Overnight Israeli strikes increase numbers leaving southern city for ahumanitarian zonea on coast

• Middle East crisis - live updates

Thousands of people are evacuating from Rafah, Gazaas southernmost city, hours after the Israeli military told residents and displaced people in eastern neighbourhoods to leave in advance of a long-threatened attack on the city and its environs.

Witnesses described frightened families leaving the city on foot, riding donkeys or packed with their belongings into overloaded trucks on Monday. Overnight Israeli airstrikes had reinforced apanic and feara, prompting more to heed the instructions to move.

Hope Hicks said last week Donald Trump told her Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels to protect him from a false allegation

• Trump trial to resume after teary testimony from key aide Hope Hicks

Here is a look at some images from the Manhattan courthouse that came through the newswires last week:

With the trial entering its fourth week, here is a reminder of the key players by the Guardianas Sam Levine:

Donald Trump, defendant: The Republican nominee for president is the defendant in the case. Prosecutors allege that he orchestrated a $130,000 payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels when she threatened to go public with allegations of an affair on the eve of the 2016 election, and then conspired with others to cover up the payment.

David Pecker, key witness: Pecker was a key Trump ally who served as the CEO of American Media Inc (AMI), the publisher of the National Enquirer. Pecker helped Trump by purchasing the rights to potentially damaging stories and then never publishing them, a practice known as acatch and killa.

Stormy Daniels, key witness: Daniels, an adult film star, says she met Trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament. Daniels was 27 at the time and Trump was 60 and Daniels has always said the sex was consensual. Just before the 2016 election, Daniels said she was approached by Michael Cohen, Trumpas lawyer at the time, and offered $130,000 not to disclose the alleged affair.

Michael Cohen, key witness: Cohen was once a lawyer for Trump and one of the former presidentas most loyal lieutenants and enforcers. He facilitated the payment to Daniels, funnelling the $130,000 to her through a shell company called Essential Consultants LLC. Trump later arranged to pay him back in monthly payment installments of $35,000.

Far-right congresswoman has spearheaded effort to oust fellow Republican as speaker but motion to vacate widely expected to fail

The House is expected to vote this week on a motion to remove Republican Mike Johnson as speaker, but the effort, spearheaded by hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, faces virtually no chance of success.

Greene announced on Wednesday that she would move forward with forcing a vote on Johnsonas removal this week, following through on a threat she first issued in late March. Greene has consistently attacked Johnson for advancing bills that have attracted widespread bipartisan support, such as the government spending proposal approved in March and the foreign aid package signed into law last month.

Drake says aI feel disgusteda by allegations, as enmity between rap superstars deepens following weekend flurry of diss tracks

Drake has denied allegations of child sex offences and of him harbouring a secret child, both levelled at him by Kendrick Lamar in recent days.

The enmity between the rap superstars has escalated over a series of diss tracks in the past few weeks, culminating in a flurry of activity during the weekend with three tracks by Lamar and two by Drake.

Kremlin says tactical drills are a response to statements from the West about possibly sending troops to Ukraine

The British ambassador to Moscow, Nigel Casey, was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry, Russian state agency RIA reported on Monday. Reuters said the ministry did not give the reason but there is speculation that it is linked to statements made last week by the foreign secretary, David Cameron, saying he had no issue with British-supplied weapons being used by Ukraine to strike inside Russia.

It comes as Russia has cited statements by the west as justification for upcoming nuclear weapons drills.

Researchers say experimental shot is step towards goal of creating vaccines before a pandemic has started

Scientists have created a vaccine that has the potential to protect against a broad range of coronaviruses, including varieties that are not yet even known about.

The experimental shot, which has been tested in mice, marks a change in strategy towards aproactive vaccinologya, where vaccines are designed and readied for manufacture before a potentially pandemic virus emerges.

Company, which has been plagued by safety issues in its avionics wing, will send two astronauts to the ISS in its new spacecraft

Boeing has an opportunity on Monday night to restore some luster to its tarnished name, with the scheduled first crewed launch from Florida of Starliner, a pioneering new capsule designed to transform human exploration of space.

Although the companyas space operations are entirely independent of its aviation wing, which has been plagued by a recent series of safety and quality issues, the spacecraftas pathway to the Cape Canaveral launchpad, and planned 10.34pm ET liftoff, has been similarly bumpy.

