The Guardian

Spring buds always bloom in line with new Apple gadget releases. But the savviest consumers will be lying in wait for soon-to-be superseded devices to become more readily available on the refurbished phone market.

Feature placed on the cover of the Guardian Weekend's Lifestyle magazine to support Oxfam's Second Hand September campaign.

New tech is promising to take rap artists to new lyrical heights. But will its algorithm be able to handle our novice writer’s rubbish rhymes?

On the myth of 'a whole new me', the false hope of fresh starts and writing Sadie Starr's Guide to Starting Over

There are more than 1,000 US-style mega-farms in the UK, including some holding as many as a million animals, according to a new investigation. These mega-farms include poultry, pig, beef cattle and dairy units.

Despite its dark 20th-century past, the country is now a traveller’s paradise of amazing landscapes, coast and historic cities.

Scientists hunting for dormice have been surprised to find toads sleeping in their nest boxes, high up in the trees. A study has for the first time revealed the frequency with which the common toad nests and breeds in the trees. These toads were found dwelling as high as 3 metres above ground in trees, with a record of 50 found living in dormouse nest boxes. Researchers said this was unexpected because common toads, regarded as terrestrial amphibians, typically spend their time either on land

A dangerous strain of salmonella is becoming more common in meat in the UK, unpublished government records show.

Some British supermarket pork has been infected with a potentially fatal superbug, an investigation has found. The findings highlight the risks to consumers from overuse of antibiotics on some farms.

Before the Capitol attack on 6 January, Robert Pape, a University of Chicago professor, had studied political violence around the world but not in the United States because there had not been much to examine, he said. Pape worries that could soon change because of politicians like Eric Greitens, a former Navy Seal from Missouri running for Senate, who recently released an advertisement in which he racked a shotgun and led a team of armed men as they stormed a house to hunt more moderate members of his own party, know derisively as Rinos, as in “Republicans in name only”. “Join the Maga crew,” Greitens, a former Republican governor, declares in the ad. “Get a Rino hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

More than a century ago, fossil fuel firms hardly needed help maintaining their image. Coal-powered trains, oil-burning power plants and gas-heated houses were likened to patriotism and social progress. But over time, especially as industry scientists began uncovering the direct link between the burning of fossil fuels and the climate crisis, America’s petroleum giants turned to the public relations industry they had helped create to persuade consumers to remain loyal.

Mohammed Al-Hashemi had been in the United States for two months when his phone rang. There was no caller ID. “I can take you straight to Canada,” said the man, before warning: “It may cost you a lot of money.” “I told him, ‘OK.’ I was ready to go, ready to move to the next step,” said Al-Hashemi, who had been a lawyer in Yemen before he was forced to flee. He was driven the next day to Roxham Road, which runs between Quebec and Plattsburgh, New York. After walking across the border, Al-Hashem

In the middle of the night on 20 August last year, Gordon Robertson received a phone call from the Florida highway patrol. The officer had pulled over his brother, Bruce, who was disoriented and claimed he was coming to see him. “I’m thinking, that’s really odd: I had told him he was not allowed to come up here and visit until he got vaccinated,” said Gordon, 71, who lives in Longwood. “I asked him a dozen times, ‘Bruce, you gotta get this. You gotta get this.’ And he wouldn’t do it.”

David Rosner continually talks to colleagues who are distraught about the American response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “When you are in a school of public health and a public health environment, people really feel when they are failing,” said Rosner, who studies public health and social history at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. That defeated feeling is compounded by the fact that 1 million people in the US have died from Covid-19 – the highest Covid death rate among large wealthy countries.

On 25 April, the former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, now running for US Senate, posted a video on Twitter of him and Donald Trump Jr, firing semi-automatic rifles at a range. “Striking fear in the hearts of liberals everywhere,” the former president’s son said.

Ralf Rangnick apologised to Manchester United’s supporters after their “unacceptable” defeat which ensured the club will finish with their lowest Premier League points tally. United have been accused of being on the beach during their dismal season and Rangnick’s hapless team, who are in danger of missing out on Europa League qualification, were all at sea with Brighton rampant on the south coast. Rangnick said: “To start with it’s important to apologise to our supporters. They came all the way

Accidents happen to me all the time – I play a lot of sports in Melbourne, where I am finishing a master’s degree and potentially storming towards a mixed netball grand final. I have broken my back, dislocated my kneecap, torn my groin and had appendicitis. But it was a piece of cereal that gave me my biggest scare.

The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly colored backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel notebooks, and a gleaming school bus welcoming a young student onboard.