Ex-Leicester manager Shakespeare dies

Former Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare has died at the age of 60, his family have announced.

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Did social media fan the flames of riot in Southport?

False accusations about the attacker followed a familiar pattern, the BBC's Marianna Spring finds.

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There's more than a 50-year age gap between oldest and youngest Olympic athletes competing at the Paris Games

The age of various Olympic athletes competing for medals at the Paris Games is a prime example of age being nothing but a number. 

A competitive spirit is found within those both young and old at the 2024 Olympic Games, with athletes across multiple generations vying for the gold. 

At this year's Summer Games in Paris, the youngest athlete competing is from China. 

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Zheng Haohao, 11, is a skateboarder competing in the park event. She's not only the youngest athlete at the games this year. She is also China's youngest athlete to ever compete in the Olympic Games, according to The Independent. 

The young skateboarder only started taking up an interest in the sport four years ago and started competing in global events last year. She is now competing in front of the world at the 2024 Olympic Games. 

"Competition to me is just to get together with my good friends," Zheng said in an interview with CCTV, according to Reuters. "I know over 10 of the world's top 20 skateboarders.

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"It's like we are playing a fun game. Everyone has to show the best they've got." 

Historically, the youngest athlete to compete in the Summer Olympics was Dimitrios Loundras, a male athlete from Greece, according to NBC. 

He was 10 when he won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the 1896 Athens Olympics. 

The youngest female to ever compete was 11-year-old Luigina Giavotti, who competed on the Italian gymnastics team during the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, according to the outlet. 

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The oldest athlete competing this year is over 50 years older than Haohao. Equestrian Juan Antonio Jiménez of Spain, who is 65, is going for a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 

Jiménez is competing in his third Olympic Games. His debut was in 2000 during the Sydney Games. 

In 2004, he won a silver medal in Athens. 

There is an equestrian even older than Jiménez who is at the Olympic Games this year, but she will likely not be competing. 

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Mary Hanna, a 69-year-old from Australia is an AP athlete, or a non-competing athlete, meaning she will step in if another athlete is to injured or unable to compete for any reason. 

On July 11, Hanna posted a video of herself training with her horse on Instagram, sharing her excitement about making an Olympic appearance for the seventh time. 

"Getting excited now," Hanna wrote. "We are ready for whatever unfolds. Training hard for Paris Olympics. So looking forward to supporting our team." 

The oldest athlete ever to compete in the Summer Olympics was Oscar Swahn, who was nearly 73 when he competed in shooting during the 1920 Antwerp Games, according to NBC. He qualified for the 1924 Olympics in Paris when he was 76 but did not compete in those games. 

The oldest female to ever compete was Lorna Johnstone if Great Britain, who competed both in team and individual equestrian events during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. 

The youngest athlete competing on behalf of the United States this year is gymnast Hezly Rivera, who is 16. This is Rivera's first Olympics. 

The oldest Team USA athlete at the 2024 Paris Olympics is 59-year-old equestrian Steffen Peters. Peters is returning for his sixth Olympics with three medals already under his belt. 

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Lobster dinner for King Charles cost France €450,000

The country's audit office has warned that "significant efforts" are needed to restore financial balance after an increase in spending.

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Rachel Reeves's spending audit at-a-glance

The chancellor has accused the Tories of hiding a £22bn overspend, as she lays out spending cuts.

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Buttigieg faces grilling on Harris’ immigration record: ‘Let’s get real’

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg defended the Biden-Harris administration's handling of illegal immigration in a heated back-and-forth with Fox News' Shannon Bream on Sunday.

Buttigieg appeared in his personal capacity as a special guest on "Fox News Sunday" and attempted to deflect criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris and Democrats have attempted to flip the script on her 2021 mission to address border issues, a mission that led to the media widely calling her "border czar" at the time. 

"Let's be very clear about this because there has been a lot of mischaracterization. She was not in charge of the border. The Homeland Security Department is in charge of the border. She did do something important, though. She was assigned to conduct diplomacy with Central American countries, knowing that that's part of the bigger picture of what's affecting the border. And you know what? Those Central American countries are among the few countries to see their numbers go down in terms of the source of migrants who are seen at the border," Buttigieg said.

"Not by much," Bream countered.

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Buttigieg went on to argue that President Biden had only failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform thanks to former President Trump's intervention.

