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• Work continues overnight to fix Eurostar and Eurotunnel issue

  30-12-2025 23:57 via bbc.com
  Passengers were left stranded and looking for alternative routes after power issues in the Channel Tunnel.
  
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• Scotland counts down to 2026 as weather warning kicks off the new year

  30-12-2025 23:37 via bbc.com
  The annual Nippy Dip in Stonehaven is cancelled as heavy snow and gale-force winds are forecast from 06:00 on New Year's Day.
  
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• Match report for Man Utd v Wolverhampton Wanderers | 30 December 2025 - Official Manchester United Website

  30-12-2025 23:29 via news.google.com
  Match report for Man Utd v Wolverhampton Wanderers | 30 December 2025  Official Manchester United WebsiteMan Utd 1-1 Wolves: Red Devils 'expect better' after draw  BBCMan Utd 1-1 Wolves: Ladislav Krejci goal ends 11-game losing run for Wolves as Ruben Amorim's side slip up  Sky SportsKrejci grabs point for Wolves as Manchester United continue to flounder  The GuardianAmorim: I'm not going to risk anyone  Official Manchester United Website
  
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• Train journeys available for just £10 in winter ‘rail sale’ - The Times

  30-12-2025 23:12 via news.google.com
  Train journeys available for just £10 in winter ‘rail sale’  The TimesWinter sale on GWR train tickets starts this Friday  ianVisitsAll aboard for savings: the Great British Rail Sale returns!  GOV.UKFrom Cornwall to London: Rail company slashes fares across network this January  Yahoo News UKHuge rail sale is being launched next WEEK with 50% off over 3million tickets  The Sun
  
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• Israel to bar 37 aid groups from Gaza - BBC

  30-12-2025 22:39 via news.google.com
  Israel to bar 37 aid groups from Gaza  BBCIsrael to ban dozens of aid agencies from Gaza as 10 nations warn about suffering  The GuardianMSF’s vital humanitarian assistance at risk amid Israel’s new INGO registration rules for Gaza  Doctors Without BordersIsrael suspends 37 aid organisations from operating in Gaza  Sky NewsIsrael to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza  Al Jazeera
  
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• Man held after five people attacked in hospital

  30-12-2025 22:14 via bbc.com
  Five people are treated by paramedics after they were assaulted in a hospital in Merseyside.
  
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• Homes without power as road cordoned off - Liverpool Echo

  30-12-2025 21:47 via news.google.com
  Homes without power as road cordoned off  Liverpool EchoPeople 'stuck outside for hours' after 'huge bang' heard  facebook.com'Huge bang' as Tranmere streets lose power and massive area sealed off  The Mirror
  
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• Public urged not to approach prisoner missing from open jail - BBC

  30-12-2025 21:34 via news.google.com
  Public urged not to approach prisoner missing from open jail  BBCPublic told ‘not to approach’ as appeal launched to trace missing prisoner  Ardrossan HeraldManhunt launched for Scots inmate on the run as public warned ‘do not approach’  The Scottish SunHunt for absconded Scots prisoner as 'do not approach' warning issued  Daily RecordPrisoner on run in Ayrshire - public urged not to approach | News - Clyde 1  hellorayo.co
  
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• Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus - The Guardian

  30-12-2025 21:27 via news.google.com
  Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus  The GuardianRussia puts nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile on ‘combat duty’ in Belarus  politico.euPutin raises stakes and deploys nuclear-ready missiles in Belarus  The IndependentRussians demonstrate Oreshnik missile system in Belarus after alleged attack on Putin residence  Українська прав
  
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• ‘Stay strong, champion’: boxing world offers condolences to Anthony Joshua - The Guardian

  30-12-2025 21:26 via news.google.com
  ‘Stay strong, champion’: boxing world offers condolences to Anthony Joshua  The GuardianAnthony Joshua crash: Steve Bunce on fatal car accident in Nigeria  BBCEyewitness recalls Nigeria crash that killed Anthony Joshua’s close friends: Latest  The IndependentAnthony Joshua car crash: British heavyweight champion will need time after deaths of Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, says Andy Scott  Sky SportsAnthony Joshua in 'horror crash' and hon
  
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• Humans may have eaten Neanderthal babies, study suggests - The Telegraph

  30-12-2025 21:00 via news.google.com
  Humans may have eaten Neanderthal babies, study suggests  The Telegraph
  
