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• Bold shapes and binoculars: Frank Gehry’s stunning California architecture

  06-12-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  From his home town of Los Angeles, the architect designed a career around defying what was predictableIn Frank Gehry’s world, no building was left untilted, unexposed or untouched by unconventional material. The Canadian-American architect, who died in his Los Angeles home at 96, designed a career around defying what was predictable and pulling in materials that were uncommon and, as such, relatively inexpensive.Gehry collaborated with artists to turn giant binoculars into an entryway of a
  
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• US supreme court hears arguments in case that tests Trump’s ability to fire officials – live

  08-12-2025 18:26 via theguardian.com
  Lawyer for fired FTC member says removal protection ‘has been part of our story since 1790’; Trump administration argues 90-year precedent ‘must be overruled’In a statement, Pamela Smith said she was “deeply humbled, grateful and deeply appreciative” of her time in her role, which she described as the “greatest honor” of her career. She gave thanks to the mayor for appointing her in 2023 and supporting her throughout her tenure, which she acknowled
  
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• England health officials identify newly evolved variant of mpox

  08-12-2025 18:19 via theguardian.com
  Virus caught by person who travelled to Asia combines more severe form of mpox with less virulent typeHealth officials have identified a new variant of mpox in England after a person who recently travelled to Asia was tested for the virus.Genome sequencing showed that the virus was a “recombinant” form containing elements of two types of mpox currently in circulation: the more severe clade 1, and the less virulent clade 2, which sparked the 2022 global mpox outbreak. Continue reading
  
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• Anglo American’s merger bonus was a pay wheeze too far | Nils Pratley

  08-12-2025 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Miner will have to do things by the book after ditching plan to pay bosses millions in bonuses after Teck dealAnglo American drops plan to pay bosses millions in bonusesShareholder rebellions over executive pay aren’t what the used to be. In the past 18 months, bumper incentive arrangements for the bosses have been approved at AstraZeneca, the London Stock Exchange Group and Smith & Nephew. All those companies have managed to argue successfully that, since the bulk of their revenues ar
  
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• Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy says unity is ‘critical’ after peace talks meeting with European leaders in Downing Street

  08-12-2025 18:15 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian leader met with Starmer, Macron and Merz in UK after US-Ukraine talks in Florida failed to achieve a breakthroughSee all our Ukraine war coverageMeanwhile, we are starting to look towards 10 Downing Street as the leaders should start arriving in the next hour. Last preparations are under way, and we have a live stream for you at the top of the page.In the last few minutes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just landed in the UK, Sky News has reported. Continue reading...
  
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• Paramount launches $108.4bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery

  08-12-2025 18:08 via theguardian.com
  Paramount’s bid for the entire company counters $82.7bn Netflix deal for WBD’s studio and streaming operationDavid Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is not giving up in its aggressive campaign to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), launching a hostile bid for the entertainment company despite the announcement on Friday that Netflix had agreed to buy its studio and streaming operation.Netflix’s bid for WBD’s storied Hollywood movie studio, as well as its premier HBO cabl
  
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• A better understanding of mental ill health is crucial | Letters

  08-12-2025 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Sagal Hassan and Dr Lisa Williams respond to the news that Wes Streeting has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’As a psychotherapist with child and adolescent mental health services, I welcome Wes Streeting’s change of heart on his comments about the “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions, ADHD and autism (I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence, 4&
  
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• Nigel Farage is wrong – victims don’t forget bullying and abuse | Letters

  08-12-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond after another former Dulwich college pupil spoke out with allegations of racist behaviour by the Reform UK leaderRegarding Nigel Farage’s difficulty believing that people can remember schoolboy “banter” of more than four decades ago (Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’, 5 December), perhaps I can helpfully direct him to an African proverb: “The axe forgets, the tree never does.” This
  
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• Labour has ignored the ‘squeezed middle’ to its peril | Letters

  08-12-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to an article by John Harris on how the budget has left middle-income families anxious and angryJohn Harris’s stimulating article on the “squeezed middle” missed one area of concern for those of us trapped in it (The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing, 30 November). We knew that even if we’d paid our cheap mortgages off (lucky us), we would either have to downsize or have taken out our own pension
  
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• How Martin Parr’s photographs inspired me | Brief letters

  08-12-2025 18:01 via theguardian.com
  A photographer’s legacy | Getting in the Christmas spirit | Crossword cat | New dictionary entry | Peace prize for PutinMartin Parr’s photographs are full of wry humour and an affection for the quirkiness of life (Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73, 7 December). He encouraged ordinary people to observe and celebrate the world around us. A few years ago, I had two photographs published on the Guardian’s letters pages, something tha
  
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• Did you solve it? The forgotten Dutch invention that created the modern world

  08-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The answer to today’s engineering challengeEarlier today I asked you to reinvent a component of the sixteenth century Dutch sawmill, which – according to a new book – was the world’s first industrial machine. You can read that post here, along with some great BTL discussion about the world’s greatest inventions. (Spoon or spear? Plough or spectacles? Transistor or trousers?)Round and up Continue reading...
  
