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From a transporting historical saga to a tale of small-town betrayal, the authors of our favourite page-turners reveal the books they take on holiday – introduced by Jenny Colgan It is important to follow a balanced diet on holiday. Too many “My Wife’s Sister’s Husband’s Psychopath”, and you’ll get confused and grumpy. Too much sugary romance and your teeth will fall out. Something too big and challenging you’ve been meaning to get round to for ages will make you feel guilty and more liable to g

V&A event celebrates all shapes and sizes as wider fashion industry stalls on body diversity Visitors to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on Friday afternoon to watch Sinéad O’Dwyer ’s Fashion in Motion show would have encountered something a little different. The cast of performers and models wore everything from underwear to skirt suits and sequins, and sometimes danced interpretively on the catwalk to a performance by the band Jeanie and The White Boys, but most notably came in all shapes

Streaming pioneer that transformed TV faces slowing growth and battle for viewers’ attention from YouTube When Netflix offered viewers the chance to binge on an entire season of House of Cards it revolutionised the TV industry and started on a path to becoming the world’s most popular streaming service. Almost 15 years on, however, the upstart’s strategy of pumping its service with an avalanche of content and an almost-as-rapid penchant for mercilessly cancelling shows has viewers reaching for t

In the Warrington suburb of Culcheth, people are hopeful about what one of their own can achieve as the first northern PM in half a century The Cherry Tree pub is an unassuming local. On a busy road in the Cheshire village of Culcheth, it is a chain-run pub where four shots cost £8, every burger comes with a soft drink, and sport is shown all day on the big screens. It is also a favourite of Andy Burnham, the new prime minister. Many of the drinkers have a story about – arguably – Culcheth’s mos

Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff An investigation into what people think about has put the spotlight on the modern mind, revealing thoughts dominated by work, the need for coffee and a strong desire to go back to bed. It also found evidence for four distinct groups of thinkers who spend more time than most either worrying about the world ; mulling on household chores and finances; focusing on the mind and body; or the w

Research into GLP-1 medications is not always robust but complaints such as digestive problems are well known Weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro have boomed in popularity, and so have reports of myriad side-effects. This week researchers have suggested GLP-1 medications could be associated with hair loss. It can be hard to keep tabs on which of these unintentional outcomes have been the subject of expert scrutiny and which remain little more than hearsay. We take a look at some of the

A physio, a tailor and a historian on the style trends that can put women in hospital and how to avoid the dangers “Buyer beware” is one of the oldest principles in English law. Now, a pair of wide legged trousers from Zara is bringing the phrase back to the forefront of shoppers’ minds. On social media the £25.99 wide-legged trousers from the high-street retailer have earned the moniker “Zara death pants” thanks to a slew of videos showing wearers tripping over the leg of the trousers and injur

Teenager lands head-first during high bar routine Canada win men’s team gold, with England second England’s bid for a fourth successive Commonwealth Games men’s artistic gymnastics team title ended with silver after a dramatic final overshadowed by an injury to the teenager Gabriel Langton, who was taken from the arena on a stretcher after a heavy fall from the high bar. The 19-year-old fell head and neck first on to the mat during the final rotation of the team final, bringing competition to a

Fijian Drua 17-34 NSW Waratahs as grand final held in Fiji for first time Tahs forward Faliki Pohiva named player of match NSW Waratahs have produced a scintillating performance to complete a hat-trick of Super W women’s rugby titles and defy their detractors with a 34-17 win over minor premiers Fijian Drua in Ba, Fiji. The Tahs secured a record-extending seventh Super W title. Continue reading...

Scotland’s Duncan Scott wins swimming gold Swan claims first gold of Games | Mail Billy Boxing: England’s Lauren Mackie, in the women’s 54kg, punches through to the round of 16 with a unanimous victory against Kenya’s Amina Faki. DJ Khaled’s All I Do Is Win blasts around the ring. This story has caught the eye, courtesy of Reuters: Continue reading...

The 127.9km mountain stage starts at 2pm CEST/1pm BST Stage 18 report | share your thoughts with Tom via email 127km to go No rest for the wicked, we’re straight on to the category Col Bayard, a 4.8km drag at 7.2%. There’s Christian Prudhomme popping out of the sunroof and waving his little yellow flag, we’re off. Continue reading...

