Labour set to name dozens of new peers

Labour is set to appoint dozens of peers within weeks in an effort to push through its policies and improve the representation of women in the House of Lords, the Guardian has learned.

Money hacks How to get the best price selling your clothes online

The competition is stiff, so finding the right place to sell your clothes will give you the best chance of getting them in front of people who might want to buy them.

News deserts If local papers are dying, will local democracy die with them?

'Do you have lots of stickers?\" asks a mother with a buggy and two small children as Evelyn Akoto takes a break outside Coffee #1 in Trowbridge during a day of knocking on doors.

Urban ecology The cities where the wild things thrive alongside humans

In the Sapzurro bay on the Colombia-Panama border, the blue land crab can be found scuttling below concrete structures, burrowing in the nooks and crannies of the coastal settlement.

Trump v Biden debate format aims to avoid a repeat of 2020 chaos

'Will you shut up, man?\" It was hardly oratory worthy of Abraham Lincoln, but Joe Biden's primal plea in the face of relentless interruptions and heckling from Donald Trump provided a defining soundbite of the 2020 presidential debates.

'You sense the bombing come closer' War with Hezbollah looms in northern Israel

Beneath the 800-bed Galilee medical centre in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, treatment is being conducted in an underground complex beneath the hospital.

Jones brings cats to the catwalk in Dior show melding art and fashion

The Dior menswear designer Kim Jones has a reputation as a prolific collector of art and rare books.

'It's common sense' How to manage cows roaming in the street

On a bright afternoon on Minchinhampton common in Gloucestershire, ramblers, golfers, fliers of kites and model aircraft were enjoying the midsummer sun- and the sight of the Highland cattle roaming freely.

Boy convicted of three attempted murders over boarding school attack

A teenager who battered two fellow boarding school pupils with hammers as they slept and attacked a housemaster when he went to investigate the commotion has been found guilty of three attempted murders.

Police chief dismissed after panel finds he lied about military record

A police chief constable who wore a Falklands war medal despite being 15 at the time of the conflict has been dismissed without notice and placed on the police barred list after being found guilty of gross misconduct.

Asylum figures raise doubts over PM's claim he has cleared backlog

Rishi Sunak's claims to have cleared the asylum backlog by the end of 2023 have been called into question after appeals against Home Office refusals of asylum claims increased by more than 300% in the first three months of this year.

Panorama interview Farage: Putin 'provoked' into invading Ukraine

Nigel Farage has said the EU and Nato \"provoked\" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding eastwards, as the Reform UK leader was challenged over a series of policies and beliefs in a sometimes combative TV interview.

Nightmare scenarios From big losses to almost total wipeout, what do the polls predict for Tories?

Polls which use largescale polling data to extrapolate individual seat tallies have become something of an obsession in UK politics. So popular are these MRPS-an acronym for multilevel regression and poststratification - that three were published on one day this week.

Betting scandal PM refuses to say how many Tories are under investigation

Rishi Sunak refused to say yesterday how many Tories were under investigation for betting on the date of the election, as the row continued to dog the Conservative campaign.

Climate engineering in US could intensify heatwaves in Europe

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

Single takeaway can bust calorie limit for whole day, study finds

Some takeaway meals contain more calories in one sitting than people are advised to consume in an entire day, a devastating study of British eating habits has revealed.

'Hope for a better future is essential': how Scholz aims to win back young people from far right

The best way to win back young voters from the far right is to give them hope, security and respect so that everyone \"from an untrained Amazon worker\" to \"Elon Musk's son\" can live without fear of the future, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said.

'At breaking point': visitors bring booze, drugs and noise into village idyll

Whalley, in Lancashire's verdant Ribble Valley, is famed for its 14thcentury Cistercian abbey and old churches, as well as the spectacular views from Whalley Nab, the wooded hill that overlooks this apparent idyll.

300m NHS patient records stolen by Russian hackers

National crime agency considering striking back as gang makes sensitive data public

England hit new low with display far too bad to be boring

Such was the amusing ineptitude from both sides this felt like a Woolworths football blooper video

Spain press and progress after Calafiori calamity

Luis de la Fuente had described Spain v Italy as a clásico, a game that could easily be a final; watching this, he might have been half right.

'A bit weird' - but England braced for battle with Jones

Visitors are in confident mood while Brave Blossoms head coach is hoping to get one over his former team

'Millions-to-one' Kyprios rounds off comeback with historic Gold Cup

Six-year-old didn't look like he was going to live’ after infection, says trainer O'Brien

West Indies have no answer to power of Salt and Bairstow

After a slightly soggy stumble out of the initial group stage, England's defence of the men's T20 World Cup finally kicked into life, with a clinical run chase against the highly fancied West Indies delivering the ideal start to the Super Eight stage.

Where's the fun? Why we need to make sure play has a bigger role in sport ...for kids and adults

A \"Commission on Play\" has been launched this month by the social entrepreneur Paul Lindley, partnered with the Centre for Young Lives.

Canada lists Revolutionary Guards in Iran as a terrorist organisation

Canada has listed Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, joining the US and adding to pressure on European governments to follow suit.

IDF hands over power in West Bank to far-right minister backing settlers

The Israeli military has quietly handed over significant legal powers in the occupied West Bank to prosettler civil servants working for the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Post Office investigator deleted 'damaging' words about Horizon errors, inquiry told

A former Post Office investigator deleted part of a draft witness statement that referred to the Horizon IT system's failures, before the criminal prosecution of a post office operative, a public inquiry heard.

Just Stop Oil targets private jets at Stansted airport

Just Stop Oil activists sprayed orange paint over two private jets at Stansted airport yesterday on the airfield where Taylor Swift's plane is stationed, the group said.

McKellen to be replaced in his West End role after stage injury

Ian McKellen will be replaced by an understudy for the rest of the London run of Player Kings after the 85-year-old was injured during a performance.