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What is a deep plane facelift? Nipping into the buzzy cosmetic procedure

18 hours ago | theguardian.com | Madeleine Aggeler

For decades, the Kardashian-Jenner clan have pushed the boundaries of onerous beauty standards. Recently, the group’s matriarch, Kris Jenner, set the internet aflutter when she emerged at Lauren Sánchez’s Paris bachelorette party in May looking … different. Outlets including People, USA Today and Vogue posted urgent bulletins about the almost-septuagenarian’s smooth, taut face. “The 69-year-old ...]has recently been mistaken by fans for her supermodel daughter, Kendall Jenner, 29,” wrote Page Six.
Squid Game final season review – an ending so WTF it entirely beggars belief | Squid Game | The Guardian

20 hours ago | theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson

After a wild new player is forced to join the game without consent, the action gets even more operatic and bloodthirsty. But if you can get on board with the twists – and that’s a big if – you will not believe what happens in the last minute
Suspend UK from oil oversight body over protests crackdown, say campaign groups

21 hours ago | theguardian.com | Matthew Taylor

A coalition of civil society groups is calling for the UK government to be suspended from a key global body that oversees how oil and gas companies are run. The campaigners say Keir Starmer’s Labour party has overseen a “fossil-fuel sponsored crackdown” on peaceful protest and direct action in the UK since it came to power last year.
TV tonight: Noel Edmonds is pushed to the limit as New Zealand gets a soaking

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Ali Catterall |Graeme Virtue |Alexi Duggins

Noel Edmonds’ Kiwi Adventure9pm, ITV1“I think I might have found my paradise,” says Noel Edmonds, gazing out across the majestic New Zealand landscape as this barmy series continues. In truth, this is an episode that pushes Noel’s Zen calmness to the limit. Rain has kept visitors away from the bar-restaurant and a sharp frost could destroy the vineyard. It’s a good job he has his voluminous collection of motivational catchphrases (“When it rains, look for the rainbows”) to make sense of it all.
People dying early of cancer costs UK economy £10.3bn a year, study finds

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Denis Campbell

People dying early of cancer costs the UK economy £10.3bn a year, more than any other health condition, a study has revealed. That is the total cost of the 350,000 years of lost productivity recorded across Britain every year because adults have died prematurely of the disease, according to Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
A rising proportion of Australian students aren’t going to school - and there’s not just one way to get them back, report says

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy

A new report has urged the federal government to collect national data on chronic absenteeism and embed layers of support in schools to tackle Australia’s growing student attendance crisis. The report, provided exclusively to Guardian Australia by Independent Schools Australia (ISA), drew from interviews with academics, mental health clinicians and teachers. It called on the government to implement a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to better support children struggling to stay in school.
What would you do with a scarily lifelike doll of your own mother? This is what a seven-year-old did

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Ariela Bard

In one photograph taken by the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska, her seven-year-old daughter Francziska stands on the weedy banks of the Liwiec River, dressed in a purple swimsuit and denim shorts. Francziska has her face turned towards the boggy water; beside her, sitting inside a wheelbarrow, is her mother’s torso. In the next ambiguous image, Francziska holds her mother’s head underwater. In the another, the two float, Ophelia-like, side by side.
Ministers refuse to name companies that lobbied them over foreign ownership of UK newspapers

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Michael Savage

Ministers are refusing to name the media companies that lobbied them over laws restricting foreign state ownership of British newspapers, the Guardian can reveal. The government announced last month it was tripling the proportion of a British newspaper that could be owned by an overseas power to 15%. The change paves the way for the Telegraph to be bought by a consortium including an investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates.
First Thing: Trump officials cite ‘new intelligence’ to back president’s claims of successful Iran strikes

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Clea Skopeliti

Good morning. The Trump administration has ramped up its defense of the US strikes on Iran at the weekend, saying new intelligence supports its initial claim of total success – despite a leaked intelligence report that found the development of Tehran’s nuclear program had been delayed by only a few months. Donald Trump appeared to back away from his previous admission of doubts over the scale and severity of the damage inflicted by the US strikes, having called the intelligence “inconclusive”.
Women’s Euro 2025 team guides: Spain

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Amalia Fra

This article is part of the Guardian’sEuro 2025 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 16 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from two teams each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 2 July. OverviewSpain are in exceptional form, with a settled squad and only a few lingering doubts.