Aljazeera says the Taliban has captured the key city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, a day after the group claimed control over Kandahar and Herat.
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BBC News says police in Plymouth have confirmed six people – including a suspected gunman – have died in a firearms incident.
“Operation Kabul” is the Metro’s headline as it reports 600 British troops will be sent to help an estimated 4,000 UK nationals and ex-Afghan staff flee.
The Daily Mail says six people were shot dead. It notes local MPs urged residents to stay calm and that they denied the incident was terror related.
The Daily Mirror says there are fears of a high death toll and multiple injuries after the Plymouth incident, which it describes as a “city rampage”.
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Dame Cressida Dick has said: “no one is above the law” when asked about the allegations against Prince Andrew and says her team are having another look at the material.
The Guardian says Ted Lasso has changed my life. It’s about a coach of an American football college team who, improbably, is taken on as manager of an English Premier League football team.
The New Yorker says naturally, “Ted Lasso,” the picture of a Midwestern gentleman, introduces the lady first. In the opening scene of the series, Rebecca Welton gazes at a Hockney on the wall.
THR says Ted Lasso’s season one launch on Apple TV+ might have been the result of divine timing. Five months into the pandemic and an anxiety-inducing presidential election around the corner.
SALON says if magazine profiles, TV best-of lists andTwitter are to be believed, Apple’s uber-optimistic “Ted Lasso” was the beacon of light that helped just about every human being.
The Independent says Italy has been hit by a heatwave this week as the south of the country battles wildfires.
New Zealand’s much-awaited, albeit cautious, roadmap for reopening its borders has given businesses and families a taste of hope for the future
The i says an Italian tourist holidaying in Greece has described how wildfires erupted “like a bomb”, with ash raining from the sky and leaving a taste of smoke in his mouth.
The i says Afghanistan faces a spiralling humanitarian crisis as western troops withdraw and the Taliban takes control of more of the country, leading political figures have warned.
Julian Assange, has lost a high court battle to prevent the US government expanding the grounds for its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition to face charges of espionage.
The Independent says at least five people have died and 30 people are feared trapped under debris after yet another landslide struck the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh
The Independent says now that Virginia Giuffre has sued the prince, the allegations against him, which are serious, are commanding headlines again.
The Guardian says two 14-year-old boys have been arrested after a man was stabbed to death in Chingford, east London.
The i says the aunt of Virginia Giuffre has said Prince Andrew ‘messed with the wrong person’ as her niece begins a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Queen’s second-born son.
The i says Year 11 students celebrating their GCSE results and sixth form students celebrating A-level results are being offered free food from a number of restaurants chains across the UK.
The Guardian says future exam results in England should be permanently pegged to those awarded in 2020 to avoid pupils being hit by a fall in grades awarded.
The Independent says pupils across the country are set to receive their GCSE results this morning, which are expected to contain a record number of top results.
The Independent says it was only penalties, and it was close, but it might have been in some way symbolic.
The Guardian says you have to go back to the visit of West Indies to Old Trafford in 2007 for the previous time England went into a “live” home Test without either Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad.