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Former foreign secretary likely to win by substantial margin over his rival, Jeremy Hunt

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Boris Johnson is expected to be elected leader of the Conservatives within the next few hours, entering Downing Street as Theresa Mayas successor on Wednesday.

He is likely to win by a substantial margin over his rival, Jeremy Hunt, following a seven-week contest in which 160,000 Conservative members have picked the next prime minister to govern the country.

The dayas political developments as they happen, including Tory leadership and Theresa Mayas final cabinet meeting as PM

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This is a good point - will Labour MPs who wanted to see the referendum result respected look back and think they missed their opportunity to vote for the softest deal that had a chance of passing? (Hindsight is a wonderful thing...) https://t.co/CMLfWIUVUV

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When asked if he would serve under Boris Johnson, foreign aid secretary Rory Stewart replied: aNo.a

Stewart is among the ministers who have arrived at Number 10 along with Matt Hancock, Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Karen Bradley and Jeremy Wright for a cabinet meeting.

Cafod says UK is saddling poorer nations with outdated, polluting technologies

The British government has spent APS680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel projects since 2010, according to analysis that highlights the UKas failure to align diplomatic, trade and aid policies with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

Britain allocated more overseas development cash to oil and gas in the two years after signing the 2015 agreement than it had in the previous five, according to the study commissioned by the Catholic development agency Cafod and carried out by the Commons international development committee.

Foreign minister says Iran wants anormal relations based on mutual respecta as tanker crisis continues

Iran does not seek confrontation with Britain amid a row over seized tanker ships, foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday in a message directed at the presumed incoming prime minister, Boris Johnson.

aIt is very important for Boris Johnson as he enters 10 Downing Street to understand that Iran does not seek confrontation, that Iran wants normal relations based on mutual respect,a Zarif told reporters in Managua.

Government says no obligation to tell families as 10,000 schools sign up to pilots

Sophia is four and shy, especially around strangers. In September she starts school and Hayley Phillips, her mother, already worried about how her daughter will settle in, has found out she will have to sit a test.

In the first six weeks of the new school year, four- and five-year-olds in nearly 10,000 schools, about half of the primary schools in England, will be taken out of class and asked questions for the new reception baseline assessment (RBA).

Maria Ressa faces prison term if convicted under criminal cyberlibel law

• Maria Ressa: everything you need to know about the Rappler editor

A libel trial against the editor of Rappler, a Philippine news site critical of the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte, has begun in a case widely seen as an attempt by the government to intimidate journalists and curtail press freedom.

Maria Ressa was arrested and held overnight in February on charges of cyberlibel for a story published by Rappler in 2012, before being released on bail. She described the charges as apreposterous and baselessa.

Temperatures to reach 33C on Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C on Thursday

Record-breaking temperatures could hit parts of Britain for the rest of the week as the school holidays get under way.

Temperatures will increase as the week progresses, according to forecasters, reaching highs of 33C on Tuesday, 34C on Wednesday and 35C on Thursday.

Bearded man seen talking to murdered Australian on remote highway has emerged as the key to solving mystery

Police in Canada are investigating three suspicious deaths and the disappearance of two teenagers which took place within days of each other along a remote Canadian highway.

At a press conference on Monday, representatives of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the two cases might be linked, despite earlier assurances that there was anothing to indicatea that the double murder of Australian Lucas Fowler, 23, and US citizen Chynna Deese, 24, was related to the discovery of a burning car and a manas body some 500km south, and the disappearance of two Canadian teenagers.

Up to 80% of the most common carriers of the disease are immune to the most common treatments, researchers find

Drug-resistant forms of malaria-causing parasites are spreading across south-east Asia leading to aalarmingly higha treatment failure rates of frontline medication, researchers have warned.

In twin studies published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they revealed that in parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia up to 80% of the most common malaria parasites were now resistant to the two most common antimalarial drugs.

aFloating bomba holding 1m oil barrels could create environmental disaster in Red Sea

A deserted oil tanker described as a afloating bomba that is currently anchored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has the potential to create an environmental disaster, according to experts.

A byproduct of the battle between the Saudi-backed UN Yemen government and the Houthis, the tanker, containing over 1m barrels of oil, is said to be eroding fast, but UN officialsa plans to visit the ship this week to assess the scale of the damage have been blocked. There are fears that gases have built up in the storage tanks, which means the ship could explode.

Presidentas eldest child claims his literary effort will aexpose tricks the left uses to smear conservativesa

Donald Trump Jnr is set to join his sister Ivanka, mother Ivana and father Donald Snr on the bookshelves with the announcement that he will be releasing his own literary effort later this year.

His book is titled Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us. It is due to be published on 5 November by Center Street, a conservative non-fiction publishing house that counts the former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich and the conservative commentator Gretchen Carlson among its authors.

On 14 July, Donald Trump used Twitter to tell four unnamed Democratic congresswomen to ago back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they camea. His racist language shocked many around the world, but he has refused to back down. The Guardianas Jamiles Lartey looks at Trumpas history of racism while David Smith discusses how it may affect the 2020 presidential race. And: Ellie Geranmayeh on the Iran crisis

Although Donald Trump did not name the targets of his racists tweets on 14 July, it was clear the attack was directed at a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Only Omar, who is from Somalia, was not born in the US. Pressley is African American, Tlaib was born to Palestinian immigrants and Ocasio-Cortez comes from a New York-Puerto Rican family.

While many were quick to criticise the president, Republicans mostly defended Trump against charges of racism. Several days later, lawmakers passed a resolution condemning his tweets a though this was approved along mostly partisan lines, with only four Republicans joining Democrats in condemning the presidentas racism.

As the Edinburgh festival approaches, Ed Byrne, Susan Calman, Stevie Martin and others on why their pets are friends, companions and a source of inspiration

Comedians are needy, so of course we get dogs a theyare always pleased to see you. My cardigan corgi suits me: short legs, Welsh, doesnat like walking. Heas called Ci, which is Welsh for adoga. Heas so sweet, but the thickest dog I have ever had. Weapons-grade stupid. His fur is blue merle and other mad colours, as if he has been Frankensteined together from different types of dog. We say he is like a pig dressed as a fox that thinks heas a dog. He snuffles like a pig and has a tail like a fox. People see him and say: aOh! What a| is a| this?!a

An increasing number of women are paying to have their fertility assessed. How much do the tests really reveal about their ability to conceive?

I am in a determinedly neutral room on Harley Street, my feet in stirrups, my dignity nearly preserved by a flimsy sheet. On the monitor in front of me is my womb, empty of baby but nevertheless being energetically narrated by Prof Nick Macklon. He points out my contraceptive device, my uterine lining gearing up for evacuation in about a fortnight, the visible vacancy left by my just-departed egg a Macklon describes it all as being like a pivotal scene in an action movie. The stakes, certainly, feel high.

I am midway through my afertility MOTa: yes, like for a vehicle, but for my ovaries. The two-part process a offered by the London Womenas Clinic (LWC) and other fertility clinics like it, for a few hundred pounds a consists of a blood test followed two weeks later by a anot overly invasivea pelvic ultrasound. Alongside a consultation about your medical history and lifestyle, the results help you to understand your own fertility status and likely ability to conceive, now and in the future. aI must say, I really hate that term, aMOTa,a Macklon, medical director of LWC, had remarked earlier, back at his desk. aWomen arenat cars.a We arenat cars a but there are a lot of fiddly parts, which we are mostly ignorant of until they donat work.

Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations a threatening the very idea of fair trade.

By Samanth Subramanian

It wasnat very long ago that a banana was just a banana a just a curved, yellow fruit. All you knew, if you bought a bunch in 1986, was that they cost around 97p per kilo. You werenat told if they were organic or pesticide-free. You didnat know if they came from Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic. And you certainly werenat invited to worry about the farmers who grew them a or if their children went to school, or whether their villages had clinics. You just picked up your bananas and walked to the next aisle for your coffee or tea or chocolate, none the wiser about where they came from either, or about the people who farmed them.

Back then, the countries that grew these commodities and many others were still known as the Third World, and the habit of not caring about their farming conditions was a legacy of their colonial past. For centuries, trade propelled the colonial project, and exploitation was its very purpose. The farmers of Asia, Africa and South America were forced to raise the crops that the empireas companies wanted, to work the crops in abject conditions, and to part with them at ruinously low prices. In the last century, the empires melted away but the trade remained lopsided a with the imbalance now rationalised by the market, which deemed it aefficienta to pay farmers as little as possible. In the 1970s, a Ghanaian cocoa farmer often received less than 10 cents out of every dollar his beans earned on the commodities market; as a proportion of the retail price of a chocolate bar, his take was smaller still. Child labour was common. The chocolate companies prospered and their customers shopped well; the farmers stayed poor.

Three heads forced to quit by stress and bureaucracy reveal how they recovered in new roles

Wanted: a highly qualified leader willing to work long hours under stress in an organisation that is severely underfunded and constantly judged, for an unsympathetic employer.

As job adverts go, itas not the most attractive. No wonder headteachers are resigning in droves: according to a recent survey by the National Association of Headteachers, more than a third (34%) are contemplating leaving before retirement. At the same time, more than a quarter of schools (27%) could not fill their leadership positions last year a that is more than double the number (12%) of schools that failed to fill these roles in 2017.

Government attempts to collect data on non-UK homeless people put the most vulnerable at risk. As a Christian I support the councils refusing to cooperate

aC/ Paul Bayes is Anglican bishop of Liverpool

In the diocese of Liverpool we see the struggle for a just society as a direct outworking of our faith in Jesus Christ a who fed the hungry and cared for the poor. Thatas why we say weare asking God for a bigger church so we can make a bigger difference.

For me, then, the health of a just society is measured by the way it treats the poorest, those on the edge of things. Thatas why I support the mayor of Liverpool, his colleagues and 10 other councils across the country who are refusing to share sensitive personal data on non-UK rough sleepers with the Home Office.

Our updated list of the top iOS and Android mobile phones a at the best prices right now

Need a new smartphone but donat know which one is the very best? Hereas a guide comparing the current top-end smartphones from Apple, Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus and others to help you pick the best handset for you.

