Ava thinks everyone should have their own towel, but Lynsey says that means extra laundry and is bad for the environment. You decide who should throw in the towel

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I have firm boundaries around personal hygiene – and bacteria thrive on wet towels

I always shared towels with my family growing up – older generations don’t worry about this stuff

The Guardian’s Sarah Lee visits SW19 to sample the visual delights of the All England Club championships. ‘In a world with so fewer anchors to civility and fair play,’ the photographer writes, ‘stepping inside the gates of the All England Club is a wonderful, albeit temporary, corrective’

Plan for Channel crossings marks forward step for the two leaders, though further UK funding remains a sticking point

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will announce a “one in, one out” migration deal on Thursday that will involve the UK accepting some cross-Channel asylum seekers but returning others to France.

The two leaders are expected to cap the French president’s three-day state visit to the UK with a press conference in London at which they will announce the new plan to tackle small boat crossings.

Deliveries will also alternate on weekdays as Ofcom says ruling reflects changing behaviour of users

Royal Mail has been given the green light to drop Saturday deliveries of second-class letters and provide services only on alternating weekdays from Monday to Friday under new rules announced by the regulator.

Ofcom said that reforms of the Universal Services Obligation reflected changing behaviour of postal users, with fewer letters being sent across the country. The regulator said it could end up saving the postal delivery service between £250m and £425m each year.

The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since visiting a general store in Western Australia’s wheatbelt region

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The search for German backpacker Carolina Wilga, who went missing in a remote part of Western Australia at the end of June, has broadened out across the country.

The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since she visited a general store in the small town of Beacon, in WA’s north-east wheatbelt region, on 29 June.

This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a Pulitzer

In 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US embassy party one evening and remarked: “The cleverest and most entertaining people at these things are always CIA. Makes it all the harder to understand why they get everything wrong.” An exaggeration, of course, but one with a degree of truth to it. Why has an organisation with huge amounts of money at its disposal, a record of recruiting the brightest and the best, and the widest of remits, failed to notch up a better record? It’s true that we may not know about many of the CIA’s successes. But we know about a lot of its failures, and some of them have marked US history ineradicably.

In The Mission, Tim Weiner, whose reporting on the CIA in the New York Times was always essential reading, and whose subsequent books on the US intelligence community have a place on the shelves of anyone interested in international affairs, provides a variety of answers to this essential question. As he showed nearly 20 years ago in Legacy of Ashes, his history of the CIA from its founding in 1947 to the end of the 20th century, the agency’s position by the end of the 90s was pretty desperate. It was starved of cash and bleeding talent. A high-flyer who had been station chief in Bucharest was revealed to be working for the Russians, handing them the names of large numbers of agents and employees. But the new US administration that came in at the start of 2001 wasn’t too worried. In March that year, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, told the joint chiefs of staff: “For the first time in decades, the country faces no strategic challenge.” Six months later came 9/11. The CIA had tried to convince the feckless George W Bush about the looming threat of Islamic ultra-fundamentalism, but no one in the administration listened. The agency was regarded as broken.