Iranian foreign ministeras comments come after world leaders urge calm

Paul Scruton, Lucy Swan, Iona Serrapica and Alex Olorenshaw have created a visual guide to Fridayas events in Iran via graphics, video and satellite images.

You can take a look at it here:

Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, dies the day after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trumpas hush-money trial is taking place.

NBC News and other US media reported the manas death early on Saturday. NBC News quoted New York City police as saying the hospital where the man was taken had declared him dead.

Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain

Influenza is the pathogen most likely to trigger a new pandemic in the near future, according to leading scientists.

An international survey, to be published next weekend, will reveal that 57% of senior disease experts now think that a strain of flu virus will be the cause of the next global outbreak of deadly infectious illness.

Local people say archipelagoas outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergencies

Thousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelagoas tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the current, decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people.

The protests a which will take place under the banner aCanarias tiene un lAmitea (The Canaries have a limit) a are being backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action, Friends of the Earth and SEO/Birdlife.

Exclusive: Former head of policy at illegal migration taskforce details ainhumane conversationsa

A senior civil servant has said Cabinet Office officials making policy on small boats referred to abloody migrantsa and were expected to aleave their humanity at the doora.

Rowaa Ahmar withdrew a tribunal claim alleging aunrelenting and systemica racism in the department on Wednesday but said she stands by the substance of it.

Exclusive: Whistleblowers point to broader sewage scandal, with wastewater systems manipulated to divert sewage

Whistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works are manipulating wastewater systems to divert raw sewage away from the works and into rivers and seas.

It is well known that water companies are dumping large volumes of raw sewage into rivers and seas from storm overflows but an investigation by the Guardian and Watershed Investigations reveals that the industryas adirty secreta is bigger, broader and deeply systemic.

Party hopes smaller content creators with loyal following online will attract voters missed through TV and radio

Labour has appointed a dedicated employee to work with influencers and seed positive messages about Keir Starmeras party on TikTok and Instagram, as the UKas political parties prepare to target amicroinfluencersa during the general election campaign.

During previous British elections, political parties often asked big-name celebrities to send a supportive tweet or attempted to win over YouTubers with millions of followers. But this election, the focus is shifting from a top-down approach towards winning over more aauthentica influencers with smaller but loyal followings.

Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle 1950 Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig Ellwood

Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion.

Last year, the couple purchased the 1950 Zimmerman house, designed by the architect Craig Ellwood, in Los Angelesas Brentwood neighborhood for $12.5m. The residence, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo a who has been described as the pioneer of modern landscaping a had previously been featured in Progressive Architecture magazine.

Paolo Barone found guilty of voyeurism after taking photos of sleeping woman on train to St Albans in 2022

A Thameslink train driver who took photos up a womanas skirt while she was asleep on a train has avoided jail, despite being found guilty of voyeurism.

The driver, Paolo Barone, was on his way home from a shift in September 2022 when he saw that the woman, 51, had fallen asleep on a train travelling from London Blackfriars to St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Nick Bostromas Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was adeath by bureaucracya

Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Muskas favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated APS1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.

The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.

Countryas leaders took time to weigh response to Iranas strike under gaze of allies urging restraint

• Middle East crisis: live updates

Just before dawn on Friday the explosions of air defence systems woke Iranians across the historic city of Isfahan. The breaking news alerts that followed roused people around the world, to worry that the region had moved a step closer to full-blown conflict.

There was little doubt who had launched the attack, even before any details of what happened were clear. It came just days after an unprecedented barrage of Iranian drones and missiles were aimed directly at Israel, whose government had vowed it would respond.

Moas staff evacuate 80% of critically wounded soldiers from regionas battlefield, where medics say morale is falling

It is around midnight in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and the first emergency ambulance of the night is charging 75mph down a single carriageway road from the frontline. Inside, under the care of two watchful medics, is Ihor, an unconscious soldier wounded from the battle of Chasiv Yar, with shrapnel, perhaps from a mine, in his abdomen.

