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• Reeves plays down digital ID U-turn as Tories and Lib Dems criticise PM’s ‘spinelessness’ – UK politics live

  14-01-2026 11:29 via theguardian.com
  Ministers have rolled back central element of digital ID plans, possibly allowing people to use other forms of identification to prove their right to workHere are extracts from three interesting comment articles about the digital ID U-turn.Ailbhe Rea in the New Statesman in the New Statesmans says there were high hopes for the policy when it was first announced.I remember a leisurely lunch over the summer when a supporter of digital IDs told me how they thought Keir Starmer would reset his premi
  
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• Blinded by the lights – driving in the LED era: the Stephen Collins cartoon

  14-01-2026 11:27 via theguardian.com
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• Iran’s judiciary vows fast trials for arrested protesters despite Trump threats – live

  14-01-2026 11:26 via theguardian.com
  US president says ‘help is on its way’, as reported death toll rises into the thousands For the first time in days, Iranians were able to make calls abroad from their mobiles on Tuesday, according to reporting by Associated Press. Texting services have not been restored, however, and nor has the internet.Although Iranians were able to call abroad, they could not receive calls from outside the country, several people in the capital told Associated Press. The internet remained blocked,
  
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• Denmark and Greenland prepare for US talks as Trump says territory’s PM has a ‘big problem’ – Europe live

  14-01-2026 11:22 via theguardian.com
  US president says of Jens-Frederik Nielsen: ‘I don’t know anything about him, but this is going to be a big problem for him’in MadridSpain’s foreign minister José Manuel Albares refused to be drawn on whether a US invasion of Greenland would spell the end of Nato, but told El País newspaper:“We’ve made our position clear: like sovereignty, territorial integrity is part of international law. And this is not merely an intellectual construct; it&rsq
  
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• Watchdog to criticise West Midlands police over Maccabi Tel Aviv ban

  14-01-2026 11:16 via theguardian.com
  Policing inspectorate to say force made series of errors in how it gathered and handled intelligenceUK politics live – latest updatesWest Midlands police will be criticised in a report about their handling of intelligence used to justify banning Israeli fans from a football game in Birmingham, the Guardian understands.The inquiry was ordered by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and carried out by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, the policing inspectorate. Continue readi
  
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• Pro License admission barriers allow women’s coaching opportunities to go ‘down the drain’

  14-01-2026 11:05 via theguardian.com
  Uefa’s limitations have set hurdles for women keen to take the next step in coaching despite the increasing demandMariana Cabral has a coaching CV to be proud of. Born on the small Azores island of São Miguel, she has been in charge of the women’s teams at clubs including Benfica and Sporting, but the 38-year-old is frustrated. “We want more women coaches,” she says. “Who won the Euros? Who won the Champions League? Women – but we are losing so many.&rd
  
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• From Ralph Fiennes to Jeffrey Wright: the most overlooked performances this awards season

  14-01-2026 11:02 via theguardian.com
  Jessie Buckley and Timothée Chalamet might be winning all of the awards but as Oscar voting begins, these actors also deserve inclusionEvery January, if not earlier, awards narratives leading up to the Oscars take shape. While the specifics of the Academy Award nominations are never known in advance, and can always be counted on for some surprises when they’re actually unveiled, critics and pundits and fans all enter into that final stretch with a pretty good idea of who won’t
  
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• Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn

  14-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits“Since discovering Grok AI, regular porn doesn’t do it for me anymore, it just sounds absurd now,” one enthusiast for the Elon Musk-owned AI chatbot wrote on Reddit. Another agreed: “If I want a really specific person, yes.”If those who have been horrified by the distribution of sexualised imagery on Grok hoped that last week’s belated safeguards cou
  
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• Sali Hughes on beauty: if you don’t like strong scents, layering could be the answer

  14-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Looking for something gentle and kind for a sensitive nose? The new gen Z brands have you coveredFor someone who makes no secret of her obsession with fragrance, I’m always surprised by how frequently people ask me to recommend one for someone who hates the stuff.Sometimes wearing more potent fragrances is impossible for those prone to allergies or migraines, but mostly it’s an instinctive aversion to being held captive all day by scent too pervasive for one’s liking.
  
