Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 26 August.

Top stories

England have squared the Ashes series at 1-1 after one of the most astonishing matches in Test history, crowned by an unforgettable match-winning innings of 135 not out from Ben Stokes. England, bowled out for 67 in the first innings, achieved their highest-ever winning total by scoring 362 for nine thanks to a last-wicket partnership of 76 between Jack Leach and Stokes worth 76 – of which Leach made a single run. Australia burned glorious chances to retain the Ashes in the final moments of incredible drama at Headingley before Stokes and his unlikely partner saw the hosts home. “England were finished, and the Ashes gone,” writes Andy Bull. “They had reached the very bottom of the pit. Down there in the black, where people lose their careers, Stokes looked around and found, deep within himself, the resolve to lead his team right back up and out again.”

Donald Trump has clashed with his fellow G7 leaders at the Biarritz summit over his demand that Russia be readmitted to the group, rejecting arguments that it should remain an association of liberal democracies. The disagreement led to heated exchanges at a dinner on Saturday night inside the seaside resort’s 19th-century lighthouse. According to diplomatic sources, Trump argued strenuously that Vladimir Putin should be invited back, five years after Russia was ejected from the then G8 for its annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile Iran’s foreign minister made a surprise appearance at the summit, where western policy towards Iran has been one of the most contentious issues.

Centrelink wrongly judged a severely ill woman in her 60s as fit for work, denying her the disability support pension. Trish Geidel, of Adelaide, lives with osteoarthritis in her back and knees, and struggles to physically exert herself due to a heart condition and the loss of one of her lungs about 20 years ago. She cannot leave the house without a mobility scooter, but Centrelink rejected her claim for the disability support pension, saying she was fit to work for 15 hours a week. She was instead placed on the lower jobseeker’s payment, Newstart, after the death of her husband in 2017.

World

Riot policemen confront demonstrators in Hong Kong. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Hong Kong police have for the first time used a water cannon to disperse protesters, and fired teargas in a weekend of violent clashes. Hong Kong’s political unrest has led to a surge in applications from residents seeking to emigrate, including to Australia.

Boris Johnson has said Britain can “easily cope” with a no-deal Brexit, and that the £39bn (A$71bn) Brexit divorce bill would not “strictly speaking” be owed to Brussels in full in the event of no deal, insisting: “It’s not a threat. It’s a reality.”

Former congressman and talk radio host Joe Walsh says he will challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination. “We have someone in the White House who we all know is unfit,” Walsh said.

Prince Andrew took a previously undisclosed flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with a group that included a Russian model. The discovery of the flight has added to pressure on Andrew over his friendship with Epstein.

Police in Barcelona have handed out more than 100 emergency clothing kits, assembled for bathers who return from a swim to find belongings left on the beach have been stolen by the thieves.

Opinion and analysis

‘Pushing down the big button on top is more satisfying than any of the times I have tweeted, emailed or Googled.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

“I slapped in the AAA battery, set the time and wound the alarm hand round to 6am,” writes Jack Sommers of his decision to swap his phone for an old-fashioned alarm clock as a night-time companion, a decision he says made his life immeasurably better. “My iPhone is more powerful than Apollo 11 and made things worse: how was this going to help? But the difference was immediate. That night I left the phone on my living room sofa, wondering whether I would last the night without coming to get it. I went to bed. I remember nothing of what happened next. I must have fallen asleep too quickly.”

The Great Australian Bight oil industry would need decades of subsidies if the South Australian government wants to develop an offshore oil and gas industry, analysis by the Australia Institute has found. The report draws on industry modelling to argue South Australia is unlikely to receive any noticeable benefit from tax payments as a result of oil and gas production in the Bight, with the benefits mostly flowing to the commonwealth.

Sport

With Hawthorn in a new phase, Richmond sense a chance to create an AFL era of their own, writes Craig Little. “After a once-in-a-generation fairytale flag, Richmond supporters are hungry for another. As Amy Hempel wrote in Memoir: ‘Just once in my life – oh when have I wanted anything just once in my life?’”

Newcastle sprang a surprise in the Premier League overnight, winning 1-0 at Tottenham to secure their first points of the season, while champions Manchester City were relatively untroubled in a 3-1 victory at Bournemouth.

Thinking time: overtourism and the pub crawls blighting Prague

Tourists pose for a photo in front of graffiti of the Czech Republic’s late president Václav Havel. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP

Eugen Kukla could not have made his feelings clearer as 120 drunken tourists thronged noisily past his home around midnight, rudely breaking the silence of a normally sedate city-centre residential street. “Fuck pub crawls, fuck pub crawls,” he repeated over and over again, while filming the scene on his smart phone. Some of the crowd reacted in amusement, smiling and waving into the camera. But Kukla, 55, a photojournalist, did not see the joke. “It’s an expression of my personal feelings, a buildup of frustration over a long period of time, years and years and years,” he said.

Kukla says his family’s lives have been made a misery by the snowballing trade in pub crawls through the centre of Prague and past their fourth-storey flat. “It’s been going on for 10 or 15 years – but it’s got worse.” On a night when thousands of Czechs marched through the city marking the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion on 21 August 1968 that crushed the liberal Prague Spring in communist Czechoslovakia, tourists from locations as varied as Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Brazil, Belgium and Armenia roamed the streets on a different mission – to have fun and get drunk. The spectacle is graphic evidence that “overtourism”, a phenomenon more commonly associated with destinations such as Barcelona, Amsterdam, Venice and Edinburgh, has arrived in Prague – a city that was all but sealed off to western visitors until 1989 when the velvet revolution swept the former communist regime from power.

Media roundup

Intelligence agencies have warned that foreign espionage is taking place in Australia at a greater rate than any other time in history, the ABC reports. The Sydney Morning Herald reveals that New South Wales water minister Melinda Pavey has written to the natural resources commissioner John Keniry accusing the commission of having a potential conflict of interest. The Australian reports that the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, “will issue a rallying call to company bosses to ­invest more in new technologies” in an address at the Business Council of Australia today.

Coming up

An inquest begins today into Koori woman Tanya Day’s death in police custody after she was arrested for public drunkenness.

Graham “Polly” Farmer, Australian rules football’s greatest-ever ruckman and the first Indigenous coach in VFL/AFL history, will be farewelled at a state funeral at Perth’s Optus Stadium.

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