Popular winner is now a national icon as women step out of the shadow of their male cycling counterparts It took a long time to find a copy of L’Équipe on Monday morning. France’s flagship daily sports newspaper, emblazoned with an image of a yellow-clad Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, arms outstretched and...
Kelia Mehani Gallina: the 12-year-old girl staring down monster waves at Teahupo’o
The young Tahiti surfer will become the WSL’s youngest competitor when she takes on the fearsome break she can see from her family home When the final leg of the World Surf League (WSL) regular season begins in Tahiti this week, Kelia Mehani Gallina will make history. Just 12 years...
Rio Ngumoha shines to fuel Liverpool’s optimism for new season
Young winger showed great promise in the 4-1 rout of Athletic Bilbao as Anfield paid its respects to Diogo Jota A vacancy has arisen on the left of Liverpool’s forward line and an early, eye-catching application to fill the role has arrived from a 16-year-old. Rio Ngumoha further enhanced his...
Premier League 2025-26 preview No 3: Bournemouth
Having lost key players at the back, it appears Bournemouth’s buy-low sell-high model will be tested if they are to again challenge for a European place Guardian writers’ predicted position: 10th (NB: this is not necessarily Ben Fisher’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 9th...
A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
Jaime Slaughter-Acey’s study addresses the high rates of maternal mortality among Black women in the US. Trump’s NIH funding cuts threaten her years-long research Jaime Slaughter-Acey was in a state of shock and anger when she learned that her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study on birth outcomes in Black...
Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish
After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackled A decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic considered the largest ever documented in the wild, researchers have identified the microbial culprit responsible: a strain of...
Home cooking and minimally processed foods best for weight loss, study finds
Dieters in trial lost twice as much weight when avoiding ultra-processed ready meals with as much nutrition People lose more weight if they cook minimally processed food from scratch than if they eat ultra-processed and ready-made foods, according to the first study to establish a clear link between ultra-processed foods...
TNT Sports secures live rights to England’s Ashes series in Australia
Broadcaster will now show all of men’s winter tour Tests added to white-ball deals in NZ and Sri Lanka England’s attempt to regain the Ashes this winter will be broadcast live in the UK by TNT Sports. After agreeing a one-year deal with Cricket Australia over the weekend TNT now...
Lions writer awards: man of the series, unsung hero and where tourists should go next
Main man Finn Russell was at the heart of everything the Lions did, but Australian duo Tom Wright and Charlie Gamble also win praise Man of series Finn Russell was at the heart of everything the Lions did well. Calm, assured, skilful and accurate from the tee. Chapeau. Continue reading...
Can you solve it? Ambigrams – you won’t believe these flipping words!
A pun, a puzzle and a work of art UPDATE: Read the solutions here Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text that can...