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Security camera footage of the Crimean bridge.
Ukraine attacks Kerch bridge to Crimea after ‘months of planning’

The 12-mile bridge is a vital Russian supply route. Ukrainian saboteurs have attacked it twice previously in the war

Russia-Ukraine war
15 minutes ago

Gangs cramming more migrants onto bigger Channel boats, figures show

People-smugglers have changed tactics and regularly exploit calm weather to load more than 80 passengers onto dinghies




British soldier manning a grenade machine gun during the Sabre Strike exercise in Poland.



Large group of people playing musical chairs outdoors.
Musical chairs, Manhattan-style: I was cheated and a tourist won

Armed police officers outside Windsor Castle.
Intruder arrested after breaking into grounds of Windsor Castle
Royal family
39 minutes ago

Large group of people playing musical chairs outdoors.
Musical chairs, Manhattan-style: I was cheated and a tourist won





Speed camera on a road with cars driving by.
Council generates £1.6m in speed camera fines after limit is cut


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Photo of an airplane cabin in the 1990s, showing passengers and a flight attendant.
Economy class passengers ignored for too long, says Emirates boss

Sir Tim Clark says that since 1990s flyers in cheaper seats have been neglected while first and business class passengers are pampered


People bathing and paddling at a weir on the River Avon.
Wild swimmers’ health should be ‘legal objective’ for water companies


Portrait of Feargal Sharkey.
Cunliffe report won’t make one atom of the UK’s water cleaner
Environment
34 minutes ago

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at a VE Day concert in London.
Rachel Reeves warned of risk to fiscal rules after growth downgrade


Illustration of Erin Patterson giving evidence at her homicide trial.




Baseball player making a catch at an outfield wall.
News in pictures


Villagers win battle to remove ‘Great Wall’ at Welsh beauty spot


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Editor's picks



Geert Wilders holding a torn EU flag with a missing yellow star.
Geert Wilders: The ‘Dutch Trump’ who collapsed his own government





‘War-fighting readiness’ costs more than this

The strategic defence review has fine aspirations but is fatally undermined by a Treasury that refuses to pay for them



Illustration of a soldier in a red uniform playing a trumpet while riding a snail; a banner reading "Strategic Defence Review" is attached to the soldier.

Cartoon by Morten Morland



Portrait of Sonia Sodha.
UK universities are ripe for a populist assault






Portrait of Sonia Sodha.
UK universities are ripe for a populist assault




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Fern Britton kissing her cat.

The TV presenter on the different natures of her feline friends — and how they have comforted her through illness and the breakdown of her marriage


Phoebe Stubbs South Beach glassware.
Jessica DiamondTen things to buy now: beauty, accessories and more





a man in a white shirt and blue tie looks at the camera
David SmithConfidence is rising but it’s not party time just yet


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Diptych of self-portraits by Gwen John and Augustus John.

The sibling portrait artists have been re-evaluated since their deaths, says Judith Mackrell in her double biography Artists, Siblings, Visionaries. So who was the greater talent?



Aerial view of Shangri-la Gardens in Yangshuo, China.

Following the end of a 14-year relationship, the novelist Kia Abdullah travelled halfway across the world in search of new beginnings. This is what she found


Panoramic view of Saint-Pierre Bridge in Toulouse, France, with the Dome de la Grave in the background.
Julia Brookes‘Avis didn’t have the hire car we’d booked and charged us £619 for another’


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