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• Sunday Express editor David Wooding departs Reach amid further job cuts

  16-11-2024 02:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Wooding left as part of a move to dismantle the remaining dedicated Sunday Express editorial team to create a seven-day operationThe Sunday Express editor, David Wooding, has become the latest top editorial executive to depart Reach, as the national and regional newspaper publisher embarks on further job cuts despite a promise its rounds of redundancies were finished.Wooding, who left his role as assistant politics editor at the Sun to take up the role in August 2022, has left as part of a move
  
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• Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano rematch, followed by Jake Paul v Mike Tyson – live

  16-11-2024 03:01 via theguardian.com
  Taylor and Serrano meet on Paul v Tyson undercardGlobal audience of 300m expected for Netflix broadcastMain event ringwalks expected after 11pm ET/4am GMTPaul v Tyson: all of your pre-fight questions, answeredSend Bryan a tweet at @BryanAGraham or email himIs Jake Paul v Mike Tyson for real? It’s the most common question we’ve fielded over the past few weeks. And the answer is, technically, yes. Unlike many of the similar novelty bouts throughout boxing history, the fight between Pau
  
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• Houses in national parks in England and Wales sell for 25% more, study finds

  16-11-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Nationwide says New Forest is most expensive national park with an average property price of £576,000Buying a home in a national park comes at a 25% price premium, with the New Forest the most expensive of the 13 parks in England and Wales, according to Britain’s biggest building society.Nationwide said properties in a national park enjoy a valuation almost £67,000 more than a similar property elsewhere, based on the average UK house price of £266,640.New Forest – &
  
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• Pregnant cow rescued after getting stuck in swimming pool in Rutland

  16-11-2024 00:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The 600kg animal was in the deep end and it took Leicestershire firefighters three hours to get her out safelyA pregnant cow has had to be rescued by firefighters after she got stuck in a small swimming pool.The 590kg (93-stone) cow was found in the deep end of the pool in two to three feet of water at a house in Ketton, Rutland. Continue reading...
  
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• Past lives: stepping back in time in small-town Victoria – in pictures

  16-11-2024 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Melbourne-based photographer Charlie Kinross has spent the past five years capturing the charm of old houses, shops, motels, service stations and silos in towns across country Victoria. Over this period he has noticed some buildings have been updated and modernised, further fuelling his passion to document their timeless authenticity before they disappearHead On portrait prize 2024 – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Workers affected by Port Talbot closures to get up to £10,000 to start businesses

  15-11-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Welsh secretary to announce £80m funding to help 2,800 Tata steelworkers and local economyPort Talbot steelworkers and their families affected by the closure of furnaces will be entitled to grants of up to £10,000 to start businesses, the Welsh secretary will announce on Saturday.As Labour holds its annual Welsh conference in Llandudno, Jo Stevens will say the government is funding £80m to help 2,800 Tata steelworkers and local businesses. Continue reading...
  
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• With the Tories beaten, Labour’s next threat comes from even further right

  15-11-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Reform may well be Labour’s new main opponent, and the next battleground may not be where anyone expectedTwo key rules of politics are to always look ahead, and to understand your opponent. And so it is that just months after crushing the Conservatives in a general election, many Labour MPs are bracing for fresh challenges and a new foe – Reform UK.Nigel Farage’s party is in parliamentary terms a minnow, its five MPs giving it little more than 1% of the Commons strength enjoyed
  
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• England and Spain draw as respect shines through on path to progress

  15-11-2024 23:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Stars of tomorrow, including under-21 debutant Jobe Bellingham, swap shirts and stories in goalless friendlyDean Huijsen revived an old tradition here. When was the last time you saw a footballer not just swap shirts with his opponent but immediately put it on too? As the final whistle went, the Bournemouth defender who was born in Amsterdam but represents Spain where he was raised, made straight for Samuel Iling-Junior who, like him, had played at Juventus. He moved like a young man on a missio
  
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• Ireland hold off Argentina’s fightback after making rapid start

  15-11-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Ireland 22-19 ArgentinaThree first-half tries enough for Andy Farrell’s sideJeopardy is a word with plenty of currency in rugby these days. Mostly it is used in reference to how competitions are structured, but also in describing individual matches. This one had plenty. Not always evident, especially in the first half when Ireland looked a good deal better than against the All Blacks a week ago. But the race down the home straight, with Argentina a man down, had heaps of it. When at last t
  
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• McGinn ends Scotland’s drought with Nations League winner against Croatia

