Exclusive: Former British PM urges police to reopen inquiry – and claims media executive Will Lewis attempted to incriminate him

• I have now spoken to police officers who say they were misled by Murdoch’s empire. I won’t let this rest | Gordon Brown

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has made a new complaint to British police over allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire obstructed justice, after stating he has spoken to officers involved in the original phone-hacking inquiry.

Writing in the Guardian, Brown said one of the detectives had alleged they believed there was “significant evidence” that News Group Newspapers (NGN) deleted millions of emails to pervert the course of justice.

Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

Nigel Farage is a “political fraud and hypocrite” who is “cosplaying” as a working-class champion in order to win votes at this week’s local elections, the UK’s most senior union chief has warned.

In a stark rejection of the Reform UK leader’s attempts to court the trade unions, Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, said there were “massive contradictions” in Farage’s positions on issues ranging from workers’ rights, the economy, industry and Brexit.

Francis sought to lower age profile and broaden spread of college of cardinals and for most it is their first conclave

Conservative and progressives will intensify efforts to shape the future of the Roman Catholic church in the coming days as 135 cardinals prepare to be sequestered in the Sistine Chapel in order to choose a successor to Pope Francis.

The group of cardinals who will vote for the next leader of about 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide are less predictable than ever before, with the vast majority having no experience of a papal conclave. A much wider geographic spread of cardinals adds to the uncertainty.

Workers at contractor in Accra say they have suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of their work

Meta is facing a second set of lawsuits in Africa over the psychological distress experienced by content moderators employed to take down disturbing social media content including depictions of murders, extreme violence and child sexual abuse.

Lawyers are gearing up for court action against a company contracted by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, after meeting moderators at a facility in Ghana that is understood to employ about 150 people.

Moderators working for Majorel in Accra claim they have suffered from depression, anxiety, insomnia and substance abuse as a direct consequence of the work they do checking extreme content.

Driver in custody, say police in Canadian city, after incident at Filipino festival for Lapu Lapu Day

Several people were killed when a driver ploughed a car into a crowd at a street festival on Saturday in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local police said.

“A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured,” Vancouver police posted online. “The driver is in custody.”

EHRC releases guidance in response to supreme court ruling, saying trans men and women need ‘suitable alternatives’

The UK’s equalities watchdog has said trans women and men “should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use” as it issued interim guidance after the supreme court ruling on biological sex.

Trans women “should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities” in workplaces or public-facing services like shops and hospitals, the EHRC said, and the same applies to trans men, who are biologically female, using men’s toilets.

A crossbow and firearm were found at the scene in Headingley and a man was detained with a self-inflicted injury

Counter-terrorism police have been called in after two women were seriously injured in Leeds and a crossbow and a gun were seized by police, while a male suspect with a self-inflicted injury was arrested.

West Yorkshire police were called at 2.47pm on Saturday after reports of a man with weapons. The two women injured were taken to hospital, while a 38-year-old man was arrested and taken to hospital. Their injuries were not regarded as life-threatening, police said.

US president admits to concern Russian counterpart does not want to ‘stop the war’ and ponders new approach to Moscow

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.

• Final: Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid (aet)
• Pedri 28 Torres 84, Koundé 116; Mbappé 70, Tchouaméni

It was late, and they were tired, but with four minutes left and long after midnight in Seville Jules Koundé found the strength to send a shot flying into the net and the Barcelona fans behind the goal into raptures. The fireworks were lit and the men in blue and red sprinted towards him from all sides of this stadium: here, at last, it was. The Copa del Rey final, a first clásico final in 11 years, had a winner. They had been a goal up and a goal down, they had thought they had a last-minute penalty to win it, but now the Catalan side had done it. Real Madrid had fought and rebelled, but eventually they were defeated 3-2.

You might call it a game of two halves, but there were four of them, and they had been superb. They also had an unlikely man there at the heart of a decisive moment: Pedri, Kylian Mbappé, Aurélien Tchouaméni and Ferran Torres had all scored and now it was Koundé who did. It had also had a very, very likely man standing in the middle of what might have been the decisive moment: after all the talk about referees, after Madrid had boycotted pre-match activities and the threat that they might boycott the game itself, it was indeed the officials who took the spotlight at the decisive moment.

Russian security service alleges Ukrainian agent Ignat Kuzin rigged car with homemade explosives; Trump meets Zelenskyy and expresses doubt that Putin wants a ceasefire. What we know on day 1,159

Russia’s FSB secret service said on Saturday that it had detained a man it suspects of killing a senior general with a car bomb outside Moscow. Russia has accused Kyiv of being behind the blast on Friday, which killed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik. The FSB alleged a Ukrainian agent it named as Ignat Kuzin rigged a Volkswagen Golf in the city of Balashikha with a homemade explosive device from a Ukrainian secret service stash in the Moscow area and that the bomb was then detonated remotely from Ukraine. A video released by the FSB showed a man identified as Kuzin, and what was said to be his arrest taking place on a forest road. Kyiv has not commented on the blast, which bore the hallmarks of previous attacks on military figures and high-profile backers of the Kremlin’s offensive.

Donald Trump has said he doubts Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine and expressed scepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. The comments come only a day after Trump said Ukraine and Russia were “very close to a deal”. As William Christou writes, Trump said on Saturday that “there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days … It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along.”

Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, sat down for a face-to-face talk in the Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire. The White House described Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”. Trump suggested after the meeting that he might put secondary sanctions on Russia and/or ratchet up banking restrictions.

Andrew Roth writes that for months, Zelenskyy and European leaders have struggled to get through to Trump that Putin does not want to stop the war. Now they might see hope for a change, but, Roth writes in his analysis, “This could, of course, all come to naught. The US president is notoriously mercurial.” A possible second Trump-Zelenskyy meeting in Rome did not take place.

Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, after a “very positive” exchange with Zelenskyy, that Ukraine was ready for an unconditional ceasefire with the help of the US and Europe, and that the so-called “coalition of the willing” led by France and Britain would continue working on achieving that, as well as on “ending the war in Ukraine. That is an objective that we share in common with President Trump.” Zelenskyy also met the British prime minister, Keir Starmer; Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni; and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.

Ukraine’s military on Saturday denied Russian claims that Ukrainian troops had been forced out of their last footholds in Russia’s Kursk region. The Ukrainian military’s general staff said its forces were continuing their operations in some districts of Kursk region, and its incursion into another part of Russia, Belgorod region, was still under way.

The Trump administration is letting a Russian Gazprom subsidiary continue operating in Serbia without sanctions for at least the next two months, according to Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic. NIS, majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom, runs the only oil refinery in Serbia. Joe Biden put it under sanctions in January as he was leaving office, giving Gazprom 45 days to exit ownership of NIS. Since then it has received several waivers of sanctions related to the Russian war in Ukraine.