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Zelensky delivers 'left hook' to 'lumbering Russian bear'

Putin's forces struggle to deal with assault on home soil

Leeds should go up but can someone 'do an Ipswich'?

Richard Jolly previews the Championship contenders

Tebogo stuns Lyles to land.200m gold for his late mum

So lightning does not strike twice. Noah Lyles stormed from behind to win gold in the 100m on Sunday night but was given no chance to do so in the 200m final, won by Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in a major upset at the Stade de France.

Aldridge flies to kitesurfing gold to save sailors' Games

Ellie Aldridge rolled the dice yesterday and came out with Olympic gold. It has been a deeply frustrating regatta for Team GB's sailors, who have been twiddling their thumbs for the most part due to a lack of wind.

Gen Z star steps out from behind the scuzzy guitar

Beabadoobee's third album 'This Is How Tomorrow Moves' plays with bossa nova and Swiftian country-plucked pop, with help from a production legend, writes Helen Brown

It's the worst of all worlds

Disastrous 'Borderlands' alienates fans of the franchise and is incomprehensible to the casual viewer. And 'It Ends with Us' struggles with its subject matter, writes Clarisse Loughrey

HE'S BACK AGAIN

James Cameron's sci-fi classic 'The Terminator' is returning to cinemas to mark its 40th anniversary and it has never felt more relevant. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making and legacy of a film that hardwired itself into the public psyche

Why did the border officer not stamp my passport?

Q I have just flown back to the UK from Rome.

RAUNCHY READING

Erotic fiction is more popular than ever - could women's rather frustrated libidos be the reason, ponders Helen Coffey

A side of the Paris Olympics they don't want you to see

Over the past 18 months, authorities have cleared the streets of the French capital, busting squats full of refugees and breaking up homeless encampments in the shadow of Games venues. Lawrence Ostlere meets those picking up the pieces

Police hunt fugitive Catalan leader after return to Spain

Catalan police are hunting for fugitive Catalonia separatist Carles Puigdemont after he dramatically returned to Spain for the first time in seven years to address a crowd of thousands yesterday before vanishing again.

Ukraine's secret incursion into Russia may prove vital

Kyiv's audacious cross-border assault into Russia's Kursk region has certainly ruffled feathers in Moscow.

Zelensky praises army for attack in Russian territory

Putin calls surprise offensive in Kursk a 'major provocation'

The looming war that could define a Harris presidency

Kamala Harris has had a front-row seat as the Gaza conflict has played out - but with tension rising further in the Middle East, an all-out war could interfere with her presidential plans. Richard Hall, Bel Trew and Andrew Feinberg report

Nearly 190,000 babies may be affected by abuse in year

Nearly 130,000 babies were present at or were affected by an incident of domestic abuse in the past three years, new data from England's police forces shows.

BBC removes peace advert from its Proms programme

Ad was due to appear during a Benjamin Britten performance

Swift terror suspect planned to kill ‘as many as possible'

One of the teenagers arrested over a foiled terror plot at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna admitted he planned to kill \"as many people as possible\", officials said.

Is distrust in politics linked to falling vaccination rates?

At a time of intense pressure on the NHS, falling rates of vaccination for whooping cough and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) have alarmed the UK Health Security Agency.

Tenth baby in seven months is killed by whooping cough

A further baby in England has died from whooping cough, bringing the number of fatalities to 10 in just seven months.

New Labour MP apologises as derogatory tweets found

A new Labour MP has been accused of racism over a series of recently unearthed offensive tweets.

Labour councillor arrested for calling on crowd to cut far-right protesters' throats

A councillor suspended by Labour has been arrested over a speech calling for the throats of anti-immigration protesters to be cut.

Resistance to the racist mob showed true spirit of Britain

So much for Britain sliding into civil war, eh, Mr Musk? Pretty much a whole nation was braced on Wednesday evening for the worst civil disorder in a decade or more.

Musk attacks 'woke stasi' as UK tries to stop online hate

Billionaire social media boss Elon Musk has launched another attack on the British authorities attempting to tackle far-right hate riots in the UK.

Starmer vows no let-up as police sense 'turning point'

Sir Keir Starmer has told far-right thugs that there will be no letup in bringing them to justice, as he held his third emergency Cobra meeting in a week amid concerns there could be a new wave of violence this weekend.

Can trophy-magnet Alvarez shine in Simeone's system?

The man who completed football had everything except a starting berth for the biggest club games. Julian Alvarez's medal collection includes the World Cup and the Copa America, the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores, the Club World Cup and the European Super Cup, the Premier League and the Argentine Primera League, some of them more than once.

GB boxers have been floored by harsh draws

The Olympic dream finished for Lewis Richardson late on Tuesday night in Paris, in the semi-final of the lightmiddleweight division.

Hudson-Smith denied gold after agonising 400m finish

Matt Hudson-Smith roared in frustration. Four-hundredths of a second had denied him a glorious gold to complete the most remarkable redemption story.

Are public sector pensions more generous than private schemes? Maybe for MPs...

A retirement gravy train after years in the corridors of Whitehall - or a fair reward for years of public service?

Is the X-rated 1970s movie Caligula a lost masterpiece?

The Roman epic was a fiasco, despite a cast that included Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. James Mottram talks to the 'Clockwork Orange' star and the producer who has tried to restore its reputation with a new, three-hour recut

NAVEL GAZING

Thank goodness for stars like Kate Winslet, who recently refused to hide the rolls in her stomach during filming this fixation about tummy shape isn’t healthy