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• Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies after rare leukemia diagnosis - The Guardian

  30-12-2025 20:36 via news.google.com
  Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies after rare leukemia diagnosis  The GuardianTatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35  BBCTatiana Schlossberg, a granddaughter of JFK, is dead at 35 after cancer diagnosis  NBC NewsJFK’s granddaughter dies at 35 just weeks after revealing terminal diagnosis  The IndependentJFK's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg dies aged 35  Sky News
  
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• Stroud Boxing Day fire victims named as bodies recovered - BBC

  30-12-2025 19:23 via news.google.com
  Stroud Boxing Day fire victims named as bodies recovered  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Mum and children who died in Boxing Day fire named

  30-12-2025 19:23 via bbc.com
  Fionnghuala Shearman and her daughter Eve and son Ohner died in the house fire on Boxing Day.
  
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• Inside Putin’s secret clifftop palace in Crimea - The Times

  30-12-2025 19:00 via news.google.com
  Inside Putin’s secret clifftop palace in Crimea  The TimesLuxury and Air Defense: Inside the Fortified Residences Where Vladimir Putin Is Believed to Live  UNITED24 MediaInvestigators find new Putin palace in Crimea with private clinic  Українська правдаNavalny Team Claims Putin Owns Luxury Estate on Crimea’s Black Sea Coast  The Moscow Times‘P
  
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• Pensioner 'carried on roof of car' and killed in crash

  30-12-2025 18:57 via bbc.com
  Kent Police is urging people to contact them if they have information about the crash in Gillingham.
  
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• Meta buys Chinese-founded AI agent start-up Manus - BBC

  30-12-2025 18:30 via news.google.com
  Meta buys Chinese-founded AI agent start-up Manus  BBCExclusive | Meta Buys AI Startup Manus for More Than $2 Billion  The Wall Street JournalMeta, SoftBank and Nvidia Splurge on Holiday AI Deals  The InformationMeta buys Chinese-founded AI start-up Manus  Financial TimesMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is dropping over $2 billion for an AI startup—a rare example of a U.S. tech giant buying a platform founded in China  Fortune
  
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• Galaxy S26 Ultra camera: Samsung apparently fixes a few issues - Notebookcheck

  30-12-2025 18:28 via news.google.com
  Galaxy S26 Ultra camera: Samsung apparently fixes a few issues  NotebookcheckGalaxy S26 Ultra Release Date: Samsung's Delay Bring Risks And Rewards  ForbesGalaxy S26 Ultra leak shows off new camera bump that’s sure to be annoying [Gallery]  9to5GooglePlanning to buy a Samsung phone, tablet, or laptop? Don't wait  SamMobileSamsung Galaxy S26 Ultra getting enhanced video recording controls, according to code found in One UI  PhoneArena
  
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• Tensions between Saudis and Emiratis over future of Yemen reach boiling point - The Guardian

  30-12-2025 18:20 via news.google.com
  Tensions between Saudis and Emiratis over future of Yemen reach boiling point  The GuardianUAE says it will withdraw from Yemen after Saudi strike on separatist-held port  BBCAfter Saudi Arabia’s Yemen strike, UAE rejects support for separatists  Al JazeeraA lightning advance by separatists has reshaped Yemen’s civil war  The EconomistUAE pulls troops from Yemen after rift with Saudi Arabia escalates  Financial Times
  
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• Should France honour Brigitte Bardot? And if so, how? A nation divided - Euronews.com

  30-12-2025 18:13 via news.google.com
  Should France honour Brigitte Bardot? And if so, how? A nation divided  Euronews.comFrench right pushes for national tribute to film star Brigitte Bardot  BBCBrigitte Bardot’s Legacy of Racist Rhetoric  The New York TimesOff-the-shoulder tops and a signature hair-do: Brigitte Bardot’s style legacy  The GuardianFrench legend Brigitte Bardot dead at 91: foundation  France 24
  
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• What is norovirus and how contagious is it?

  30-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Symptoms of the virus include diarrhea and vomiting and it infects about 684 million people globally every yearNorovirus is the term for a family of about 50 strains of virus that all share one miserable endpoint: copious time in the bathroom. Every year, an estimated 684 million people globally come down with it.Norovirus is a kind of infectious gastroenteritis, “an inflammation of the bowel and the colon that can cause diarrhea” and vomiting, explains Dr Ambreen Allana, an infectio
  
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• Beyond Kegels: I found a fix for a common type of incontinence – why don’t more women know about it?

  30-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  After years of worrying that running or sneezing would leave me needing fresh underwear, a quick, minimally invasive procedure changed my lifeSome of my earliest memories feature my mother’s leotard-encased body bouncing to Jane Fonda with abandon. A similar carefree fluidity prevailed a decade later, as her feet struck hard-packed sand on a shorebreak jog. Twelve-year-old me panted alongside, so desperate to be made in her image that I tolerated heated cheeks and shaking quads. Their trem
  
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• NHS issues '2-hour' rule for anyone with 3 symptoms at night - Daily Express

  30-12-2025 17:59 via news.google.com
  NHS issues '2-hour' rule for anyone with 3 symptoms at night  Daily Express
  
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• Fashion brand LK Bennett on brink of collapse

  30-12-2025 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Clothing chain acquired by China-based backers out of 2019 insolvency applies to appoint administratorsBusiness live – latest updatesThe upmarket fashion brand LK Bennett appears to be heading for collapse for the second time in six years.On Tuesday the company filed an application with the high court to appoint an administrator to the business, which employs about 280 staff. Continue reading...
  
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• British-Egyptian dissident appears to endorse 'smear campaign' claims

  30-12-2025 17:12 via bbc.com
  Alaa Abd El Fattah has faced backlash over old social media posts where he called for the killing of Zionists.
  
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• ‘I lost my head’: Luke Littler on darts crowd booing him at Alexandra Palace - The Guardian

  30-12-2025 17:04 via news.google.com
  ‘I lost my head’: Luke Littler on darts crowd booing him at Alexandra Palace  The GuardianLuke Littler thanks booing crowd for 'paying prize money' at PDC World Darts Championship  BBCLittler holds firm to book quarter-final spot  Sky SportsLuke Littler forced to battle the boos in tense win at PDC World Championship  The GuardianLuke Littler’s mother in X-rated rant at Ally Pally crowd after son booed  The Telegraph
  
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• Jhoots Pharmacy chain could face insolvency after Lloyds Bank high court application

  30-12-2025 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Struggling company, which has run more than 100 outlets, has been criticised by MPs over claims it failed to pay locum pharmacistsBusiness live – latest updatesA struggling national pharmacy chain accused of owing its locums £670,000 in unpaid fees has been hit with an application to place the business into insolvency proceedings.Jhoots Chemist, which trades under the name of Jhoots Pharmacy, was named in a high court application to appoint an administrator, submitted on Monday by Ll
  
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• NHS issues important advice for Atorvastatin users on cholesterol medication - The Mirror

  30-12-2025 16:59 via news.google.com
  NHS issues important advice for Atorvastatin users on cholesterol medication  The Mirror
  
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• Cough medicine ‘may have tipped X Factor star Chico over drink-drive limit’ - The Telegraph

  30-12-2025 16:16 via news.google.com
  Cough medicine ‘may have tipped X Factor star Chico over drink-drive limit’  The TelegraphFormer X Factor contestant Chico denies drink driving  BBCFormer X Factor singer in court over drink-driving charge  The IndependentX Factor's Chico denies drink-driving ahead of Stourbridge hospice panto date  Stourbridge NewsFormer X Factor star Chico pleads not guilty to drink driving  facebook.com
  
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• The happiest scientific breakthroughs of 2025 - The Times

  30-12-2025 15:30 via news.google.com
  The happiest scientific breakthroughs of 2025  The TimesThe 11 strangest scientific discoveries of 2025  BBC Science Focus Magazine55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025  The Atlantic2025: The science stories that stopped us in our tracks  BBCEight Fascinating Scientific Discoveries From 2025 That Could Lead to New Inventions  Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Threesomes, rough towels and ‘lesbian bed death’: 23 of the best Sexual Healing columns

  30-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s sex advice column is coming to an end after 20 years. Here are some of the most memorable questions and answers
  • Pamela Stephenson Connolly on two decades of solving readers’ sex problemsMy wonderful new wife is everything I have always looked for in a woman. The issue is that she is openly and proudly bisexual. When we first became involved, she even joked that she didn’t want me getting mad when it was time for her to visit her friend on girls’ trip
  
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• The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026

