The Guardianadded this to World NewsFrankfurt 'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across EuropeThe GuardianAuthorities have urged children and older people to stay indoors and issued severe health warnings against dehydration and heatstroke as an unprecedented week-long heatwave begins to advance across continental
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsLondon Bridge London Bridge inquest: 'extremist' denies close links to attackersThe GuardianA man described as having a “strong historical extremist pedigree” has said he had limited contact with the ringleader of the London Bridge terror attackers, despite owning both the gym and school where
The Guardianadded this to US NewsSouth Texas Border patrol finds four bodies near US-Mexico border in TexasGuardian US - Associated Press in Mission, TexasUS border patrol agents in South Texas have discovered the bodies of four people, including three children, near the Mexican border, authorities said Monday. Hidalgo county sheriff’s Sgt Frank Medrano
The Guardianadded this to US NewsNew York City US records 33 new measles cases in a week in worst outbreak since 1992Guardian US - Reuters in New YorkThirty-three new measles cases were recorded in the US last week, most of them in New York, federal health officials said on Monday. The new cases brought the number of confirmed cases this year to 1,077,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesManchester, UK What £1.4bn buys: 1,800 miles of cycle lanes or one big roundaboutThe Guardian - Helen Pidd North of England editorAlmost exactly a year ago, Chris Boardman – the Olympic champion turned walking and cycling czar – revealed a bold vision: Greater Manchester was to turn itself into a Dutch-style cycling paradise by a
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBacteria Bacteria found in gut might help boost physical performanceThe Guardian - Nicola DavisFrom go-faster stripes to energy gels, athletes have long sought ways to boost their performance. Now researchers say bacteria might also offer a boost. Scientists say they have found that certain species
The Guardianadded this to Sport Top StoriesEoin Morgan England need to hold their nerve as Australia focus on the main chanceThe Guardian - Vic Marks at Lord’sThis must be a special match. This becomes obvious when listening to the England captain on the eve of the contest. He was so insistent that this was just another game. There were no extra nerves in the
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesVisas Unesco chair blasts 'discriminatory' UK visitor visa systemThe Guardian - Amelia HillOne of Unesco’s chiefs has said she will no longer host any international conferences in the UK because of the Home Office’s “inept”, “embarrassing” and “discriminatory” visitor visa system. Alison Phipps,
The Guardianadded this to FootballRafa Benítez Hoping for a Ronaldo but now unlikely to hold on to RondónThe GuardianWho’d be a Newcastle fan? Having seen their club endure 12 years of mostly downward drift under the stewardship of spivvy blowhard billionaire Mike Ashley, a month ago they found themselves daring to as
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesSperm Interplanetary matriarchy: why the future of space is femaleThe GuardianMatriarchy, eh? So you’re saying that women are destined to rule the world? I think that’s fairly obvious. And not just the world. Maybe the galaxy. Ah well. I suppose men had a good run. At an agreed
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBoris Johnson I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime ministerThe GuardianSix years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study of the outbreak of the first world war, titled The Sleepwalkers. Though Clark is a fine scholar, I was unconvinced by his title,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesIdris Elba Idris Elba meets Kwame Kwei-Armah: 'I feel a massive connection with trees'The Guardian - Bridget MinamoreIdris Elba has a thing about trees. He’s got a tattoo of one on his left arm, partially hidden today by a black T-shirt – but that’s not all. Whenever Elba needs to mark a major event in his life – birthdays,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesNapoleonic Wars Waterloo hospital site to be dug up by team including UK veteransThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsA group of 25 British and Dutch military veterans are to join the first excavation of the main field hospital established by the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo. The former soldiers, and
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsNews Northern Ireland Brexit checks 'would require full police support'The Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondentFull police support would be needed for officials if they tried to go into nationalist areas in Northern Ireland to do Brexit checks, one of the authors of a report on alternative arrangements to the border
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPoland EU court rules Poland's lowering of judges' retirement age is unlawfulThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsPoland’s lowering of the retirement age for judges breaches EU law, the European court of justice has said, in a victory for civil society campaigners seeking to preserve democratic values. The ruling
The Guardianadded this to FilmFilm (UK) John Francis Lane obituaryThe Guardian - Ian MayesThe British journalist John Francis Lane, who has died aged 89, provided a vivid running commentary on Italian cinema for more than half a century, from the last great years of neorealism up to the present.
