Labour Day marches and Buddha’s birthday: photos of the day – Friday

The Chinese artist goes large on colonialism, a group show tackles a fun theme and Xanthe Somers’ stoneware fools the eye – all in your weekly dispatchAi Wei...

Normal Golf Game takes a tiresomely easy genre and makes it infernally difficult. Which deserves a round of applauseI have always struggled playing golf. I w...

A mouse detective; a fresh take on the Odyssey; a dangerous wish; and the world’s most watched reality TV showMy Dad Can by Stephen Lightbown, illustrated by...

For anyone furious about the state of the world, the London band offer a welcome – and unsparing – blast of catharsisFrom South LondonRecommended if you like...

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually longThe decades-long prison sentences for a group o...

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signaturesA scientist who decoded the dictionary that a...

Thomas Tuchel’s team will be working on key details of how to combat a low block before their final Group L game on SaturdayEngland’s goalless draw with Ghan...

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Archie Rhind-Tutt as Ecuador beat Germany to reach the last 32Rate, review, share on Apple Podca...

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC will have to be drained again. Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for the failure to keep the water 'Ame...

Ambitious plan to phase out single-use plastic opposed by chemicals industry – while green groups say law too timidA groundbreaking California law that compe...

Scrutiny of Black’s association with Epstein has intensified after DoJ released millions of files last year and this yearThe billionaire financier Leon Black...

House committee seeks records after two agency scientists were charged over undeclared samplesThe US House committee on energy and commerce is “examining con...