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• The Guardian view on Marwan Barghouti: Palestinians need a political future as well as aid and reconstruction | Editorial

  07-12-2025 18:30
  Pushing for the release of the jailed leader could prove central to the peace that Donald Trump claims to seek in the Middle EastIn a sort-of ceasefire, the killings – including of children – have slowed, not stopped. Israeli military operations continue to displace hundreds of families in Gaza. Aid has increased but Israel is still blocking vital supplies. Palestinians desperately require security, humanitarian relief and reconstruction. But they need and expect a political horizon
  
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• The Guardian view on ageing research: our lives have more distinct phases than we thought | Editorial

  07-12-2025 18:25
  Tech moguls may foolishly hope to stay forever young, but others could benefit too from evidence of the human body’s dynamic and varied journey through lifeAgeing can feel remarkably sudden. One morning you awake to find new aches, or lapses in strength and memory that you could swear were not present just a few days prior. We do not literally age overnight, but as research is increasingly showing, we may not do so in a steady, linear path either.Over the past decade a multitude of studies
  
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• Child among those treated after pepper spray used in Heathrow robbery

  07-12-2025 18:03 via bbc.com
  Five people were taken to hospital after an argument between a group of people escalated, police say.
  
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• Murder investigation after child and woman die in house fire

  07-12-2025 17:55 via bbc.com
  Gardaí believe the fire was "deliberately started" and described it as a "reckless, callous and murderous attack" on a family home in Edenderry.
  
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• Nicola Jennings on Putin’s dealings with Trump over Ukraine – cartoon

  07-12-2025 17:49
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• La Rondine review – new version of Puccini’s opera makes aftertaste bitter rather than sweet

  07-12-2025 17:30
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  Carlo Rizzi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sparkled as Ermonela Jaho as Magda and Iván Ayón-Rivas as Ruggero delivered the composer’s long-lost preferred versionOperas often don’t end up being performed in quite the way their composers intended – and that’s been especially true of La Rondine, Puccini’s slender opera about the Parisienne courtesan Magda and her fleeting attempt to relive the romance and excitement of her youth. But
  
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• Rugby star Sinfield completes gruelling ultramarathon challenge in memory of Rob Burrow

  07-12-2025 17:13 via bbc.com
  The former Leeds Rhinos rugby star completes seven ultramarathons in seven days for MND charities.
  
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• Martin Parr: Photographer whose colourful images captured British life dies aged 73

  07-12-2025 17:10 via bbc.com
  Parr rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, his colourful images capturing British life.
  
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• NASA releases new images of 'potentially hostile alien threat' 3I/ATLAS after 'heartbeat' detected - LADbible

  07-12-2025 16:57 via news.google.com
  NASA releases new images of 'potentially hostile alien threat' 3I/ATLAS after 'heartbeat' detected  LADbibleNew images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth  CNNComet 3I/ATLAS shows activity in Juice navigation camera teaser  European Space AgencyNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Interstellar Comet  NASA Science (.gov)Snap! Jupiter spacecraft captures brand new image of 3I/ATLAS. Here's why it's got scienti
  
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• Backed by his family, propelled by his talent: the rise of Lando Norris

  07-12-2025 16:12 via bbc.com
  F1 world champion Lando Norris has long seemed destined for the top of his sport, as key figures who worked with him through the junior categories tell BBC Sport.
  
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• Briton Norris wins his first F1 title in Abu Dhabi

  07-12-2025 16:07 via bbc.com
  A tearful Lando Norris won his first F1 drivers' championship by securing the third place he needed in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
  
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• Covid fraud and error cost taxpayers £10.9bn, report will say

  07-12-2025 16:00 via bbc.com
  A lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid support schemes is expected to be highlighted in the report.
  
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• Rayner will make return to cabinet, says Starmer

  07-12-2025 15:23 via bbc.com
  The prime minister says his "hugely talented" former deputy will one day return to government.
  
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• Football stadium's £18m grant will help 'transform Wrexham', says minister

  07-12-2025 15:12 via bbc.com
  Jack Sargeant, minister for sport, said the upgrades would help the stadium host major events.
  
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• The rise of parcel thefts: how to protect yourself from porch pirates

  07-12-2025 15:00
  Parcels worth £666.5m have been stolen in the UK this year, though some pranksters have found ways to give culprits their comeuppance. With Christmas deliveries arriving thick and fast, here are practical steps to takeA couple of years ago, 31-year-old charity worker Nicki Wedgwood had ordered Christmas presents online for friends and family. When the packages were delivered to her in Hackney, east London, the driver left them in the lobby of her building rather than taking them directly t
  
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• The kindness of strangers: I couldn’t afford a pricey hotel, then a student let me sleep on her dormitory floor

  07-12-2025 15:00
  In retrospect, I can appreciate what a big chance she took. I hope the universe has repaid her many times overRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesBack in 2006, I went to Canberra for a medical school interview. I figured I would book accommodation when I arrived but when I arrived, there was a big convention in town and all the backpacker hostels and budget accommodation were fully booked.Coming from Singapore, I thought perhaps I could just sleep at the airport – but quickly foun
  
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• Readers reply: What are the greatest life lessons?