  15-11-2024 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve Clarke and Scotland had suffered what seemed an interminable wait for this. Seventeen months had passed between the win over Georgia and this late show against Croatia. In that period, Scotland had not tasted victory at Hampden Park.The wider, ominous record sat at one win in 16 games until John McGinn stepped from among Clarke’s substitutes to break the resistance of 10-man Croatia. McGinn may have earned the points but this was the night Ben Doak came of age on the international sc
  
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• Raducanu and Boulter take Britain through at Billie Jean King Cup finals

  15-11-2024 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Fit-again Emma Raducanu beats Jule Niemeier 6-4, 6-4Katie Boulter closes out 2-0 win against GermanyIt has been seven months since Emma Raducanu led Great Britain to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals. So much has happened since then, from a gradual rise back up the rankings to further frustrating injuries, and she arrived in Malaga this week at a different point in her development. As she stepped up to the baseline on Friday evening, it was unclear how her form would hold under pressure after a tw
  
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• Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded OpenAI lawsuit

  15-11-2024 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Billionaire alleges Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize AI market and sideline competitorsElon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer, Microsoft, as a defendant.Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, California, said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and
  
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• London nightclub Heaven closed after security guard charged with rape

  15-11-2024 22:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Licence suspended for 28 days after Morenikeji Adewole, 47, was charged with rape on WednesdayOne of London’s most prominent nightclubs has been forced to close after a member of security staff was charged with rape, the Metropolitan police said.Westminster council’s licensing committee ruled on Friday that Heaven’s alcohol licence should be suspended for up to 28 days after a woman was allegedly raped in the vicinity of the venue in the early hours of 1 November. Continue read
  
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• Streeting warns Britons against having cheap cosmetic surgery abroad

  15-11-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Wes Streeting speaks out after deaths in Turkey among women travelling for procedures such as butt liftsBritons should resist the temptation to have cosmetic surgery abroad at “rock-bottom” prices in case they are harmed by substandard care, the health secretary has said.Wes Streeting spoke out after a spate of deaths among women who had travelled to Turkey for aesthetic treatment such as a Brazilian butt lift (BBL). Continue reading...
  
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• The Scouse Red Riding Hood review – Grandma gets high in raucous adult panto

  15-11-2024 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal Court, Liverpool
  Wolf-like property developers are set to evict the grandmother, who is on a night of drug-fuelled abandon, in this enjoyable showThis is Liverpool, so the most frightening set of teeth are those of Cilla Black. Every time the baddies look at them we hear a round of Anyone Who Had a Heart. Laced with poison, they could be fatal.Did I say Liverpool? I should have said Lidlpool, a city where the middle aisle can save the day and where, in Kevin Fearon’s raucous script,
  
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• Saudi Arabia’s World Cup: how close could Fifa get to corporate manslaughter?

  15-11-2024 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a country where thousands of migrant workers have died since 2016 a huge building project lies ahead. December’s coronation will stand as surely the most wretched, bloody, damaging act in the history of global organised sport“People will die.”
  Amnesty International“You can never say again that you did not know.”
  William Wilberforce Continue reading...
  
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• Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California

  15-11-2024 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August discovery of the ‘doomsday fish’For the second time this year an oarfish, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, reported that last week that one of its PhD students came across a specimen roughly nine to 10ft long on a beach in Encinitas i
  
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• Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA and NYPD for $100m over his murder

  15-11-2024 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawsuit alleges law enforcement agencies knew of plot to kill civil rights leader but did not act to stop itThe family of Malcolm X, the militant civil rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100m federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department (NYPD) of allowing his murder.The lawsuit, brought by Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz and other family members, alleges the law enforcement agencies concealed evidence they kne
  
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• UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds

  15-11-2024 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked diseaseThe UK’s growing addiction to unhealthy food costs £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, the first research into the subject has found.The increased consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar or which have been highly processed is having a “devastating” impact on human health and Britain’s finances.The market in ultra-processed foo
  
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• Freddie Steward’s selection can strengthen England in defence and in attack | Ugo Monye

  15-11-2024 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve Borthwick’s team always kick a lot but they must use the ball well to have a chance against these brilliant South AfricansThe kicking duel is going to be pivotal at Twickenham on Saturday. South Africa have said they’ve been expecting it all along and it’s what they’re going to get. Over to England – don’t disappoint. It might not be as aesthetically pleasing, maybe the impetus to win becomes greater as a result, but the thinking is obvious if you cast b
  
