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Falling water levels linked to weather system are expected to limit number of slots to transit shipping lane Commercial ships travelling through the Panama canal are facing a rise in costs amid disruption triggered by the Iran war and falling water levels linked to this year’s intense El Niño weather system . Highlighting the fragility of global trade, a container ship reportedly paid about $4m (£3m) to jump a queue of vessels waiting to pass through the vital maritime choke point. Continue read

The International Energy Agency calls for urgent reopening of the strait of Homuz amid ongoing pressure on global oil supplies Opec has lowered its full-year forecast for world oil demand growth for the fourth month in a row. The oil producing cartel said it was now expecting oil demand to have grown to 580,000 barrels per day , according to a copy of the monthly report seen by Reuters. Continue reading...

The response to this summer’s record heat and drought should be led by ministers – not left to the emergency services The wildfire that began on protected heathland in the New Forest in Hampshire on Sunday was reported to be under control on Tuesday. But with temperatures forecast to reach 36C or higher in parts of England on Thursday, the risk of further outbreaks remains high. Firefighters responded to 185 wildfires in the first 10 days of August. In coastal Suffolk, conservationists and local

Reporters Jillian Ambrose and Damian Carrington discussed their story on oil firms’ profits amid the war in Iran and the climate crisis and answered your related questions 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 success? Damian: The UK is actually home to the world’s most powerful tidal stream turbine, operated by Orbital Marine Power , off Orkney and, the compan

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

Prime minister suggests possible measure as he prepares to chair emergency Cobra meeting in response to extreme heat Here’s today’s latest Met Office forecast for UK cities: Aberdeen 22C Belfast 24C Birmingham 32C Cardiff 33C Glasgow 25C Liverpool 32C London 32C Newcastle 29C Plymouth 31C Sheffield 31C Continue reading...

Your mum’s favourite star of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doors, Spartacus and a new GoPro-filmed thriller is ready to answer your quetions He’s your mum’s favourite, after playing the jolly nice man who is jolly nice to Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, and the jolly nice man who delivers the heartbreaking WH Auden eulogy for his partner in Four Weddings and a Funeral . But there is far more to John Hannah than a Scottish accent, magnificent eyebrows and an unrivalled ability to look so

England defender keen on move to Italian champions Udogie and Porro set to be Spurs’ first-choice full-backs Tottenham are prepared to allow Djed Spence to join Inter, with the England defender expected to cost around €30m (£25.6m). Spence – who started four games at the World Cup, including the semi-final against Argentina – has fallen further down the pecking order at Spurs after the arrival of Andy Robertson from Liverpool. He signed a new four‑year contract in north London at the start of la

Today’s fluff is coming back with a better offer Bradley Barcola is firmly in Liverpool’s sights as they look to rebuild their attack in the post-Mohamed Salah era. The two-time Champions League winner reportedly wants to leave Paris Saint-Germain, and Anfield is his preferred destination, though Arsenal have apparently been making eyes at the France international too. For their part PSG are thought to be closing on deals for Barcelona’s World Cup winner Ferran Torres and the Ajax winger Mika Go

Fabian Hürzeler has lost key players including Welbeck and Van Hecke with Brighton needing squad depth to cope with the demands of European football Guardian writers’ predicted position: 9th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 8th Continue reading...

Group says new executive order is attempt to evade supreme court’s earlier ruling against the president US politics live – latest updates The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other advocacy groups have asked a federal judge to block Donald Trump from enforcing new executive ⁠orders he signed last week in his latest attempt to restrict eligibility ​for birthright citizenship in the US. In a Tuesday court filing, the groups called the US president’s new orders an improper attempt to evade

The usual advice was getting me nowhere. If I really wanted to embrace running, I’d need to go off-piste. It was a journey that took me to some very strange places … I’ve always hated running. I’ve tried several times in the past, even made it work for a week or two, then stopped. I hated the excess of pain, the minimal gain. I never experienced runner’s high , only runner’s low. I despised the weather, come rain or shine, and the fact I had to be out in it. But most of all I hated the plodding,

The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light about 30bn light years from Earth Astronomers claim to have discovered a new kind of cosmic object, a '“black hole star”, which is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light. The international team made the breakthrough after focusing their attention on a mysterious red spot in images of the early solar system captured by Nasa’s James Webb space telescope. Continue reading...

Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs pulls up injured Italy’s Nadia Battocletti wins gold in women’s 5,000m On Marcell Jacobs’ right arm there is a tattoo of the Roman colosseum and a gladiator: a reminder of his fighting spirit and what Italy’s capital means to him. But in the swirling bearpit of a European championships 100m final, the former Olympic champion’s body dramatically broke down. That was the first shock. The second was the sight of two Britons, Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu, blasting th

New Zealand-born Mitchell became UK national in July England ready for revamped WXV tournament England women’s World Cup-winning coach , John Mitchell, has revealed he became a UK citizen in July after a six-year process. He said it would make representing the country on a sporting stage “very whole and meaningful”. Mitchell, who is from New Zealand and coached the All Blacks at the 2003 men’s World Cup, said he “belted out” the national anthem in his final citizenship test and that his time in

Highlights are men’s 100m and women’s 100m hurdles Hodgkinson up and running | Ticket backlash | Mail Billy Women’s 5,000m: Koster starts to make a move towards the front and Britain’s 20-year-old Innes FitzGerald, a student at the University of Exeter, tries to go with her. Here comes García, who is joined at the front by her compatriot Idaira Ferrero. That has prompted Battocletti to move through the field too. 2,000m to go. Women’s 5,000m: Bakraci is still leading the way but there is no gap

Errors by police and prosecutors left serial sex offender free to murder Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins Simon Levy, the sexual predator left free by police and prosecution errors to murder two women, will never leave prison after being sentenced to a whole-life tariff. Levy was convicted on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins five months later. He was also convicted of attacking and raping another woman, 35, in January 2025, who survived

Nearly 500 personnel battle Timber fire in Los Padres national forest as blaze grows to 3,000 acres Evacuations have been ordered for areas along California’s famous Big Sur coast as a wildfire burns in the nearby steep, rugged mountains. The Timber fire in Monterey county started on Sunday and grew to nearly 3,000 acres by Tuesday evening, according to Cal Fire, the state’s fire agency. Nearly 500 fire personnel had been assigned to the fire in the Los Padres national forest. Continue reading..

British driver Andy Green reached 406.320 mph in car powered by two hydrogen internal combustion engines The only person to break the sound barrier in a car earned another world record on Tuesday in a show of force for hydrogen power. British driver Andy Green reached 406.320mph (653.908km/h) in a car powered by two hydrogen internal combustion engines with a combined 1,600 horsepower, setting the record for that vehicle category, according to the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the i

Mike Heard used his paddle to strike gator that had latched on to swimmer in Silver River after hearing yells of ‘Gator!’ A Florida paddleboarder rescued a woman from an alligator attack in Marion county over the weekend. On Saturday, an alligator bit the woman on the arm while she was swimming in the Silver River, according to local reports citing Marion county authorities. Continue reading...

Journalists and others were allowed to fly on presidential jet despite security threat while Trump was spirited away Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Democrats called on Tuesday for a congressional briefing over a stunning charade in which Donald Trump was secretly spirited to a different plane than the one the public and press believed he was travelling on. Critics now question why reporters and the public had been deliberately misled. When US intelligence allegedly found a cre

Polls had shown Hong as a clear frontrunner during the campaign, but with large chunks of voters still undecided and an ever-changing field of candidates, polling was difficult David Crowley wins Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor The World Health Organization has warned that Donald Trump’s bid to overhaul child vaccination in the United States went against “decades of evidence”. President Trump signed an order Monday pushing for a rethink of school vaccine mandates and repeating calls fo

The Federal Communications Commission on 28 July announced a ban on humanoid robots from China including the popular Unitree G1 model. The Guardian's technology journalist Nick Robins-Early explains the recent popularity of these trending robots and why the US government says they are a risk to the country's national security Continue reading...

The prime minister tells the Guardian that last year’s diplomatic rift with ally New Zealand could be on voters’ minds as they head to the polls As voters in the Cook Islands prepare to head to the polls in a high-stakes general election, they will have much to reflect on. Over recent years, politics in this small island nation has been defined by fierce debates about deep-sea mining , diplomatic rifts with ally New Zealand and a major reshaping of the country’s foreign partnerships. In an exclu

The climate crisis is hitting Europe hard in 2026, warming twice as fast as any other continent – and the consequences are deadly The whole world is getting hotter as carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning traps ever more heat, but Europe is heating up twice as fast as other continents. The consequences are increasingly deadly, with tens of thousands of heatwave deaths so far this summer. The Guardian’s climate forum 2026 : On Tuesday 20 October, join Damian Carrington and our panel of expert

Just a few months ahead of an election, the prime minister said he had the full support of his party, after calling crisis meeting to address leadership speculation New Zealand’s prime minister Christopher Luxon has survived a second leadership showdown in four months , just 87 days out from the country’s general election. Talking to media after a three-hour meeting of his MPs in Wellington on Wednesday, the embattled leader said he had the full support of his party. Continue reading...

Prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul calls for tighter gun controls and ‘decisive penalties’ after nine dead in school shooting Thailand has suspended firearms licences after the deadly Nonthaburi school shooting , as the bodies of the teenage attacker and the grandparents he killed were cremated. The prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he had ordered the interior ministry and police to stop issuing licences to possess, purchase and carry firearms, and called for “tighter controls and decisi

Forecasters warned the Chinese capital could receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall over 24 hours Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas at risk of flooding and landslides in Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Dolphin continue to bring torrential rain to northern and central China. Forecasters warned on Tuesday that the Chinese capital could receive more than 150mm of rain over the following 24 hours, with some districts forecast to exceed 200mm – more than one-t

Zelenskyy warns Putin will use Russian election, in which opposition to the war is banned, as pretext for major call-up of troops. What we know on day 1,631 Russian forces used ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea , Ukraine’s president said, in an attack on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia where the Metinvest steel company said seven civilian workers at its plant were killed and 21 injured. Three more civilians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed by Russian drones and artillery

Eclipse to be witnessed by tens of millions across western Europe as enthusiasts gather along path of totality in Land’s End, Cornwall The roads and car parks of west and north Cornwall are clogged as people gather to watch the solar eclipse. Continue reading...

Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley’s use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome development As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear, some of the tech industry’s most senior figures have taken to writing thinkpieces on what comes next. The latest to do so is Mark Zuckerberg, who this week published 6,500 words making the case for a laissez-faire approach to AI development. Worrying too much abou

Our children should be able to visit our nation’s capital without having to think about Donald Trump and about how much he did to deface it History has shown us how much dictators and aspiring dictators love building monuments to themselves. They enjoy reminding the world that they can do anything, no matter who is responsible for the physical labor or who will be paying the financial and human cost. They prefer outsized structures, heroic arches, towers and columns designed to prove that their

There are more votes in tolerance and decency than in toxic division. It doesn’t take a great leap of political courage to fight back against Reform Nigel Farage can be confident of victory against a man posing as an ennobled space traveller with a dustbin on his head. At least, in Clacton he can. The refusal of major parties to contest this week’s byelection sets the bar low. But even if the competition were more serious than Count Binface, the Reform UK leader would be the favourite to win on

It’s a great betrayal: poor communities neglected while multimillionaires peddle a global Maga agenda. How is that America first? “THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social in February 2025 . He was not referring to his own administration, but to the US Agency for International Development (USAID). “CLOSE IT DOWN!” the president added. Just a few hours later USAID was in effect closed down, with most of the staff placed on indefinite administration leav

Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice says she recognises the ‘difficult case’ has damaged the university Cambridge University’s leadership has bowed to internal pressure for an independent investigation into its appointment of Jason Arday as a professor, with its vice-chancellor admitting the affair has damaged the institution. Prof Deborah Prentice said she recognised the “anger and anxiety around this damaging and difficult case” but described it as an aberration that should not be used to cast as

The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist The anticipation is palpable onboard the Boaventura II as the yacht sets off from Rio de Janeiro at sunrise. Once beyond the Cagarras Islands, rocky outcrops just three miles off Ipanema beach, the group gathers at the bow and starts scanning the horizon. They do not have to wait long. “Eleven o’clock!” someone calls ou

New research sheds light on the genetic basis of the venomous arachnid’s ‘weird mating behaviour’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast If you think you’ve had a bad one-night stand, spare a thought for the male redback spider, whose sole reproductive partner eats him after sex. Male redbacks appear to invite this cannibalism through a “self-sacrificial somersault”, with new research shedding light on the genetic basis

Master’s student made first bar with 100% UK ingredients since 1932 to highlight affect of climate crisis on cocoa plants The late queen was the only person in history to have ever eaten a chocolate bar made with 100% British ingredients, after she was given one as a six-year-old in 1932 by the confectioner Rowntree’s. The bar was created from a glasshouse-grown cocoa plant, at Rowntree’s headquarters in York. Continue reading...

