‘Giant’ 300,000-year-old handaxes unearthed in Kent (www.theguardian.com)
Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests (www.theguardian.com)
Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests....
Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan (www.theguardian.com)
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Macron (www.theguardian.com)
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English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age (www.theguardian.com)
‘Stereotypes are evolving’: female divers shake up conservative Jordan (www.theguardian.com)
TV presenter Fiona Phillips reveals she has Alzheimer’s at age of 62 (www.theguardian.com)
Birds may ‘divorce’ because of promiscuity or long spells apart (www.theguardian.com)
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Sexual harassment of girls is a scourge at schools in England, say MPs (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil team arrive in Australia for Women’s World Cup with tribute to Iran protesters (www.theguardian.com)
The Brazilian football team has arrived in Australia for the Women’s World Cup with a strong statement on human rights....
Mobile phones and other devices to be banned from Dutch classrooms (www.theguardian.com)
Education ministry in the Netherlands says tech is a distraction from learning and will only be allowed if specifically needed
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
UK’s armed forces chief says there is no row over cuts with head of army (www.theguardian.com)
French rail operator SNCF fined after train killed cat hiding on tracks (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina said their pet escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a high-speed train as it prepared to leave Paris for Bordeaux, in south-western France, with 800 passengers onboard....
TIL that when Robert de Niro was in the process of receiving Italian citizenship, he faced opposition from the Italian American group Sons of Italy, who claimed that De Niro had damaged the public ... (www.theguardian.com)
An influential Italian-American organisation has appealed to Silvio Berlusconi, asking the prime minister to cancel Italy’s plan to award De Niro honorary citizenship.
Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of Palestinians flee Jenin refugee camp after major Israeli raid in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Are your clothes making you sick? The opaque world of chemicals in fashion (www.theguardian.com)
MPs vote to ban public bodies from boycotting Israel and other countries (www.theguardian.com)
Government wins Commons vote despite more than 80 Tory backbenchers joining Labour in abstained on the vote.
Israel attacks Jenin in biggest West Bank incursion in 20 years (www.theguardian.com)
Vietnam bans Barbie film over disputed map of China’s South China Sea claims (www.theguardian.com)
Scene shows map of China’s controversial ‘nine-dash line’ – repudiated in international ruling