headlines
Monday
25
July
2016
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Yahoo to sell core web business to Verizon for nearly $5bnPurchase will boost Verizon’s AOL with advertising technology tools and search, mail and messenger assets
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Syrian asylum seeker kills himself and injures 12 outside music festival27-year-old dies after ‘deliberate explosion’ outside music festival in Bavaria -
Two dead and up to 17 injured outside Fort Myers nightclubPolice say two killed and as many as 17 injured at Club Blu Bar and Grill, with a 14-year-old boy killed and hospital saying youngest person affected was 12 -
All the latest news from Philadelphia
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City of constitution – and Rocky – prepares to make history againAs the Democratic national convention begins this week, the home of cheesesteaks and the Liberty Bell reflects on a storied past and changing present
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Fight for America's soul moves on to PhiladelphiaIn Cleveland, Republicans fuelled fears of a broken democracy. In the City of Brotherly Love, Democrats will seek to construct a convincing response
highlights
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Where a gunman found a homeGavin Long killed three Louisiana police officers. He also claimed membership of a strange and increasingly African American extremist movement
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US congressman wins Eisner award for graphic memoir of civil rights struggleSecond volume of pioneering campaigner John Lewis’s autobiographical story, March: Book Two, wins one of the genre’s leading honours
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It's impossible to avoid TV spoilers in the digital world order – get over itGame of Thrones is ground zero for spoilers but rather than trying to fight a digital culture clash, it’s best to go with the flow and enjoy entertainment
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My Fair Lady and West Side Story 'ghost singer' dies, aged 86Nixon filled in secretly as a playback singer for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood in a long career as a soprano
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Vieira vexed by Marsch, and time runs short for Sigi SchmidThe NYCFC manager was rattled in his side’s latest derby disappointment, while it’s time for Seattle’s longtime manager to relinquish his post
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Can the league and players live together in harmony?The professional women’s soccer league has received a barrage of harsh comments from US national team players. How best to resolve the dispute?
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Is it time for the Cleveland Indians to retire Chief Wahoo?Critics say the Indians logo is insensitive to Native Americans, but the team’s owner, Paul Dolan, has announced that it will stay – at least for the time being
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Who will challenge Chris Froome at the 2017 Tour de France?There was a lack of suspense this year but here are five challengers, led by Romain Bardet, who could upset things next time around
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In New York they have just repealed the tax on mentstrual products as a matter of social justice. This tax on being a woman is insulting to us allThe 'tampon tax' is not a marginal issue – it's the force of structural sexism at work
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Forget Idris Elba – it’s time for a lesbian BondSwap the tuxedo for dungarees, the sports car for a low-emission Mini and the martini for a pint of Stella, and you have the perfect Bond for the 21st century
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Republican and allies forced to answer antisemitism questionsRNC rejects ‘antisemitic comments’ after VP candidate Michael Flynn relays supporter’s criticism of DNC and Duke approval dogs Trump
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How Hillary Clinton is campaigning on race and crimeJamira Burley, an activist whose family has been shaken by the justice system in part created by the Clintons, has joined the Democrat’s campaign for president
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Israeli woman allegedly gang-raped in tourist town of ManaliA 25-year-old woman reports being raped by two men after flagging what she thought was a taxi in the Himalayan town
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Unity rally draws thousands as post-coup torture claims emergeIstanbul’s Taksim square fills on Sunday for first cross-party rally to condemn coup plot against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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in brief
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Pope to headline Krakow festival for 330,000 CatholicsPilgrims head for Polish city but six-day event could raise tensions between liberal pontiff and country’s conservative church
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Japanese Buddhist priest sets sights on canoe goldWhen he’s not chanting and living the austere life of a Buddhist priest, Kazuki Yazawa contemplates Olympic gold as a canoeist in the Japan Olympic team
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Star Trek and Aliens cast members try to launch nostalgic space tripPanels hint at new material that’s still relevant – Star Trek continues ‘to push boundaries, to tell stories in the way Gene Roddenberry promised’
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Box set Who Can I Be Now? to include unreleased albumExperimental funk and soul recordings from the star’s ‘American phase’, including album The Gouster, will join remastered albums, single edits and b-sides
in depth
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'We have become an internet-consuming culture'As part of the Guardian’s series on technology in Africa, we meet 10 leaders of the continent’s digital transformation
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Inside the battle to keep Berwick Street market independentCritics fear Westminster council’s plan to privatise this historic London market risks not only the livelihoods of stallholders but Soho’s distinctive identity
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These are the best arguments from the 3% of climate scientist 'skeptics.' Really.Dana Nuccitelli: Contrarian climate scientist Roy Spencer summed up the contrarian case for a fossil fuel and tobacco-funded think tank
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Why pulling the plug on insurance mergers was bound to happenThe justice department lawsuits blocking two mergers that would have dramatically consolidated the market signal tougher stance on antitrust concerns
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Can this woman reverse aging with gene therapy?Biotech boss Elizabeth Parrish has tried out her company’s anti-ageing gene therapy with, she says, amazing results.
in pictures
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Polaroids from across the countryMatthew James O’Brien creates instant snapshots of Colombian life – from beauty queens to roadside jugglers – with his handy Polaroid camera
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40 years of music history – in pictures and poetryFrom the Ramones to the Sex Pistols, What Is Punk?’s clay recreations and rhyming couplets look to lay the groundwork “for the next generation of little punks”
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Rallies in Istanbul and Comic-ConThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Turkish protests and Star Wars fans
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China's weightlifting powerhouse readies for OlympicsGetty Images photographer Kevin Frayer has been in Beijing to check out how the Chinese weightlifting team are getting on ahead of the start of Rio 2016
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Cartoonist's week at the Republican national conventionKatie Fricas is a comics artist and illustrator in New York City – and she visited the Republican convention with a group of cartoonists called Comixcast
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Around Dublin with street photographer Eamonn DoyleFive years ago, the Irish photographer began snapping people near his Dublin home
people
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Non-relative wins Florida Hemingway lookalike contestDave Hemingway is first Hemingway to win Hemingway lookalike title while earnest effort by husband of cook Paula Deen leads to top-five finish
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'I regret not talking about my mother's death sooner'Prince tells event for mental health charity Heads Together that he opened up about Diana’s death only three years ago
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There may be a line I shouldn’t cross – I don’t know where it isThe writer-director has mined the darkest of subjects from stalking to rape to paedophilia. In Wiener-Dog he turns his attention to dachshunds and death
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How she used the Republican convention as a fashion showAfter donning several items from her own line in Cleveland, Trump offered online followers a chance to purchase lookalike pieces
the big picture
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Wild horses and Devon's Man EngineThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
Democrats Sanders seeks unity at Democratic national convention after chair resigns
Live Bernie Sanders to open convention with Michelle Obama
Wasserman Schultz DNC chair quits as email leak rocks party
'She must own her role' Clinton is campaigning on race and crime