A court has ruled the UK does not need to pay Rwanda after the UK pulled a deal between the two countries.

Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24 Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box office for his directing debut Backrooms. Parsons, 20, is seven years younger than the previous record holder, Josh Trank, who was 27 when his debut Chronicle recorded a $22m opening in 2011. Backro…

France has detained a Russian-linked oil tanker, the Tagor, in the Atlantic, suspecting it of violating sanctions imposed over the Ukraine war. Russia vehemently condemned the seizure as illegal, bordering on 'international terrorism,' and vowed to protect its shipping. This action is part of a wider Western effort to curb Russia's 'shadow fleet' used to circumvent sanctions.

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.

From international business events to school recitals, June schedules pile on more than we can handle