Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Merkel protege AKK appointed German defence ministerThe Guardian - Jon HenleyAngela Merkel’s favoured successor as chancellor has been appointed Germany’s new defence minister in an unexpected and potentially risky move after Ursula von der Leyen’s confirmation as European commission
Gatwick Express Govia Thameslink fined £1m over passenger killed leaning out of windowThe GuardianThe train operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has been fined £1m after a passenger was killed when he put his head out of a carriage window. Simon Brown, 24, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, suffered
Film (UK) Lisbon Beat review – energetic odyssey to the city's edgeThe Guardian - Peter BradshawThere is a short, sharp blast of energy in this brief music documentary by DJ Rita Maia and cinematographer Vasco Viana about the African-Portuguese music scene in Lisbon’s outer suburbs, the “corrugated
Glasgow 'Carers' jailed for murder of vulnerable Margaret FlemingThe Guardian - Press AssociationA man and a woman have been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years each for murdering a vulnerable young woman, who they should have been caring for, almost two decades ago. Margaret
Travel Send us a tip on off-the-tourist-trail Europe to win a £200 hotel voucherThe GuardianEurope is full of nooks and crannies, places that most visitors haven’t come across and that don’t attract floods of comments on TripAdvisor. Your tip could be about a village, a town, a nature reserve,
John Paul Stevens US briefing: Trump condemned and Instagram murderGuardian US - Tim WalkerTrump returns fires at ‘squad’ as House censures racist tweets The House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning Donald Trump’s tweets, in which he told several congresswomen of color to
Westminster Bridge Westminster attack: Salih Khater convicted of attempted murderThe Guardian - Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondentA man has been convicted of turning his car into a weapon to run over cyclists and police officers close to parliament. Salih Khater, 30, a failed accountancy student, carried out the “premeditated attack”
Paulo Coelho Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho 'removed mention of Kurdistan'The Guardian - Sian CainPublisher and translator express shock that version of Eleven Minutes published in Turkey had reference cut A Turkish publishing house is pulling its translation of the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s
Beirut Tattoos, tans and techno: the photographers capturing the unseen BeirutThe Guardian - Sarah MorozRavers, semi-naked sun-worshippers, booming queer culture … we meet the photographers chronicling a new generation of Lebanese shaking off the trauma of civil war ‘Parties are a privileged place, a space
Steve Bruce Steve Bruce faces tough task at Newcastle but he is used to adversityThe Guardian - Paul WilsonSteve Bruce is normally a safe if somewhat unexciting pair of managerial hands, though as supporters of Sheffield United, Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic will attest, he does have a penchant for resigning
Music (UK) Burt Bacharach review – magic moments from master of loungeThe Guardian - Mark Beaumont‘This is the poshest cabaret night in the world,” the warm-up pianist tells an Apollo stalls largely seated at tables laden with fine wines, and tended to by scurrying waitresses. He’s not wrong. A full
Socceroos Socceroos to meet familiar foes on path to fifth straight World CupThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressAustralia have been drawn Nepal, Jordan, Taiwan and Kuwait in the second Asian qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which also serves as first qualifiers for the 2023 Asian Cup. The Socceroos
Unai Emery Unai Emery confident Arsenal will soon have 'three or four' new playersThe Guardian - Press AssociationUnai Emery insists Arsenal are working to bring in “three or four” players before the start of the new season. So far this summer the club have signed only the 18-year-old forward Gabriel Martinelli despite
Frankie Dettori Talking Horses: Dettori bids for four-timer on rare Killarney Festival tripThe Guardian - Greg WoodThe biggest name in racing will make his way to one of the sport’s less celebrated venues on Wednesday evening when Frankie Dettori heads to the west of Ireland for four rides at the Killarney Festival,
The Theatre Whodunnit (Unrehearsed) review – secret celeb shines in murder mysteryThe Guardian - Michael BillingtonThis is all very jolly. Jez Bond and Mark Cameron have written a parody whodunnit where at each performance a hitherto secret guest celebrity takes on the part of an Inspector while having their lines
