Germany captain Giulia Gwinn has been ruled out of Euro 2025 after a scan revealed she suffered a serious knee injury in her side’s 2-0 win over Poland.
The 26-year-old was visibly upset as she was helped off the field during the Group C win in St Gallen on Friday.
Gwinn had a scan on Saturday which revealed a medial ligament injury in her left knee.
A Germany team statement said the Bayern Munich player was expected to be out for “several weeks”.
“Giuli is out! The next steps will be discussed with everyone involved. We’re with you, Giuli! ,” the statement added.
Gwinn helped her country reach the Euro 2022 final and was part of the team that won Olympic bronze at Paris 2024.
It is another personal blow for the two-time German national team player of the year, who suffered her latest injury making a challenge to deny Poland captain Ewa Pajor.
Gwinn, who has 14 goals in 64 international appearances, also missed the 2023 World Cup due to an ACL injury.
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Gwinn initially tried to continue after suffering the injury, but was eventually helped off by medics and replaced in the 40th minute.
After the game, team-mate Selina Cerci wore a Germany shirt with Gwinn’s name on it as the team celebrated in front of their fans.
Head coach Christian Wuck refused to speculate on the extent of the injury until after Saturday’s scan.
“I didn’t see the foul, I just know she prevented an almost-sure goal and that would be really bad for us if it is something serious, but I will not speculate,” he said on Friday.
EXCLUSIVE: Spice Girls star Melanie Brown has married her long-term fiancé, Rory McPhee, at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Mirror can reveal intimate details
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Spice Girls star Melanie Brown MBE looked incredible as she married her partner, Rory McPhee
Melanie Brown has finally tied the knot with Rory McPhee in a stunning ceremony. The Spice Girls megastar walked down the aisle at the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral in London and looked every inch the stunning bride. Rory, a hair stylist, got down on one knee and proposed to the Leeds-born icon in October 2022, four years after the pair started dating one another.
The 50-year-old, known for her love of leopard print and bold personality, looked sensational as she wore a figure-hugging classic white gown after arriving in a white Rolls Royce car. Her dress embodied everything Melanie stands for: strength, sensuality and timeless glamour.
The Leeds native worked very closely with London-based Evelie Bridal and Josephine Scott to design the georgette crepe gown, which showcased her gym-honed physique in a corset bodice. Her beautiful gown featured draping, which hugged her silhouette and flowed freely into a dramatic train.
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Melanie and Rory have finally married one another(Image: PA)
Meanwhile, a detachable jacket was decorated with hand-embellished pearl constellations across the high neckline, with the long-sleeved jacket framing her shoulders and adding a regal touch to her gown, in true St Paul’s etiquette.
Mum-of-three Melanie, opted for a white with a cathedral-length veil which trailed down the 158-meter-long aisle, scattered with pearls and, in true Mel B style, a touch of drama. Speaking to the Mirror, owner of Evelie Bridal, Caroline Black, who styled Melanie said: “From the moment Mel walked through the doors at Evelie, this journey has been nothing short of extraordinary.
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Mel’s dress was perfect for the occasion(Image: TIM ANDERSON)
“Helping a real Spice Girl choose her wedding dress—what could possibly top that? But what’s truly made this experience so meaningful is getting to know Mel as just Mel — not the icon, but the woman. It’s been such an honour. “
Meanwhile, the designer, Josephine Scott said: “Designing this gown for Mel was about capturing her fearless spirit and softness all in one look. She’s iconic, powerful, and radiant — and this dress had to be worthy of that.
“Every detail was chosen to honour her strength and sensuality while celebrating the woman and the love story beneath the girl power. ” Her daughter Phoenix, who arrived with her partner, AJ Anderson, dazzled onlookers in a striking blue gown and white fascinator.
Melanie Brown MBE looked sensational as she stepped out at St. Paul’s Cathedral(Image: TIM ANDERSON)
Angel, whom Melanie shares with Eddie Murphy, rocked a suave black suit as the pair were accompanied by another guest. Her youngest, Madison, chose a bright pink dress which was decorated by eye-catching red flowers.