The medicsa task is to complete the last leg of evacuation from the battlefield, which involves Ihor and tonightas most serious casualties being taken to a hospital in the safe central city of Dnipro. Four ambulances are following on a bumpy high-speed run that takes three hours down roads largely deserted because of the 9pm curfew, the full single beds creaking and bouncing as they go.

As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border

Every night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.

The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was smuggling to safety were members of the darker skinned Masalit community who were being targeted in a vicious wave of ethnic violence perpetrated by Arab militias.

I used to think open relationships were a recipe for heartbreak a or just a bit tacky. Then we began to experiment. Could seeing other people be the secret to a happy home life?

I settled back into the train seat and pulled a notebook out of my bag: something extraordinary had happened, and I needed to process it by writing it down. Speeding along the south coast, past Arundel Castle and on towards Bristol, I made notes about the night Iad spent near Brighton with a man Iad known for years, but seen again in a whole new context. About how delighted I felt, how hot, how incredibly free.

My body, which had been pregnant in the Covid pandemic, given birth and then dragged itself through several house moves with a baby and a three-year-old, seemed to be renewed, on fire. My mind was blown, and my lips were bruised. I bought a beer and ate crisps. I texted friends, caught eyes with strangers: I wanted to talk to everyone about how I was feeling. Most of all, I wanted to tell my husband.

How do I know what soil I have? Do bulbs come back? And how did people garden before Google? As the growing season gears up, our experts are here with a barrowful of advice

Few domestic gardens need work every weekend a whisper it, but theyare quite good at looking after themselves. Broadly speaking: new growth on twiggy, brown (or woody) stems is a fair sign to prune old growth back to encourage the new growth into a neater, fuller shape; a shift to spring and summer signals a need to feed plants; if your plants are romping away, your weeds probably will be too a pulling them out while theyare small is easier a and planting or sowing things late is better than not at all. Mulch whenever you think about it. Alice Vincent

Harry (left), 26, a supply planner, meets Jack, 27, a dictionary editor

What were you hoping for?
To meet someone interesting without having to endure the trials and tribulations of online dating.

The Green party MP on her stint as a chambermaid, a brush with the law and the importance of hairspray

Born in Worcestershire, Caroline Lucas, 63, studied at the University of Exeter where she gained a PhD in English. She joined the Green party in 1986 and went on to become leader in England and Wales from 2008 to 2012, and co-leader from 2016 to 2018. Since 2010 she has been MP for Brighton Pavilion, the UKas first and only Green party MP. At the next election she plans to retire from parliament. Her new book, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story, has just been published. She is married with two sons.

When were you happiest?
Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog a birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.

He performed at Prince Harry and Meghan Markleas wedding and was offered an MBE before he turned 30 a but the writer is ready to head in a more radical direction

Who is George the Poet? A few years ago, the answer to that question would have been straightforward a heas a beloved Cambridge-educated Ugandan-British spoken word artist, whose lyrical social commentary about British life had reached such a wide audience that he was invited to read a love poem at the 2018 royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Heas a writer and musician, born George Mpanga in 1991, whose poetry has been commissioned by the likes of Sky Sports F1, and who was offered an MBE. Today, defining Mpanga by those achievements feels problematic, largely because of how critical the 33-year-old poet is of his own rise to fame. aI got all sorts of privileges, awards, little nods, passes and pats on the back from the establishment,a he says now. aGoing to Cambridge a these things are signifiers. The more I learned, the more I realised that none of it was a coincidence. Yes, I took myself to university. I made myself become a poet. But you canat separate [my success] from its political utility to conservative interests.a

Mpanga is now also a successful podcaster and PhD candidate (heas currently researching how Black music can be used across the Black world for a better future, at University College London), and he has recently become a father. But one label he once embraced but is now keen to reject is that of agood immigranta a a person who works hard, stays out of trouble, and is rewarded for it. a[I] rose to fame with non-threatening poems that criticised my own community for the problems it faced. I presented a narrative that aligned with ruling-class interests. I made the system look good. All those people claiming that racism and poverty were holding them back just needed to be more like me.a

Whether the deal auto-renewed without your knowledge or you forgot a free trial had ended, try asking for your money back

How many subscription services are you signed up to? It may be more than you think.

