TravelSmart is going Down Under this week, exploring Queensland, Australiaas Sunshine State.

Life isnat all diamonds and rosA(c) a but in the dazzling microcosm of Beverly Hills it sure comes close, finds Nicole Trilivas

Passengers decry ainhumanea and aawfula situation at remote military airport

aEmily in Parisa star and the aBig Little Liesa actor are rumored to be dating after they were spotted holding hands last month

The recalled chips were sold at retailers in 13 states

Shoppers ave been expressing concern after itemas lengthy absence

As one property company announces that they are offering wellbeing perks for tenants, Katie Rosseinsky explores the complex relationship between renting and mental health in the UK

Men are the worse culprits when it comes to curtain twitching over a dispute

aI canat just go out on a week night to a pub to meet someone,a presenter said

Spring cleaning can be fun until it comes to the chaos of the kitchen

The event is part of the coupleas four-day state visit to the country

Obama opened up about recent struggle in surprise admission

Researchers have known for years that this friendly bacteria is associated with good health

Hanks was married to Susan Dillingham from 1978 to 1987

Actor was told that his recurring symptoms were the result of a childhood accident

Hailie revealed she gave birth to her son on March 14

Actoras alleged behavior brought the 2022 production of Aziz Ansarias directorial debut aBeing Mortala to an indefinite pause

Culkin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Jesse Eisenbergas aA Real Paina

Olsen has starred as Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlett Witch in numerous MCU titles

aYaall need to get out now,a singeras teenager told her

Engrossing show gets increasingly better with every new episode

Wyle recalled growing up good friends with Winkleras stepson and watching aHappy Daysa at their house

British actor said he found the interaction ainsultinga

Itas one of the most talked about British shows of the last 20 years

Now living a low-key life in Minneapolis, singer-songwriter Samia wants people to know the real her. Making herself the ideal unknowable woman for men to project onto is the subject of her third album, aBloodlessa, she tells Hannah Ewens

Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didnat get the attention they deserved

The actor was at the theater for a Q&A session for his new movie, aThe Frienda

aMines much better,a former Top Gear presenter claimed

The four-time 007 actor added that there are agreat things you can do with AIa

Executive producer David Bernad said this season had three key secrets during filming

Michael Joseph Branham has a realistic heart tattooed on his chest along with the word aScarletta

Is Gaitok about to go postal? Is Tim finally going to live out his murder-suicide fantasies? And what the hell is going on with Rick? Weave been speculating about what might play out in the season three finale

Singer made a foray into acting with numerous roles in West End plays and TV dramas

It was considered one of the biggest upsets in awards history

aI rung my agent and went aYouave got to get me out of herea,a ex-contestant said

aIave admired her work for years,a Thor actor said

Star will be off screens for a afew weeksa to pursue new opportunity

aIt forced me to make an extremely hard decision,a actor revealed

Sheeran treated commuters to an impromptu performance in Kingas Cross

aYou donat need a visa to perform here,a a ticket holder in Mexico pointed out

aThat was rough to watch,a one viewer complained

Cruise was appearing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to promote aMission: Impossible a The Final Reckoninga

Actor is getting candid over Morpheusas absence in aMatrix Resurrectionsa

PM ready to ditch aold assumptionsa and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth

Keir Starmer is preparing to rethink key elements of the governmentas economic policy in an emergency response to Donald Trumpas tariff blitz, amid growing concern in Downing Street that the US presidentas trade war could do lasting damage to the UK.

The prime minister believes, say allies, that aold assumptions should be discardeda in the UKas response, suggesting he and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may be preparing to raise taxes again a despite having promised not to do so a or even possibly change their airon clada fiscal rules to allow more borrowing and fire up economic growth at home in the event of recession.

David Lammy says it is aunacceptablea that the parliamentary delegation had been detained and deported

The UKas foreign secretary has criticised Israeli authorities for denying two Labour MPs entry into the country and deporting them.

Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were rejected because they were suspected of plans to adocument the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatreda, according to a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry cited by Sky News and Politics UK.

Yang, who represents Earley and Woodley in Berkshire, and Mohamed, the MP for Sheffield Central, both flew into Ben Gurion airport from Luton with their aides, according to reports.