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• Iran’s footballers face battle to be heard as regime brutally clamps down on protests

  14-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  For Mehdi Taremi and others playing abroad, showing solidarity with their home nation can mean threats and possible detentionMehdi Taremi did what he does best. On Saturday, the Iranian striker turned inside the area and scored for Olympiakos, a well-taken eighth goal of the season for the 33-year-old that clinched a 2-0 win at Atromitos and a place at the top of the Greek Super League. Usually, millions of people in Iran follow every step of Taremi’s European career, one that took off wit
  
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• I am terrible at football – but love playing. Can I change my game completely in my mid-30s?

  14-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  For fifteen years I have been devoted to the sport, but can still barely tackle or shoot. I decided to get a coach and give him the challenge of a lifetimeIf I told you I have played football for 15 years, you’d probably assume that I’m decent. Unfortunately, I am not. I have three left feet and a not-very-convincing shot on goal. Despite how many years I have put into the sport, these things show little to no improvement.I play football for the joy of it: the rush of the first whist
  
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• ‘I knew these photos wouldn’t be published for decades’: gay cruising in New York – in pictures

  14-01-2026 10:54 via theguardian.com
  In 1969, Arthur Tress started making images at an overgrown corner of Central Park known as the Ramble – the beginning of an archive of a transitional period in queer culture Continue reading...
  
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• Think panto season is behind you? Oh no it isn’t – some haven’t opened yet

  14-01-2026 10:37 via theguardian.com
  A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and even run later in the yearThe Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school and new year resolutions are already forgotten. It’s the middle of January and the festive season is well and truly over – but not in panto-land. Pantomimes are still running in Liverpool, at the city’s Royal Court and Everyman theatres, and at Theatr Clwyd in Mold, among other venues. But do
  
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• With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong | Ed Miliband

  14-01-2026 10:30 via theguardian.com
  The only way that Britain’s energy bills can come down is if we are no longer reliant on fossil fuels. Today marks a big step towards that goalOffshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auctionIn the 18 months since I became energy secretary, the government has made a simple argument: that if we want to bring down energy bills for good, Britain needs to get off the rollercoaster of fossil fuels and instead build up clean homegrown power that we control.We k
  
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• Football transfer rumours: Chelsea to swoop for West Ham’s Lucas Paquetá?

  14-01-2026 10:27 via theguardian.com
  Today’s tell-all has got its ducks in a rowLiam Rosenior has been Chelsea manager for a whole week without making a signing. That is bound to be remedied soon enough, and one name that has been bandied about is that of Lucas Paquetá. The Brazilian midfielder is set to leave West Ham in this transfer window having has said he wants to leave the Premier League and join Flamengo because of his disillusionment with how he was treated over the spot-fixing allegations of which he was clea
  
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• Economic conflicts are world’s greatest risk, WEF survey suggests

  14-01-2026 10:15 via theguardian.com
  Extreme weather events and biodiversity loss identified as the biggest global threats over a 10-year timeframeEconomic conflicts between major powers are the greatest risk facing the world over the next two years, according to experts polled ahead of next week’s Davos summit.Among 1,300 business leaders, academics and civil society figures surveyed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “geoeconomic confrontation” was identified as the most pressing threat. Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix ‘plans to switch to all-cash offer to seal $83bn Warner Bros deal’

  14-01-2026 10:12 via theguardian.com
  Aim is to speed up acquisition of WBD studio and streaming businesses and hold off rival Paramount bidNetflix is reportedly preparing to switch to an all-cash offer to seal its takeover of the studios and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), as it tries to speed up the deal and fend off a rival hostile bid from Paramount Skydance.The changes to Netflix’s $83bn (£62bn) offer, first reported by Bloomberg, are designed to accelerate the acquisition, which is expected to
  
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• The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence

  14-01-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn’t checked in. “We’ll find her. She wouldn&rsqu
  
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• Bulk review – Ben Wheatley’s quirky sci-fi brings small-budget charm to big questions

  14-01-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Wheatley’s engaging tale sends Sam Riley’s tough-guy reporter to the home of a reclusive oligarch who has invented a ‘Brain Collider’On a modest budget, director Ben Wheatley gives us a retro sci-fi with much tongue-in-cheek paranoia, questioning of reality and proliferation of multiverses, and featuring comic-book dialogue that’s been re-recorded, giving the whole thing a sheen of dreamlike unreality. There’s also a lot of quirky lo-fi special effects work wi
  
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• Windrush and the rise of wandering Caribbean cricket clubs that fuelled talent in English game

  14-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Their history was in danger of being lost but a new book and project has put together an archive documenting such vibrant contributions to the gameIn the early 1980s there were scores of “Caribbean” cricket clubs playing across England, many of them bearing evocative names such as New Calypsonians, Island Taverners, Paragon, Starlight and Carib United.Mostly these clubs operated under the radar – as wandering sides renting pitches on municipal grounds that were outside the trad
  
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• The Knowledge | Which football teams have scored after being reduced to eight players?

