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Ex-assistant principal faces trial after six-year-old shot Virginia teacher
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Ex-assistant principal faces trial after six-year-old shot Virginia teacher

Ebony Parker is accused of ignoring warnings that the student brought a loaded gun to a US elementary schoolSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA former assistant principal at an elementary school in Virginia is due in court for trial on criminal charges of ignoring warnings that a six-...

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Signs of ‘feeding’ ritual at dingo burial site shed new light on bond between First Nations people and canines
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Signs of ‘feeding’ ritual at dingo burial site shed new light on bond between First Nations people and canines

Never documented archaeologically before, evidence points to First Nations people caring for and nursing the animalGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe discovery of a millennium-old dingo burial site in western New South Wales, including evidence of a “feeding” ritual never...

Donna Lu Assistant editor, climate, environment and science
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Purple pain: backlash over Mexico City’s ‘axolotlisation’ for World Cup
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Purple pain: backlash over Mexico City’s ‘axolotlisation’ for World Cup

Mayor’s attempt to beautify the city with murals of mascot and plum paint jobs criticised as waste of resourcesThe giant purple axolotl peered up at Manuel Martínez from the black bitumen of the street. It was the second such painting of the rare amphibian he had walked past that morning. In recent...

Oscar Lopez in Mexico City
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Experts locate bodies of four missing Italian divers inside Maldives cave
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Experts locate bodies of four missing Italian divers inside Maldives cave

Spokesperson for Indian Ocean island nation says they will try to recover explorers in next couple of daysRescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, four days after they were reported missing.Searches had resumed after being su...

Associated Press in Malé
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Andy Burnham says he will not try to return UK to EU
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Andy Burnham says he will not try to return UK to EU

Burnham vows to have ‘relentless domestic focus’ in first speech since announcing Makerfield byelection runUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham has said he will not try to return the UK to the EU, saying Britain would be stuck in “a permanent rut if we’re just constantly arguing”.In his fir...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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Three youths in custody after Austin shootings injure four people
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Three youths in custody after Austin shootings injure four people

‘Actions appear to be random,’ says mayor as suspects also allegedly took aim at buildings and houses in Texas cityThree youths are in police custody after a spree of at least 10 shootings wounded four people who appeared to be targeted randomly in Austin, Texas, according to authorities.The suspect...

Ramon Antonio Vargas and agencies
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London tube strikes called off at last minute
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London tube strikes called off at last minute

RMT union says two 24-hour stoppages from midday on Tuesday have been suspendedBusiness live – latest updatesPlanned strikes by drivers on London Underground this week have been called off, the RMT union has announced.The union said the two 24-hour stoppages from midday on Tuesday, which were set to...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
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Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts
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Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts

Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts sayAs the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal governm...

Dharna Noor
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Celebrities call for permanent end to gnome ban at Chelsea flower show
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Celebrities call for permanent end to gnome ban at Chelsea flower show

Bill Bailey and Alan Titchmarsh paint gnomes for king’s garden at event in one-off to raise funds for RHS campaignGarden gnomes should make a permanent return to the Chelsea flower show, celebrities who have painted the mythical creatures for the king’s garden at this year’s event, have said.At the...

Helena Horton
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Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to secure peace deal | First Thing
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Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to secure peace deal | First Thing

US president says there ‘won’t be anything left’ of country if it does not reach agreement. Plus, how to become emotionally mature at any ageGood morning.Donald Trump has voiced impatience at the deadlock over peace talks with Iran, posting on social media: “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they...

Nicola Slawson
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Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog
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Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog

Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackersBusiness live – latest updatesAnthropic is to brief the global finance watchdog on the implications of its Claude Mythos AI model, whose potential threat to cyber defences has alarmed experts.The US...

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
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IMF urges UK to ‘stay the course’ on borrowing amid Starmer uncertainty
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IMF urges UK to ‘stay the course’ on borrowing amid Starmer uncertainty

Washington-based fund praises Rachel Reeves for aiming to cut budget deficit as it upgrades growth forecastsBusiness live – latest updatesThe International Monetary Fund has urged Britain to “stay the course” to cut government borrowing amid growing bond market concerns over a Labour leadership chal...

Richard Partington
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Shakira in line for €55m payout as Spanish court rules tax fines were wrong
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Shakira in line for €55m payout as Spanish court rules tax fines were wrong

Singer says she has faced ‘years of public shaming’, as court rules tax agency made mistake over her 2011 statusA court in Madrid has ordered Spain’s tax authority to pay Shakira back more than €55m (£48m) after ruling that it had wrongly imposed huge fines on the Colombian singer and philanthropist...

Sam Jones in Madrid
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Magic mushrooms could be effective treatment for cocaine addiction, study shows
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Magic mushrooms could be effective treatment for cocaine addiction, study shows

Participants who got single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from cocaine than those who got placeboResults from a new clinical trial show that a single dose of psilocybin could be an effective treatment for cocaine addiction.The study, published in Jama Network Open this month, showed...

Hannah Harris Green
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Dr Hook co-frontman Dennis Locorriere dies aged 76
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Dr Hook co-frontman Dennis Locorriere dies aged 76

Singer took lead vocal on UK No 1 When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman, and had numerous other transatlantic hitsDennis Locorriere, the guitarist and singer with the chart-topping soft rock band Dr Hook, has died aged 76.A statement from his management company said he died on Saturday “after a...

Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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Weather tracker: Europe braces for swing from Arctic chill to extreme heat
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Weather tracker: Europe braces for swing from Arctic chill to extreme heat

Temperatures in France and England could rise by 15C, while hot air could to give way to snow in parts of USAfter a prolonged spell of cool conditions across much of Europe, a dramatic swing in temperatures is expected in the coming days as warmer air surges north into western and central parts of t...

Brendan Wood (MetDesk)
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