Coco GauffTeenager was struggling in spring but different coaches and her dad taking a step back proved to be inspired decisions
Even as the WTA tour had shifted on to the European red clay season this year, Coco Gauff’s favourite surface and the period that brought her first grand slam final at the French Open in 2022, the 19-year-old was struggling. During the early days of spring, Gauff had taken a few early defeats, culminating in a bitter 6-3, 6-0 loss against Paula Badosa in Madrid.
Life and styleTikTokers are sharing strangers’ conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they’re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it?
Marissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button – a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and even an “offline” aunt all linking to a TikTok video titled “Send this to Marissa in NYC”.
The ObserverEssaysFor years, Joseph Mitchell composed masterly and inspiring dispatches from the edges of the city – and then wrote nothing for three decadesOn and off over the 20-odd years that I have been trying to write journalism, I have carried around in my bag Joseph Mitchell's book, Up in the Old Hotel. Mitchell grew up in rural North Carolina at the beginning of the last century, came to New York as a young man to work as a crime correspondent in Harlem, and subsequently became known at the New Yorker magazine as the pioneer of a particular kind of reporting that owed something to Mark Twain: extended portraits of people and places at the margins of the city, told with all the patience of a novelist, and the precision of a newspaperman.
Leslie Plommer is an associate editor overseeing daily corrections and clarifications in the readers' editor's office. Her former Guardian incarnations include managing editor, foreign news; executive editor, features; and editor of the weekly design magazine Space
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Animals This article is more than 1 month oldSheepdog Casper, killer of eight coyotes, nominated for Farm Dog of the YearThis article is more than 1 month oldThe Great Pyrenees from Decatur, Georgia, defended his flock of sheep by killing eight coyotes and is up for a $5,000 cash prize
A heroic sheepdog who killed eight coyotes as he defended his flock of sheep from attack has been nominated for Farm Dog of the Year.
The ObserverSomalia‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway regionSomaliland hoped to be recognised as a country after port deal with landlocked Ethiopia - but move has sparked fury in Somalia Somalia is prepared to go to war to stop Ethiopia recognising the breakaway territory of Somaliland and building a port there, a senior adviser to Somalia’s president has said.
A memorandum of understanding signed on 1 January allowing landlocked Ethiopia to develop a naval base on Somaliland’s coast has rattled the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s most volatile regions.
South Carolina This article is more than 7 years oldYoung couple's remains found on South Carolina property of serial killer suspectThis article is more than 7 years oldJohnny Joe Coxie, 29, and Meagan Leigh McCraw Coxie, 25, were fatally shot and then buried about 11 months ago, coroner says
Two bodies unearthed on the South Carolina property of a sex offender who police say has confessed to seven murders have been identified as a husband and wife reported missing last December.
MusicFrom Madonna to Ian Brown, musicians seem to be drawn to wild theories about JFK and 5G. There’s a reason for that …
In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all
At the 1967 Monterey pop festival, David Crosby of the Byrds treated the audience to his thoughts on the murder of JFK.
He was voted the world's sexiest man and is the only actor to have banked $100m for every decade on screen. Now, as he dusts down Indiana Jones for his fourth adventure, Harrison Ford tells Interviewer of the Year Chrissy Iley about car crashes, kids and Calista Flockhart You hear that Harrison Ford is not an easy man to be in a room with. Combative as an interviewee, defensive as a person, you read that he is pernickety, brusque, that he challenges every question.
Book of the dayFictionReviewAn unflinching portrayal of the slave trade explores its impact down the generations, from 18th-century west Africa to the modern-day USSlavery is an open wound: it will never heal. As such it has provided an endless reserve of material for storytellers, a bottomless well of tragic arcs, epic betrayals, unexpected dimensions and uncharted secrets. What of the black slave owners of Virginia, asked Edward P Jones in The Known World.