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A rescue funding plan drawn up in July but has fallen through ahead of the first APS500m payment
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Monarch is to give personal Easter message in wake of his and Princess of Walesas cancer diagnosis
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Snow settled in areas of Devon and Wales overnight
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Three men who flooded UK streets with millions of pounds worth of cocaine have been jailed.
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Marking one year since Wall Street Journal reporter was falsely detained, Justin Welby says: aJournalists around the world should be protected, free to hold people and power to account without fear of reprisala
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The Labour deputy leader has been under increased scrutinty recently over the 2015 sale of her council house in Stockport, Greater Manchester
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MPs criticised Gallowayas intervention as irresponsible, reckless and playing into the Kremlinas hands
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Exclusive: Princess of Walesas mother praised for playing vital role behind scenes
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Angela Rayner has insisted she is anot losing any sleepa after it was revealed police are reviewing claims she may have broken electoral law when she lived between two council houses in Stockport.
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Victim stabbed on train just after departing a station in Bromley, London, on Wednesday afternoon
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The new figures follow a period of no growth between July and September 2023, according to the ONS
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A burglar was caught out by his distinctive sideburns and has now been jailed for his crimes.
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Netflix drama The Crown is not to blame for the recent conspiracy theories surrounding the Princess of Wales, Sir Jonathan Pryce has said.
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Rishi Sunak has spoken of the challenges of being a good father to his two children, while balancing being prime minister.
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Thousands face Easter getaway misery as EU refuses to recognise passports over 10 years old a with British travellers now categorised athird country nationalsa alongside nations such as Venezuela and Samoa
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Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Dame Meg Hillier warns there is A alack of forward thinkinga from government
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Former chancellor once famously called Lord Cameron, now the foreign secretary, aheir to Blaira
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The top pollsteras warning comes amidst dire opinion poll ratings and the looming local elections
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Diddy has spent over three decades at the pinnacle of hip hop
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Singer-songwriter turned to music after feeling aleft outa by her friends
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Stevie Wonder has urged musicians to once again spread the message of love through music amid increasingly polarised times.
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Having Billie Piper play her in Scoop, a new Netlifx film about 2019"s infamous Prince Andrew interview, was "bonkers", former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister has said.
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Scoop director Philip Martin has revealed the unique complications of casting actors to play real-life people in his new film telling the story of Prince Andrew"s infamous Newsnight interview.
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Gilbey was on the Channel 4 show for eight series
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Actor played Yelena in the 2021 MCU entry aBlack Widowa
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Hawkwind frontman recalls the notorious 1975 incident in which Lemmy ran foul of US-Canada border control
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aItas supposed to be a safe place for kidsa, the aKenan & Kela actor said
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aI heard a loud bang,a Andre Portasio recalled one year on from TV staras death
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Prince, 27, Paris, 25, and Blanket, 22, appeared at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End
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The 30-year-old aItas a Sina actor plays the bestie of a woman with bipolar disorder in Channel 4as new millennial comedy. She speaks to Ellie Harrison about what the show tells us about her generation a and why it doesnat flinch from athe ugly side of mental illnessa
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Screenshots show games named aColour my Bellya and aName that Body Parta
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Bieber posted a video of himself with the music mogul on his YouTube channel in 2009
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Singer-songwriter to release what she describes as a acompilation of new songsa later this week
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Is there anything dogs can"t do?
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Me from the couch: "And for that reason, I"m IN."
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"Everyone heard, and no one said anything."
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"This cookie recipe was handed down from my great aunt Nesele Toulouse..."
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"Thereas a secret even mini-er mini-game within the NYT Connections which is trying to guess what the exact wording of all the category names will be."
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I do NOT have the patience for this.
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aI have an interesting situation where I have a biological son and a stepson. And my stepson is a his father is very much in his life, so his father is his father, and Iam something else.a
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Dermatologists explain how hypochlorous acid can treat redness and acne, and suggest some more products that use it.
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Opposition leader says he cannot pretend Labour can just turn funding taps on if it takes power
Starmer is summing up the Labour offer.
This Labour party with Rachel Reeves as chancellor will value every pound as if itas yours a because at the end of the day, it is.
One, higher growth, with a reform planning system, no longer blocking the homes, the infrastructure, the investment that the country needs.
Two, safer streets, with 13,000 Extra neighbourhood police officers cracking down on the antisocial behaviour which blights so many of our town centres.
Hereas what voting Labour means this year. A plan that starts, as it must a with economic stability. Look at the Tories now, once again in desperation, committing to the madness of unfunded tax cuts. APS46 billon to abolish national insurance, with no way of funding it other than risky borrowing or cutting your pension and our NHS.
Itas like they think Liz Truss never happened. And maybe for their bills, for their mortgage, for their cost of living a it didnat. But beyond the walls of Westminster, working people have paid an enormous price.
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Labour deputy leader says she can provide tax advice given at time after Tory complaint to Manchester force
Angela Rayner has said she did aabsolutely nothing wronga when she sold her council house after the police announced they were reviewing a decision not to investigate.
The deputy Labour leader told BBC Radio 4as Today programme she was confident she had not broken any rules.
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Decision raises concerns about financial future of UKas biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation
Investors at Thames Water have pulled the plug on APS500m of emergency funding, raising concerns about the financial future of the countryas largest water company and increasing the prospect of nationalisation.
The beleaguered utilities company announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of APS750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions.
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TV personality also starred in Celebrity Big Brother, and made it to the reality showas final
Goggleboxas George Gilbey has died aged 40, a spokesperson for the show said. The reality star was best known for appearing on the Channel 4 series alongside his mother Linda McGarry and stepfather Pete McGarry, who died aged 71 in 2021. He also appeared on the 14th series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2014, reaching the final.
Gilbey reportedly died following an accident at work on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Channel 4 show said: aGeorge was part of the Gogglebox family for eight series alongside his mum Linda and stepdad Pete.
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Victoria McCloud wants leave to join litigation in supreme court appeal brought by For Women Scotland
The UKas first transgender judge is seeking leave to join the litigation in a crucial supreme court case that could significantly affect legal protections for transgender women, the Guardian has learned.
Victoria McCloud, a senior civil judge who became the youngest person appointed as master of the high court in 2010, will make an application to intervene in the supreme court appeal brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland about the legal definition of awomana. Interveners can put a case without being among the main parties to the litigation.
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Police searching for suspect after incident at Beckenham Junction that left man with life-threatening injuries
Police are searching for a suspect after a man was stabbed on a train in south London and left with life-threatening injuries.
British Transport Police (BTP) said they received reports of two men fighting while entering a train at Shortlands railway station in Bromley shortly before 4pm on Wednesday.
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Kyivas forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is adrivela
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The Kremlin said on Thursday complete silence was needed when it came to discussions about possible prisoner exchanges involving Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia a year ago on suspicion of espionage, reports Reuters.
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Bill being laid before Scottish parliament could, if approved, allow people in Britain to take their own lives within the law
UK membership of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted dying association, has jumped to 1,900 people a a 24% rise during 2023 a as an assisted dying bill is laid before the Scottish parliament.