There has never been a better time to buy a new flagship smartphone with many quality handsets available at a wider range of prices than ever before. Whether your priority is two-day battery life, fantastic camera performance or a spectacular screen, thereas plenty to choose from.

San Francisco Bay Area freeways have become a common venue for gun violence. Experts point to gang conflicts and displacement

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Demarcus Doss and his girlfriend, Joanna Oller, were stuck in rush hour traffic on the Interstate 80 highway in Richmond, California, when the dark grey Dodge Charger that had been ominously following them pulled into the exit lane alongside their minivan. A man was leaning waist-deep out of the back driveras side window, a black semi-automatic pistol in hand.

Boxed in on all sides by bumper-to-bumper traffic, there was little Doss could do to avoid the barrage of gunfire. As bullets ripped through the passenger door and window, Doss reached over to shield Oller from the attack. He was hit by multiple bullets and died from his injuries. Oller suffered a gunshot wound to her hand, but survived the ordeal.

Those who blather on about being awokea do so in ever smaller circles. The results of this will confront them this week

Lots of people tell me they donat read the news any more. Lots of people tell me they canat believe what is happening: that Donald Trump may get another term, that Boris Johnson will almost certainly soon be prime minister, that we may crash out of Europe. They tell me earnestly that someone they know who voted leave now wishes they hadnat, so a second referendum will be a remain landslide. Or they tell me Jeremy Corbyn will make it all better. Or that they have never met an antisemite. Or that white, working-class people (who all live up north) are to blame for everything. Or that it is the fault of Etonas spawn, or the mainstream media, which of course is me. I am actually related to some of the people telling me these things.

Often, I suck it up. After all, journalism is 90% listening a the rest is just showing off. Then, gratefully, I return to my bubble and wonder what it will take to burst theirs.

I understand that by the time you read this you may well be on holiday, contemplating how to spend your time on the backbenches. Excuse the cynicism, but anyone involved in education has a struggle to understand why people with no knowledge of schools other than their own childhood experience, can come in, throw their weight about for a year or so and disappear. Sometimes itas not so much about weight-throwing, more a case of can-kicking, even on the most urgent and important issues.

Youall remember, in May you called for what newspapers described as a afresh looka at educational funding for children with special needs in England. Apparently a areviewa would enable you to amake sure we have the best understanding of how our system for funding is operating on the grounda. When you said this, I admit to having made more than one sneery snort: one for the afresh looka, one for abest understandinga.

Once technology is released, itas like herding cats. Why do we continue to let the tech sector manage its own mess?

We havenat yet seen a clear frontrunner emerge as the Democratic candidate for the 2020 US election. But Iave been interested in another race a the race to see which buzzword is going to be a pivotal issue in political reporting, hot takes and the general political introspection that elections bring. In 2016 it was afake newsa. aDeepfakea is shoring up as one of the leading candidates for 2020.

This week the US House of Representatives intelligence committee asked Facebook, Twitter and Google what they were planning to do to combat deepfakes in the 2020 election. And itas a fair question. With a bit of work, deepfakes could be convincing and misleading enough to make fake news look like childas play.

As well as investing billions in reinforcing cities against climate disasters, we should support those feeling its impact right now

It was my birthday recently, and it was sad to acelebratea with another climate disaster here in the Philippines.

Heavy flooding destroyed the work of farmers in Kapatagan Valley, the rice-growing area of Lanao del Norte province on the island of Mindanao. I know the area well a it is where I started my aid work in the early 1990s.

Pep Guardiola has hit back at claims that Manchester City were arrogant and disrespectful during their pre-season visit to China.

An editorial published by Chinaas state-run news agency Xinhua criticised the conduct of the English champions during the Premier League Asia Trophy in Nanjing and Shanghai.

Something is happening in Welsh football. The domestic league has long been seen as something of a wilderness by some but, slowly, things are changing. Last week, the countryas top two sides, The New Saints and Connahas Quay Nomads, punched well above their weight and made headlines with shock victories in Europe.

Related: Kilmarnock dumped out of Europa League by Connah's Quay Nomads

Manchester United are relaxed about potentially entering the season without a technical director despite it being almost a year since the search to fill the role began.

Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, is understood to be content at how Ole Gunnar SolskjA|r and the manageras assistant, Mike Phelan, have dovetailed with the recruitment department and the board regarding recruitment this summer.

Wornington college had been sold to be turned into luxury housing

An adult education college at the heart of the Grenfell Tower community has been saved by a APS32m government bailout following a campaign against plans which could have turned it into luxury housing.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea bought Wornington college for a net sum of APS25m in 2016 a almost a year before the Grenfell fire a and had plans to sell it on to a private housing developer for a potential APS14m profit. Now RBKC faces a APS15m loss after agreeing to sell it to the government for APS10m.

When Ofsted inspectors branded childrenas services in Tower Hamlets ainadequatea two years ago, Debbie Jones seemed hoist by her own petard. She had become director responsible for services at the then troubled east London council after leaving Ofsted, where she had controversially made the inspection model much tougher.

Jones, 69, can now claim vindication: having stood her ground in the face of that damning verdict, and having been backed by the councilas leaders, her two-year turnaround of her department resulted this week in a agooda Ofsted rating and a glowing report describing the achievement as aremarkablea.