Families of two Australians and American who went missing in Baja California have identified the bodies, officials say

Mexican authorities have identified the three dead bodies found in a well in Mexico as Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their travelling companion, Jack Carter Rhoad.

The trio, who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California, were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

Union says rise unwelcome for tourists and residents a but officials say holders of regular transport passes will not be affected

Parisas public transport authority has been accused of initiating aa bit of a racketa after raising the price of MA(c)tro tickets by more than 85% and doubling the cost of bus tickets during the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.

A single journey ticket in the MA(c)tro will rise from a!2.15 to a!4, while a ticket for a city bus will double from a!2.50 to a!5 from 20 July a six days before the Games begin a and remain until 8 September, the transport authority RATP has announced.

• Former teammates and comedians round on quarterback
• Brady appears to object to joke after Robert Kraft

Tom Brady took his share of barbs from comedians, former teammates and his longtime coach on Sunday night during a comedy roast on Netflix.

aItas like a football game. You run with a game plan, and then you get to see kind of how the strategy goes, and then you adjust on the fly,a Brady said before the three-hour event. aThis is what a locker room has been like for me for all these years. So itas not like Iam used to people not making fun of me.a

An impressive lineup of comedians, former teammates and opponents took the stage. Host Kevin Hart said before the event that no topic was off limits, and Hart went on the offensive early with jokes about Bradyas ex-wife, Gisele BA1/4ndchen.

aGisele gave you an ultimatum. She said you retire or weare done. When you got a chance to go 8-9 and all it will cost you is your wife and your kids, youave got to do what youave got to do,a Hart said, referring to Brady coming out of a brief retirement in 2022 for one more season.

The only time Brady objected to a joke was when Jeff Ross made a reference to Patriots owner Robert Kraft and massages. In 2019, Kraft originally received a misdemeanor charge that he paid for sex at a Florida massage parlor. Prosecutors later dropped the charge after courts blocked the use of video from cameras installed by police inside the massage parlors.

In the sketch, Ross joked about Kraft offering Brady a massage when he first joined the Patriots. On Sunday, Brady walked up to Ross and said in his ear adonat say that shit againa, but it was clearly caught on the microphone and heard by those watching the roast at home. It was not heard by those in attendance.

Later, Kraft and former Patriots coach Bill Belichick did a shot together on stage after some coaxing from Hart.

Belichick was fired in January after 24 seasons with the Patriots, and a lot has been written about friction between the six-time winning Super Bowl coach and owner over the past couple years.

After joking about this being like a reunion and aunlike many family reunions there are some people I am desperately trying to avoida, Kraft praised Belichick for what the two accomplished.

aI want to say this is the greatest coach in the history of the game that did what no one else has done. And having Tom Brady and him was the greatest honor the good Lord gave me,a Kraft said.

Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline

When Jesse Motte began working at a Starbucks inside a Target store in Columbia, South Carolina, more than two years ago, $15 an hour sounded great. He was excited to start because it was the most he had ever made after working for years in the service industry.

The excitement has dissipated due to his inconsistent and erratic work schedule, the rising costs of necessities and the minuscule raises he and his co-workers receive annually. His most recent annual wage increase was $0.37 an hour.

Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime

Iranas Qarchak jail has been called many things: a torture chamber; the worst womenas prison in the world; unfit for humans. Nasrin Sotoudeh uses just one word to describe the nine months she spent there: aHell.a

Sotoudeh does not speak of the appalling conditions or stench of sewage, the undrinkable water or lack of food, the disease or cruelty of solitary confinement. She simply says: aI am ready to return whenever they say.a

Amsterdammers find themselves at the nadir of a Europe-wide housing shortage. But some bold initiatives offer hope

• Fix Europeas housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns
• Higher costs and cramped conditions: the impact of Europeas housing crisis

It started maybe 10 years ago, says Tamara Kuschel. Since the 1970s, the charity she works for in Amsterdam, De Regenboog, has run day shelters for homeless people a typically, people with serious addiction and mental health issues.

Then, in about 2015, a new kind of client began to appear. aThey didnat have the usual problems of homeless people,a Kuschel says. aThey had jobs, friends. In every respect, their lives were very much together. But they couldnat afford a home.a

Trauma, vulnerability, dependency a| like it or not, we canat just wish them away

When I was a little girl, I cried a lot. I used to wish ferociously that I was not such a crybaby. I remember the shame so well. Sitting on my bed on a Sunday evening, hot-cheeked and furious with my tears, holding on to the thought that when I was a grownup, I would never cry. I would be a strong, confident and capable woman, and I would never again feel like a sobbing little girl who doesnat want to go to school tomorrow and just wants to stay with her mum. I hated that part of myself and I desperately wanted to get rid of it. That is what a better life meant to me back then.

