TV tonight: a moreish Swedish thriller about a big family trauma
End of Summer 9pm, BBC Four A strange, horrifying thing happened to Vera (Julia Ragnarsson) and her family one summer in her childhood, which is teased in tense flashbacks as this moreish Swedish thriller gets going. Now grownup, sheâs a…
Country diary: Itching and scratching after a day of hay-baling | Andrea Meanwell
Itâs approaching 9pm and we are returning to the meadows for the last trip of the day âleadingâ hay bales into the barn. I sit on the back of the trailer as it bumps along, marvelling at the number of…
Whatâs happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia
Australian government data says national greenhouse gas emissions have come down steadily over the past two decades and are now 29% less than in 2005. But another calculation, based on the governmentâs data, says the emissions that matter have barely…
Fast-moving wildfire erupts near Yosemite amid blistering heatwave
A fast-moving wildfire burning near Yosemite national park is threatening rural communities as millions of people in California and across the US west swelter under a brutal heatwave that is predicted to persist through the weekend. The French fire broke…
Tour de France: Remco Evenepoel powers to stage seven time trial victory
Remco Evenepoel won the first Âindividual time trial in the 2024 Tour de France, after beating current race leader, Tadej Pogacar, in the 23.5km ârace of truthâ. In his debut Tour, the former Vuelta a España champion ÂEvenepoel has so…
The week around the world in 20 pictures
London, England The newly elected prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, and his wife, Victoria, enter his official London residence at No 10 Downing Street for the first time after the Labour party won a landslide victory at the 2024 general…
Brad Pitt brings glitz to Silverstone but Brown still cold on Verstappen
Grey clouds loomed over Silverstone on Friday but were no dampener for an audience determined to have a good time at this weekendâs British Grand Prix, where organisers are making every effort to ensure the business of racing goes hand…
Tour de France 2024: Remco Evenepoel pips Pogacar to win stage seven time trial â as it happened
Remco Evenepoel overcame a late scare to win the stage seven time trial on and eat into Tadej Pogacarâs lead in yellow as the front two put time into their other rivals. Evenepoelâs first Tour stage win on his race…
Akira Endo obituary
The Japanese biochemist Akira Endo, who has died aged 90, was the creator of the first statin, a drug that lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, through his pioneering work with fungal extracts. Endo believed â and eventually proved â that…
âEverybody screamed when they saw it!â The sudden rise in penises on TV
Itâs not just winter thatâs coming. This weekâs episode of House of the Dragon featured not one but two penises: one mid-fellatio, the other post-coital. If original fantasy epic Game of Thrones became known for âsexpositionâ â advancing the plot…