Author: The Guardian

Two big saves, a nervous turnover, solid passing and a clean sheet. Hannah Hampton’s stock continues to rise after her Chelsea goalkeeper helped England qualify for Euro 2025 in a 0-0 draw with Sweden.Salina Wigman’s decision to start Hampton ahead of Mary Earps for England’s penultimate qualifier raised some eyebrows on Friday. It’s just one of several changes made to the Republic of Ireland game ahead of a trickier trip to Sweden.However, her performance in Gothenburg’s starting line-up was far more surprising and could signal a change at the back at England’s backbone.”The game is on. It really is a…

Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, have been released by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of a river close to where logging companies have concessions.The reclusive tribe has been sighted coming out of the rainforest more frequently in recent weeks in search of food, apparently moving away from the growing presence of loggers, said the local Indigenous rights group Fenamad.The Mashco Piro were photographed at the end of June on the banks of a river in the Madre de Dios region in south-east Peru near the…

Joe “Fudge” Bryant, father of the late Kobe Bryant, has died at the age of 69.Like his son, Bryant was selected in the first round of the NBA draft. He played eight seasons in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers and Houston Rockets. He then spent ten years playing in Europe, mostly in Italy. He averaged 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game in his NBA career and helped the 76ers reach the 1977 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Portland Trail Blazers.After retiring, he began a coaching career that included stops in Thailand and Japan…

Back in 2016, I was an Appalachian expat living in Boston, feeling homesick and displaced like I do most of the time up here. I saw a book in the Harvard Coop with the word Hillbilly on the cover and jumped at it. No one up here knew that word, or if they did, they understood it as derogatory, while I understood it as home. Here home was, I thought, staring me in the face from the front table at a major bookstore. Photograph: API barely read 30 pages before I saw the book Hillbilly Elegy for what it was:…

Alpecin Deceuninck’s Jasper Philipsen won stage 16 of the Tour de France (from Gruissan to Nimes) for his third victory of the year. The Belgian sprinter once again benefited from a near-perfect lead from his team-mate and world road race champion Mathieu van der Poel.However, as Philipson was celebrating, his teammate and championship-leading sprinter Biniam Girmay carefully climbed to his feet after a serious crash with a kilometer and a half to go. The Eritrean, racing for the Intermarche Wanty team, was clearly in some pain as he crossed the finish line.With Gilme failing to score and Phillipson reaching 100…

The independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr apologised to Donald Trump on Tuesday, after Kennedy’s son posted video and audio of a call between the two men in which Trump made bizarre remarks about vaccines and babies, as well as appearing to offer Kennedy some sort of political deal.“When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer,” Kennedy said. “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologise to the president.”The call was apparently made before Trump and Kennedy’s later meeting on Monday at the Republican…

Newcastle chief executive Darren Eales has warned the Football Association that the Saudi Arabian club will fight to retain Eddie Howe and remain loyal to their “favorite” manager.Howe is top of the FA’s shortlist to succeed Gareth Southgate as England manager and it is understood his Newcastle contract contains a £5m release clause, but Iles believes the 46-year-old of players will miss out on the daily challenges of club management.”I won’t go into the details of Eddie’s contract, but he signed a multi-year contract that was extended last summer,” he said. “He is our employee and we have no plans…

Jack Black has put his rock duo Tenacious D on hold following an onstage comment made by his bandmate Kyle Gass, which seemed to support the assassination of Donald Trump.Gass was celebrating his birthday during a concert in Sydney on Sunday, with a cake presented to him on stage. Black told Gass to make a wish as he blew out the candles, and Gass responded, to audience laughter, “Don’t miss Trump next time” – a reference to the failed assassination attempt by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at a Trump rally the previous day.Black continued with the concert following Gass’s comments,…

The Prince of Wales praised Southgate for a “first-class performance all round” and showing “humility, compassion and real leadership” after he resigned as England manager following their defeat in the Euro 2024 final.Prime Minister Keir Starmer also paid tribute to Southgate, praising him as “a mentor to our brilliant young talent” who laid the “foundations for future success”.EFL chairman Prince William thanked Southgate for being an “England fan” and praised him for dealing with “the most intense pressure and scrutiny”.Prince said he created a team that “works alongside the best teams in the world.”Gareth, I want to thank you -…

Very early in life, I perfected one skill: I can carry four pints at once. I put them in a straightforward quadrant; nothing dumb like balancing one on top. I have an incredible hand span, but also very pouchy, sausage-like fingers, qualities not much prized by the checklist of female allure, but extremely useful for carrying glasses. I had a brilliant apprenticeship, pulling pints at festivals around people who were too far gone to notice. When youthful hubris led me to try five, I learned my limits in a safe place, with plastic cups, surrounded by grass.People always worry, even…