Since becoming a psychotherapist, I have seen this kind of wish at play in patient after patient a and Iave continued to see it in myself as a patient in therapy, too. It seems to be a pretty ubiquitous desire, although we are not always aware of it: this wish and even belief that if we just try hard enough, if we can find the magic self-help book or therapist or personal trainer or Instagram filter, we will truly be able to get rid of the parts of ourselves we feel ashamed of, or hate, or donat want to acknowledge.

Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagninoas erotic tennis romp but itas a vapid string of disappointing choices

I have spent the week and a half since seeing Challengers on the brink of throwing a racquet-trashing, expletive-scattering, McEnroe-style tantrum. Is Hawkeye working? Did they not see it? How, for an exhausting Mahut-Isner length of huffing and puffing, practically every single one of the wild swings taken by Luca Guadagninoas film missed its target and landed out by a country mile? Four-star reviews? Five-star reviews? Camon, fellow critics. You cannot be serious.

Some points I will concede as inarguable. The film is a box-office champion. And itas pure fire on the internet, a movie more memeable than even the sainted Saltburn. There are clear generational issues in play: I can see why excitable younger viewers, raised on a largely sexless cinema, have fallen so hard for the filmas sprayed-on sweat and forceful faux sophistication. Itas my senior-tour colleagues Iam staring at with hands on hips, wearing an expression of disbelief. The film theyave been politely applauding looks to me less a modern classic than another marker of American cinemaas ongoing infantilisation: a Muppet Babies redo of Jules and Jim.

Possibly some spectators were swayed by the spirit of indulgence fostered by the filmas on-screen umpire, handing out code violations as if they were candy. (In actual tennis, those breaches of court decorum have consequences: loss of whole games and matches. Not so in Luca-land.) Swallow those, and maybe youall also overlook how neither of the filmas male leads persuade as the whey-bulked jocks observed swaggering around Americaas secondary tennis circuits. Even at their most drained, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh OaConnor) resemble the gauche nerds of a thousand other teen comedies, sniggering at their own witless masturbation stories.

From lactating Madonnas to disembodied orbs, a new exhibition surveys the depictions of breasts and asks a what about the women who own them?

Breasts have been a focus in the culture wars of the last 50-odd years. Second-wave feminists casting off their bras in the 1970s come to mind, and then ongoing judgment-filled debates around breastfeeding, and the even more fraught, and recent, hostilities around trans healthcare. Recent celebrations of female sensuality manifested in things like #freethenip, hot girl summer, widening conversations around sexual pleasure, and the body positivity movement all take breasts as a key motif, too.

But for all the girlies freeing their nips on Instagram, itas much rarer to see them free on the street. We keep them under wraps and rarely articulate why they seem to be so contentious. The potency of breasts as symbols of things as disparate but overlapping as gender, eroticism and motherhood makes them the nexus of a wild cocktail of emotions, politics and desires.

Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, covers everything from colonialism to his grandmother in music that mixes African culture with metal. He hopes to help more artists like him break through

As a teenager, Martin Kanja spent countless late nights listening to heavy metal on a local radio show. The furious riffs, shrieks, growls and distorted sounds drowned out his angst. aWhat drew me to the music was how it was so aphysicala a very present, very now a there was no space for negative thoughts or feelings,a says Kanja, who soon decided he too wanted to be a metal artist.

In 2010, when he was 19, he left his home town in Kenyaas midwestern city Nakuru for the capital, Nairobi, figuring it was his best bet for a foothold in the underground scene.

Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding

Some time in 1980, on the first sheet of a script that would eventually run to 221 pages, Alan Bleasdale typed the line: We see Yosser with his three children. He is leaning forward.

When the jobcentre clerk explains he is aafraida he canat do anything, the pale-faced, dark-moustached man snaps: aAfraid? Yall be terrified in a minute. [Leans in.] Now sort me soddina Giro check out before I knock yainto the disability department.a

She came into my life just when I needed her, and together we worked on our traumas. But it could not last a|

Iad been feeding the stray cat for months before she brought them to our door: a gang of feral and frail-looking kittens. Iad never had a pet before, and, like many people who do not grow up with animals, I perhaps lacked a certain emotional dimension. The arrival of this bunch of spitters and shakers cracked me wide open, and right when I needed it.

