• Chelsea target Garnacho but United want £50m fee

• Aston Villa and Bayern interested in Christopher Nkunku

Kobbie Mainoo wants to leave Manchester United after being squeezed to the margins by Ruben Amorim. The midfielder has not played a minute of the team’s two games this season and was demoted from first choice to substitute when he returned from injury last December.

United would countenance a suitable deal, but there may be a lack of attractive suitors for the 20-year-old this late in a window that closes on Monday.

Lisa Cook says she will not resign after Trump accused of ‘cobbling together’ mortgage fraud allegations against her

• Trump moves to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook

Lev Menand, a law professor at Columbia law school, said Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve chief Lisa Cook is a “procedurally invalid removal under the statute”.

Menand, who authored a book about the Fed’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic, also said for-cause firings are typically related to misconduct while in office, rather than based on private misconduct from before an official’s appointment.

Warm weather has created strong flavours that some say means fruit that’s ripe enough for still wine

UK vineyards are getting ready for a vintage year – and a very early harvest – with the warm, sunny weather caused by the heating climate delivering strong flavours in their grapes.

Across the UK the total amount of wine produced is likely to be up on last year. English growers alone added more than 1,000 hectares of vines in 2024, taking the total to 4,841, of which 3,763 was in active production in 2024, according to the industry body Wine GB.

Parent groups of Primark and B&Q hit as analysts say jobs and inflation concerns could affect sales

• Business live – latest updates

Fears that UK consumers will rein in spending in the second half of this year has knocked the values of some of Britain’s biggest retailers including the parent groups of Primark and B&Q, and DIY chain Wickes.

The retailers’ share prices dropped on Tuesday morning after analysts at Deutsche Bank warned that retail spending could be hit by the cooling UK jobs market and easing growth in household income.

Some might be partisan, others under external pressure – but too many journalists in Israel have failed to tell the truth about Gaza

• Roy Schwartz is a senior editor and op-ed contributor at Haaretz

Occasionally, the most important news comes from the headline that never appeared. That was the case last Friday on Israel’s Channel 13 evening news. Just a few hours earlier, a UN-backed expert body on food security released a report confirming that famine, its most severe category, has been reached in Gaza City. And yet this was not even mentioned.

While other news programmes did mention the report, it was clear they had taken its conclusions with a pinch of salt, to say the least. Aside from a few commentators who stated that there is indeed real hunger in Gaza City, the general tone was one of disbelief, seasoned with sarcasm.

Roy Schwartz is a senior editor and op-ed contributor at Haaretz

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Second strike at Gaza hospital happened just as journalists and rescue crews arrived

• Middle East crisis – live updates

The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double tap” bombing of Nasser hospital which killed 20 people, including five journalists, yield results and ensure accountability.

“There needs to be justice,” Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN’s human rights office, told reporters on Tuesday in Geneva. He added that the number of journalists killed in Gaza raised many questions about the targeting of media workers.