Melanie was walked down the aisle by James Steen, the husband of Louise Grannon, Melanie’s biographer. While her now husband, Rory, was supported at the alter by his best man, brother, Jordan McPhee.
Melanie’s dress was extremely regal(Image: PA)
Melanie was supported by her bandmate, Emma Bunton, just days after the Mirror revealed why she was the only Spice Girl attending the ceremony. There had been reports that both Geri Horner and Victoria Beckham had been snubbed but a source close to the band revealed to me that this wasn’t the case.
“There’s no snub; the girls are all on friendly terms with one another, but it’s no secret that Geri is busy with Christian at Formula One, and Victoria is extremely busy with her fashion brand,” my mole said. Geri is at the British Grand Prix with her husband, while Melanie C, known as Sporty Spice, is performing in Rødovre, eastern Denmark, and Victoria has commitments with her fashion business.
Rory looked dapper as he wore a traditional kilt for his wedding(Image: PA)
Emma, known as Baby Spice, delighted those in attendance by singing at the ceremony. She told the Mirror: “I am so excited to be here, I can’t wait for the wedding. ” In true Baby form, the blonde legend rocked a chic pink dress as she was accompanied by her husband, Jade Jones, and their son Beau.
Melanie’s sister, actress Danielle, looked sensational as she arrived at the cathedral with her three children, wearing a stunning knee-length baby blue dress. “I am so nervous. It’s exciting, though, and I am doing the first reading,” she said. Other famous faces in attendance included comic Alan Carr, Daisy Lowe, Cara Delevingne, Leigh Francis, Katherine Ryan, Angellica Bell and BBC legend Gaby Roslin.
A red bus took those in attendance to Melanie and Rory’s reception(Image: PA)
For Once In My Life singer Melanie had made it no secret she was excited to say “I do” at the same venue where the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and now King Charles exchanged their vows in 1981. Each year, only a select number of people are allowed to marry at the venue, and thanks to Melanie being awarded an MBE for her services to charity work supporting Women’s Aid, she was one of them.
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Although Melanie and Rory will be celebrating their nuptials at The Shard, they have more extravagant plans for their wedding. The couple will be jetting out to Morocco later this month, with American designer Justin Alexander being commissioned for that dress.
“I’m having a second ceremony abroad, which will be more informal, sexy and beautiful,” the singer said.
Rishabh Pant scores 65 off 58 deliveries in an entertaining innings which included 11 boundaries, a dropped catch and his bat flying into the air twice on day four of the second Test against England at Edgbaston.
A darting run between two centre-backs, a timely nutmeg to make some room and then a cool deflected finish into the bottom corner.
Igor Jesus stands on the advertising boards with his arms outstretched in front of the Botafogo fans.
His winner against European champions Paris St-Germain in the Club World Cup group stages was a moment to remember.
Four days earlier the striker was also on target for the Brazilian Serie A champions against Seattle Sounders.
The 24-year-old was named player of the match in his opening two games at the tournament before defeats by Atletico Madrid and then Palmeiras in the last 16.
That was the final appearance in Botafogo colours for the forward, who is nicknamed Little Frog and is a huge fan of the Anime series Dragon Ball Z.
He has joined Premier League side Nottingham Forest on a four-year deal for a reported fee of £10m.
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Jesus got his nickname ‘Sapinho’, meaning Little Frog, from his grandfather when he was a child. Depending on who you ask, it’s either because he made acrobatic saves as a goalkeeper, or because he had a very small body and a very big head.
He would also occasionally skip school to watch Japanese cartoon Dragon Ball Z.
In the show, protagonist Goku defeats baddies with a special move called Kamehameha which Jesus honours with his usual celebration of putting his wrists together, opening his palms and locking his arms out perpendicularly in front of him.
He’s had a lot of chances to perfect it. In 206 professional appearances he’s netted 70 goals.
Jesus started his career at Coritiba, a then Serie-B side based in Brazil’s eighth largest city.
As an 18-year-old he scored three goals in 24 appearances to help Coritiba secure promotion.
But, after initially struggling at a higher level, he left midway through the following campaign to join Emirati side Shabab Al-Ahli.
He spent four seasons in the Middle East, scoring 46 goals in 92 games, before returning to Brazil by joining Botafogo in July 2024.
