headlines
Sunday
10
July
2016
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Police scour headquarters in effort to find suspicious person as demonstrators return to streets across the nation
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Gunman Micah Johnson was killed using a Northrop Grumman tactical robot carrying one pound of C4 explosive in its arm following gun battle
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Colvin, a veteran reporter for the Sunday Times, was killed in a rocket attack in the besieged city of Homs in 2012
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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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The character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs has always been a hit with fans – so it’s a pity the movies don’t live up to the legend of their jungle hero
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How Ryan Finley swapped a high flying tech career for family life in a high-tech Oregon beachhouse. By Candice Pires
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Lolita Wästerlund is one of the first women in the world to have a uterine transplant. Now this pioneering surgery is coming to Britain. By Tim Lewis
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Josh Gross: The Brazilian’s first-round submission at UFC 200 was the highlight of a card that showcased the best and worst of mixed martial arts
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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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Star guard signs lucrative extension that will keep him with Rockets until 2020
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American record holder was considered a long shot to make the team but finished in 13min 35.50sec.
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Chris Froome said his fast descent to win stage eight reminded him of training sessions
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Lynx players wearing black warmup shirts in support of police shooting victims Philando Castile and Alton Sterling
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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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UK’s investigation into Iraq invasion is ‘example of what we could do with political courage’, says codirector of Iraq Veterans against the War
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President addresses sorrow and confusion over how the US will move forward after sniper attack on police and the killings of two black men
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Rightwing lobby group that attacks climate science and backs gun owners is courting politicians around the world
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Two Russian airmen were killed when their helicopter was shot down by Isis fighters, according to Russia’s defence ministry
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in brief
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The truth may lie in how honestly you answer quizzes and questionnaires
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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
in depth
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Pollution in the Kenyan capital is ‘beyond imagination’. With Africa’s predicted rise in population – and a constant stream of dirty secondhand cars from Europe and Japan – this urban health crisis could kill 1.5 million within a generation
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As the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling force the US to confront police brutality again, it’s the dead men’s relative’s heartache that cuts through the noise
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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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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’
in pictures
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Protesters take to the streets across the US against police treatment of African Americans. Demonstrations were were given fresh impetus by the fatal shootings last week of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota
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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
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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In the late 50s the Beat movement reached its high point, with Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs sharing rooms in a rundown hotel near the Seine. James Campbell visits a new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and a pivotal moment in cultural history
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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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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
Australia Opposition Labor party concedes defeat after eight-day count