People from the UK now make up the second largest group who have signed up to the organisation, which is based near Zurich and helps people take their own lives. The largest group is currently Germans, although they can now get help to end their lives at home after a 2020 court ruling.
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Latest estimate from ONS says GDP declined by 0.3% in final quarter of 2023
Official figures have confirmed that the UK economy went into recession at the end of last year, after the latest estimate found it contracted in the last two quarters of 2023.
In a blow to the governmentas economic standing, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy, as measured by gross domestic product, shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of the year, unrevised from an earlier estimate.
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Martin Lewis among those encouraging consumers to make a note so they do not overpay when cap reduced
Millions of households are being urged to submit meter readings to their energy supplier this weekend to ensure they do not overpay when cheaper prices come in on Monday.
The consumer champion Martin Lewis is among those urging people to get their phones, pens and notepads out so that they benefit fully from the 12.3% cut to the Ofgem energy price cap, which is altered quarterly.
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On 5 Liveas 30th birthday, Heidi Dawson says more of the BBC should be based outside London to reflect the national conversation
More of the BBC needs to be based outside London to reflect the aconversation of the nationa and secure its future, according to the controller of BBC Radio 5 Live.
As the station celebrates its 30th birthday on Thursday, with a series of shows and tributes, Heidi Dawson says 5 Live is well placed to see off the multiple headwinds buffeting its HQ in London, including a further APS200m in annual cuts announced by the BBCas director general this week.
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Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
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In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons a an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him a long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil a A Life. The twins are not related to Cave. His wife, the fashion designer Susie Cave, came across them one day, discovered they were ceramicists and thought they would be able to help him complete his project. It adds to the eeriness of it all.
Cave, 66, is one of the worldas great singer-songwriters a from the howling post-punk of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds to the lugubrious lyricism of his love songs (Into My Arms, Straight to You and a million others I adore) and the haunted grief of recent albums such as Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen and Carnage. He is also a fine author (see his apocalyptic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel), thinker (his book of conversations with the Observer journalist Sean OaHagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage), agony uncle (at his website, the Red Hand Files), screenwriter (The Proposition) and now visual artist. Which is where he started out half a century ago.
aThese losses are incorporated into the artistic flowa a| Caveas sculptures go through the glazing process. Photograph: courtesy of Liv & Dom
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A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals a and say they have had few complaints
Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.
From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a aplanetary healtha diet a one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.
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While France and England are among the favourites, Austria could spring a surprise
This was not a vintage window for Didier Deschampsa side with a home defeat against Germany followed up by a shaky 3-2 win against Chile in Marseille. The captain, Kylian MbappA(c), had a difficult few days and the absence of Antoine Griezmann, who missed his first France games for seven years because of injury, was clearly felt. There were positives, however, with the 18-year-old Warren ZaA-re-Emery having a good game against Germany and Randal Kolo Muani scoring and assisting against Chile. Deschamps made nine changes for the second game with William Saliba getting a rare start in Marseille, even though the coach had said beforehand that the Arsenal player adoes things he doesnat likea. Still the team to beat. Marcus Christenson
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From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:27 GMT
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Experts say the hybrids risk apollutinga the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
- Photographs by Alberto Olivero
From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italyas Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog a the first to be seen so far into Piedmontas alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.
aWe thought he would go away,a says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. aUnfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.a
Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park
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In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
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Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:00:28 GMT
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The scenery a and delicacies a get better and better for our slow travel expert as she takes a local train through Canton Fribourg to a beautiful medieval village
It was a handpainted sign on a wooden barn that piqued my interest in GruyA"res. I was travelling from Emmental to Montreux last year, following the wonderful Golden Pass rail route. Our train paused at Montbovon, the start of a steep climb up to the lineas final dramatic mountain pass. There was the prospect of stunning views of Lake Geneva ahead. To the right of the railway, I spotted the bold sign: aLa GruyA"re vous saluea (the cheese lacks the villageas final asa).
With time to spare earlier this month, I returned to Montbovon to explore the branch railway that runs from there down the Sarine valley to GruyA"res and beyond. This time I arrive on one of the new Golden Pass trains which now run through from Montreux to Interlaken, relying on some technical magic to slip from narrow-gauge to standard-gauge tracks along the way. The tourists in the posh prestige class are tucking into platters of charcuterie accompanied by Swiss wine. The climb up from Montreux is as magical as ever, twisting and turning up into the hills with Lake Geneva far below. Forty minutes out from Montreux, the train makes its first scheduled stop. This is Montbovon, a village that my old Baedeker guide advises is anoted for good cherry brandya. I am the sole passenger alighting from the train, which after a brief stop is on its way again, now following the Sarine valley upstream towards Gstaad.
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If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:29 GMT
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The term evokes cosiness, affordability and community. But itas being used as a cynical marketing ploy
What makes a neighbourhood restaurant? The phrase itself is evocative, bringing to mind the types of local trattorias or ocakbaAlarA+- or tavernas that punters return to regularly. The definition might vary from person to person, but surely a neighbourhood restaurant is defined by some combination of its longevity in the community, an accessible feel and affordable prices.
Over the past six months, though, I have seen the aneighbourhood restauranta label deployed constantly in PR emails previewing a very different sort of establishment. The aim, I imagine, is to evoke a sense of cosiness and community a but thereas something off about it.
Lauren OaNeill is a culture writer
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Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
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After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
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Study the Formula One images for clues and see if you can steer yourself to a decent finish by guessing the correct tracks
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- Australian Open champion faces rematch with Medvedev
- Azarenka still in contention to win fourth Miami Open title
Jannik Sinner eased past Tomas Machac 6-4, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Miami Open on Wednesday where the second seed will face the defending champion Daniil Medvedev.
The first set of the match played in humid conditions hinged on a Machac service game at 3-3 where the unseeded Czechas forehand missed its target on break point to give Sinner a 4-3 lead.
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Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des SociA(c)tA(c)s opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
Now, as the Paris Olympics prepares to open this summer against a backdrop of war from Ukraine to the Middle East a with Emmanuel Macron saying Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Games a a new exhibition in Paris takes an unflinching look at the social and geopolitical impact of the Games over the last century.
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The league is transforming kickoffs. But there are other tweaks to football that could improve the sport for players and fans
The NFL will look radically different next season. The leagueas owners voted on Tuesday to approve a new kickoff rule originally adopted in the XFL.
It is one of the most groundbreaking changes in league history. After slowly legislating the kickoff out of the sport, the league is embracing a new ahybrida approach that turns the kickoff into something approaching a traditional football play. No longer will kickoffs be passing moments, a chance for broadcasters to cram in a couple of commercial breaks.
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Worldas fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decadeas end, report finds
The worldas fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
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Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground
A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.
Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level.
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French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be amuch strongera on biodiversity and climate
Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South Americaas Mercosur bloc a avery bad deala that lacks proper climate considerations.
aAs it is negotiated today, it is a very bad deal, for you and for us,a the French president told Brazilian businessmen in SAPSo Paulo on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil, Latin Americaas largest economy.