Uefa, Concacaf and AFC working together on system Fifa has ignored calls for an independent review Gianni Infantino’s opponents are working together to produce a new framework for running world football to replace what they regard as a system of patronage that Fifa has adopted since he replaced Sepp Blatter as president 10 years ago. Repeated calls from Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation for an independent review of Fifa’s governance have been ignored by Infantino since his plan

Messi’s father, ⁠Jorge, died last week at age of 68 Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longer Lionel Messi said on Wednesday that he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week. Messi’s father, ⁠Jorge, died last week aged 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness. In a tribute on Instagram, Messi wrote: “I don’t know what I’m going to ⁠do without you. I ⁠don’t know how ​to move forward. I only played foot

Latest offer close to City’s valuation for Spain midfielder Chelsea’s £120m price for Fernández may be too high Barcelona have made an improved bid to Manchester City of around €60m (£51m) for Rodri. This follows Barça’s initial offer of €45m that was rejected out of hand by City. The Spanish club’s new offer – which may include add-ons – is close to City’s valuation for the 30-year-old who captained Spain to the World Cup and won the Ballon d’Or in 2024 . Continue reading...

As Ronaldo heads towards 1,000 career goals, the league plans to lift the standard of Saudi Arabian football, not just the clubs There is no Mohamed Salah in the new Saudi Pro League season that kicks off on Thursday and while the era of the ageing megastar is ending, there is still the strong chance that the next few months will be dominated by Cristiano Ronaldo. The 41-year-old is 24 shy of 1,000 career goals and, with the five-time Ballon d’Or winner having scored 102 in 107 league games for

Plus: players whose names appear in their clubs, big leaps and the top tier short of title-winning managers Mail us with your all of your questions and answers “Which footballer has played for the most clubs?” asks Paul Gage. Surprisingly, throughout the more than two decades of the Knowledge, this question has not been answered before. But, fear not, it will be now. Arsenal: Alan Sunderland, Tony Alexander Adams Chelsea: Michael Essien; Ruben Ira Loftus-Cheek Celtic: Carlton Michael Cole Leeds:

After her defiant femininity outraged many in Brazil, she lived through a military dictatorship and was boycotted for years. But after more than 30 albums, she explains how she kept going At 78, Joyce Moreno is one of Brazil’s musical icons, but for decades that status seemed far from assured: this headstrong singer, guitarist and composer was frequently viewed as a threat by her country’s establishment. Aged 19, the reaction to her song Me Disseram – which began “I was told my man didn’t love m

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Briton reached SW19 semi-finals as a wildcard World No 36 has first-round bye in Cincinnati Arthur Fery believes he is at the start of a new chapter in his career as he returns to competition for the first time since his surprise run to the Wimbledon semi-finals as a wildcard. Fery will compete for the first time in a month at the Cincinnati Open this week, after opting to take a short holiday and training block following the most demanding fortnight of his career at Wimbledon. Continue reading.

Cornerback loses consciousness during joint practice Team indicate 24-year-old is recovering well New York Jets cornerback Qwan’tez Stiggers was taken to a hospital by ambulance after he briefly lost consciousness during a joint practice with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday. Jets coach Aaron Glenn said the 24-year-old Stiggers was conscious and talking on the field before being put on a stretcher and taken for further examination. There was no immediate word on Stiggers’ condition, but Glenn

Reform deputy leader condemned for seeking disclosure of documents that could reveal reporter’s sources Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice has been accused of using “nasty tactics” in an attempt to intimidate journalists and deflect attention from his own financial affairs after issuing a legal threat to the Guardian. In a letter sent from his lawyers, a Guardian correspondent was singled out for her reporting on a series of Tice’s financial transactions that were referred to the National Crime

Justice department is asked to weigh new charges against David Hearn after US attorney dropped vandalism charges The White House has asked the Department of Justice to weigh new charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, according to a person familiar with the matter, pushing to revive a case Donald Trump has fumed about ever since an ally dropped the case citing insufficient evidence. Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia

Crowley pulls off last-minute victory in tight race after polls had shown Hong as the clear Democratic frontrunner David Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, won the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor after beating the Democratic socialist Francesca Hong. Crowley pulled off a last-minute victory after re-entering the campaign and snagging an endorsement from Tony Evers, the outgoing governor. Continue reading...