Overal in prehistorisch Europa gaat de komst van de landbouw gepaard met grote genetische veranderingen in de bevolking. Maar niet in een drassig gebied aan de Noordzee.

• Power management regulations will be hard to explain

• Hamilton: ‘You need a degree to fully understand it all’

Lewis Hamilton has issued a striking warning that fans may struggle to understand Formula One’s new regulations for the 2026 season, branding them “ridiculously complex” after having spun while testing his new Ferrari in Bahrain.

Hamilton was speaking at the second pre-season test where the teams are coming to terms with cars and engines that have been subject to what amounts to the biggest single shake-up in the sport’s history, and specifically to how drivers are expected to manage the power of their engines which are now defined by a near 50-50 split between combustion and electrical power.

Actor’s comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts

Kristin Scott Thomas has accused male theatre critics of failing to understand plays written by women and about women.

Citing her monologue on menstruation in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, she said the speech had “ripped through the internet”, proving the appetite for female stories told on their own terms.

Hold My Hand focuses exclusively on signers – who can be refreshingly blunt and extremely revealing. Heroda and Hermon Berhane, the deaf identical twin presenters, say it reveals their community in a way never seen before

It may not be the first TV programme to describe itself as being “more than just a dating show”, but Hold My Hand is undoubtedly the first to focus exclusively on British Sign Language.

“We’ve been waiting to get a show of our own for such a long time,” says Heroda Berhane, one half of the deaf identical twin presenting duo, Hermon and Heroda. “People have never seen our culture, our identity, the way we discuss the things. So it’s a dating show, yes, but it’s not just about dating; it’s also revealing our identity and our culture, and that has never been seen before.”

It’s not virtue signaling. It’s vitriol signaling about their own perceived persecution

Can someone explain to me why Megyn Kelly is so angry? In an interview with Piers Morgan, the political commentator began ranting so hard about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show that I was starting to worry about her health.

“I’m sorry Piers. To get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America!” she roared. “We don’t need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performing performer, and we don’t need an ICE- or America-hater featured as our primetime entertainment.”

Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist

The pedal is pressed hard to the metal for this very stylish high-stakes armed robbery thriller starring Chris Hemsworth

Bart Layton is the British film-maker who previously gave us American Animals, a true-crime docudrama about the theft of rare books. That film’s title would also have applied perfectly well to this new one, an LA crime thriller adapted from a novella by Don Winslow. It is a little in the style of Michael Mann, though without the military hardware and the overhead shots of SUVs moving in swift convoy that would make it a full Mann homage.

Layton does without the distinctive indirect mannerisms and meta-commentaries of his earlier movies, but he applies his pedal to the metal for what is an enjoyable and very stylish high-stakes armed robbery film about a thief who is highly controlled, super-cool, super-groomed, and naturally looking for the “walkaway money” of the time-honoured one last job.

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Switch 2; Tarsier Studios
Childhood terrors come to wretched life in a grim fairytale of a puzzle-platformer that’s as beautifully macabre as it is hard to put down

“I thought you were dead,” are the first words you’ll hear from the child protagonists of this horror puzzle-platformer. It’s your first sign that things were going badly long before you got here. Exploring dark waves and desolated urban environments in a rowboat, they’re on a search for their lost friends across a world of rabid, malformed entities. As the children struggle with their outsize fears, so will you, but you’ve at least got the option to play co-op if you want someone on the couch to brave the horrors with.

In the early 2000s, irreverent gaming blog Old Man Murray pioneered the “crate review system”. The rubric was simple: the sooner the player encountered their first wooden cube of heinous mediocrity, the more uninspired the game. Updating this method for 2026, we’ve got a few new contenders: how soon before you shimmy slowly through a gap, boost a companion over a high ledge so they can pull you up or tediously rotate some mechanism with the analogue stick? Reanimal pulls out all these hits within the first 20 minutes and, by the time the credits roll, six hours in, it feels as if developer Tarsier has wrung the final drops of interactive novelty from its formula of light exploration puzzles, tense but simple stealth and ghastly chases. And yet this grim fairytale is still difficult to put down.

• Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda unlikely to be ready in time

• Women’s edition fear of hosts’ Morocco withdrawal

Next year’s Africa Cup of Nations could be postponed until 2028 owing to doubts over the readiness of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to host the tournament, in a move that would lead the Confederation of African Football to scrap one edition of its showpiece competition.

The Guardian understands that Caf’s executive committee will discuss the proposal when it meets in Dar es Salaam on Friday, with Morocco’s expected withdrawal as hosts for next month’s Women’s Afcon also high on the agenda.

No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now

Microsoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them.…

OTTAWA (ANP) - In Canada is geschokt gereageerd op een dodelijke schietpartij op een school. Vlaggen bij overheidsgebouwen hangen komende week halfstok, meldde een geëmotioneerde premier Mark Carney volgens omroep CBC.

Carney sprak over een zware dag voor zijn land. "Vanochtend zullen ouders, grootouders, zussen en broers in Tumbler Ridge wakker worden zonder iemand van wie ze houden."

In die plaats vielen zes doden in een school en overleed een zevende persoon onderweg naar het ziekenhuis. Ook zijn twee lichamen gevonden in een woning.

Steun namens wereldleiders

Zeker 25 personen raakten gewond. De vermeende dader zou zichzelf van het leven hebben beroofd.

De premier bedankte wereldleiders die steun hebben uitgesproken. Er zou onder meer contact zijn geweest met koning Charles, die ook het staatshoofd is van Canada.

SEVENUM (ANP) - Het Limburgse provinciebestuur wil een lening van 20 miljoen euro verstrekken aan attractiepark Toverland in Sevenum. Het pretpark in Noord-Limburg wil de komende jaren uitbreiden, onder meer met een resort en nieuwe attracties. Toverland wil in totaal circa 98 miljoen euro besteden, waarvan 78 miljoen al geregeld is. Het restant krijgt het attractiepark niet via de markt gefinancierd, stelt Limburg.

Toverland wil met de lening van de provincie een nieuw kantoor en een werkplaats voor onderhoud bouwen. Het lukt het park niet dat via partijen als banken te financieren, omdat die faciliteiten op papier niet bijdragen aan het verdienvermogen.

Volgens Limburg kan de uitbreiding van Toverland bijdragen aan de regionale economie en werkgelegenheid. Het idee is dat het park door de uitbreiding het hele jaar meer bezoekers uit binnen- en buitenland kan trekken die langer kunnen blijven en meer besteden.