The foreign secretary, David Lammy, said in a statement on Saturday: aIt is unacceptable, counterproductive, and deeply concerning that two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation to Israel have been detained and refused entry by the Israeli authorities.

aI have made clear to my counterparts in the Israeli government that this is no way to treat British parliamentarians, and we have been in contact with both MPs tonight to offer our support.

aThe UK governmentas focus remains securing a return to the ceasefire and negotiations to stop the bloodshed, free the hostages and end the conflict in Gaza.a

Since renewed military operations last month ended a short-lived truce in its war with Hamas, Israel has pushed to seize territory in the Gaza Strip in what it said was a strategy to force militants to free hostages still in captivity.

Congress members Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar among speakers as demonstrators denounce afascisma

Demonstrators estimated to be in the tens of thousands gathered in Washington on Saturday in a display of mass dissent against Donald Trumpas policies that organizers hoped would snowball into a rolling cycle of protests that could eventually stymie the US president in next yearas congressional elections.

Anger with Trump and his billionaire lieutenant, the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk, was expressed in a sea of placards and banners on the Washington mall, in the shadow of the Washington monument. Multiple messages denounced the two men for shuttering government agencies, cutting jobs and services and a in often graphic terms a for threatening the survival of US democracy.

Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency home

Labour have suspended Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, after he was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences.

Norris, a former Labour minister who defeated Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP at last yearas general election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday.

Exclusive: young volunteers also allege spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour at bases of Youth With a Mission

• aIt felt like a demon was inside mea: young Christian missionaries allege spiritual abuse

The worldas biggest youth Christian missionary organisation is facing allegations of spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour from young people who say they were left atraumatiseda.

An Observer investigation has revealed evidence of safeguarding failings within Youth With a Mission (YWAM), a global movement that trains young Christians to spread the gospel. A spokesperson for YWAM said the organisation was aheartbrokena by the claims and was adeeply committed to the safety and wellbeinga of everyone in its care.

Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025as aOscars of sciencea, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and askinny jabsa

For the past five years, David Liu a a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts a has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.

It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldnat unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. aEveryone thought they were being scammed,a he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques.

Police urge people to stay away, as helicopters try to extinguish flames in Galloway and surrounding region

Firefighters are dealing with a wild blaze that has spread over a large area of forest in Scotland with police urging people to stay away from the area.

Emergency services were called to Glentrool in Galloway, southern Scotland, at about 11.50pm on Friday with fire crews still on the scene on Saturday afternoon.

Police Scotland said the wildfire was expected to reach the Loch Doon area of East Ayrshire at about midnight

Helicopters are being used in efforts to extinguish the flames which have also affected Merrick Hill, Ben Yellary and Loch Dee, police said. One appliance from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is at the scene.

Another wildfire had been reported in around the same area on Thursday and covered about 1.5 miles (2.4km).

On Wednesday, crews in Scotland tackled a large grass fire at Gartur Moss in Port of Menteith, Stirling.

The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has warned it needs along-term and sustained investmenta to cope with the climate crisis and aincreased demanda on its services, after firefighters battled wildfires across the UK this week.

This year has seen 286 wildfires hit the UK, according to the NFCC, more than 100 above the number recorded in the same period in 2022, a year that had record-breaking temperatures and unprecedented wildfire activity.

The NFCC warned the government that it could not continue to cope with asignificant increases in wildfiresa with current budgets aalready under straina.

Phil Garrigan, chairman of the NFCC, said: aThere is no getting away from the fact that climate change is driving increases in extreme weather events, such as wildfires.

aResponding to wildfires requires a lot of resource, and often over long periods of time, which puts pressure on other fire and rescue service activities.

aRising resilience threats mean there is an increased demand on fire and rescue services and that has to be met with long-term and sustained investment. This is really crucial to ensuring we can continue to keep our communities safe.a

Fire services in Scotland, Wales and England have all warned against barbecues and campfires in open spaces this weekend, as well as urging people to dispose of cigarettes properly.

Writer and director behind Taxi Driver and American Gigolo accused by former employee in lawsuit

Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her when she wouldnat acquiesce to advances and reneging on a settlement that was meant to keep the allegations confidential.

The former assistant, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, sued the filmmaker and his production company on Thursday. She is seeking a judgeas order to enforce the agreement after Schrader said he couldnat go through with it. The terms, including a monetary payment, were not disclosed.

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trumpas America: donat do it

Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. aOne part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,a read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom.

Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where�American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days a even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US.

With the cityas refuse collectors still on the picket line after four weeks, residents are pointing the finger of blame at the council

Suhail Sadiqas car repair business is thriving and heas furious about it.

The rats are responsible. aThe amount of cars weave got coming in now with wiring chewed up by rats is unbelievable,a he says. Staff at Heartlands Auto Centre in Birmingham have repaired about 15 cars with chewed battery cables in the past week. The rats are drawn to the warmer cars at night, he says a rats gnaw to keep their teeth a manageable length.

The juntaas poor emergency response leaves people fearing prolonged chaos, despite the relentless propaganda

For seven painful days, Hnin has waited for news. Her two daughters, two and seven years old, her husband and their domestic worker, were all inside a six-storey hotel in Mandalay, central Myanmar, when it collapsed.

Delays to search operations have added to her agony. Hnin rushed around the devastated city, where communication lines were barely functioning, to buy head-torches and fuel for poorly equipped teams. A hotel manager refused to allow the use of a digger, fearing the building would collapse. Days passed before Chinese and Russian rescue teams arrived.

The radio DJ talks about missing grungy old music festivals, doing all the cleaning at home, and being brought up without ambition by his dad, John Peel

Music was playing before I was even born. I was born into the sound. My dad [radio presenter John Peel] used to make these mixtapes. We had three TDK 90s and we would drive around France in our battered, crappy Peugeot 505 estate, travelling the world musically through these cassettes.

As teenagers we used to get called crusties a we had long hair. It was that grunge era, early 90s. And then rave culture started and me and my friends got really into hardcore and jungle, and we got called ravers, but as an insult. I look back at that with great pride.

An interior decorator and furniture designer uses colour and fleamarket finds to create an inviting sanctuary

Nestled in a classic Haussmannian building in Parisas 17th Arrondissement, Tiphaine Verdieras apartment is a feast for the senses. This large duplex, perched on the top two floors, is not just a home but a canvas where colour and creativity collide. With a fearless approach to bold hues, Tiphaine has transformed what was once a blank slate of plain white walls into a theatrical and inviting sanctuary.

When Tiphaine first stepped into the apartment, it was a minimalistas dream a or, as she might put it, a colour enthusiastas nightmare. aAll the walls were just plain white,a she recalls. But Tiphaine, an interior decorator and furniture designer, saw the potential in the apartmentas unique layout. aI was drawn to the fact that it felt like a house in the sky, with a clear separation between the day and night spaces.a

Fuelled by social media, a global boom is outstripping production of the powdered green tea

The appearance of the vivid-green powder elicits smiles and appreciative sounds, and anticipation among dozens of tea lovers. Their hand-milled batches now ready for whisking with hot water, they will soon be rewarded for their patience.

The foreign tourists attending a matcha-making experience in Uji, near Kyoto in western Japan, are united in their love of the powdered, bitter form of green tea the Japanese have been drinking for centuries, and which is now at the centre of a global boom.

The casting of new Fab Four movies and Wuthering Heights has been slammed before filming even finishes. Canat we just wait and see?

In I am The Walrus, John Lennon told us: aMan, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poea. Lennonas song, from the EP Magical Mystery Tour, is a two-fingered salute to academic efforts to impose an interpretative framework on the Beatlesa creativity.

He wrote it after learning from a pupil at his Aformer school that the English teacher was tasking boys with Aformal Aliterary analysis of Beatles Alyrics. Hence the reference to Poe, which follows hard on the Aincongruous image of a asemolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Towera. aLet the fuckers work that one out, Pete!a, Lennon told former Abandmate Pete Shotton.

Digital technology reveals aincredibly moderna royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of Troy

She lived around 3,500 years ago a but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.

The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homeras King Agamemnon.

Artist says severe eye infection last year has left him unable to read, see TV or watch his sons playing sports

Elton John has spoken of his distress at losing his eyesight and how he can no longer watch his young sons playing.

John revealed in a social media post last year that a asevere eye infectiona had left him awith only limited vision in one eyea.

Willie Mullins rarely shows much emotion but the dam cracked after his son Patrick steered little Nick Rockett to Aintree glory

Willie Mullins has long been a walking embodiment of Rudyard�Kiplingas If: someone with the preternatural ability to treat whatever the twin impostors of triumph and disaster lob at�him�with a shrug, a smile and an impeccably judged word.

But everyone has a breaking point. For the legendary Irish trainer it came when little Nick Rockett, an unfancied 33-1 shot, emerged from the pack�to take a 177th Grand National here that fizzed with drama and extraordinary�storylines.

Against a backdrop of internal strife, facing their sky blue rivals provides a struggling team with chance to rebuild the brand

This brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, this collection of generic spires with a massive plastic handkerchief chucked over the top. Three weeks on from first sight of the conceptual drawings for Sir Jim Ratcliffeas stately pleasure dome, also known as the proposed Manchester United Stadium Soccer Product Hub, there is still a sense of double-take about the whole thing.

Early impressions of the new ground ranged from a defunct Venusian mercury mine, to Dubai Butlinas, to a pointed corporate monument to our divided world. Welcome to the Staff Lunch Arena, embodiment of the 21st-century conviction that if you just stopped buying so many sandwiches and also fired the tea lady you could probably afford a vast and unattainable house.

How Aston Villa were made to sweat for a seventh successive victory. At least the manner in which Nottingham Forest swarmed their goal as they pushed for a second-half equaliser may prove a decent dress rehearsal for Wednesdayas Champions League quarter-final first leg at Paris Saint-Germain.

Forest pulled a goal back through the half-time substitute Jota Silva and then dialled up the pressure but the visitors, determined to emulate Villa by gatecrashing Europeas elite, were beaten by early goals from Morgan Rogers and Donyell Malen. For Villa, who cut the gap to third-placed Forest to six points, attention will quickly turn to analysing the Ligue 1 champions.

• Last 16: Toulon 72-42 Saracens
• Isa and Jaminet score hat-tricks for French side

It is not often a team can ship 10 tries, concede more than 70 points and strike a defiant tone in the aftermath, but this was no ordinary contest. Saracensa director of rugby, Mark McCall, was evidently irked by the criticism he received for resting five England players, the suggestion being that he had disrespected the competition. Though there was an inevitability to Toulon cantering to victory once they had gathered themselves, an understrength Saracens side gave their hosts a sizeable scare.

It is impossible to tell if Maro Itoje, Jamie George, Ben Earl, Tom Willis and Elliot Daly would have made enough of a difference, but the suspicion is a not least because Saracens are not the first English club to be on the wrong side of a hiding against French opposition this season a they would still be bowing out in the last 16. Maybe the final margin would not have been 30 points, but when French sides get on a roll the evidence shows us that English teams find them nigh-on impossible to stop.

Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Liverpool with verve and energy, are the upstart newcomers among big-name quarter-finalists

Narratives are never as straightforward as they may appear. One era does not yield easily to another. What constitutes an era changes over time. While history is happening itas often hard to make sense of it; patterns seem to emerge that, from the perspective of 20 years later are meaningless, or culs-de-sac. That seems particularly true this season. As the Champions League reaches its quarter-final stage this coming week, it feels that one age has ended and another has yet to materialise.

The past was a simpler place. First there was the age of dominance by Real Madrid and Benfica, teams from the capitals of Iberian nations under right-wing dictatorships, packed with great individuals. Then came systematisation, catenaccio and the Italian ascendancy, followed, with a brief period of crossover, by the era of domination by the northern European industrial powers, skipping swiftly over Celtic and Manchester United to the Dutch and Total Football and then Bayern Munich. Then came the long period of English superiority before the Heysel ban, after which everything gets more complicated.

Somerset amassed 637-6 against Worcestershire with Tom Banton hitting 344 not out at the County Ground

Lancashireas opening pair are holding their own in the opening half hour at Lordas a 83-0. Jennings slipping straight back into the groove a he was saying pre-season that realistically he thinks the England ship has sailed, but heas ok with that. Their Roses rivals have nipped out another Hampshire batter, Albert, Hants 176-6.

More sprinkler issues at Trent Bridge, as one is dammed, another springs into life. The crowd wait (im)patiently.

There is already arguably too little flexibility in the chancelloras budget plan. Trumpas tariffs chaos makes a rethink inevitable

Critics of Rachel Reeves are enjoying another atold you soa moment. It was never realistic, they say, to formulate a budget plan with virtually no leeway to accommodate for unforeseen events.

Less than APS10bn of headroom on a budget of APS1.2tn was asking for trouble. It is clear there are just too many events that could be put on a list of aknown unknownsa for a UK chancellor to almost wilfully wish away their potential impact on the economy and the public finances.

The viral response to US influencer Ashton Hallas morning routine shows that the manosphere is now mainstream

How does the perfect morning begin? With gentle stretching, a coffee in bed? It could be a walk in the sun, a hot breakfast or simply managing to spend the first 20 minutes off your phone before spending the next 20 on Instagram. Lately, it may feel like the answer is being more productive.

The optimised morning routine has become a near-mythical ideal for young people, sold by fitness influencers posting obsessively about their 5.30am starts, claiming to finish their weight training, macronutrient-rich meals and emails before our first alarm a promising that everything in your life would be better if you, too, had the discipline to just get up early.

The first lady spoke about (wait for it) diversity as she presented awards to courageous women from around the world

Letas take a quick break from the increasingly dreadful news for a little check-in, shall we? So a| how are you holding up right now? How are those stress levels?

They cannot be sold, made into a tasty dish or set to work. So what qualifies as a marvel? And why do we respond to them with such deep pleasure?

Last Sunday, while I was walking along a coastal path in Sydney, I was stopped in my tracks by a marvel. It was first noticed, as these things often are, by a small boy who was walking with me. Look at that! We both stopped and gazed at the marvel.

It sat on a low sandstone rock near the edge of the sea. We squatted down to examine it more closely. It was only a walking boot, but it was laced delicately all over the back and sides and tongue, and even the rim of the sole, with small white conical seashells, as if someone had stitched the shells into the fabric. The shellsa bright whiteness was tinged with a faint pink and there was a dark narrow opening where, with careful observation, we could see in each shell a soft living creature.

Full fathom five thy father lies/ Of his bones are coral made/ Those are pearls that were his eyes/ Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a sea change/ Into something rich and strange.

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In the latest case of its type, the Met police failed a woman targeted by a predatory officer

A shocking story about the Metropolitan police last week: a woman who was groomed by a predatory officer has at last received�an apology after the force spread false information about her mental health rather than investigate him.

Lorraine a not her real name a had first complained about PC Phil Hunter after he made a welfare visit to her home. Over a period of two years, he sent her inappropriate messages and tried to isolate her from friends and family as part of a apredatorya plan to have a sexual relationship with her.

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Will the lure of a state visit help keep Britainas burden lower?

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Why is everything computerised, automated or impossible to turn off these days?

I believe, deep in my soul, that car companiesa number one goal in life is to ruin the experience of driving. I donat have any direct evidence of this conspiracy to rob us of the pleasure of the open road, other than the cacophony of beeps, blips, bloops and blops that greet us in the latest models. Oh, and the screens. Every year, they try to find a new place to glue a touchscreen in a car, like Pizza Hut hunting for more orifices to stuff cheese into one of their pies.

Everything is computerized, automated or impossible to turn off. According to surveys of new-car buyers by the market research firm Strategic Vision, satisfaction with car controls plummeted by 23 percentage points in the last nine years. The whiz-bang gizmos foisted on the North American car buyer have devolved from the glorious, life-saving back-up camera to gesture controls that allow you to turn an invisible knob to crank up the volume on Espresso without touching a single thing in your vehicle.

Turn the volume up: circle your finger in a clockwise direction.

Turn the volume down: circle your finger in a counter-clockwise direction.

Accept a call: point to the BMW iDrive touchscreen.

Select navigation/custom setting: use two fingers to point to the touchscreen.

Change rearview camera angle: draw a circle using your forefinger and thumb.

Regret your life choices: look in the mirror for 10 seconds.

The bankruptcy of genealogy company 23andMe has resulted in a fire sale of millions of peopleas genetic information a and thereas no shortage of eager buyers with questionable motives

Ever thought of having your genome sequenced? Me neither. But it seems that at least 15 million souls have gone in for it and are delighted to know that they have Viking ancestry, or discombobulated to find that they have siblings of whom they were hitherto unaware. The corporate vehicle that enabled these revelations is called 23andMe, which describes itself as a agenetics-led consumer healthcare and biotechnology company empowering a healthier futurea.

Back in the day, 23andMe was one of those vaunted aunicornsa (privately held startups valued at more than $1bn), but is now facing harder times. Its share price had fallen precipitately following a data breach in October 2023 that harvested the profile and ethnicity data of 6.9 million users a including name, profile photo, birth year, location, family surnames, grandparentsa birthplaces, ethnicity estimates and mitochondrial DNA a and there have been internal disagreements between its board and the CEO and co-founder, Anne Wojcicki. So on 24 March it filed for so-called Chapter 11 proceedings in a US bankruptcy court in Missouri.

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Labour faces tough choices on its economic strategy. It must be guided more by its progressive values rather than political expediency

The market reaction to Donald Trumpas announcement last Wednesday that he would be levying punitive tariffs on imports from the rest of the world was immediate: US stock markets experienced their worst single-day decline since Covid. The long-term implications will depend on how permanent Trumpas reshaping of the global economic order turns out to be. At the moment, his administration is sending contradictory signals as to whether these tariffs are here to stay, or whether they are intended to be used to in effect blackmail other countries into doing the bidding of the US. But the global recession they could trigger raises huge strategic headaches for a British government already struggling to square the fiscal circle and deliver its pledge to boost�growth.

There is no logic to Trumpas trade populism: contrary to his claims, the US has done immensely well out of being the dominant economy in the global free trade system of recent decades. If Trump doesnat change course quickly, his act of economic self-sabotage will reverberate around the world, harming not just Americans, but triggering increasing poverty in Americaas poorer trading partners, generating even more of the global instability that has become synonymous with Trumpas presidency.

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation

Scientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the worldas remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests a from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earthas orbit later this month.

For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spacecraft will sweep over the tropical rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America and peer through their dense 40m-high Acanopies to study the vegetation that lies beneath. The data collected by Biomass will then be used to create unique 3D maps of forests normally hidden from human sight.

Many of the suburbs and cities hit hardest in recent years were caught off-guard, and key stakeholders are racing to understand the dynamics that drive these fires

Communities across the US that were once considered beyond the reach of wildfires are now vulnerable to disaster. As fires increasingly spread deep into neighborhoods, researchers estimate roughly 115 million people a more than a third of the US population a live in areas that could host the next fire catastrophe.

The understanding that many more Americans are at risk of losing their homes to wildfires comes as the climate crisis turns up the dial on extreme weather, drought and heat. But itas also the result of new research that has exposed deep and dangerous gaps in our understanding of the threat.

EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants

The Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan that aims to kill hundreds of bans on highly toxic PFAS aforever chemicalsa and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods.

The bans, largely at the state level, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in childrenas products to mercury in personal care products to PFAS in food packaging and clothing.

Edinburgh University report authors say dietary changes could benefit women living with the disease

Dietary changes could reduce the pain of endometriosis for half of those living with the disease, a new study suggests. The largest international survey ever conducted on diet and endometriosis, involving 2,599 people, found 45% of those who stopped eating gluten and 45% of those who cut out dairy reported experiencing an improvement in their pain.

When women cut down on coffee or other caffeine in their diet, 43% said their pain was reduced, while 53% of women who cut back on alcohol reported the same.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs to be lost as Labour abolishes NHS England and oversees cuts at care boards and trusts

The bill for NHS redundancy payouts could reach APS1bn in the serviceas most radical shake-up in a decade.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs are expected to be lost following the announcement last month that NHS England will be abolished.

Mental ill health has been cited as a factor in the welfare overhaul, and experts agree it has worsened since the pandemic

When the health secretary, Wes Streeting, suggested the aoverdiagnosisa of some mental health conditions was a factor in the governmentas welfare changes, many saw the comments as playing into an unhelpful culture-war stereotype of coddled millennials a and as echoing Rishi Sunakas claim, a year ago, that there was a asicknote culturea plaguing Britainas economy.

But media coverage of Dr Suzanne OaSullivanas recent book, The Age of Diagnosis, has amplified and lent credibility to the idea that a diagnosis, in itself, can risk limiting an individualas life prospects.

Livia Tossici-Bolt says she was adisappointeda to be convicted of breaching Bournemouth clinic buffer zone

A woman who was given a conditional discharge after being convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth has claimed she was anot there to express my viewsa.

Livia Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner whose case has been cited by the US state department over afreedom of expressiona concerns in the UK, told the BBCas Today programme she was areally disappointeda with the conviction abecause itas nothing to do with protestinga and said she would acontinue my fight for freedom of speecha.

Group plans to hold demonstrations in London against UK arms sales to Israel every Tuesday and Saturday in April

About 40 Youth Demand protesters were told to move on by the police during a pro-Palestinian rally in central London on Saturday.

The campaigners began gathering at Lincolnas Inn Fields on Saturday morning and made their way to Kingas Cross station.

Young people whose debts outweigh their assets are at risk of experiencing blighted earnings, and even poorer health

Gen Z and young millennials are battling a anegative wealtha problem due to growing debt burdens that limit their life chances, according to a new analysis from the Fairness Foundation.

The thinktank says negative wealth, where debts outweigh assets, is linked to lower wages and worse health in later life, and that ministers should reintroduce the Child Trust Fund to give young people a greater stake in society.

Anonymous donations made to Molly Rose Foundation, set up after UK teenager took her own life after viewing harmful material on social media

Meta and Pinterest have reportedly made significant donations to the Molly Rose Foundation, a charity set up to campaign for internet safety.

The foundation was set up in the name of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017 after viewing harmful material linked to suicide and self-harm on social media platforms.

Teenager was recovered from lake in Beckenham Place Park and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead

A 15-year-old boy has died after he agot into difficultya in a lake in south-east London.

Metropolitan police, the fire service and paramedics were called to Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham, shortly after 3pm on Friday 4 April after reports of a boy going missing.

Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

An Afghan woman who risked her life to defend human rights in her home country before fleeing to the UK has been told by the Home Office it is safe for her to return after officials rejected her asylum claim.

Mina (not her real name) worked for western government-backed projects and was involved in training and mentoring women across Afghanistan, which left her in grave danger even before the Taliban took over in 2021.

French prime minister calls for rival gatherings to be held in a spirit of acalm, mutual respect and responsibilitya

Franceas far right is hoping for a massive public show of support tomorrow in a apeopleas protesta against Marine Le Pen being barred from standing for president in 2027.

The Rassemblement National (National Rally a RN) party called for a nationwide demonstration under the banner aSave Democracya after Le Pen was found guilty in a a!4m (APS3.4m) embezzlement trial.

Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to aend the housing racketa and to demand access to affordable housing

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation and to demand access to affordable homes.

Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from MA!laga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted aend the housing racketa and alandlords are guilty, the government is responsiblea.

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for aneglecta of people living asubhumana existence

World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were ahanging by a threada at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said.

In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the anationalistic windsa blowing across Europe and the US, the Norwegian Refugee Councilas head told the Guardian how people were living out in the open, in overcrowded, unsanitary displacement encampments around the city of Goma, where 1.2 million people have had to flee from their homes as the M23 rebels advanced through the DRCas North and South Kivu provinces.

Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport him

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the Trump administrationas deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying athe groundwork for my abductiona and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.

Khalil, a green-card holder who is in custody in Louisiana as his case moves through the courts, was detained on 8 March. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him under a provision in federal immigration law that permits the state department to deport non-citizens considered to be a threat to US foreign policy.

Beijing has launched a charm offensive with other countries as US tariffs tighten. If they canat be won over, it may have no choice but to stimulate its vast domestic market

Chinaas leader, Xi Jinping, says he is prepared to dance if it means sidestepping some of the worst of Donald Trumpas trade tariffs. Last week he sent a letter to Indiaas president, Droupadi Murmu, urging her to join him in a tango to celebrate 75 years of Abilateral trade.

Xi said it was athe right choicea for the two countries to be apartners of mutual achievement and realise the aDragon-Elephant Tangoaa, which, he added, afully serves the fundamental interests of both countries and their�peoples.a

The 83-year-old played his first date of an intimate 20-city tour after quitting live performances back in 2018

Paul Simon largely avoided mention of the health problems that had kept him off the road for the previous seven years when the storied singer-songwriter kicked off his return a and evident farewell a tour in New Orleans on Friday.

Yet, having strummed and crooned his way through some of his catalogueas more discreet entries, and having reached a part where he treated the audience to a finishing salvo of three of his mega hits, Simon made apparent reference to those issues by letting some lyrics from The Boxer hang in the air.

When adoption laws changed in Australia, we discovered her name: Charmian Clift. I felt instant recognition. This explained everything

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When I was young, I had no idea that my mother was such an extraordinary woman. She was just my mother, swirling in and out of the house, singing to her jonquil bulbs, tripping over the animals I rescued, all while reading five books at once. If she was in the kitchen, my sisters and I hid downstairs as she clattered and crashed all the saucepans and swore like a sailor at the latest ruined batch of biscuits.

She wept at whatever devastation the nightly news delivered into the lounge room. She loved and was loved in return by my father, Douggie. She birthed four babes, grew the surviving three into formidable women and instilled in us a fierce belief that there was nothing we could not do.

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The laser-focused spoken-word performer returns to the musical stage with new tracks focusing on their identity a but wider concerns are never far away

aThis has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,a jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae Tempest as a keyboard player and a technician wrestle with malfunctioning equipment. Weare just two tracks in; Tempest assures us that if the electronics are not back up soon, theyall do the whole show a cappella.

