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Top story: ‘Brett was laughing,’ recalls second Kavanaugh accuser

Brett Kavanaugh’s supreme court confirmation battle got even more bruising on Sunday, as a second woman came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Deborah Ramirez, 53, told the New Yorker she believed the future judge had thrust his penis in her face during a drinking game when they were college freshmen. His other accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, will testify to Congress on Thursday. Kavanaugh denies both allegations.

– Tweet stormy. Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has waded into the controversy, tweeting unsubstantiated and lurid claims about Kavanaugh’s teenage behaviour.

– Look back in anger. The allegations remind women “there are men waiting to resurface from the depths of our memories”, writes Nesrine Malik – and some of them will resurface in the public eye.

Diplomats prepare for Trump at annual UN bunfight

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump at the UN general assembly last year. Photograph: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS

The international community is gathering in New York for the opening day of the UN general assembly, wary of what Donald Trump plans to bring to the party. The US president is slated to address the full assembly on Tuesday, as well as chairing sessions on drug trafficking and nuclear diplomacy. Trump’s approach to statecraft is not exactly in line with traditional UN sensibilities. At last year’s summit, he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea.

– Taming Trump. Other world leaders “have sort of figured out how to deal with” Trump since last year, former senior state department official Jon Alterman told the Guardian.

– ‘Huge loss of life’. Yemen faces the possibility of a devastating famine in the near future, the UN humanitarian affairs chief, Mark Lowcock, has warned ahead of the summit.

Tiger roars again: Woods wins first tournament in five years

Play Video 1:00 Tiger Woods holds back tears as he wins first tournament in five years – video

Tiger Woods, perhaps the greatest golfer of all time, has emerged from the professional, physical and personal wilderness to claim his first PGA Tour victory for 1,876 days, winning the Tour Championship in Atlanta by two shots. Last year saw a DUI arrest, a fourth back surgery and doubts as to whether Woods would ever compete seriously again. The weekend’s comeback performance gives him his 80th tour win.

– Wild card. Woods will play as a wildcard pick on the US team at this year’s Ryder Cup, which starts on Friday.

– Chart busting. Woods is now at number 13 in the world rankings; 10 months ago he was 1,193rd.

World youth poll finds optimism in unexpected places

Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our time is now’ Photograph: Irene Baqué/The Guardian

A survey of teenagers in 15 countries has found that young people in Kenya, Mexico, China, India and Nigeria are far more optimistic about the future than their peers in the developed world. The survey, conducted by Ipsos and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that young people everywhere appear to be more optimistic than adults, but that the least hopeful are in some of the wealthiest nations, France and Sweden.

– Crash victims. Teenagers in Europe are still feeling the after-effects of the financial crisis, which may account for their relative lack of optimism about the future.

– Youth-quake. Some 80% of Kenyans are under 35: “If young people want to mobilise, all the governments in east Africa could be toppled within a matter of days.”

Crib sheet

– Bill Cosby is due in court for a sentencing hearing after “America’s Dad” was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

– An Indonesian teenager survived at sea for 49 days, eating fish and drinking filtered seawater, after his floating fishing hut was set adrift by high winds.

– China has accused the US of “economic hegemony” after Trump’s new $200bn import tariffs took effect.

– Merriam-Webster has added 300 new words to the official Scrabble dictionary, including sriracha, emoji and facepalm.

Must-reads

Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s era of climate mass migration is here Illustration: R Fresson

Moving to higher ground: the age of the climate refugee

Rising seas could force 13 million Americans to flee the coasts before the century is out, and the migration has already begun. Oliver Milman meets the climate refugees, and explains why cities such as Cincinnati – far from the hurricanes of the east coast yet close to the Great Lakes – might be the most liveable in future.

Google at 20: How two obnoxious students changed the internet

In September 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved their fledgling web firm out of their Stanford dorm rooms into a nearby garage. As the company’s head of search says the next big tech advance will be in speech recognition, Samuel Gibbs and Alex Hern look back at 20 years of Googling.

Don Jr delivers sour grapes to ‘the sweetest place on Earth’

Donald Trump Jr has hit the midterms campaign trail in Hershey, Pennsylvania – home to the confectionery empire of the same name. Don Jr’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was on hand to see him sling mud at Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, but David Taylor spoke to several locals who remain unimpressed by his father’s presidency.

‘A hopeless place’: Inside the St Louis ‘workhouse’

Organisers of the #closetheworkhouse campaign hope to draw attention to the “hellish” conditions inside St Louis, Missouri’s so-called “workhouse” jail, where former inmates describe battling with rats, black mold and waste-choked toilets.

Opinion

Two respected literary magazines recently published essays from men exposed by the #MeToo movement. It has degraded the publications’ credibility, argues Moira Donegan:

The project that MeToo has advanced is a visionary assertion that injustices can be righted, that men and women can interact with more integrity and more compassion than we have so far.

Sport

Arsenal made it four wins in a row with a 2-0 win over Everton, but Aaron Ramsey still lacks confidence in front of goal. That’s one of 10 talking points from the weekend’s Premier League matches.

NFL can be both uplifting and unspeakably cruel in the span of a single game, as the fates of the two quarterbacks in the Kansas City Chiefs’ 38-27 win over the San Francisco 49ers demonstrated. Here’s your summary of last week’s action.

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