Travel Fife Coastal Path: a car-free tour along Scotland's shorelineThe Guardian - Phoebe Taplin‘Da da da da derrrr da …” The water is foot-numbingly freezing but I mime a joyful slow-motion jog through the surf all the same, while my brother, wrapped up in fleece and walking boots, hums the Chariots
Melania Trump Donald Trump welcomes Japan's offer of mediation with IranThe Guardian - Justin McCurry in TokyoDonald Trump has said he would support Shinzo Abe’s efforts to act as a mediator between the US and Iran, amid reports that the Japanese prime minister will visit Tehran next month for talks with president
World News Monday briefing: Conservatives routed in EU electionsThe GuardianGood morning – Warren Murray here on the morning after the vote that wasn’t supposed to happen. The Brexit party and Liberal Democrats have trounced the Conservatives and Labour at the European elections,
Yorkshire Dales TV tonight: an unnerving tale of how a serial killer evaded the law for 40 yearsThe GuardianPossibly the most prolific serial killer in US history, Samuel Little claims to have murdered more than 90 women across the US over a 40-year period before DNA evidence led to his conviction in 2014. a
World News European elections: far right 'surge' ends in a rippleThe Guardian - Shaun Walker in BudapestAfter months of boasts, bluster and apocalyptic rhetoric, Europe’s far right had a modest night at the polls in the European elections, making striking gains in some countries but losses in others. In
World News Abortion: Democrats and Republicans whip up voters on extreme state lawsThe Guardian - Sabrina Siddiqui in WashingtonThis anti-choice movement is Trump’s anti-choice movement Amanda Thayer Intelligent, pro-life leaders and advocates are really appalled by what’s happening in Alabama and elsewhere Bill Kristol The threat
Osama Bin Laden Now kids, help us to kill Bin Laden! The dark side of Washington's spy museumThe Guardian - David SmithSitting in a glass case, standing out against a backdrop of deep red, there’s an ice axe that still bears a rust mark, the consequence of a bloody fingerprint left on it decades ago. One day in 1940, axe
Torture Guantánamo lawyers see issues in torture exhibit at spy museumGuardian US - Julian Borger in WashingtonHow people feel about it is going to play a big part in whether these guys are convicted and executed or not Alka Pradhan Last Thursday, a handful of defence lawyers from the military tribunal trials way
Personal Finance (UK) Number of over-70s still in work more than doubles in a decadeThe Guardian - Amelia HillThe number of people aged over 70 who are still working has more than doubled in a decade to nearly half a million, new research has shown. The number of those aged over 70 who are in full- or part-time
Henry Viii Wanted: a modern Thomas Cromwell to mend Brexit BritainThe Guardian - Alex ClarkWhere is the man or woman who can discreetly manoeuvre the politicians? ”But his greatest ambition for England is this: the prince and his commonwealth should be in accord … a household where everybody
Opinion (UK) For the sake of our health, we need to kick the indoor habitThe Guardian - Vybarr Cregan-ReidAs a species we need to get out more. Humans now spend so much time indoors that many of us are cultivating a variety of serious health complaints, and for some they could be fatal. It is not so much outdoor
Donald Trump Jr Trump not doing enough to thwart Russian 2020 meddling, experts sayGuardian US - Peter StoneRussia would be remiss not to try again, given how successful they were in 2016 Steven Hall We continue to assess that the Russians are focused on sowing divisiveness and discord in this country and pitting
Trisha Goddard: ‘Rule out people with mental health problems and you’d get nobody on TV’The Guardian - Sirin KaleIn the mid-00s, Trisha Goddard saved a fellow diner from choking. The woman had been eating steak at a nearby table in a Norwich restaurant when she got into trouble. Goddard calmly went to her aid, helped
European Parliament Five things we have learned from election results across EuropeThe Guardian - Martin FarrerIt was a bad night for the centre-left across Europe. The loose Social Democrat grouping in the European parliament is projected to lose 41 seats in the 751-seat chamber, going from 191 in 2014, to a 150
Play buttonMaui Woman found alive in Hawaii forest says she struggled not to give upGuardian US - Associated Press in MauiA woman who was found alive in a forest on Maui on Friday after going missing when out hiking more than two weeks ago has said she struggled not to give up. Amanda Eller told the New York Times that at
Environment Country diary: against a sky of virtually flawless blue, a fulmar soaredThe Guardian - John GilbeyThe air was almost still, and only the smallest of ripples marked the edge of the receding tide; the only artificial sound was that of a single boat engine far out to sea. At the back of the beach, a of
