Trump called Comey a 'nut job' in meeting with Russians

'I just fired the head of the FBI, he was crazy,' President is reported to have said

Comey agrees to testify in public before the Senate Intel Committee

Cash-strapped councils 'breaking the law on air pollution'

New research finds dozens of authorities are failing their legal responsibilites, as a poll finds majority of the public want to ban high-polluting cars from cities

drop the target

May's migration pledge could be 'catastrophic' for British economy

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How Trump played down climate change in international declaration

Authorities savaged over death of transgender woman in men's prison

‘This was a death waiting to happen...There was no consideration of the gender she had openly identified with for half her life’

Where to avoid in the UK if you suffer from hay fever

Hay fever, an allergic reaction to pollen, is estimated to affect up to one in five people

Lifestyle

This is what it's like travelling with the laptop ban

Wondering what actually happens on a flight with the laptop ban in place? Fresh off a 13-hour flight without her electronics, Cynthia Drescher reports

Students use Snapchat to reveal rapes in awareness campaign

It's hoped the victims will feel like more than just statistics

Virtual reality porn could raise issues about consent, study says

Researchers said the emergence of VR porn could be positive if it was designed the right way

Students are buying rosemary to help them do better in their exams

Time for pre-exam rosemary roasties

talking points

Patrick Cockburn Trump's extravagant Saudi trip distracts from his crisis at home

Kirsty Major Facebook ‘dark ads’ will win this election for the Tories

Sunny Hundal Tory immigration policy tears families apart – and it's getting worse

Theresa May and Michael Fallon are too afraid to admit to how much it will cost us to cap immigrant numbers. Luckily, I don’t share such a fear

Ben Chu Tory manifesto: What are the economic implications?

Charlotte Gerada Young people hold the power in marginal Tory constituencies

If 18-24 year olds turned out at the national average level and if Labour retained their votes from 2015, 32 out of the 57 Labour-held marginals could be saved

Mark Steel Theresa May is right to take school meals off primary school pupils

As the Prime Minister points out, if Labour takes money from someone else and spends it on you, that must make you worse off

international

High turnout as Iran progressives vote to stop 'another Ahmadinejad'

Andrew Hammond This Iranian election could change the future of the Middle East

Driver charged with murder after Times Square car crash

Duterte's new front in war on drugs: Smoking ban for whole country

Long reads

A 'heretic' who says Muslims need to re-think sex, money, and violence

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most forceful and provocative feminist critics challenging Islam today. She is also in hiding. Andy Martin meets her in an undisclosed location and finds a woman on a mission, a woman who found the power to say No and the freedom it gave her

Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Raw life in a Northern town

Its grim portrayal of Eighties life on a Bradford council estate left many doubting the film’s authenticity, but 30 years on it continues to speak to and for people. David Barnett takes a walk down memory lane with George Costigan, who played the adulterous Bob

Hazel's murder was all but forgotten – until it inspired 'Twin Peaks'

The TV drama that first showed in the early nineties returns with a third series but its origins lie in a girl's death in upstate New York more than a century ago

Street Spirit review: A wonderfully crafted work about activism

Steve Crawshaw's Street Spirit is a celebration of some of the most remarkable protests from around the world that have used humour, courage and creativity to bring about change

Developing stories

General Election 2017

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Brexit

Immigration policy 'could force smaller curry houses out of business'

Donald Trump

Investigation into whether White House covered up Russian meddling

North Korea

Trump would have ‘10 minutes’ to react to North Korea missile strike

John Rentoul The ITV leaders debate was little more than a poor-quality pub discussion

Latest video

Dancing man in live TV news broadcast goes viral

Erdogan caught on camera watching bodyguards beat up protesters in DC

Times Square driver was 'hearing voices' during car rampage

Man describes tackling driver to floor after NYC fatal crash

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World news in pictures

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1/51 19 May 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for a visit to the troops of France's Barkhane counter-terrorism operation in Africa's Sahel region in Gao, northern Mali

EPA
2/51 19 May 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali,

AP
3/51 18 May 2017

Israeli soldiers fire tear gas during clashes with Palestinian protesters after a protest in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus

EPA
4/51 18 May 2017

Palestinians attack a passing vehicle belonging to an Israeli settler near the Hawara checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Nablus