Action, news and reaction on opening weekend McColgan pulls out | Sean McCann reaches final 10 things to look out for at Glasgow 2026 | Mail Billy The Australian netball team is in play , taking on Tonga, and leading 23-12 after the first quarter, the holders have been quick to hit form. The Australian Cameron McEvoy, the reigning Olympic champion at 50m, finishes second in his heat, though second overall in terms of time, behind his heat-winner, Joshua Liendo. The top 16 go through to the semis

️ Qualifying gets under way at 3pm BST ️ Share your thoughts with Philip via email And how do the constructors’ ones look? 1 Mercedes 358pts 2 Ferrari 285 3 McLaren 195 4 Red Bull 151 5 Alpine 61 6 Racing Bulls 61 7 Haas 21 8 Williams 11 9 Audi 10 10 Aston Martin 1 11 Cadillac 0 Continue reading...

Main event gets under way at 3.35pm BST Share your thoughts with Greg via email On the way to post for the Princess Margaret, Richard Hannon’s Dark Issue has emerged as a clear favourite at around 100-30, with Moonrise and Alta Regina next in at 5-1. KING GEORGE CONTENDER: BENVENUTO CELLINI Continue reading...

Stage 20 runs for brutal 170.9km and concludes at Ale d’Huez Share your thoughts with Tom via email 148km to go You have to love Pedersen. He’s trying to bridge across to the peloton and looks like he’s swallowed a mouthful of wasps. Pure pain. What a rider. 149km to go Pedersen’s little batch of riders are hanging around, they’re only 25secs behind the peloton. With 12km to go to the top of this climb, Pedersen could get back on or even aim to catch the main group on the descent to make a bid f

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was 13 at the time, later received an abortion, text messages indicate Singer D4vd had impregnated the teenager he is accused of fatally stabbing, according to evidence presented in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday. Celeste Rivas Hernandez later received an abortion, text messages between the two indicate. The musician, who was born David Anthony Burke, apologized to Rivas Hernandez in January 2024 for “putting her through this”, in a text message obtained from his

Court fillings show grants denied to states if they didn’t back Trump’s re-election, but administration claims it’s a ‘misrepresentation’ US politics live – latest updates The Trump administration has admitted scrapping more than $7.5bn in federal grants for clean energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed Donald Trump in the 2024 election. US federal officials appeared to acknowledge in court documents last week that they had terminated the funding last October “based solel

President mocks political opponents and journalists in mostly light-hearted, hour-long speech at White House correspondents’ dinner Donald Trump joked around with the room of journalists who he again accused of producing “fake news” as he hurled insults at his political enemies in a speech at the White House correspondents’ dinner. A day after the Trump administration abandoned, for now, an extraordinary bid to subpoena reporters over their coverage, the US president attended the rescheduled Whi

From Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to Ilhan Omar and Gavin Newsom, president uses speech to belittle opponents Sign up for the US Breaking News email Represenatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, will visit the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis today to conduct a congressional oversight visit. The Democratic lawmakers are visiting the site of sustained protests earlier this year against the immigration crackdown that swept the state of Minnesota, and resulted in the fatal shootings of tw

‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency More than 200,000 people have fled or been ordered to lock down as huge wildfires swept Spain and France on Friday, prompting Madrid to declare a national emergency and the French authorities to order the total evacuation, by land and sea, of one of the country’s best-known holiday spots. Authorities in south-west France ordered the Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic coast to be e

No end to fighting in sight as Revolutionary Guards launch drones at targets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait The US has struck targets across Iran, reaching as far as the Caspian Sea, as Donald Trump threatened “major military punishment” for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen for extending the war to a second shipping ⁠chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea. As Iran retaliated on Friday with missile and drone fire against US bases and allies across the region, the New York Times reported th

Isobella Perrie Sullivan, 25, remanded in custody after intelligence-led operation against dissident republicans A 25-year-old law student has been charged in relation to an “extremely significant” bomb intercepted near the UK-Irish border. Isobella Perrie Sullivan, from Clane, County Kildare, was charged with possession of explosives at a special sitting of Trim district court on Friday evening. Continue reading...

Yemeni rebels accuse Saudis of ‘dangerous escalation’ as tit-for-tat strikes mark new front in war that has engulfed region Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile attack on the southern Saudi city of Jizan on Saturday, after vowing retaliation against the kingdom for attacks this week. It came after US ally Riyadh struck Houthi military targets on Friday, following the Yemeni group announcing a maritime blockade of the top oil producer and hitting its ships in the Red Sea . Continue

Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister Tell us: have you been affected by wildfires in Europe? The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has requested the armed forces to deploy an Airbus A400M military transport aircraft earlier than originally planned to help tackle the major wildfires in Gironde, according to Le Monde. The French newspaper reported the aircraft’s use was not originally expected until

Prime minister’s propaganda machine falters as fiercely secular youth protests reclaim nationalism by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi As the poster bearing the face of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, was thrown to the floor, a cheer went up. Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon. “Thief, thief,” chanted the crowd. Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India’s capital would have been almost unthinkable. For the 12 years Modi and his Bharat

