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Brit school applicant 'shaking' looking at Drama result

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Hundreds of thousands of students are opening their GCSE, BTec and Cambridge Nationals results across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Why government debt matters: bond investors, yields and their impact on the economy

By Aruni Soni

Bond yields can affect everything from how much you pay on student or car loans to the housing market

ICG buyout offer of €1.2bn set to be rejected, board warns investors

By Ciarán Hancock

Early proxy votes indicate management-led offer for ferry operator could be turned down

Man, 60s, dies following fire at flat in Derry

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A man in his 60s died after a fire at a flat in Galliagh, Derry yesterday.

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Spoken-word album by late Manchán Magan to be released

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Claddagh Records is set to release a posthumous spoken-word album by the late broadcaster and writer Manchán Magan.

GCSE results: almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths

By Richard Adams and Sally Weale

Overall results slightly better than last year, with share receiving grades 7, 8 and 9 rising by 0.1 of a percentage point to 23.1% Almost one in four boys in England received top grades in maths while results in English improved across the board, helping to propel improved GCSE results for this year’s cohort of 16-year-olds. The stronger performances in maths helped pupils taking GCSEs in year 11 reach a record leve

Smithsonian Museum targeted by Trump administration as culture war plays out across US

By Joe Miller

Saving America’s Story, a 162-page report released last month by the White House, has horrified some historians

Russia launches ‘massive attack’ on Kyiv and surrounding region – Europe live

By Jakub Krupa

Ukraine faces ‘terror that is only growing’ from Russia, former army chief says Romania’s military has destroyed a marine drone spotted just “a few hundred meters” from the Neptun Deep platform, a major offshore gas project in the Black Sea. The drone, spotted just “a few hundreds of meters” from the gas extraction works at the Neptun Deep platform located some 80 miles east of the city of Constanța, was destroyed by

‘He must resign’: Fans’ petition calls for Infantino to quit as Fifa president

By PA Media

Fans say Infantino has ‘lost the right to lead’ Statement also calls for Fifa to be reformed Fans’ groups worldwide have launched a petition calling for the resignation of Gianni Infantino as Fifa president and for wholesale reform of the organisation. Infantino is under mounting pressure after being forced to abandon plans to seek private investment to run Fifa tournaments, including the men’s and women’s World Cups

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File to be sent to DPP over death of man struck by bus in Dublin city in February

By Jack White

Separately, file also being sent over a three-year-old who died after being struck by a car in Finglas in March

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Tanker off Yemen ‘boarded by armed people, diverted towards Somalia’

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United Kingdom Maritime ‌Trade ‌Operations says tanker was travelling in the Gulf of Aden

Making Love with David Magidoff review – instant improv musical based on Fran Healy’s teenage infidelity

By Brian Logan

Assembly George Square, Edinburgh The US comic’s troupe tell the tale of a special guest’s romantic encounter, in this case Travis’s frontman – but their incoherence makes for a scatty if fun show It’s a lovely format for improv: a special guest tells David Magidoff the story of some romantic (mis)adventure from their past, and Magidoff and pals turn it into an extemporised musical. Shades of Improbable theatre’s ten

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Lambchop: Punching the Clown review – spectral, spellbindingly ambiguous stirring of US history

By Alexis Petridis

(City Slang) Sounding weathered but undimmed, Kurt Wagner feels as if he’s standing right in front of you as he sings superb, choir-swathed songs that invite and unsettle Thirty-two years on from their debut album – and 26 from Nixon, the gorgeous country/soul confection that brought “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band” to a wider audience – Lambchop find themselves in a curious position. Their sole continuous m

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Trio pulled from sea in 'quite intense' rescue

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A man and two boys were rescued by coastguards on Fistral Beach after they were swept into the sea.

The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

By Presented by Chris Packham; produced by Lauren Hurrell

In a much closer contest than previous years – when the tardigrade and the common earthworm won with popular landslides – the winner of the 2026 Guardian Invertebrate of the year has been decided. The competition was launched three years ago to celebrate overlooked and often derided invertebrates, which number at least 1.7m species – about 97% of all animals – with probably millions more still to be discovered and de

Can a managerial merry-go-round in Serie A stop Inter’s dominance?

By Nicky Bandini

Milan, Napoli and Atalanta all have new head coaches as Italian football hopes to return to the spotlight And so, calcio’s “ third apocalypse ” has passed. A lot of Italians enjoyed the World Cup more than they expected. Without a team to cheer for, again, a country turned its attention to different sports. And found its athletes dominating them. On the day Spain defeated Argentina in New Jersey, Kimi Antonelli, the

Has Trump no shame about all the money he has made since being in office? | Francine Prose

By Francine Prose

By now we know that charity, generosity and compassion are virtues that the US president doesn’t seem to have even in trace amounts Many years ago, in the crowded corridor of a Manhattan hotel, I was surprised to find myself standing face-to-face with Imelda Marcos, then the first lady of the Philippines. At that time, she was said to possess 3,000 pairs of shoes. I desperately longed to ask the wife of the dictatori

How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too

By Whitney Bauck

Novice gardeners James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz wanted to try something new when they moved out to the suburbs. Little did they know they were joining a nationwide movement When James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz first decided to replace their lawn with native plants, they did not really know what they were doing. As former city-dwellers who had moved from Chicago out to the suburb of Highland Park, Illinois,

‘I painted myself blue – but got skin problems’: how four Edinburgh stars created their weird characters

By Interviews by Emine Saner

From a cake-baking Elton John to possibly the most horrible man in the world, comedians reveal how they get in character – and how far they can push things In the Covid lockdowns, I was drawing all these silly things, and one day I drew Elton John as a scone. It brought me lots of joy. I love Elton John and everything he’s about – his music and his outfits – and my first job as a musician was in a bar in Soho, where

Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice

By Patrick Barkham

The leaf sheep, a neon green solar-powered slug, has inspired at least one Pokémon character and triumphs in global ballot See the top 10 shortlist here Chris Packham: ‘Life as we know it hinges on invertebrates’ A neon green solar-powered slug that lives underwater is the winner of the increasingly popular Invertebrate of the Year competition run by the Guardian. The leaf sheep, Costasiella kuroshimae, triumphed in

Premier League 2026-27 preview No 18: Nottingham Forest

By Will Unwin

After a chaotic season under four different coaches, Forest fans will be hoping Oliver Glasner can bring some stability Guardian writers’ predicted position: 11th (NB: this is not necessarily Will Unwin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 16th Continue reading...

Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

By Chris Packham

At this point of the crisis in our relations with the natural world, we’ve got to protect these creatures – and we are running out of time Read more from the Guardian’s invertebrate of the year 2026 Too many animals are regarded as “bugs”. And, if anything is a bug, it is a short step to it becoming a “pest”. Too many of us have a learned fear – it’s not innate – of anything with six legs or antennae. I’m a big fan o

Watch from the cockpit as Red Arrows fly over town

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Cockpit footage from the RAF team's aerobatics show gives a pilot's view of the coast.

Fiosrú sends file to DPP over Dublin man’s death after interaction with gardaí

By Hugh Dooley

Paul Butler (51) died after an incident on O’Connell Street in August 2025

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Drone footage shows Waterford castle bought by Zuckerberg

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Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is the new owner of Strancally Castle in Co Waterford.