Reuters
5/51 17 May 2017

The parliament building is seen through flare smoke during a demonstration of uniformed officers marking a 24-hour general strike against the latest round of austerity in Athens, Greece

Reuters
6/51 17 May 2017

Iranian President and candidate in the upcoming presidential elections Hassan Rouhani speaks during a campaign rally in the northwestern city of Ardabil

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7/51 16 May 2017

The skyline of Dubai is pictured from the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world standing at 828 metres

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8/51 16 May 2017

A makeshift altar with a cup of coffee, water glass and newspaper headlining the story of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez is pictured in a cafe previously frequented by Valdez in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico

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9/51 16 May 2017

France's newly appointed Prime Minister Edouard Philippe walks out his home in Paris, before going to the Hotel Matignon

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10/51 15 May 2017

An investigator works near wreckage at the site where a Learjet 35 crashed in Carlstadt, New Jersey

Reuters
11/51 15 May 2017

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born US citizen accused of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey, appears with Deputy Public Defender Peter Liguori in Union County Superior Court for a hearing in Elizabeth, New Jersey

Reuters
12/51 15 May 2017

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born US citizen accused of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey, appears in Union County Superior Court for a hearing in Elizabeth, New Jersey

Reuters
13/51 15 May 2017

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White Hous

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
14/51 15 May 2017

A television plays a news report on US President Donald Trump's recent Oval Office meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as night falls on offices and the entrance of the West Wing White House in Washington

Reuters
15/51 15 May 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures to French President Emmanuel Macron after addressing a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin

Getty
16/51 11 May 2017

The Borobudur temple seen illuminated during celebrations for Vesak Day in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

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17/51 11 May 2017

Buddhist followers walk around the Borobudur temple during Pradaksina procession as a part of celebrations for Vesak Day in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

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18/51 10 May 2017

Riot security forces clash with demonstrators during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in San Cristobal, Venezuela

Reuters
19/51 10 May 2017

Protesters denounce the firing of FBI Director James Comey by US President Donald Trump amid investigations into possible collusion between Trump advisors and the Russian government

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20/51 10 May 2017

Protesters outside a federal building in Los Angeles, California denounce the firing of FBI Director James Comey by US President Donald Trump

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21/51 10 May 2017

Isabel Cardenas holds a sign in Los Angeles, California as protestors denounce the firing of FBI Director James Comey by US President Donald Trump amid investigations into possible collusion between Trump advisors and the Russian government

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22/51 10 May 2017

Protesters on an overpass above the 101 freeway denounce the firing of FBI Director James Comey by US President Donald Trump amid investigations into possible collusion between Trump advisors and the Russian government in Los Angeles, California

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23/51 10 May 2017

Protesters on an overpass above the 101 freeway denounce the firing of FBI Director James Comey by US President Donald Trump amid investigations into possible collusion between Trump advisors and the Russian government in Los Angeles, California

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24/51 10 May 2017

Volunteers carry water for the displaced as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq

Reuters
25/51 10 May 2017

Alibaba employees attend a mass wedding at their headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

Reuters
26/51 10 May 2017

Alibaba Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang and employees attend a mass wedding at their headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

Reuters
27/51 10 May 2017

Indian villagers and forestry workers gather around the carcass of an elephant as it lies near railway tracks after being struck by a passenger train at Kiranchandra Tea Garden, some 30kms, from Siliguri

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28/51 9 May 2017

A woman and a girl run away as riot security forces and demonstrators clash during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Tariba, Venezuela

Reuters
29/51 9 May 2017

Riot security forces clash with demonstrators during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Tariba, Venezuela

Reuters
30/51 9 May 2017

Protestors linked to streets movements install an inflatable figure resembling former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva dressed as a prisoner in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil

EPA
31/51 9 May 2017

Messages are seen on plastic containers filled with faeces, called 'Poopootovs', which is a play on Molotov cocktails, before they are thrown at security forces during protests, in addition to the usual rocks and petrol bombs, in Caracas, Venezuela. The messages read, 'Freedom', 'Free Venezuela', 'For the future', 'For Venezuela', 'This is you', 'For the political prisoners', 'Murderers', 'GNB you are this' and 'For our children'

