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World’s rivers ‘awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics’ – News from TheGuardian.com
Ranked: The Ten Countries With The Most Endangered Species In The World – News from Forbes.com
Japan PM Abe says determined to show world strong alliance with US – News from ChannelNewsAsia.com
Russia launches world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker to open up Arctic shipping routes – News from Independent.co.uk
The world’s most lucrative match is worth at least $215 million – News from CNN.com

Olympics: Team GB v Japan football and swimming begins at Tokyo 2020 – live!

Team GB take on Japan, Richard Carapaz wins cycling goldGames schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingEmail Geoff with your thoughts or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 1.02pm BST Lucy Bronze wants gold. She sends in a cross from deep on the right, and Ellen white times her run […]

Coronavirus live: UK airports set for busiest weekend since pandemic; clashes at Sydney anti-lockdown protests

Thousands of travellers will leave the UK this weekend as school holidays begin for millionsAnti-lockdown protesters have marched in major Australian cities, as Covid cases spiked to record numbers in Sydney.Councils and companies warn that ‘pingdemic’ could cause weeks of disruption to bin collection, transport and food supply in England.Republican governor of Alabama: ‘Time to […]

‘Great to be back’: jubilation as parkrun returns to England

Participants celebrate with selfies and champagne as running club gets back on its feet after Covid hiatusThe return of parkrun was met with scenes of jubilation on Saturday as the weekly running club took place in England for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.After 16 months without the weekly ritual, thousands […]

The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko review – a heartfelt if flawed new opera

Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, SurreyFormer banker Anthony Bolton duly invests and borrows for his cleverly staged opera based on Marina Litvinenko’s account of her husband’s murderWe’d been warned. Yet still the “Chechen rebels” who took to the stage and pointed automatic rifles at us made the heart lurch. This recreation of the 2002 siege […]

Jonathan Coe on The Rotters’ Club: ‘My diary provided endless material, but I didn’t like the person I was’

The author on mixing semi-fact with fiction – and the school rule about swimming naked that inspired the novel’s big comedy set pieceFrom 1972-79, I was a pupil at King Edward’s school, Birmingham. It was at that time a direct grant school, which meant that although most of the places (including mine) were not fee-paying, […]

Surreal spectacle of a superbly set up Olympics with no one here to enjoy it | Andy Bull

Covid scandals, beach volleyball played to crickets and Japan’s gymnastics king bowed out in silence as the Games beganAnd it all started so smoothly, too. A frictionless dawn trip through the Olympic labyrinth, navigating all those buses and badges and scans and forms and apps and depots and checkpoints, two temperature checks, a ticketing desk, […]