Demand for capacity grows on back of hit Netflix shows, online games and moreThe breakout success of the Korean drama Squid Game has prompted a local broadband provider to launch legal action to force the maker, Netflix, to help pay for the huge surge …
Capsule of 1765 air reveals ancient histories hidden under Antarctic ice
Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial RevolutionAn ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar …
Animal blessings, smoke bubbles and Billie Eilish – the weekend’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…
James Brokenshire obituary
Highly respected Conservative MP and minister who served as secretary of state for Northern IrelandJames Brokenshire, who has died aged 53 of lung cancer, was the Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup and a minister in successive governments, inclu…
Two-fifths of police forces in England and Wales lack rape units
Exclusive: campaigners concerned after FoI revelation that 17 forces do not have specialist Rasso unitsAt least two-fifths of police forces in England and Wales do not have specialist rape and serious sexual offence (Rasso) units, the Guardian can reve…
Covid live news: Wales to keep home working and mandatory masks until 2022; Australia planning to allow international travel
Welsh first minister expects Covid measures to continue until next year; Australia’s PM planning to fast-track international travelSee all our coronavirus coverageDr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man regarded as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb”, has di…
There’s no point in Labour waiting for Britain’s economic crisis to get worse | John Harris
‘If it’s not hurting, it’s not working,’ the Tories used to say. So as the pain grows, Boris Johnson will claim it as a successOn the face of it, politics in England is in a weird, almost delirious state. The governing party has been in power for more …
‘This had to happen now’: Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland, her 30-minute ‘howl’ of a play
Galvanised by the killings of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard, the playwright tells how she penned the eviscerating drama in just two daysIt usually takes Lucy Kirkwood two years to write a play, crafting and honing meticulously before sending it out to…
Chris Packham vows to continue activism after arson attack on home
BBC Springwatch presenter says car set alight and gate burned down at New Forest propertyThe BBC’s Springwatch presenter Chris Packham has said he will “carry on” his activism after an arson attack on his home.Packham said arsonists set fire to a car a…
‘Galactic Britain’: how Cornwall is winning the European space race
Following the publication of the National Space Strategy last week, photojournalist Jonny Weeks explores how the south-west is primed for Britain’s first sovereign rocket launch“When we first started, people would laugh at us,” says Melissa Thorpe as s…