David Lammy has spoken of his friendship with the US vice-president, JD Vance, as the pair can relate over their “dysfunctional” working-class childhoods.

In a series of interviews with the Guardian, conducted over several weeks, the foreign secretary opened up about a “wonderful hour and a half” spent with Vance over drinks at the US embassy in Italy in May alongside the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.

Lammy said he had been to mass at Vance’s home and counted him as a “friend”, saying the vice-president “relates” to him over their shared background.

“I remember being at the inauguration of the new pope in Rome with Angela Rayner and JD Vance,” he

A sex toy was tossed onto the court during a WNBA game for the second time this week.

Video showed the sex toy out of bounds under a basket after a whistle was blown to stop play during the third quarter of the Golden State Valkyries’ 73-66 victory over the Chicago Sky. An official then kicked it aside before it was picked up and removed.

“It’s super disrespectful,” Sky center Elizabeth Williams said in the postgame press conference. “I don’t really get the point of it. It’s really immature. Whoever is doing it needs to grow up.”

A similar incident occurred Tuesday during the Valkyries’ 77-75 victory over the Atlanta Dream in

Ursula von der Leyen’s Turnberry golf course deal has been rightly called a capitulation and a humiliation for Europe. Assuming such an accord would put an end to Donald Trump’s coercion and bullying was either naive or the result of a miserable delusion. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Trump.

Is this deal really as bad as it sounds? Unfortunately, it is, for at least three reasons.

The blow to Europe’s international credibility is incalculable in a world that expects the EU to stand up for reciprocity and rules-based trade, to resist Washington’s coercion as Canada, China and Brazil have, rather than condoning it.

Economically, it’s

The Tottenham captain Son Heung-min has revealed he intends to leave the club this summer after a decade in north London.

The 33-year-old forward joined the Premier League side from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015 and went on to play more than 450 times for Spurs. In May he lifted the Europa League trophy but he had a poor season overall by his high standards and struggled with injury.

“Before we start the press conference I wanted to say I have decided to leave the club this summer,” the South Korean told reporters on Saturday in Seoul, where Tottenham are on a pre-season tour. “Respectfully the club is helping me with this

The death toll from Russia’s worst airstrike of the year on Ukraine’s capital rose to 31 on Friday after rescuers recovered more than a dozen more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in Kyiv overnight. A two-year-old was among the five children found dead after Thursday’s Russian drone and missile attack, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Friday, announcing the end of the rescue operation. A total of 159 people were wounded in the strikes, which saw Russia launch more than 300 drones and eight missiles early on Thursday.

The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, described Thursday’s attacks as “depraved” and posted a