Author: The Guardian

As President Joe Biden announced he would be ending his bid for re-election and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris as his successor, social media did what social media is best known to do.Truth to be told, social media users had been enthusiastically imagining Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket since Biden’s disastrous debate performance at the end of June. Harris dancing. Harris laughing. Endless clips of her comments about a coconut tree.The next weeks will make clear whether Harris will be the Democrats’ 2024 nominee for president. But in the meantime, the internet picked up where it had…

BRITAIN’s triathletes will compete for Olympic gold in Paris with the help of a new weapon: a cutting-edge triathlon designed to make them faster on water or bikes.The new kit, which uses different materials and covers more of the body than a traditional three-piece, was used by Team GB’s Alex Yee and Beth Potter during the World Series in Cagliari in May. test. Yi won the race, while Porter finished third.The events, developed by the British Institute of Sport, draw on some of the aerodynamic technologies that have helped the British Cycling team top the Olympic medal table since 2008.…

Leaders from around the world have begun to react to Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not seek re-election this year, endorsing vice-president Kamala Harris in the most unorthodox US presidential campaign in generations.US allies largely offered tributes to Biden’s work over decades of government service, discussing his work as a partner in international security, without addressing the tense political debate still unfolding in the US.The US election campaign comes at a pivotal moment with major conflicts ongoing in Ukraine and in Gaza, both parties warning of a growing great-power rivalry with China, and European allies unsettled about a revanchist…

Legend has it that when King George III heard that America’s first president, George Washington, had decided to retire at the end of his second term, he said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”Joe Biden, 81, ended his presidential re-election campaign on Sunday as he holed up in a beach house in Delaware with a bad cough after being diagnosed with Covid-19. It was a selfless decision to put the interests of the country ahead of personal gain — an act of grace that many saw as a stark contrast to the narcissism…

Joe Biden will not stay in the 2024 presidential race as the Democratic candidate, he announced on Sunday.The announcement comes several weeks after the US president’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, which turned whispers about his age and fitness into a roar.“I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” he said this afternoon in a post on X/Twitter.Here is Biden’s full statement: My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half…

You can’t help but hear the murmurs of the Royal Troon, carried by the wind among the sounds of waves, trills, claps and calls. “Jon Rahm birdies the first three holes!” the young man who had managed to get a signal on his phone said to the two men on either side of him as he ran his thumb down the scoreboard.”How’s Rosie?” his companion asked. “He just kicked off the ball.” Another chimed in: “Scotty Scheffler is here.” He waited a moment. “Who is with him?” The three people squinted at the man walking on the fairway in the…

Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday to step down as the Democratic nominee for president signals an imminent end to one of the most consequential American political careers.At 81, the oldest president ever sworn in has finally yielded to time – and his own party. Someone else, possibly the vice-president, Kamala Harris, will face Donald Trump in November.Biden, who endorsed Harris on Sunday, will remain in the White House until January. But Democrats and Republicans will soon survey something new: a political landscape without Biden at its centre.Born in Pennsylvania in 1942, Biden attended the University of Delaware and Syracuse…

British cyclist Mark Cavendish may retire after completing the final stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, having finally achieved his ambition to break the Tour de France record for most stage wins this year.Cavendish, 39, is the second cyclist to compete in the individual time trial from Monaco to Nice, the final race of this year’s Tour de France. It was exciting to go up there.”It’s just about enjoying it. There was no pressure for me today, which is strange for the final stage of the Tour. I know my family is waiting at the finish and that…

The bodies of a couple who were on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean have been found on a life raft that washed up on a remote Canadian island almost six weeks after they were last seen.Briton Sarah Packwood, 54, and her Canadian husband, Brett Clibbery, 70, are thought to have abandoned their yacht and died before washing up on Sable Island – known as the “graveyard of the Atlantic” – east of Nova Scotia in Canada on 12 July.The couple were reported missing on 18 June after leaving Nova Scotia in their 13 metre (42ft) eco-friendly yacht, Theros,…

A 72-year-old Montana man picking huckleberries was shot and killed by a grizzly bear during an unexpected encounter, authorities said Friday. He was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized, authorities said Friday.The man was alone on national forest land Thursday when the adult female attacked him. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials said he was seriously injured before killing the bear with a handgun.Dillon Tabish, a spokesman for the agency, said the bear may have reacted defensively to protect the cub.Wildlife staff set up game cameras in the area to try to confirm the cub’s presence. If the cubs…