Reuters
32/51 9 May 2017

Alan Ruschel and Helio Neto, Chapocoense survivors of the air crash in Colombia last November, visit the spot of the accident near La Union, Colombia

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33/51 9 May 2017

Allan Ruschel, a Brazilian player who survived the air crash in which most of the Chapocoense football team died in Colombia last November, hugs the firewoman who helped him on the night of the accident, at la Union, Antioquia

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Alan Ruschel, Chapocoense survivor of the air crash in Colombia last November, in La Union, Colombia, for their final match against Colombian team Atletico Nacional for the Recopa Sudamericana

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35/51 9 May 2017

Family and friends mourn the death of their loved ones during the massive wake in San Isidro Chilchotla, Puebla state, Mexico

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36/51 9 May 2017

US former President Barack Obama is silhouetted as he leaves the stage at the end of his speech during the third edition of 'Seed & Chips: The Global Food Innovation Summit' focussing on new technologies for feeding the globe, from agriculture to distribution in Milan

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37/51 9 May 2017

A protestor holds stones to throw at police forces during a violent service delivery protest in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, South Africa

EPA
38/51 9 May 2017

Police forces shoot at protestors during a violent service delivery protest in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, South Africa

EPA
39/51 9 May 2017

Protestors stand by burning barricades during a violent service delivery protest in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, South Africa

EPA
40/51 9 May 2017

Russian servicemen march at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow

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41/51 9 May 2017

Russian servicewomen march at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow

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42/51 8 May 2017

A demonstrator performs on a violin during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela

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43/51 8 May 2017

A Venezuelan opposition demonstrator waves a flag at the riot police in a clash during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caraca

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44/51 8 May 2017

Demonstrators help another protestor during clashes with members of the National Bolivarian Guard (GNB) in Caracas, Venezuela

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45/51 8 May 2017

Canada geese (Branta canadensis) swin floodwaters near a house in St-Eustache, Quebec, Canada

EPA
46/51 8 May 2017

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) bring sand bags to protect the library and the city hall by floodwaters in Oka, Quebec, Canada

EPA
47/51 8 May 2017

Outgoing French President Francois Hollande touches the arm of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron, during a ceremony to mark Victory Day in Paris

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48/51 8 May 2017

Ceremonial troops prepare for a ceremony to mark Victory Day in Paris, France. French president-elect Emmanuel Macron, will appear Monday alongside current President Francois Hollande in commemoration of the end of World War II

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49/51 8 May 2017

Reza Parastesh, a doppelganger of Barcelona and Argentina's footballer Lionel Messi, poses for a picture with fans in a street in Tehran, Iran

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50/51 7 May 2017

Former US President Barack Obama speaks after receiving the 2017 Profile in Courage Award during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts

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51/51 7 May 2017

Former President Barack Obama, right, is presented with the 2017 Profile in Courage award by former US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, during ceremonies at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston

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sport

Football

Aguero and Jesus can play together, insists Guardiola

Jesus' emergence has seen Aguero's first-choice status come under threat

Cricket

Cook continues prolific start as Anderson suffers injury scare

Championship review: Lancashire paceman Anderson limped off with groin trouble midway through his sixth over at Old Trafford. Elsewhere, Cook chalked up his 58th first-class century

Voices

John Rentoul I agree with Jeremy: Brexit has been settled

Editorial It is a disgrace that Julian Assange has escaped due legal process

At least the founder of WikiLeaks has suffered the rough justice of imprisoning himself in the Ecuadorian embassy for five years

culture

Film

Johnny Depp rejected early script of Pirates 5 over female villain

Screenwriter Terry Rossio revealed that the actor thought it would be 'redundant' to Dark Shadows, which also had a female villain

Music

Chris Cornell's family dispute verdict he intentionally killed himself

The musician was found dead in his Detroit hotel room Wednesday after performing at a concert

tv & radio

TV preview: Twin Peaks (Sky Atlantic, Tuesday, 9pm)

Plus Broken (BBC1, Tuesday 9pm), The Andrew Neil Interviews (BBC1, Monday to Friday, 7pm), Secrets of our Favourite Snacks (Channel 4, Tuesday 8pm), Count Arthur Strong (BBC1, Friday 9pm), RHS Chelsea Flower Show (Monday to Friday, BBC1 3.45pm/7.30pm, BBC2 8pm)