Environment 'Overwhelming joy': birth of California condor chicks marks soaring comebackThe Guardian - Maanvi Singh in San FranciscoNestled among the red-rock cliffs of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, California condor chicks No 1,000 and 1,001 blinked into this world. Their birth signalled success for a decades-long program
Christchurch Plan to open gun megastore in Christchurch prompts concernThe Guardian - ReutersThe New Zealand retailer Gun City, which sold weapons to the man accused of shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 51 people and injured dozens, has aroused concern with plans for a megastore
Music (UK) Doves review – comedown symphonies still sound stirringThe Guardian - Stevie Chick‘We really shouldn’t have left it so long, should we?” asks Jimi Goodwin, halfway through what is only Doves’ eighth show in almost a decade. The timing of the end of their hiatus – a nine-year silence
Personal Finance (UK) London house prices fall at fastest rate in 10 yearsThe Guardian - Larry Elliott Economics editorHouse prices in London have fallen at their fastest pace since the financial crash a decade ago as the capital bears the brunt of the nationwide torpor in the property market. Amid a dearth of potential
Northern Ireland What is the Brexit backstop?The Guardian - Peter Walker, Daniel Boffey and Martin BelamOnce more commonly heard in talk about baseball than politics, the backstop has become one of the most discussed and contentious elements of the Brexit negotiations. It is a simple basic principle, but
Benidorm British tourist could be paralysed after Benidorm water park accidentThe Guardian - Haroon Siddique and agencyA British holidaymaker could be paralysed for life after breaking his neck in an accident at a Spanish water park, his family fear. David Briffaut, 23, lost consciousness and suffered serious injuries
Millennials Millennials won’t let go of children’s toys and films – and kids are paying the priceThe Guardian - Emily BeecherWe all need to take risks and show some creativity, be bold and try something different Last week Mattel announced the launch of a Ziggy Stardust-inspired Barbie. Yet the number of seven-year-olds saving
Cricket County cricket talking points: Yorkshire dent Somerset's title bidThe Guardian - Gary NaylorSomerset ran into three Yorkshire centurions, as Gary Ballance, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Harry Brook tucked into an attack shorn of Lewis Gregory and Jack Leach. All credit to the Tykes, for whom Keshav
News Sudanese military and protesters sign power-sharing accordThe Guardian - Jason Burke and Zeinab Mohammed Salih in KhartoumMilitary rulers in Sudan have signed a deal with protesters to share power with civilian leaders until elections are held in around three years. The agreement comes after lengthy and difficult negotiations
Boris Johnson What does Boris Johnson’s terrible novel Seventy-Two Virgins tell us about him?The Guardian - Mark LawsonIf Johnson attends a G20 summit, he'll have to hope the French president hasn't been briefed about the role played by the French in the novel The book's attitude to women is such that if he fails to become
Art Helene Schjerfbeck review – a chilling blast of Nordic noirThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesThe Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck is not exactly a household name in Britain – and there’s no reason she should be. This is the first UK solo show of her sort-of expressionist works and it’s strictly
Fashion (UK) How the wig got bigThe Guardian - Leah HarperOutside of the the black community, wig-wearing in popular culture has traditionally fallen into two camps: fancy dress or hair-loss solution. Occasionally, celebrities have flirted with wigs to define
Sports Pete Cowen’s journey from Open loss-maker to coach of major championsThe Guardian - Ewan Murray at Royal PortrushWhen Seve Ballesteros celebrated victory at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1979 few would have paid attention to the identity of the individual sharing 33rd in the Open Championship. Little did anyone know
Reece James Which football clubs have replaced players with same-name signings?The Guardian - Guardian sport“Last week QPR sold Matt Smith to Millwall and signed another Matt Smith on loan from Manchester City … on the same day,” writes Martyn Bryce. “Do readers have other examples of such dealings with players