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Exclusive: Man who has now given party at least APS10m copied Steve Barclay into email about problems with bid, documents show
The Conservative mega-donor Frank Hester complained to the NHS and the health secretary last year over problems his IT business had bidding for a contract, documents show.
The Leeds businessman, who owns a healthcare tech firm responsible for 60m UK medical records, raised a complaint about procurement in December 2022 with the chair of NHS England, copying in Steve Barclay, the then health secretary, saying he was an ainterested partya.
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Israeli PM had cancelled officialsa US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
Bayan Abusultan, a Gaza city-based journalist, has not been heard from since 19 March when she tweeted that her only brother had been killed by Israeli forces ain front of [her] eyesa.
There has been no activity on her social media accounts since, sparking concerns about her safety.
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The Israeli-Americanas book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that peopleas behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process a rather that it is often based on instinct.
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Deal to send hundreds of officers to Caribbean country amid spiraling gang violence is facing intense public and legal scrutiny
Haitias raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.
aIf they come back in body bags, what will [Kenyan President William Ruto] tell the nation?a said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.
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Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Goreas Democratic running mate in 2000
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman died in New York due to complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. He was a Connecticut senator for four terms.
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Rockford police chief says one person remains in critical condition following attacks, as investigators seek motive
Four people were killed and seven were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned, according to the police chief in Rockford, Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition.
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Judge recommends John Eastman, facing 11 disciplinary charges, lose his California law license over efforts to keep Trump in power
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then vice president Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Bidenas victory.
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A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, from global poverty to the climate crisis
In the middle ages, morality would be transmitted in images. Churchgoers would commonly find above the altar a panel of three paintings relating a biblical parable or commandment. Such altarpieces could be found in Buddhist shrines, too, which might be adorned with three scenes from the path of enlightenment. A knack for envisioning moral precepts has seen the triptych translated across many cultures and now, with the UK-based Indian writer Neel Mukherjeeas formally daring new novel, even from image to text.
Composed of three narratives about 21st-century ethical and political dilemmas, Choice has been termed a triptych by its author and, like its visual forebears, the novel needles our moral impulses. The issues in question, from climate change to global poverty, are modern, but the novelas interest in sin and virtue is redolent of the triptychas medieval preoccupations. Where Choice differs is that, in its world, there are no unambiguous rights or wrongs. As one character observes of another: aNo escape was offered by making what one thought was the correct moral choice.a This is a triptych for a secular age a without hope of salvation, however hard humans try.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:45:08 GMT
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In this weekas newsletter: The all-time great podcast returns for a fourth season, investigating the infamous detention camp. Plus: five of the best hip-hop podcasts
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The OG of podcasting returns for an excellent fourth season, with Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvisas history of GuantA!namo. Itas a story they have been wanting to tell for years, but until now havenat been able to get too far beyond the official line. Today, staff and detainees are ready to talk: while the former report partying their aasses offa, the latter a who each cost $13m a year to accommodate a discuss their fears. Hannah Verdier
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:30 GMT
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The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charm
The cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling-loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightina machines. Itas been eight years since Kung Fu Panda 3, and on the evidence here, the delay canat be put down to KFP4 being a labour of love, the product of animation studio DreamWorksa A team pouring in enormous amounts of effort. Itas a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and charm of the franchise at its best. It failed the wriggle test on my seven-year-old cinema date, who was squirming in her seat around the hour mark.
The plot is a bit overfussy for its target audience of small kids, though the scriptwriters have been careful to make it work for newbies a no previous Kung Fu Panda experience necessary. It opens with Po being promoted from his role as Dragon Warrior to spiritual leader of the valley, taking over from his mentor Shifu (Dustin Hoffman a no expense has been spared on the vocal cast). But before he can appoint his successor, Po apprehends Zhen (Awkwafina), a streetwise thieving fox. The two of them make a brilliant double act: Black is adorable, Awkwafina terrific as the cynical wisecracker.
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Big Mood is Channel 4as promising new comedy-drama. Plus: Taskmaster is back. Hereas what to watch this evening
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A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s aplot geniesa for coming up with storylines
Hark. The end is nigh. aIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,a writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. aToday, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.a Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and a increasingly a bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of aepoch-making transformationsa and an imminent arevolution in human affairsa.
Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New Yorkas Columbia University, isnat nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book a do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? a that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, itas a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct athe modern chatbot from parts found on the workbench of historya using astrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentarya.
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In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamotoas last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet itas a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before head die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamotoas son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or a| we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life. We had all that in an earlier documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda. In Opus it is the music, played by the man himself, that is completely sufficient to the moment and all that remains, with the occasional very human stumbles and missed notes. When he says he needs a break for a while, exhausted by a performance, the strain is painfully visible, audible, practically palpable.
Continue reading...We were forced to cancel when the host wanted thousands extra, but were still charged a fee
My daughter used my credit card to book a five-month stay using Airbnb after taking up an internship in Toronto. After the host accepted the booking, she got an email saying the price for the overall stay had increased by APS4,000 a a further 39%.
Panicked, and unable to afford the extra sum, she cancelled. Airbnb has taken a APS1,962 fee, plus a further APS682 for cleaning and taxes. As my daughter cancelled immediately, it is extremely unlikely that a booking was lost.
Continue reading...New Zealand did not follow the US and UK in imposing financial restrictions after accusing Beijing of links to cyber-attacks
Politicians, journalists and critics of Beijing were among those targeted by cyber-attacks run by groups backed by China, western intelligence services said this week.
The separate cyber-attacks hit the US, UK and New Zealand a all members of the Five Eyes alliance. The network of five countries, which also includes Canada and Australia, share security related intelligence.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:25 GMT
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On 28 March itas the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.
Read an obituary of Sir Anthony Epstein, who died in February 2024
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The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe a including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images
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Worldas fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decadeas end, report finds
The worldas fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
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Israeli PM had cancelled officialsa US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
In the UK, pro-Palestine protesters have occupied the entrance to the governmentas trade department over its perceived links to the supply of arms to Israel, PA media reports.
London for a Free Palestine targeted the Department for Business and Trade early on Thursday.
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Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levels
A top labor union for maritime engineers has sounded the alarm against corporate profiteering in the wake of Tuesdayas cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, claiming the industry is aprobably the worst offendera.
The Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association (Meba) warned of the dangers of growing vessels and shrinking crews a claiming that those from overseas are anot up to the standardsa required in the US.
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Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Goreas Democratic running mate in 2000
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman died in New York due to complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. He was a Connecticut senator for four terms.
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Kyivas forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is adrivela
The Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has restricted access to 11 channels in the Telegram messaging app awith terrorist contenta over the past two days, reports Reuters citing an article by the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Polandas prime minister on Thursday hosted his Ukrainian counterpart for long-awaited talks designed to ease friction over Ukrainian farm imports and border blockades by disgruntled Polish farmers, reports news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Deal to send hundreds of officers to Caribbean country amid spiraling gang violence is facing intense public and legal scrutiny
Haitias raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.
aIf they come back in body bags, what will [Kenyan President William Ruto] tell the nation?a said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.
