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Uno-X Mobility : L'effectif 2026

Cyclo-cross de Gignac : Classements
Mathieu Junius (Montpellier Métropole Cyclisme) a remporté, ce dimanche, le cyclo-cross de Gignac (Hérault) organisé par le Team Montagnac Avenir Cycliste. Il a devancé...

Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble?

Who was Caravaggio’s black-winged god of love? What this masterpiece reveals about the rogue genius

An Olympic warm-up, burqa outrage and aerial antics: photos of the day – Monday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

This art is rubbish: why artists meticulously recreate our trash – so well they even confuse cleaners

Wicked: For Good beats box office records previously held by Wicked

Bila Burba review – how recreating brutal battles helps pass history down the generations

How rolling sand dunes are creeping up on last remaining oases on edge of Sahara
In western Chad, villagers are desperately trying to hold back the sand as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on one of the hottest countries in the worldOn the ochre sands of Kanem, the neat vegetable gardens and silver-green palm trees of Kaou oasis stand out, incongruous in this desert province of 70,000 sq km in western Chad.Oases such as this, on the edge of the Sahara, have sustained human life in the world’s deserts for thousands of years. Globally, an estimated 150 million people rely on the water, arable land and access to trade networks they provide. But in Chad, such oases are disappearing fast. Continue reading...

From Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules to sitting down in new jeans: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon
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Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember review – a heartbreaking attempt to fight his dad’s dementia
The Thor actor and his father try to stave off the latter’s symptoms by taking a road trip to old haunts. It becomes a moving treatise on the sadness of letting go of a parentCelebrities are forever taking their parents on televised road trips, and they’re usually cheap, easy commissions. Look how self-deprecating I am, says the famous person as they try to award themselves national treasure status by moving into light-factual programming: the person who knows me best is about to mildly embarrass me on holiday!Be assured that Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember is a more serious endeavour. It features some intergenerational joshing as the guy from the Thor movies goes on a motorcycle ride with his old fella, but this is a journey filled with a wistful, desperate longing, towards a destination nobody can quite reach. Craig Hemsworth, 71, has early-stage Alzheimer’s. His mental faculties are starting to slip. But his boy is a Hollywood star, with the resources of a TV company behind him. Can he help? Continue reading...

