Discovery at Monte Verde puts north-to-south expansion theory back at centre of heated debate on continent’s human history

A groundbreaking new study may have once again upended our understanding of human prehistory in the Americas.

For years, the predominant theory of how humans arrived in the western hemisphere centred around the Clovis culture, which crossed the Beringia land bridge from Asia between 13,400 and 12,800 years ago, and spread south.

• ‘It’s been great. I couldn’t ask to be in a better position’

• Hodgkinson 800m favourite at World Indoors in Poland

Keely Hodgkinson believes she could not be in better shape to win a first world title this weekend having kicked on again after breaking the indoor 800m world record last month.

The Olympic champion is the overwhelming favourite for gold at the World Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze, Poland, and sounded bullish when asked if she had pushed on in training after obliterating Jolanda Ceplak’s record by running 1min 54.87sec in Liévin in February.

Taking money from just about anyone is just the latest example of Reform’s leader following the Trump school of self-enrichment

Nigel Farage will say pretty much anything for money. Write him a script, stuff a coin in the slot and off he goes: the man who would be prime minister can be your personal mouthpiece for less than £100.

Or at least, that’s the obvious explanation for why – as exposed by the Guardian – the Reform leader has been churning out written-to-order video messages on request for (among others) Canadian white supremacists, a man jailed for throwing a bottle during the 2024 summer riots, and someone apparently keen to hear him talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “big naturals”, pornified slang describing the breasts of a woman who could be running for US president before long.

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Distributor says authorities warned screening Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama could harm India–Israel relations

The Indian release of The Voice of Hind Rajab, the Oscar-nominated Tunisian film about the death of a five-year-old girl during the Israel-Gaza war, has been blocked by the country’s ratings body, according to the film’s Indian distributor.

In a report by Variety , Manoj Nandwana of Mumbai-based Jai Viratra Entertainment said that he was told that if the film was released, it would “break up” India-Israel relations.

• Clubs may be able to roll over squad cost ratio allowance

• £30 price cap on away tickets extended until 2027-28 season

The Premier League is poised to amend its new spending rules before they are introduced next season to give clubs greater flexibility in the transfer market.

Under squad cost ratio (SCR) rules approved last November clubs will be restricted to spending 85% of their revenue on player costs, with a levy payable to the Premier League, for distribution among the other clubs, in the event of a breach. A six-point deduction would also be imposed if a club’s spending reached 115% of revenue.

Daria Boyarskaya coordinating OSCE mission to monitor next month’s parliamentary vote in country

Hungarian rights groups have raised concerns over the appointment of Vladimir Putin’s former interpreter to a key role in an international election monitoring mission, amid fears of Russian interference ahead of Hungary’s crucial vote next month .

Daria Boyarskaya, who worked for many years for Russia’s foreign ministry and interpreted in numerous high-level meetings including one between Putin and Donald Trump, is now a senior adviser at the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE-PA), based in Vienna. She is coordinating the body’s mission to monitor next month’s parliamentary election in Hungary.

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I can’t help but note that McAtee and Lucca were both hooked at half-time when Fenerbahce visited Nottingham; both start tonight . I guess it’s possible Forest use the first half to stay in the game, then send on their better players to try and steal a result, but given they went close to full-strength in the home leg, it feels like the 1-0 defeat has persuaded them to abandon their hopes of winning this competition.

So, Mats Sels, Ola Aina, Neco Williams, Murillo, Morgan Gibbs-White, Elliot Anderson, and Igor Jesus are all left on the bench with Spurs on Sunday in mind; Stefan Ortega, Morato, Dan Ndoye, Lorenzo Lucca, Omari Hutchinson, Ryan Yates, James McAtee, Dilane Bakwa and Zach Abbott come into the XI. I don’t know, do we not think progress and a good performance would help them at the weekend? Pah, etc.

This wasn’t just a mean-spirited version of Britain, it was also positively deranged

Abandon hope all ye who enter here. You’d have thought this would be the very definition of futility. An act of defiant nihilism. A few weeks ago Kemi Badenoch had declared that the Tory candidate for Gorton and Denton, Charlotte Cadden, had been the real winner despite getting under 2% of the vote and losing her deposit. Now Kemi was to launch the Conservatives’ local election campaign in the certain knowledge the end result would be electoral wipeout. Tory councillors falling on their swords en masse.

And yet… This was politics as looking-glass war. Where all the old certainties were gone. Where you couldn’t be sure that anything was real. Because inside the cafe at St John’s Smith Square in Westminster, the excitement was tangible. Most of the shadow cabinet were lined up in the front row behind the podium, their smiles more or less genuine. And behind them about a hundred Tory activists, chanting and waving banners and union jacks. You could even spot John Redwood lurking in the background. The night of the living dead.

Donald Trump is threatening to ‘blow up’ a major Iranian energy facility, as attacks on gasfields across the Middle East send gas and oil prices skyrocketing again. The threat comes after Israeli strikes on the South Pars gasfield prompted Iran to retaliate with attacks on energy facilities across the region, including in Qatar. It marks a serious escalation in the war, which could cause long-term disruption to energy supplies. Lucy Hough speaks to senior international reporter Peter Beaumont