They could, too. The teenage Tempest cut their teeth battle-rapping in south London, turning to slam poetry when more direct avenues into hip-hop refused to open easily to a young, blond slip of a thing. You suspect they have never wasted the opportunity when handed a mic. Given Tempestas extended output over more than a decade of albums, works of fiction, poems, plays and nonfiction, with prizes and accolades for many of them a you canat imagine them ever being at a loss for words either.

The Irish author on his new aviolent seafaring epica, his appetite for body horror and living his entire life book-first

OisAn Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meath and lives in Dublin. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize with his first novel, Nobber, about the Black Deathas arrival in the Irish village that gives the book its title. His other books include the 2016 story collection Hostages, described by the Spectator as aDayGlo-Breugelish nightmaresa; Ferdia Lennon calls him aone of the most strikingly original Irish writers working todaya. His new novel, Edenas Shore, is a violent seafaring epic centred on a Spanish colony in Latin America at the end of the 18th century.

How did this book begin for you?
Itas a confluence of things Iave been interested in all my life: Latin American literature, history, revolutionary politics, spirituality. Like Nobber, itas about a dying town with a proliferation of characters, which I like. Thatas not new a itas Balzac, itas Dickens a but for some reason weave distilled novels down to chamber pieces of six or seven characters; to me, thatas theatre, which I also love, but novels can proliferate horizontally in a way that other forms canat.

What draws you to set your novels in the past?
You can do things with language and form that might not be as accepted in contemporary work, but I donat see myself as a historical novelist. Literary fiction seems quite contemporary at the moment; historical fiction seems to be slipping into agenrea, like fantasy. In other parts of the world, itas just part of literary fiction. Weare living through a moment in Irish literature with a lot of very good Irish writers who are all very different and talented, but maybe theyare not experimenting in genre as much as they would do elsewhere in the world. Because I find myself an Irishman among these people, youare like, aOh, heas different.a In the 1960s in America, or Latin America in the 50s and 70s, youad be like, aOh, heas just one of the lads.a

There are some pretty grisly scenes here. What were they like to write?
The nuts and bolts of novel formation are difficult for me a setting up a scene, getting from one place to another a but give me someone picking bullets out of someoneas gut and I think: here we fucking go. Iam writing for these moments where the body becomes real. Like, the eyeball scene... you shouldave seen the 300 words that were deleted; youad have been seeing it for the rest of your life. I love my cousin to bits, but he had this fear of eyes as a child; mention the word aeyea and youad see him kind of flinch. I tapped into that.

The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden

Nell Zink was born in California in 1964 and grew up in rural Virginia. Before becoming a published novelist in her 50s, she worked a variety of odd jobs including bricklayer, technical writer and secretary, also running a postpunk zine. In 2014, with the help of Jonathan Franzen, she published her debut novel The Wallcreeper, followed closely by Mislaid, which was longlisted for a National Book Award. Her seventh novel, Sister Europe, out 24 April, charts the unravelling of a Berlin high-society party a Vogue called it aa worldly hangout novel of 21st-century mannersa. Zink, a committed birder, lives outside Berlin.

Which moisturiser is worth buying? Whatas the deal with retinol vs retinal? And do I need an eye cream? (Answer: no.) Our beauty columnist shares her secrets to glowy, firm skin

Anti-ageing a I know, I know. Itas a gross and futile term. I considered using another. Perhaps one of the more modern marketing slogans such as askin longevitya or apositive age managementa. But my commitment to honesty in beauty extends to not fooling myself or my reader: we all know what these terms mean, and I know which one consumers Google in their millions.

I turned 50 recently. I was and am delighted about it. To still be alive, healthy, loved and in love feels like a lottery win. Iave no desire to return to my 20s or 30s, when I cared more, knew less and had greater insecurities around my appearance than now. I donat believe many of us at any age wish to be mistaken for someone much younger. And yet we know that people of all ages would like to keep skin glowier, smoother, juicier, firmer and flexible for longer. Itas a fine thing to want, and I find any accusations that this signals shame and desperation around growing old to be hugely patronising and selective. If you donat care about skin ageing, great. Carry on. If you do, the products here will help in a realistic way.

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aEmily in Parisa star and the aBig Little Liesa actor are rumored to be dating after they were spotted holding hands last month

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As one property company announces that they are offering wellbeing perks for tenants, Katie Rosseinsky explores the complex relationship between renting and mental health in the UK

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Obama opened up about recent struggle in surprise admission

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