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Young Britons feel disconnected and locked out of creative arts, charity says
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Young Britons feel disconnected and locked out of creative arts, charity says

Research for Roundhouse in London shows 87% of 18- to 30-year-olds believe they have fewer artistic opportunities Rising costs, the disappearance of third spaces and reduced access to artistic opportunities are causing young people to feel “disconnected, isolated and locked out of creativity”, accor...

Yassin El-Moudden
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US man named Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years for shooting at police officers
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US man named Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years for shooting at police officers

Oregon man with extensive criminal record fired at three officers while speeding away from a traffic stop in 2025A man with the unusual name Loony Toon and a lengthy rap sheet has been given 20 years in prison after admitting that he shot at police officers in Oregon, according to authorities.The 43...

Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Labor to highlight ‘risk’ of One Nation to cost of living in bid to dent Pauline Hanson’s popularity
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Labor to highlight ‘risk’ of One Nation to cost of living in bid to dent Pauline Hanson’s popularity

Labor MP Mike Freelander says party must continue to help under-pressure workers, including considering further income tax cutsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor will seek to highlight Pauline Hanson’s record of opposing cost-of-living relief for working people as it tr...

Dan Jervis-Bardy Chief political correspondent
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EasyJet says US takeover bid would be ‘highly opportunistic’
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EasyJet says US takeover bid would be ‘highly opportunistic’

Airline’s shares hit highest level in three months as investment group Castlelake says it is considering offerBusiness live – latest updatesEasyJet has called a potential £3bn bid by a US investment group “highly opportunistic”, as shares in the budget airline shot up to their highest level in three...

Lauren Almeida
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Mandelson private messages to be released today – UK politics live
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Mandelson private messages to be released today – UK politics live

Sources predict ‘toe-curling’ revelations as more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to his appointment as US ambassador to be publishedMandelson files show no mitigation of security concernsHere is Pippa Crerar and Henry Dyer’s explainer about what will be in the Mandelson files.Good morning. M...

Andrew Sparrow
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Macron says French navy has boarded Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic
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Macron says French navy has boarded Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic

French president says it is ‘unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions’, adding operation took place with support of UKThe French navy has boarded an oil tanker that was subject to international sanctions and sailing from Russia, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said.Mac...

Reuters in Paris
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Jim Chalmers says budget changes allowing first home buyers to ‘have a crack’
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Jim Chalmers says budget changes allowing first home buyers to ‘have a crack’

Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes soldFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has suggested falling auction clearance rates may be a “g...

Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter
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Typhoon Jangmi threatens Japan as Europe swelters
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Typhoon Jangmi threatens Japan as Europe swelters

Powerful winds and rain expected in parts of Japan and Australia, while temperatures in Spain could hit 40CA powerful tropical storm is forecast to track near Okinawa, Japan, on Monday before moving towards the south-east of the country. Typhoon Jangmi (also known as Typhoon No 6) has formed within...

Magdalena Shopova and Ed Walton for MetDesk
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UK house prices fall for first time this year amid rising interest rates
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UK house prices fall for first time this year amid rising interest rates

Nationwide finds typical price was £278,024 in May, as Savills says Iran war has ‘fundamentally changed’ outlookBusiness live – latest updatesHouse prices fell in the UK for the first time this year in May, as rising interest rates triggered by the war in Iran hurt homebuyer demand.The price of the...

Lauren Almeida
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Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art
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Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art

Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock artIn 1912, the Guardian reported on the discovery of Palaeolithic rock art on the walls of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales – only for the painted panel’s authenticity to...

Dalya Alberge
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Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study
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Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study

‘Megafires’ in California, Canada, South Korea and Europe in 2025, but changes to farming slowed spread in parts of Africa“Devastating” wildfires ripped across the wealthier parts of the world in 2025, a study has found, even as globally, the area ravaged by flames fell.Catastrophic blazes claimed l...

Ajit Niranjan
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Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences
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Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences

Attacks reported in Kuwait – home to a US military base – and around the strait of Hormuz in latest exchange of fire as peace negotiations continueMiddle East live – latest updatesThe US said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Monday it had targete...

Reuters
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Toxic identity politics ‘tearing’ us apart, says former Oldham council leader
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Toxic identity politics ‘tearing’ us apart, says former Oldham council leader

Exclusive: 25 years after race riots in north of England, Arooj Shah says extremist groups and lies about grooming scandal are poisoning Oldham“Identity politics is tearing communities apart”, the former leader of Oldham council has warned, in the week marking the 25th anniversary of race riots acro...

Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent
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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilitiesA coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said controversial plans to use AI to assess the age of young asylum seekers could lead to more children wrong...

Diane Taylor
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Mother of woman murdered by husband calls for UK animal abuse register
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Mother of woman murdered by husband calls for UK animal abuse register

Annette Bramley says Holly’s Law would stop perpetrators acquiring pets and raise awareness of domestic abuse linkAnnette Bramley fondly remembers her daughter Holly as being family-oriented and a lover of animals. “She adored anything small and furry, or even not. I mean, she thought orangutans wer...

Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
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FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear
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FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear

Exclusive: MP and campaigners say sensitive citizen and company data could be subject to US disclosure lawsThe UK’s financial watchdog is being urged to prove its relationship with the US tech company Palantir will not provide the Trump administration with backdoor access to troves of sensitive citi...

Robert Booth UK technology editor
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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

Study finds activity is not harmful or caused by stress of captivity – and is in fact more common in wild birdsAn investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax, with the results providing welcome relief for vets and researchers, not to mention the birds...

Ian Sample Science editor
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European leaders condemn Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon
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European leaders condemn Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon

France has requested an emergency meeting of the UN security council, after the Israeli military captured the medieval Beaufort castleEuropean leaders have condemned Israel’s expanding incursion into Lebanon, after its military captured the medieval Beaufort castle and Israel’s prime minister, Benja...

Jonathan Yerushalmy
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