Tour de France 2024: stage four hits the mountains on road to Valloire – live
a piece from Rich Tenorio via our US office that’s well worth your time: When cycling first took the US by storm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Black Americans joined in the new pastime. One Black cyclist,…
Jimmy Anderson takes six wickets, plus Surrey v Essex and more: county cricket – live
Sussex but, at seven down, it’s not looking so likelyEssex. Somerset are in touching distance of the follow-on, Craig Overton attempting to get there in big blows. Somerset 253-8. Leaning and Stobo are resisting Hampshire’s finest, for now. Kent 238-6….
Wind, rain and floods as Hurricane Beryl tears through Caribbean – video
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Buddy Oliver! Tilly Ramsay! Welcome to the terrifying age of the nepo chef
This month, CBBC will debut Cooking Buddies, in which young viewers will be taught to make such varied dishes as spicy tomato pasta and fish finger sandwiches. Taken at face value, this sounds like a tremendous idea. A cookery show…
The Breakdown | All Blacks’ alchemists are trying to turn mud-slinging into black gold
There are two types of game being played in international rugby union. The familiar one on the field and another – arguably even more significant – unfolding off it. Long gone are the days when the only big hitters were…
Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’
Ten activists from a prominent youth-led environmental group in Cambodia have been sentenced to between six and eight years in jail in a case human rights experts have widely condemned. The activists from Mother Nature, an award-winning group of environmental…
Biden unveils rules to protect millions of US workers from extreme heat
The Biden administration has unveiled a long-awaited proposal to protect workers from extreme temperatures. If finalized, the rule will establish the nation’s first-ever federal safety standard for excessive heat exposure in the workplace and protect as many as 36 million…
As cycling boomed in 19th-century America, its Black stars shone bright
When cycling first took the US by storm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Black Americans joined in the new pastime. One Black cyclist, Marshall “Major” Taylor, became a world champion in 1899. Yet American cycling installed a…
‘Not just for fuddy-duddies’: interest in moths booming as species struggle
Everyone loves bees and butterflies, but now moths are coming into the spotlight (as long as they don’t fly around it). The moth expert Charles Waters has seen a surprisingly rapid increase in interest in moths from the younger generation…
Why Are You Shouting? by James Womack review – tales of the metropolis
James Womack’s latest collection sees the city as both muse and antagonist. A frustrated energy merges with sentiment in poems that feel like a last hurrah to living as we know it. “The city is dead, and yes, the country…