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Charley Hull, who finished five behind the second-round leader Ryu Hae-ran, said her caddie was unfazed by her £100,000 scratchcard joke
Charley Hull doubles down on caddie prank after strong start to Women’s Openwww.theguardian.comYou could say we’re in a polycrisis
What does protest look like in 2026? | Fiona Katauskaswww.theguardian.comThe double assassination of two Scots in the Costa del Sol may have ended the war between the Lyons and the Daniels – but the crimes haven’t gone away
The final hit: Is Glasgow’s 25-year gruesome gangland feud finally over?www.theguardian.comChancellor will have to find money for Burnham’s policies while sticking to fiscal rules as borrowing costs rise
Healey sets budget for late October, promising to ‘spread money and power’ around UKwww.theguardian.comGreek police throw entire homicide division at trying to explain fate of 38-year-old Elizabeth-Jane Ross
‘Who could have done this?’ Mystery over Briton found dead in a suitcase in Athenswww.theguardian.comTwo members given ‘stern warnings’ after concert and barred from returning, with band also excluded from performing in Singapore again, say authorities
Singapore bans Massive Attack for showing Palestinian flag, breaching ban on foreign emblemswww.theguardian.comUK prime minister is the first head of a major nation to call on the under-pressure Fifa president to step down
Andy Burnham calls on Infantino to resign over ‘outrageous’ World Cup planswww.theguardian.comEmerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurels
Uefa has formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future | Nick Ames and Matt Hugheswww.theguardian.comRob Key has opened the door for Ben Stokes to return to England’s Test team a month after the former captain’s shock international retirement
Key keeping England door open for Stokes: ‘Anything’s possible with Ben’www.theguardian.comEngland and Wales’s prisons are overcrowded, drug-infested and barbaric. Labour has halted a once-in-a-generation effort to change that sorry state, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Will Burnham fix our barbaric prisons – or cave to rightwing populism? The answer is a tragedy | Simon Jenkinswww.theguardian.comThe former tennis No 1 on the current dearth of top Australian players, the excitement surrounding Cruz Hewitt, and a newfound love of padel
Pat Rafter: ‘Why aren’t we producing players like Spain? I don’t know’www.theguardian.comMore than 80 loved ones spoke of horrors of learning about Robert Bush’s crimes, including mother of a miscarried baby
Hull funeral director who left bodies to rot in mortuary jailed for 20 yearswww.theguardian.comThe turnout was recorded as the lowest on record for a mayoral role in the region
Wait goes on for result in Greater Manchester mayoral by-election – as it happenedwww.theguardian.comThe handcrafted leather boots are a century-old tradition – but with money tight, the cost of up to $800 is harder to justify
These boots are the safest for US wildland firefighters. Fewer and fewer can afford themwww.theguardian.comUnder Özgür Özel, the CHP became Turkey’s most popular party. Now his Yeni (New) movement is growing fast, says the Istanbul-based novelist Kaya Genç
After teargas, protests and legal strife, Turkey has a new opposition party. Is this the man who can defeat Erdoğan? | Kaya Gençwww.theguardian.comLondon-based company to sell local loan portfolio to Blackstone but will continue private and institutional banking services
HSBC to close all branches and pull out of Australian retail banking marketwww.theguardian.comCalifornia governor and wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, release 2022-2024 filings amid Trump investigation
Gavin Newsom reveals personal income of $1.7m-$2m in tax return releasewww.theguardian.comUS president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’
Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missileswww.theguardian.comData by one test-maker shows a positivity drop, but rate could be influenced by number of people taking test
Is the cyclosporiasis outbreak slowing? Test-makers are hopefulwww.theguardian.comFederal government plan outlines cuts to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary
Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado river crisiswww.theguardian.com