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Ariana Grande expands on decision to ‘step back from visibility’, telling fans it was ‘not reactive or impulsive’

Singer and actor, whose world tour ends next month, told audience in Chicago that she had been quietly planning the move for a long time

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

Prisoners of Paradise review

An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel

The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it

Humans are the only animals whose faces redden with embarrassment. Should we see that as an affliction, or as a blessing?

Are you part of a community environmental action group? We’d like to hear about your experience

We want to hear from people around the world who have been getting involved in local action on the climate

Geography of Heaven by Rory MacLean

From an ashram in India to an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru, a travel writer searches for meaning after the death of his wife

Post your questions for Imelda Staunton

She’s acting royalty – literally, having played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown – but what questions would you ask her?

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summer

Nine Lives, the feral cat that terrorised New Zealand’s rare ducks, is caught after three years

Large tabby cat that wiped out dozens of rare pāteke, or brown teal, has been killed after eluding trappers with its ‘very erratic’ behaviour

‘They’re not alone’: Chris Hoy on his ambition to stop men dying of prostate cancer

Cycling legend on living with a stage 4 diagnosis, fundraising with Miguel Induráin and why Andy Burnham could be key to his ambition of helping others

The ultimate guide to travel etiquette: how to handle 36 tricky situations, from manspreaders to smelly armpits

It’s easy to lose your cool when you’re crammed into a train, bus or plane with a bunch of strangers and one of them is playing music without headphones or fighting you for the armrest. Here are the rules everyone should be following

South Korea swelters through record high temperatures

Seoul braces for its first ‘severe heatwave warning’ while the south-eastern city of Yangsan has seen the temperature reach 42.5C