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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:38 (1 week ago)

Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’

The painter, sculptor and performance artist has devoted his life to making art available to the masses. Now with a new exhibition, the centenarian discusses inequality, inspiration, and why he won’t be stopping any time soon

‘Life is short, art long,” says Ken Turner, reading from a book of aphorisms by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. And he’s half right, really, because at 100 years old – and very possibly the world’s oldest performance artist – art might have been long, but life hasn’t been all that short for him, either. And he has filled those years to the brim with radicalism, experimentalism and a singular dedication to pushing ideas as far as he can make them go.

In the 1960s, Turner moved from painting towards a socially conscious form of public art, creating giant inflatable sculptures that visitors could inhabit and interact with decades before immersive art became a thing. He was taught by Fernand Léger, he was mates with John Berger, he made frames for Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. Last year, he drove a tank over a Tesla in a performance meant as a damning indictment of corporate greed and rising fascism. His has been a life of rebellion and revolution, of obstinately following his own artistic path no matter what obstacles he encounters, no matter how much easier it would have been to walk down a more well-trodden one.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:38 (1 week ago)

Don’t like the result? Don’t worry, sport no longer ends on the field of play | Jonathan Liew

From the wrong headset in an F2 garage to Fifa overturning a red card, we are in a landscape where fairness is the enemy

A funny and very small thing happened at the Formula Two race at Spa on Sunday. Noel León, of Campos Racing, carved his way through the field to finish seventh, earning himself six points in the drivers’ championship, and promptly left the circuit to go and do whatever it is Noel León likes to do after a race. Take a nap, hit the Belgian brews, congratulate himself on his palindromic name – whatever. Anyway, while he was doing that, more than three hours after the chequered flag, the FIA governing body called a meeting and decided to disqualify him.

The reason: a serious breach of appendix 5 and article 21.5 of the F2 Sporting Regulations – and assuming you don’t have those to hand, it’s the rule governing the use of headsets. During the race, a guest of León had been spotted in the Campos garage wearing what was deemed the wrong type of headset. According to the aforementioned appendix 5, only listening devices may be used by non-team personnel. This headset had a microphone, albeit upturned and unused.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:38 (1 week ago)

Commonwealth Games: 10 things to look out for at Glasgow 2026

With the Games about to get under way, here are 10 of the most intriguing subplots to the event

Twelve years after winning his first major international title in the 100m breaststroke at Glasgow 2014, Adam Peaty, now 31, heads back to Scotland hoping to remind everyone why he is one of Britain’s greatest swimmers. Peaty has won three Olympic gold medals and dominated the event for much of the past decade, but his aura of invincibility has faded since losing his unbeaten streak in 2022 and dealing with injuries and time away from the sport. Glasgow offers an opportunity to complete the circle.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:37 (1 week ago)

‘A surprising success’: US, Mexico and Canada fans on hosting the World Cup

The joy, love, hope and fun provided by fans outweighed the commercialism, extortionate prices and ugly politics

This summer has been so vibrant and full of life. I had my doubts but, as the World Cup approached and Boston got ready to host its first game, I started feeling the excitement and enthusiasm in the air. That mainly had to do with the huge numbers of Scottish fans who arrived for their match against Haiti. They were a delight, what with their shenanigans of putting cones everywhere, walking around in kilts and carrying bagpipes, jamming with the other buskers on the streets. They were such a fun bunch. I found myself getting hooked. Seeing people from so many different countries, kitted out in their jerseys, gave you the feeling that something was happening. Friends and colleagues who don’t follow the sport were as excited as me. I attended three games and my only complaint is the extremely expensive ticket prices. The fans who came only had wonderful things to say about American hospitality – but everyone agreed that the political situation in the country is terrible. It was heartening that the visiting fans were able to separate the administration from the people living here. Moon, Boston

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:37 (1 week ago)

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop insisting we queue for hours at concerts?

Fay likes to get a good spot and watch the support acts, but Odysseus would rather rock up for the main band. Who is hitting a false note? You decide

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-23 03:00:37 (1 week ago)

If you’ve heard that London is dystopian and dangerous – read this. It just isn’t | Sadiq Khan

Britain's capital has faced social media, press and political attacks designed to make residents and tourists feel unsafe. Ignore that: we have the facts

Over the summer months, 5 million people will visit London, with its free museums and galleries, massive events featuring the biggest names in music and sport, and everything Britain’s capital city has to offer. And, as new figures released today show, they’ll be able to do so knowing London is one of the safest cities of its size in the world.

On social media, a dark blizzard of disinformation – much of it coordinated and amplified by extreme groups and hostile foreign actors – has seen bots and trolls depict London as a “lawless” city where crime goes unpunished and basic social decency has all but disappeared. But let’s deal in facts: data published by the Metropolitan police this morning shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Across the capital, there were 35,000 fewer “neighbourhood crimes” – a category which includes burglaries, thefts, robberies and vehicle crime offences – in the past 12 months than in the year before.

This has not happened by accident. As mayor I have provided a record £1.26bn in funding for the capital’s police force, more than double the amount under my predecessor. That funding has enabled it to invest in cutting-edge technology to keep pace with criminals, including ebikes and drones to pursue phone snatchers down London’s busy streets, but it has also boosted neighbourhood policing in communities across our city.

Now, we have more evidence that our approach is yielding real results. In Westminster – home to many communities and the centre of the capital’s tourism – where we’ve doubled the number of police officers and introduced a new “command cell” to lead a crackdown on phone theft and robbery, neighbourhood crime has fallen by 36%. In the West End, the beating heart of London’s visitor economy, phone thefts are down by half.

Since last year, thousands of police officers across our city have been arresting an extra 1,000 suspects every month on average. Their work has been tireless. But the figures also reflect the astonishing impact of the violence reduction unit (VRU), which I set up in 2019. When first elected mayor, I promised to be tough on crime and tough on the complex causes of crime. Through the VRU, we’ve done just that, providing interventions and positive opportunities to prevent more than half a million young people from getting caught up in a vicious cycle of violence and exploitation. And note this: since it was set up, hospital admissions of young people after knife assault, have fallen by almost 50%.

Sadiq Khan is mayor of London

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Times of India

2026-07-23 02:53:05 (1 week ago)

Florida woman arrested after hoarding 80 cats and 12 dogs in a home with no AC, a foot of faeces and horrific living conditions

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-23 02:48:45 (1 week ago)

Arkansas cop tragically dies saving fiancée's life just hours after proposing

An Arkansas police officer proposed to his fiancée hours before drowning in Elk River while rescuing her from the current during a canoeing trip with friends.

ABC News - International News

2026-07-23 02:47:58 (1 week ago)

FBI Director Patel returns looted cultural artifacts to Indonesian President Prabowo

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has received a collection of repatriated cultural artifacts from FBI Director Kash Patel during a meeting in Jakarta

Fox News - Video

2026-07-23 02:42:27 (1 week ago)

Hannity - Wednesday, July 22

FNC, trump puts iran on notice, doj gives nj notice, single-sex debate

ABC News - International News

2026-07-23 02:35:04 (1 week ago)

Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs

Times of India

2026-07-23 02:26:22 (1 week ago)

The world's largest waterfall isn't on land. It is hidden beneath the ocean, where billions of litres of water plunge every second

An immense underwater waterfall exists between Greenland and Iceland. Cold, dense seawater sinks beneath warmer Atlantic waters creating this cascade. This hidden giant plays a crucial role in ocean currents and global climate. Researchers use specialized instruments to monitor this vast, dynamic underwater system. Its flow influences heat and salt distribution across the Atlantic Ocean basin.