Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog (www.theguardian.com)
Guinness World Records ‘no longer has the evidence’ that animal – 31 years and five months old when it died – was as old as claimed...
‘Ruining my career’: calls grow for Japan to change law on married surnames (www.theguardian.com)
Japan is the only country in the world that requires spouses to use the same name, but after decades of inaction, appetite for change is building
‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema (www.theguardian.com)
When the puerile comedy bombed, the film-makers blamed the critics and the Tories blamed the UK Film Council. Twenty years on, we reassess the legacy of a cinematic pariah whose champions include Stewart Lee and Mike Leigh
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids (www.theguardian.com)
Jim Pillen breaks with 14 other Republican governors to enroll in Summer EBT, a new food program for school vacation months...
EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (www.theguardian.com)
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners (www.theguardian.com)
Venezuela closes UN human rights office citing ‘colonialist attitude’ (www.theguardian.com)
Post-Brexit watchdog ‘ready’ to investigate flood of cheaper Chinese electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Australian federal MPs – including the prime minister and cabinet members – have voted overwhelmingly to urge the US and the UK to allow the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to return to Australia (www.theguardian.com)
Young great apes tease and annoy their elders in playful behaviour – video (www.theguardian.com)
Footage of great apes has revealed that humans are not the only ones to endure seemingly endless bouts of teasing dished out by their young ones who appear intent on pushing their luck.
US defense secretary Lloyd Austin transfers duties to deputy after being hospitalised (www.theguardian.com)
Biden’s top military adviser is receiving treatment for an ‘emergent bladder issue’, with deputy Kathleen Hicks taking over his duties...
How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Call for UK utility firms to face higher fines for ‘street scars’ on pavements (www.theguardian.com)
Republicans are redefining the word ‘equal’ in an Iowa anti-trans bill (www.theguardian.com)
India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe (www.theguardian.com)
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children (www.theguardian.com)
During the 14 months for which Veronika Vlasenko attended school in Russia, she was regularly told by teachers and fellow students that she would never be able to go home to Ukraine. “Every day they said to me that I would be staying here for ever and would never leave Russia,” she said. “They told me that Ukraine...
In Gaza, there’s a war on women. Will the west really ignore it because they’re ‘not like us’? | Nesrine Malik (www.theguardian.com)
‘Always a bed in prison’: Australia’s housing crisis blamed for rise in unsentenced prisoners (www.theguardian.com)
US military stockpiling supplies in Australia in readiness for any confrontation with China (www.theguardian.com)
Imran Khan, Pakistan former PM, sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption (www.theguardian.com)
Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general election...
Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims (www.theguardian.com)
Department has admitted that it hid the policy due to concerns about former PM’s reaction
Babies born in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ record lower birth weight, preterm births – report (www.theguardian.com)
New report shows babies born in notorious industrial corridor experience low birth weight at three times the national average...
NYPD investigating alleged chemical attack on pro-Palestine Columbia University students (www.theguardian.com)
UK sends UN experts photographs of North Korean shipments to Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website...
Zelenskiy slams Trump’s rhetoric on stopping the war as ‘very dangerous’ | Volodymyr Zelenskiy (www.theguardian.com)
