New Global Media https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Russia attacks Ukraine’s gas facilities as Zelenskyy faces further protests – Europe live Chris Mason: New chancellor faces tough spending choices Evacuees of Ontario’s Wildfires Wait and Worry Andy Burnham to cut VAT on electricity bills as first cost-of-living move Seth Meyers Calls Trump ‘The Sports Reaper’ Morocco: West African Leaders Back $25b Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline UK government borrowing falls in June New owners, team names and much bigger budgets: the 2026 Hundred explained Africa: All of Africa Today – July 21, 2026 Andy Burnham, New UK Prime Minister, Names John Healey As Top Finance Official Neuer to Neymar: 11 World Cup players who retired from international football The big World Cup 2026 quiz Why was Hamilton penalised but not Leclerc? – F1 Q&A World Cup 2026 in 90 seconds: a photo animation Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead review – final part of the Harlem Trilogy is freewheeling fun Uganda: Six Officials Dismissed in Museveni’s Anti-Corruption Purge Revealed Namibia: Fishrot Fugitive Marén De Klerk’s N$75.3m Assets Frozen Exploring Germany’s East Frisian islands: mudflats, marshes and millions of birds ‘Witty, engaging and absurd’: LensCulture critics’ choice award winners – in pictures Who’s in Andy Burnham’s cabinet? South Africa: Judgment Set in Usindiso Arson Case – South African News Briefs – July 21, 2026 UK military ‘eyes innovative electric flying taxi’ as 2029 launch planned Iran claims attacks in strait of Hormuz; Houthis announce blockade of Red Sea shipping route – Middle East crisis live Argentina players receive heroes’ welcome home despite World Cup defeat Country diary: I’m immersed in the rich, chromatic aura of a summer meadow | Mark Cocker Gruel and graft: museum asks if you could survive a Victorian workhouse José Pizarro’s recipe for tomato and bread salad with boquerones UK surrogacy law ‘creaking at seams’ as demand rises sharply Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’ Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk? ‘New Girl was so scary I had to stop smoking pot’: Jake Johnson on perseverance, pickleball and Prince Lebanese return to ‘pilot zone’ villages they say Israel never occupied As Sudan’s war crosses borders and millions are made refugees, could Ethiopia’s plan solve ‘humanity’s migration issue’? ‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage ‘A guy did a runner in a Jaguar’: the petrol theft scandal – and the garage owners struggling to stop it Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says Andy Burnham’s plans could bring the UK closer to Europe than he realises Chinese destroyer opens fire in waters claimed by Japan as tensions rise in the South China Sea Sam Neill fans send sales of his Two Paddocks wine soaring in tribute to late actor Weather warnings as another tropical storm develops along US Gulf coast Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave Tate brothers vow to fight extradition as they appear at court in Miami Guyana recovers 27 bodies after ferry disaster as crew comes under scrutiny Why protests are growing in Ukraine over defence leadership and dismissals Ukraine war briefing: Moscow targeted as Wildberries warehouse attacks continue The Papers: ‘Burnham era begins’ and ‘King Kev’ At least 27 dead and 83 missing after passenger ferry capsizes off Guyana Is UK facing drought for second summer in a row?