Non-profit cooperatives should be encouraged to disrupt high-cost lenders, says regulator

The financial regulator is calling for a government review of credit union rules to give vulnerable consumers a viable alternative to payday lenders.

The Financial Conduct Authority said looser laws would allow credit unions to offer a wider range of products and services to customers. It said the move could help higher risk customers who often turn to expensive payday loans to make ends meet.

Sundayas assault was blamed on criminals, but there are signs of links to pro-Beijing figures

At a pro-government rally on Saturday, one speaker made a disconcerting proposal for disciplining Hong Kongas young protesters. aDo we have canes at home? Bring out your canes,a said Arthur Shek, a co-founder of the Economic Times newspaper. aFind a long one to beat your son. If you donat have a cane, what do you do? We can still go to a hardware shop to buy a 20mm PVC pipe.a

The next day, dozens of men in white T-shirts and masks descended on a railway station in Yuen Long where they beat commuters with long bamboo rods and pipes.

Itas 448 pages long and most people havenat read it, so volunteers have staged readings of the report of the Trump-Russia inquiry

Hundreds of actors, journalists and novelists have been holding public readings of former special counsel Robert Muelleras report on Russia interference in the 2016 US election and the Trump campaign.

Over the weekend, a hundred people came out to Seattleas town hall to present a nonstop 24-hour stage reading of the Russia investigationas findings, just days before Muelleras own highly anticipated appearances at congressional hearings.

Seoul says fighter planes twice warned off Russian bomber while Chinese aircraft also flew over east coast

South Korean jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane violated South Koreaas airspace, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.

Three Russian military planes a two Tu-95 bombers and an A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft a initially entered South Koreaas air defence identification zone off its east coast before the A-50 entered the countryas territorial sky, the defence ministry said.

Protesters in Sibiu have been staging a daily demonstration outside the ruling PSD partyas HQ

Every day when the Lutheran church bell strikes noon, people fall silent in a leafy street in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu. For more than 500 days, in snow, drizzle and scorching sun, a group of residents has staged a silent protest in the centre of the picturesque city. Always at the same time, and always at the same place: outside the headquarters of Romaniaas ruling Social Democrat party (PSD), which is embroiled in corruption scandals and accused by Brussels of flouting democratic values.

The message to the PSD is simple, says Ciprian Ciocan: aWe know what you are doing and we are watching every move that you do, and we are here to defend the rule of law.a He says he never knows how many people will show up to protest.

Nine tonnes of contraband tusks from about 300 animals found in illegal cargo from DRC

Singapore has made its largest ever seizure of smuggled ivory, impounding a haul of nearly nine tonnes of contraband tusks from an estimated 300 elephants, according to the authorities.

The illegal cargo, discovered on Sunday in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo also included a huge stash of pangolin scales a the third such seizure in as many months.

Van Kham Chau, 70, has been held for six months on treason charges and denied a lawyer

Human rights groups and relatives have expressed concern for the wellbeing of a 70-year-old Australian citizen who has been imprisoned in Vietnam for six months without charge.

Van Kham Chau, who fled to Sydney from Vietnam in the 1980s, was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in January for allegedly trying to overthrow the state and for entering the country on false documents.

The two-year, $1.37tn agreement would avoid the possibility of a government shutdown or first-ever federal default

Donald Trump and congressional leaders announced Monday that they had struck a critical debt and budget agreement. The deal amounts to an against-the-odds victory for Washington pragmatists seeking to avoid a politically dangerous tumult over the possibility of a government shutdown or the first-ever federal default.

The deal, announced by Trump on Twitter and in a statement by the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, will restore the governmentas ability to borrow to pay its bills past next yearas elections and build upon recent large budget gains for the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

Nationwide outages caused by aelectromagnetic attacka on hydroelectric system, government claims

Venezuela has been hit by a nationwide power outage that the government has blamed without evidence on an aelectromagnetic attacka on the nationas hydroelectric system.

The blackouts affected at least 14 of Venezuelaas 24 states, including the capital Caracas where power went out at around 4pm (8pm GMT) on Monday. It caused chaos on the cityas roads as traffic lights and the subway stopped working during rush hour.

The pitch-black small-town mockumentary was a flop on release and left critics cold but 20 years later its vicious indecency remains daring

Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of my favourite films. It also made less than its $15m budget at the box office and only has a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Jesus loves winners, as Gladys Leeman tells her daughter Becky, but I do understand why Drop Dead Gorgeous was not triumphant when it was released 20 years ago. Shot as a mockumentary, and indebted to John Waters and Christopher Guest, it follows a group of young, wannabe high school beauty queens as they compete in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess pageant. Its humour is crude, its message is anarchic, its bite is vicious and its jokes donat so much stretch the boundaries of taste as tap-dance all over them in a mortuary.