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• Netanyahu aide questioned over alleged tampering with 7 October phone records

  15-11-2024 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Police investigate claim that Israeli PM’s chief of staff changed recorded time of call made about Hamas attacksA top aide of Benjamin Netanyahu has been questioned by police investigating reports of alterations made to official records of phone calls involving the Israeli prime minister on the morning of the 7 October attacks.Israeli media reported that Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, is suspected of changing the recorded time of a conversation the prime minister held
  
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• New Brunswick premier calls on Canadian government to investigate mysterious brain illness

  15-11-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Previous provincial government said most patients were misdiagnosed and instead had dementia or cancerThe newly elected premier of New Brunswick has called on Canada’s federal government to aid in a “full, open scientific investigation” into the mysterious brain illness that has plagued the province for years, in a move that those suffering from the condition hope could finally bring answers.“We need to conduct a thorough investigation into what is making people sick,&rdq
  
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• Derbyshire teenager who shook girlfriend’s baby to death jailed for life

  15-11-2024 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Carl Alesbrook, now 19, unanimously convicted of murder over death of four-month-old Elijah ShemwellA teenager who shook his girlfriend’s baby to death has been jailed for life.Carl Alesbrook, who is now 19, was unanimously convicted of murder after breaking the ribs of four-month-old Elijah Shemwell and causing him “catastrophic” brain injuries when he was left alone with the infant as a 16-year-old in January 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• Lee Carsley urges England to follow Germany and Spain’s trust in youth

  15-11-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Interim manager backs promotion of under-21 playersCarsley: youngsters who faced Greece ‘in good position’Lee Carsley believes England will have a better chance of glory if they follow Germany and Spain in promoting players who have won trophies at youth level.Carsley, who steps aside for Thomas Tuchel after Sunday’s home game against the Republic of Ireland, has not been afraid to bring in inexperienced players during his spell as interim head coach. Continue reading...
  
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• Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence

  15-11-2024 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Revealed: more than 100 executives given special guest badges as activists challenge role of oil and gas firms at talksThe host country of this year’s UN climate summit, Azerbaijan, has rolled out “red carpet” treatment to fossil fuel bosses and lobbyists, the Guardian can reveal.At least 132 oil and gas company senior executives and staff were invited to the Cop29 summit, and had special badges denoting they were guests of the presidency. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump’s administration and White House staffing picks and likely contenders – so far

  15-11-2024 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  A look at those who have been and could be offered key positions when Trump takes officeDonald Trump, the former US president set to return to the White House in January for a second term, has begun making selections for his administration, opting for those who have displayed loyalty over those with deep experience.Trump has tasked Howard Lutnick, a longtime friend, with recruiting officials who will deliver, rather than dilute, his agenda. During his first term, several of Trump’s key app
  
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• Scholz’s call with Putin will open ‘Pandora’s box’, Zelenskyy says

  15-11-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president says talk between German and Russian leaders on war will reduce Putin’s isolationVolodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that a telephone conversation between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin will open a “Pandora’s box”, after the German chancellor and the Russian leader discussed the war in Ukraine in a rare call on Friday.Scholz urged his Russian counterpart to withdraw troops from Ukraine and negotiate with Kyiv to achieve a just and lasting peace, in the firs
  
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• RFK Jr could have disastrous global impact on public health, experts fear

  15-11-2024 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventionsThe appointment of a US health secretary with anti-vaccine views could cause deaths and have profound consequences around the world, global health experts fear.Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for the position, has a history of spreading misinformation on vaccines and questioning the science of HIV and Aids. Continue reading...
  
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• Met officer sacked for gross misconduct after accessing Sarah Everard files

  15-11-2024 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Myles McHugh, one of three officers found guilty of gross misconduct over files, is dismissed without noticeA serving Metropolitan police officer has been sacked after accessing confidential files about the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.PC Myles McHugh was among three officers who were found to have committed gross misconduct at a three-week disciplinary tribunal in south-east London. Continue reading...
  
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• Biden now has his best opening to end Israel’s war on Gaza – and won’t use it | Mohamad Bazzi

  15-11-2024 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Biden is as free from political constraints as he’s ever been. Yet he has chosen to seal his legacy as Israel’s tepid enablerWhen the histories of his administration are written, it will be clear that Joe Biden held on to his callous disregard for Palestinians until the end of his presidency. How else to explain why Biden would refuse a final chance to stop Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and save Palestinian lives, when he has nothing to lose?On Tuesday, the Biden administration q
  
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