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The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin Barack Obama is set to host a podcast about books that have “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society”, from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. The podcast, called A Great Book with Barack Obama, will launch on Audible on 24 September. Continue reading...

US president demands compensation for damage incurred by US, complicating standoff with Tehran Shares in International Workplace Group slumped more than 11% after analysts flagged risks to cashflow at the flexible office space provider. Shares in IWG, which owns the Spaces ⁠and Regus brand s, are now down 5%, still the largest loser on the FTSE 250 index this morning. Our strategy remains clear. We continue to expand our global coverage at pace, building an unrivalled network that extends from t

Devons Road estate residents describe months-long ordeal of not being able to wash, clean or cook for much of the day Hundreds in London flats left without regular running water since last year Christmas Day in east London. Beatrice Asante empties a bag of potatoes into her kitchen sink and turns on the tap. Nothing. She turns it off and on again. Still nothing. What now? Asante rushes out to the only shop that is open, the local Nisa convenience store. She buys several big plastic bottles of wa

Last week reporters Jillian Ambrose and Damian Carrington published a piece which revealed that biggest oil firms made $93bn in profits in three months amid the war in Iran and the climate crisis. They’re online now to to discuss their story and any other questions you might have Ask a question: log in or sign up here PCMcGarry asks: Given the facts that we live on a collection of islands and that tides are predictable, what serious efforts have been made to harness sea power and with what succe

Chelsea also made aware of 19-year-old’s availability Newcastle’s Lewis Hall remains prime United target Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to Manchester United as a potential left-back option, with Arsenal wishing to recoup some of the £75m paid to Newcastle for Bruno Guimarães. Chelsea, it is understood, have also been made aware of the 19-year-old’s availability. Lewis-Skelly won the Premier League under Mikel Arteta last term, but whether the west London club will make a move for him is unc

WSL team will be favourites against Spanish side Financial implications of missing out are significant Chelsea will face Real Sociedad in the Women’s Champions League’s third qualifying round, needing a victory over two legs to earn a place in the main league phase of the competition. The 2021 runners-up and six-time European semi-finalists are taking part in the qualifying stage by virtue of their disappointing third-placed finish in the Women’s Super League last term – their lowest league fini

New head coach Marco Rose has a lot to live up to after last season’s sixth-placed finish while fans have a first year in Europe to look forward to Guardian writers’ predicted position: 12th (NB: this is not necessarily Ben Fisher’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 6th Continue reading...

Our cartoonist welcomes the EFL back, with returning characters and a look at what it’s like as an exiled supporter Buy a cartoon | Some of David’s favourite works And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...

Shameema and Tanzeela must trek for miles in summer heat to vaccinate children in Kashmir’s highlands as part of a vast national programme Before sunrise, Shameema slips on her worn rubber sandals and checks the insulated box – the ice packs inside must maintain the crucial cold chain at between 2C and 8C (35.6-46.4F). She hoists the container on one shoulder and steps out into the dark. Tanzeela follows with her own pack, after quickly retying the laces of her canvas shoes. Both women live in P

When he saw a messy yard being criticised on social media, Stephen Jalland grabbed his trimmer and decided to help. An overgrown garden, he discovered, often hides an overwhelmed owner Anita Thursby had been dreading the gas engineer coming to service her boiler. They would have needed to enter her kitchen, where the window looked into the jungle of swirling, 2-metre-high brambles that made up her back garden, and her shame had spiralled. “I would have been horrified,” she says. For the same rea

24-year-old secures title in 11.00sec in Birmingham Norway win 4x400m mixed relay, Britain second After a display of icy resolve and sustained power had secured Amy Hunt a European 100m gold medal, Britain’s new sprint queen reached for a Freddie Mercury lyric. “I want it all,” she said, before peering into a golden future. The Cambridge graduate, 24, now plans to leave the European Championships with four gold medals, adding the 200m and 4x100m women’s and mixed relays to her 100m title. On thi