Related: American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today

Nick Broomfieldas film underlines the downside of a life spent providing comfort and inspiration for a male artist

What are the life skills appropriate to an artistas muse? Hotness is a given; and sexual availability, while not compulsory, has generally been appreciated. The ability to keep a house tidy is a plus, as is being supportive of the artist at all times, even if he a and it is nearly always he a is being an arsehole. It helps, of course, to be mysterious; if one is to be endlessly gazed at, itas best not to give everything away at once. As for a life, and a career of oneas own, well, history has shown that such things are rarely tolerated.

In Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, out later this week, the filmmaker Nick Broomfield examines the on-off relationship between the late Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian single mother, and the poet and musician Leonard Cohen, whom she met on the Greek island of Hydra and who died just four months after her in 2016. Ihlen was immortalised in the song So Long, Marianne, and inspired Cohen to write Bird on a Wire. Since Ihlen gets first billing in the title, one might assume that this is her story, a biopic of sorts, but instead it depicts her through the prism of the men in her life. These include the novelist Axel Jensen, who left her not long after their son, Axel Jr, was born; Cohen, the towering genius whom we are told she could never hope to tame; and Broomfield himself, who had a fling with her during a visit to Hydra in his early twenties.

We were concerned the audience wouldnat know which clone was which. We talked about using a wig, but I stole Ratso Rizzoas cough for the sick clone

I wanted Sam Rockwell to play the villain in Mute, a film I later made for Netflix. But he wanted to play a blue-collar kind of guy. We both liked the sci-fi films of the 70s and early 80s a Silent Running, Alien, Outland a and the sense of realism and mundanity they brought to space, with a lot of the day-to-day grind comparable to jobs on Earth. So I said: aLet me see if I can write something.a

I have been feeling the heat recently. That claustrophobic quality a summer can have, when the windows are open, yet thereas no escape. Desperate for a means of cooling down, Iave been obsessed with the idea of whole-body cryotherapy (APS95 for three minutes, 111cryo.com): getting into a chamber that has been plunged into sub-zero temperatures. Friends were sceptical. aYour organs are going to slow down,a warned Selina, a nurse. This was not welcome news. Slowing down is, after all, connected to stopping. I told Selina I had booked a session with 111Cryo at Harvey Nichols, which reassured her. aI thought youad met some guy with a lock-up in Acton who wanted to show you his chest freezer,a she said.

The frozen chest I am most worried about is my own, as I strip down to my pants on the fourth floor of the department store, next to ladiesa fashion. To protect my extremities, my nakedness has been complicated by North Face puffer booties, shorts, ski gloves and a headband for the ears, plus a thin face mask to keep my breath warm. I feel cool. Boxing cool.

Everything I know about my body sexually was learned using erotic fiction, and I have only orgasmed once while with someone else. Am I condemned to unsatisfying sex for ever?

I am a woman in my early 20s and have had a few sexual partners, with one longer-term on-off relationship (in which I had my first sexual experiences). My mother never spoke to me about masturbation, which I began experimenting with, well before any sexual activity, after reading about erotic fiction websites in a womenas magazine in my teens. I am worried my use of erotica may be affecting my ability to orgasm during sex. While I masturbate (successfully) regularly, I have only reached orgasm once with a partner. I know my own body, but am unable to translate this into sex, possibly due to my own insecurities from my teens. What can I do? I am worried about having unsatisfying sex for ever.

There is nothing to be concerned about; everything you have described is completely normative. Using erotica is not a problem a in fact, it most likely helped you to fire your own erotic imagination and learn how your body works. Your task now is to go through the process of teaching partners how to please you. This might mean simply guiding them verbally a or perhaps physically guiding their hands or mouths. Many people erroneously imagine it is easy to switch between masturbation and sex with someone else, usually because they expect partners to read their minds. But satisfying sex requires communication; patiently helping your partner to know and do exactly what you want, and fully reciprocating. And relax a it takes time to learn the arts of giving and receiving.

A fragrant tomato curry, a fresh tricolore salad and the perfect margherita a delicious dishes to tart up your tomatoes

• 20 best tomato recipes: part 1

Saturdy night is pizza night for the staff at Locanda Locatelli. This recipe is for a margherita, but you can build the toppings on the tomato sauce as you like.

Weare now at breaking point after buying the DIY storeas Cooke & Lewis bathroom range

I read a Guardian report about (the lack of) B&Qas Cooke & Lewis toilet seat replacements, and now have a similar situation with two of the rangeas Lanzo toilets. Both seats have broken and I checked the B&Q website to see if there were any replacements in stock anywhere, but there werenat. Both are less than two years old.

Why is B&Q selling stock without making replacements readily available? What kind of help is out there without us having to replace two entire toilets? ZZ, York

Informal settlements are expanding, with a new occupation attempt every 11 days, and the threat to the rainforest is severe

Antonio Pintoas makeshift home on the outskirts of Manaus is an open-air shack, one of dozens of similar dwellings of timber and tarpaulin scattered around the hills.

Around them is the evidence of the use of flame and iron: the hills are scorched and brown, littered with fallen logs and toppled, twisted trees.

The shocking killing of 18 people in a highlands village may have achanged everythinga, warns police minister

The pictures that came out of a remote highlands village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago were not, at first glance, particularly graphic: bulging cocoons of blue mosquito nets hanging from wooden poles propped along a roadside.

But the story they told was gruesome.