According to recent research from Citizens Advice, the amount consumers are spending on aaccidental subscriptionsa has risen sharply: it estimates unused subscriptions cost us APS688m in the past year. The charity found that many of those affected said the subscription aauto-reneweda without their knowledge, or they signed up for a free trial but forgot to cancel later.

The comedian is desperate to make out his jokes about rape and domestic abuse will get him cancelled. In reality, this Netflix special is about as edgy as a Jim Davidson set

The darting eyes are new. As a young man, Jimmy Carr never had so much trouble keeping his eyeballs under control. In Natural Born Killer, the comedianas new Netflix show, his pupils bounce from one side to the other so frequently it is like watching a game of table tennis. Or, as Carr might say in his affected working-class voice: aWatchina a game of fuckina table tennis.a

Why does Carr think he needs to swaddle his punchlines in frantic eye movement? Well, the manas material is so edgy that he actually has to scan the room in case the woke police are in. aThis next joke might get me cancelled,a he says at one point, like a teenager smelling his farts and chuckling that he could get thrown out of a sleepover. If delivering material that might as well have been cribbed from a Jim Davidson set can get you acancelleda (aThereas a reason men propose on their knees a theyave fucking given upa), Carr might well be.

Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer is on Netflix now

Invasive feline attention has left me seriously sleep-deprived, but I have appointments with Irish radio a and my wifeas diary

It is 11.30am and I am sitting in my office shed, yawning. I have not slept well, because the catas attentions have reached a new level of intensity: it leaps on to the bed at 3am and wakes me by blocking my nostrils with its paw. When I pretend to remain asleep, it tries to push my eyelids up, one and then the other. This is ridiculously invasive, but the cat seems to understand that at this hour I will not cry out and risk waking my wife.

I pull the duvet across my face, but the paw keeps reaching over and in.

Coventry fans will travel in numbers for their FA Cup semi-final on Sunday a a reflection of their long-serving manageras impact

When JA1/4rgen Klopp announced in January he would leave Liverpool at the end of the season, it was not just the news itself that seemed strange. The shock, the communal widening of the eyes, was in part because, with the shelf life of managers shorter than ever, rarely does anyone go on their own terms.

Since Klopp informed the Liverpool hierarchy last November of his intention to step down, 27 managers in the top four divisions a almost one third of those employed a have been dismissed. At eight and a half years Klopp has worked unbroken in the Premier League or EFL for longer than any other current manager and the heir to that throne, Pep Guardiola, reached a similar untouchable point some time ago.

• World champion beat Hamilton by 13 seconds in Shanghai Sprint
• Red Bull driver now leads Formula One standings by 15 points

Red Bullas triple world champion Max Verstappen won the first sprint race of the Formula One season at the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday. Verstappen beat Mercedesa Lewis Hamilton by 13.043 seconds in the 19-lap race at the Shanghai International Circuit to extend his championship lead over teammate Sergio Perez, who finished third.

Verstappen passed Hamilton on the ninth of 19 laps and then stretched out his lead to continue his F1 dominance in all formats. Ferrarias Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz finished fourth and fifth.

• Clubas losses reduced by property deal with sister company
• Chelsea would have lost APS166.4m without hotel sales

Premier League clubs reacted with exasperation after seeing that AChelsea eased their financial Aposition with the APS76.5m sale of two hotels to a Asister company in a deal that appears to have helped the club avoid a breach of profitability and Asustainability rules (PSR).

Chelseaas accounts, published last weekend, revealed the club made a loss of APS89.9m in the last financial year. That figure would have been APS166.4m without the hotels sale from Chelsea FC Holdings Ltd to Blueco 22 Properties Ltd. Both companies are subsidiaries of Chelseaas holding company, Blueco 22 Ltd.