  30-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  As 007 makes his gaming return, you can climb a mountain in Cairn, play a scaredy-cat in Resident Evil, and play a criminal couple in GTA VILive your mountaineering fantasies and brave the elements in a wonderfully illustrated climbing game. You must carefully place climber Aava’s hands and feet to make your way up a forbidding mountain, camping on ledges and bandaging her fingers as you go. Like real climbing, it is challenging and somewhat brutal.
  • PC, PlayStation 5; 29 January Con
  
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• Navalny Team Claims Putin Owns Luxury Estate on Crimea’s Black Sea Coast - The Moscow Times

  30-12-2025 14:57 via news.google.com
  Navalny Team Claims Putin Owns Luxury Estate on Crimea’s Black Sea Coast  The Moscow TimesInside Putin’s secret clifftop palace in Crimea  The TimesLuxury and Air Defense: Inside the Fortified Residences Where Vladimir Putin Is Believed to Live  UNITED24 MediaInvestigators find new Putin palace in Crimea with private clinic  Українська правда‘P
  
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• This year’s first supermoon and meteor shower to compete for dominance - The Independent

  30-12-2025 14:44 via news.google.com
  This year’s first supermoon and meteor shower to compete for dominance  The IndependentWinter’s Best Meteor Shower Begins Tonight: How To See The Quadrantids  ForbesSkywatchers across the UK are being urged to look up as one of the most powerful meteor showers of the year reaches its peak The Quadrantid meteor shower is now active and is expected to put on a dramatic display at the start of January, with as many as 1  facebook.comHere are some skywatchin
  
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• My big night out: I finished the 1990s with fireworks, a funfair, flirting – and furious hope for the future

  30-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  It was the end of a fabulous decade, when spontaneous, unpredictable parties seemed not just possible but typical. A new millennium was dawning. What could possibly go wrong?‘We wish you peace,” said Tony Blair as the clock struck 8pm. It was New Year’s Eve 1999, a Friday night, and I was on the banks of the Thames. Britain’s fresh-faced prime minister – only two years into the job – was giving a gimmick called The British Airways London Eye its first spin. Th
  
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• Festive finger food: how to use Christmas leftovers to make New Year’s Eve canapes | Kitchen aide

  30-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  From ham and chicken croquetas to potato-filled fishcakes, there are plenty of interesting ways to use up the bits you have left over from the festivitiesWhat canapes can I make for New Year’s Eve with my Christmas leftovers that will still feel special?
  Ella, via emailFinger food needn’t be fancy, so New Year is a good opportunity to clear the decks. The only real rule is to keep things to just one bite – no one wants to be manoeuvring a fork, after all. “People just wan
  
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• Snow, ice and colder weather to bring in the new year with warnings issued

  30-12-2025 13:55 via bbc.com
  It is set to turn much colder across the UK for the start of the new year with warnings issued for cold weather, snow and ice.
  
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• 26 Resilient Microbes Found In NASA Cleanrooms Spark New Fears Of Mars Contamination - The Daily Galaxy

  30-12-2025 13:45 via news.google.com
  26 Resilient Microbes Found In NASA Cleanrooms Spark New Fears Of Mars Contamination  The Daily Galaxy'Stop and re-check everything': Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA's cleanrooms  Live ScienceNASA’s Cleanest Rooms Are Evolving New Forms of Bacterial Life  ScienceBlog.com26 unknown bacteria found inside NASA’s ultra sterile cleanrooms | Tap to know more | Inshorts  InshortsScientists surprised: 26 unknown species of bacteria
  
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• M&S launches food range for customers on weight-loss jabs amid rise in users - STV News

  30-12-2025 13:35 via news.google.com
  M&S launches food range for customers on weight-loss jabs amid rise in users  STV NewsMarks & Spencer launches ‘nutrient dense’ range for people on weight-loss jabs  The GuardianM&S releases meals for fat jab users  The TelegraphM&S launches own-brand food range for shoppers on fat jabs in UK supermarket first  The SunMarks and Spencer launches new 20-item 'nutrient dense' range for people on fat jabs  Daily Mail
  
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• ‘A little light in the dark’: the former Chinese police officer bringing bubble tea to wartorn Ukraine

  30-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Brother Dong is one of a growing band of Chinese volunteers who are lending their support to UkraineAre you looking for a way to stay sane in an environment that has been torn apart by war? Then perhaps what you need is a bubble tea.That is the philosophy guiding Brother Dong, a Chinese-German volunteer in Ukraine. The 52-year-old former officer in China’s People’s Armed Police drives once a month from his home in Frankfurt to collect a haul of tapioca pearls from a warehouse in Berl
  