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Rockford police chief says one person remains in critical condition following attacks, as investigators seek motive
Four people were killed and seven were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned, according to the police chief in Rockford, Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition.
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The Israeli-Americanas book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that peopleas behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process a rather that it is often based on instinct.
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Judge recommends John Eastman, facing 11 disciplinary charges, lose his California law license over efforts to keep Trump in power
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then vice president Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Bidenas victory.
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Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters
For archeologists, what defines people as human is how we bury our dead. Imagine, then, a society that relegates a whole community as legally inhuman, enslaved with no rights. In spite of slavery, African burial grounds are tangible reminders of the enslaved and free a defying oppressive circumstances by reclaiming peopleas humanity through acts of remembrance.
When I first visited the British overseas territory of St Helena in 2018 and saw the burial ground in Rupertas Valley, I was astounded by its size and significance. It unambiguously placed the island at the centre of the Middle Passage a tying the British empire to the institution of slavery in the US, the Caribbean, and globally.
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Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
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Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des SociA(c)tA(c)s opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
Now, as the Paris Olympics prepares to open this summer against a backdrop of war from Ukraine to the Middle East a with Emmanuel Macron saying Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Games a a new exhibition in Paris takes an unflinching look at the social and geopolitical impact of the Games over the last century.
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In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons a an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him a long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil a A Life. The twins are not related to Cave. His wife, the fashion designer Susie Cave, came across them one day, discovered they were ceramicists and thought they would be able to help him complete his project. It adds to the eeriness of it all.
Cave, 66, is one of the worldas great singer-songwriters a from the howling post-punk of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds to the lugubrious lyricism of his love songs (Into My Arms, Straight to You and a million others I adore) and the haunted grief of recent albums such as Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen and Carnage. He is also a fine author (see his apocalyptic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel), thinker (his book of conversations with the Observer journalist Sean OaHagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage), agony uncle (at his website, the Red Hand Files), screenwriter (The Proposition) and now visual artist. Which is where he started out half a century ago.
aThese losses are incorporated into the artistic flowa a| Caveas sculptures go through the glazing process. Photograph: courtesy of Liv & Dom
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A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals a and say they have had few complaints
Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.
From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a aplanetary healtha diet a one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.
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In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
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While France and England are among the favourites, Austria could spring a surprise
This was not a vintage window for Didier Deschampsa side with a home defeat against Germany followed up by a shaky 3-2 win against Chile in Marseille. The captain, Kylian MbappA(c), had a difficult few days and the absence of Antoine Griezmann, who missed his first France games for seven years because of injury, was clearly felt. There were positives, however, with the 18-year-old Warren ZaA-re-Emery having a good game against Germany and Randal Kolo Muani scoring and assisting against Chile. Deschamps made nine changes for the second game with William Saliba getting a rare start in Marseille, even though the coach had said beforehand that the Arsenal player adoes things he doesnat likea. Still the team to beat. Marcus Christenson
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Experts say the hybrids risk apollutinga the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
- Photographs by Alberto Olivero
From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italyas Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog a the first to be seen so far into Piedmontas alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.
aWe thought he would go away,a says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. aUnfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.a
Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park
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From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
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A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
The women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where theyare chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.
It is 1659, Antwerp, and, according to Jordaensa scribbled note at the bottom of the paper, these so-called agossip auntsa are discussing local political adisturbancesa a perhaps the recent strike of the paintersa guild. aItas a snapshot of daily life that you donat usually see,a says An Van Camp, the curator of Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings at Oxfordas Ashmolean Museum.
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Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:12:14 GMT
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After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
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If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:00:27 GMT
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Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
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The way musicians are compensated is highly unfair. A new bill in the US Congress could fix that a and itas about time
Many of the younger musicians I know a musicians in the full flush of their career a donat see a path forward toward making a living. These arenat artists failing to connect with a public; on the contrary, they are releasing widely reviewed albums, going on tours and communicating (constantly) with their fans via social media. But this work is not paying them enough to manage without second jobs or side hustles.
Thatas a broken system. Itas not just broken for individual artists, itas broken for our society as a whole. We all benefit from music. And I believe we as a society want that music to come from as wide and deep and rich and varied sources as exist. How could we not?
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The Dodgers have committed more than $1bn to just two players but Atlanta are a brilliant all-round team while the young Orioles are posed to shine
Baseball has always been unfair. It wasnat afaira when players were bound to the same teams for their whole careers, and it isnat afaira that the Dodgers spend so much more than the Athletics. But Iam more concerned about the many teams that could be spending more but abstain. AK
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Study the Formula One images for clues and see if you can steer yourself to a decent finish by guessing the correct tracks
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Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground
A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.
Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level.
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US called for fair legal process for opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal amid claims that challengers to Narendra Modi are being targeted ahead of national elections
India has summoned a top US diplomat after Washington warned it to ensure a afair, transparent and timely legal processa for a senior opposition leader jailed just weeks ahead of parliamentary elections.
The US state department had said it was aclosely watchinga events after Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, was arrested last week in connection with a long-running corruption investigation.
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On 28 March itas the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.
Read an obituary of Sir Anthony Epstein, who died in February 2024
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:30 GMT
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The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charm
The cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling-loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightina machines. Itas been eight years since Kung Fu Panda 3, and on the evidence here, the delay canat be put down to KFP4 being a labour of love, the product of animation studio DreamWorksa A team pouring in enormous amounts of effort. Itas a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and charm of the franchise at its best. It failed the wriggle test on my seven-year-old cinema date, who was squirming in her seat around the hour mark.
The plot is a bit overfussy for its target audience of small kids, though the scriptwriters have been careful to make it work for newbies a no previous Kung Fu Panda experience necessary. It opens with Po being promoted from his role as Dragon Warrior to spiritual leader of the valley, taking over from his mentor Shifu (Dustin Hoffman a no expense has been spared on the vocal cast). But before he can appoint his successor, Po apprehends Zhen (Awkwafina), a streetwise thieving fox. The two of them make a brilliant double act: Black is adorable, Awkwafina terrific as the cynical wisecracker.
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A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s aplot geniesa for coming up with storylines
Hark. The end is nigh. aIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,a writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. aToday, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.a Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and a increasingly a bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of aepoch-making transformationsa and an imminent arevolution in human affairsa.
Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New Yorkas Columbia University, isnat nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book a do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? a that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, itas a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct athe modern chatbot from parts found on the workbench of historya using astrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentarya.
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In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamotoas last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet itas a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before head die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamotoas son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or a| we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life. We had all that in an earlier documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda. In Opus it is the music, played by the man himself, that is completely sufficient to the moment and all that remains, with the occasional very human stumbles and missed notes. When he says he needs a break for a while, exhausted by a performance, the strain is painfully visible, audible, practically palpable.
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A rescue funding plan drawn up in July but has fallen through ahead of the first APS500m payment
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Monarch is to give personal Easter message in wake of his and Princess of Walesas cancer diagnosis
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Snow settled in areas of Devon and Wales overnight
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Three men who flooded UK streets with millions of pounds worth of cocaine have been jailed.