Women’s 100m and men’s 5,000m top opening billing Britain ends 92-year wait | Mail Billy | Follow on TikTok Women’s 100 hurdles: Germany’s Rosina Schneider draws level with Norway’s Lovise Skarbøvik Andresen after 60m of the third heat but pulls away in the final 20m to win. The Norwegian was still on for a fast time but fell flat on her face at the final hurdle. She leaves the scene in tears. Four athletes went faster than GB’s Emma Nwofor there, which means she finishes 13th overall and misses

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid from renewables, a study has found. Researchers modelled the technical potential for AI to boost clean power generation along with projections for how it can help produce coal, oil and gas. Across 64 scenarios, they found net yearly carbon pollution rose by 0.47-1.8 gigaton

Flexible short-term bookings used to store and pack drugs and stash weapons and cash, says Ine Van Wymersch Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said. The booming e-commerce sector is helping “enormously” to facilitate organised crime, Belgium’s national drug commissioner, Ine Van Wymersch, said. Continue reading...

Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure Business live – latest updates Nvidia ⁠has struck a deal with six large Wall Street firms to raise ⁠more than $500bn (£370bn) to fund the datacentres, chip factories and power stations needed to fuel the artificial intelligence boom. The Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, said on X that it marked “a major milestone for Nvidia and the AI industry”, as he posted a photo of himself smiling and givi

Football manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining… Among his previous credits, the director of this mini-series Joe Pearlman can count the revelatory and hilarious 2018 film, Bros: After the Screaming Stops . That documentary worked brilliantly because its subjects seemed so sweetly but devastatingly lacking in discretion or self-awareness that everything they said landed like a line from a Chr

Loyalist sworn in after Senate voted narrowly in favor of his confirmation on Saturday morning Todd Blanche has been sworn as US attorney general, cementing Donald Trump’s installation of his former personal attorney in charge of the Department of Justice. Blanche, who has been serving as acting attorney general since April, was confirmed in his new position during a ceremony at the White House on Monday. The 52-year-old is the second Senate-confirmed attorney general of Trump’s second term, aft

President and RFK Jr, the health secretary, repeatedly referred to autism during signing, though studies show no link between it and vaccines Donald Trump has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that attempts to override the authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is an attempt to undergird the changes made earlier this year to CDC vaccination recommendations, which were halted by a federal judge. The CD

US president says the mishandled work ‘was a very small area’ of the pool and ‘was relatively inconsequential’ Sign up for the Breaking News US email Wisconsin is not the only state with high stakes primary races on 11 August. We’ll also be bringing you the latest on a number of pivotal contests. In Minnesota, the closely watched and crowded Democratic primary for US Senate seems to be a competition between lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan and congresswoman Angie Craig . Continue reading...

The imaging test is most often used to help determine a person’s risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures DXA – or sometimes DEXA – scans are important for people in their 60s and above. They are also increasingly used by younger people interested in body composition. A DXA – dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry – scan is an imaging test that uses low-dose X-rays to evaluate a person’s bone health, explains Dr Michael Perry, associate professor of radiology and medical imaging at the University of Vi

Israeli prime minister faces incompatible demands from his far-right government ministers and from Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu’s public rejection of a US-backed deal for Gaza drew scepticism in Israel, amid reports he was personally hammering out details of a pilot military withdrawal days earlier. The Israeli prime minister is struggling to balance incompatible demands on Gaza policy from his key domestic and international allies. Continue reading...

Attack hundreds of miles from border would be among deadliest of war as Kyiv aims to strangle Russian economy A Ukrainian drone strike on an industrial city deep inside Russia has killed at least 13 people, according to the local mayor, as Kyiv steps up its campaign of long-range strikes on targets far from the frontline. Kyiv said it hit the Taneco refinery in the city of Nizhnekamsk, about 750 miles (1,200km) from the Ukrainian border. Footage circulating online appeared to show smoke rising f

A network of cameras helped guide a group of space enthusiasts to New Zealand’s 11th confirmed meteorite Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month , Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black stone on the bare ground. The citizen astronomer was on the hunt for debris from the meteor that had flown over the North Island. He bagged the rock but wasn’t too confident, as he says most finds turn out to be “meteor-wrongs”. But when he held the thumb-sized rock next to a

Hundreds gathered in Nonthaburi province to remember Naphat Chaimar, the youngest victim of last week’s school mass shooting, including the shooter’s father When the mother and father of the youngest victim of last week’s school mass shooting arrived at the temple north of Bangkok, teary-eyed parents came up to quietly offer condolences before the prayers began in front of the 12-year-old girl’s casket. Then, in a moment, the tone changed. Continue reading...

