Australian jury asked to consider if murder accused was pretending to be sick after lunch that killed three in-laws

• Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?

The mushroom paste was contained in a vial about 2cm wide and 5cm high, with the exhibit name EX X1 Z13.

The paste was taken from inside a beef wellington, which in turn was taken from inside a paper bag found in a wheelie bin outside Erin Patterson’s home.

Event, a highlight of city of culture celebrations, will involve 500 musicians playing everything from Mozart to bhangra

“The whole thing is chaos,” said the conductor Charles Hazlewood, before a weekend art project with the artist Jeremy Deller that will feature Handel on Ilkley Moor at sunrise, disco from a tractor, opera blasted out of modified car sound systems and much more.

“But it will be organised chaos,” added Hazlewood. “An acceptance of chaos … which is what it’s like to live in a city, isn’t it? You have to embrace the chaos.”

We’d like to hear from people in the UK looking for work how they have experienced visiting a Jobcentre branch, and whether they’d found it helpful

We’d like to hear how people in the UK looking for work have experienced visiting Jobcentre branches.

Have you found your visit to a Jobcentre helpful? Did the support offered by the Jobcentre match your expectations? Has the Jobcentre helped you find work? Tell us.

Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heist

Duncan Campbell, the celebrated Guardian crime reporter, writer and broadcaster whose work highlighted corruption, the shortcomings in the justice system and miscarriages of justice, has died at the age of 80.

Campbell was one of the most respected crime correspondents of his generation, fearlessly pursuing police corruption and reporting on some of the most iconic criminal cases of recent decades, including the Rosemary West trial and the Hatton Garden heist.

Cannes film festival
Hafsia Herzi manages sexuality with confidence in her first Palme d’Or competition film, featuring an affecting lead performance from newcomer Nadia Melliti

Actor turned director Hafsia Herzi presents her first feature in the Cannes competition: a coming-of-age story of queer Muslim identity, with all the painful, irreconcilable imperatives that this implies, complicating the existing insoluble agonies of just getting to be an adult. It is adapted from La Petite Dernière, or The Last One , the autofictional novel by Franco-Algerian author Fatima Daas about growing up as the kid sister, the youngest of three girls, in an Algerian family in a Paris suburb with her mum, dad and siblings.

Non-professional newcomer Nadia Melliti plays Fatima, a smart kid battling with asthma who likes books, likes football, likes freestyling, likes running – and likes girls. (This last interest is secret.) As Fatima prepares to leave school and start her first year at university (while living at home, of course) she cultivates a protective deadpan manner and wears a cap: the secular-western camouflage equivalent of a head covering. She has to negotiate her way out of what appears to be an unofficial engagement with a Muslim boy into which she has drifted. His feelings, and perhaps his sense of entitlement, will be hurt. So be it.

From wordless books to dynamic bestsellers and those that will give your kids a giggling fit, these are some of our readers favourites stories to share

New research has shown a decline in the number of parents reading aloud to young children , with only 41% of 0 to four-year-olds now being read to regularly, down from 64% in 2012. The survey, conducted by publisher HarperCollins and book data company Nielsen, also found that less than half of parents find reading to kids fun.

With this in mind, we asked parents to share recommendations of books they enjoy reading aloud. Add your own suggestions to the list in the comments below.

Hadi Matar was convicted of attempted murder for 2022 attack that left writer blind in his right eye

The man found guilty of attempted murder of Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

On Friday, the Chautauqua county court issued the sentence to Hadi Matar, 27, of New Jersey, nearly three months after he was first convicted of attempted murder in the second degree.

Path to peace looks as unclear as it was before European leaders’ meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv

• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates

This week began with four European leaders, standing defiantly in Kyiv alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy, issuing an ultimatum to Vladimir Putin: sign a ceasefire now, or together with Donald Trump we will force you to do so, with sanctions and other tough measures.

Over the subsequent days, there followed a series of offers, counter-offers, ultimatums and deflections, in a dizzying week of high-stakes diplomacy that often seemed to resemble a geopolitical poker game.

Film festival’s rules designed to protect ‘decency’ and seating arrangements stir controversy among those who read them

Not for the first time, organisers of the Cannes film festival, the ritziest and most photographed in the industry’s calendar, have decreed that various outfits will not be allowed on the red carpet this year.

An official statement released earlier this week stated that for “decency reasons” there will be “no naked dressing” – and no oversized outfits either – “in particular those with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theatre”.