The diverse Democratic field is a contrast from 2016 but the leftwing firebrand believes Medicare for All can dent his rivalsa hopes

Gruff, iconoclastic and relentlessly on-message, Bernie Sanders thrilled the progressive left when he ran for president in 2016 and came within striking distance of capturing the Democratic nomination.

Related: Al Franken: senators say they regret calling for his resignation

The marine biologist, conservationist and specialist underwater photographer Roger Grace died at his New Zealand home in June. We celebrate his incredible legacy

All photographs: Roger Grace/Greenpeace

The Swiss photographer took a 10-year journey around the globe to consider the relationship between the human and plant worlds a from the manicured gardens of France to the motorway bridge gardens of Dubai

aC/ Mario Del Curtoas Vegetal Humanity, As Gardens Unfurl exhibition is at the Rencontres DaArles 2019 from 1 July - 22 September

Seoul says fighter planes twice warned off Russian bomber while Chinese aircraft also flew over east coast

South Korean jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane violated South Koreaas airspace, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.

Three Russian military planes a two Tu-95 bombers and an A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft a initially entered South Koreaas air defence identification zone off its east coast before the A-50 entered the countryas territorial sky, the defence ministry said.

Former foreign secretary likely to win by substantial margin over his rival, Jeremy Hunt

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Boris Johnson is expected to be elected leader of the Conservatives within the next few hours, entering Downing Street as Theresa Mayas successor on Wednesday.

He is likely to win by a substantial margin over his rival, Jeremy Hunt, after a seven-week contest in which 160,000 Conservative members have picked the next prime minister to govern the country.

San Francisco Bay Area freeways have become a common venue for gun violence. Experts point to gang conflicts and displacement

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Demarcus Doss and his girlfriend, Joanna Oller, were stuck in rush hour traffic on the Interstate 80 highway in Richmond, California, when the dark grey Dodge Charger that had been ominously following them pulled into the exit lane alongside their minivan. A man was leaning waist-deep out of the back driveras side window, a black semi-automatic pistol in hand.

Boxed in on all sides by bumper-to-bumper traffic, there was little Doss could do to avoid the barrage of gunfire. As bullets ripped through the passenger door and window, Doss reached over to shield Oller from the attack. He was hit by multiple bullets and died from his injuries. Oller suffered a gunshot wound to her hand, but survived the ordeal.

Presidentas eldest child claims his literary effort will aexpose tricks the left uses to smear conservativesa

Donald Trump Jnr is set to join his sister Ivanka, mother Ivana and father Donald Snr on the bookshelves with the announcement that he will be releasing his own literary effort later this year.

His book is titled Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us. It is due to be published on 5 November by Center Street, a conservative non-fiction publishing house that counts the former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich and the conservative commentator Gretchen Carlson among its authors.

The two-year, $1.37tn agreement would avoid the possibility of a government shutdown or first-ever federal default

Donald Trump and congressional leaders announced Monday that they had struck a critical debt and budget agreement. The deal amounts to an against-the-odds victory for Washington pragmatists seeking to avoid a politically dangerous tumult over the possibility of a government shutdown or the first-ever federal default.

The deal, announced by Trump on Twitter and in a statement by the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, will restore the governmentas ability to borrow to pay its bills past next yearas elections and build upon recent large budget gains for the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

Foreign minister says Iran wants anormal relations based on mutual respecta as tanker crisis continues

Iran does not seek confrontation with Britain amid a row over seized tanker ships, foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday in a message directed at the presumed incoming prime minister, Boris Johnson.

aIt is very important for Boris Johnson as he enters 10 Downing Street to understand that Iran does not seek confrontation, that Iran wants normal relations based on mutual respect,a Zarif told reporters in Managua.

Nationwide outages caused by aelectromagnetic attacka on hydroelectric system, government claims

Venezuela has been hit by a nationwide power outage that the government has blamed without evidence on an aelectromagnetic attacka on the nationas hydroelectric system.

The blackouts affected at least 14 of Venezuelaas 24 states, including the capital Caracas where power went out at around 4pm (8pm GMT) on Monday. It caused chaos on the cityas roads as traffic lights and the subway stopped working during rush hour.

The diverse Democratic field is a contrast from 2016 but the leftwing firebrand believes Medicare for All can dent his rivalsa hopes

Gruff, iconoclastic and relentlessly on-message, Bernie Sanders thrilled the progressive left when he ran for president in 2016 and came within striking distance of capturing the Democratic nomination.

Related: Al Franken: senators say they regret calling for his resignation

Itas 448 pages long and most people havenat read it, so volunteers have staged readings of the report of the Trump-Russia inquiry

Hundreds of actors, journalists and novelists have been holding public readings of former special counsel Robert Muelleras report on Russia interference in the 2016 US election and the Trump campaign.

Over the weekend, a hundred people came out to Seattleas town hall to present a nonstop 24-hour stage reading of the Russia investigationas findings, just days before Muelleras own highly anticipated appearances at congressional hearings.

Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations a threatening the very idea of fair trade.