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Marking one year since Wall Street Journal reporter was falsely detained, Justin Welby says: aJournalists around the world should be protected, free to hold people and power to account without fear of reprisala
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The Labour deputy leader has been under increased scrutinty recently over the 2015 sale of her council house in Stockport, Greater Manchester
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MPs criticised Gallowayas intervention as irresponsible, reckless and playing into the Kremlinas hands
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Exclusive: Princess of Walesas mother praised for playing vital role behind scenes
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Angela Rayner has insisted she is anot losing any sleepa after it was revealed police are reviewing claims she may have broken electoral law when she lived between two council houses in Stockport.
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Victim stabbed on train just after departing a station in Bromley, London, on Wednesday afternoon
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The new figures follow a period of no growth between July and September 2023, according to the ONS
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A burglar was caught out by his distinctive sideburns and has now been jailed for his crimes.
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Netflix drama The Crown is not to blame for the recent conspiracy theories surrounding the Princess of Wales, Sir Jonathan Pryce has said.
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Rishi Sunak has spoken of the challenges of being a good father to his two children, while balancing being prime minister.
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Thousands face Easter getaway misery as EU refuses to recognise passports over 10 years old a with British travellers now categorised athird country nationalsa alongside nations such as Venezuela and Samoa
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Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Dame Meg Hillier warns there is A alack of forward thinkinga from government
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Former chancellor once famously called Lord Cameron, now the foreign secretary, aheir to Blaira
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The top pollsteras warning comes amidst dire opinion poll ratings and the looming local elections
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Stevie Wonder has urged musicians to once again spread the message of love through music amid increasingly polarised times.
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Having Billie Piper play her in Scoop, a new Netlifx film about 2019"s infamous Prince Andrew interview, was "bonkers", former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister has said.
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Scoop director Philip Martin has revealed the unique complications of casting actors to play real-life people in his new film telling the story of Prince Andrew"s infamous Newsnight interview.
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Gilbey was on the Channel 4 show for eight series
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Actor played Yelena in the 2021 MCU entry aBlack Widowa
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aI heard a loud bang,a Andre Portasio recalled one year on from TV staras death
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Prince, 27, Paris, 25, and Blanket, 22, appeared at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End
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The 30-year-old aItas a Sina actor plays the bestie of a woman with bipolar disorder in Channel 4as new millennial comedy. She speaks to Ellie Harrison about what the show tells us about her generation a and why it doesnat flinch from athe ugly side of mental illnessa
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Bieber posted a video of himself with the music mogul on his YouTube channel in 2009
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Singer-songwriter to release what she describes as a acompilation of new songsa later this week
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"Thereas a secret even mini-er mini-game within the NYT Connections which is trying to guess what the exact wording of all the category names will be."
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Dermatologists explain how hypochlorous acid can treat redness and acne, and suggest some more products that use it.
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Opposition leader says he cannot pretend Labour can just turn funding taps on if it takes power
Starmer is summing up the Labour offer.
This Labour party with Rachel Reeves as chancellor will value every pound as if itas yours a because at the end of the day, it is.
One, higher growth, with a reform planning system, no longer blocking the homes, the infrastructure, the investment that the country needs.
Two, safer streets, with 13,000 Extra neighbourhood police officers cracking down on the antisocial behaviour which blights so many of our town centres.
Hereas what voting Labour means this year. A plan that starts, as it must a with economic stability. Look at the Tories now, once again in desperation, committing to the madness of unfunded tax cuts. APS46 billon to abolish national insurance, with no way of funding it other than risky borrowing or cutting your pension and our NHS.
Itas like they think Liz Truss never happened. And maybe for their bills, for their mortgage, for their cost of living a it didnat. But beyond the walls of Westminster, working people have paid an enormous price.
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Labour deputy leader says she can provide tax advice given at time after Tory complaint to Manchester force
Angela Rayner has said she did aabsolutely nothing wronga when she sold her council house after the police announced they were reviewing a decision not to investigate.
The deputy Labour leader told BBC Radio 4as Today programme she was confident she had not broken any rules.
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Decision raises concerns about financial future of UKas biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation
Investors at Thames Water have pulled the plug on APS500m of emergency funding, raising concerns about the financial future of the countryas largest water company and increasing the prospect of nationalisation.
The beleaguered utilities company announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of APS750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:32 GMT
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TV personality also starred in Celebrity Big Brother, and made it to the reality showas final
Goggleboxas George Gilbey has died aged 40, a spokesperson for the show said. The reality star was best known for appearing on the Channel 4 series alongside his mother Linda McGarry and stepfather Pete McGarry, who died aged 71 in 2021. He also appeared on the 14th series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2014, reaching the final.
Gilbey reportedly died following an accident at work on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Channel 4 show said: aGeorge was part of the Gogglebox family for eight series alongside his mum Linda and stepdad Pete.
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Victoria McCloud wants leave to join litigation in supreme court appeal brought by For Women Scotland
The UKas first transgender judge is seeking leave to join the litigation in a crucial supreme court case that could significantly affect legal protections for transgender women, the Guardian has learned.
Victoria McCloud, a senior civil judge who became the youngest person appointed as master of the high court in 2010, will make an application to intervene in the supreme court appeal brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland about the legal definition of awomana. Interveners can put a case without being among the main parties to the litigation.
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Police searching for suspect after incident at Beckenham Junction that left man with life-threatening injuries
Police are searching for a suspect after a man was stabbed on a train in south London and left with life-threatening injuries.
British Transport Police (BTP) said they received reports of two men fighting while entering a train at Shortlands railway station in Bromley shortly before 4pm on Wednesday.
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Kyivas forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is adrivela
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The Kremlin said on Thursday complete silence was needed when it came to discussions about possible prisoner exchanges involving Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia a year ago on suspicion of espionage, reports Reuters.
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Bill being laid before Scottish parliament could, if approved, allow people in Britain to take their own lives within the law
UK membership of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted dying association, has jumped to 1,900 people a a 24% rise during 2023 a as an assisted dying bill is laid before the Scottish parliament.
People from the UK now make up the second largest group who have signed up to the organisation, which is based near Zurich and helps people take their own lives. The largest group is currently Germans, although they can now get help to end their lives at home after a 2020 court ruling.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:02:43 GMT
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Latest estimate from ONS says GDP declined by 0.3% in final quarter of 2023
Official figures have confirmed that the UK economy went into recession at the end of last year, after the latest estimate found it contracted in the last two quarters of 2023.
In a blow to the governmentas economic standing, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy, as measured by gross domestic product, shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of the year, unrevised from an earlier estimate.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:25 GMT
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Martin Lewis among those encouraging consumers to make a note so they do not overpay when cap reduced
Millions of households are being urged to submit meter readings to their energy supplier this weekend to ensure they do not overpay when cheaper prices come in on Monday.
