Military says it will halt activity in Muwasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City from 10am to 8pm local time every day until further notice
Will Israel’s shift on aid be enough to ease hunger?
In a statement, the Israeli army said it coordinated its decisions with the UN and international organisations to “increase the scale of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip”.
Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors
Thousands of homes across England are being built without urgently needed community infrastructure, say councillors and campaigners, leaving families without access to playgrounds, schools, shops, and even doctors.
Even where provision is built, it can take years to come into use, the Guardian has been told.
Whales and dolphins may have proved elusive, but the islands off Cornwall cannot fail to impress with their subtropical plants and Caribbean-like beaches
At Penzance South Pier, I stand in line for the Scillonian ferry with a few hundred others as the disembarking passengers come past. They look tanned and exhilarated. People are yelling greetings and goodbyes across the barrier. “It’s you again!” “See you next year!” A lot of people seem to be repeat visitors, and have brought their dogs along.
I’m with my daughter Maddy and we haven’t got our dog. Sadly, Wilf the fell terrier died shortly before our excursion. I’m hoping a wildlife-watching trip to the Isles of Scilly might distract us from his absence.
Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
The University of Edinburgh, one of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions, played an “outsized” role in the creation of racist scientific theories and greatly profited from transatlantic slavery, a landmark inquiry into its history has found.
The university raised the equivalent of at least £30m from former students and donors who had links to the enslavement of African peoples, the plantation economy and exploitative wealth-gathering throughout the British empire, according to the findings of an official investigation seen by the Guardian.
The university had explicitly sought donations from graduates linked to transatlantic slavery to help build two of its most famous buildings, Old College on South Bridge in the 1790s and the old medical school near Bristo Square in the 1870s.
The donations were equivalent to approximately £30m in today’s prices, or the higher figure of £202m based on the growth of wages since they were received, and as much as £845m based on economic growth since then.
The university had at least 15 endowments derived from African enslavement and 12 linked to British colonialism in India, Singapore and South Africa, and 10 of those were still active and had a minimum value today of £9.4m.
The university holds nearly 300 skulls gathered in the 1800s from enslaved and dispossessed people by phrenologists in Edinburgh who wrongly believed skull shape determined a person’s character and morals.
Fewer than 1% of its staff and just over 2% of its students were Black, well below the 4% of the UK population, and despite Edinburgh’s status as a global institution.
Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …
Student life is hard. Making new friends is hard. Writing essays is hard. Admin is hard. Budgeting is hard. Finding out what trousers exist in the world other than black ones is also, apparently, hard.
Fortunately, for an AI-enabled generation of students, help with the complexities of campus life is just a prompt away. If you are really stuck on an essay or can’t decide between management consulting or a legal career, or need suggestions on what you can cook with tomatoes, mushrooms, beetroot, mozzarella, olive oil and rice, then ChatGPT is there. It will to listen to you, analyse your inputs, and offer up a perfectly structured paper, a convincing cover letter, or a workable recipe for tomato and mushroom risotto with roasted beetroot and mozzarella.
Was I surprised by reports that tourists are being ripped off in France? LOL, non! But there are ways to minimise the risk
When an investigation into the tricks of Parisian waiters found that foreign tourists were being ripped off, all I could think was, “Quelle surprise!” Anyone who has stared in shock at a bill for a citron pressé and an espresso near the Boulevard St Germain – as I did on one of my recent visits – will no doubt join me in a feeling of vindication. Undercover journalists for Le Parisien, posing as cafe punters around the Champ de Mars, have discovered that foreign tourists are being charged as much as 50% more than French customers, using a variety of tricks including only offering bottled water or more expensive drinks, being told service isn’t included when it is, and swapping the wine ordered for the cheapest on the menu.
As a former waitress in the French capital, I’m someone who has been on both sides of this conflict. Before I left home, at 18, to move there, my mother warned me of the “tourist tax”, having visited with my father in the mid-1980s and noted the suspicious fiver that seemed to appear on all their bills. As a result, I was slightly on guard whenever I was en terrasse, always making sure to ask for tap water and quibbling anything that didn’t look right. Then I became a waitress myself.