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• Octopus Energy to spin off $8.65bn tech arm Kraken - BBC

  30-12-2025 12:04 via news.google.com
  Octopus Energy to spin off $8.65bn tech arm Kraken  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Households urged to take photo of electricity meter before Thursday - Daily Express

  30-12-2025 12:01 via news.google.com
  Households urged to take photo of electricity meter before Thursday  Daily ExpressMotherwell and Wishaw MSP urges constituents to submit meter readings before price cap change  Daily RecordOfgem energy bill change from January 2026 - exact date explained  The MirrorMillions face £1,758 energy bills from Thursday as UK cold snap hits  upday NewsHousehold energy bills to rise as snow and gales forecast  MSN
  
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• The perfect working day: how to get everything done – without getting stressed

  30-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  From writing lists to taking a walk, it can be possible to gain clarity and perspective, even when faced with the most daunting tasks• Sign up here to get the whole series straight to your inbox“Perfection,” the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once wrote, “is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” The Little Prince author was talking about elegance in design, but it’s not a bad principle to a
  
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• From Guéhi to Yildiz – who could be on the move in the January transfer window?

  30-12-2025 11:27 via theguardian.com
  We look at 10 players likely to create headlines next month, including the ‘new Kevin De Bruyne’Men’s transfer interactive: January 2026 editionWhile Semenyo would doubtless prefer to be in Morocco at the moment, one of the advantages to Ghana’s failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations has been that the 25-year-old is in the same country as all the clubs who have expressed an interest in signing him. With a contract at Bournemouth containing a £65m release c
  
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• Cooper launches review of ‘serious failures’ in Alaa Abd el-Fattah case

  30-12-2025 11:23 via theguardian.com
  Foreign secretary says due diligence procedures were inadequate amid storm over activist’s past tweetsYvette Cooper has launched a review looking into “serious information failures” around the case of a British-Egyptian activist welcomed to the UK despite his past tweets now called “abhorrent” by the government.Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” by Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s arrival on Friday but a political storm erupted after social media posts from
  
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• What drove gen Z protests that brought down governments and called out corruption? Five activists explain

  30-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  We spoke to protesters in Togo, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and Morocco about how their actions helped shape the world in 2025Mass protests in Nepal and Madagascar toppled both governments this year, even when the young people at the forefront of the demonstrations were faced with heavily armed police and the threat of arrest.Many called 2025 the year of the protest although the revolution in Bangladesh in 2024 that unseated the authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina is often credited with inspiring yo
  
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• That floating poo was far too symbolic! It’s the TV letdowns of the year

  30-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  From Carrie Bradshaw cleaning up mess in And Just Like That to Kim Kardashian’s zero-star clanger and Bonnie Blue’s sexcapades, here are the biggest duds of 2025Where to begin with the love/hate Sex and the City spin-off? The show was plagued with woeful writing, cringe-inducing character development (justice for Miranda!) and just 71 seconds of fan-favourite Samantha. But for a moment there, as the third series started, it looked like And Just Like That had finally hit its stride. T
  
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• Houseplant hacks: should I use ice cubes to water my plants?

  30-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Ice cubes offer a slower form of watering, reducing the risk of soggy soil – but are not suitable for most tropical houseplantsThe problemMany a houseplant is killed with kindness; watering every time you look at them can be terminal. Using ice cubes for watering promises slower, more controlled hydration. But does it work?The hackPlace one or two ice cubes on the soil. The idea is that as the ice melts it slowly releases water, giving the roots time to absorb it and avoiding soggy soil. C
  
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• David Squires on … football’s notable people and big moments from 2025

  30-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Our cartoonist looks back at the big stories and memorable moments as we wave farewell to another year in football David’s favourite cartoons of 2025 | Buy one hereAnd his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
  
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• 2025 was the year we grew tired of celebrity for celebrity’s sake | Nadia Khomami

  30-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Being blasted into space or taking over Venice no longer cuts it. The rich and famous are being punished for their conspicuous vacuityWhen Katy Perry and five other women were launched into space in Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket, no doubt they expected to be celebrated as trailblazers. Cast your mind back to April, and the event was getting wall-to-wall news coverage. The crew, also including Bezos’s then-fiancee Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, were in space for
  
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