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  • Josh Kerr misses out on gold in the 1500m final

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Kerr misses out on gold after Hocker shock as GB cycling take sprint silver

    Josh Kerr missed out on gold in a thrilling 1500m Olympic final with Cole Hocker causing an upset while Team GB’s men’s cycling team took silver
    • Yahya Sinwar

      Israel-Gaza war
      Hamas names Yahya Sinwar, architect of 7 October attack, as new leader

    • Interest rates
      UK recovery ‘will accelerate and force Bank to keep interest rates higher for longer’

    • Depression
      Watchdog bans Gemma Collins advert promoting headset to treat depression

    • Health
      UK urged to consider ban on artificial stone worktops over silicosis risk

    • Russia
      Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia

    • Iran
      Putin reportedly calls for Iran to limit damage in any retaliation against Israel

    • London
      Banksy reveals second animal artwork within 24 hours in London

    • Science
      ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

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  • Tim Martin smiles for a photo while leaning on a table in a pub, while two young men photobomb him with gestures behind him

    Interview
    Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s: ‘For a while I was hated based on false information’

    Britain’s most famous and most outspoken pub landlord is not afraid of controversy. But even he was shaken by the rough ride he got over Covid furloughs
  • Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle

    Edinburgh festival 2024
    Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle review – heady mix of uneasy laughs, sexual candour and Titanic spoof

  • Ten times more durable … the innovative vessels.

    Art and design
    Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

    In the 1980s, a company called Superfest pioneered extra strong glass – but it disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now it’s making a comeback
  • A man attempts take-off with his home-made wings

    Pass notes
    Be more avian! Why stressed Chinese students are pretending to be birds

    How best to cope with China’s economic slowdown, high cost of living and soaring youth unemployment? Roost in your bedroom
    • A poster of a veiled older Asian woman with holes in her face

      Bangladesh
      Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh’s democracy

    • D‘Why are people shocked? Do they not have the same thoughts?’ … Ireland.

      Stage
      ‘I went straight to whisky at 14’: David Ireland on tackling booze on stage

    • 1-3 (2)

      Drugs
      The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

    • illustration of a woman sitting at a table writing a letter

      Wellness
      I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

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    2 China 22 21 16 59
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    4 France 13 16 19 48
    5 Great Britain 12 15 19 46
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    Opinion

    • A man with white hair gestures his hand as he stands in front of signs saying 'Vice President Kamala Harris Fight For Reproductive Freedoms'.

      Kamala Harris’s VP pick may signal a shift away from pivoting to the center

      Moira Donegan
      Tim Walz makes an affirmative case for progressive values as American values. That is a break from Democratic party norms
    • Tommy Robinson addressing a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 27 July 2024

      Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

      Marina Hyde
    • Donald Trump sitting in front of a US flag.

      Kamala Harris is mixed race, I’m mixed race – and Donald Trump is a dusty old relic

      Arwa Mahdawi
      In his remarks about the vice-president’s race, Trump showed how laughably out of touch he is
    • The police controlling far-right protesters in Weymouth on 4 August

      These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting

      George Monbiot
      Because the Conservatives had nothing to offer the people of the UK, they sought to refocus our attention on scapegoats
      • Man makes shocked face on stage while holding microphone

        Joe Rogan’s Netflix special is another tired, and unfunny, tirade

        Jesse Hassenger
      • Outfall into the River Thames from Thames Water's Crossness sewage treatment works

        Thames Water’s assets are looking worse and worse. Bondholders must pay

        Nils Pratley
      • A girl using ice-cream in a cone to paint a mess on a window

        Of course I love my children – just don’t assume I’ll like yours

        Sunil Badami
      • Zoe Williams

        Why do I love Greggs? Let me count the ways

        Zoe Williams

    Editorials & Letters

    • Tim Walz and Kamala Harris

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick: Tim Walz is a smart choice for Democrats

    • Keir Starmer

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

    • A new-build housing estate in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear.

      Letters
      Cracks in Angela Rayner’s plan for a housing revolution

    • Morrissey reaches out to fans at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2004.

      Letters
      Morrissey’s Irish Blood, English Heart is by no means a far-right anthem

    Sport

    • Taras Mykhavko (right) and Mykola Shaparenko close down Rangers’ Ross McCausland.

      Football
      Rangers earn late Champions League draw against Dynamo Kyiv

    • Jake Wardle scores a try for Wigan in their victory

      Rugby league
      Wigan return to form with victory against Leigh to reclaim top spot

      • Marc Guéhi with the ball at his feet at Euro 24

        Football
        Newcastle close to Guéhi deal with Palace defender keen on move

      • Remi Allen

        Interview
        ‘I’m proud of my journey’: Remi Allen on becoming Southampton’s manager at 33

      • Nathan Tella, pictured at Leverkusen’s training camp in Donaueschingen

        Interview
        Leverkusen’s Nathan Tella: 'I look at a picture of my winners’ medals every day'

      • Armando Christian Pérez – known as Pitbull – has been a longtime proponent of education initiatives in South Florida.