  07-12-2025 15:00
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhat are the biggest life lessons? Things like how to navigate uncertainty, or what clothes never to wash together? What are the best life-enhancing secrets – big or small – that took years to discover and now need to be shared? Campbell Norris, by emailSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue readi
  
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• Anna Maxwell Martin looks back: ‘I was bullied a little bit, but it didn’t affect me because I was a happy weirdo’

  07-12-2025 15:00
  The actor on being an introverted extrovert, performing as a pearly queen, and becoming a single mother when her husband diedBorn in Beverley, East Yorkshire, in 1977, Anna Maxwell Martin studied at the University of Liverpool and trained at Lamda. She made her name with a Bafta-winning performance in the BBC’s Bleak House and has since starred in Line of Duty, Motherland and Midwinter of the Spirit, as well as numerous stage productions. She lives in London with her two daughter
  
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• ‘You have to stay curious’: Michael Kors on his inclusive brand’s global rise

  07-12-2025 14:00
  With a return to thinness in the fashion industry, catwalks spanning size, age and race may be the secret of the Kors appealThe sale of Versace to Prada this week in a $1.4bn deal marked a new chapter for two storied Italian fashion houses.It also left Versace’s former parent company, Capri Holdings, with an even greater focus on Michael Kors, the 44-year-old brand know as America’s Armani that made up about 70% of sales in its last financial year. Continue reading...
  
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• How to make the perfect Dubai chocolate bar - recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

  07-12-2025 14:00
  The pistachio-crammed craze makes a superb gift. Our in-house perfectionist tries all the fiddly bits for you …If you’re asking what on earth chocolate has to do with a city with an average annual temperature of 28C, then you must have been stuck in the desert for the past three years. Because, since its creation in the UAE in 2022, apparently to satisfy chocolatier Sarah Hamouda’s pregnancy cravings for pistachio and pastry, this bar has taken over the world. Though food (amo
  
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• An animal rights activist was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for 15 years. Will he be returned to the US?

  07-12-2025 14:00
  Daniel Andreas San Diego, now 47, is fighting extradition from the UK amid accusations he set off three pipe bombs in 2003Twenty-two years ago, a dark-haired, bespectacled young man vanished off the streets of San Francisco. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 25-year-old information technology specialist, diehard vegan and animal rights activist, was the FBI’s main suspect in a series of pipe bombings that exploded in front of the headquarters of Chiron Corporation and Shaklee Corporation, two Ba
  
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• Flu cases likely to 'spike' in coming weeks, warns health secretary

  07-12-2025 13:23 via bbc.com
  Neil Gray says the rise in cases is a challenge and urges anyone able to get vaccinated to do so.
  
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• Young people to lose benefits if they turn down work, says minister

  07-12-2025 13:19 via bbc.com
  Pat McFadden says they would need a "good reason" to decline one of 55,000 new work placements.
  
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• Goodbye angels, hello Ozempic needles – what’s behind the boom in bizarre Christmas baubles?

  07-12-2025 13:00
  This year’s most-wanted ornaments include weight-loss syringes and favourite foodstuffs. When and why did Christmas trees become so commercialised?it was the second Tuesday in November but Christmas was already in crisis. Sarah Gibbons had just received a shipment of baubles at her Glasgow homeware shop, Modern Love Store, and some crucial ornaments were missing. She hopped on a long-distance phone call to her suppliers in the US – she needed to sort this out. After all, her customer
  
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• Dining across the divide: ‘She’s not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere’

  07-12-2025 13:00
  They had different opinions on social media, asylum seekers and ‘woke’ politics, but which Stewart Lee sketch got them both laughing?Samuel, 34, LondonOccupation Communications professional Continue reading...
  
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• This is how we do it: ‘Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex’

  07-12-2025 12:00
  Growing up gay in the 90s, Verity and Darya lacked the confidence to talk about their desires. Verity’s attraction to a colleague changed all that• How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyI never felt that stomach-churning excitement and uncertainty we associate with desire Continue reading...
  
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• The ultimate unsung superfood: 17 delicious ways with cabbage – from kimchi to pasta to peanut butter noodles

  07-12-2025 11:00
  Over the last 50 years, cabbage consumption in Britain has declined 80%. But it’s versatile, full of vitamins, and perfect on a winter night. Here’s how to make the most of itIt’s not good news: despite a lot of messaging about healthy eating, Britons consume 12% less vegetables per week than they did in 1974, when the government’s Family Food survey began. And while the consumption of some specific vegetables – courgettes, say – has risen over the past 50 yea
  
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• Police did not mean to imply Jewish community supported Tel Aviv fan ban, force says

  07-12-2025 10:18 via bbc.com
  A West Midlands Police chief told MPs Jewish community members supported the ban on Maccabi fans.
  
