4 h. ago Entire British ghost town left abandoned for over a decade as nature takes over

The huge town was built by the British government at the height of the Cold War but has been left abandoned since 2013.

Politics

8 h. ago Oasis review – a shameless trip back to the 90s for Britpop’s loudest, greatest songs

Principality Stadium, CardiffPlaylist Oasis is fine in the stand but it looks like an insult in the headBrothers in arms: Noel and Liam reunite on the Oasis reunion tour – in pictures‘Liam hasn’t sounded that good since the 90s’: fans react to the first night of the Oasis reunion tourThe noise from the audience when Oasis arrive onstage for their first reunion gig is deafening. You might have expected a voluble response. This is, after all, a crowd so partisan that, between the support acts, cheer the promotional videos – the tour’s accompanying brand deals seem to involve not just the obviously Oasis-adjacent sportswear brand Adidas, but the more imponderable Land Rover Discovery. Even so, the noise they make as the reconsitituted Oasis launch into Hello takes you slightly aback, and not just because Hello is a fairly ballsy choice of opener: this is, after all, a song that borrows heavily from Hello! Hello! I’m Back Again by Gary Glitter. But no one in Cardiff’s Principality Stadi...

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10 h. ago Magnificent Scots railway station considered to be one of world's most beautiful

Built in the 19th century Wemyss Bay became home to what many call the world’s most beautiful station

Politics

13 h. ago Red Arrows: Next generation of jets to be built in Scotland at Prestwick Airport in preferred deal

Prestwick Airport has been selected as the preferred site to build the next generation of Red Arrows jets in a decision branded a “once-in-a-generation opportunity”.

Economics

14 h. ago Red Arrows: Next generation of jets could be built in Scotland at Prestwick Airport

Prestwick Airport has been selected as the preferred site to build the next generation of Red Arrows jets in a decision branded a “once-in-a-generation opportunity”.

Politics

14 h. ago The Guardian view on the public’s dinomania: passion for palaeontology endures through the ages | Editorial

From blockbuster movies like Jurassic World Rebirth to documentary series, the appetite for these ancient creatures appears inexhaustibleOn-screen discussions of DNA and off-screen scientific consultants notwithstanding, no one goes to see a Jurassic Park movie for its realism. Yet one of the less convincing moments in Jurassic World Rebirth, the latest in the franchise, is unrelated to oversized velociraptors. It’s the palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis complaining of shrinking public interest in his field.This spring, the BBC revived its 1999 hit series Walking With Dinosaurs. Not a week goes by without headlines announcing the discovery of a new species or new theories on how they behaved. Publishers produce an endless stream of dino-related fact and fiction, particularly for children. Palaeontology – at least when focused on the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, or our hominin forebears – has long exerted an extraordinary hold on the public imagination.Do you have an opinion on the issues...

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14 h. ago Dramatic moment onlookers form human chain to rescue boy trapped in weir

This is the extraordinary moment a boy was rescued from a weir after a group of onlookers formed a human chain in China.

Events

15 h. ago Suriname expected to elect first female president amid discovery of oil reserves

Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, 71, will run unopposed as one of the poorest countries in the region eyes billions of dollarsSuriname is expected to elect its first female president this Sunday, the congresswoman and physician Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, 71, who will run unopposed after the ruling party decided not to field a candidate.Geerlings-Simons will succeed current president Chandrikapersad Santokhi, 66, who has been in office since 2020 and was eligible for re-election – but whose party failed to secure the two-thirds parliamentary majority required in the country’s indirect voting system. Continue reading...

