It’s a short step from laughing in the line for artisan pastries to grimly waiting to buy a loaf of sliced white. Are we just rehearsing for food shortages?

It’s hot – fancy a frozen yoghurt? Probably not, given that ice-cream exists, but a New York Times reporter recently queued for an hour to experience the city’s fro-yo craze with 74 other patient souls, long enough, she wrote, to “feel affection for my cluster of line, the kind of camaraderie you develop with fellow passengers on a delayed flight”. The yoghurt, while fine, was emphatically not worth the wait. That’s surely also true of the UK’s current slew of viral bakeries, pizza joints and, improbably, baked potato spots. Can carbs really be that good? Maybe, but I’ll never find out: reaching the head of an interminable queue only for the person in front of you to take the last treat is psychological violence I won’t put myself through, and queueing at a mayonnaise vending machine – another real NYC phenomenon – is my idea of hell.

But queues are everywhere now. Even in my hometown of York, where formerly the only people queueing were tourists waiting to enjoy the stench of rotting herring and latrine at the Jorvik Viking Centre (or to patronise our sui generis tearoom, Bettys), locals line up at brunch spots and bakeries. How and why have queues, previously an occasional annoyance, become ubiquitous?

Mauricio Pochettino’s players have got off to a scorching start to the tournament. Going all the way will require the team reaching a whole new level though

The United States can win the World Cup. The US players say so. So does Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Because you are a smart Guardian reader, you know that, theoretically, any team who are not yet eliminated can win the World Cup. And you know that this US team have won their opening two World Cup games convincingly, securing top spot in Group D and a place in the knockout round with a game to spare. Making the World Cup final, and winning it, is in the realm of possibility.

But will they? Within the team, there has been belief they can go all the way for some time. US head coach Mauricio Pochettino laid down the marker in his opening press conference, and has stuck to his belief. His players have followed suit. But now, even famous pundits with outsized egos are saying the US can shock the world and capture the men’s World Cup for the first time on home soil.

UN’s Word Food Programme and agriculture agency issue joint appeal for funds to avert global hunger crisis before it happens

Adugna Woyessa was a little boy the first time drought tore his country apart. As harvests failed in rain-starved regions of Ethiopia in the early 1970s, and his school turned a classroom into a grain store for farmers to send aid, he had no idea that scientists were beginning to connect the force parching its fields with cyclical shifts in trade winds that had long supercharged violent weather from South America to Australia.

The now notorious El Niño – Spanish for “little boy” – was named by fishers in the Pacific in the 1800s, but it was not until the 1970s that scientists understood its global nature and began to piece together the historical impact of the natural weather pattern characterised by hot years and brutal extremes.

Fitness isn’t just about getting a six-pack or competing in a triathlon. These straightforward, low-intensity moves will improve your strength and mobility and make almost everything easier

There are lots of movements that make you stronger and more physically capable – press-ups, squats and kettlebell swings build strength and muscle that help in a huge variety of situations. But can you get more specific? Well, yes: there are exercises that target the challenges of everyday life, whether that’s playing on the floor with your kids or bringing in the big shop. Here are the moves you may want to consider, presented by a dozen movement coaches, personal trainers and strength specialists.

Je hoort ze niet veel, ze hebben immers al een hele poos geen gewelddadige fratsen met treinen meer uitgehaald en hun wijken zijn reeds homeopathisch verdund, maar je hebt in Nederland dus een heleboel Molukkers. Die vochten ooit aan onze zijde in Indië en daarna zei Nederland 'joh, kom zolang ff hierheen, dan regelen we dat eigen stukje grond voor jullie later wel', waarna het hele zooitje in voormalige doorvoerkampen werd gezet, niet mocht werken en ondertussen nooit meer iets van Nederland hoorde over een eigen vrije staat. Dat vond de Nederlandse regering prima zo, maar later weer lullig (in 1986 kwam al een erepenning, later collectieve erkenningsprojecten en subsidieregelingen) en nu vindt premier Jetten het dermate lullig dat hij het hele Nederlandse leger naar Ambon stuurt voor een bevrijdingsoperatie "SORRY" ZEGT. We hadden het niet zo bedoeld. Of wel. Maar nu achteraf toch niet. Mena muria!

Na een operatie aan een rughernia is de ene patiënt „al na zes weken aan het werk, terwijl de ander na een jaar nog thuiszit met pijn”. Hoe kun je mensen toch houvast geven?.

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HENGELO (ANP) - Nadine Visser heeft haar tiende optreden op de FBK Games bekroond met de winst op de 100 meter horden. De 31-jarige Noord-Hollandse atlete klokte 12,52 seconden. De Amerikaanse Alia Armstrong werd tweede in 12,60.

Visser scherpte vorig jaar augustus haar nationaal record aan tot 12,28.