Israeli defence minister to hold 'critical' talks in US on Gaza and Lebanon

Israel's defence minister has flown to meet senior Biden administration officials in Washington for what he has described as \"critical\" talks over the conflicts with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Search for Jay Slater focuses on last phone signal

Outbuildings close to where the missing teenager Jay Slater's phone last picked up a signal were the focus of a police search in Tenerife yesterday.

'I wanted justice' - Years-long fight of woman who sued therapist over sexual assault

When Ella Janneh was awarded £217,000 in damages in the high court after a civil case against a TV sex therapist she accused of raping her, it was the culmination of an eight-year fight that she said at times had almost broken her.

'It was unknown territory to us' - How an Essex school welcomed refugees - and what it's learned

When a hotel in the Essex village of Birchanger started hosting refugees in 2022, a group of the fathers turned up at the local school one day and asked: \"Can our children join?\" It was both an easy and a difficult decision for Birchanger Church of England primary school.

'It's powerful' - Very rare lunar event shines a fresh light on Stonehenge

It may seem fanciful, but as darkness approached and with it a vanishingly rare lunar event - it felt as if the beasts and the birds of Stonehenge had sensed something strange was afoot.

'Bulldoze through' - Can Starmer's plan to unclog planning restrictions deliver 1.5m new homes?

Life under Labour - Labour appears poised to win a historic election victory on 4 July. In this series we look at Keir Starmer's five key political missions and ask what is at stake and whether he can deliver the change the country is crying out for

Flights cancelled for hours after power cut plunges Manchester airport into darkness

Flights out of Terminals 1 and 2 at Manchester airport were cancelled for hours yesterday after a power cut, leaving hundreds of holidaymakers stranded.

'We are a democracy': India pressed to drop terror law prosecution of Arundhati Roy

More than 200 Indian academics, activists and journalists have published an open letter urging the Indian government to withdraw last week’s decision authorising the prosecution of the Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy under the country’s stringent anti-terrorism law.

Labour set to name dozens of new peers

Labour is set to appoint dozens of peers within weeks in an effort to push through its policies and improve the representation of women in the House of Lords, the Guardian has learned.

Money hacks How to get the best price selling your clothes online

The competition is stiff, so finding the right place to sell your clothes will give you the best chance of getting them in front of people who might want to buy them.

News deserts If local papers are dying, will local democracy die with them?

'Do you have lots of stickers?\" asks a mother with a buggy and two small children as Evelyn Akoto takes a break outside Coffee #1 in Trowbridge during a day of knocking on doors.

Urban ecology The cities where the wild things thrive alongside humans

In the Sapzurro bay on the Colombia-Panama border, the blue land crab can be found scuttling below concrete structures, burrowing in the nooks and crannies of the coastal settlement.

Trump v Biden debate format aims to avoid a repeat of 2020 chaos

'Will you shut up, man?\" It was hardly oratory worthy of Abraham Lincoln, but Joe Biden's primal plea in the face of relentless interruptions and heckling from Donald Trump provided a defining soundbite of the 2020 presidential debates.

'You sense the bombing come closer' War with Hezbollah looms in northern Israel

Beneath the 800-bed Galilee medical centre in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, treatment is being conducted in an underground complex beneath the hospital.

Jones brings cats to the catwalk in Dior show melding art and fashion

The Dior menswear designer Kim Jones has a reputation as a prolific collector of art and rare books.

'It's common sense' How to manage cows roaming in the street

On a bright afternoon on Minchinhampton common in Gloucestershire, ramblers, golfers, fliers of kites and model aircraft were enjoying the midsummer sun- and the sight of the Highland cattle roaming freely.

Boy convicted of three attempted murders over boarding school attack

A teenager who battered two fellow boarding school pupils with hammers as they slept and attacked a housemaster when he went to investigate the commotion has been found guilty of three attempted murders.

Police chief dismissed after panel finds he lied about military record

A police chief constable who wore a Falklands war medal despite being 15 at the time of the conflict has been dismissed without notice and placed on the police barred list after being found guilty of gross misconduct.

Asylum figures raise doubts over PM's claim he has cleared backlog

Rishi Sunak's claims to have cleared the asylum backlog by the end of 2023 have been called into question after appeals against Home Office refusals of asylum claims increased by more than 300% in the first three months of this year.

Panorama interview Farage: Putin 'provoked' into invading Ukraine

Nigel Farage has said the EU and Nato \"provoked\" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding eastwards, as the Reform UK leader was challenged over a series of policies and beliefs in a sometimes combative TV interview.

Nightmare scenarios From big losses to almost total wipeout, what do the polls predict for Tories?

Polls which use largescale polling data to extrapolate individual seat tallies have become something of an obsession in UK politics. So popular are these MRPS-an acronym for multilevel regression and poststratification - that three were published on one day this week.

Betting scandal PM refuses to say how many Tories are under investigation

Rishi Sunak refused to say yesterday how many Tories were under investigation for betting on the date of the election, as the row continued to dog the Conservative campaign.

Climate engineering in US could intensify heatwaves in Europe

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

Single takeaway can bust calorie limit for whole day, study finds

Some takeaway meals contain more calories in one sitting than people are advised to consume in an entire day, a devastating study of British eating habits has revealed.

'Hope for a better future is essential': how Scholz aims to win back young people from far right

The best way to win back young voters from the far right is to give them hope, security and respect so that everyone \"from an untrained Amazon worker\" to \"Elon Musk's son\" can live without fear of the future, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said.

'At breaking point': visitors bring booze, drugs and noise into village idyll

Whalley, in Lancashire's verdant Ribble Valley, is famed for its 14thcentury Cistercian abbey and old churches, as well as the spectacular views from Whalley Nab, the wooded hill that overlooks this apparent idyll.

300m NHS patient records stolen by Russian hackers

National crime agency considering striking back as gang makes sensitive data public

England hit new low with display far too bad to be boring

Such was the amusing ineptitude from both sides this felt like a Woolworths football blooper video

Spain press and progress after Calafiori calamity

Luis de la Fuente had described Spain v Italy as a clásico, a game that could easily be a final; watching this, he might have been half right.

'A bit weird' - but England braced for battle with Jones

Visitors are in confident mood while Brave Blossoms head coach is hoping to get one over his former team