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Idiots review – throwback bro comedy is an entertaining summer seat-filler

By Owen Myers

Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr lead a goofy roadtrip comedy that is just sharp enough to keep you strapped in Idiots is billed as a return to the raunchy bro comedies of the 2000s like Pineapple Express and The Hangover and about halfway through there is a visual gag involving bodily functions that is so revolting, so unexpected and so genius that it comes close to them. For a moment, I was transported back to the

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Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

By Alexis Petridis

(Reprise) The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a landmark year for Billy Strings. His fifth album, Highway Prayers, won him his third Grammy. The first bluegrass album in more than 22 years to debut at the top of the US album sales chart, it confirmed him as

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Tourist killed in wildfire was trapped in villa

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A coroner gives Lisa Fryett's provisional cause of death as "extensive burns-related changes".

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Highest number of taxi drivers recorded in 10 years

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The taxi sector is attracting more new drivers with the highest number on record in 10 years.

Vhi to increase prices by average of 2.75% from October

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Vhi is to increase the prices of its health insurance policies by an average of 2.75% from the beginning of October.

Jameson whiskey owner reports steep sales slump in two top markets

By Ciara O'Brien

Pernod Ricard chief executive Alexandre Ricard says US offers little potential over next three years

Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – messy bonbons and a hero’s triumph in a classy all-Strauss lineup

By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, London Yannick Nézet-Séguin polished up the Rosenkavalier suite then gave an exceptional reading of the composer’s self-congratulatory tone poem, while Elza van den Heever delivered a visceral account of Salome’s final scene Artistically ambitious and with an ego the size of a small planet, Richard Strauss was rarely backwards in coming forwards. When quizzed about the wisdom of depicting his 34-ye

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Mater to compensate employee for racial discrimination

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One of the country's largest hospitals has been ordered to pay €10,000 compensation for racially discriminating against a Nigerian-born employee when suspending him primarily based on the colour of his skin.

Mater to compensate employee for racial discrimination

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One of the country's largest hospitals has been ordered to pay €10,000 compensation for racially discriminating against a Nigerian-born employee when suspending him primarily based on the colour of his skin.

Man arrested as gardaí freeze $900,000 in cryptocurrency after Galway raids

By Hugh Dooley

Gardaí also find drugs and cash in raids on Galway premises

Liverpool close in on £120m deal for PSG's Barcola

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Liverpool are close to agreeing a deal with Paris St-Germain for Bradley Barcola - adding to the doubts surrounding Cody Gakpo's Anfield future.

UK expects Meta to match US child safety measures after $18bn settlement

By Robert Booth UK technology editor

Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to Britain UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates The UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it agreed in the US on Wednesday, as part of a court settlement that could cost the company up to $18bn (£13bn). Pat McFadden, the work and pe

VHI to hike prices with some families likely to be worse off by close to €300

By Conor Pope

Some families are likely to be worse off by close to €300 as a result of the latest increase

‘We should be by ourselves’: Trump revives Iceland’s EU debate

By Mari Novik in Grundarfjördur

Icelanders prepare to vote on whether they should make a second attempt at joining the bloc

The missing in Nepal-Tibet flash floods

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Citizens from more than 30 countries are among the nearly 1,400 people reported missing after flash floods and landslides at the Nepal-Tibet border.

Charity sells 17,000 roses for 25p a bunch

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The Flower Box in Beverley, which repurposes out-of-date flowers, receives its biggest donation yet.

If MPs want to take on Nigel Farage over his dodgy finances, they need to clean up their own act | Frances Ryan

By Frances Ryan

It’s hard to beat back charges that MPs are ‘all the same’ when they have accepted £400k in freebies this year – £100k up on last year How has your summer been? Done anything nice? As MPs prepare to head back to parliament next week, you’ll be relieved to hear that some of the most prominent figures in British politics have been enjoying the season’s cultural highlights – and without paying a penny. MPs throughout th

AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions

By Adam Gabbatt

As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit Donald Trump knows the power of an image – of himself, with everyone from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to Kim Kardashian. How about George Washington? As the US president struggles to end his war with Iran, and with his approval ratings hitting the lowest levels of his second term, he has in recent we

Jon Ossoff went low on Natalie Harp. The plan worked | Moira Donegan

By Moira Donegan

The senator’s remarks reflect a turning point in Democrats’ attacks on the president. What should we make of them? Apparently, he likes to say her name with a French accent. “Na-tah-lee!” the president cries out, in that affected tone of faux-formality that one might use with a person they love but do not quite respect, and she comes running, her thin legs teetering on her heels. Natalie Harp, Trump’s 35-year-old “ex

Kim Kardashian's kid wants to work at Starbucks. What a breath of fresh air | Polly Hudson

By Polly Hudson

North West has revealed her sensible intention to get a ‘regular’ job. It could be character-building – unless the venti-sized privilege she was born with holds her back All these years after Ab Fab, we’re regularly reminded how well observed the characters of Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and her daughter, Saffron (Julia Sawalha), were. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s eldest child, North West, has given a new – as in, n

A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama

By Arifa Akbar

Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension Jermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recen

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Drugs in pastries, months on the run: the double-life of Lebanese influencer Dr Food

By William Christou in Beirut

Georges Dib, who had 8.7m TikTok followers, was arrested on Sunday after being sentenced in absentia to life in prison Known to his 8.7m TikTok followers as Dr Food, Georges Dib was a popular Lebanese food influencer who would hold giveaways, post behind-the-scenes tours of his food production facilities and wax philosophical about the ingredients of success. But Lebanese authorities allege that when the camera was o

Share your tributes and memories of Tim Curry

By Guardian community team

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of the performer - whether you met him or admired his work Tim Curry, performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Curry got Tony nominations for his varied stage work on Broadway as Mozart in Amadeus, Alan Swann in My Favorite Year and as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot. He also

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Russia intensifies daytime drone strikes on Ukraine

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Russian drones struck Ukrainian cities in daylight today, killing one and wounding many, authorities said.

Man flies to Nepal to search for family missing in floods

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Pramod Poudel, from Uckfield, says he is travelling back to Nepal because 'my family needs me'.