Politics

17 h. ago Abandoned Spanish village near Madrid is now a haven for dark tourists

El Alamin, a town built to house cotton and tobacco workers in the 1950s, was meant to be a utopia

Politics

19 h. ago 'Extraordinary' discovery inside Great Pyramid of Giza rewrites who really built them

Archaeologists have made a ground-breaking discovery inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, finally confirming who truly built the iconic monument 4,500 years ago

Politics

19 h. ago How do we celebrate the 4th of July when American freedom is disappearing? | Deborah Archer, Song Richardson and Susan Sturm

The yearly commemoration has always marked a contradiction. But despair is not a strategy: this is a moment to create changeThe Fourth of July celebration of freedom rings hollow this year. The contradictions built into a national commemoration of our triumph over autocracy feel newly personal and perilous – especially to those who have, until now, felt relatively secure in the federal government’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law.But the contradiction is far from new. Black, brown and Indigenous communities have always seen the gap between the ideals of American democracy and the lived reality of exclusion. Frederick Douglass’s 1852 address What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? demanded that Americans confront the hypocrisy of celebrating liberty while millions were enslaved. Today, those contradictions persist in enduring racial disparities and policies that perpetuate segregation, second-class citizenship and selective protection of rights.Deborah N Archer is the pr...

Events

21 h. ago This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche

The lesson the Americans once taught the British, they are teaching the rest of the world: there are no permanent global ordersThis year, like every other year, Americans will celebrate Independence Day with flag-waving, and parades, and fireworks. The political system the flag and the parades and fireworks are supposed to represent is in tatters, but everybody likes a party. It was 249 years ago, when the United States separated from the British Empire. Over the past year it has separated from the world order it built over those 249 years, and from basic sanity and decency as well. For Americans, the madness gripping their country is a catastrophe. For non-Americans, it is an accidental revolution. This Independence Day, the world is declaring its independence from the US.As the United States retreats from the world, it is reshaping the lives of its former trading partners and allies, leaving huge holes in its wake. For Canada, where I live, the sudden absence of a responsible Unit...

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22 h. ago How a detectorist’s unearthed Roman swords helped find Iron Age settlement

Two Roman cavalry swords found by a metal detectorist led to the discovery of a large settlement

Politics

22 h. ago Lizzo strips down to her underwear to showcase incredible body transformation after weight loss

Lizzo took to Instagram on Thursday to display her extraordinary weight loss in stripped down side-by-side photos.

Politics

23 h. ago Ringo Starr says he told Sam Mendes to rewrite parts of Beatles biopic: ‘We would never do that’

Biopic is set to release in April 2028

Politics

26 h. ago Who’s really to blame for Labour’s troubles – Rachel Reeves or the invisible PM? | Gaby Hinsliff

The Treasury focuses on numbers when what’s needed is vision. The party and the country are crying out for leadership, but it’s nowhere to be seenShe is not the first chancellor to cry in public, and may not be the last. But Rachel Reeves is the first whose tears have moved markets. No sooner had the realisation dawned that she was silently weeping – over a personal sorrow she won’t be pushed into revealing, she insisted later, not a political one – as she sat beside Keir Starmer at Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, than the pound was dropping and the cost of borrowing rising. The bond traders who forced out Liz Truss’s hapless chancellor still clearly rate her judgment and want her to stay, even if (perhaps especially if) some Labour MPs don’t. Yet it is an extraordinary thing to live with the knowledge that a moment’s uncontrolled emotion can drive up the cost of a nation’s mortgages, just as a misjudged stroke of the budget pen can destroy lives.The most striking thing abou...

Events

28 h. ago Experts blow the lid on the mystery of Bryan Kohberger and make terrifying discovery about who he REALLY is... and why he did it

Bryan Kohberger may have finally admitted to killing four University of Idaho students - but for those who want to know why he did it, the mystery is far from solved.

Events

30 h. ago 'Most beautiful' street between two famous European cities is carved into the rocks

The street is built in a giant overhanging cave, giving it its name of "shelters beneath the rocks" in the whitewashed town of Setenil de las Bodegas in Andalusia, Spain

Politics

30 h. ago Great Pyramid of Giza: 'Extraordinary' discovery rewrites its history of slavery

Inscriptions found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza have finally put to bed the long-held belief that the ancient wonder was built by slaves, according to a new report

Politics

32 h. ago Newly discovered settlement could unlock secrets of Roman conquest

Two Roman cavalry swords found by a metal detectorist led to the discovery of a large settlement

Politics