French towns are fining men for going topless. Quel dommage!
Take off your shirt on a Narbonne street and it will cost you €150. Could it happen in the UK? I sincerely hope not Watch out if you’re heading to…
At my friend’s citizenship ceremony, I was moved by the quiet pride in the faces of new Australians | Shadi Khan Saif
Belonging didn’t start that day. The event recognised what had already been lived, the years of steadily building lives A few days before Australia’s population ticked over 28 million, a…
Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film The memoir of a…
L’Équipe apologises to Belgian footballer Jérémy Doku for presenter’s comments
French media outlet distanced itself from criticism of Doku’s plan to fly back from World Cup for birth of first child The French media outlet L’Équipe has apologised to the…
‘Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on
From north-east Scotland to Romford, London, what do those who spoke to the Guardian during the referendum campaign make of how it all panned out? The Guardian has revisited five…
Haaland doubles up again as Norway defeat Senegal and seal spot in World Cup last 32
Erling Haaland scored twice for the second successive World Cup match as Norway beat Senegal 3-2 on Monday to move level with France on six points at the top of…
Irrepressible Messi breaks World Cup scoring record as Argentina beat Austria
It had to be Lionel Messi, it had to be on this day and perhaps it even needed to be in Dallas too. History was created in the way he…
World Cup Group D permutations: supercomputer says Socceroos will progress
Even a narrow defeat against Paraguay in their final group game should be enough to earn a place in the last 32, where Belgium may await Cowards, pragmatists or stoic…
Two-hour storm break fails to stop France as Mbappé and Dembélé prove too good for Iraq
Could France do it on a hot, humid, waterlogged and lightning-threatened night in Pennsylvania? The answer was pretty straightforward. Despite an interruption of over two hours after a chain of…
Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say
Observations suggest comet spent billions of years on ‘vast unimaginable trajectories’ around our galaxy An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun last year could be nearly three times older…