Wildfires in Europe, Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, the cockroach protests in New Delhi and the World Cup final – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Warning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

There’s no way I could get by on a bowl of Coco Pops – give me sliced tomatoes and cucumber every time I recently got into a row on X about the unlikely subject of salad. I want to acknowledge that arguing with strangers on social media is definitely for babies and I should know better by now, but I’m a work in progress. And so I mentioned that I had enjoyed how readily available salads had been at breakfast buffets while I had been travelling in Denmark and Sweden this year compared with the UK

The film-maker, also behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, died on Wednesday in his San Diego home Director Chuck Russell, who helped propel actors such as Jim Carrey , Cameron Diaz and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to the Hollywood A-list, was found dead in his San Diego, California, home on Wednesday. He was 74. Russell directed several box office hits in his decades-long career including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Mask. In 2002, his film The Scorpion King featured

The English transfer record has been smashed, with Elliot Anderson and Morgan Rogers on the move during a busy summer of signings For once, Mikel Arteta is not spending his summer looking for a No 9. Instead the champions have moved to strengthen out wide after the departure of Leandro Trossard with Christos Tzolis arriving for £24m having scored 33 league goals in his last two seasons from Club Brugge’s left wing. After missing out on Morgan Rogers to Chelsea, they will not want to be beaten to

Member states vote to remove British barrister after allegations of sexual abuse The prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, has been removed from office after the court’s governing body concluded in June that he had committed serious misconduct in connection to allegations of sexual abuse. The ICC’s member states voted on Friday to oust the British prosecutor in an unprecedented move that concludes a damaging episode for the court two years after the allegations were first r

The latest milestone, a recorded 2,318 infections, makes 2026 the worst year for measles in the US since 1991 The US has officially surpassed last year’s record number of measles infections, marking the highest case count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday show the country has recorded 2,318 measles cases in 2026, overtaking the 2,289 cases reported during all of 2025 – with five months st

Fight in Pattaya, Thailand had no live broadcast Anthony Joshua faces Kristian Prenga on Saturday Tyson Fury fulfilled his side of the bargain for a potential heavyweight blockbuster against Anthony Joshua by stopping the veteran Polish fighter Mariusz Wach in Pattaya, Thailand. About 1,500 fans watched the bout, which had no live broadcast, and saw Fury largely dominate his overmatched 46-year-old opponent, who slipped to an eighth defeat in his past 11 contests. While Wach remained upright, he

US president responds to question about NBA’s ‘best ever’ Trump says Balogun red card review ‘worked out great’ In a bizarre response to being asked to weigh in on the basketball careers of ⁠Michael Jordan and LeBron James, Donald Trump said that James may be “a racist”. In Friday’s ⁠White House press ⁠conference, ​the Fox News reporter Peter Doocy mentioned that James intends to sign with ⁠the Philadelphia 76ers, then asked the president whether Jordan or James is the “best ever”. Continue read

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals. The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia. Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and coll

Twelve states led by California had obtained temporary restraining order blocking merger from closing for 28 days Paramount ⁠Skydance ⁠has agreed to ​pause its $110bn acquisition ⁠of ​Warner ‌Bros ‌Discovery until a ‌ruling on several states’ challenge ‌to the deal, or ​until 1 June ⁠2027, according ​to court ​papers ​filed ​on Friday. A group of 12 US states headed by California obtained a temporary restraining order this week that blocked the merger from closing for 28 days, pending the outcom

After Google fined €890m by EU, US president said Brussels was ‘robbing’ American companies and taxpayers What to know about Trump’s new tariffs on more than 80 countries Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with additional and “substantial” tariffs after Brussels imposed a series of steep fines on US tech giants. The US president accused Brussels of taking “direct aim” at several American companies including Apple, Meta Platforms, Amazon and Google, writing in a Truth Social post: “Th

Forced labor is a problem, especially in the US, where prisoners are coerced to work for pennies – or nothing at all US politics live – latest updates Don’t believe the Trump administration ’s rationale for its new volley of tariffs against everybody. The new levies, ostensibly to punish countries for failing to do enough to curb forced labor, switched on at 12.01am on Friday, to coincide with the expiration of a temporary 10% blanket duty that Donald Trump imposed in February, ostensibly to pro

Four Palestinians and two Israelis killed and several hurt after armed settlers entered village with military support Israel has said it is preparing a major military operation in the West Bank after four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed during a confrontation that began after armed settlers entered a Palestinian village with support from the Israeli military. Several more people were seriously injured at the scene after a scuffle broke out over an Israeli settler’s weapon and the milit

At least 90 active blazes in British Columbia in what PM says is one of the country’s most intense seasons on record How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse? Fresh wildfires have broken out in western Canada and forests continued to ⁠burn in Ontario as the country ⁠battled what the prime ​minister, Mark Carney, called one of the most intense wildfire seasons on record. Nearly 34,000 lightning strikes over the past week led to a series of fires ⁠and evacuation orde

Major incident declared over blaze that has intensified amid strengthening winds A major incident has been declared over a wildfire that has been raging in the Cairngorms national park for more than a week, police have said, with a whole village having been evacuated. Officers from Police Scotland said there had been a significant change in weather conditions, with strengthening winds making a fire that has been burning out of control for 11 days yet more difficult to contain. Continue reading..

