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Tahiti digs in to protect ‘most beautiful wave’ ahead of Olympic surf event | Pacific islands

For Henry Tahurai, the ocean has always been part of the rhythm of life. The 31-year-old father grew up fishing, diving and surfing where...

‘Detachment was considered a strength’: how a war correspondent’s calling created a trauma timebomb | Mental health

Dean Yates was working in Reuters’ Jakarta newsroom on the night of 12 October 2002, when he took a call from a stringer in...

Where’s the money? Questions mount over Australian company hoping to revive Britishvolt | Business

The Australian offices of Scale Facilitation, the company in charge of resurrecting the UK’s electric vehicle battery-making aspirations, were unusually quiet when the federal...

‘Monumental change’: football tackles the impact of periods on performance | Women’s football

Midway through the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France, several members of the United States team came together for a selfie – taken by...

Tireless Robinson shakes things up for England with fitness and accuracy | Ashes 2023

Deep down, beneath the layers of mooching sang-froid, Ollie Robinson might have bridled a bit at Matthew Hayden’s description of his bowling as “124kph...

Mum calls on airlines to take more care after easyJet loses son’s wheelchair | Airline industry

The mother of a disabled teenager whose holiday was partly “wrecked” after easyJet lost his wheelchair on a flight to Paris has called on...

England v Australia: Women’s Ashes, first T20 match – live | Women’s Ashes

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWICKET! Capsey run-out Brown 3 (England 26-2)What a brilliant piece of fielding! But...

‘More protest than carnival’: politics looms larger than usual at London Pride | Pride

Pirouetting among the crowds in front of Eros in roller-skates, black chaps and pink cowboy hat (fringed silver stiletto boots in hand for the...

Move to halt church sell-offs chimes with Philip Larkin’s prophetic homage | Tim Adams

It’s just about three score years and 10 since Philip Larkin wrote Church Going, his beautiful meditation on the increasing redundancy of places of...

Rip-off Britain: why everything we buy now costs a fortune | UK cost of living crisis

David Cameron was famously asked the price of bread a decade ago and struggled to answer, saying instead he used an electric breadmaker. The...

England v Portugal: Women’s World Cup warm-up friendly – live | England women’s football team

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSarina Wiegman has spoken ahead of kick-off, first telling ITV about leaving Russo...

Lee Carsley quietly pushing England Under-21s forward after early exits | England Under-21s

Far from the public gaze, England Under-21s are drawing closer to a place in history. Thirty-nine years have passed since they last won a...

The week in classical: Manchester Classical; Alice Sara Ott and Friends: Quartet for the End of Time – review | Classical music

After the sacrificial cataclysm there’s a tiny upward rush of flutes, a single crash and it’s over. Stravinsky wrestled with the ending of The...

The Ashes 2023: England v Australia, second Test, day four – live | Ashes 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature56th over: Australia 163-2 (Khawaja 68, Smith 26) Gets onto one well, Khawaja,...

Tour de France 2023: race begins with stage one in Bilbao – live updates | Tour de France 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIncreased calls for new safety measuresJonathan Vaughters, manager of the EF Education Easy...

France riots live: minister says rioters ‘will not win’ after nearly 1,000 arrested on fourth night of unrest | France

Nearly 1,000 arrested overnightJonathan YerushalmyNearly 1,000 people in France were arrested and 80 police injured during a fourth night of unrest triggered by the...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 70: Marilyn Monroe remains a dazzling star | Marilyn Monroe

Last year’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde broke up its parade of visceral suffering heaped upon the woman born Norma Jeane Mortenson with an acknowledgement...

Russia-Ukraine war live: top US general predicts ‘very long’ counteroffensive; CIA chief reportedly visits Kyiv for talks | Ukraine

Ukrainian counteroffensive will be long and 'very bloody', says top US generalUkraine’s counteroffensive will be very difficult and achieving gains will take a long...

From Airbnb to Xbox: brand Barbie goes for big bucks with 100 partnerships | Film

When Margot Robbie first read the script for the Barbie film, which she stars in and co-produced, her first thought was: “They’re never going...

Just four pupils left: how the sea rose up on a Thai village | Thailand

From the corridor of Khun Samut school, it’s clear how far inwards the sea has crept. In the distance, beyond the still waters of...

The wrong track: remembering the embarrassing saga of Sydney’s monorail | Sydney

Ever since a 1993 episode of The Simpsons about a travelling salesman selling a dodgy monorail system to Springfield, the word has been satiric...

‘Tokyo would lose its soul’: anger over plans to redevelop historic city park | Japan

It is a leafy oasis in a city smothered in paved streets and concrete high-rises; a mecca for sports fans who flock to baseball...

Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun article on Meghan was sexist, says press regulator | Ipso

Jeremy Clarkson discriminated against the Duchess of Sussex when he used an article in the Sun to describe his “hatred” of her with a...