The consumer champion Martin Lewis is among those urging people to get their phones, pens and notepads out so that they benefit fully from the 12.3% cut to the Ofgem energy price cap, which is altered quarterly.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:28 GMT
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On 5 Liveas 30th birthday, Heidi Dawson says more of the BBC should be based outside London to reflect the national conversation
More of the BBC needs to be based outside London to reflect the aconversation of the nationa and secure its future, according to the controller of BBC Radio 5 Live.
As the station celebrates its 30th birthday on Thursday, with a series of shows and tributes, Heidi Dawson says 5 Live is well placed to see off the multiple headwinds buffeting its HQ in London, including a further APS200m in annual cuts announced by the BBCas director general this week.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:26 GMT
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Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:27 GMT
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In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons a an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him a long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil a A Life. The twins are not related to Cave. His wife, the fashion designer Susie Cave, came across them one day, discovered they were ceramicists and thought they would be able to help him complete his project. It adds to the eeriness of it all.
Cave, 66, is one of the worldas great singer-songwriters a from the howling post-punk of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds to the lugubrious lyricism of his love songs (Into My Arms, Straight to You and a million others I adore) and the haunted grief of recent albums such as Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen and Carnage. He is also a fine author (see his apocalyptic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel), thinker (his book of conversations with the Observer journalist Sean OaHagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage), agony uncle (at his website, the Red Hand Files), screenwriter (The Proposition) and now visual artist. Which is where he started out half a century ago.
aThese losses are incorporated into the artistic flowa a| Caveas sculptures go through the glazing process. Photograph: courtesy of Liv & Dom
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:54:30 GMT
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A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals a and say they have had few complaints
Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.
From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a aplanetary healtha diet a one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:30 GMT
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While France and England are among the favourites, Austria could spring a surprise
This was not a vintage window for Didier Deschampsa side with a home defeat against Germany followed up by a shaky 3-2 win against Chile in Marseille. The captain, Kylian MbappA(c), had a difficult few days and the absence of Antoine Griezmann, who missed his first France games for seven years because of injury, was clearly felt. There were positives, however, with the 18-year-old Warren ZaA-re-Emery having a good game against Germany and Randal Kolo Muani scoring and assisting against Chile. Deschamps made nine changes for the second game with William Saliba getting a rare start in Marseille, even though the coach had said beforehand that the Arsenal player adoes things he doesnat likea. Still the team to beat. Marcus Christenson
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:14 GMT
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From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:27 GMT
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Experts say the hybrids risk apollutinga the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
- Photographs by Alberto Olivero
From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italyas Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog a the first to be seen so far into Piedmontas alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.
aWe thought he would go away,a says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. aUnfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.a
Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park
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In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
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Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:00:28 GMT
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The scenery a and delicacies a get better and better for our slow travel expert as she takes a local train through Canton Fribourg to a beautiful medieval village
It was a handpainted sign on a wooden barn that piqued my interest in GruyA"res. I was travelling from Emmental to Montreux last year, following the wonderful Golden Pass rail route. Our train paused at Montbovon, the start of a steep climb up to the lineas final dramatic mountain pass. There was the prospect of stunning views of Lake Geneva ahead. To the right of the railway, I spotted the bold sign: aLa GruyA"re vous saluea (the cheese lacks the villageas final asa).
With time to spare earlier this month, I returned to Montbovon to explore the branch railway that runs from there down the Sarine valley to GruyA"res and beyond. This time I arrive on one of the new Golden Pass trains which now run through from Montreux to Interlaken, relying on some technical magic to slip from narrow-gauge to standard-gauge tracks along the way. The tourists in the posh prestige class are tucking into platters of charcuterie accompanied by Swiss wine. The climb up from Montreux is as magical as ever, twisting and turning up into the hills with Lake Geneva far below. Forty minutes out from Montreux, the train makes its first scheduled stop. This is Montbovon, a village that my old Baedeker guide advises is anoted for good cherry brandya. I am the sole passenger alighting from the train, which after a brief stop is on its way again, now following the Sarine valley upstream towards Gstaad.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:26 GMT
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If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:29 GMT
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The term evokes cosiness, affordability and community. But itas being used as a cynical marketing ploy
What makes a neighbourhood restaurant? The phrase itself is evocative, bringing to mind the types of local trattorias or ocakbaAlarA+- or tavernas that punters return to regularly. The definition might vary from person to person, but surely a neighbourhood restaurant is defined by some combination of its longevity in the community, an accessible feel and affordable prices.
Over the past six months, though, I have seen the aneighbourhood restauranta label deployed constantly in PR emails previewing a very different sort of establishment. The aim, I imagine, is to evoke a sense of cosiness and community a but thereas something off about it.
Lauren OaNeill is a culture writer
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:00:27 GMT
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Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:12:14 GMT
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After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:29 GMT
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Study the Formula One images for clues and see if you can steer yourself to a decent finish by guessing the correct tracks
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- Australian Open champion faces rematch with Medvedev
- Azarenka still in contention to win fourth Miami Open title
Jannik Sinner eased past Tomas Machac 6-4, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Miami Open on Wednesday where the second seed will face the defending champion Daniil Medvedev.
The first set of the match played in humid conditions hinged on a Machac service game at 3-3 where the unseeded Czechas forehand missed its target on break point to give Sinner a 4-3 lead.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:00:24 GMT
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Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des SociA(c)tA(c)s opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
Now, as the Paris Olympics prepares to open this summer against a backdrop of war from Ukraine to the Middle East a with Emmanuel Macron saying Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Games a a new exhibition in Paris takes an unflinching look at the social and geopolitical impact of the Games over the last century.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:28 GMT
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The league is transforming kickoffs. But there are other tweaks to football that could improve the sport for players and fans
The NFL will look radically different next season. The leagueas owners voted on Tuesday to approve a new kickoff rule originally adopted in the XFL.
It is one of the most groundbreaking changes in league history. After slowly legislating the kickoff out of the sport, the league is embracing a new ahybrida approach that turns the kickoff into something approaching a traditional football play. No longer will kickoffs be passing moments, a chance for broadcasters to cram in a couple of commercial breaks.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:26 GMT
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Worldas fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decadeas end, report finds
The worldas fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:27 GMT
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Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground
A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.
Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:16:02 GMT
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French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be amuch strongera on biodiversity and climate
Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South Americaas Mercosur bloc a avery bad deala that lacks proper climate considerations.
aAs it is negotiated today, it is a very bad deal, for you and for us,a the French president told Brazilian businessmen in SAPSo Paulo on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil, Latin Americaas largest economy.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:26 GMT
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Exclusive: Man who has now given party at least APS10m copied Steve Barclay into email about problems with bid, documents show
The Conservative mega-donor Frank Hester complained to the NHS and the health secretary last year over problems his IT business had bidding for a contract, documents show.
The Leeds businessman, who owns a healthcare tech firm responsible for 60m UK medical records, raised a complaint about procurement in December 2022 with the chair of NHS England, copying in Steve Barclay, the then health secretary, saying he was an ainterested partya.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:22:06 GMT
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Israeli PM had cancelled officialsa US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
Bayan Abusultan, a Gaza city-based journalist, has not been heard from since 19 March when she tweeted that her only brother had been killed by Israeli forces ain front of [her] eyesa.
