Winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize to be announced - Europe Live
The winner will be announced in a ceremony that starts at 10am UK time (11am CEST) The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this morning, with all sorts of speculation about who could be this year’s worthy winner. (Despite his hopes, Donald Trump is very unlikely to win it, again.) Continue reading...
UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics live
Condemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move ‘grotesque’ and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments * Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed According to rights group Amnesty International, at least 17 public executions are known to have been carried out in 2025 – six in Afghanistan and 11 in Iran. The Death Penalty Information Center says that 135 soldiers have been executed by the US military since 1916. Continue reading...
Five Great Reads: unmarked graves, Happy Mondays, and a childhood without sugar
The Guardian’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Miles Herbert * Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here Hello and welcome to the weekend. This selection of reads from across the Guardian has chronicles of evolution, investigations and interviews which ask us to think about how we remember our loved ones when they are gone, and – of course – stories that leave you with a little something sweet. Continue reading...
Tame Impala review – Kevin Parker ricochets between musical uppers and downers in eye-popping arena show
Brisbane Entertainment Centre Melancholic newer tracks sit uncomfortably alongside the chunky psychedelia and hazy prog-rock the Australian band is known for There were a lot of firsts to be experienced on Tame Impala’s Deadbeat tour. I have never seen an arena headliner emerge looking more like he’s just stumbled out of bed. I have never seen a lighting and laser rig so spectacular that it can evoke the ego-obliterating escapism only the best psychedelia can achieve. And I have definitely never watched a performer walk off stage for a wee – and I mean watched, along with thousands of others, as a camera followed him right up to the urinal. The question of whether Kevin Parker’s mid-show piss on the Deadbeat tour (he does it every show) is a cheeky joke, a manoeuvre to buy time for some production trickery, or a performance to build out his deliberately lackadaisical stage presence, is part of his appeal. Live, his voice is ethereal and plaintive, soaring even over the most abrasive guitars and synthy ruckus. And the whole band, with added sixth member James Ireland of Pond fame, sound incredible; drummer Julien Barbagallo can and will rattle your rib cage. Continue reading...
Napa Valley’s hangover
People are drinking less. Vines are being ripped up. Winemakers are going bust. Can the Disneyland of wine survive the downturn?
The Death of Curtis Flowers
From the daily newsletter: Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in Mississippi by the same white prosecutor for a crime he did not commit, was the subject of the In the Dark podcast.
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