There he’s excelled. He led the line as his side lifted the Serie A and Copa Libertadores titles last season.
Unsurprisingly, the scouting departments at numerous club around the world are on high alert.
Jesus even made his Brazil debut last October, scoring in a 2-1 World Cup qualifying win in difficult conditions in Chile.
What could Jesus offer Forest?
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Jesus has joined Nottingham Forest as they prepare to return to European competition for the first time since 1995-96.
His former Botafogo team-mates, defenders Jair Cunha and Cuiabano, are also reportedly attracting interest from the Premier League club.
Against PSG, Botafogo had just 25. 3% possession, and relied on Jesus’ hold-up play and ability to create chances out of seemingly nowhere.
According to Opta, Jesus had the third-most touches of any Botafogo player (49) – remarkable for a centre-forward when his team had so little of the ball.
He also contested a team-high 16 duels and won five aerial battles.
When they took on Seattle, Botafogo often went long. Despite being 5ft 10in (1. 78m) Jesus won six of his seven aerial duals in that game, while his winner was a header.
His game suits Forest’s style of play, where he would also offer a bit more mobility than current talisman Chris Wood.
After nutmegging Willian Pacho and beating Gianluigi Donnarumma on the world stage, Jesus might be preparing for a jump to the next level.
On June 27, El Hidaya Mosque in Roussillon in Southern France was attacked and vandalised. Windows were smashed and furniture overturned; the walls were plastered with racist flyers. Earlier the same month, a burned Quran was placed at the entrance of a mosque in Villeurbanne of Lyon.
Unfortunately, virulent Islamophobia in France has not stopped at vandalism.
On May 31, Hichem Miraoui, a Tunisian national, was shot dead by his French neighbour in a village near the French Riviera; another Muslim man was also shot but survived. A month earlier, Aboubakar Cisse, a Malian national, was stabbed to death in a mosque in the town of La Grand-Combeby by a French citizen.
There has been a significant spike in Islamophobic acts in France – something the French authorities remain reluctant to publicly comment on. One report showed a 72 percent increase in such incidents between January and March 2025 compared with the same period in 2024.
There are various factors that have contributed to this, but central among them is the French state’s own Islamophobic rhetoric and anti-Muslim policies.
The most recent iteration of this was the release of a report titled “The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France” by the French government. The document claims that the Muslim Brotherhood and “political Islamism” are infiltrating French institutions and threatening social cohesion and names organisations and mosques as having links to the group.
The report came out just days before Miraoui was shot dead and two weeks after the French authorities raided the homes of several founding members of the Brussels-based Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) living in France.
With the rise of anti-Muslim attacks and discrimination in France, it is increasingly hard to believe that the obsession of the French state and government with what they call “Islamist separatism” is not, in fact, inciting violence against the French Muslim population.
The idea that French Muslims are somehow threatening the French state through their identity expression has been championed by the French far right for decades. But it was in the late 2010s that it entered the mainstream by being embraced by centrist politicians and the media.
In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron, who also embraced the term “separatism”, called for the creation of a “French Islam”, a euphemism for domesticating and controlling Muslim institutions to serve the interest of the French state. At the heart of this project stood the idea of preserving “social cohesion”, which effectively meant suppressing dissent.
In the following years, the French state started acting on its obsession with controlling Muslims with more and tougher policies. Between 2018 and 2020, it shut down 672 Muslim-run entities, including schools and mosques.
In November 2020, the French authorities forced the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), a nonprofit organisation documenting Islamophobia, to dissolve; the organisation then reconstituted in Brussels. In December of that year, they targeted 76 mosques, accusing them of “Islamist separatism” and threatening them with closure.
In 2021, the French Parliament passed the so-called anti-separatism law, which included a variety of measures to supposedly combat “Islamist separatism”. Among them was an extension of the ban on religious symbols in the public sector, restrictions on home schooling and sports associations, new rules for organisations receiving state subsidies, more policing of places of worship, etc.
By January 2022, the French government reported that it had inspected more than 24,000 Muslim organisations and businesses, shut down more than 700 and seized 46 million euros ($54m) in assets.
