The former supreme leader was killed at the start of the US-Israel conflict with Iran in February

Iranians poured in vast numbers on to the central thoroughfare of Tehran on the fourth day of mourning for the assassinated former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, claiming their defiance through months of on-off war had only made them stronger as many called for revenge.

For those in the procession on Monday, it was as much a display of patriotism as mourning: a demonstration that Iran, as an ancient civilisation, had uniquely taken on the world’s greatest superpower and survived. “We the people are Iran’s true missiles,” one banner read.

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Ståle Solbakken’s side have played with smiles on their faces – and none more so than the talismanic striker

Erling Haaland saves his best content for Snapchat. Norway’s No 9, fresh off another decisive double to dispatch Brazil from the World Cup, posted clips overnight of what looked like a party on the team bus. Haaland was delirious, staggering around in the aisle, singing along to a largely forgotten summer tune by a French DJ called Kungs. “We are never going home,” runs the chorus.

Norway will go home at some point, maybe even on Saturday when they play England in a World Cup quarter-final in Miami. But there can be no doubt that the country, the team, the supporters and their superstar have been making the most of their time in the US. From the longboat rowing ceremony, to the accumulation of cowboy gear (T-shirt: “Y’all can kiss my Dallas”), to Haaland’s performative taking-it-all-in pose – hands on hips, eyes raised to the horizon, bemused smile – they’ve been loving every minute of it.

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Year-long mandate for action prompts fears of fresh disruption after resident doctors recently ended dispute

Consultant doctors in England have voted for strikes over the next 12 months in pursuit of higher pay and a shorter working week, prompting fears of renewed disruption in the NHS.

Consultants, who earn an average of £152,000, want ministers to agree a multi-year pay deal to address what they say is the 25% fall in the value of their salaries since 2008-09.

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Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen from about an hour to 35 minutes. Axios reports: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social Century" in the Atlantic last year. We're all on our smartphones, often interacting through screens instead of face to face -- even though social media is no substitute for spending time together in person.

Teens, in particular, spend an average of 4.8 hours a day on apps like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, according to Gallup. The shift to remote work -- and life -- during the pandemic has persisted, keeping more of us homebound. Longer-term trends are reshaping daily life in ways that make isolation easier. Homes are bigger and more comfortable, with larger TVs. Virtually every restaurant is on a food delivery app, making it easier than ever to stay in.

Also contributing to the trend is the decline of gathering spaces, Axios' Avery Lotz writes. A 2025 report from CU Boulder researchers uncovered widespread closures of all kinds of hangout spots -- from libraries to coffee shops to museums -- in the last decade or so. Churches are also shuttering at unprecedented rates, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.

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You’re too late! Monday was the last day to score your own free CD of your GitHub repository, which the Microsoft-owned subsidiary offered to mail to the first 1,000 people who asked. But as of noon eastern time, that offer has been withdrawn (if it was ever genuine) after sparking confusion and ridicule. Last Thursday, GitHub issued a short notice on X extending an offer: In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. Order yours today. What “recent developments” the company referred to is anyone’s guess, though it implied that it came about as some sort of public pressure: “We heard you. And we agree,” the X missive began. (“No one fucking asked for this” one commenter retorted). Many media outlets, including Tom’s Hardware and Destructoid, speculated that GitHub’s offer was actually a jab at Sony for discontinuing optical media for its PlayStation consoles in 2028. GitHub was not alone in its mockery of the Sony announcement. Nintendo and other companies responded. Even the Spanish arm of the KFC fast food chain took aim at Sony on social media, mockingly announcing it would no longer offer its “physical format” (“ÚLTIMA HORA: KFC dejará de ofrecer su formato físico a partir de hoy.”). But the GitHub joke came with an action item, and that’s where the trouble started. The original GitHub message included a link to a Microsoft form (gh.io/cd) where one could provide details as to where to send their CD. The form stated that it would accept applications for the first 1,000 people who applied, until July 6. It asked for a GitHub user name, repo URL, and the requester’s shipping address and phone number. The form was taken offline as of press time, though the tweet (or X post) remains intact. GitHub did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Pity the poor intern If the offer is indeed a troll on the part of GitHub and Microsoft, it is indeed an odd one, and not just because fulfilling the requests would involve a lot of work on the part of GitHub’s mail room and the troll-master’s minions who would presumably be responsible for burning all those CDs. Does anyone at GitHub even have a CD burner? That was one of the questions we wanted to ask Github. And GitHub/Microsoft best be careful about throwing disks around. However controversial its decision, Sony does have the velocity of technology development behind its decision. “This transition will enable us to align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today,” read a Sony statement. Today, about 85% of all games sold are downloads, Sony has reported in its financials. Shooting fish in a barrel The original announcement quickly got ratioed, as the kids are wont to say, by mockery of GitHub’s many recent outages. “They have to ship you CDs because the website is barely up,” one commenter wrote. “Why we need github when you can run remote repo on CD” another piped in. Also, the CD format is an oddly archaic format to base a protest from, especially coming from a parent company that got its start distributing OSes by floppy discs. Moreover, there are plenty of open source projects whose repos could easily overfill the 700 MB limit of a burnable CD. One, for instance, is Google Chrome repo, which open source developer Dmitriy Kovalenko said he requested a copy of. “Let’s see how they ship 66G repo on a CD,” he wrote on X. Far more problematic is that GitHub also faces the very real danger that users – those still with disc readers – would actually find such an artifact genuinely useful. “Stop taunting people for desiring physical media that they control” someone else commented. ®

If you are anything like me, your soul let out a big “oooooof” while reading this: The Year Is 2063 and You Were Never Interesting.

But wait. You are 70 years old. You’re sitting in your home. Your grandchildren ask you what your 20s were like, and you honestly can’t tell them. You have no heirlooms; Temu doesn’t last. You never moved to Paris or quit the toxic job or booked the Spanish lesson. You were too nervous to get that tattoo, never went back to school. You were too awkward to go to the nude drawing class, you never did learn how to make dumplings. Your feed was so full of people living lives so full you never stopped to consider yours.

The great love affair of your life is… this. Sitting in the dark, your nose 6 inches from the screen. You have never separated, never taken a break. It started slowly, rockily. But by 25, it had its claws in you. By 30, it fills the dead spaces in your life. And you’ve never relented. It has consumed you wholly and the math has compounded. By this age, at 7 hours a day, 15 years of your life has been a screen.

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Het zijn moeilijke jaren voor vluchters in de Tour. De derde etappe, met finish in de Pyreneeën, leek de ideale buit voor een ontsnapping. Het liep anders. Tadej Pogacar ging voor de dagzege en gele trui – en rolde de kopgroep zonder genade op.

HAVANA (ANP/AFP) - Cuba kampt weer met een landelijke stroomstoring, meldt het staatselektriciteitsbedrijf UNE. Dat is de derde keer sinds het begin van het jaar. UNE doet nog onderzoek naar de oorzaak.

Het eiland met 9,6 miljoen inwoners kent al lange tijd elektriciteitsproblemen. Deze verergerden toen de VS in januari een olieblokkade oplegden, waardoor de toch al beperkte brandstofvoorraad voor Cubaanse elektriciteitscentrales verder uitputte.

In pogingen om brandstof te besparen legt de staat steeds langere stroomonderbrekingen op. In delen van hoofdstad Havana soms meer dan 24 uur achter elkaar en in sommige plattelandsgebieden meer dan 70 uur.