16 years.The influential British trip-hop group, made up of Robert 3D" Del Naja and Grant Daddy G" Marshall, will play Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in August. The upcoming tour will be the band's fourth appearance in Australia and their first Australian shows since 2010. Continue reading...

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Experts say capture is largely symbolic, but it complicates efforts to extend the ceasefire between US and IranIsraeli troops have captured a clifftop castle as they made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than 26 years, further shattering a nominal US-brokered ceasefire and complicating efforts to extend the separate truce between the Washington and Tehran.After days of intense fighting and airstrikes in nearby villages, the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the military had captured Beaufort Castle, also known as Qalaat al-Shaqif, which it had used as a base during its previous occupation of southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000. Continue reading...

Attempted murder investigation launched after police officer struck by vehicle in DownpatrickPolice have launched an attempted murder investigation after an officer was hit by a stolen police vehicle in Northern Ireland.The officer, who fired his gun during the incident at 4.45am on Sunday, had been chasing a suspect on foot after another vehicle had earlier failed to stop for police in the Fountain Street area in Downpatrick, County Down. Continue reading...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes appeal after protests against protocols for handling victims' bodies in Ituri provinceContaining the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo requires community cooperation and is everybody's business", the World Health Organization has said.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation's director general, made the plea on Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo where some residents have protested against stringent medical protocols for handling victims' bodies. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan show possible savings for university graduates, as Hecs debts increase by $1bn on Monday

Buyers abandon auctions and Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra median house prices end May lower than they were at the end of 2025

Former Scottish first minister says she will not apologise for actions of her ex-husband found guilty of embezzlementNicola Sturgeon has said she feels as if she is serving a sentence for a crime she did not commit, as she denied ever consciously" seeing the motor home bought by her estranged husband with money embezzled from the Scottish National party.Scotland's former first minister said the luxury camper was parked round the side" of her mother-in-law's house and had been recorded in the party's accounts as motor vehicles" so its purchase had not rung alarm bells. Continue reading...

Tribunal orders company to pay Shabin Shaji for care work he was not given after coming to UK, in landmark caseAn Indian citizen who came to the UK to work as a care worker through the post-Brexit visa scheme has been awarded nearly 30,000 in a landmark case, because his employer failed to give him a single day of work for a year.An employment tribunal ordered the care company Swan Care Solutions Ltd to pay Shabin Shaji wages for the work he was ready, able and willing to do". Continue reading...

Yves Sakila died after being restrained by security guards in broad daylight'Irish authorities have agreed to a second postmortem on the body of a Congolese man who died after being restrained by shop security guards on a Dublin street, prompting an outcry and comparisons to the death of George Floyd.A forensic pathologist from England is to conduct an independent postmortem this week on Yves Sakila, 35, an alleged shoplifter who was pursued and pinned to the ground in the city centre on 15 May. The police force, An Garda Siochana, is investigating. Continue reading...

Survey finds frustration with connectivity to 4G or 5G, highlighting weaknesses in digital infrastructureMore than four in 10 people in the UK struggle to access 4G or 5G on their mobile devices for at least half the time they are on the move, according to a survey that highlights the poor state of the country's digital infrastructure.The poll of more than 2,000 users of digital devices found that 45% felt frustrated with mobile connectivity outside the home at least once a week. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, that figure rose to 57%. Continue reading...

From watching their team win to watching their mayor in the nosebleeds, residents are feeling hopefulNew York City, hardly a city deprived of energy, is having a moment. In the past two weeks, the bars have been even more packed than usual. Several nights a week, usually at around 11pm, there has been a seemingly synchronized honking of horns.Walking around the city, it doesn't take long to find out why. People wearing New York Knicks jerseys are high-fiving each other, and Knicks flags fly from cars, windows and bodegas, as people celebrate the team reaching the NBA finals - and having the chance to overcome five decades of (mostly) failure. Continue reading...

Scottish family on low income receives 15,000 more a year than identical household in EnglandThe emergence of welfare nationalism" in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low income receiving 15,000 a year more in state support than an identical household over the border in England.A typical out of work couple with four children would have received 22,000 a year benefit income in York, compared with 32,000 in Belfast and 37,000 in Glasgow, according to new research on the impact of devolved welfare approaches Continue reading...

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The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected worldIn a 1965 speech justifying the war in Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson argued that the goal was to ensure every country can shape its own destiny" since only in such a world could the US secure its own freedom. However, he also admitted such were infirmities of man that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace".It was the kind of elegant justification of the country's moral mission to which successive US presidential speechwriters have turned at times of war. Continue reading...

Ballots are being cast in the first round of the South American nation's presidential electionsColombians are casting ballots in the first round of the South American nation's presidential election, choosing between candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict.The vote on Sunday, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo Petro's policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Continue reading...

Community programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests, advocates sayHomicides in the US have fallen dramatically in recent years after a spike during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now some advocates for community violence intervention programs worry federal funding cuts by the Trump administration will reverse that trend.In April 2025, more than $800m in grants was cut from the Department of Justice's office of justice programs aimed at preventing and responding to gun violence, among other causes. Continue reading...

Midos Management denies ties to property group accused of making millions from bogus prayer roomsA property investor who sells temporary accommodation to local councils is part of a family accused of avoiding tax by hosting bogus prayer sessions, a Guardian investigation can reveal.Publicly available records raise questions about the business interests of members of the Schreiber dynasty, who preside over a nationwide commercial property portfolio via a family-owned" investment vehicle, Midos Group. Continue reading...

Woman, who says Anthony Odiong pressured her into sex acts, says church officials failed to act when told of abuseThe first woman to publicly accuse a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted by a Texas jury on Friday of repeated adult, criminal clergy sexual abuse has said she can only hope he is kept from continuing to use faith as his net, his snare and a tool to manipulate current and future victims".I'm grateful to the jury for listening to the evidence and seeing the truth" about the convicted clergyman, Anthony Odiong, said the woman in a statement on Saturday, referred to in court proceedings by the pseudonym Hadassah Doe. Continue reading...

Labour leadership hopeful says NI reduction for firms could incentivise' hiring, particularly of younger peopleWes Streeting has called for national insurance cuts for businesses, and for the government to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea.The former health secretary and potential Labour leadership candidate told the Sunday Times there should be a targeted reduction" of employers' national insurance contribution as a way to actively incentivise" hiring, particularly of young people. Continue reading...

Sky News Arabia to retain its name in brand licensing deal after criticism of its coverage of the war in SudanSky is exiting its TV news joint venture with the United Arab Emirates, Sky News Arabia, which has been criticised for its coverage of the war in Sudan, with accusations of genocide denial.Sky and its partner IMI - the investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the vice-president of the UAE and owner of Manchester City - have announced a new commercial deal in which the UK-based broadcaster will relinquish all strategic and operational ownership of the 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs service. Continue reading...

Andy Burnham and the Reform candidate lead the polls, but issues such as flooding and the state of the high street are main concerns locallyThe roads that connect the collection of towns and villages that make up this constituency in England are studded with turquoise banners declaring: Makerfield needs Reform."Once at the heart of Wigan's coal-mining industry, and represented by a Labour MP continuously since the 1900s, Farage's party has gained a foothold here, and with any other Labour candidate installed, this parliamentary seat would almost certainly fall to Reform. Continue reading...

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Australian Greens should take on' Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Polanski tells Victorian conference, just as he took on Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Fab Four are still making waves 60 years on - and upcoming Sam Mendes films are expected to turn the hype up to 11If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past few weeks have provided a glut. Firstly, there's the small matter of The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney's 20th solo album, billed as an adventurous and limber take on guitar music" by the Guardian.When England announced their World Cup squad, the soundtrack was Come Together, played alongside a film of fashionable young people in New York and a clip of a young, puckish John Lennon. The same week Stephen Colbert was played off from his final episode of the Late Show by a Paul McCartney rendition of Hello Goodbye. Continue reading...

