A 22-year-old student received a heartbreaking cancer diagnosis when she returned from a holiday in Ibiza. Ellie Graham, from Old Swan, Liverpool, visited the Spanish island with her boyfriend Joey…

Rob Gronkowski scores his first touchdown since 2018 as Buccaneers roll
For the first time in almost two years, Rob Gronkowski has found the end zone. Tom Brady hit Gronkowski on a touchdown pass in the second quarter today, giving Gronk…

I lent my mother my old phone. Now she’s read my text messages – and discovered untold secrets
If you could call anywhere the canary in the coalmine of incompetence and chaos, it would be care homes. At the start of the coronavirus crisis, it was the UK…

Pret A Manger and Edinburgh Woollen Mill to cut 1,000 jobs
The pandemic has claimed the jobs of another 1,000 shop workers as more stores shut across the country. Pret A Manger is closing six stores and cutting 400 jobs in…

ProtonMail CEO calls Apple’s forced in-app purchases ‘Mafia extortion’
Encrypted email provider ProtonMail says that Apple forced it to monetize its app, which was on the App Store for more than two years without in-app purchases. It also claims…

Grenfell cladding scandal exposed as 1.5million trapped in fire risk hell
A million and a half flat owners are trapped in fire-risk high rises across the country because of a £15billion red tape nightmare. Buck-passing between builders, freeholders, property developers, architects,…

Kevin Stefanski: Baker Mayfield starts as long as he’s healthy
Baker Mayfield started Sunday’s game for the Browns, but the quarterback didn’t finish it. Mayfield dealt with sore ribs during the week and head coach Kevin Stefanski pulled him late…

Welcome to October’s Observer Food Monthly
‘Even though I left my scientific career a while back, that process of thinking hasn’t gone away,” says Nik Sharma, in his dazzling new book The Flavor Equation. This is…

CEO Secrets: The graduates launching start-ups in lockdown
As part of our CEO Secrets series, which invites entrepreneurs to share their advice, we are focusing on businesses that have launched during lockdown. Each week we will look at…

AMD reportedly in talks to acquire Xilinx for $30 billion
AMD is reportedly in the advanced stages of buying field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-maker Xilinx for more than $30 billion. Should the talks be successful, a deal could be reached as…