Your partner has lied to you before and you deserve to have the chance of becoming a mother. There are several options you can explore
I was very clear about wanting a family early in our relationship, but after two and a half years together my partner has admitted he doesn’t want kids. This is the best relationship I’ve had – he’s kind, patient, supportive, and we have the best sex.
We’re both anxious people with avoidance issues, but I felt safe and cherished until last year, when I discovered he had cheated. He said it was an attempt to “escape”. I was deeply shocked. I ended the relationship, but he begged for another chance and accepted an ultimatum: commit to living together, getting a dog and starting a family (things I told him I wanted early on). He agreed to the first two, but said he needed more time for the last.
Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without his knowledge
An Indian film company is rereleasing a 2013 romantic drama with an alternate artificial intelligence ending without the involvement of its director, in what could be the first instance of its kind in global cinema.
Raanjhanaa, a Hindi-language film about the doomed romance between a Hindu man and a Muslim woman, will return to cinemas on 1 August under its Tamil-language title Ambikapathy. The film’s original tragic ending will be replaced by a “happy” one.
Authorities warn of further heavy rain and the risk of disasters including landslides and flooding
Heavy rain around Beijing and across northern China killed two people and forced thousands to relocate as authorities warned of further widespread rain and the risk of disasters including landslides and flooding.
Two people were dead and two missing in Hebei province, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday morning. Overnight rain dumped a record 145mm per hour on Fuping county in the industrial city of Baoding.
Alga from south-east Asia is major threat to biodiversity, say experts as they warn of environmental catastrophe
Thousands of tonnes of an aggressive invasive seaweed from south-east Asia are piling up on the beaches of the strait of Gibraltar and Spain’s southern coast in what local environmentalists say is a major threat to the region’s biodiversity.
Since May, the local authority in Cádiz has removed 1,200 tonnes of the alga Rugulopteryx okamuraefrom La Caleta, the city’s most popular beach, including 78 tonnes in a single day.
This powerful documentary is a devastatingly precise illustration of systemic failure, political impotence and media distortion. Even two decades later it feels relevant
What makes a disaster into a tragedy? It’s a question that looms large over the five episodes of this gripping and frequently upsetting series exploring the events that overwhelmed New Orleans in late August 2005. According to the community organiser and survivor Malik Rahim, the answer is simple: “A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.” Hurricane Katrina’s size and ferocity meant that it was probably always going to be a disaster. Traci A Curry’s documentary explores the man-made element of the catastrophe.
This isn’t the first epic series to tackle this subject and it isn’t quite the best. Made in Katrina’s immediate aftermath, Spike Lee’s 2006 masterpiece When the Levees Broke was a polemic wrenched from the soul, mining furious energy from the proximity of the event. Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time is more reflective and less visceral as those at the heart of the story now bear witness at two decades’ remove. The dominant tone has shifted from anger to resigned sadness.
Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time is on Disney+ and National Geographic
Briton falls 6-4, 6-3 after dropping first sets of tournament
Russian to face Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in final
Anna Kalinskaya outclassed Emma Raducanu 6-4, 6-3 at the Washington Open to advance to the final, where she will face Leylah Fernandez.
After a strong start from both players, Kalinskaya secured the first break to lead 5-4 and served out the opening set, handing Raducanu her first dropped set of the tournament.
Hospital says six people in a critical condition after stabbing at Traverse City store
At least 11 people were stabbed at a Walmart in Traverse City, with six people in a critical condition, Michigan authorities said.
About 4.45pm on Saturday, a 42-year-old man allegedly entered the store and used a folding knife to stab 11 people, the Grand Traverse county sheriff’s office said, adding that it appeared to have been a random act of violence.
Australia has no plans to imminently recognise a Palestinian state, Anthony Albanese says, cautioning further steps must be met for a two-state solution despite growing pressure inside the Labor party for the government to follow through on its long-held commitment.
The prime minister has also accused Israel of a breach of international law in blocking aid into Gaza, saying “you can’t hold innocent people responsible” for the actions of Hamas, and warning that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “losing support” internationally.
