The Guardian Culture

From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The multiple Grammy-winner muses tunefully on love’s ups and downs, while Peter Mullan stars as a local historian in a new comedy dramaDisclosure DayOut nowA new Steven Spielberg movie is always an event, whether he’s in blockbusting Jurassic Park mode or gunning for Oscars. This new effort starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth and Colman Domingo sees the film-maker wrangling with a fave topic – UFOs – for an epic sci-fi drama involving whistleblowing, conspiracy theories and shady co

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Bloomberg Markets

Challenges and Opportunities of Investing in African Startups

Investment into African startups held up in 2025, even as funding conditions tightened. According to AVCA, more than $5 billion was invested in African startups last year, with deal activity also rising. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja spoke with venture capital investor Andrew Firman from Kaleo Ventures on opportunities and challenges of investing in the continent. (Source: Bloomberg)

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The Guardian

Swiss wait to hear result of ballot on capping population at 10 million

The far-right proposal would require the government to put restrictions in place to limit the population by 2050 A national ballot on an unprecedented far-right proposal to limit Switzerland’s population to 10 million concludes this weekend, amid warnings of devastating consequences for the country’s economy if voters back the initiative.A “yes” vote would require the Swiss government to take steps to cap the population at 10 million by 2050, enacting tough restrictions on family reunification,

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The Guardian Politics

The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone | Jason Okundaye

After a week of violence and discord, this is clear: some politicians know images supersede inconvenient facts. And Labour has no good responseWhen voters in Makerfield head to the polls next week, their decision, as is increasingly the case across the nation, may come down to this: whether to be more swayed by a hopeful vision of the UK or by a narrative that defines the country as little more than the most shocking thing they have seen on their phone that day.That quandary has been sharpened b

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The Guardian

Jessie J’s triumphant return puts lucrative Chinese market in spotlight

Other western acts have attempted to crack country’s music scene since singer’s breakout success in 2018One week after announcing she was “cancer free”, the British pop star Jessie J did what any recovering patient would do and travelled thousands of miles around the world to perform for an audience of more than a billion people.On 29 May, the singer-songwriter, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, belted out a stage-rattling rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way on the stage of Singer, a hugely po

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The Guardian

‘Fast-track’ regulation could expose Britons to harmful chemicals, say campaigners

Exclusive: Fighting Dirty taking legal action against government over proposal it says could import weaker standardsAn environmental campaign group is taking legal action against the government over proposals that it claims could fast-track chemical hazard classifications from other countries with lower standards into UK law.Fighting Dirty claims proposals to change the classification and labelling of potentially hazardous chemicals could result in the UK weakening standards on cancer-causing su

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The Guardian

Riots and racism: why is the UK burning?

Claims of two-tier policing and uncontrolled immigration may not be borne out by the facts, but that has not stopped them being played up for political endsAs the people of Glengormley, on the northern edge of Belfast, tidied up and prepared for more violence in the midst of what has been described as a modern-day pogrom, a court 500 miles away in Southampton, on the south coast of England, started to deal with its own outbreak of thuggery.The trigger for this week’s riots in the Northern Irish

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BBC World

Married at First Sight Australia stars not told partners had drug and violence convictions

Stars of the hit TV show say they did not know their on-screen husbands had previous convictions.

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ESPN

UFC to award record-high bonuses at WH event

The UFC will award $400,000 bonuses for fight of the night and $425,000 bonuses for top individual performances at Sunday's UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.

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BBC Sport

USA start World Cup in style - but can they finally join the elite?

If there were any doubts that the USA were ready to live up to the pressure of being one of the hosts of the 2026 World Cup, those were dispelled in 45 brilliant minutes against Paraguay on Saturday.

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ESPN

USMNT player ratings: Balogun, Pulisic team-best p...

In the USMNT's World Cup-opening win, Folarin Balogun and Christian Pulisic share the spotlight as the team's best players.

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ESPN

VAR review: What was the 'mistaken identity' check...

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ESPN

Pulisic subbed off at halftime, 'hoping it's nothi...

United States winger Christian Pulisic was substituted at halftime of his team's World Cup opener against Paraguay on Friday, with the Americans leading 3-0 at the break.

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Yahoo Finance

Meet the Medtech Stock Wall Street Thinks Will Soar 65% Over the Next 12 Months

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BBC Sport

Balogun stars in impressive USA win over Paraguay

Folarin Balogun scores twice as the USA begin their World Cup campaign with a convincing 4-1 victory over Paraguay at the Los Angeles Stadium.

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TechCrunch

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

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Yahoo Finance

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

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ESPN

U.S. starts in style with largest WC win since 193...

Folarin Balogun scored twice and Gio Reyna struck a sensational goal late on as the U.S. beat Paraguay 4-1 to start the World Cup.

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BBC World

US kills leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang in airstrike, Trump says

Niño Guerrero was killed in a "swift and lethal kinetic strike," the US President wrote in a social media post.

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NY Times World

A Family Ravaged by Land Mines in Myanmar

Bu Ri lost a leg to a mine in Myanmar decades ago. More recently, six other members of his family have suffered a similar fate or worse, in a sign of the devastation wreaked by civil war.

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