US elections 2024Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips says he’s running ‘to ensure that we do not torpedo the entire country’ by re-electing Trump The Democratic congressman Dean Phillips, who is challenging the incumbent president, Joe Biden, will keep running his long-shot bid for the White House through the summer after he’s had more time to introduce himself to voters across the US. Scranton stands by native son Biden but even here enthusiasm is elusiveRead morePhillips initially planned to run in a few states for his party’s presidential nomination, focusing especially on the crucial early-voting state of New Hampshire, which was seen as a trial balloon for his candidacy.

Ask HadleyFashionGwyneth has made a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina for her website, Goop. And, of course, it has sold out I hear that I can now buy a candle that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina. What? Hilary, by email Truly, has any vagina ever been as fruitful as Gwyneth Paltrow’s? It has birthed discussions of vaginal steaming, vaginal jade eggs, $15,000 dildos, something called “sex dust” and a photo of Gwyneth standing in a giant vagina to advertise some inevitable Netflix documentary/reality TV series crossover.

Crime This article is more than 4 years oldAyoub Majdouline jailed for murder of 14-year-old Jaden MoodieThis article is more than 4 years oldNineteen-year-old imprisoned for life with minimum term of 21 years A teenager has been sentenced to life imprisonment for being part of a gang who hunted down and stabbed 14-year-old Jaden Moodie in in an attack linked to a drug feud. Ayoub Majdouline, 19, was one of five gang members who went on a “killing” mission into a rival gang’s territory in Leyton, east London, in January this year.

Participants take part in the 13th Gay Pride in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockParticipants take part in the 13th Gay Pride in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockLGBTQ+ rightsThe official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the fear of being persecuted

Greece This article is more than 1 month oldGreece to legalise papers for thousands of migrants to counter labour shortageThis article is more than 1 month oldLegislation comes at a time when anti-immigrant sentiment is fuelling far-right support across Europe Thousands of migrants are to have their papers legalised in Greece as part of efforts to curb an acute labour shortage that is hitting key sectors of an otherwise resurgent economy.