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Sun 16 Aug 2026
A smartphone showing an "energy bill" message screen rests near coins and a banknote
Business
New UK cost of living crisis looms with soaring energy bills forecast to lift inflation
Illustration of an EPC certificate and a royal crown
Housing
Royal estates rent out homes that fail to meet legal energy efficiency standards
Abandoned cars on a flooded road
Japan
Torrential rain and flooding kill nine in Japan amid wettest month in decades
Jason Arday
Jason Arday
Tributes paid to Jason Arday after former Cambridge professor’s death
A house collapsed by tsunami floodwaters lies with its rusted metal roof toppled into mud
Indonesia
Rescue teams search for survivors in Indonesia after powerful earthquake
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Special report

A geologist takes advantage of the low water leves in the Danube to view the myhtical 'famine rock', known locally as the Ínség-szikla—is a real sandstone formation in the Danube River near the Liberty Bridge. When severe droughts cause water levels to drop and expose the rock, it signals dangerously low water that historically preceded poor harvests and deep hardship. Low water levels in the Danube in Budapest, owing to a summer of extended heatwaves that are gripping Europe. Hungary. Photograph by David Levene 5/8/26
The Sunday read
Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
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In focus

A fire burning in Kyiv after a Russian missile attack
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
Kyiv faces missile barrage after Zelenskyy targets Russian satellite network
Immigration and asylum
How to buy a ‘mega-dinghy’: the perilous new model of Channel crossing
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Features

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Work-life balance
The weekend is 100 years old – but have ‘skiveday Fridays’ and hybrid working ruined it for everyone?
Grace Dent on restaurants
Kinz, London W11: ‘No bells, no whistles, just Lebanese food cooked with immense pride’ – restaurant review
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Opinion

Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2026.
quote  Marco Rubio has unique power to promote peace in the world. Why isn’t he doing his job?
Simon Tisdall
quote  It’s the SUV tyranny: where have all the normal family cars gone?
Coco Khan
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Sport

Mikel Arteta and Enzo Maresca.
quote  Community Shield offers insight into Arsenal’s desire and Maresca’s Manchester City impact
Jonathan Wilson
Tennis
Djokovic suffers in Cincinnati heat as Tirante inflicts shock defeat
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Podcast

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Prisons are full - who should be released early? – podcast
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Climate crisis

Two people push a trolley loaded with water bottles as another guides them across a road
Extreme heat
‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires
Climate crisis
‘Dangerously hostile’: heatwaves leave hospital wards unsafe, data reveals
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Business & technology

A worker in a clean room suit kneels inspecting machinery at a battery gigafactory
Business
UK’s biggest EV battery gigafactory shelves expansion as Jaguar Land Rover talks stall
Weight-loss drugs
‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-l