A selection of this year’s OpenWalls Arles winners, which will go on display at the prestigious French festival of photography Les Rencontres d’Arles this summer.⁠ ⁠ OpenWalls Arles is an international photography award run by the digital media organisation 1854 and the British Journal of Photography. It offers a unique opportunity for both emerging and established photographers to be exhibited alongside Les Rencontres d’Arles — the photography industry’s most prestigious annual event, which opens this year on July 3.⁠ ⁠ 📸 Frederic Aranda⁠ 📸 Curtis Hughes⁠ 📸 Seunggu Kim⁠ 📸 Carina Lammers⁠ 📸 Selene Magnolia⁠ 📸 Organisation 1854 and the British Journal of Photography ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in the bio to read the full story

Interbreeding between Homo sapiens and our Neanderthal cousins more than 40,000 years ago helps to explain why millions of Britons have a condition that prevents them from straightening their fingers, a study has shown.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story⁠ ⁠ 📸 ALAMY⁠ 📸 HUGO ZEBERG/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION⁠ 📸 STEPHANE CARDINALE/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES

Have you ever wanted to see inside the mind of Donald Trump? Given his chances of becoming president again, now might be a good time to take a look.⁠ ⁠ It used to be so in-your-face. When he was in office, Trump would take out his phone, rattle off a string of tweets, and the free world would see what its leader was thinking, all the time.⁠ ⁠ At one point towards the end of his presidency, Trump was firing off tweets at a rate of about 1,000 a month. Including retweets, there were times when he was posting more than a hundred times a day.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story⁠ ⁠ #trump #donaldtrump #truthsocial #2024election

As a mother of three is sent to prison after taking abortion pills at 32 to 34 weeks pregnant, Polly Vernon reflects on the questions we have to face⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story ⁠ ⁠ 📸 Dan Kennedy for The Times Magazine⁠

With the Ashes starting this week, Owen Slot looks back on Ben Stokes's heroics as he guided England to an unlikely victory at Headingley in the third Test of the 2019 series. Team-mates, opponents and the man himself recall the events of that innings with the help of interactive graphics. 🔗 Read the article via the link in our bio.

The residents of Ilkeston Road, a built-up and busy student area of Nottingham, were used to the raucous night-time sounds of drunken revellers and police sirens. But the scream that cut through the heavy summer air in the early hours on Tuesday was clearly more sinister.⁠ ⁠ Two university students, set upon and stabbed as they returned to their digs after a night out, were the first victims of a 90-minute rampage that resulted in a third killing elsewhere, three more people injured in a vehicle ramming attack, and a city in shock.⁠ ⁠ A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and Nottinghamshire police are not looking for any other suspects. While counterterrorism officers have been deployed to help local police, the force says it is “keeping an open mind” about the motivation behind the attacks.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click here to read more

State funeral held for Silvio Berlusconi in Milan⁠ ⁠ Italy's longest-serving premier who led four governments across three spells as prime minister - died on Monday aged 86.⁠ ⁠ His state funeral is being held in the city's grand cathedral and will be led by the Archbishop of Milan as Italy holds a national day of mourning.⁠ ⁠ 📸 REUTERS/Claudia Greco⁠ 📸 REUTERS/Claudia Greco⁠ 📸 REUTERS/Claudia Greco⁠ 📸 REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane⁠ 📸 GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty

Cormac McCarthy, the American writer best known for books including No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian, has died aged 89.⁠ ⁠ McCarthy, considered one of the greatest American novelists of the past century, died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to his publisher Alfred A Knopf.⁠ ⁠ The writer shunned the literary celebrity that his talent could easily have brought, granting few interviews over his decades-long career.⁠ ⁠ To mark the 2006 release of The Road, a bleak, Pulitzer prizewinning book set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, he spoke with Oprah Winfrey and said he did not care how many people read the novel. “You would like for the people that would appreciate the book to read it,” he said. “But, as far as many, many people reading it — so what?”⁠ ⁠ To read the full obituary, hit the link in our bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 - PULITZER PRIZE BOARD/AP⁠

Brilliant and bankable, Jodie Comer, who has just won a Tony award for a performance that blew Dominic Maxwell away, is now a global force 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story 📸 JOHN SHEARER/WIREIMAGE 📸 HELEN MURRAY/THE PRESS ROOM/AP

Sweden players were told to “show their genitalia” to team medical staff to prove that they were female during the 2011 Women’s World Cup, the team’s former captain Nilla Fischer has revealed⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read more⁠ ⁠ 📸 MIKE HEWITT/FIFA/GETTY IMAGES⁠ 📸 Getty Images⁠ 📸 REUTERS/ALEX DOMANSKI

“Are we having it?” Erling Haaland asked Jack Grealish as they crawled up Deansgate on their open-top bus. The answer was very much in the affirmative. As if to prove that point, Haaland immediately poured champagne over Grealish’s head, soaking the playmaker’s locks. Not even a thunderstorm could dampen the spirits of the Manchester City squad as their Treble celebrations stretched into a third day. 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story 📸 MCPIX/SHUTTERSTOCK 📸 DANNY LAWSON/PA 📸 TOM FLATHERS/GETTY IMAGES 📸 MOLLY DARLINGTON/REUTERS 📸 MOLLY DARLINGTON/REUTERS 📸 TOM FLATHERES/GETTY IMAGES 📸 TOM FLATHERS/MANCHESTER CITY/GETTY IMAGES

🔺EXCLUSIVE: Investigators who scrutinised top-secret United States intelligence believe the Covid 19 pandemic was the result of a leak from the Wuhan laboratory⁠ ⁠ Click the link in our bio to read the full article 🔗