By Samanth Subramanian

It wasnat very long ago that a banana was just a banana a just a curved, yellow fruit. All you knew, if you bought a bunch in 1986, was that they cost around 97p per kilo. You werenat told if they were organic or pesticide-free. You didnat know if they came from Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic. And you certainly werenat invited to worry about the farmers who grew them a or if their children went to school, or whether their villages had clinics. You just picked up your bananas and walked to the next aisle for your coffee or tea or chocolate, none the wiser about where they came from either, or about the people who farmed them.

Back then, the countries that grew these commodities and many others were still known as the Third World, and the habit of not caring about their farming conditions was a legacy of their colonial past. For centuries, trade propelled the colonial project, and exploitation was its very purpose. The farmers of Asia, Africa and South America were forced to raise the crops that the empireas companies wanted, to work the crops in abject conditions, and to part with them at ruinously low prices. In the last century, the empires melted away but the trade remained lopsided a with the imbalance now rationalised by the market, which deemed it aefficienta to pay farmers as little as possible. In the 1970s, a Ghanaian cocoa farmer often received less than 10 cents out of every dollar his beans earned on the commodities market; as a proportion of the retail price of a chocolate bar, his take was smaller still. Child labour was common. The chocolate companies prospered and their customers shopped well; the farmers stayed poor.

Movement promising fundamental reforms to the US criminal justice system, including ending mass incarceration and the death penalty, is gaining steam

On a muggy August afternoon nearly five years ago, criminal justice professor Wesley Bell saw protesters march past his front porch in Ferguson, Missouri.

The killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by the white police officer Darren Wilson set off protests in the black-majority city over police brutality and long simmering tensions around racial inequality. The unrest transfixed a nation and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement into the political mainstream.

Once technology is released, itas like herding cats. Why do we continue to let the tech sector manage its own mess?

We havenat yet seen a clear frontrunner emerge as the Democratic candidate for the 2020 US election. But Iave been interested in another race a the race to see which buzzword is going to be a pivotal issue in political reporting, hot takes and the general political introspection that elections bring. In 2016 it was afake newsa. aDeepfakea is shoring up as one of the leading candidates for 2020.

This week the US House of Representatives intelligence committee asked Facebook, Twitter and Google what they were planning to do to combat deepfakes in the 2020 election. And itas a fair question. With a bit of work, deepfakes could be convincing and misleading enough to make fake news look like childas play.

Nick Broomfieldas film underlines the downside of a life spent providing comfort and inspiration for a male artist

What are the life skills appropriate to an artistas muse? Hotness is a given; and sexual availability, while not compulsory, has generally been appreciated. The ability to keep a house tidy is a plus, as is being supportive of the artist at all times, even if he a and it is nearly always he a is being an arsehole. It helps, of course, to be mysterious; if one is to be endlessly gazed at, itas best not to give everything away at once. As for a life, and a career of oneas own, well, history has shown that such things are rarely tolerated.

In Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, out later this week, the filmmaker Nick Broomfield examines the on-off relationship between the late Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian single mother, and the poet and musician Leonard Cohen, whom she met on the Greek island of Hydra and who died just four months after her in 2016. Ihlen was immortalised in the song So Long, Marianne, and inspired Cohen to write Bird on a Wire. Since Ihlen gets first billing in the title, one might assume that this is her story, a biopic of sorts, but instead it depicts her through the prism of the men in her life. These include the novelist Axel Jensen, who left her not long after their son, Axel Jr, was born; Cohen, the towering genius whom we are told she could never hope to tame; and Broomfield himself, who had a fling with her during a visit to Hydra in his early twenties.

On 14 July, Donald Trump used Twitter to tell four unnamed Democratic congresswomen to ago back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they camea. His racist language shocked many around the world, but he has refused to back down. The Guardianas Jamiles Lartey looks at Trumpas history of racism while David Smith discusses how it may affect the 2020 presidential race. And: Ellie Geranmayeh on the Iran crisis

Although Donald Trump did not name the targets of his racists tweets on 14 July, it was clear the attack was directed at a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Only Omar, who is from Somalia, was not born in the US. Pressley is African American, Tlaib was born to Palestinian immigrants and Ocasio-Cortez comes from a New York-Puerto Rican family.

While many were quick to criticise the president, Republicans mostly defended Trump against charges of racism. Several days later, lawmakers passed a resolution condemning his tweets a though this was approved along mostly partisan lines, with only four Republicans joining Democrats in condemning the presidentas racism.

The pitch-black small-town mockumentary was a flop on release and left critics cold but 20 years later its vicious indecency remains daring

Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of my favourite films. It also made less than its $15m budget at the box office and only has a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Jesus loves winners, as Gladys Leeman tells her daughter Becky, but I do understand why Drop Dead Gorgeous was not triumphant when it was released 20 years ago. Shot as a mockumentary, and indebted to John Waters and Christopher Guest, it follows a group of young, wannabe high school beauty queens as they compete in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess pageant. Its humour is crude, its message is anarchic, its bite is vicious and its jokes donat so much stretch the boundaries of taste as tap-dance all over them in a mortuary.

