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• Updates from Wednesday’s live action in Glasgow
• Medal table | Day six in pictures | Mail Luke

Men’s 200m freestyle James Guy qualifies for the final with the quickest time but Scott hasn’t done enough with Tom Dean making it through depsite finishing fourth in his heat.

Men’s 200m freestyle Scott looks like he’ll miss out with heat six seeing three men, including Matt Richards of Wales and Northern Ireland’s Jack McMillan, go faster.

Scotland Yard says threshold not met for criminal action against Green leader, who has refused to apologise to his Reform rival

No further action will be taken by police after Zack Polanski shared a photo of a man with a T-shirt showing a guillotine and the phrase “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.

The Metropolitan police’s decision comes after the Green party leader for England and Wales said he had made an “inadvertent mistake” and would not apologise to Nigel Farage.

President says Washington would see if there was an agreement with Iran at some point but that ‘it’s our turn to hit them’

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Gary Peters, the Democratic ranking member on the homeland security committee, said that the committee has a long history of bipartisan inquiry and oversight, and the subject matter of risky research and the origins of covid-19 are a legitimate area to study.

But today’s hearing with Anthony Fauci was not an example of that, Peters said.

• New Zealander will succeed Brendon McCullum
• Likely to start on South Africa tour in December

Stephen Fleming is expected to be named as England’s Test coach, after impressing the England and Wales Cricket Board in a series of interviews over the past two weeks. The 53-year-old would work alongside his predecessor, compatriot, former teammate and friend Brendon McCullum, who remains in charge of the white-ball teams.

Fleming stood down as head coach of the Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings – as well as their subsidiaries Joburg Super Kings in South Africa’s SA20 and Texas Super Kings in America’s Major League Cricket – this month. That announcement was made after CSK finished eighth out of 10 teams in this year’s IPL, following on from a last-place finish in 2025, but also less than 24 hours after McCullum was sacked by the ECB as Test coach.

Report on Interlochen Center for the Arts details sexual allegations against 47 faculty and staff members since 1950s

Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people.

Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp and performing arts school that draws students from around the world. It hired a law firm in 2024 to investigate reports of sexual abuse by faculty and staff. Subsequently, it expanded the work to include information about Epstein, the 66-year-old financier who killed himself in jail in 2019.

As politicians encroach on areas that require technical knowledge, the risk of costly policy mistakes increases. The failures of Narendra Modi and Donald Trump show that when it comes to economic policymaking, political acumen is no substitute for a deep understanding of incentives, markets, and institutions.

By cherry-picking 12 data points that supposedly contradict top ratings agencies’ assessment of Mexico’s economy and fiscal outlook, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum recently presented a just-so story that should convince no one. A glimpse of what her list excludes makes that clear.

Many countries that graduate from low- to middle-income status soon find themselves stuck in the position of being too rich to qualify for aid, too poor to secure reliable market-based financing, and too indebted to expand public-health spending. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Focusing only on emergency planning, disaster response, and recovery after each climate catastrophe is no longer enough in Europe. Policymakers urgently need to start mapping Europe’s long-term future, which will require a fundamental overhaul of its infrastructure, energy system, and major economic sectors.