More than a million people were moved to safety across eastern China over the weekend as Typhoon Dolphin made landfall Beijing is expected to hit by more than one-third of its annual rainfall over a ⁠24 hour period starting late Tuesday, as Typhoon Dolphin moves deeper ⁠inland prompting the closure of tourist areas and suspension of construction projects. From ‌Tuesday evening through to Thursday, most areas in Beijing will experience heavy ‌downpours with a cumulative rainfall of more than 150m

Search teams and civilians sift though debris after at least 1,500 buildings damaged and dozens collapse in country’s most powerful quake this century Scores dead in Colombia after powerful earthquake strikes west of country – full report People remain trapped in Cali, one of Colombia’s largest cities, ​after more than two dozen structures ‌collapsed, mayor Alejandro Eder said. ‌ He added that the city had asked authorities in Bogota and Medellin to send disaster teams ‌to support rescue efforts

The new president is a former judge on the European Court of Human Rights Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares visited Ceuta earlier today, as he insisted that Madrid had it all under control despite “the most unique and complex” border arrangements there. He said Spain was in direct dialogue with the Moroccan authorities on how to prevent another border crisis. Continue reading...

My mum has been a huge help with the practical stuff. She’s also stirred up memories of my own blissfully bored childhood I gave birth to a second child a few months ago. I don’t think I will ever get over the fact that this is the way people come into the world. It’s a ridiculous endeavour, from start to finish. My first pregnancy was almost comically miserable for the first 20 weeks, then glorious for 10 weeks, then scary and stressful for the remainder. And this time? More intense in every wa

There’s no evidence that vaccines cause autism, or that we should separate MMR shots. This order is dangerous “This is based on what I feel.” That was the president last September, explaining why he wanted the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine broken into three separate shots. On Monday, he signed an executive order instructing exactly that. Four decades in intensive care have taught me what a feeling costs once it becomes national policy. Children will be hospitalized who did not need to

Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum When wasps began streaming through a rusted gap in her office door one June morning, Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was the same most people would have: get rid of them. The reserve manager for the Trinity Broads, part of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, had discovered a wasp colony taking up residence in her office, a converted shipping container. “They

Prediction comes amid warning of ‘extreme heat’ this week with temperatures of 38C possible The Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey , has written a useful explainer about the UK public services that are struggling in the extreme weather. You can read it in full here: There’s only one solution in the end to the drought now declared across most of England and that’s rain, says Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading. An important consequence of drought is that ver

Keith Andrews and the high-scoring Igor Thiago face difficult second album after outperforming expectations Guardian writers’ predicted position: 8th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 9th Continue reading...

Public displays of affection are widely mocked online and off, but they have a positive side – and now science has proved it Name: Kissing in public. Age: Kissing is 17m-21m years old – probably older than the notion of privacy. Continue reading...

Prosecutors allege Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis ordered killing and provided gun in Las Vegas drive-by shooting 30 years ago Jury selection began on Monday in Las Vegas as the murder trial of a former gang leader finally got under way decades after the shooting of the rapper Tupac Shakur, one of the most high-profile unsolved killings in the US. It was thought likely to take at least the rest of the week to seat a jury for the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, in which prosecutors aim to show that Davis,

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. So where are they? • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?”

Former Olympic super-heavyweight champion takes satisfaction from changing British boxing for the better, but still wants to train a world champion “I was the Olympic champion, and I was the next big thing, but the system had to win,” Audley Harrison says as he reflects on his rise and fall as a fighter who changed so much in British boxing while failing to fulfil his grandest ambitions in the ring. Harrison had once been considered a likely successor to Lennox Lewis, the undisputed world heavyw

Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium half-full on Monday Athletes and fans join chorus of concern over prices Keely Hodgkinson’s coach and the BBC commentator Steve Cram have led a chorus of concern about high ticket prices causing lower ­attendances at the European ­Athletics Championships in Birmingham. Fans have also criticised the high food prices at the Alexander Stadium, with a barbecue pork roll costing £18.50, a bratwurst hot dog £15, and a bottle of water £3.95. Continue reading...