Related: American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today

The writer and photography critic has assembled a show based on archival images to entwine the countryas past and present

In 1993, the New York photographer Fazal Sheikh captured a young girl and her brother staring blankly into the camera. It was shot at a Somali refugee camp in Mandera, Kenya, and is part of the artistas 25-year journey documenting displaced minorities affected by war and catastrophe.

Related: Behind the exhibition aiming to move Caribbean art 'away from trauma'

We were concerned the audience wouldnat know which clone was which. We talked about using a wig, but I stole Ratso Rizzoas cough for the sick clone

I wanted Sam Rockwell to play the villain in Mute, a film I later made for Netflix. But he wanted to play a blue-collar kind of guy. We both liked the sci-fi films of the 70s and early 80s a Silent Running, Alien, Outland a and the sense of realism and mundanity they brought to space, with a lot of the day-to-day grind comparable to jobs on Earth. So I said: aLet me see if I can write something.a

Bearded man seen talking to murdered Australian on remote highway has emerged as the key to solving mystery

Police in Canada are investigating three suspicious deaths and the disappearance of two teenagers which took place within days of each other along a remote Canadian highway.

At a press conference on Monday, representatives of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the two cases might be linked, despite earlier assurances that there was anothing to indicatea that the double murder of Australian Lucas Fowler, 23, and US citizen Chynna Deese, 24, was related to the discovery of a burning car and a manas body some 500km south, and the disappearance of two Canadian teenagers.

aFloating bomba holding 1m oil barrels could create environmental disaster in Red Sea

A deserted oil tanker described as a afloating bomba that is currently anchored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has the potential to create an environmental disaster, according to experts.

A byproduct of the battle between the Saudi-backed UN Yemen government and the Houthis, the tanker, containing over 1m barrels of oil, is said to be eroding fast, but UN officialsa plans to visit the ship this week to assess the scale of the damage have been blocked. There are fears that gases have built up in the storage tanks, which means the ship could explode.

Van Kham Chau, 70, has been held for six months on treason charges and denied a lawyer

Human rights groups and relatives have expressed concern for the wellbeing of a 70-year-old Australian citizen who has been imprisoned in Vietnam for six months without charge.

Van Kham Chau, who fled to Sydney from Vietnam in the 1980s, was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in January for allegedly trying to overthrow the state and for entering the country on false documents.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

• Latest: Michael Saunders says UK growth below trend
• Saunders: Brexit means rate hikes less likely

Earlier:

• US budget deal removes risk of government shutdown
• Mnuchin to travel to Beijing soon?
• Pelosi: Want to avoid stock market crash
• Stocks up in Asia and Europe

9.46am BST

The pound has dropped since Michael Saundersa comments hit the wires.

Traders are calculating that an early UK interest rate rise is even less likely, as Saunders was on the hawkish end of the Monetary Policy Committee.

*BOE ISN'T BOUND BY FORECASTS IMPLYING RATE HIKES, SAUNDERS SAYS
Marginally dovish comments by BoE hawk Saunders. Says limited scope for hikes given Brexit headwinds (obvious). $GBPUSD ticks marginally lower. 6M part of UK curve pricing in 72% of a BoE cut. Shouldn't be new news. pic.twitter.com/bfSrnsECiO

9.22am BST

Boom! One of the Bank of Englandas most hawkish policymakers has warned that the UK economy looks weak.

The economy right now is clearly not overheating -- the underlying pace of growth, stripping out all of the funny effects, inventories, car shutdowns and so forth, is weak and below trend.a

aThe link from the forecast to my actual vote [last time the MPC met] was quite loose.a

Both the UK 2 year and 5 year Gilt yields have fallen below 0.5% meaning that financial markets are expecting a Bank Rate cut in the UK.

aItas hard to know how it would play out with any certainty....I wouldnat want to give a strong steer now as to which way policy would go.a

Informal settlements are expanding, with a new occupation attempt every 11 days, and the threat to the rainforest is severe

Antonio Pintoas makeshift home on the outskirts of Manaus is an open-air shack, one of dozens of similar dwellings of timber and tarpaulin scattered around the hills.

Around them is the evidence of the use of flame and iron: the hills are scorched and brown, littered with fallen logs and toppled, twisted trees.

Sundayas assault was blamed on criminals, but there are signs of links to pro-Beijing figures

At a pro-government rally on Saturday, one speaker made a disconcerting proposal for disciplining Hong Kongas young protesters. aDo we have canes at home? Bring out your canes,a said Arthur Shek, a co-founder of the Economic Times newspaper. aFind a long one to beat your son. If you donat have a cane, what do you do? We can still go to a hardware shop to buy a 20mm PVC pipe.a

The next day, dozens of men in white T-shirts and masks descended on a railway station in Yuen Long where they beat commuters with long bamboo rods and pipes.

The marine biologist, conservationist and specialist underwater photographer Roger Grace died at his New Zealand home in June. We celebrate his incredible legacy

All photographs: Roger Grace/Greenpeace

The Swiss photographer took a 10-year journey around the globe to consider the relationship between the human and plant worlds a from the manicured gardens of France to the motorway bridge gardens of Dubai

aC/ Mario Del Curtoas Vegetal Humanity, As Gardens Unfurl exhibition is at the Rencontres DaArles 2019 from 1 July - 22 September