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• ‘Witness (1 Hope) by Roots Manuva gives me some bad girl energy’: Eliza Rose’s honest playlist

  07-12-2025 10:00
  The DJ, producer and singer likes the kind of dancehall her dad disapproves of, and her funk to be electronic. But whose songs make her feel bougie?The first single I ever boughtAaliyah, Rock the Boat. My nan sent me and my cousin to pick up some bits in Dalston and there was some change left over so I went into HMV and bought this CD for £1.99. I shouldn’t have been stealing my nan’s change but I felt so grownup. If my Jamaican dad had found out, he wouldn’t have been ha
  
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• Veteran who stopped XL bully attack shocked by owner's sentence

  07-12-2025 08:13 via bbc.com
  Martin Griffiths grabbed the dog and held it down until police arrived in Wrexham city centre.
  
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• Letters reveal tensions at Stormont over money allocation

  07-12-2025 08:04 via bbc.com
  Ministers are due to discuss funding issues this week, in what is known as a monitoring round.
  
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• Supermarché sweep: the treats we love to buy on holiday in Europe

  07-12-2025 08:00
  Italian sweets, Irish smoked fish, honey cakes in Belgium … travel writers choose the stores and local delicacies they make a beeline for when travellingI fell in love with Belgian snacks when cycling the amateur version of the Tour of Flanders some years ago. The feed stations along the route were crammed with packets of Meli honey waffles and Meli honey cake. I ate so many that I suffered withdrawal symptoms after finishing the last of them at the end of the 167-mile route. Continue rea
  
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• Jess Cartner-Morley’s Christmas gift guide: 31 ideas, chosen by our fashion expert

  07-12-2025 08:00
  Our style guru’s gift picks are in – from a cult lip oil and fashion-desk-approved earrings to the T-shirt brand every cool kid wants• The best self-care gifts for ChristmasAngelina Jolie once bought Brad Pitt a California waterfall for Christmas. Another time, she got him a 200-year-old olive tree for their estate in Provence as a Valentine’s gift. I guess she set the bar pretty high when she bought him Ernest Hemingway’s actual typewriter as a wedding gift.Anecdota
  
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• Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar

  07-12-2025 08:00
  Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackersIt is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘What choice do we have?’: no end in sight for Ukraine’s war-weary frontline troops

  07-12-2025 07:00
  As peace hopes falter, infantry soldiers face more long deployments risking their lives against Russian attacksFor almost all of their 62-day deployment on the frontline east of Pokrovske, Bohdan and Ivan hid – first in a village shop, then, after a deadly firefight with Russian soldiers, in a tiny basement where the infantrymen from Ukraine’s31st Brigade had to survive seven more weeks.Food, water, cigarettes and other supplies were airlifted in by a friendly drone, their toilet was
  
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• Christmas dinner in a restaurant or kitchen carnage at home?

  07-12-2025 07:00
  After several attempts at eating ‘out’, I’m still on the fenceChristmas dinner? At home or in a restaurant? It’s at this juncture of the year, with Christmas dinner hurtling towards us, that you may well find yourself muttering: “Well, we could always go out!” Who could blame any home cook for wanting to shove this great burden on to someone else’s back, especially since every culinary TV show, magazine article and advertising break since mid-November ha
  
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• Several tourists among at least 23 killed in blaze at Goa nightclub

  07-12-2025 01:38
  Fire broke out at midnight in the popular club in Arpora in the North Goa district, according to reportsAt least 23 people have been killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in the Indian resort city of Goa, officials said.Several tourists were among the dead in the fire, which broke out at about midnight at a club in Arpora in the North Goa district, according to the Press Trust of India. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Gen Z has a growing appetite for retro tech

  07-12-2025 01:24 via bbc.com
  Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
  
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• Wham-ageddon: Can a new song really become Christmas number one?

  07-12-2025 01:17 via bbc.com
  This Christmas, to save you from tears, there’s some genuine competition, our music correspondent finds.
  
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• Don't panic if you get a message about tax after selling 30 items on Vinted

  07-12-2025 01:14 via bbc.com
  Here's what you need to know about tax rules if you're selling items online.
  
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• Netflix deal puts Gary Lineker in podcast super league - but can he succeed?

  07-12-2025 01:07 via bbc.com
  In a big money move, Lineker will go head-to-head with his old employer with The Rest Is Football.
  
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• West Midlands police chief sorry for saying Jewish community supported Maccabi fan ban

  07-12-2025 00:29
  Senior officer had told MPs some Jewish representatives did not want Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa game classified as high riskA senior police officer has apologised to Birmingham’s Jewish residents after he told MPs that some had expressed support for the exclusion of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending last month’s match against Aston Villa.The decision to ban supporters of the Israeli team from the Europa League game at Villa Park in Birmingham had triggered political upro
  
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• ‘It’s not your turn,’ the board's selection committee chair said. Instantly I felt as though I was back in the school yard | Julianne Schultz

  07-12-2025 00:00
  While the tension between meritocracy and ‘jobs for mates’ is always there, the best boards are more than the sum of their partsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMany years ago, I was encouraged to put my name forward to chair a significant government board. It seemed like a long shot to me, I wasn’t in anyone’s club, but my supporters were insistent. I agreed to let my name go into the mix.It was a surprise then when the chair of the selection co
  
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