Books Andrea Camilleri, beloved creator of Inspector Montalbano, dies aged 93The Guardian - Alison FloodOne of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93. Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Merkel protege AKK appointed German defence ministerThe Guardian - Jon HenleyAngela Merkel’s favoured successor as chancellor has been appointed Germany’s new defence minister in an unexpected and potentially risky move after Ursula von der Leyen’s confirmation as European commission
Gatwick Express Govia Thameslink fined £1m over passenger killed leaning out of windowThe GuardianThe train operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has been fined £1m after a passenger was killed when he put his head out of a carriage window. Simon Brown, 24, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, suffered
Film (UK) Lisbon Beat review – energetic odyssey to the city's edgeThe Guardian - Peter BradshawThere is a short, sharp blast of energy in this brief music documentary by DJ Rita Maia and cinematographer Vasco Viana about the African-Portuguese music scene in Lisbon’s outer suburbs, the “corrugated
Glasgow 'Carers' jailed for murder of vulnerable Margaret FlemingThe Guardian - Press AssociationA man and a woman have been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years each for murdering a vulnerable young woman, who they should have been caring for, almost two decades ago. Margaret
Travel Send us a tip on off-the-tourist-trail Europe to win a £200 hotel voucherThe GuardianEurope is full of nooks and crannies, places that most visitors haven’t come across and that don’t attract floods of comments on TripAdvisor. Your tip could be about a village, a town, a nature reserve,
John Paul Stevens US briefing: Trump condemned and Instagram murderGuardian US - Tim WalkerTrump returns fires at ‘squad’ as House censures racist tweets The House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning Donald Trump’s tweets, in which he told several congresswomen of color to
Westminster Bridge Westminster attack: Salih Khater convicted of attempted murderThe Guardian - Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondentA man has been convicted of turning his car into a weapon to run over cyclists and police officers close to parliament. Salih Khater, 30, a failed accountancy student, carried out the “premeditated attack”
Paulo Coelho Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho 'removed mention of Kurdistan'The Guardian - Sian CainPublisher and translator express shock that version of Eleven Minutes published in Turkey had reference cut A Turkish publishing house is pulling its translation of the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s
Beirut Tattoos, tans and techno: the photographers capturing the unseen BeirutThe Guardian - Sarah MorozRavers, semi-naked sun-worshippers, booming queer culture … we meet the photographers chronicling a new generation of Lebanese shaking off the trauma of civil war ‘Parties are a privileged place, a space
Steve Bruce Steve Bruce faces tough task at Newcastle but he is used to adversityThe Guardian - Paul WilsonSteve Bruce is normally a safe if somewhat unexciting pair of managerial hands, though as supporters of Sheffield United, Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic will attest, he does have a penchant for resigning
Music (UK) Burt Bacharach review – magic moments from master of loungeThe Guardian - Mark Beaumont‘This is the poshest cabaret night in the world,” the warm-up pianist tells an Apollo stalls largely seated at tables laden with fine wines, and tended to by scurrying waitresses. He’s not wrong. A full
Socceroos Socceroos to meet familiar foes on path to fifth straight World CupThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressAustralia have been drawn Nepal, Jordan, Taiwan and Kuwait in the second Asian qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which also serves as first qualifiers for the 2023 Asian Cup. The Socceroos
Unai Emery Unai Emery confident Arsenal will soon have 'three or four' new playersThe Guardian - Press AssociationUnai Emery insists Arsenal are working to bring in “three or four” players before the start of the new season. So far this summer the club have signed only the 18-year-old forward Gabriel Martinelli despite
Frankie Dettori Talking Horses: Dettori bids for four-timer on rare Killarney Festival tripThe Guardian - Greg WoodThe biggest name in racing will make his way to one of the sport’s less celebrated venues on Wednesday evening when Frankie Dettori heads to the west of Ireland for four rides at the Killarney Festival,
The Theatre Whodunnit (Unrehearsed) review – secret celeb shines in murder mysteryThe Guardian - Michael BillingtonThis is all very jolly. Jez Bond and Mark Cameron have written a parody whodunnit where at each performance a hitherto secret guest celebrity takes on the part of an Inspector while having their lines