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioVladimir Putin Tonight with Vladimir Putin: how did this clunking comedy ever get made?The Guardian - Jack SealeNothing on TV gets swifter justice from viewers like a bad new comedy. The latest show to be deluged with extremely negative tweets is BBC Two’s spoof chatshow Tonight With Vladimir Putin, which aired
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsPolitics Nearly half of Tory members would not want Muslim PM – pollThe Guardian - Jessica MurrayNearly half of Conservative party members would prefer not to have a Muslim prime minister, a survey into the scale of Islamophobia in the party has suggested. The poll, carried out by YouGov for the group
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonMusic (UK) Dave Bartholomew: a giant who taught the world to rock'n'rollThe Guardian - Garth CartwrightDave Bartholomew has died in New Orleans aged 100. While his passing is unlikely to attract the kind of accolades given to many deceased musicians, Bartholomew was a giant, a man who helped shape the and
The Guardianadded this to Donald TrumpDonald Trump Trump makes 'very simple request' to Iran: 'No nuclear weapons!' – liveGuardian US - Lauren Gambino in WashingtonTrump tells Tehran ‘no nuclear weapons and no further sponsoring of terrorism’, and tweets that Fed ‘doesn’t know what it’s doing’ Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers are responding to an incident
The Guardianadded this to FootballMino Raiola Super-agent Mino Raiola is a player’s dream and a manager’s nightmareThe Guardian - Richard WilliamsOne morning in late 1992, at Ajax’s old training ground, Bryan Roy arrived to clear out his locker and say his goodbyes. After four years with his hometown club, he was on his way from Amsterdam to join
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsGlastonbury UK weather: sun to shine on Glastonbury as hot spell forecastThe Guardian - Press AssociationRain and thunderstorms will give way to sunshine and warmth in time for the Glastonbury festival this weekend, according to the Met Office. The June washout will continue on Monday and Tuesday, with severe
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?The Guardian - Guardian readers and Sam JordisonWelcome to this week’s blogpost. Here’s our roundup of your comments and photos from last week. Thomas Wolfe told us that you can never go home again. But you can do some re-reading, as Diane Cano explains:
The Guardianadded this to TechnologyTechnology New app Trash from ex-head of Vine uses AI to make short clipsThe Guardian - Alex HernA new app from the former head of video-sharing app Vine hopes to repeat the success of the cult social network by making it easier to shoot and edit short clips. Trash hopes that its secret weapon will
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBrexit However you look at it, the logic of a Brexit backstop refuses to yieldThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsThe question, set less by Brussels than the logic of Brexit, is how the UK government can in one move leave the European union’s single market and customs while also maintaining the flow of trade and on
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesAlisyn Camerota Trump sexual assault accuser E Jean Carroll considers police complaintGuardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkE Jean Carroll, the celebrated advice columnist who has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, has said she is considering bringing a complaint to the New York police department.
The Guardianadded this to World NewsEthiopia Suspected mastermind of Ethiopia coup attempt shot dead, says officialThe Guardian - Reuters in Addis AbabaA man accused of trying to seize control of Ethiopia’s northern Amhara state has been shot dead and a number of other plotters arrested, a senior government official has said. Gen Asamnew Tsige was accused
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) 'I wanted sex on my terms, and it was': readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30sThe Guardian - Elle HuntWhen Preeta read, in last week’s Guardian, about Jim from East Sussex – who, at 35, had never been kissed and was considering paying for sex to lose his virginity – she could have been reading about her
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonRecep Tayyip Erdoğan All eyes on Erdoğan after opposition's historic win in IstanbulThe Guardian - Bethan McKernan in IstanbulThe last partygoers went home as the sun came up. Across Istanbul on Sunday night, hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters danced in the streets waving Turkish flags and brandishing glasses of and
The Guardianadded this to FootballCameroon England fans escorted from stadium amid Cameroon World Cup tensionsThe Guardian - Suzanne Wrack in ValenciennesEngland fans have told how they were escorted from the ground following the 3-0 defeat of Cameroon after tensions flared in the crowd. One group of supporters, who wish to remain anonymous, told the Guardian
