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Brexit: Emmanuel Macron 'not sure' of UK-EU trade deal by end of year

The French president's doubts come as the UK government is set to publish its demands.

Surfer punches and swears at great white shark to survive attack

A surfer has told how he fought off a great white shark by punching it in the eye after it attacked him.

Twitter suspends 70 accounts promoting presidential wannabe Mike Bloomberg

Twitter has suspended around 70 accounts for attempting to manipulate the platform in support of Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg.

On my radar: Chris Steele-Perkins’s cultural highlights

The photographer on the latest Tarantino film, a psychedelic flower show, and where he goes for a good fry-upPhotographer Chris Steele-Perkins was born in Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother, then moved to England aged two and grew...

Midnight Family review – superb documentary on Mexico’s private ambulances

Luke Lorentzen’s film follows an enterprising family exploiting the gap in Mexico City’s dire emergency servicesThere’s a twilight zone that the Ochoa family, the subjects of this superb observational documentary, inhabit. It’s a very dirty grey area...

Like a natural woman: how the female gaze is finally bringing real life to the screen

From Portrait of a Lady on Fire in cinemas to Fleabag on television, realistic women are at last being shown looking back at the world that is looking at themFilm and television makers have never been shy about the female form. Hollywood always valia...

Harry and Meghan to end use of 'SussexRoyal' brand

Plans to secure a trademark have also been abandoned, a spokesperson for the duke and duchess says.

Celebrities turn up to protest Assange extradition

Celebrities and supporters of Julian Assange protested in Parliament Square on Saturday ahead of court hearings over his extradition to the United States.

Don Letts: ‘Punk was a refuge from racism’

The DJ and musician, 64, on being black and British, finding a scene, and why punk’s not deadJamaican people love country and western. My first musical memory is sitting at home with my dad, listening to incarnations of what would become reggae on hi...

The Murder Capital review – people really need this band

SWX, BristolHailed as one of the most intense live acts around, the Dublin post-punk band rarely falter in front of their growing fan armySomething is happening to boys in bands up and down the country and across the Irish Sea. They are singing about...

Natwest hole in the wall joins Tripadvisor top attractions list

In news that will dismay local tour guides, a hole in a wall outside a bank has surpassed beautiful nature reserves and historical churches on the list of a town's top tourist attractions.

Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg review – inside the Brontës’ dreamworld

The imaginary realms of the Brontë sisters offer an escape from Victorian constraints in a graphic novel that blurs fiction and memoirBefore Jane Eyre and before Heathcliff, there was Glass Town. Isolated on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, the Bront...

‘Noel Edmonds seemed to radiate calm': how a gameshow changed my life

Velimir paid off his debts, Julia got her dream job, Alex fell in love – former contestants recall their transformative appearancesIn early 2010, I was on the brink of bankruptcy and living in a friend’s flat in Clevedon, near Bristol. I’d been made...

Nixon in China review – a gripping human drama

Theatre Royal, GlasgowThe seismic 1972 meeting of Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon, as depicted in John Adams’s inspired 1987 opera, still resonates in Scottish Opera’s potent new stagingAsk a Chinese person, or one trusted to speak to tourists, about th...

BBC broadcaster Simon Warr dies aged 65

Former teacher, who also appeared on Channel 4’s That’ll Teach ’Em, dies of cancerThe BBC broadcaster and former teacher Simon Warr has died from cancer aged 65 after announcing days ago he was in a hospice with a “very serious health condition”.On T...