Signal facilities in Stavropol produce military radio and radar equipment; more attacks on Ukrainian cities including Dnipro, Sumy and Kharkiv. What we know on day 1,250
Oh, boys; with the passage of time, have you forsaken your Goldberry … or have you forgotten her entirely?
Gen X, millennial and gen Z men are reading less than boomers and older generations in Australia, and there’s only one good thing about it. Thirsty, bookish young women might now be spared the niche heterofatalist torture of a sexual objective frustrated by the obstacle of male literary opinion.
Oh, what a second-by-second social negotiation it was; if she hadn’t read the enthused-about text, would her desired object find her vapid and shallow? If she had read it, she was in even more trouble: would his interest be piqued or levelled dare she confess she found Stranger in a Strange Land a meandering journey? Would she argue Fight Club beat you around the head with its message? Would the young woman really have to listen to him read out bits from And the Ass Saw the Angel before his pants removal?
It lacks the stakes and pace of the first season, but the ABC’s comedy about a autistic man and his recently discovered British family has enough to satisfy viewers
The first season of Austin was a droll, moreish treat, appealingly combining Australian and British humour to tell the story of an autistic man in his late 20s connecting for the first time with his biological father. The former is Austin (Michael Theo, from the reality TV show Love on the Spectrum); the latter is children’s book author Julian (UK comedian Ben Miller), who learns about the son he never knew in the middle of a career crisis – while managing, or mismanaging, the fallout from sharing a white supremacist’s social media post.
Our sympathies naturally align with the titular character (charmingly played by Theo); Julian’s a more slippery fish, flailing and floundering, clutching on to spurious excuses likely to make audiences think: “dig up, dig up!” The show’s modest in many ways, and probably not appointment viewing, but I was a big fan: the writing was sharp and pacey, the jokes often laugh-out-loud funny, and the supporting cast also entertaining – including Sally Phillips as Julian’s exasperated wife and book illustrator Ingrid, and the ever-huggable Roy Billing as Austin’s grandfather Bill.
Austin season two premieres Sunday 27 July at 7.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview
In January Guardian Australia told the story of Simon Bogemann who developed a nerve condition known as peripheral neuropathy after consuming excessive vitamin B6 from multivitamin and magnesium supplements.
Since then, the potential of these over-the-counter supplements to cause harm has attracted increasing attention.
The vast salt lake in the South Australian outback is dry for most of its life, having only filled to capacity three times in the past 160 years. So when water does arrive, this enormous landscape becomes a riot of colour
Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme
More than 100,000 people took to the streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025 on Saturday, making it the biggest such event in the world, organisers said.
The route wound through the centre of the capital’s most famous sites, taking in Regent’s Street, Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square. It concluded at Parliament Square with speakers including Heartstopper and Doctor Who actor Yasmin Finney.
Tottenham have been handed a huge blow after their summer transfer target Morgan Gibbs-White signed a new three-year contract at Nottingham Forest.
The 25-year-old was expected to make a £60m move to Spurs earlier this month after they apparently triggered a release clause. However, Forest reacted furiously to the news and threatened legal action over an alleged illegal approach for the player.
Bedfordshire village endured the Romans and the Danes – but can it survive housebuilders and a plan to turn it into a railway hub?
This is – they tell you in Tempsford – where Boudicca rallied against the Romans. Where the early English kings fought off the Danes and where Churchill launched secret flights to aid resistance fighters keeping the Nazis at bay.
But the historic earthworks, wheatfields and RAF base of Tempsford may yet prove no match for a chancellor bent on housebuilding and growth, armed with thinktank reports and a 10-year infrastructure strategy.
Two brothers and a third man killed as vehicle crashes during race that also left driver and co-driver hospitalised
Three spectators have died after a car driven by a 22-year-old racer veered off the road during an auto rally in France on Saturday, authorities said.
The driver of the modified Peugeot 208 and her 51-year-old female co-driver were taken to hospital but their lives were not in danger, prosecutors said.
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