Newspaper review: King's new portrait and US warnings to Georgia
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A new portrait of King Charles unveiled on Tuesday features on the front of many front page newspapers.
In other news, the Daily Telegraph leads with a call from Policing Minister Chris Philp for forces to increase their use of stop-and-search to tackle knife crime.
The Daily Mail is one of several papers to report government plans to ban all sex education for under-nines. It says the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, will unveil the proposals tomorrow.
The Guardian's front page includes a report on Georgia being warned by the US not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow, as its parliament defied mass street protests to pass a “Kremlin-inspired” law.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the Work and Pensions minister Mel Stride have written an article in the Times in which they argue unemployed people have "ample opportunity" to find a job, with no good reason to "languish on benefits".
Elsewhere, the Metro says a record three million food parcels have been handed to desperate UK families. Quoting figures from the Trussell Trust food bank it says the number has doubled in five years.
Over 90 minutes Saturday at Commanders Field, a test turned into an embarrassment, the worst defeat of the Gregg Berhalter era, and the worst possible start to what should be a special summer.
Jon Rahm withdrew from the LIV Golf Houston event during Saturday's second round. He has been dealing with a cut between two toes that developed into an infection.
There’s more bad news for Byju’s. In a research note, HSBC estimates that the Indian edtech giant, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing. The write-down in its estimation makes Byju’s one of the most spectacular startup slides in recent memory and follows a very rough year for what was India’s most valuable startup not long ago. After raising $100 million, AI mortgage startup LoanSnap is facing an avalanche of lawsuits and has been evicted from its main office. At least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, have collectively alleged that the company owes them more than $2 million.
If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? “I lost both of my parents in college, and it didn’t initially spark this interest to go start a business around my experience,” said Bereave co-founder Elijah Linder. In the immediate aftermath of Linder’s loss, founding a company would have been a long shot.