⚽ News and buildup to the first Sunday of the EFL season⚽ Jonathan Wilson’s Community Shield preview | Mail us“The Community Shield is a first opportunity to make some kind of assessment of whether Arsenal’s hunger is as sharp as it was last season, and of how […]

The Guardian’s fans network looks ahead to the new season: fresh talent, weak links, and who will be sacked firstHaving finally got the title monkey off our back, and with much of the competition in a state of flux, there’s plenty of optimism. Obviously the target is for Arteta to […]

Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and developJared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about […]

The hottest ticket in theatreland will soon be Cate Blanchett in Electra/Persona. Caged female rage continues to capture audiencesIt feels like a very Greek summer here in the UK?. The ground is scorched, it last rained months ago, and the giant publicity machine for Christopher Nolan’s […]

Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collideFamilies with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year, what might have been a summer of quiet family anxiety has erupted in several […]

Four horses with little record of success suddenly won in the US. A seemingly coordinated betting operation across London did too – and now racing authorities want answersTo understand why horse racing on both sides of the pond has been gripped by the Fair Hill Five over the past week, start […]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder at the World’s Ugliest Dog contest, which marked its 50th year at the Sonoma County Fair in California. The competition, which promotes dog adoptions and ‘the imperfections that make all dogs special’, was won this year by Jinny Lu, a pug from […]

Ahead of Fat Bear Week, avid fans are glued to the spectacle of brown bears devouring salmon at Brooks Falls in AlaskaOne of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a […]

Historians argue box office enthusiasm shows desire for unifying figure as country faces political divisionOn 18 June 1940, Charles de Gaulle, then a little-known junior army officer, sat in a BBC studio in London and made his famous rallying call for the French to resist the Nazi occupation and […]

Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account detailsYou are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With a small section of the Douro river in the background, you think it could have been taken […]

Fire has always be part of life on the grasslands, but has grown worse due to rising temperatures and severe droughts. In response, people have turned to their nomadic heritage to help tackle the blazesSodnomjamts Damchaabadgar squats in a shallow, rocky depression, working quietly with his hands. […]

Bangladesh win Test match on Australian soil for first timeCameron Green century not enough to stave off nine-wicket defeatBangladesh have handed Australia one of their most humiliating and crushing Test defeats in 149 years, despite a career-saving century by Cameron Green.The visitors bowled […]

The story of Mir Hussein in Afghanistan, who cameras have now followed for 25 years. Plus: a comedy from the director of Colin from Accounts. Here’s what to watch this evening Sunday, 11.15pm, ITV1 Continue reading... […]

Downpours in Japan’s east have snarled roads, caused power outages and destroyed homes in Chiba prefectureHeavy rain that battered eastern Japan has left nine people dead, the public broadcaster NHK said on Sunday, after an “unprecedented” deluge that flooded more than a thousand […]

Home cooking, but in the most complimentary senseSome developers would rip the soul out of a 1930s banking hall, but Kinz, a new all-day Lebanese brasserie housed in a former Lloyds Bank in Notting Hill, instead makes a feature of its chunky vault door. Where W11 residents once kept their cash, […]

In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognitionFor 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union did not have weekends. Instead, to increase […]

As chief US diplomat, Rubio could do great good. His pandering and neglect are a disgrace we shouldn’t ignoreViewed from the state department in Washington DC, the world is on fire – but record heatwaves are not to blame. The unresolved Iran war has badly burned Donald Trump. His […]

Do you really want to date, or do you just feel you should? Be kind to yourself, and maybe try real-world dating and avoid the apps for nowI haven’t been on a date in eight years and want to start next year. How can I prepare for the storm?I want to love and care for someone. I long for […]

Latest reading on Wednesday likely to frame scale of challenge for new PM to ease pressures on households amid Iran war fallout British households are facing a renewed cost of living squeeze, with official figures expected to show this week that soaring energy bills drove up inflation in July to […]

Traverse theatre, EdinburghIn Cora Bissett’s highly enjoyable and accessible show, a deaf man reintroduces a busker to the joy of music‘There are other ways to listen,” says Joe (Jamie Rea) to his new friend Andy (Dylan Wood), a busker he has discovered on the street and invited […]

After news that a couple from Gloucestershire are still using an Electrolux fridge from the 1930s, we asked readers about their experiences. From a 50-year-old TV to a 75-year-old vacuum cleaner, here are the old faithfulsI have a 1974 Janex Batman and Robin wind-up talking alarm clock. Amazingly, […]

The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking waterFor centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that […]

Searchers dig through collapsed buildings and debris after 7.7 magnitude quake killed at least 47 peopleRescue crews dug through collapsed buildings and landslide debris in eastern Indonesia on Sunday as they searched for bodies and possible survivors a day after a powerful earthquake killed at […]

Kyiv mayor says attack has caused fires in at least two districts; Ukraine hits Russian rocket facility in long-range strike. What we know on day 1,636Russian forces launched a missile ⁠attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in ⁠at least ⁠two districts of the Ukrainian […]

Men’s and women’s 4x100 teams complete wins in styleHunt will aim for fourth gold in mixed relay on SundayNo sooner had Amy Hunt won a staggering third European gold medal in five days than she pointed at the superwomen guiding her closer to history. “We’re the fantastic […]

Argentinian powers to 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victoryHeat and humidity take toll on DjokovicFery holds off Duckworth 6-4, 2-6 7-6(4)The scoreboard did not yet indicate that anything was awry, but even as Novak Djokovic led by a set in his opening match at the Cincinnati Open, he was already struggling […]

US president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to BidenThe White House flooded social media on Saturday with an image of Donald Trump showing off the recent Washington Post headline “Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in […]

Lithuania’s capital Vilnius has been billed as the ‘European corgi capital’. Corgi Race Vilnius began during the pandemic as a friendly bet between two owners, and now features sprint heats, a costume parade, a loudest bark contest, and new agility and ‘run and return’ […]

Edinburgh film festivalLuis Gnecco brings warmth, wit and quiet melancholy to Jorge Luis Borges in this gently enchanting adaptation of Jay Parini’s semi-fictional memoirThere is great sweetness and high-minded, unworldly charm in this adaptation of American author Jay Parini’s […]

Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rageHere is a cheerfully ingenious lo-fi movie experiment from first-time feature director Joseph Archer and writer-performer […]