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The report released in May, like many official statements and initiatives, was not aimed to clarify policy or ensure legal precision. It was supposed to politicise Muslim identity, delegitimise political dissent and facilitate a new wave of state attacks on the Muslim civil society.
The report names various Muslim organisations, accusing them of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood. It also argues that campaigning against Islamophobia is a tool of the organisation. According to the report, the Muslim Brotherhood uses anti-Islamophobia activism to discredit secular policies and portray the state as racist.
This framing is aimed to invalidate legitimate critiques of discriminatory laws and practices, and frames any public recognition of anti-Muslim racism as a covert Islamist agenda. The implication is clear: Muslim visibility and dissent are not just suspect — they are dangerous.
The report also dives into the Islamo-gauchisme or Islamo-leftism conspiracy theories – the idea that “Islamists” and leftists have a strategic alliance. It claims that decolonial movement is challenneling Islamism and references the March Against Islamophobia of November 10, 2019, a mass mobilisation that drew participants from across the political spectrum, including the left.
The report that was commissioned under the hardline former Interior Minister and now Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin, who back in 2021 accused far-right leader Marine Le Pen of being “too soft” on Islam.
All of this – the report, the legislation, the police raids and rhetorical attacks against the French Muslim community – follows the long French colonial tradition of seeking to rule over and control Muslim populations. The French political centre has had to embrace Islamophobia to contain its falling popularity. It may help with narrow electoral victories over the rising far right, but those will be short-lived. The more lasting impact will be a sigmatised, alienated Muslim community which will increasingly face state-incited violence and hatred.
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, according to new figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, spurring renewed condemnation of a contentious United States and Israeli-backed aid scheme.
The Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 743 Palestinians were killed and more than 4,891 others were injured while seeking assistance at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution sites.
The GHF, which began operating in the bombarded Palestinian enclave in late May, has drawn widespread criticism amid multiple reports that its contractors as well as Israeli forces have opened fire on aid seekers.
“The tragedy is that this is again a conservative reading of casualties who were at these distribution points, waiting for food parcels,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said of the ministry’s latest figures.
Reporting from Gaza City, Mahmoud said the attacks on aid seekers come as Palestinian families are desperate to feed their families amid dire shortages caused by Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
“People are going hungry. People are rationing supplies. A lot of families are not eating. Mothers here skip meals in order to provide for their children,” he said.
Earlier this week, a report by The Associated Press news agency quoted American contractors who said live ammunition and stun grenades have been fired at Palestinian civilians seeking aid at GHF distribution points.
Two unnamed US contractors told AP that heavily armed staff members appeared to be doing whatever they wanted.
The GHF denied the news agency’s reporting as “categorically false” and said it takes “the safety and security of [its] sites extremely seriously”.
The administration of US President Donald Trump also has stood by the GHF, with a State Department spokesperson telling reporters on Wednesday that the group is the “one entity that has gotten food and aid into the Gaza Strip”.
In late June, the Trump administration pledged $30m in direct funding for the organisation.
On Saturday, the GHF said two US workers at one of its sites in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis were injured when grenades were thrown at them at the end of food distribution. “The injured Americans are receiving medical treatment and are in stable condition,” the group said.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack.
Leading humanitarian and human rights groups have demanded the immediate closure of the GHF, which they accused of “forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones where they face daily gunfire and mass casualties”.
Amnesty International has described the group’s operations as an “inhumane and deadly militarized scheme”.
“All the evidence gathered, including testimonies which Amnesty International is receiving from victims and witnesses, suggest that the GHF was designed so as to placate international concerns while constituting another tool of Israel’s genocide,” Amnesty said.
Still, faced with dire shortages of food, water and other humanitarian supplies under Israel’s blockade, many Palestinians in Gaza say they have no choice but to seek assistance from the group, despite the risks.
“I was forced to go to the aid distribution centre simply because my kids had not eaten for three days in a row,” Majid Abu Laban, a Palestinian man who was wounded in an attack at a GHF site, told Al Jazeera.
“We try to fool our children by all means, but they are starving,” Abu Laban said.
“So I decided to risk my life and head to [an aid distribution point] at Netzarim,” he said, referring to an Israeli military-established corridor south of Gaza City.