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"[Biden] wanted Congress to resolve [immigration] because that would have been more durable. But when Trump came in, talked Republicans out of their own bipartisan project because he didn't want the issue to get better. Remember, the worse things are at the border, the better things get for Donald Trump. So he has a vested interest in it remaining chaotic down there," Buttigieg said.

Bream pushed back on the claim, however, saying that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other Republican lawmakers had objected to provisions Democrats slipped into the border bill.

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"Let's get real. You know why they didn't move forward," Buttigieg insisted. "They moved forward because Donald Trump swooped in and said I don't want Joe Biden to get a win."

"Many of them felt that it was a flawed piece of legislation that had too many loopholes and things they couldn't support," Bream said.

Buttigieg is one of many top Democrats who have jumped to defend Harris on her immigration policy since her rapid ascension as the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2024.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., accused Republicans of "making up" the title of "border czar." His comments came just before six members of his House Democratic Caucus voted to criticize her handling of the migrant crisis.

"We have a single legislative item that is on the floor today… it’s a fake and fraudulent resolution cooked up, I think, by one of the representatives from New York – continues to embarrass herself regularly – that lies about the vice president," Jeffries told reporters at his weekly press conference.

"She was never assigned the position of border czar. They're making that up, because the extreme MAGA Republicans are in full meltdown," he added.

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Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the writer whose novels created scandal and were banned

Edna O'Brien will always be known as the controversial Irish novelist who scandalised Catholic Ireland.

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Canadian women's soccer team penalized in Olympics for drone spying scandal

The Canadian women’s soccer team was dealt a heavy blow Saturday after FIFA announced the women's national team would be deducted six points from the standings in the Paris Olympics after staffers were caught using drones to spy on New Zealand during closed-door training sessions.

Following its investigation, the FIFA Appeal Committee announced the Canadian Soccer Association was responsible for failing to ensure its staff members were in compliance with Olympic rules. 

"CSA was found responsible for failing to respect the applicable FIFA regulations in connection with its failure to ensure the compliance of its participating officials of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad Paris 2024 Final Competition (OFT) with the prohibition on flying drones over any training sites," the statement said. 

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"The officials were each found responsible for offensive behavior and violation of the principles of fair play in connection with the CSA’s Women’s representative team’s drones usage in the scope of the OFT." 

​​Head coach Bev Priestman was removed from her position Thursday night after two staff members were sent home from Paris when an investigation found that analyst Joseph Lombardi had allegedly used a drone to spy on New Zealand's practice sessions. 

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The revelation that there may have been previous unethical recordings of opponents comes amid Canada’s pursuit of a title defense in the Olympics. The women’s team won gold in Tokyo and won its first match against New Zealand Thursday before Priestman’s dismissal. 

FIFA said Saturday that Priestman, Lombardi and assistant coach Jasmine Mander were banned "from taking part in any football-related activity for a period of one year." Canada Soccer was also fined $226,000. 

Canada Soccer can appeal the decision before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The points deduction, if upheld by the CAS judges, does not eliminate Canada from the tournament, but it could mean the team must win all three games in Group A to advance with three points, likely as a runner-up in the standings.

Canada's next match is Sunday against France. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Thousands join Tommy Robinson march in London

Police said a major operation was in place to "keep the peace" between protesters and counter-protesters.

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Assisted dying bill introduced in Parliament

Former Justice Secretary Lord Falconer's bill would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives.

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Trump quickly moves to define Harris as 'more left than Bernie Sanders'

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In his first campaign event since the presidential race was upended, former President Trump didn't waste any time in trying to define his new opponent.

At a rally in the crucial battleground state of North Carolina, the Republican presidential nominee repeatedly took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he derogatorily called "lying Kamala Harris."

Harris has succeeded her boss, President Biden, as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee after Biden - in a blockbuster announcement on Sunday - dropped his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president.

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The embattled president's immediate backing of Harris ignited a surge of endorsements of Harris by Democratic governors, senators, House members and other party leaders. By Monday night, the vice president announced that she had locked up her party's nomination by landing the backing of a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month's Democratic National Convention. She also hauled in a staggering $129 million since Biden's announcement, her campaign touted on Thursday morning.

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Trump, speaking to a packed arena in Charlotte, aimed to paint Harris as the "most incompetent and far-left vice president in American history."

He charged  that she "has been the ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe. She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country if she ever gets the chance to get into office." 

