White House President could still exert power during his final months

When Joe Biden finally ends his self-imposed seclusion at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, this week he will emerge into a very different world than the one from which he isolated when diagnosed with Covid last Wednesday.

The age question Now it is something ex-president will have to worry about

With the 78-year-old Donald Trump now certain to face a Democratic candidate younger than he is, the Republican could have the tables turned on him over the questions of age and mental agility he sidestepped while Joe Biden was his opponent.

"This is scary' Democrat delegates face scramble to select Biden's successor

It's been more than 50 years since delegates to a Democratic national convention haven't known their nominee as they walked through the door.

Abortion Support for rights wins backing of campaigners

The biggest abortion rights groups in US politics are lining up behind Kamala Harris's bid for president, a show of faith in a politician who has already become the face of the White House's fight over abortion rights.

'I'll do everything in my power' Harris shoulders fateful burden of beating Trump

When Joe Biden addressed the NAACP convention in Las Vegas last week, he set off chants of \"Four more years!\" when he praised Kamala Harris as \"not only a great vice-president\" but someone who \"could be president of the United States\".

"Thank God' Democratic voters' relief at withdrawal

For many Democratic swing state voters, Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential election came as a relief.

Physicist, 98, honoured 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

A trailblazing physicist who gave up her PhD 75 years ago to have a family has received an honorary doctorate from her former university.

Tories wasted’ 700m on failed Rwanda scheme

The Conservative government spent £700m of taxpayers' money on the failed Rwanda deportation scheme which has proven to be a \"costly con\", the home secretary has said.

Senior Democrats throw weight behind Harris to take on Trump

Vice-president attracts Pelosi's backing amid flood of endorsements

Violence against women a 'national emergency'

About 2 million women are estimated to be victims of violence perpetrated by men each year in an epidemic so grave it amounts to a \"national emergency\", police chiefs warned today.

Schauffele shakes off Rose to seal America's clean sweep

Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd. Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele. Not since 1982 had American golfers completed a clean sweep of the four majors until Schauffele emulated Watson by prevailing at Royal Troon.

Five-star Bashir rips apart West Indies for series win

When Nottinghamshire announced at 2pm on the fourth day that entry for the fifth would be free, it looked for all money well, no money like a great offer.

Norris hands Piastri first victory after McLaren team orders row

For Oscar Piastri, taking his debut Formula One victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix will be a moment long to savour, yet it was one that for his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, could not have been more painful, secured through the gritted teeth of the British driver who was forced to concede a potential win by playing the team game. Pleasure and pain then in an enormously entertaining Fisoap opera in Budapest.

'I went from cloud nine to the of the pack' bottom

Becky Downie has overcome heartbreak, tragedy, and being ostracised in her sport toreach athird Olympics

City of Delight Buzz and cynicism go hand in hand as world awaits the first post-Covid Olympics

In the late hours of the final Friday before the Olympic Games begin in Paris, a young waiter named Anatole closed up his brasserie for the night in the shadow of the Sainte-Chapelle by the Seine.

Going for growth Productivity's a puzzle in our service economy

I 'm due a haircut and in the past week received a message from my barber containing the news that the price will be 10% higher than the last time I went for a trim.

Ministers 'must ignore the net-zero nimbys' to hit 2030 target

The government will need to take on \"net-zero nimbys\" and ramp up public investment to decarbonise Britain's homes, transport and electricity system, a thinktank has said.

'Afghanistan is silent' Young musicians who found hope in Portugal

Astone's throw from Portugal's oldest cathedral and buzzing bakeries serving up pastéis de nata, the complex notes of a sitar fill the ground floor of an unassuming building in the northern city of Braga.

Free to fight The convicts who are plugging gaps in Kyiv's military

Last year Volodymyr Prysiazhniuk quarrelled with his father-in-law, Yuriy.

Women in war-torn Sudanese city forced to have sex with soldiers for food, victims say

Women struggling to survive in the war-torn Sudanese city of Omdurman say soldiers are forcing them to have sex in exchange for food.

'McCarthyism' Universities condemn bill in Knesset to limit academic freedom

Israel's education minister and the country's national union of students are backing a draft law to limit academic speech in the country, which the heads of leading universities have attacked as \"McCarthyite\" and fundamentally undemocratic.

Water quality sensors to alert wild swimmers to real-time pollution risk

Real-time water quality monitors are being installed at wild swimming spots and beaches across southern England to help people assess their immediate risk of illness from polluted water.

Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm fired within weeks

Indonesian workers who paid thousands of pounds to travel to Britain and pick fruit at a farm supplying most big supermarkets have been sent home within weeks for not picking fast enough.

Probation Watchdog calls for cut in caseload

Ministers should consider reducing the caseload of the probation service by up to 40,000 people if they are to ease the prison overcrowding crisis, a watchdog has told the Guardian.

Spending dilemma as Reeves hints at above-inflation public sector pay rise

Labour is fast approaching a moment of truth over its election pledges on tax and spending, experts say, after Rachel Reeves indicated the government could agree above-inflation pay rises for public sector staff.

The threads of history: study sheds light on Pepys' keen fashion sense

He might be best known for his juicy diary, administrative prowess and wandering eye-but new research has highlighted a different side of Samuel Pepys: that of a budding fashionista.

Pressure grows on secret service head to resign over assassination attempt

The head of the US secret service came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday as she prepared to appear before a congressional committee to explain how a gunman was able to shoot Donald Trump in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Couple who were sailing across the Atlantic found dead on raft

The bodies of a couple who were on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean have been found on a life raft that washed up on a remote Canadian island almost six weeks after they were last seen.

A life of tragedy and resilience Biden calls time on consequential political career

Joe Biden's historic decision yesterday to step down as the Democratic nominee for president signals an imminent end to one of the most consequential American political careers.

Biden quits race

Joe Biden yesterday withdrew his bid to seek a second term in the White House, endorsing the vice-president, Kamala Harris, to take his place as the Democratic candidate in an extraordinary decision that plunges the US into chaos less than four months before the election.