  14-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Plus: high-ranking nations where Ballon d’Or winners have never played and an own-goal scoring hat-trick heroMail us with your questions and answers“Last month, Lazio scored a late winner (in the 82nd minute) against Parma despite having two players sent off earlier in the game,” writes Bogdan Kotarlic. “I wonder if any team has scored a goal (or maybe more) with eight players and with three players receiving red cards before that?”There’s only one place to st
  
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• Pole to Pole With Will Smith review – every single moment is gorgeous or thrilling

  14-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  It may feel like a redemption tour, but the star’s epic jolly across seven continents is consistently funny, moving and quite frankly breathtakingHollywood stars – they’re just like us! Except that when we want to go on a massive jolly/rehabilitative journey for ourselves and/or our careers, we have to pay for it. And we generally cannot go on a 100-day adventure across seven continents, with experts on hand to introduce us to their indigenous inhabitants, talk us through world
  
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• I'm taking eight months' paternity leave – and it's changing my relationship with my children | Ilyas Nagdee

  14-01-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  I’ll never tire of witnessing many ‘firsts’ for my second-born, but this is a luxury that should be afforded to everyone, not just those who can pay for itWhen I told people I was taking more than eight months of parental leave, the main reactions I got were: “What are you going to do with all that time?” and “won’t you get bored?” These questions came from every direction – including health professionals involved in my wife’s pregnancy
  
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• Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction

  14-01-2026 08:25 via theguardian.com
  Subsidies guaranteeing price for each unit of clean electricity generated given to 12 renewables projectsWill Great Britain’s offshore wind subsidy auction mean lower energy bills?Ed Miliband: With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrongA make-or-break auction for the UK government’s goal to create a clean electricity system by 2030 has awarded subsidy contracts to enough offshore windfarms to power a record 12m homes.In Great Britain’s m
  
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• Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s

  14-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in AustraliaWes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to his officials in his push for the UK to consider following a landmark ban in Australia.The health secretary has invited Haidt to address an event with staff, charities and MPs after the prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he was open to stricter li
  
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• Trump’s planned limits on US property investing could spur foray into UK housing market

  14-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes in US raises concerns institutions could deepen housing crisis on BritainLeading US investors and private equity firms could step up their foray into UK new-build housing after Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional companies from buying single-family homes in the US, raising concerns that investors could “cut corners and increase rents”.The US president said last week that he would ask Congress to codify the measure as h
  
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• The UK tax return deadline is looming – here’s how to get yours done

  14-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  If you rush it because 31 January is on the horizon you are likely to make mistakes, or not have everything you needThe deadline is 31 January, but don’t put it off – try to set aside enough time over the next few days to complete your tax return for the tax year that ran from 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025. Continue reading...
  
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• Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy – the follow-up to I’m Glad My Mom Died

  14-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Family trauma shapes a student’s affair with her teacher in this bleak and funny fiction debut from the American memoiristWhen it was published in 2022, Jennette McCurdy’s memoir lit a touchpaper to a nascent cultural conversation. I’m Glad My Mom Died introduced her mother Debra’s narcissistic personality disorder into a world eager to discuss adult child and parent estrangement. McCurdy had also suffered sexual abuse, and claimed her mother had contributed to her develo
  
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• ‘Bless you, Alfred Wainwright … and you, Rishi Sunak’: England’s Coast to Coast walk gets an upgrade

  14-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The multi-day trail between the Cumbria and North Yorkshire coasts is one of Britain’s most popular, and now upgrades, path repairs and trail officers aim to preserve it for future generationsA soft breeze tickled the waters of Innominate Tarn, sending ripples dashing across the pool, bogbean and tussock grass dancing at its fringes. From my rocky perch atop Haystacks, I gazed down on Buttermere and Crummock Water glistening to the north, the round-shouldered hulks of Pillar and Great Gabl
  
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• A moment that changed me: the Brexit result came through – and my life in Britain fell apart

  14-01-2026 07:55 via theguardian.com
  I had my first teaching job lined up and a mortgage application in process. Now it looked like I would have to return to Germany and start training again from scratch. There were just 72 hours to save my dream of living in the UKIn the early hours of Friday 24 June 2016, the result glowed on my phone: 52%. Barely a majority, but nonetheless a verdict. I lay in my rented bedroom in Devon, still in pyjamas, watching everything I’d planned dissolve. When I saw the headline “UK votes to
  