There has been no activity on her social media accounts since, sparking concerns about her safety.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:41:28 GMT
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The Israeli-Americanas book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that peopleas behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process a rather that it is often based on instinct.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:30:07 GMT
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Deal to send hundreds of officers to Caribbean country amid spiraling gang violence is facing intense public and legal scrutiny
Haitias raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.
aIf they come back in body bags, what will [Kenyan President William Ruto] tell the nation?a said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:39:24 GMT
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Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Goreas Democratic running mate in 2000
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman died in New York due to complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. He was a Connecticut senator for four terms.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:19:02 GMT
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Rockford police chief says one person remains in critical condition following attacks, as investigators seek motive
Four people were killed and seven were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned, according to the police chief in Rockford, Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:15:35 GMT
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Judge recommends John Eastman, facing 11 disciplinary charges, lose his California law license over efforts to keep Trump in power
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then vice president Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Bidenas victory.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:30:27 GMT
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A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, from global poverty to the climate crisis
In the middle ages, morality would be transmitted in images. Churchgoers would commonly find above the altar a panel of three paintings relating a biblical parable or commandment. Such altarpieces could be found in Buddhist shrines, too, which might be adorned with three scenes from the path of enlightenment. A knack for envisioning moral precepts has seen the triptych translated across many cultures and now, with the UK-based Indian writer Neel Mukherjeeas formally daring new novel, even from image to text.
Composed of three narratives about 21st-century ethical and political dilemmas, Choice has been termed a triptych by its author and, like its visual forebears, the novel needles our moral impulses. The issues in question, from climate change to global poverty, are modern, but the novelas interest in sin and virtue is redolent of the triptychas medieval preoccupations. Where Choice differs is that, in its world, there are no unambiguous rights or wrongs. As one character observes of another: aNo escape was offered by making what one thought was the correct moral choice.a This is a triptych for a secular age a without hope of salvation, however hard humans try.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:45:08 GMT
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In this weekas newsletter: The all-time great podcast returns for a fourth season, investigating the infamous detention camp. Plus: five of the best hip-hop podcasts
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The OG of podcasting returns for an excellent fourth season, with Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvisas history of GuantA!namo. Itas a story they have been wanting to tell for years, but until now havenat been able to get too far beyond the official line. Today, staff and detainees are ready to talk: while the former report partying their aasses offa, the latter a who each cost $13m a year to accommodate a discuss their fears. Hannah Verdier
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:30 GMT
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The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charm
The cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling-loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightina machines. Itas been eight years since Kung Fu Panda 3, and on the evidence here, the delay canat be put down to KFP4 being a labour of love, the product of animation studio DreamWorksa A team pouring in enormous amounts of effort. Itas a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and charm of the franchise at its best. It failed the wriggle test on my seven-year-old cinema date, who was squirming in her seat around the hour mark.
The plot is a bit overfussy for its target audience of small kids, though the scriptwriters have been careful to make it work for newbies a no previous Kung Fu Panda experience necessary. It opens with Po being promoted from his role as Dragon Warrior to spiritual leader of the valley, taking over from his mentor Shifu (Dustin Hoffman a no expense has been spared on the vocal cast). But before he can appoint his successor, Po apprehends Zhen (Awkwafina), a streetwise thieving fox. The two of them make a brilliant double act: Black is adorable, Awkwafina terrific as the cynical wisecracker.
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Big Mood is Channel 4as promising new comedy-drama. Plus: Taskmaster is back. Hereas what to watch this evening
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A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s aplot geniesa for coming up with storylines
Hark. The end is nigh. aIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,a writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. aToday, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.a Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and a increasingly a bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of aepoch-making transformationsa and an imminent arevolution in human affairsa.
Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New Yorkas Columbia University, isnat nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book a do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? a that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, itas a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct athe modern chatbot from parts found on the workbench of historya using astrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentarya.
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In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamotoas last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet itas a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before head die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamotoas son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or a| we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life. We had all that in an earlier documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda. In Opus it is the music, played by the man himself, that is completely sufficient to the moment and all that remains, with the occasional very human stumbles and missed notes. When he says he needs a break for a while, exhausted by a performance, the strain is painfully visible, audible, practically palpable.
Continue reading...We were forced to cancel when the host wanted thousands extra, but were still charged a fee
My daughter used my credit card to book a five-month stay using Airbnb after taking up an internship in Toronto. After the host accepted the booking, she got an email saying the price for the overall stay had increased by APS4,000 a a further 39%.
Panicked, and unable to afford the extra sum, she cancelled. Airbnb has taken a APS1,962 fee, plus a further APS682 for cleaning and taxes. As my daughter cancelled immediately, it is extremely unlikely that a booking was lost.
Continue reading...New Zealand did not follow the US and UK in imposing financial restrictions after accusing Beijing of links to cyber-attacks
Politicians, journalists and critics of Beijing were among those targeted by cyber-attacks run by groups backed by China, western intelligence services said this week.
The separate cyber-attacks hit the US, UK and New Zealand a all members of the Five Eyes alliance. The network of five countries, which also includes Canada and Australia, share security related intelligence.
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On 28 March itas the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.
Read an obituary of Sir Anthony Epstein, who died in February 2024
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The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe a including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:00:26 GMT
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Worldas fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decadeas end, report finds
The worldas fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:03:10 GMT
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Israeli PM had cancelled officialsa US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
In the UK, pro-Palestine protesters have occupied the entrance to the governmentas trade department over its perceived links to the supply of arms to Israel, PA media reports.
London for a Free Palestine targeted the Department for Business and Trade early on Thursday.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:00:16 GMT
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Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levels
A top labor union for maritime engineers has sounded the alarm against corporate profiteering in the wake of Tuesdayas cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, claiming the industry is aprobably the worst offendera.
The Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association (Meba) warned of the dangers of growing vessels and shrinking crews a claiming that those from overseas are anot up to the standardsa required in the US.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:39:24 GMT
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Lieberman, Connecticut senator for four terms, was Al Goreas Democratic running mate in 2000
The former US senator Joe Lieberman, who ran as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in the 2000 election and became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket for the White House, alongside presidential candidate Al Gore, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman died in New York due to complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. He was a Connecticut senator for four terms.
Continue reading...Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:07:27 GMT
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Kyivas forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is adrivela
The Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has restricted access to 11 channels in the Telegram messaging app awith terrorist contenta over the past two days, reports Reuters citing an article by the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Polandas prime minister on Thursday hosted his Ukrainian counterpart for long-awaited talks designed to ease friction over Ukrainian farm imports and border blockades by disgruntled Polish farmers, reports news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Deal to send hundreds of officers to Caribbean country amid spiraling gang violence is facing intense public and legal scrutiny
Haitias raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.
aIf they come back in body bags, what will [Kenyan President William Ruto] tell the nation?a said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.
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Rockford police chief says one person remains in critical condition following attacks, as investigators seek motive
Four people were killed and seven were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said.