The Portland rink where Tonya Harding first skated was an affordable community institution for six decades. Its closure echoes the disappearance of mall ice across the US When the Lloyd Center shopping mall first opened its doors in 1960, it boasted a unique feature: an ice rink. In the nearly seven decades since, that ice rink – first outdoor, then enclosed by a glass ceiling that sheltered mall-goers from the elements – became a cultural epicenter for Portlanders. Children accompanying parents

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Performer cleared of death of her roommate in Italy uses new motherhood as framework for her defiant comedy show ‘Welcome to the most controversial show on the fringe !” Some audiences will diagnose self-regard in that intro by rookie standup Amanda Knox. For others, as for Knox herself, it merely acknowledges the continuing efforts to silence her. But then, Knox is “the human version of the blue/gold dress”, a canvas on to which we all project guilty, innocent –

The Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make As a latecomer to Game of Thrones, I am struck by how many people tell me it is “very Shakespearean”. It is as if they need to justify its heady escapism and heavy reliance on bonking and brutality. But its debt to the Bard – apart from the rivalry between the houses of Lannister and Stark – rests mainly on the casting. Watching the first 11 episodes

Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace. In a new letter addressed to the CEOs of three of the country’s leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have reach

Elaborate ruse was used to transport president to military flight from Air Force One in July Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey to Britain last month when the White House said he was flying aboard ⁠Air Force One, in an extraordinary ruse – prompted by an Iranian assassination threat – that involved hiding the president in an airport catering container, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times. The operation took place when Trump was in Ank

British driver Andy Green will try to beat his own record, set 20 years ago, with a hydrogen-powered car The first – and only – person to break the sound barrier in a car hits the track in Utah this week with new wheels and his eye on another record. Twenty years ago, British driver Andy Green set the land speed record for a diesel-powered car, reaching 350.092 mph (563.4 km/h) at Utah’s famous Bonneville Salt Flats . Green will return to the lunarlike landscape Tuesday and try to beat that mark

Quake of 7.4 magnitude collapses and severely damages buildings in several major cities, including Cali and Pereira More than 100 people died after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, collapsing and severely damaging scores of buildings in major cities including Cali and Pereira. The US and Colombian geological surveys reported that a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck at 7.34am local time on Monday, with its epicentre in the western department of Chocó. It was felt in neighbouring Venez

People being pulled from collapsed buildings day after 7.4 magnitude quake hit, in response experts say contrasts favourably with Venezuela’s Colombian rescue workers are racing to find survivors after the country’s deadliest earthquake this century killed at least 224 people and left at least 3,000 missing. In Cali, one of the worst affected cities, firefighters said they had pulled a 35-year-old man from the wreckage of a collapsed building shortly before 4am on Tuesday – nearly 24 hours after

Every candidate of Yabloko – the last anti-war party – barred from September elections; warning over ‘Russian Starlink’ progress. What we know on day 1,630 Continue reading...

Barclays says survey shows people feel more secure in jobs and have more leeway to spend on non-essentials Business live – latest updates Consumer confidence hit its highest level in almost two years in July, according to research that indicated the closing stages of the men’s football World Cup and more people holidaying in the UK raised summer spending. A truce in the Middle East conflict in June and the arrival of a new prime minister in No 10 also gave a lift to consumers after a long period

A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment It is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the catastrophic risks of AI. One often hears that “the real experts” who work on the technology every day are really not concerned at all; that only “doomers” and “Luddites” espouse a “fringe” view from a “position of ignorance”; that all talk of potential catastrophe is just “science fiction”.

Voters disillusioned by Brexit should have more options than Nigel Farage or the novelty candidate Count Binface The UK could be forgiven if, like Brenda from Bristol, it feels it has had too much politics of late. The long death rattle of the Starmer government against a backdrop of relentless excitement from the White House has left everyone suffering a severe case of overwhelm. We all deserve a holiday – even Andy Burnham, exhausted after a few weeks in the job. So the political and media cla