Fish being moved to oxygenated flowing water further downstream as water levels drop across country Along the Odet River in Brittany, fisher Mathieu Le Bouter and a dozen volunteers are catching hundreds of trout and young salmon – not for sport but to save them. They are only a few miles from the source of the river, which springs from the Black Mountains in Finistère and runs for about 40 miles (65km) into the Atlantic Ocean, but the water is barely up to their knees. Continue reading...

In sea pools built with sandbags and rubble, Amjed Tantesh gives traumatised children brief respite from their daily lives Swimming classes have started again in Gaza after three years of war, with hundreds of children learning to float, doggy paddle and take their first strokes in five makeshift sea pools built from sandbags and rubble. The lessons allow a few hundred girls and boys to reclaim their childhood for a few hours in a place where there are no playgrounds, no formal education and chi

Zelenskyy says defence industry event should not have taken place; US influencer Laura Loomer visits Kyiv. What we know on day 1,613 A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine’s Kyiv region has killed 10 people and ⁠injured almost 100 at ⁠the site of ​a defence industry event that Volodymyr Zelenskyy said should never have taken place. Pictures posted online by the Ukraine Emergency Services showed teams sifting through piles of rubble at the site north of the capital, adjacent to several hou

Latest attacks come after Trump vowed ‘major military punishment’ for Tehran and its Houthi allies Donald Trump said that in recent meetings with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin , both leaders assured the US president separately that they would not sell weapons to Iran . “Considering our relationship, I take him at his word,” Trump said of the Chinese leader. Meanwhile, the US president said that the Kremlin made the same guarantees, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. Putin understands that the U

With a flurry of cost-of-living measures and a day in Number 10 North, the new prime minister has hit the right early notes Appropriately enough, Andy Burnham ended a week of political signalling and first impressions back in Manchester on Friday. At the offices of the new No 10 North – where the prime minister hopes to work at least one day a week – regional mayors sat alongside ministers in an example of Burnhamism at work. It was an early statement of intent, ahead of what Mr Burnham bills as

This globetrotting cold fusion dish boasts south-east Asian, Middle-Eastern and even Italian influences, producing sweet and sour notes and a chilli kick Can a person in a heatwave ever have too many cold noodle dishes? I’d wager no – hence today’s recipe. It started life as one of my favourite meals, the mighty spaghetti pomodoro, but then packed its bags and travelled through the Middle East, picking up some tahini along the way, then on to Indonesia for some heat (sambal oelek), and then hopp

From Carthage airport and Dante’s Purgatory to Maglia Rosa, Maillot Jaune and La Roja, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 Whose The Dream (The Bed) is the most expensive painting by a woman? 2 Which capital city is served by Carthage airport? 3 Which famous feuding families appear in Canto VI of Dante’s Purgatory? 4 Lock & Co is the world’s oldest shop selling what? 5 Which composer was bandmaster at the Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum? 6 At what point in a planet’s orbit is i

Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did a chatbot bring them together? As a small boy growing up in Amritsar, India, in the 1960s, Avtar Singh used to hear whispers. Your mum isn’t really your mum , the rumours would say. Your mum lives abroad. Avtar didn’t really pay any attention to it. “I thought, the neighbours are just making up stories.”

New appointee will have to work alongside ODI coach Joe Root emerges as frontrunner for Test captaincy The hunt for the next coach of the England men’s Test team is being complicated by the need for the new appointee to work alongside the man he would be replacing, Brendon McCullum , rather than taking full control of both red- and white-ball squads. Some high-profile candidates have been unwilling to work within such a setup, either because they want full oversight over the senior men’s teams o

Romo booked for operating vehicle under the influence First-offense OWI is not criminal charge in Wisconsin Tony Romo, the CBS NFL analyst and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, has been arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence. According to an arrest report by the Milwaukee county sheriff’s office, Romo performed poorly on field sobriety tests after getting stopped while driving south on Interstate 43 on Thursday. Sheriff’s officials said Romo was taken into custod