Premier Group Recruitment went into administration with debts of 2.9m - including 647,000 owed to HMRCA recruitment executive - who was allowed to buy back the assets of his bust company in instalments despite it accumulating almost 3m of debt - has fallen behind on promised payments after pledging to send staff on an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas.The development is the latest case to raise questions about the practice of phoenixism", accounting's controversial art of liquidating companies to allow directors to rise from the ashes with a new entity, free of debts. Continue reading...

Shinjiro Koizumi says Japan valued as a peace-loving' nation while China expands military capabilities without sufficient transparency'Japan's defence minister took a veiled swipe at China on Sunday, pledging to keep strengthening the military despite Beijing's criticism of Tokyo's increasingly muscular security stance.Under the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, Japan has quickened its pivot to a more proactive defence policy, further shaking off - with US encouragement - its pacifist outlook in place since the end of the second world war. Continue reading...

There is hope that a change to building regulations could resurrect music clubs, which have been hit by rising rents, social shifts and noise disputesA move by the German government to reclassify nightclubs to distinguish them from amusement and adult entertainment facilities could give a much-needed boost to the country's struggling nightlife, industry advocates say.Under a fundamental change to building regulations approved by Friedrich Merz's cabinet last week, nightclubs will be formally recognised as providing cultural and artistic value, making it more difficult for developers to evict venue operators in favour of new construction. Continue reading...

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Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policiesThe timing was rich with symbolism. As intense heatwaves pummelled Europe and Asia, and oil markets around the world leapt and sputtered, the two big chimneys of one of Australia's largest power stations were being demolished. Meanwhile, the Australian energy minister was holding a media conference to hail a fall of up to 10% in the benchmark electricity price in parts of the country.Quietly, and with surprisingly little fanfare from the rest of the world, Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies. The country was already one of the global leaders in domestic solar power, with panels on one in three homes. It also remains, however, a major contributor to the climate crisis through its vast fossil fuel exports. But it is batteries that are giving Australia a new burst of speed. Continue reading...

Minister at Singapore defence summit also reveals Australia to buy only secondhand Aukus submarines from US

Key part of Marc Bolland's government advisory role will be to help disabled or depressed young people find training or jobA former chief executive of Marks & Spencer has been appointed as a government jobs adviser in its latest attempt to tackle the growing youth unemployment crisis.Marc Bolland, who oversaw the retail chain from 2010 to 2016, will lead a summit of business leaders, amid warnings that the country risks a lost generation" without urgent intervention. Continue reading...

Chiedza Nyanjowa, who wanted to be a nurse, died in hospital after getting into difficulties in the seaA 15-year-old girl, who died after getting into difficulties in the sea off the coast of Merseyside, wanted to be a nurse so she could give back", her family said in a tribute.Chiedza Nyanjowa, from Cheshire, was taken to Alder Hey children's hospital after swimming at Formby beach on bank holiday Monday, Merseyside police said. Continue reading...

Supporters filling north London pubs said they were already gratified by Premier League winThe streets of Holloway, usually bustling with families and trolly-dragging shoppers, were uncharacteristically quiet on Saturday afternoon. But shortly after the clock struck 5pm, loud roars echoed through the north London high street, located a short walk away from the Emirates stadium, as Arsenal walked on to the pitch for the Champions League final.While the team, still basking in the glory of their Premier League win last week, were in Budapest for their final showdown against Paris Saint-Germain, Gunners - or Gooners, as they are colloquially known - came out to support the team on their home turf. Continue reading...

Reggio Emilia prefect stops gig after Jewish community concerns' over rapper's previous antisemitic remarksA Kanye West concert in Italy has been cancelled over public order and safety issues".The 48-year-old rapper, who changed his name to Ye in 2021, was due to perform at the Pulse of Gaia festival at the RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia on 18 July, but the city's prefect, Salvatore Angieri, stopped the gigs after concerns" from the local Jewish community over previous antisemitic remarks by West. Continue reading...

Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas say party must seek to understand why disenfranchised electorate were attracted to Nigel Farage's partyThe current and former leaders of the Green party have warned that the party should listen to the concerns of Reform UK voters in order to confront inequality.Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas said on Saturday that the Greens needed to understand why voters affected by the cost of living crisis were attracted to Nigel Farage's party. Continue reading...

