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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature22nd over: India 82-0 (Jaiswal 36, KL Rahul 38) Oh that is so good by KL Rahul. Stokes goes full and offers a smidge of width, Rahul gets down on one knee and drives through cover with hold-the-pose panache. Headingley lets out a collective purr.Share21st over: India 77-0 (Jaiswal 36, KL Rahul 34) Carse sends down a full bunger that is duly dispatched for four by Jaiswal wide of point. Carse struggles with the change of ends and spears four wides down the leg side.ShareUpdated at 12.41 BST20th over: India…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns ‘vandalism’ after activists spray red paint into engines of two Voyager planes.Pro-Palestinian activists have broken into a Royal Air Force base in central England and claimed to have damaged two military aircraft to protest against the UK government’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. The campaign group Palestine Action said two members entered the RAF Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire, spraying paint into the engines of the Voyager aircraft and attacking them with crowbars. “Despite publicly condemning the Israeli government, Britain continues to send military cargo, fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel U.S./Israeli…

MPs are debating the final stage of a bill which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.They are allowed to vote in accordance with their personal views, rather than along party lines.As the debate got under way, Labour’s Kim Leadbeater, who put forward the bill, said the legislation offered “a compassionate and safe choice to terminally ill people who want to make it”.Meanwhile, Conservative MP James Cleverly raised concerns that sufficient safeguards were not in place. Follow the debate on our live page.

Flames rise as a SpaceX rocket explodes in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., June 18, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Therocketfuture Via X | Via ReutersA SpaceX Starship rocket on Wednesday exploded at the Starbase facility in Texas during routine testing in preparation for a launch flight, according to local authorities and live stream footage.The rocket “experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase” at 11 p.m. local time, SpaceX said on social media, noting “a safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted…

Getty ImagesA Welsh actress says a “huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders” after being diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Kimberley Nixon, star of Channel 4’s Fresh Meat, developed perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), after giving birth to her son during the 2020 pandemic.She said her worries about her baby’s well-being escalated into intense anxiety, with symptoms lasting around two and a half years. As she began to recover, other lifelong patterns started to make sense, prompting her to seek a diagnosis.Kimberley NixonKimberley developed perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) after giving birth to her son during the 2020 pandemicFollowing…

Open windows (at the right time)It’s tempting to throw the windows open all day in the hope of a breeze, but when it is really hot outside, you only let in hotter air.Open the windows nice and wide overnight (if it is safe to do so) or early in the morning to let cooler air in, then shut them as the outside temperature climbs.Try to generate a through breeze by opening windows on opposite sides of your home or from top to bottom.Close the curtainsA lot of heat comes through windows as thermal radiation, which warms the surfaces and air…

Tesco has apologised after a promotional stand advertising a chance to meet the England women’s football team was put up at a store in Cardiff. Customers were shocked to see a Lucozade display featuring the Lionesses front and centre of the store’s entrance at Western Avenue, just weeks before Wales face England at Euro 2025 in Switzerland.The chief executive of the Football Association of Wales (FAW), Noel Mooney, was among those who voiced their anger on social media, saying “we are Cymru”. Tesco said it had since removed the display from the store, and wished both the Welsh and English…

Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have captured imaginations over the centuries.But almost nothing is known about the life and times of actual pirates.Now a leading British marine archaeologist is co-directing an expedition that has been allowed for the first time to search for pirate ships off Nassau on the island of New Providence, a notorious pirate hideout 300 years ago.No one had until now explored the seabed for their ships and treasure, let alone everyday belongings that could be as valuable to historical research…

Iran built its most critical nuclear enrichment facility, Fordo, deep inside a mountain to shield it from attacks.But the United States has a bomb that experts think could probably reach the subterranean site. President Trump is considering a plan to use it.Only the U.S. military has the 30,000-pound GBU-57, or Massive Ordnance Penetrator, that may be able to destroy Fordo, and it is the only armed force with aircraft that can carry out a mission with it. Sources: Congressional Research Service (bomb capabilities); Center for Strategic and International Studies, Institute for Science and International Security (minimum depth of facility) The…

Nick EdserBusiness reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesA “dismal” month for supermarkets led to retail sales falling in May at the fastest pace for more than a year, the UK’s statistics body has said.Sales volumes dropped 2.7% in May, the biggest monthly fall since December 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Food retailers saw lower sales of alcohol and tobacco as households cut back, while clothing and household goods stores reported “slow trading”, the ONS said.Separate figures on the UK economy showed that government borrowing hitting the second highest level for May since monthly records began in 1993.Borrowing – the…