headlines
Saturday
9
July
2016
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US president will abandon European tour in a bid to help address ‘persistent racial disparities in our criminal justice system’
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Expulsions come in retaliation to US decision to order two Russian diplomats to leave Washington after Moscow altercation
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The executive has been accused of sustained and brutal sexual harassment – but in the past, he has not been one to bow to external pressure
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Puerto Ricans have left behind ‘the island’ amid financial crisis, but language barriers and xenophobic rhetoric leave them feeling cast aside in the mainland
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In San Francisco and beyond, homelessness makes voting nearly impossible – and all but ensures the issue has little visibility on the campaign trail
highlights
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Pet owners turn their noses up at boarding kennels and opt for the luxury dog hotel, which has has three US locations with a fourth set to open soon
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From Essex serpents to chimpanzees, political satire to the best new thrillers … leading writers reveal which books they will be taking to the beach
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At 43, Isabella Rossellini was sacked as the face of Lancôme. Now, 20 years on, she’s been rehired. She talks movies, her mother, Ingrid Bergman, and her rollercoaster life
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Move over Steffi Graf, you have company. Serena Williams equalled the great German’s open-era record of 22 grand slam singles titles after a hard-fought 7-5, 6-3 victory over Angelique Kerber for her seventh Wimbledon crown
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Organizers have come up with a tantalising showdown at T-Mobile Arena, after a 24-hour period that displayed some of best and the worst things about UFC
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Jürgen Klinsmann, the current USA coach, would be a good fit to be England’s new manager, according to Oliver Bierhoff, Germany’s general manager
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A brilliant and unexpected late charge from Chris Froome gave the Team Sky rider the win in stage eight and the yellow jersey at the Tour de France
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Nani has been absolved from the responsibility of thinking too hard about the game and is enjoying playing up front with Cristiano Ronaldo at Euro 2016
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Kell Brook will fight WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin on September 10 at London’s O2 Arena, Matchroom Boxing has announced
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Dallas shootings the latest chapter in a painful racial history
Peniel E JosephThe path that led America to a bloody week of violence in Dallas, Falcon Heights and Baton Rouge is far longer than we’d like to admit -
Dallas doesn't represent 'civil war', but a society that needs fundamental change
Barrett Holmes PitnerThis has been a week of avoidable tragedies. The causes are an abundance of deadly weapons and a society structured to disadvantage millions of citizens -
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Army veteran who shot and killed five police officers was accused of sexual harassment by female soldier in 2014
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Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent’s coverage in Cambodia in 1975 inspired the film The Killing Fields
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South Korean officials say what appears to be a ballistic missile has been launched off its eastern coast
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Island state warns travellers in response to recent shootings of young black men by US officers
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in brief
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The over-35s have discovered Snapchat – much to their kids’ utter horror: ‘We young people need another social media migration anyway’
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She’s filthy-minded, desperate for connection and masturbates to Barack Obama while she watches the news … BBC3’s new sitcom has a heroine who will chime with twentysomethings everywhere
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Novelist Boris Fishman shunned his heritage – until a fiery internship in the kitchen of a New York restaurant
in depth
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As the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling forces US to confront police brutality again, it’s the dead men’s relative’s heartache that cuts through the noise
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When Sarah’s son Robbie was diagnosed with autism, aged four, she swore she would always protect and care for him. But 10 years on, she is in need of protection herself
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Applying our 21st-century ideas to this sci-fi universe ignores one of the show’s founding visions: that sexuality could (and should) be fluid
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Adam Theron-Lee Rensch was puzzled when his students, who were critically conscious of Islamophobia, US politics and the media, found torture ‘necessary’
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In the latest of a continuing series, the Guardian looks at some of the tallest tales the presumptive Republican nominee has told over the past seven days
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On the day after the EU referendum, many Britons woke up feeling that the country had changed overnight. But the forces that brought us here have been gathering for a very long time
in pictures
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The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, France beat Germany to reach the final of Euro 2016, Tony Blair and the Iraq war inquiry, Serena Williams at Wimbledon – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Thomas Crymes loves rollercoasters, he has ridden and photographed over 350 of them. His latest book has photographs of over 100 rides in 38 parks
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German photographer Max Slobodda’s Merge series captures people, and occasionally animals, appearing to melt into their surroundings
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‘When someone like Warren Kirk drifts in with his camera, bringing his patient eye to sites of modest dreaming, something entrancing happens,’ writes Helen Garner in the introduction to Kirk’s new book, Westography: Images of a Vanishing Suburbia.
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Cameroon-based artist Boris Nzebo sucks up the people, fashion and noise of his home city Douala, and spits it out in vibrant and emotionally complex canvases
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Photographer Ahmad Abushakeema is collecting 1,000 portraits that capture the racial and cultural diversity of the nation
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Hungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi travelled to Haiti five years after its devastating earthquake, and found a country still living hand-to-mouth
what to watch
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So what do humans really do all day? Their pets are baffled in this frenetic New York-set family animation
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Aubrey Plaza shines as a foul-mouthed slob in this ensemble comedy also starring Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick, which features sparks of true hilarity
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Viggo Mortensen steals the show as a father whose idealistic way of raising his children comes under attack by the real world
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Russell Crowe fails to convince as a novelist struggling with stress and parenthood
people
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The writer and Holocaust survivor fought for truth and justice, defending persecuted people of all races and religions. He taught us that the word ‘refugee’ need not be unpopular
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My Twitter account was flooded with notifications about a Photoshopped picture that made me look like a terrorist, and it had gone viral
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Actor and scriptwriter for Star Trek Beyond defends decision to reveal character is in a same-sex relationship, saying audience would infer that he was always gay
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She’s a 6ft ball of energy who slogged away on the comedy circuit for 25 years before landing Saturday Night Live and then Ghostbusters. She talks about wanting to be the new Eddie Murphy and why ‘crazy-wild-big’ laughs matter
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the big picture
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The winners of the 9th annual iPhone photography awards have been announced, chosen from thousands of entries from 139 countries
Iraq war US veterans call for Chilcot-style inquiry to avoid repeating mistakes
A special report After Blair and Bush met, the tempo changed