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iPhone X review roundup: Face ID works well but notch irritates some
via theguardian.comFirst reviews are in and the consensus is positive, particularly around the new OLED screen, but some flaws in both design and software have been notedApple’s most expensive smartphone, the £999 iPhone X, is almost ready to land in stores and a few publications specially selected by Apple have been given early access to the phone. So what do they think? Is the iPhone X really the “future of smartphones”?The iPhone X has an all-screen front design with a 5.8in OLED screen, -
Andrew Bridgen must pay Matt Hancock legal fees of £40,000 in libel claim
via theguardian.comHigh court strikes out part but not all of Bridgen’s case and orders him to pay Tory MP’s costsThe MP Andrew Bridgen has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock more than £40,000 in legal fees after an early stage of their libel battle.The MP for North West Leicestershire is bringing a libel claim against the former health secretary regarding a January 2023 message on X that followed Bridgen posting a comment about Covid-19 vaccines. Continue reading... -
Punxsutawney Phil and partner Phyllis welcome two baby groundhogs
via theguardian.com‘We had no idea,’ handlers say, as Pennsylvania groundhog who predicts when winter will end and partner spring surprise The weather-predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and his partner Phyllis have sprung a surprise nobody saw coming: welcoming two baby groundhogs into the world.In a post on Wednesday, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle of Pennsylvania announced the news, saying: “We have babies!” Continue reading... -
Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit
via theguardian.comPhotos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observersIf the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel Macron’s three-day trip to Brazil has been more romantic getaway than international diplomacy.The French president, who ended his tour of the South American country on Thursday with a state visit to the capital, Brasília, prompted online hilarity after the publication of photos showing him being particul -
Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review – from hoedown to full-blown genre throwdown
via theguardian.com(Parkwood/Columbia)
Straying far beyond its original country concept, the musician’s eighth album straddles the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the blues – and Becky with the Good Hair via Dolly Parton’s JoleneAmerican Requiem, the opening track of Beyoncé’s eighth studio album, is many things. It offers a touch of state-of-the-nation address – “Can we stand for something? Now is the time to face the wind” – and a sprinkling of the kind of vague bu -
Women’s Champions League: Bonmatí leads Barcelona towards Chelsea semi
via theguardian.comQuarter-final second leg: Barcelona 3-1 Brann (5-2 agg)Fridolina Rolfö and Patricia Guijarro also on scoresheetChelsea will face Barcelona in their Women’s Champions League semi-final after the Spanish side secured a 3-1 second-leg last-eight victory over Brann to win 5-2 on aggregate.Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí opened the scoring for the defending champions inside 24 minutes at Barcelona’s Johan Cruyff Stadium, displaying brilliant control of the ball at the -
Orkney shop owner raises £3,000 for charity after Easter egg error
via theguardian.comDan Dafydd, who accidentally ordered 80 cases of eggs, aims to raise £20,000 for the RNLI by Easter SundayFor a small shop owner on a small island as far as mistakes go, Dan Dafydd’s was a pretty big one leaving him with quite a dilemma: how do you get rid of 80 cases of Easter eggs when you meant to order only 80 eggs?For Dafydd, the owner of Sinclair General Stores on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands (population approximately 500), the 720 eggs were enough to feed everyone almost -
45 dead as bus plunges from bridge into ravine in South Africa
via theguardian.comOnly survivor after vehicle falls and catches fire is eight-year-old taken to hospital with serious injuriesAn eight-year-old child was the sole survivor after a bus carrying 46 people fell from a bridge in South Africa into a ravine and caught fire.The child, who has not been named, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, the transport ministry said in a statement late on Thursday. Continue reading... -
‘Everything is possible’: YMCA football team’s rise to Norwegian top flight
via theguardian.comOslo community club KFUM will make their Eliteserien debut next week after an incredible rise through the divisionsFootball’s ability to conjure ridiculous stories is legion, but even so the one about the YMCA club in Norway’s Eliteserien is ridiculous. Yet that is exactly where KFUM-Kameratene Oslo find themselves: on Tuesday, they make their top-flight debut with a home game against HamKam.Though KFUM remain a local community club – their ground holds only 3,000 and is access -
Businessman who donated £5m to Tories gets knighthood
via theguardian.comMohamed Mansour, a Conservative senior treasurer, is one of several surprise recipients of honoursA businessman and former Egyptian government minister who donated £5m to the Conservative party last year has unexpectedly been given a knighthood on the recommendation of Rishi Sunak.Mohamed Mansour, a senior treasurer of the Conservative party for just over a year, was one of several surprise recipients of honours on Thursday, with the citation saying it was given for business, charity and p -
‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting
via theguardian.comFormer PM’s meeting with President Maduro, in capacity as hedge fund consultant, is under further scrutinyLabour is demanding answers over what the party said was “potentially serious impropriety” by Boris Johnson after it emerged that the former prime minister met the Venezuelan president in his role as a consultant for a hedge fund.Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said in a letter to Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister and Cabinet Office minister, -
Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies
via theguardian.comUnion says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrestStaff at Goldsmiths, University of London have voted to strike over plans for an “almost incomprehensible” number of redundancies, a trade union has announced.More than 87% of University and College Union (UCU) members at the south London institution voted for strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 69%, as well as backing action short of a strike, such as a boycott on marking -
Helen Glover: ‘People write about you as a different breed – that goes to another level as a mum’
via theguardian.comDouble Olympic champion is ‘super-chilled’ despite juggling rowing with parenting as she eyes another medal in ParisIt’s 1pm on a Wednesday afternoon, and Helen Glover has just wrapped up training for the day. This is the one half-day in her working week, which runs from half-six on Monday morning till half-two on Saturday afternoon, but she still needs to pick up the kids at three, just as she does every school day, so these next couple of hours are the only ones she has to he -
Protesters deliver letter to Garrick Club condemning exclusion of women
via theguardian.comDozens of lawyers and an MP sign letter attacking club as ‘a symbol of exclusivity, a bastion of power maintained by the privileged few’Protesters demanding women be admitted to the men-only Garrick Club have delivered an open letter to its members saying discrimination on the grounds of sex is “nothing short of scandalous”.The move came after the Bar Council said exclusive members’ clubs created “the potential for unfair advantage”, with the Garrick&rsq -
Labour looks to local polls as dress rehearsal for general election
via theguardian.comMayoral races may be important indicator of Starmer’s political momentum as party seeks to turn 20-point national lead into resultsIf a telltale sign of a politician’s confidence is how willingly they expose themselves to direct media scrutiny, then the likely narrative of May’s local elections was on full view on Thursday in Dudley.While Rishi Sunak had followed his Conservative launch speech last Friday with the strictly controlled and limited format of a brief TV clip, Keir -
‘He knew it was wrong’: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud
via theguardian.comJudge orders disgraced crypto mogul to forfeit $11bn in assets and says he showed no remorse for his crimesSam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul who perpetrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11bn in assets. His lawyer reiterated a pledge to appeal the sentence the same day.The judge, Lewis Kaplan, issued the penalty in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday. Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of -
Thames Water on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat
via theguardian.comAfter regulator resists 40% increase in bills, shareholders deny request for more money – raising prospect of nationalisation• Who will win in standoff between Thames’s investors and watchdog?Thames Water appears to be on the road to nationalisation after its investors signalled they were unwilling to pump more money into the debt-laden utilities company, amid a standoff with the regulator and the government over raising customers’ bills.Britain’s biggest water suppl -
Workers were on break in cars when Baltimore bridge collapsed, wife of survivor says
via theguardian.com‘We don’t know if they were warned before the impact,’ says wife of one ofeight construction workers who was on the bridgeThe construction workers who were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday were on break in their cars, according to the wife of one of the construction workers who survived.Speaking to NBC on Thursday, the wife of Julio Cervantes, one of the eight construction workers who was on the bridge when it collapsed, said: &ldq -
Queer artists call on Olly Alexander to boycott Eurovision over Israel participation
via theguardian.comMaxine Peake and Sarah Schulman among signatories of open letter asking singer to withdraw from contest More than 450 queer artists, individuals and organisations have called on the UK’s Eurovision contestant, Olly Alexander, to boycott this year’s competition in solidarity with Palestine.The actor Maxine Peake and the novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman are among the signatories of the open letter calling on the singer to withdraw from the contest in May due to the conflict in Ga -
England's ludicrous experiment in privatised water is coming to a messy end | Adam Almeida
