• Dowman’s father and brother pass Fifa agent exams

• 16-year-old has been inundated with agent approaches

Max Dowman’s father and brother have obtained Fifa agent licences with the family intent on managing his career for the foreseeable future.

The family has been inundated with approaches from agents since Dowman made his Arsenal debut as a 15-year-old last August but there are no plans to sign with a major talent or representation agency. Last weekend, at 16 years and 73 days, Dowman became the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history.

The US president is using the language and the strategy of authoritarians once again

There’s nothing completely new in Donald Trump’s latest attacks on reporters.

But they’re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda – not factual journalism – for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran.

Footage of women walking between bars and clubs in UK city centres, often filmed covertly, is proliferating online – attracting thousands of views and profits for those who post them. Can anything be done to stop the creepshots?

‘My friend just sent me this video, told me she’d found me in it,” read the text. “As I was looking for myself, I noticed you’re in it too. I didn’t know I was being filmed, guess you don’t either, just wanted to let you know …”

When Nancy Naylor Hayes received the message in November 2023, she felt a twinge of fear. It was from an acquaintance she hadn’t heard from in years. “I was panicking,” she says. The text pointed her to a Facebook link, which led to a montage of clips of women filmed on the streets of Manchester during nights out.

Tehran residents try to stay safe from bombing and cling to their livelihoods as war stretches into third week

Up to 3.2 million people have been temporarily displaced in Iran since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign, the UN’s refugee agency estimates , a figure that is likely to rise as the war stretches into a third week.

A burning oil depot in the distance after an airstrike, 8 March.

German food delivery firm’s share price has plummeted by 93% since 2021 boom during Covid lockdowns

HelloFresh has reported a sharp decline in sales as the struggling food delivery company battles falling demand after the pandemic-era meal kit boom.

The German company was forced to make 900 UK job cuts last year with the closure of a delivery site in Nuneaton, and the demand for meal kits tumbled as revenue fell by more than 11% during 2025.

Governments in countries heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil introduce measures to shield public from soaring costs

• Middle East crisis – live updates

In Thailand, news anchors ditched their jackets on air as the government called on the public to reduce their use of air conditioning to save energy. In the Philippines, many government workers are now operating on a four-day week. In Vietnam, officials have urged employers to allow staff to work from home.

Across south-east Asia, governments are scrambling to find ways to conserve energy and shield the public from soaring costs as war in the Middle East causes what the International Energy Agency has described as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

A new exhibition explores how graphic design helped define New York City’s response to Aids from the late 1970s to the 2000s. Grassroots groups such as Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up created posters to promote safe sex and healthcare, as well as calling out the Reagan administration for inaction in the face of the crisis. Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS is on display until 6 September.

Two women fall into and out of each other’s lives over decades, in a moving examination of love and choices

Given that novels are routinely touted as the new version of some previous chartbuster, Almost Life will doubtless be heralded as One Day meets Normal People for a sexually fluid generation. Featuring romantic indecisions spanning many years and an unironic take on the youthful psyche, it already reads as familiar.

The novel opens in Paris in 1978 with a moment of affinity on the steps of Sacré-Coeur when students Laure Boutin and Erica Parker first glimpse each other, and then teases the reader with more than 400 pages of will-they-won’t-they misunderstandings, ecstasies and sorrows. This is a tale of missed chances, of the choices we make, and of queer and bisexual love in different social climates.

A Manchester-set tale of money laundering and divided loyalties pairs slick visuals with well-worn genre beats, an engaging if uneven stab at a sweeping gangster epic

A sizeable wedge of this film’s budget was clearly thrown at its opening scenes: they are set at a lavish British-Pakistani wedding, a shiny Lamborghini coiling around the venue like a polished snake. (Helpfully, the voiceover explains that guests have mostly hired their cars for the day to keep up appearances.) Elsewhere, Apnas is flimsy and no-frills, dangling the promise of doing something new with the British crime drama, then ticking off all the genre’s boxes, from shotgun-wielding criminals to gangsters sitting in garages feeding wads of cash into money counters.

James Greaney plays Awais, a wide-eyed British Asian accountant in Manchester who embarks on a thrilling new life as a “washer” in his uncle’s drugs empire, laundering drug money using cryptocurrencies. Except that Awais really does embody the stereotype of a mild-mannered accountant, so it’s his cousin Majid, AKA MK (Asim Ashraf), who is living it large, bumping off rivals and generally making a flashy show of being a drug dealer, to the despair of his father, who hides his crime network behind the facade of being a prominent politician in Pakistan.

In the end, Apnas’s resources don’t quite stretch to meet its ambitions for a sprawling crime epic. It’s got plenty of front and chutzpah, and there is an interesting-ish family drama involving Awais dealing with issues around his identity as a second-generation British Asian. His father, Aslam (Nitin Ganatra) is a taxi driver with high expectations for his kids: Awais to be financially successful, a good marriage for his sister. Her journalling gives the film its voiceover – but it’s a weak link, partly because her character is thinner than the paper of the pages on which she writes her diary.