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• Saks Global files for bankruptcy after takeover leads to financial collapse

  14-01-2026 07:53 via theguardian.com
  Debt-riddled retail giant’s demise has cast uncertainty over the future of US luxury fashionThe high-end department store conglomerate Saks Global filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in one of the largest retail collapses since the pandemic, barely a year after a deal that brought Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus under the same roof.The move cast uncertainty over the future of US luxury fashion, though the retailer said early on Wednesday its stores would remain
  
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• Kiefer Sutherland arrested for allegedly assaulting ride-share driver

  14-01-2026 07:22 via theguardian.com
  The 24 actor was taken into custody after officers responded to a call in Hollywood shortly after midnightKiefer Sutherland, who starred in the television series 24 and vampire flick The Lost Boys, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of assaulting a ride-share driver, according to Los Angeles police.The Canadian-British actor was taken into custody after officers responded to a call in Hollywood shortly after midnight. Continue reading...
  
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• TV tonight: a relaxing art competition in the Lake District

  14-01-2026 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Stephen Mangan returns to find the Landscape Artist of the Year 2026. Plus: will there be more twists in the Traitors? Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Sky Arts
  Derwentwater, known as the “queen of the Lakes”, is home to the world’s biggest colouring pencil – at the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick – and is the starting point for this year’s art competition. Stephen Mangan is back on warming hosting duties, as some artists beg for the sunlight to hi
  
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• ‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village

  14-01-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valleyFive decades in the south Jordan valley were ending in a day, and Mahmoud Eshaq struggled to hold back his tears. The 55-year-old had not cried since he was a boy, but as he dismantled the family home and prepared to flee the village where his whole life had played out, he was overwhelmed by grief.While Eshaq’s children loaded mattresses, a fridge, sa
  
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• Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’

  14-01-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claimA Palestinian citizen of Israel has been granted asylum in the UK on the basis of a “well-founded fear of persecution” despite a former home secretary’s attempt to block the claim.Hasan (not his real name) is believed to be the first Palestinian with an Israeli passport to be given refugee status in the UK. But the decision came only after two about-turns
  
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• Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want | Rafael Behr

  14-01-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  An economic recovery could still change the parties’ fortunes. But the days when only two parties were licensed to supply Britain with prime ministers are goneUnpopular politicians take consolation in the thought that opinion polls are sometimes wrong and often describe the wrong thing. They capture the moment but don’t predict the future. A midterm poll measures how much voters like the government. A general election asks whether the opposition is trusted to take over. It isn’
  
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• ‘It’s pretty grim’: Tunbridge Wells residents struggle through several days without water – again

  14-01-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  South East Water blames bad weather as pubs are forced to close, toilets overflow and people go without showersAs the residents of Tunbridge Wells trudged down their sodden high street in the pouring rain, the idea that they had run out of water – for the second time in just a few weeks – seemed farcical.At the end of November the local water treatment centre, which had been flagged as at risk by the regulator in 2024, was forced to shut down, leaving 24,000 households without water
  
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• Fish paté and mushroom tart: Portuguese recipes from Luso restaurant

  14-01-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  An incredible smoked haddock paste for toast, crackers or crudités, and a moreish and indulgent multi-mushroom-topped pastryTwo key elements at the heart of Portuguese eating culture are couvert and pastry. A couvert, comprising bread, butter, pickled or garlic carrots, cheese and fish paté (often sardine), comes as standard at every Portuguese restaurant and family dinner table alike, as it does at our restaurant Luso, where our fish paste is an ode to this way of dining. The mush
  
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• The woman who made her family disappear: how Karen Palmer escaped her abusive husband

  14-01-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  He had threatened her, locked her up and absconded with one of their daughters. Palmer knew she and her girls needed to escape – but it would involve huge risk and total reinventionIn the summer of 1989, Karen Palmer bought a used car for cash, filled it with belongings – some clothes, toys, one pot, one pan and a shoebox of photos – and “disappeared” with her new husband and two young daughters. She didn’t tell her mother, her friends or her neighbours where
  
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• Justice for Jeyasre: how a brutal murder led to a better deal for garment workers in India

  14-01-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  After a 21-year-old employee was raped and killed by her supervisor in 2021, campaigners ensured conditions at the factory were overhauled. But its order book never recoveredAsk the women working at Natchi Apparels in the historic city of Dindigul in Tamil Nadu and many will describe the turnaround in their working conditions in the garment factory over the past five years as extraordinary.On 5 January 2021 the decomposing body of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a 21-year-old Dalit woman who was an employee
  
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• ‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death

  14-01-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved actorsRuby Wax Continue reading...
  