France riots: hundreds arrested in fourth night of unrest as 45,000 police deployed | France

France’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has said the coming hours “will be decisive” as violence triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager...

New Zealand falls out of love with sheep farming as lucrative pine forests spread | New Zealand

Across one of the ridgelines of High Peak station, a line of sheep is on the move: gradual at first, and then in a...

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis | Ukraine

Every week we wrap up the must-reads from our coverage of the war in Ukraine, from news and features to analysis, visual guides and...

The Swell review – a gasp-inducing love-triangle mystery | Theatre

The wonder of Isley Lynn’s gorgeous play about the love between three women is in its connections. In a time-hopping narrative spanning 28 years,...

Whose generated line is it anyway? AI tries to crack humour’s DNA | Comedy

I’ve seen some bad comedy acts over the years – but not, until now, one that is part of an existential threat to humanity....

England’s men of Bazball are putting fun before winning. Why not try both? | Ashes 2023

And frankly, is this not what the people want? Australia may be on the verge of going 2-0 up after enduring the worst of...

England’s Ashes hopes hanging by a thread after Australia turn the screw | Ashes 2023

Eight days into an Ashes series scheduled for 25 and England are already staring down the barrel. The question now, for a team that...

Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’ | Jair Bolsonaro

The political future of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been cast into doubt after electoral judges banned him from running for office for...

Thirteen North review – new female string ensemble make relaxed debut | Classical music

Thirteen North are a new Scottish-based string ensemble with an almost entirely female lineup of 13, under the shared artistic directorship of violinists Emily...

‘A pink, glittery, existential dance party’: Barbie movie marketing machine kicks off global tour | Film

Michaela Merkas wasn’t going to miss seeing Margot Robbie in person.Since last year, she and friend Olivia Hooker have been obsessively following the increasingly...

US temperatures continue to rise as millions affected by extreme heat and wildfire smoke – live | Extreme weather

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHands Only CPR has issued a warning on how heat stroke can cause...

I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn’t go well | Games

I had one of those ads pop up on Twitter recently. You know the ones. Not the weirdly suggestive ones trying to get you...

Super-rich told to beware ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality | The super-rich

In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super rich and their advisers were this week...

Sunak says Goldsmith resigned after refusing to apologise for unacceptable attack on privileges committee – UK politics live | Politics

Sunak says Goldsmith resigned after refusing to apologise for unacceptable attack on privileges committeeDowning Street has published Rishi Sunak’s response to Zac Goldsmith’s resignation...

‘Everyone I met was lovely’: readers’ favourite student trips | Europe holidays

Winning tip: Berlin’s lakes and cakesIt has to be Berlin. During a month-long summer trip in the late noughties, I fell in love with...

The Ashes 2023: England v Australia, second Test, day three – live | Ashes 2023

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJonathan Liew looked at the place of Ben Duckett, a man too cubic...

The video game that made me feel seen as a trans person | Games

Now is the perfect time to play 2020’s story-driven adventure game Tell Me Why: in honour of Pride month, it’s currently free to download....

Brick by brick: the British manufacturers building a better future for birds | Birds

At first, it is hard to spot. A small hole in the eaves is often all that can be seen. It’s only on closer...

UK avoids winter recession, and house prices rise in June – business live | Business

UK economy grew 0.1% in Q1, ONS confirmsNewsflash: The UK has avoided recession over the winter, the latest national accounts confirm.The Office for National...

Russia-Ukraine war live: US considering sending cluster munitions to Ukraine – reports | Ukraine

Ukraine holds nuclear disaster response drills near Zaporizhzhia plantUkraine has conducted nuclear disaster response drills in the vicinity of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power...

‘I want to tell people that prison life is super dead’: Digga D on rap stardom amid police restrictions | Rap

In November 2017, a London collective called 1011 – pronounced “ten-eleven”, after the W10 and W11 postcodes – released their Next Up? freestyle video...

As Beijing swelters, activists hope the heat will prompt climate action | China

As temperatures in the Chinese capital are forecast to creep back up to record-breaking heights this weekend, activists are hoping that overheated Beijingers will...

Christine King Farris, Martin Luther King’s last living sibling, dies aged 95 | Atlanta

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr, has died.Her niece, the Rev Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved aunt”...

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s drug cartels, killed in ambush | Mexico

One of the founders of Mexico’s “self-defense” movement, the lime farmer turned vigilante crusader Hipólito Mora, has reportedly been murdered in an ambush –...

Handley double helps Leeds maintain resurgence with victory at Warrington | Super League

Warrington Wolves may still sit second in Super League but the body language of their coach at full time could not have been more...

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions review – unforgettable celebration of queer activism | Opera

It begins with a woman humming. She stands defiantly at the edge of the stage, arms crossed, looking out into the packed auditorium (still...