Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage Gallery: Tokyo 2020 Day Five in pictures Sign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefing Email Emma with your thoughts, tweet or comment below 3.48am BST There is a reason Dressel is being called the new Michael Phelps. He was […]
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Liverpool coroner’s court rules Andrew Devine, 55, unlawfully killed by effects of crush 32 years earlier A coroner has ruled that Andrew Devine, 55, who has died 32 years after suffering severe and irreversible brain damage at Hillsborough in 1989, was unlawfully killed, and that therefore he is legally the […]
Last year was first to be in top 10 for heat, rain and sunshine, as scientists say UK’s mild climate is at an end Extremes of weather will strike the UK more frequently owing to the climate crisis, scientists said after data showed that last year was one of the […]
Carbon emissions, ocean acidification, Amazon clearing all hurtling toward new records A new study tracking the planet’s vital signs has found that many of the key indicators of the global climate crisis are getting worse and either approaching, or exceeding, key tipping points as the earth heats up. Overall, the […]
The album, purchased by Shkreli for $2m, was bought for an undisclosed sum An unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album that “Pharma Bro” entrepreneur Martin Shkreli forfeited after his securities fraud conviction was sold Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, though prosecutors say it was enough to fully satisfy the rest of what […]
Four golds in four days plus further successes in the pool, gym, taekwondo, triathlon and dressage take overall medal tally to 13 Team GB have now made their greatest start to an Olympic Games in modern times after winning a fourth gold medal in four days in Tokyo. Further success […]
Lifeboat charity says it is its moral and legal duty to rescue people at risk of dying as they cross Channel The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has hit out at accusations it is operating a “migrant taxi service” by rescuing people at risk of dying in the water as […]
PM’s attempt to grip agenda flounders amid criticism he has ignored evidence on stop-and-search Police chiefs have condemned Boris Johnson’s high-profile strategy to tackle crime as “weird and gimmicky”, while plans to increase stop-and-search were criticised for ignoring the evidence. The crime initiative was supposed to show the Johnson government […]
Average price of a home is now £230,700 – 5.7% higher than a year ago, says property website Zoopla UK house prices hit a new high in June and are 30% higher than the peak they hit before the 2008 financial crisis, according to the latest snapshot of the market. […]
Government’s proposals include more frequent stop and search and making community service street cleaners ‘more visible’ MPs and campaigners have sounded alarm at a series of proposals in the government crime reduction plan, including more frequent stop and search, a trial of “alcohol tags” and criminals undertaking “visible” community service […]