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• Hijack season two review – Idris Elba is back with the most effortlessly bingeable show of them all

  14-01-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Sam Nelson is ready to beat some more bad guys – and this time he’s on the Berlin metro. Shenanigans will ensue!Do you remember the lazy, hazy days of summer 2023, when Idris Elba got on a plane and it was hijacked? It was in a programme called Hijack. For seven effortlessly bingeable hours supposedly showing the adventure in real time, our man on the pressurised inside deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men’s pho
  
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• Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst

  14-01-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in response to Ed Davey’s question in the House of Commons last week, about whether a US move against Greenland would mean the end of Nato.What about Europe, though? As Danish and Greenlandic ministe
  
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• Emma Raducanu recovers in Hobart to post first win in over three months

  14-01-2026 05:50 via theguardian.com
  Briton wins tight encounter with Camila Osorio 6-3, 7-6Match with Colombian was delayed overnight by rainEmma Raducanu offered an impressive demonstration of her resilience at the Hobart International as she rallied from an overnight second-set deficit in her rain-delayed first-round match to defeat Camila Osorio of Colombia 6-3, 7-6 (2).The victory marks Raducanu’s first win since September after struggling with a foot injury in the final weeks of the 2025 season. She had contested just o
  
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• Cymbal of unity? South Korea and Japan leaders bash out K-pop hits after summit talks

  14-01-2026 04:59 via theguardian.com
  South Korean president Lee Jae Myung had his work cut out, picking up his drumsticks alongside Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, a former heavy metal drummerIf international diplomacy is as much about tone as substance, the leaders of South Korea and Japan seem to have nailed it.In a scene few anticipated, South Korean president Lee Jae Myung and Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi spent the last moments of a crucial summit seated behind matching drum kits in matching blue uniforms as they bashed o
  
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• Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say

  14-01-2026 04:00 via theguardian.com
  Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C‘dead in the water’Last year was the third-hottest on record, scientists have said, with mounting fossil fuel pollution behind “exceptional” temperatures.The EU’s Copernicus climate agency said 2025 had been marginally cooler than 2023 at the end of a scorching three-year run during which surface air temperatures averaged 1.52C above pre-industrial levels. Continue reading...
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: Estonia leads with entry ban on Russians who fought in Ukraine

  14-01-2026 02:47 via theguardian.com
  ‘We call on other countries to do the same’ says foreign minister; major fires after Ukraine targets Russian drone plant at Taganrog. What we know on day 1,421The Estonian government has banned 261 Russians who fought in Ukraine from entering Estonia. “This is only the beginning,” said Markus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister. “We call on other countries to do the same.” Estonia, which borders Russia, has called for a Europe-wide visa ban on Russian ve
  
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• Winter storms kill five in Gaza amid desperate conditions in makeshift camps

  14-01-2026 02:41 via theguardian.com
  At least four displaced Palestinians killed when strong winds caused walls to collapse onto their tents and a one-year-old boy died of hypothermiaStrong winter winds collapsed walls onto flimsy tents for Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing at least four people, as dangerous living conditions persist after more than two years of devastating Israeli bombardment and aid shortfalls.A ceasefire has been in effect since October, but aid groups say that Palestinians broadly lack the shelter
  
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• BTS announces return with new world tour in 2026 and 2027

  14-01-2026 01:40 via theguardian.com
  K-pop band to start tour in April after nearly four-year hiatus due to all seven members needing to complete South Korea’s mandatory military serviceThe BTS comeback is upon us: the K-pop septet has announced a 2026-2027 world tour, kicking off in South Korea in April and running through to March 2027 with more than 70 dates across Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Europe.The tour marks the group’s first headline performances since their 2021–22 Permission to Da
  
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• One in four UK teenagers in care have attempted to end their lives, study says

  14-01-2026 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Research also shows teenagers in care are four times more likely to try to end their lives than peers with no care historyOne in four teenagers in care have attempted to end their own life, and are four times more likely to do so than their peers with no care experience, according to a landmark study.The research analysed data from the millennium cohort study, which follows the lives of 19,000 people born in the UK between 2000 and 2002, and considered how out of home care, including foster, res
  
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