Four were part of seven-person group that had traveled to US to ascend North America's tallest mountainThree people have died after falling while climbing Alaska's Mount McKinley, according to officials. A fourth climber has been rescued.The four were part of a seven-person group that had traveled to the United States to ascend Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, North America's tallest mountain, according to information released by the Latvian Mountaineering Association. Continue reading...

Former England and Chelsea star arrested on M3 on Thursday under suspicion of driving while unfit through drugsRaheem Sterling has been made to feel disposable" after a decade at the top of football, a source close to the former England star has said, after his arrest on suspicion of driving whilst unfit through drugs".The source said the former Man City and Chelsea winger, who is now playing for Feyenoord in the Netherlands, had been suffering from immeasurable" psychological strain after an extremely tough couple of years". Continue reading...

Actor among protesters in central London highlighting laws in 29 countries where same-sex relationships remain illegalIan McKellen has joined a march against the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in Commonwealth countries, calling it an appalling situation".The Lord of the Rings star and activist joined protesters in central London on Saturday to highlight laws in 29 Commonwealth countries where same-sex relationships remain illegal. Continue reading...

Former chancellor also tells Hay festival good riddance' to Tory MPs defecting to ReformSajid Javid said that supporting Liz Truss in the Conservative leadership contest that ultimately made her prime minister was his biggest mistake in politics".Speaking at the Hay festival in Wales while promoting his memoir, the former chancellor, who is no longer an MP, said there were friends in the Conservative party he remained in contact with. Continue reading...

Plane landed in Wisconsin and unruly passenger' was taken into custody before flight continued to MinnesotaA United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis from Chicago was reportedly diverted after an unruly passenger" tried to breach the cockpit late on Friday.The FBI and police responded to reports of a security concern with the passenger, who was detained by police at the Dane county regional airport in Madison, Wisconsin. Continue reading...

President in excellent' health, despite lower leg swelling' and hand bruising after fourth hospital visit in second termDonald Trump has been grappling with lower leg swelling" as well as benign" hand bruising but remains in excellent health, the US president's physician said in a memo released by the White House.Citing the results of a recent examination, the memo from Dr Sean Barbabella said Trump remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and overall physical function". Continue reading...

Campaigners had hoped to buy property from Nottingham Trent University to maintain public accessBramley apples are a staple in supermarkets across the UK and it all started in a house in Nottinghamshire. But now the future of the original fruit-bearing tree is in question after the garden where it stands has been sold by Nottingham Trent University (NTU).The news has left campaigners aiming to turn it into a heritage site gobsmacked". Continue reading...

More competition and loss-making sites are among the challenges for the new turnaround chief executiveWith its comfy sofas and a menu of gourmet treats including Bearnaise smash burgers and trendy Whispering Angel rose wine at 47 a bottle, Everyman has thrived as the go-to chain for a luxury cinema trip.Yet a quarter of a century after reinventing the movie-going experience, growing from a single venue in Hampstead in London to a national player with 49 sites, the arthouse chain finds itself struggling as rivals ape its successful formula. Continue reading...

Endangered snow leopard had leg amputated and capybara died at Mario Tabraue's controversial roadside facilityAn endangered clouded leopard had a leg amputated and a capybara died following botched breeding attempts at a controversial Miami roadside zoo owned by a convicted drug trafficker featured in the Netflix documentary Tiger King.Federal wildlife inspectors found multiple other violations during a March inspection at Zoological Wildlife Foundation (ZWF), including dilapidated, insecure or unsafe housing conditions for wild animals, filthy cages, and water and food contaminated with algae and dead insects. Continue reading...

Emails appearing to show Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information were handed to Buckingham Palace in 2020, says BBCEmails handed to Buckingham Palace six years ago appear to show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information while he was a government trade envoy, it has been reported.The BBC said on Saturday that an archive of more than 30,000 emails was handed to the lord chamberlain, the most senior officer in the royal household, in 2020. Continue reading...