        College football
        Team to play in ‘Pitbull Stadium’ after rapper agrees naming rights deal

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    • Three people wading in the sea in stormy conditions.

      Weather tracker
      Flooding may hit Florida and Georgia as Storm Debby intensifies

    • a side-by-side image of Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise

      Climate crisis
      Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress

    • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

      Environment
      How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

    • Beach parasols at Madonna del Ponte, near Fano

      Italy
      ‘The Adriatic is becoming tropical’: Italian fishers struggle to adapt to warm sea

    From the UK

    • Thames Water was fined £104m by Ofwat.

      Business
      Three water firms face record total £168m fine after sewage investigation

    • A person wrapped in a Palestinian flag stands outside the Instro Precision arms factory in Sandwich, Kent

      Crime
      UK police arrest two pro-Palestine activists under organised crime laws

      • World
        UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

      • Politics
        Public services priority for Welsh people, not devolution, says new first minister

      • Environment
        Almost 500 chemicals found in England’s rivers and groundwater

      • Prisons
        HMP Wandsworth had seven inmate suicides in past year, report finds

      • Society
        Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

      • Politics
        Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

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    Around the world

    • German police and pro-Palestinian protesters

      Germany
      German court convicts activist for leading ‘from the river to the sea’ chant

      Judge says phrase ‘denied right of Israel to exist’ but woman’s lawyer says ruling is a defeat for free speech
    • A trader works on the trading floor of the New York stock exchange on 5 August 2024

      Stock markets
      Global markets partly recover but analysts fear ‘we’re not out of woods’

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      Virginia
      Man charged with threatening to kill Kamala Harris

      Frank Carillo made 19 threatening comments about vice-president on rightwing platform Gettr, according to affidavit
      • a man in a suit and tie crosses a street

        US
        Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China

      • Florida
        Nine killed and one injured after SUV flips into Florida canal

      • Bangladesh
        Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister

      • Palestinian territories
        Torture, abuse and humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli prison ‘hell’

      • Kenya
        No jobs, no trust: young Africans’ economic struggles fuel protests

      • Technology
        Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’

      • Books
        Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death

      • Environment
        ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

    Culture

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      Music
      Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

      The lyrics veer from nihilistic provocation to drunken messages to his ex-wife, and the music is equally erratic and confused
    • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

      Romance books
      My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

    • Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo

      Film
      Cuckoo review – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

    • Olaf Falafel

      Edinburgh festival 2024
      ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

    • The Influencer.

      Television
      The Influencer review – judging by these social media stars, humanity’s future is bleak

    • A man surfing a barrel wave

      Film
      Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

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      15 cycling enthusiasts on why life is better on two wheels

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      How does your knowledge of British cycling track?

    • Group of female cyclists taking a selfie while sitting on their bikes.

      ‘Being outdoors is amazing’
      How British Cycling is helping more women enjoy life on two wheels

    • Family riding their bikes around a public park. The youngest girl is sitting in a support seat on the back of her mothers bike. They are wearing helmets and are social distancing.

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    Lifestyle

    • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

      How we survive
      A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

      Juliane Diller was 17 when the aircraft she and her mother were on exploded. Of the 92 people on board, Juliane was the only survivor – and it would take her 11 days to walk to safety
    • A selection of storebought chicken stocks, chicken stock powders and bone broths.

      Food
      Stock take: what’s the difference between liquid, cube and powder – and what exactly is ‘bone broth’?

    • Versatility is king: Yotam Ottolenghi’s olive oil flatbread can take on all kinds of toppings and flavourings like garlic butter and grated tomatoes.

      Kitchen aide
      Rise and shine: easy summer breads to entertain

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      Travel
      An alternative guide to the Cotswolds: beyond the Chipping Norton set

    • OM Nigel Blackberry Almond Croissant

      Food
      Nigel Slater’s recipe for blackberry almond croissants

    • An image of a man and woman lying side by side

      Sexual healing
      My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?

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    • NHS file photo.

      Society
      Healthcare workers: how have you been affected by the UK riots?

    • Snoop Dogg attends the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Qualification at the Paris Olympics at Bercy Arena on 28 July.

      Sport
      Tell us about your favourite Paris Olympics moment so far

    • Riot police officers stand off against anti-immigration protesters outside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which is housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

      UK news
      Share your reaction to the riots that have taken place in parts of the UK

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      Tell us: have you been affected by sexual extortion?

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      US
      The one policy conservatives across the world say will fix men: mandatory military service

      Proponents say the draft could help foster connection. Others see the proposal as a cynical political gimmick
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      New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

      Celeste Liddle
    • Khalifa Haftar in a military uniform

      Analysis
      Oilfield slowdown exposes political volatility in Libya and beyond

    • President Putin greets Russians returning to Moscow after prisoner Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, followed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin

      Prisoner exchange
      How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

    • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

      Women's rights
      She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

    • A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after a global sell-off of shares sparked recession fears.

      Explained
      Share market chaos explained: what’s behind the stock meltdown and will there be a recession?

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