‘Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation,’ said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

At least 25 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunshots overnight, according to health officials and the ambulance service on Saturday, as ceasefire talks appear to have stalled and Palestinians in Gaza face famine.

The majority of victims were killed by gunfire as they waited for aid trucks close to the Zikim crossing with Israel, said staff at Shifa hospital, where the bodies were brought.

Captain’s 141 runs match his impressive return to form with the ball as he shows he is far more than a coach in whites

An evening’s rest didn’t change much. Most of India’s morning was of the hands-on-hips variety, an homage to a crestfallen Dwight Schrute listening to Everybody Hurts , 135 overs in the field to blame. Jasprit Bumrah found space to detonate the top of Liam Dawson’s off-stump but Brydon Carse – half-centurion at Lord’s, beefing up England’s tail at 10 – remained at ease.

This was a welcome situation to end the drought. Ben Stokes had a mixed Friday, sliding into Joe Root’s passenger seat, taking his customary blow to the box on 13, then retiring hurt with leg cramp on 66. He returned before the close, finishing unbeaten on 77 to guarantee Old Trafford’s attention when play resumed on Saturday. It had been nearly two years since his last century in any game.

People in Kryoneri, north-east of the Greek capital, receive SMS messages telling them to get to safe areas

A wildfire burned through a northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Saturday and some residents were ordered to evacuate, the country’s fire service reported.

Residents of the town of Kryoneri, 12.5 miles (20km) north-east of Athens, received three SMS messages to evacuate to safe areas, fire service spokesperson Vassilis Vathrakoyannis told reporters.

• Physical tributes removed and stored by club

• Minute silence planned for league opener on 15 August

Liverpool will create a permanent tribute to Diogo Jota and André Silva while the Premier League champions will wear a “Forever 20” emblem on their shirts in the new campaign. The club confirmed the news before Saturday’s friendly in Hong Kong, where a much-changed side lost 4-2 to Milan.

Jota died in a car crash along with his brother Silva in Spain on 3 July. Tributes were paid at Anfield with flowers, scarves, cards and jerseys being laid around the ground. The club confirmed that physical tributes have been removed and stored, while floral tributes will be composted and used in flower beds at Anfield and training facilities. The remaining items will be recycled and used to create a permanent memorial sculpture at Anfield.

After traumatic fallout from their 2023 triumph, Montse Tomé’s team are fighting for more than just a trophy

For England, the last World Cup final remains a kind of open wound. The mistake by Lucy Bronze that allowed Olga Carmona to score the only goal of the game; Lauren Hemp hitting the crossbar; the opportunities not taken; the surges of momentum not rewarded; the sense of a golden inheritance slipping inexorably through their fingers. For the players who remain, and for coach Sarina Wiegman, Sunday’s European Championship final offers a chance for redemption.

If all this is normal and regular enough, then what is perhaps more unusual is that much of the above is also true for their victorious opponents.

The Lionesses’ record under the Dutch coach is impressive but winning the Euro 2025 final could make them immortal

Twice in the past week, England’s Lionesses have rolled the dice, ridden their luck, and performed sleight of hand worthy of the magic circle. The question now, as they prepare to face Spain in Sunday’s Women’s Euro 2025 final in Basel, is can they pull yet another rabbit out of the hat?

Perhaps the only thing we know for certain is that the country will be watching. More than 10 million saw England’s women claw their way past Italy in Tuesday’s semi-final, a figure that brought in ITV’s highest viewing figures of the year. After that, though, everything is up for grabs.

Striker’s cold and mercantile transfer saga casts doubt on the club’s ability to capitalise on its Saudi windfall

Football is a market. It has always been a market and it is more of a market now than it has ever been before. Everybody is constantly looking for a better deal, and everybody has a price. Every club has its place in the ecosystem and those higher up the chain will always take from those below them, who in turn will take from those below them.

All a club can ever hope to do is to inch their way higher and higher in the structure, to increase the number of clubs they can feed on while reducing the number of predators who can feed on them.

• Vos wins stage one after teammate Ferrand-Prévot tires

• Marlen Reusser out of race after crash in Brittany

Marianne Vos claimed victory on the opening stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes – and the overall leader’s yellow jersey – after a dramatic finale in Plumelec.

Vos’s Visma Lease a bike teammate, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, had looked set to take the stage on home soil after making a late break for the finish. The French rider ran out of steam, however, and Vos overtook her teammate with Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) threatening to grab victory and the maillot jaune instead.

• ‘We have to keep opening doors,’ says Spanish captain

• Semi-final was watched by 3.3 million people in Spain

Irene Paredes feels Spain have broken down barriers for women in their society since lifting the World Cup two years ago but the Euro 2025 finalists still have work to do.

Spain have reached their first women’s European final and are hoping to inspire more change at home, with 3.3 million viewers watching their semi-final victory over Germany.