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Baby with heart defect at center of US surrogacy dispute handed to parents
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Baby with heart defect at center of US surrogacy dispute handed to parents

Biological parents given custody of child born in Texas amid dispute over surrogate mother’s claim of abortion requestA two-day-old baby with a rare heart defect at the center of a complex surrogacy dispute in Texas has been handed over to the parents’ custody and is receiving care, lawyers for the...

Edward Helmore
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‘Let’s see what he can do’: will Burnham bring Barnsley voters back to Labour?
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‘Let’s see what he can do’: will Burnham bring Barnsley voters back to Labour?

With questions over Farage’s finances and a new face in No 10, could Barnsley council be a bellwether for changing Labour fortunes?Labour marked its worst performance in more than 50 years when voters went to the polls in Barnsley in May, but 100 days on from those seismic local elections, the polit...

Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
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Thames Water plans to restart desalination plant – after drought has ended
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Thames Water plans to restart desalination plant – after drought has ended

Utility company’s plant, which has only run five times, now has an estimated total cost of £500mThames Water is preparing the UK’s only desalination plant to restart operations later this year – but it will not be ready until the winter, long after the current drought is likely to have passed.The ut...

Jasper Jolly
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds

Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered populationSpanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had b...

Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
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Burnham temporarily bans disposable barbecue sales in ‘tinderbox’ Britain
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Burnham temporarily bans disposable barbecue sales in ‘tinderbox’ Britain

PM urges people not to risk lives and homes by starting fires as military brought in to help deal with wildfiresUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street has issued a temporary GB-wide ban on the sale of disposable barbecue and brought in the military to help deal with wildfires as Andy Burnha...

Rowena Mason and Aletha Adu
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Train derails near Essex town of Wickford
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Train derails near Essex town of Wickford

Greater Anglia crash happens day after two passengers seriously injured in East Sussex derailmentA train has derailed in Essex, less than 24 hours after two people were seriously injured in a similar incident in East Sussex.British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed the rear carriages of the train der...

Guardian staff and agency
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Belt and braces PM: what wearing suit braces says about Burnham
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Belt and braces PM: what wearing suit braces says about Burnham

Mod fashion, nod to 80s excess or symbol of tradition? Andy Burnham’s wardrobe choice transcends class divisionsThe sartorial evolution of Andy Burnham reached another milestone this week when the prime minister appeared at a photocall in Derbyshire wearing a pair of braces under his suit.Navy, slim...

Morwenna Ferrier
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Two men charged with attempted murder of Sara Sharif’s father
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Two men charged with attempted murder of Sara Sharif’s father

Steven Sansom and Adam Watson accused of trying to kill Urfan Sharif, who murdered his daughter, in prisonTwo men have been charged over what is understood to be the attempted murder in prison of Urfan Sharif, who is serving a life sentence for murdering his 10-year-old daughter Sara.The Crown Prose...

Matthew Weaver
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Italian police recover paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse after heist
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Italian police recover paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse after heist

Artworks valued at total of more than $10m were stolen from Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma in MarchItalian police have recovered three paintings by the French masters Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse that were stolen earlier this year from a private museum near the northern...

Tiago Rogero and agencies
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Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
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Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets

Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwavesAndy Burnham’s government has said it will look at cutting electric vehicle sales targets, in proposals that could add millions of tonnes a year to the UK’s future carbon dioxid...

Jasper Jolly
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Jeremy Bamber’s legal team challenge ban on his talking to the media
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Jeremy Bamber’s legal team challenge ban on his talking to the media

Lawyer says restriction comes at ‘significant moment’ in appeal process for White House Farm murder convictionThe legal team of Jeremy Bamber, who has served 41 years in prison for murdering five members of his family, has challenged Wakefield prison’s decision to ban him from talking about his case...

Simon Hattenstone
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Almost 500 arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France this summer
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Almost 500 arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France this summer

More than 180 minors among those detained, as firefighters tackle blazes across Europe amid record-breaking heatwaveEurope heatwave – latest updatesAlmost 500 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France since the start of the summer, authorities have said, as firefighters...

Jon Henley in Paris
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Digested week: Humid New York or London’s oven-blast heat? Tough one to call
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Digested week: Humid New York or London’s oven-blast heat? Tough one to call

Plus, heartbreakingly brilliant Cats: the Jellicle Ball, summer reads and Taylor Swift’s low-key weddingI’ve been in New York for two weeks, where the unthinkable has happened: even for a city accustomed to extremes, it is so hot, so humid, so reminiscent of Mobile, Alabama, or Mumbai, that all over...

Emma Brockes
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Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’
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Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’

Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK “the Islamic republic of Britain” in a podcast interview, where he also described the country as the “first Islamic r...

Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Rowena Mason
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Nolan Wells’ parents recount ordeal of son’s death at Atlanta convention
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Nolan Wells’ parents recount ordeal of son’s death at Atlanta convention

Ben Crump and Rev Al Sharpton, also present at National Association of Black Journalists, demanded ‘truth’ and ‘transparency’ in Wells’ caseOn Thursday morning, the parents of Nolan Wells, Christine Wells-Wonsley and Elmore Wonsley, along with Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney, and Rev Al Sharpto...

Adria R Walker
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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived

Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’tConservative backlash was supposed to put an end to the diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) movement as companies were warned “go woke, go broke”.In January 2025, Donald Tr...

Gaya Gupta
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Luigi Mangione hearing fuels speculation of a guilty plea in federal case
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Luigi Mangione hearing fuels speculation of a guilty plea in federal case

Mangione also faces separate state trial over killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, due to start on 8 SeptemberA hurriedly scheduled hearing for Luigi Mangione’s federal case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is set for later on Friday morning, fueling spec...

Victoria Bekiempis in New York
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