Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to assess the damage caused by one of the biggest Russian airstrikes of the war earlier this week, which targeted energy infrastructure across the country, further crippling a sector targeted by Moscow multiple times in the spring. While much of Ukraine is still experiencing the tail end of a very hot … Read more
The northern bald ibis was extinct in central Europe for 300 years. Now, it has returned – and scientist “foster parents” aboard a tiny plane are teaching the birds to fly their long-forgotten migration routes. Thirty-six of these endangered birds are now following an ultralight aircraft 1,740 miles (2,800km ) from Austria to Spain, on … Read more
Crystal Medrano visits Christina Armendariz’s grave in the North Kern cemetery district in Delano, California. Photograph: Jessica Pons/The Guardian Patrick Orque distinctly remembers hanging out with a friend late one night, just after new year’s 2020, when they heard gunshots. They were in his friend’s front yard, in Orque’s home town of Delano, an agricultural … Read more
In just over a fortnight, some of the UK’s biggest fashion brands will showcase their new collections at London fashion week. Organised by the British Fashion Council (BFC), it’s always an exciting moment, bringing together some of the country’s top creative talent. But it also highlights entrenched problems in fashion. Only 3.4% of BFC members … Read more
In the week when the Gallagher brothers smoked the peace pipe and announced the return of Oasis, Ollie Pope was not exactly looking back in anger at Manchester. The five-wicket victory against Sri Lanka made for a bright start as England’s stand-in captain and the only downside – two failures with the bat – was … Read more
While normal people have been getting excited about Oasis reforming, this week I have been totally preoccupied by another blast from the past: Age of Mythology: Retold. For anyone who didn’t spent most of 2002/3 playing games on the family computer while insisting to their parents that they were “educational”, Age of Mythology was a … Read more
New Delhi: In a move to give a fillip to the Indian economy, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a series of decisions, including setting up 12 world-class greenfield industrial smart cities, multi-tracking projects across Indian Railways, expanding the scope of the agricultural infrastructure fund (AIF) scheme and hydropower development projects for the Northeast states, … Read more
US airlines lobbied against plans to monitor the damage wrought by planet-heating pollutants pumped out of planes in a previously undisclosed meeting with the European Commission, the Guardian can reveal. Lobbyists from Airlines for America and some of its member companies met representatives of the European Commission’s climate team in May in a meeting that … Read more
In the soupiest, filthiest weeks of August in New York City, I notice a shift in energy. Languor gives way to a sort of feverish sociability – everyone wants to go to the beach, have drinks on a roof, go on a date, squeeze in a weekend away. There’s a panicked sense of scarcity, of … Read more
As a small-breasted woman, my boobs have rarely been ogled. Yet this year I’ve noticed people copping stares at my chest. At the dog park a woman who stopped to chat spent the entire time with her eyes locked well south of my chin, like those sleazy tit-talkers that big-busted women complain about. I wanted … Read more