It was 2016, and I was living as a property guardian in a disused care home in east London. I was 23, and I was broke, ambitious and ill. Back then I could be found having routine panic attacks in a PPE-blue ex-NHS bathroom. These days, I know all this to be the ripples of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. At the time, however, I just assumed this was what happened to unemployed writers. Enter Kitten Babyleaf and her fluffy kin a seemingly as traumatised, adrift and desperate for security as me.

La Chimera looks like a crime caper about looters in 1980s Italy. But itas about way more than that. The great director, loved by everyone from Scorsese to Gerwig, talks about the dark secrets of the heart a and her debt to bees

Alice Rohrwacher could be the European arthouse made flesh, or its distilled essence, bottled and preserved for the ages. Sheas quoting Italian poets one minute and German poets the next. Sheas discussing nature, civilisation and the power of collective memory. She says she makes films to shake us from our lethargy and invite us to reflect on the state of the world. It doesnat matter whether we even like her films. Like or dislike: thatas beside the point.

Certain criticisms she takes as compliments. aFor example, people will tell me, aI always knew that I was watching a film.a Well, good, thatas great. I am trying to break your hypnosis. Or people will say, aI struggled to get into this film.a Which is fantastic, Iam pleased. We donat need to get inside everything, break down every door, storm in like conquistadors. There are other ways to approach a film. We can gently knock. We can walk around it in circles.a

They were seen as heroes and martyrs who defied the Nazis. But a new show in Weimar reveals horrifying details about some Bauhauslers, one of whom designed the crematoriums at Auschwitz

If the day of Otti Bergeras death is not known, its place and cause are. In April 1944, Berger a part deaf, Jewish, a communist a was arrested in her home town of Zmajevac, in German-occupied Yugoslavia. On 29 May, she was put on a transport to Auschwitz. After that, nothing.

Of the eight Bauhaus students to die at Auschwitz a half the number murdered in other camps and ghettoes a Berger was the best known. With Anni Albers and Gunta StAPlzl, she had revolutionised weaving, turning it from a craft into an art. She had come to Dessau a the iteration of the school most of us think of as the Bauhaus a in 1927, when she was 28. That same year, belatedly, the school had opened a department of architecture. A few months later, a young Austrian called Fritz Ertl signed up to study at it.

Officers in riot gear raid encampment at dawn as university warns demonstrators that failure to leave could lead to arrest

Police have dismantled the student-led Palestinian solidarity encampment at the University of Southern California.

About 4am on Saturday, as many as 100 Los Angeles police officers in riot gear raided the encampment at dawn as anti-war student demonstrators slept in the tents. In a series of tweets during the raid, the university warned demonstrators to leave the area, adding that apeople who donat leave could be arresteda.

More than 1,400 people have been arrested as police dismantle campus encampments a but are the tactics used too brutal?

More than 1,400 people have been arrested across the US during a week of intense police crackdowns on a sprawling campus movement of pro-Palestine student demonstrations.

As Joe Biden defended studentsa free speech rights but warned them that adissent must never lead to disordera, colleges across the country brought law enforcement to campus to arrest dozens or even hundreds of protesters and clear away their encampments.

The protests sweeping US universities have brought intense division, but some students have treasured hope, unity, solidarity and love

Seven months ago, before Hamas stormed into Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Eleanora Ginsborg and Samar Omer had never met.

But in the attackas violent aftermath, Ginsborg and Omer, students at the University of California, San Diego, forged a new friendship a and a new sense of activism-fueled purpose. A third student who already knew Omer alike a sistera, and requested to go by the pseudonym Hala Abdallah out of safety concerns, completed the group.

Many say the bill would help survivors be heard, broadening the range of people able to petition to see their sentence reviewed

In 1995, on the day before Kelly Savage-Rodriguez planned to flee her abusive husband, she ran some final errands while her children, ages three and one, napped. She hoped to take them on the early morning Amtrak from Porterville, California, to Los Angeles and stay with her brother, but when she returned, she said, she found that her husband had beaten and killed her three-year-old son, Justin. She called 911. The police arrested her along with her husband.

