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Vholume review – a headlong rush of parkour perfection in a brutalist wonderland

By Christian Donlan

PC; Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels Tiercelin, IronEqual Race across impossible dystopian cityscapes in this exhilarating game of wall-runs, death-chancing leaps and split-second improvisation At first, Vholume seems like a quick rush through some smartly selected references. Has this breathless yet austere parkour game been designed or ingeniously curated? The urban gymnast moveset comes from Mirror’s Edge. L

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PC killer died in jail from natural causes - inquest

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Piran Ditta Khan died at HMP Wakefield in 2025, less than a year after being convicted of murder.

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Dolly Parton stayed in trailer as Savoy hotel was 'too fancy'

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Former music editor Jade Wright recalls meeting Dolly Parton ahead of her 2011 gig in Liverpool.

Mean Girls review: Fast-paced stage show makes a convincing case that it’s better than the film

By Sara Keating

Tina Fey’s high-school musical features heightened impulses, fluctuating hormones and the recalibration of friendships as teenagers try to figure out who they are

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Trump: CIA director was on 'semi-routine' Moscow mission

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US President Donald Trump has said that CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow was "semi-routine", while implying that the intelligence chief was in the Russian capital to discuss the Ukraine war.

Internal RTÉ analysis shows 'challenges' with exit scheme

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A voluntary exit programme in RTÉ failed to deliver the scale of departures needed by the broadcaster to meet plans for staff cuts, according to an internal analysis.

38 children killed on roads in five-year period - RSA

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A total of 38 children under the age of 16 have been killed on Irish roads in the last five years, according to new data from the RSA.

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Cork man fined for abusing British Airways cabin crew in drunken row over toilet

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UK court heard Emmet Moynihan lunged towards passengers, telling them to stop recording the incident

How to turn the dregs of a ketchup bottle into a classic Marie Rose dressing – recipe | Waste not

By Tom Hunt

Shake up the remnants of a bottle of ketchup with a splash of sprits, a heap of mayonnaise and a few other simple additions, and turn it into one of the culinary world’s most famous sauces My new favourite preparation for sauces, marinades and dressings is in a near-empty jar, tub or bottle, so I can upcycle all the remains. Rather than washing it and putting it in the recycling, I instead add a few store-cupboard in

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital

By John D Sutter with photographs by Ricardo Nagaoka

A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief? Driving into the county, you can’t miss the sign. “IT’S THE CLIMATE”. Continue reading...

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House construction activity jumps despite overall decline in sector’s production

By Ian Curran

Non-residential activity declined sharply in second quarter, says CSO

Ferry passengers to require passport for UK travel

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Passengers travelling between Ireland and the UK with Irish Ferries and Stena Line will be required to carry a valid passport from next month.

Root's message has '100%' landed, says Tongue

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Fast bowler Josh Tongue said captain Joe Root’s message to the England players about their off-field behaviour has “100%” been heeded.

‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025

By Damian Carrington Environment editor

ONS data shows rising toll of climate crisis, with officials warning this summer on track to set further records More than 40,000 extra people died on the hottest days in England between 1988 and 2025 than would be expected in normal temperatures, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday. The figures do not include this summer, when England has sweltered under a succession of hea

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'Serious situation' as E. coli spikes in river

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An environmental group reports E. coli readings have "spiked alarmingly" in Dorset.

The great Snowdon queue-skipping row – is it really OK to jump the line if you’re not taking a selfie?

By Guardian Staff

The crowds at the top of Yr Wyddfa, the highest mountain in Wales, are now so huge that seasoned hikers and climbers are simply walking past them. Is everyone just making a mountain out of a molehill? Name: The Snowdon queue. Age: A decade and a half, give or take. Continue reading...

Boy (16) charged over attack on teen injured in Dublin e-scooter incident

By Tom Tuite

Boy has yet to indicate plea to charge of assault causing harm

Uefa to lift boycott threat after Fifa promises no World Cup sale repeat

By Exclusive by Nick Ames and Matt Hughes

Uefa has received guarantees after ill-fated Infantino plan European sides will go to under-20 Women’s World Cup Uefa is to drop its threatened boycott of Fifa competitions after receiving concrete guarantees that the global governing body will never attempt a repeat of Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup. European teams have been cleared for participation in the upcoming Under-20 Women’s World Cu

The best mattresses in the UK: sleep better with our 18 rigorously tested picks

By Jane Hoskyn

From luxury Simba and Otty mattresses to brilliant budget buys, here’s what we recommend – and the best deals to shop over bank holiday weekend • The best mattresses for back pain • The best mattress toppers, tested A good mattress improves your sleep, say mattress makers – and they would, wouldn’t they? But they’re right. The older I get, the more I know it. When I was 20, I could sleep anywhere: a friend’s floor, a

Is Natalie Portman really the subject of Rachel Cusk’s new novel? Nine things you need to know about the literary hoo-haa

By Elle Hunt

Fiction sleuths are obsessed with the idea that the book, Life of M, is a flagrant riff on the actor’s life. And despite being a firm Cusk fan, Portman is reportedly not happy Life of M, the latest book by the critically acclaimed author Rachel Cusk, is being billed by its publisher, Faber, as a “blazing interrogation of fame, power, beauty and truth” – and openly alleged as a thinly veiled portrait of Natalie Portma

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Teen charged with attacking youth who came off e-scooter

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A 16-year-old boy has been remanded on bail after being charged with attacking another youth who was seriously injured in an e-scooter incident in Coolock, Dublin, earlier this month.

Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained?

By Kat Lay Global health correspondent

The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed? Since 2022, there have been almost 190,000 lab-confirmed cases of mpox reported worldwide in 145 countries. Before

On scraps of land and under constant threat, Gaza farmers struggle to survive

By Seham Tantesh in Gaza, and Julian Borger

Efforts to rebuild domestic food production face severe challenges and have come at deadly cost As Gaza’s population of 2.1 million has been hemmed into an ever smaller slice of the territory, farmers are using every last remaining patch of unspoiled earth, no matter how tiny, in their struggle to survive. With severe shortages of water, fertiliser and pesticide, and with more than 80% of greenhouses ruined, it has t

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

By Jason Wilson

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. The site gives Israel’s posit