The aTyneside Terrora on his journey from child snooker prodigy to losing his tour card, before returning to the top at the Crucible

Gary Wilson was no longer folding crispy pancakes at the frozen food factory but he was a taxi driver when his long struggle to establish himself as one of the worldas best snooker players seemed an impossible dream. aThat was the point where I started thinking: aIt might never actually happena,a Wilson says 13 years later. aI knew deep down it should and that, given the right circumstances, I would be good enough. But life doesnat always work out as you want, does it? I was 25 and I thought I might be a taxi driver for a long time.a

There were times when Wilson was reduced to tears and, as he says, agenerally, Iam not very emotional but thatas one area in my life where Iam very passionate. Itas my career and itas been my dream for such a long time.a

Micah Richards laughing uproariously behind a lighted TV plinth? Thatas the kind of noise football is being distilled into

Before anybody knew anything at all, around the same time a series of speculative bronze-age books were being encoded as the foundation of much organised human society, there was a theory that everything in the world was made from one substance.

There were different combinations of The Substance. But it was all essentially One Substance a probably, you know, Godas fingernails or the like.

The former Arsenal and Spain midfielder, now 38, is loving playing for his home club Real Oviedo in the second division

The day Spainas history changed for ever, Santi Cazorla scored in the shootout. He scored on his Recreativo de Huelva debut in 2006, the first of 143 goals going back 18 years, got his last for Arsenal in front of 59,962 at the Emirates in autumn 2016, and netted a 96th-minute equaliser in Moscow 754 days and 10 operations later, having been told to settle for walking again. He scored in the FA Cup final at Wembley, at the Santiago BernabA(c)u and the Camp Nou, at Old Trafford and Anfield, in the north London derby and at San MamA(c)s, a place so revered they call it the Cathedral.

Nothing, though, compared to a deflected shot in front of 3,823 people on a random Saturday afternoon against tiny AlcorcA3n in the second division, and which didnat even count. aThe goal Iave lived with most feeling,a Cazorla calls it, a VAR review ruining everything. aAnd I had already celebrated.a

David Moyes is likely to leave West Ham when his contract expires but could another manager do better?

One day, perhaps space will be found outside the London Stadium for a statue of David Moyesas delirious charge down the touchline after Jarrod Bowenas winner in the Europa Conference League final. Moyes has done a superb job at West Ham and should be hailed as one of the greatest figures in the clubas history if, as seems likely after losing to Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League, he leaves when his contract expires at the end of the season.

There should be only gratitude towards the Scot for all he has achieved during his second spell in east London. Nobody should forget West Ham were in a relegation battle when Moyes returned in December 2019. Since then they have had three consecutive European campaigns, won a trophy for the first time since 1980 and regularly challenged in the top half of the Premier League, which has given Moyes plenty of ammunition to throw back at his critics whenever the teamas form dips.

• Joint leaders Atthaya Thitikul and Jin Hee Im are on eight under
• World No 1 out to equal LPGA Tour record for five straight wins

Nelly Korda remains on track for a record-tying fifth straight victory as she contends at the yearas opening LPGA major. The womenas world No 1 shot a three-under 69 second round to be one shot off the pace at the Chevron Championship in Texas on Friday local time.

Joint leaders Atthaya Thitikul (67) and Jin Hee Im (67) lead Korda by one stroke while eight under at the halfway point, as several former winners failed to make the cut.

Behind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and the caste system haunt the subcontinent

This year, more than 80 countries and half the worldas population face elections. While many islands in the Caribbean go to the polls, their people are usually more occupied with US and British elections than those in their ancestral homes in Africa and India.

This may be excusable; as there is an old saying: aWhen America sneezes, the world catches a cold.a It may also seem strange that some identify as Republican or Democrat, and Conservative or Labour, while living in a region that has to endure a rigorous process and heavy expense to obtain a visa to even holiday in those countries.