And pointing to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the far-left champion and two-time runner up for the Democratic presidential nomination, Trump argued that Harris is "more liberal than Bernie Sanders. Can you believe it?"

Throughout his more than hour and a half stream of comments, Trump repeatedly slammed the vice president over border security and crime, two top issues in the 2024 election.

The strategy by Trump, his campaign, and allied groups, is simple: Define Harris, who is not nearly as well known to Americans as Trump and Biden, before Harris has the chance to define herself.

Trump campaign spokesman and senior adviser Steven Cheung said that the former president's team was ready to go on offense the moment Harris succeeded Biden as the Democrat's standard-bearer.

"There wasn’t any surprise. We were prepared for it. We had all our assets ready. We had all our content ready. It didn’t surprise anyone," Cheung told reporters ahead of the Trump rally.

Longtime Republican consultant David Kochel emphasized that both the Trump and Harris campaigns are "in a race to define" the vice president and that most Americans "know so little about her record … It’s go time for both sides."

Kochel, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns who remained neutral in the 2024 Republican primary, noted to Fox News that "Trump’s got a big megaphone."

He offered that Trump's slights are "not without merit," as he noted that Harris "did run to the left of Biden" in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination race and that "she had one of the most liberal records in the Senate when she was there."

Harris is pointing to her hefty law enforcement resume as she spotlights Trump's numerous legal controversies, including his 34 felony convictions two months ago in the first criminal trial of a former or current president.

"As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as a United States senator, I was the elected attorney general of California. Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds," Harris said Monday at an event at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

"Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type," she emphasized as she pointed to Trump's multiple lawsuits and criminal cases, many of which are ongoing.

Harris repeated the line of attack the next day at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Trump responded at Wednesday's rally, saying "I don’t think people are going to buy it." And he argued that the vice president "was one of the worst prosecutors in history" and that "she destroyed San Francisco."

The former president touted his support for law enforcement and landed the backing of the National Association of Police Organizations, as the group's president, Michael McHale, joined Trump on the podium to formally endorse the GOP nominee.

The Harris campaign panned Trump's performance, with spokesman Ammar Moussa calling it "an unhinged, weird and rambling speech" and arguing that "the American people won’t be fooled or distracted" by Trump's salvos.

The jabs by Trump come as Harris is in the process of taking full control of the Biden campaign, cementing her nomination, which will formally come as early as next week during a virtual roll call ahead of the Democratic convention, and choosing a running mate by early next month.

While Harris is enjoying plenty of earned media during this seemingly honeymoon phase of her fledgling campaign, when it comes to paid media, the Trump campaign and its aligned groups currently have a massive advantage.

Trump's air superiority will likely be short-lived, as the Harris campaign appears to be working to produce and air spots as soon as possible.

"She needs to be on the air with some pretty compelling bio stuff," Kochel emphasized.

Ahead of the rally, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said that even though Trump is now facing a new opponent at the top of the Democrats' ticket, the GOP's strategy "does not change … at all."

"We have been running our race, and we are going to continue to run our race," Whatley, a former North Carolina GOP chair whom Trump installed as RNC chair in March after clinching the Republican nomination, emphasized in a Fox News interview.

Whatley, speaking at the rally site at Charlotte's Bojangles Coliseum, noted that Trump and the RNC will relentlessly tie Harris to Biden's policies on border security, fighting inflation, crime and other top issues in the 2024 election.

"The Democrats not only have a messenger problem, they have a message problem. And Kamala Harris is doubling down on every single one of Joe Biden's failed policies. It's the Biden-Harris administration, the Biden-Harris campaign. And she is picking up that mantle," Whatley argued.

Fox News Mark Meredith and Jennifer Johnson contributed to this story.

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North Korea hackers trying to steal nuclear secrets, UK warns

A hacking group known as Andariel has been seeking information in a range of areas - from uranium enrichment to tanks, submarines and torpedoes.

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Frantic digging at scene of deadly Ethiopia landslides

Families dig with their bare hands for loved ones buried under the mud of landslides.

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The Charlotte Dujardin case explained

BBC Sport recaps why Charlotte Dujardin is out of the Olympics, what happened and what it means for equestrian.

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Eluned Morgan hopes to 'turn new page' for Welsh Labour

The first female leader of Wales says she will "go out and listen to what the people want".

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