Adelaide Adelaide teenager gets good-behaviour bond for hacking Apple systems twiceThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressAn Adelaide teenager who twice hacked into Apple’s computer systems has been placed on a good-behaviour bond. The 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named, hacked the tech giant’s systems first when he was
Politics 'Troubled times': what European papers say about the election resultsThe Guardian - Martin FarrerMany European newspapers have focused on the strong showing of far-right parties across the continent in the parliamentary elections. In France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has beaten Emmanuel
Nigel Farage Knives, daggers and hammers: what the UK papers say about the EU election resultsThe Guardian - Hannah IzzardThe “emphatic victory” of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party and humiliation of the Tories and Labour have been splashed all over Monday’s front pages. The Times leads with “Farage surge sends main parties into
Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment could be truly transformational for Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian - Jessa RogersScott Morrison has made an historic appointment early in his new term as prime minister that has the potential to radically alter the way Indigenous policy is made in Canberra. One hundred and eighteen
Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Rush defamation case: newspaper's appeal 'weighs heavily' on actorThe Guardian - Michael McGowanThe Daily Telegraph’s appeal against the record $2.9m judgment against it in the Geoffrey Rush defamation case “weighs heavily” on the Oscar-winning actor, an Australian court has heard. The Sydney tabloid
Play buttonNigel Farage Nigel Farage: Brexit party win is big wake-up call to WestminsterThe Guardian - Amy WalkerNigel Farage has declared the Brexit party’s victory in the EU elections as “a big wake-up call to Westminster”. The party leader has been re-elected as an MEP for the UK’s largest constituency, south-east
Tommy Robinson Humiliated Tommy Robinson sneaks out of election count earlyThe Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondentOn a European election night when the Brexit party dominated across the UK, perhaps the most eye-catching story in North West England was the humiliating drubbing suffered by the anti-Islam activist Tommy
Opinion (UK) It's a myth that Aussie battlers handed the Coalition its election victoryThe Guardian - Shaun RatcliffBattlers. The working class. Ordinary voters. Since the Australian federal election, there have been claims these voters abandoned Labor for the Liberal-National Coalition. Similar to the idea of “Howard’s
Brexit Party So begins the mad scramble to take control of the Brexit narrativeThe Guardian - Zoe WilliamsThe European elections unfolded according to predictions: the Brexit party won big, Labour and the Conservatives both got a kicking, the Lib Dems and the Greens swept up. But predictability aside, these
Play buttonTV Series How Not Going Out’s heroes went from cat-fight chemistry to child-saddled losersThe Guardian - Henry YatesChannel surfing was a bleak prospect back in 2006. With every click of the TV remote came another bombshell from a world on the brink. Nuclear standoffs. Poisoned spies. Hannah Montana. If only there a
Play buttonBrexit Party Five things we have learned from UK's European electionsThe Guardian - Dan SabbaghNigel Farage’s party has clearly come out on top in terms of votes cast, but the party’s effective anti-establishment campaign was still not quite as good as the some of the polls were suggesting. On night,
Scottish National Party Labour wiped out in Scotland amid SNP surgeThe Guardian - Severin Carrell Scotland editorScottish Labour has failed to win a single European seat after more than 200,000 voters deserted the party over Brexit and it suffered its worst election in modern political history. After 31 of Scotland’s
Labour Party Liberal Democrats reap Tory and Labour remain votersThe Guardian - Haroon SiddiqueThe Liberal Democrats’ “Bollocks to Brexit” slogan paid dividends on a night in which they established themselves firmly as the remainers’ party of choice. The party which has only 11 MPs sitting in the
Play buttonBrexit Party EU elections: Tories and Labour savaged as voters take Brexit revengeThe Guardian - Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondentAn insurgent Brexit party and reinvigorated Liberal Democrats have delivered a harrowing night for the Conservatives and Labour at the European elections, prompting profound soul-searching at the top both