A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned, according to the police chief in Rockford, Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition.
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The Israeli-Americanas book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics that heavily influenced the discipline, and won him a Nobel prize, has died at age 90.
Kahneman, who wrote bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, argued against the notion that peopleas behaviour is rooted in a rational decision-making process a rather that it is often based on instinct.
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Judge recommends John Eastman, facing 11 disciplinary charges, lose his California law license over efforts to keep Trump in power
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then vice president Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Joe Bidenas victory.
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Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters
For archeologists, what defines people as human is how we bury our dead. Imagine, then, a society that relegates a whole community as legally inhuman, enslaved with no rights. In spite of slavery, African burial grounds are tangible reminders of the enslaved and free a defying oppressive circumstances by reclaiming peopleas humanity through acts of remembrance.
When I first visited the British overseas territory of St Helena in 2018 and saw the burial ground in Rupertas Valley, I was astounded by its size and significance. It unambiguously placed the island at the centre of the Middle Passage a tying the British empire to the institution of slavery in the US, the Caribbean, and globally.
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Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
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Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des SociA(c)tA(c)s opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
From the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
Now, as the Paris Olympics prepares to open this summer against a backdrop of war from Ukraine to the Middle East a with Emmanuel Macron saying Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Games a a new exhibition in Paris takes an unflinching look at the social and geopolitical impact of the Games over the last century.
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In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons a an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
Nick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him a long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil a A Life. The twins are not related to Cave. His wife, the fashion designer Susie Cave, came across them one day, discovered they were ceramicists and thought they would be able to help him complete his project. It adds to the eeriness of it all.
Cave, 66, is one of the worldas great singer-songwriters a from the howling post-punk of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds to the lugubrious lyricism of his love songs (Into My Arms, Straight to You and a million others I adore) and the haunted grief of recent albums such as Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen and Carnage. He is also a fine author (see his apocalyptic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel), thinker (his book of conversations with the Observer journalist Sean OaHagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage), agony uncle (at his website, the Red Hand Files), screenwriter (The Proposition) and now visual artist. Which is where he started out half a century ago.
aThese losses are incorporated into the artistic flowa a| Caveas sculptures go through the glazing process. Photograph: courtesy of Liv & Dom
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A group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals a and say they have had few complaints
Patrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.
From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a aplanetary healtha diet a one that is rich in plants and light in animals. Compared with the typical diet in Germany, known for its bratwurst sausage and doner kebab, the 13,000 meals they rustle up each day are better for the health of people and the planet.
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In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
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While France and England are among the favourites, Austria could spring a surprise
This was not a vintage window for Didier Deschampsa side with a home defeat against Germany followed up by a shaky 3-2 win against Chile in Marseille. The captain, Kylian MbappA(c), had a difficult few days and the absence of Antoine Griezmann, who missed his first France games for seven years because of injury, was clearly felt. There were positives, however, with the 18-year-old Warren ZaA-re-Emery having a good game against Germany and Randal Kolo Muani scoring and assisting against Chile. Deschamps made nine changes for the second game with William Saliba getting a rare start in Marseille, even though the coach had said beforehand that the Arsenal player adoes things he doesnat likea. Still the team to beat. Marcus Christenson
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Experts say the hybrids risk apollutinga the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
- Photographs by Alberto Olivero
From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italyas Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog a the first to be seen so far into Piedmontas alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.
aWe thought he would go away,a says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. aUnfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.a
Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park
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From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
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A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
The women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where theyare chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.
It is 1659, Antwerp, and, according to Jordaensa scribbled note at the bottom of the paper, these so-called agossip auntsa are discussing local political adisturbancesa a perhaps the recent strike of the paintersa guild. aItas a snapshot of daily life that you donat usually see,a says An Van Camp, the curator of Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings at Oxfordas Ashmolean Museum.
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Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
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After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
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If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
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Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
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The way musicians are compensated is highly unfair. A new bill in the US Congress could fix that a and itas about time
Many of the younger musicians I know a musicians in the full flush of their career a donat see a path forward toward making a living. These arenat artists failing to connect with a public; on the contrary, they are releasing widely reviewed albums, going on tours and communicating (constantly) with their fans via social media. But this work is not paying them enough to manage without second jobs or side hustles.
Thatas a broken system. Itas not just broken for individual artists, itas broken for our society as a whole. We all benefit from music. And I believe we as a society want that music to come from as wide and deep and rich and varied sources as exist. How could we not?
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The Dodgers have committed more than $1bn to just two players but Atlanta are a brilliant all-round team while the young Orioles are posed to shine
Baseball has always been unfair. It wasnat afaira when players were bound to the same teams for their whole careers, and it isnat afaira that the Dodgers spend so much more than the Athletics. But Iam more concerned about the many teams that could be spending more but abstain. AK
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Study the Formula One images for clues and see if you can steer yourself to a decent finish by guessing the correct tracks
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Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft ground
A number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.
Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level.
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US called for fair legal process for opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal amid claims that challengers to Narendra Modi are being targeted ahead of national elections
India has summoned a top US diplomat after Washington warned it to ensure a afair, transparent and timely legal processa for a senior opposition leader jailed just weeks ahead of parliamentary elections.
The US state department had said it was aclosely watchinga events after Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, was arrested last week in connection with a long-running corruption investigation.
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On 28 March itas the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.
Read an obituary of Sir Anthony Epstein, who died in February 2024
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The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charm
The cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling-loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightina machines. Itas been eight years since Kung Fu Panda 3, and on the evidence here, the delay canat be put down to KFP4 being a labour of love, the product of animation studio DreamWorksa A team pouring in enormous amounts of effort. Itas a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and charm of the franchise at its best. It failed the wriggle test on my seven-year-old cinema date, who was squirming in her seat around the hour mark.
The plot is a bit overfussy for its target audience of small kids, though the scriptwriters have been careful to make it work for newbies a no previous Kung Fu Panda experience necessary. It opens with Po being promoted from his role as Dragon Warrior to spiritual leader of the valley, taking over from his mentor Shifu (Dustin Hoffman a no expense has been spared on the vocal cast). But before he can appoint his successor, Po apprehends Zhen (Awkwafina), a streetwise thieving fox. The two of them make a brilliant double act: Black is adorable, Awkwafina terrific as the cynical wisecracker.
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A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s aplot geniesa for coming up with storylines
Hark. The end is nigh. aIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,a writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. aToday, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.a Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and a increasingly a bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of aepoch-making transformationsa and an imminent arevolution in human affairsa.
Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New Yorkas Columbia University, isnat nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book a do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? a that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler, Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, itas a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct athe modern chatbot from parts found on the workbench of historya using astrings of anecdote and light philosophical commentarya.
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In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamotoas last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet itas a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before head die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamotoas son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or a| we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life. We had all that in an earlier documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda. In Opus it is the music, played by the man himself, that is completely sufficient to the moment and all that remains, with the occasional very human stumbles and missed notes. When he says he needs a break for a while, exhausted by a performance, the strain is painfully visible, audible, practically palpable.
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