What happened
A woman attempted to restrain the man who was killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park before he climbed into the animal’s compound, according to witnesses. The mother, who was with her two children, tried to pull him back as he prepared to jump from a bridge into the pen, but was unable to stop him. Emergency services were called to the Doncaster park at about 1.35pm on Saturday, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Who said what
“He overpowered her and jumped off. She seemed really frightened,” said Anthony Hunt, who witnessed the incident. Another visitor said the man had earlier asked a stranger to photograph him with the animal in the background.

Zookeepers have been “praised for their quick response”, said Sarah Barltrop in the Daily Express. Visitors said the keepers did “all they could” to stop the attack.

There is the “distinct impression that zoo safety may not have got worse, or animals somehow more dangerous, but that human behaviour itself has instead become a problem”, said Ben East and Susanna Galton in The Telegraph.

What next?
Yorkshire Wildlife Park remained closed yesterday while staff received specialist support. The park confirmed that the tiger, named Altai, would not be put down following the incident.

What happened
Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield yesterday, where home fans greeted the visitors with hostility in their first match since the club was found guilty of breaking financial fair play rules.

Who said what
Liverpool fans chanted “cheats” and “shams” at the visitors, while City supporters displayed inflatable bananas and sang in support of their club.

City “blew Liverpool away”, said Miguel Delaney in The Independent, “but was it all meaningless?” The result “only emphasises the need for this process to be concluded and – above all – why the sanctions should have been announced with the decision”.

An afternoon that was “supposed to be about a national judgement on City” ended in the way “all of Enzo Maresca’s games at the helm have finished so far”, said Martin Lipton in The Sun. “With City dominant and unstoppable.”

“We can admire the football,” said Gary Neville on Sky Sports, but this is all “really bad for the Premier League.”

What next?
Despite the result, Liverpool fans “will still feel they had the last laugh”, added Delaney, “as they chanted ‘going down’ at the final whistle”.

As surrogacy remains illegal in China, demand is growing for overseas-born babies.

An “industry of agencies, consultancies and fertility clinics” has sprung up to help Chinese people connect with potential surrogate mothers overseas, according to the Financial Times. Many are attracted by the US’s “advanced medical facilities, strong legal protections for the parents and the prospect of an American passport for their child”.

Between 2014 and 2020, nearly a third of surrogate babies in the US were intended for international parents, a survey published in 2024 suggested. And more than 40% of those were from China.

But there is a darker side: “a little-known trend in the largely unregulated US surrogacy industry”, said The Wall Street Journal. Chinese elites and billionaires are paying to “quietly have large numbers of US-born babies”. Some, “inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 known children”, shell out millions to hire women in America to “help them build families of jaw-dropping size”.

One billionaire, Xu Bo, an “online megaposter” and “vocal critic of feminism”, calls himself “China’s first father”. The maker of fantasy video games claims to have 100 children. He told a US court in 2023 that he hoped to have 20 US-born children through surrogacy – preferably boys – to one day take over his business. Another wealthy Chinese executive, Wang Huiwu, hired US models as egg donors to have 10 girls, allegedly “with the aim of one day marrying them off to powerful men”. He ultimately plans to father 100 “high net-worth babies”, according to The Times.

Although the practice is “arousing concern” in both the US and China, there is no US law stopping multiple surrogacy births for the same family. This “extreme surrogacy” is “a perfect mix of liberal Californian attitudes and Chinese productivity”, added The Times.