Savage-Rodriguez was jailed as she awaited trial, and said her lawyer did not have training in advocating for clients who suffered domestic violence. The judge used her history of abuse against her, she said, and said she was equally at fault for her sonas death under Californiaas afailure to protecta charges that can criminalize the non-abusive parent in a domestic violence case because she had not fled. She was later convicted and sentenced to life without parole, same as her abuser.

At Columbia University I saw young people who feel they have no choice but to risk their futures

On a hot day last week, the pavements outside Columbia University were heaving. About 200 protesters were gathered, making a noise that was bigger than their numbers, raising pro-Palestine chants and signs. It was a disparate crowd, diverse across ethnicities and generations. aIave lived in this neighbourhood all my life,a said one of them when I asked him why he was there. One smiling elderly lady walked through the crowd offering small bottles of water. A helicopter circled overhead. The police who encircled the crowd were jittery, yelling at passersby to keep moving, and raising the temperature of what was a loud but perfectly orderly and amiable crowd.

Once inside the campus, I made my way to the reason for protesters, the police and the high security at the university gates: an encampment of students on a patch of lawn at the heart of campus. It had been up for about two weeks at this point, after a series of demands to university administrators, including divestment from acompanies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheida, were not met.

Cosmetic procedures are on the rise among younger people; Iam barely 30. Still this is about more than just clinging to youth

Everyone goes through it: a reckoning with oneas own mortality in the mirror, poking at eye bags and tugging at folds of loose skin. Am I looking a bit rough? Itas part of the human condition to fear ageing, but among millennials and gen Z there seems to be a heightened anxiety around growing older, coupled with an increasingly casual attitude towards getting fillers and Botox compared with previous generations.

Almost half of millennial women polled by the BBC in 2019 said they believed that having a cosmetic procedure was akin to having a haircut. I can say from experience that it is not. Like many, I have fallen victim to negative anti-ageing rhetoric. After months of staring at my tired face on Zoom calls during lockdown, I felt as if my hot years were slipping through my fingers. When the world opened up, I found a doctor to arestorea my hollowed out under-eyes with 1ml of filler. I was barely 28.

Georgina Lawton is the author of Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity and the Truth About Where I Belong

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Our national style is anot too polisheda, apparently, and aa little bit undonea. Can we be a bit more specific?

Chioma Nnadi, who has taken over at British Vogue, says she has settled back in seamlessly after 20 years out of the UK. aI realised just how much growing up in London shaped me,a she told a Vogue Club podcast. aIave been talking a lot with my friends about this idea of British girl energy; itas just an irreverence, kind of a cheekiness, itas not too polished, and itas a little bit undone a|a

British girl energy, eh? I love this: time for us to claim our own style identity, like the French or the Scandinavians; something to be spoken of in vague, reverent generalities. This could be our new Cool Britannia moment, without the Gallagher brothers ruining everything. But what is BGE, beyond Nnadias idea of cheekiness and lack of polish?

Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist

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Radical honesty isnat for the faint-hearted, but itas one of the greatest joys Iave ever discovered

I never used to think of myself as a liar. I always saw myself as an honest person. The only time Iad ever veer from the truth was to protect someoneas feelings. But that wasnat really lying, I would tell myself, it was an act of kindness!

And then I had a therapy session, where I realised that all of this was actually people-pleasing behaviour and it turned out I was a prolific liar. Not only that, but according to my therapist, by constantly hiding my true feelings to protect those I loved, I was blocking them from ever getting to know the real me and creating true intimacy.

Radhika Sanghani is a writer and author. Her childrenas book The Girl Who Couldnat Lie is published on 9 May

Beware what the fitness gurus tell you: the body has its limits. Perhaps thatas why orthopaedic waiting lists are so long

I am preparing for an anaesthetist to sink a hypodermic needle into my back at a busy London hospital ahead of a scheduled surgery to replace my knee. Knowing this might be painful, I ask a fellow patient how he got his mind around the jab. aTwo spliffs of good dope worked for me,a he confessed. Iam yet to try that, but this is my second left knee replacement in less than 15 years a an increasingly common story as our population ages and obesity levels cause growing strain on our joints.

More than 2m hip and knee replacements have been performed in the UK since the early 2000s and waiting lists continue to grow. By 2060, demand for hip and knee joint replacement (based on data for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man) is estimated to increase by almost 40%.