Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

England's dry weather has revealed the remains of a former village, flooded in the 1970s to create a reservoir. It is located within the East Midlands, one of the many regions under drought after England and Wales experienced their driest July on record.

In an effort to tackle severe droughts that plague the country, Kazakhstan has turned to cloud seeding, using special aircraft to disperse a substance that sticks to cloud droplets, making them heavy enough to fall as rain. Kazakh authorities are betting on the technique to reduce the impact of drought and water shortages in its southern Turkestan region, the country's leading cotton-growing region. "We are not creating the cloud," explains Adnan Yarmohammed, an Emirati official involved in the initiative, adding, "We are just enhancing the cloud that's already available."

A leading UK conservation charity is crowdfunding £30 million to buy a swathe of rolling moorlands and woodlands, in the largest land sale in England for three decades. The estate hosts thousands of hectares of "rare beauty" owned by an English lord and could become one of the UK's biggest sanctuaries for biodiversity. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we can't let this go," says Peter Batchelor, the project's managing director at The Wildlife Trusts.

British astrophysicist Graham Jones and his team have travelled to northern Spain, where the eclipse will be visible in its entirety, a phenomenon that "hasn't come to mainland Europe since August 1999," he says. Across Europe, people have been scrambling to buy special eclipse glasses to safely observe the sun, with many retailers selling out.

Thousands of motorsport fans and vintage car enthusiasts flock to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, southwest of London, for an event marking almost exactly 100 years since the first British Grand Prix took place on 7th August 1926. "The car is alive, it's fantastic to drive, it's light, nimble, plenty of power, and sounds glorious. It's the closest thing I've got to being a genuine work of art in metal," says Julian Eckersley, owner of a vintage Bugatti car.