Meeting with pontiff follows UK visit on Monday and comes ahead of talks with Meloni

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Leo this morning, with the pair discussing the war in Ukraine, according to the Vatican readout.

Pope Leo “reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace, ” the statement read.

Meeting with pontiff follows UK visit on Monday and comes ahead of talks with Meloni

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Leo this morning, with the pair discussing the war in Ukraine, according to the Vatican readout.

Pope Leo “reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace, ” the statement read.

Meeting with pontiff follows UK visit on Monday and comes ahead of talks with Meloni

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Leo this morning, with the pair discussing the war in Ukraine, according to the Vatican readout.

Pope Leo “reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace, ” the statement read.

• Naz sustained injury against Aston Villa on Sunday

• She will have surgery and will not play again this season

The England winger Jessica Naz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in her right knee.

The 25-year-old was withdrawn injured during Tottenham’s Women’s Super League victory over Aston Villa on Sunday. Spurs released a statement on Tuesday saying that Naz would undergo surgery.

• Naz sustained injury against Aston Villa on Sunday

• She will have surgery and will not play again this season

The England winger Jessica Naz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in her right knee.

The 25-year-old was withdrawn injured during Tottenham’s Women’s Super League victory over Aston Villa on Sunday. Spurs released a statement on Tuesday saying that Naz would undergo surgery.

• Naz sustained injury against Aston Villa on Sunday

• She will have surgery and will not play again this season

The England winger Jessica Naz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in her right knee.

The 25-year-old was withdrawn injured during Tottenham’s Women’s Super League victory over Aston Villa on Sunday. Spurs released a statement on Tuesday saying that Naz would undergo surgery.

As the days grow shorter and darkness descends, tropical varieties can struggle. But there’s a clever fix that nature can’t provide

The problem
In the dark days of winter, the whole house is darker, days are shorter, skies are greyer and our tropical houseplants receive far less light than they would in their natural habitat. Leaves fade and growth slows as plants struggle to photosynthesise.

The hack
Grow lights offer a clever fix, topping up what nature can’t provide. But with prices ranging from £15 to £100, are they really worth it?

Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians

Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration and urged European leaders to show more “respect” for the president; earlier this year his administration struck a deal with Bukele to send more than 200 detained migrants to a notorious, maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Many international organizations , experts and historians have sounded the alarm about the United States heading in a similar direction as these authoritarian regimes .

The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account too

There have been far too few defences of Keir Starmer in the British press of late. Time for a modest redress. As the last rites are muttered over his premiership, his colleagues want you to know that this is all his fault. The humiliation is complete: even Labour Together – the outfit that quietly plotted Starmer’s leadership bid – is now sharpening its knives. It is polling members on who should replace him, indulging the comforting fantasy that swapping captains will somehow stop the ship from sinking.

The Tory experience of regicide should offer a caution: do not depose a king unless you have already settled on a prince who understands why the kingdom is in crisis. The Tories toppled Boris Johnson and installed Liz Truss, whose zeal to slash taxes for the wealthy detonated the markets and sealed her party’s fate. Why? Because they convinced themselves that Johnson had failed for being insufficiently rightwing.

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist