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Forecaster predicts strongest El Nino in living memory

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UK’s Met Office says rising sea temperatures will create a heightened risk of drought in tropics and stormy conditions in northwestern Europe

Tell us: are you a UK frontline or key worker affected by the hot weather in your workplace?

By Guardian community team

We would like to hear from frontline or key workers about how the heat has affected them in the workplace this year With record high temperatures across the UK this summer we want to hear from those whose work meant they couldn’t escape the extreme heat. August 13 marked the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 38C in London and 37C recorded in other parts of the country; this marks the first yea

Call for new tech on Luas after passengers trapped in doors and dragged along platforms

By Seán McCárthaigh

Rail investigators advise creating campaign to educate passengers about how tram doors work

‘Mum is in tears, she can’t talk’: Student who left school in second year gets 625 points in Leaving Cert

By Jen Hogan

She studied the Leaving Cert course through online grinds, which she worked to pay for, and through the use of free online teaching videos on YouTube

Our writers' predictions for the 2026-27 Premier League season – video

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Our writers gaze into their crystal balls and deliver their predictions for the Premier League season ahead Continue reading...

Balancing act continues as Leaving Cert grades drop back by an average of just over 1%

By Brian Mooney

Timelines for fully removing pandemic-related post-marking adjustment will continue to be informed by the 2026 experience

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

By John Self

The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest by Alejandra Kamiya The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, translated by Mia Spangenberg, Penguin Classics (£14.99) Following Lowest Common Denominator and Backlight, this book completes Finnish author Saisio’s autofictional trilogy. It covers her young adulthood in the 1970s, where

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Add to playlist: the righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks

By Huw Baines and Laura Snapes

The LA-based powerpop project’s triumphant debut is a celebration of low-stakes creativity in the slacker-skater tradition From Los Angeles Recommended if you like the Lemonheads, Sugar, the Muffs Up next Secret to Spare released 18 September Maybe it’s to do with getting older, maybe it’s to do with the broad-spectrum grimness of it all, but the thrill of low-stakes creativity, of making something for the joy of mak

Premier League 2026-27 preview No 20: Tottenham

By John Brewin

Optimism abounds that De Zerbi and new signings can lead to a big improvement after two 17th-place finishes Guardian writers’ predicted position: 6th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 17th Continue reading...

Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White

By Sean Craig

The tabloid boasted in a now-deleted article that they found White and promised to reveal her ‘secret new life’ The Daily Mail newspaper secretly tailed and photographed a woman in Detroit and then published an article and photographs falsely accusing her of being former The White Stripes drummer Meg White, even after she told the newspaper it had mistaken her identity, multiple sources have told the Guardian. The ri

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Arsenal and Mikel Arteta represent continuity amid an unceasing addiction to change

By Michael Walker

Disruption caused by kneejerk managerial change has been seen many times – but the champions show the wisdom of sticking rather than twisting

Vicki Notaro on being childfree: ‘It was something that I just couldn’t force myself to want’

By Ellen Clusker

The bestselling author joins The Women’s Podcast to discuss her new novel Anywhere But Here

Jovial Jakirovic determined to haul Hull over and beyond Coles’ relegation jibes

By Ross Heppenstall

Club ‘not here by accident’ and revamped squad return to Premier League against Manchester United on Saturday On a baking spring bank holiday, Sergej Jakirovic basked in the glory of Hull’s fairytale promotion to the Premier League in an address to 40,000 ecstatic supporters from the balcony of Hull City Hall. “I only had one task before the season – to stay in the Championship … I failed. We’re going to the Premier

The Odyssey becomes highest grossing R-rated film of all time

By Andrew Pulver

Christopher Nolan’s epic has achieved $1.35bn at the global box office, overtaking 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine The Odyssey has overtaken Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. According to figures compiled by the Numbers, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has achieved $1.35bn (£990m) at the worldwide box office, compared with the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman supe

Man denies charge over Manchester synagogue attack

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Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim, 49, denied failing to disclose information regarding terrorist activity.

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Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2 review – once more unto the mercenary breach

By Diego Nicolás Argüello

PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X/S; Konami This second collection remasters another three titles from the illustrious stealth espionage series, but their world has changed little since the original releases ‘War has changed,” claims Old Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Back in 2008, the team at Kojima Productions waxed poetic about people recruited to fight in proxy wars they have no

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Comic says winning cheesiest joke award 'is bonkers'

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Fil Milton, who has been doing stand-up for four years, says he was inspired by Mark Simmons.

Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’

By Danny Vincent in Hong Kong

UK Foreign Office condemns use of national security law to convict activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung Two Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 have been found guilty of “incitement to subversion” in one of the most high-profile cases in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed its national security law in 2020. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, “in

Premier League return 'major opportunity' for city

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Officials highlight the potential boost for tourism and businesses from visiting supporters.

State 'made mistakes' over Galway Ring Road CPOs - Canney

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Minister of State Seán Canney has said the State "made mistakes" in its handling of families facing CPOs of their homes to make way for the Galway City Ring Road.

‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions

By Zoe Williams

The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history Asking a question can change your mood, and having a questioning mindset can change your life – or, as the philosopher Lani Watson, an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, is more likely to put it, “create change in your life”. When you live in an answer-oriented

King penguin chick hatches in UK heatwave

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The "very important little penguin" is the first of its kind to hatch in the UK in more than a decade.

Wholesale electricity prices up 56% in 12 months to July

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New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that wholesale electricity prices rose by 14.8% in July when compared with June and were 56.2% higher than July of last year.

Call for technology to prevent Luas dragging passengers

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Railway accident investigators have called for all Luas trams to be fitted with new anti-drag technology after a series of incidents where passengers were dragged along station platforms after they, or their belongings, were caught in doors.

I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage

By Miles Brundage

I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself. They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI