A record of what was published, when, and how it changed.

Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to Britain this month

By Caroline Davies and Nadeem Badshah

Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to relocate from US, with children to start British school in September Harry and Meghan: the key moments, conflicts and controversies since their US move The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to return to live in Britain, six years after leaving for the US, it is understood. The couple and their two children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, are expected to re

Women’s Super League finances: club-by-club breakdown and verdict

By Tom Garry

Detailed accounts highlight the growing financial might of the elite, and the challenges the rest of the division face The financial figures for 2024-25, the most recent season available, for the eight Women’s Super League clubs who published detailed accounts illustrate a growing gulf between the rich and the poor. The Guardian breaks down the key numbers. Note, any figures exceeding £1m have been rounded to the nea

Premier League: nine newcomers to watch in the top flight this season

By Ryan Benson

Newcastle, Arsenal, Brentford, Everton, Leeds, Coventry, Aston Villa, Hull and Ipswich have all brought in exciting players By Opta Analyst Anthony Gordon will be a difficult act to follow at Newcastle, but Touré could be a shrewd replacement. Blessed with electric pace, the 20-year-old is a bit more of an old-fashioned winger in that he predominantly plays from the left and is left-footed. As a result, he was more o

Frugal or foolish? Manchester United may regret not backing Carrick

By Dominic Booth

Another left-back has been a priority all summer, but there seems to be no sign of one coming to Old Trafford After signing Aaron Wan-Bissaka in 2019, Manchester United’s PR machine boasted they had scouted 804 right-backs before landing on the Crystal Palace player. At the time it felt like an unnecessary brag, designed to convince fans and journalists the club were doing their due diligence when it came to scouting

Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away | Emma Brockes

By Emma Brockes

It’s simple, says the SpaceX boss – according to something called the ‘Kardashev scale’, we just have to move energy production ‘off-planet’ Next time the weather gives the UK 61 days without rain and we wonder idly if this is the end, there is a term we may whistle up to soothe us. Like murmuring the rosary, or putting our fingers in our ears and humming, this phrase is to be mumbled on repeat – “the Kardashev scale

Ref, I barely brushed him! The artist who’s painted all of Roy Keane’s red cards

By Larry Ryan

Before he was an irascible TV pundit, the Irish midfielder was equally feared on the pitch. Irish painter Seánie Harte has documented all the times Keane was sent off playing for Manchester United. ‘It’s a bit of fun,’ he says Across his career in the 1990s and early 2000s, Roy Keane, the Ireland and Manchester United footballer, was a widely decorated midfielder with a relentless will to win. He also had his share o

You be the judge: should my partner stop hogging my side of the bed?

By Interviews by Georgina Lawton

Pádraig has a favourite side, whereas Dave likes to sleep farthest from the door. Help us put this argument to bed • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror I sleep better on the left side of the bed. I shouldn’t have to swap just because we’ve moved to a new flat Continue reading...

Rising UK consumer confidence gives Andy Burnham ‘golden opportunity’, survey says – business live

By Julia Kollewe

BRC says confidence in economy hits highest level since the lows reached at start of Iran war In Germany, factory gate inflation hit a three-year high in July, adding to signs of fresh inflationary pressures in Europe’s largest economy. Prices charged by manufacturers for their goods, ranging from food to cars and tools, climbed 3% year on year last month following June’s 1.8% rise, Germany’s statistics office said.

Erin Patterson’s mushroom murders sentence too lenient and she should die behind bars, prosecutors argue

By Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Crown prosecutor tells Victorian court that all seven of Patterson’s grounds for appeal should fail while arguing for tougher sentence Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Triple murderer Erin Patterson should have been given no possibility of ever being released from prison, or a non-parole period so lengthy that she was likely to die behind bars, Victoria’s highest court has heard. Patterson,

‘The only way is up’: cycling Norway’s mountainous ‘Milky Way’

By Ailsa Sheldon

The Mjølkevegen was once used to bring milk from high pastures to the towns below. Now cyclists are discovering the road’s breathtaking panoramas of peaks and lakes, dotted with cosy inns ‘Norway is a hilly country,” shrugs Glenn Roar Berge. He’s not wrong, though he is fond of an understatement. I’m in Valdres in southern Norway to explore the cycle routes that skirt the edges of Jotunheimen national park. Glenn fro

Blizzards, nuclear anxiety and a fragile bond: two sisters in Japan – in pictures

By Guardian Staff

Sayuri Ichida and her sister used to be distant – until their mother died. This exhibition traces their close relationship through sun, wind and snow Continue reading...

• Machine signalDeath or self-harm

Farage using Christianity ‘to stir anti-Muslim feeling’, says Rowan Williams

By Caroline Davies

Former archbishop of Canterbury also has ‘awkward questions’ for activist Tommy Robinson on his claimed faith A former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of misusing the UK’s Christianity “to channel anti-Muslim feeling” and said he also had “some awkward questions” for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Dr Rowan Williams, who was the archbishop of Canterbury for 10 years until 2012, said there was

• Machine signalAllegation language

Capture the Dark 2026: Winning photographs

By Guardian Staff

A selection of winning images from DarkSky International’s 2026 Capture the Dark photography contest. It is the sixth edition of the annual night-time photography competition, which drew 2,288 submissions from 30 countries Continue reading...

How I’ve Tried to Change the World by Alexei Sayle review – does protest make a difference?

By Andy Beckett

The comedian charts his life in demos from 1960s Liverpool to 2020s London in this fiery and addictive book At 74, the comedian Alexei Sayle is approaching a dangerous phase for veteran British leftists: becoming a national treasure. Once described by special branch, in a surveillance file gleefully quoted in this memoir, as an “intellectual thug” who made “foul-mouthed comments about the royal family”, Sayle now app

• Machine signalInvestigation language

Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood

By Logan Scherer

A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been considered a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to confront the only f

Working in Keir Starmer’s No 10 ‘unbearable’, says Sue Gray

By Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Former chief of staff tells of fears her conversations were being recorded and leaked to media by colleagues Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff has lifted the lid on how “unbearable” it was working in No 10, revealing she feared her conversations were being recorded by colleagues seeking to leak her remarks to the media. Sue Gray, who was the most powerful adviser in Downing Street before her resignation in 2024, w

TV tonight: David Mitchell’s crime-solving Ludwig returns

By Phil Harrison, Hollie Richardson, Priya Elan,Jack Sealeand Simon Wardell

The popular cosy-crime drama is back – with a couple of changes. Plus: some late-starters get into the dating game. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC One Continue reading...

Instant classics, odd inspirations and barcodes: 2026-27’s best and worst kits

By Hannah Jane Parkinson

A look at six of the best and worst of the new season’s strips gives us Pro Evo chic, throwbacks done right, and how – and how not – to use stripes The Premier League season kicks off on Friday and league debutants such as Christos Tzolis and Victor Muñoz, along with masses of fans, will be pulling on their teams’ shiny new strips. There were some lovely efforts at the World Cup (not least by the co-hosts the USA), a

Monstera magic: Barbican hands out cuttings as ‘green lung of the city’ closes

By Helena Horton

Five hundred people turn up to adopt plants from conservatory that will reopen in 2030 after renovation project Above the waxy monstera leaves and bright pink hibiscus flowers in the Barbican conservatory hangs a giant net to catch the panes of glass that are at risk of falling from the ceiling on the unwitting plant lovers below. This precarious situation has caused the estate to shutter its greenhouse on the third

From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty

By Aditya Chakrabortty

This punishingly hot and dry summer will probably be followed by another wet winter. But it’s nothing compared with what Britain will endure in years to come This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives. Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales is in drought, while key reservoirs are parched. Across this brown and stick

Thursday news quiz: A Clacton zero, a departed hero and a whopper Virgin Mary

By Martin Belam

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? Tim Martin may have spent the better part of a decade trying to convince people that leaving the EU was the only way to secure cheap pub grub, but credit where credit is due: JD Wetherspoon is banning people from blasting out TikToks, videos and music on speakerphone in its pubs. The pub chain has not, however,

They escaped south-east Asia’s scam compounds. Then they realised they were still trapped

By Harriet Barber

The cyber-fraud industry has flourished in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, with thousands of people trafficked into the industry. But even those who have managed to find a way out often cannot return home Artillery fire thundered. Windows shattered. Roofs caved in. And thousands of foreign workers – many who had been tricked and trafficked into the vast cyber-fraud industry that has flourished in south-east Asia – fl

Oxfam ‘can’t guarantee future’ of charity shops as it also reviews warehouse business

By Sarah Butler

Dwindling donations and stiff competition from secondhand sellers online prompt review but ‘no plans for closures yet’ Oxfam is reviewing the operations of its three warehouses in Batley, Bicester and Milton Keynes and says it “cannot give guarantees” on the future of its high street shops in a “difficult economic climate”. The charity said it had no plans to close warehouses or shops but insiders fear that Batley, w

• Machine signalInvestigation language

Watermelons in Bristol: how UK heatwaves are affecting growers

By Nicola Slawson

Most allotment holders say the heat has meant more work for smaller crops, although some have found a silver lining After a summer of repeated heatwaves and exceptionally dry weather in the UK, rain has brought some relief this week, but drought remains widespread and experts warn it will take weeks of sustained rainfall for water supplies to recover. For people growing their own fruit and vegetables, it has been a c

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with semi-dried tomatoes, garlic, herbs and breadcrumbs | A kitchen in Rome

By Rachel Roddy

Sun-drying tomatoes until they’re leathery on the outside and soft within is something of an art, but it’s more than worth it for this moreish pasta dish One set of guidelines I received in Sicily for sun-drying tomatoes was two to seven days, depending on temperature, humidity, wind and the size of the fruit. I might as well have been given a surfboard and told “go”, because that advice felt far too broad and genera