via theguardian.comIf Thames Water collapses in the weeks ahead, there is only one smart, long-term response: public ownership• Adam Almeida is a senior data analyst at the thinktank Common WealthThe question mark over the future of Britain’s largest water supplier, Thames Water, has put its 16 million customers across London and south-east England – myself included – in an uncertain position. While water will still keep coming out of our taps, the price of these financial woes will probably -
Latvia’s top diplomat steps down after flights scandal
via theguardian.comKrišjānis Kariņš allegedly spent up to €1.3m on private jet rentals for official tripsKrišjānis Kariņš, the Latvian foreign minister, has said he will step down after a scandal over his use of state funds to pay for private flights during his time as prime minister.Last week, Latvia’s prosecutor general opened an investigation into the misuse of state funds after it was revealed that Kariņš had allegedly spent up to €1.3 -
Wishing John Crace and the NHS a good recovery | Letters
via theguardian.comReaders respond to an article by the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer about his heart attack, and share similar stories of their ownThank you to John Crace for this article (‘Is this how I die?’ John Crace on his terrifying heart attack, 21 March). It has allowed me to start the process of accepting that although my two heart attacks on Christmas Day 2022 were mild and sorted by some stents, they were still serious. Surrounded by men on my ward who were recovering from, o -
Dementia is not a living death – I’m very much alive | Letter
via theguardian.comWilly Gilder thinks the latest Alzheimer’s Society ad campaign is a mistake and would like to see it withdrawnThe chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society has sought to justify its new ad campaign, The Long Goodbye, by saying that it “tells the unvarnished truth about the devastation caused by dementia”. It isn’t a truth that I, as a person with Alzheimer’s disease, recognise. The ad shows a family mourning their mum, and saying that she died several times i -
Ben Jennings on why Rishi Sunak fears crossing the road – cartoon
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The Guardian view on the future of the BBC: uncertain but necessary and all to play for | Editorial
via theguardian.comHearts and minds must be won in the run-up to the renegotiation of a charter that will determine the next decade of public service broadcastingWith just three years to go until the renewal of its charter, after 14 years of political assaults and in a time of convulsive change, the BBC has to prove its fitness for the next 10 years of public service broadcasting. Hence a wide-ranging speech this week by its director general, Tim Davie, outlining the way forward. Opinions vary as to whether this w -
The Guardian view on public spending: governments should invest in people as well as things | Editorial
via theguardian.comRules that favour spending on physical infrastructure over the public sector workforce should be overhauledThe UK’s public services are in a state of near-collapse. Increased spending on health, care and social security is desperately needed, as the latest shocking poverty figures make painfully obvious. But while the NHS regularly tops voters’ lists of concerns, and a majority of the public favours higher spending, most people do not pay much attention to the technical details of go -
‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid
via theguardian.comJudges issue unanimous decision and say Palestinians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistanceMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to allow unimpeded access of food aid into Gaza, where sections of the population are facing imminent starvation, in a significant legal rebuke to Israel’s claim it is not blocking aid deliveries.A panel of judges at the UN’s top court, which is already considering a complaint from South Africa t -
Arvind Kejriwal: the Delhi chief minister jailed by Modi’s government
via theguardian.comLeader of India’s Common Man party has spent his career rooting out everyday corruption and is now in jail weeks before general election beginsIndia summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister’s arrestWhen Arvind Kejriwal emerged on to India’s political scene in 2011, he was an outsider with over a decade of activism behind him. Today he is one of the country’s most recognised opposition leaders and his political party governs two powerful states.Yet Kejriwal&r -
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
via theguardian.comAfghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activistsThe Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the da -
US repeatedly warned Russia ahead of Moscow attack, White House says
via theguardian.comNational security spokesperson says US passed on warnings and dismissed Russian allegations Ukraine was involved as ‘nonsense’The US repeatedly alerted Russia that extremists were planning to attack large gatherings in Moscow ahead of last week’s concert hall attack that claimed more than 140 lives, the White House has said.The national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said on Thursday that US officials passed on warnings – including one in writing – and dismissed
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