Environment 'Overwhelming joy': birth of California condor chicks marks soaring comebackThe Guardian - Maanvi Singh in San FranciscoNestled among the red-rock cliffs of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, California condor chicks No 1,000 and 1,001 blinked into this world. Their birth signalled success for a decades-long program
Christchurch Plan to open gun megastore in Christchurch prompts concernThe Guardian - ReutersThe New Zealand retailer Gun City, which sold weapons to the man accused of shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 51 people and injured dozens, has aroused concern with plans for a megastore
Music (UK) Doves review – comedown symphonies still sound stirringThe Guardian - Stevie Chick‘We really shouldn’t have left it so long, should we?” asks Jimi Goodwin, halfway through what is only Doves’ eighth show in almost a decade. The timing of the end of their hiatus – a nine-year silence
Personal Finance (UK) London house prices fall at fastest rate in 10 yearsThe Guardian - Larry Elliott Economics editorHouse prices in London have fallen at their fastest pace since the financial crash a decade ago as the capital bears the brunt of the nationwide torpor in the property market. Amid a dearth of potential
Northern Ireland What is the Brexit backstop?The Guardian - Peter Walker, Daniel Boffey and Martin BelamOnce more commonly heard in talk about baseball than politics, the backstop has become one of the most discussed and contentious elements of the Brexit negotiations. It is a simple basic principle, but
Benidorm British tourist could be paralysed after Benidorm water park accidentThe Guardian - Haroon Siddique and agencyA British holidaymaker could be paralysed for life after breaking his neck in an accident at a Spanish water park, his family fear. David Briffaut, 23, lost consciousness and suffered serious injuries
Millennials Millennials won’t let go of children’s toys and films – and kids are paying the priceThe Guardian - Emily BeecherWe all need to take risks and show some creativity, be bold and try something different Last week Mattel announced the launch of a Ziggy Stardust-inspired Barbie. Yet the number of seven-year-olds saving
Cricket County cricket talking points: Yorkshire dent Somerset's title bidThe Guardian - Gary NaylorSomerset ran into three Yorkshire centurions, as Gary Ballance, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Harry Brook tucked into an attack shorn of Lewis Gregory and Jack Leach. All credit to the Tykes, for whom Keshav
News Sudanese military and protesters sign power-sharing accordThe Guardian - Jason Burke and Zeinab Mohammed Salih in KhartoumMilitary rulers in Sudan have signed a deal with protesters to share power with civilian leaders until elections are held in around three years. The agreement comes after lengthy and difficult negotiations
Boris Johnson What does Boris Johnson’s terrible novel Seventy-Two Virgins tell us about him?The Guardian - Mark LawsonIf Johnson attends a G20 summit, he'll have to hope the French president hasn't been briefed about the role played by the French in the novel The book's attitude to women is such that if he fails to become
Art Helene Schjerfbeck review – a chilling blast of Nordic noirThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesThe Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck is not exactly a household name in Britain – and there’s no reason she should be. This is the first UK solo show of her sort-of expressionist works and it’s strictly
Fashion (UK) How the wig got bigThe Guardian - Leah HarperOutside of the the black community, wig-wearing in popular culture has traditionally fallen into two camps: fancy dress or hair-loss solution. Occasionally, celebrities have flirted with wigs to define
Sports Pete Cowen’s journey from Open loss-maker to coach of major championsThe Guardian - Ewan Murray at Royal PortrushWhen Seve Ballesteros celebrated victory at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1979 few would have paid attention to the identity of the individual sharing 33rd in the Open Championship. Little did anyone know
Reece James Which football clubs have replaced players with same-name signings?The Guardian - Guardian sport“Last week QPR sold Matt Smith to Millwall and signed another Matt Smith on loan from Manchester City … on the same day,” writes Martyn Bryce. “Do readers have other examples of such dealings with players
Books Andrea Camilleri, beloved creator of Inspector Montalbano, dies aged 93The Guardian - Alison FloodOne of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93. Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome