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• Account closures and restrictions are angering racing punters but there is an answer

  08-12-2025 17:55 via theguardian.com
  The minimum bet rule model is there in Australia for all to see and the Gambling Commission should act nowRacing enjoyed its biggest win for many years in last month’s budget. The threatened harmonisation of duty rates for betting and gaming was not simply seen off, but routed, with the differential between the two rates significantly increased. As an added bonus, meanwhile, racing was excluded from the small rise in the duty rate for bets on football and other sporting events.Having celeb
  
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• Netflix buying Warner Bros is bad news for cinema and those of us who love it | Jesse Hassenger

  08-12-2025 17:50 via theguardian.com
  The proposed acquisition would see yet more of Hollywood controlled by a tech company and one that doesn’t seem to care about the theatrical experienceDid Netflix just exacerbate a bunch of seasonal affective disorders in cinephiles? Timed to ruin holidays like a round of end-of-year layoffs, the streaming giant announced plans to buy Warner Bros, a movie and television studio with a full-century legacy. It’s possible that the acquisition won’t actually go through – and i
  
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• False claims Afrikaners are persecuted threaten South Africa’s sovereignty, says president

  08-12-2025 17:50 via theguardian.com
  Cyril Ramaphosa says theories, promoted by Donald Trump, ‘conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy’White supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned.Since taking office for his second US presidential term in January, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence tha
  
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• Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex

  08-12-2025 17:43 via theguardian.com
  Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operationIt isn’t quite Whisky Galore! – the classic British film in which residents of a Scottish island attempt to pilfer 50,000 cases of spirit from a shipwreck.Rather than the prospect of finding a warming dram or two, people on the south coast of England have been coming across bunches of bananas after containers fell off the back of a ship and washed up on beaches in
  
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• New Orleans Catholic archdiocese gains approval to pay $230m to sexual abuse survivors

  08-12-2025 17:43 via theguardian.com
  Settlement also includes major changes to how church identifies and discloses past claims of abuse by clergyAfter more than five years of litigation, a federal bankruptcy judge has approved the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans’ proposal to pay $230m to roughly 600 survivors of sexual abuse by the church’s priests, deacons and other personnel.Judge Meredith Grabill on Monday confirmed the settlement, which also includes major changes to how the church identifies and discloses
  
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• British rapper Ghetts admits causing death of student by dangerous driving

  08-12-2025 17:38 via theguardian.com
  Artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, pleads guilty at Old Bailey over hit-and-run death of Yubin Tamang, 20The rapper Ghetts has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a student in a hit-and-run while driving dangerously.The award-winning artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared at the Old Bailey in London by video link from Pentonville prison and admitted causing the death of 20-year-old Nepali student Yubin Tamang on 18 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Ross Byrne says escort defender crackdown could see locks converted to wings

  08-12-2025 17:28 via theguardian.com
  Fly-half labels change a ‘backward step’ for sport‘Unfortunately I think it’s changed how everybody plays’The Gloucester fly-half Ross Byrne believes international head coaches could convert second-rows into wings for the next men’s Rugby World Cup in 2027 to capitalise on the crackdown on escort defenders.Last October World Rugby instructed referees to scrutinise and punish defending teams obstructing opponents chasing high contestable kicks, a move that has
  
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• Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview

  08-12-2025 17:23 via theguardian.com
  Defense secretary’s comments recirculating amid dispute over US strikes on alleged drug boats in CaribbeanThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stated repeatedly in 2016 on Fox News that US service members should refuse “unlawful” orders from a potential president Trump – exactly the position he called “despicable” when Democratic lawmakers said it last month.The debate about whether US soldiers should refuse illegal orders is now at the center of a fiery po
  
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• Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams

  08-12-2025 17:14 via theguardian.com
  A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austerityThe Museum of Austerity, which has just arrived in London having toured Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol, is such a simple idea: you put on a headset, and walk into an empty room. As you walk around, holograms appear; a man about to collapse, clinging to a wall with one hand; a woman leaning on a
  
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• Britain’s most desirable home: why it’s probably not what you’d expect

  08-12-2025 17:08 via theguardian.com
  Forget sprawling mansions or quirky architecture, Zoopla’s most-viewed listing in 2025 was notable for being relatively affordable and surrounded by countryside …Name: Britain’s most desirable home.Age: Newly crowned. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Red Road flats were spectacular – and terrifying’: striking photographs of Glasgow in flux

  08-12-2025 17:03 via theguardian.com
  From Franz Ferdinand fusing a basement pub’s lights to high-rise flats just days before their demolition, a new show captures the changing city. Its photographers talk us through their shotsIn the mid-1960s, with a shot called Beatle Girl, Joseph McKenzie made one of the most enduring images of Glasgow. His photograph showed a youngster in the slums of the Gorbals wearing a dirtied dress. Smiling and holding a cane, she stands next to a young woman who is wearing a dress patterned with the
  
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• Scottish nurse wins part of her tribunal in trans doctor changing room case

  08-12-2025 16:56 via theguardian.com
  Sandie Peggie wins harassment claim but tribunal dismisses allegations of discrimination and victimisationA nurse who complained about sharing a women’s changing room with a transgender doctor has won part of her employment tribunal against NHS Fife but her claim against the doctor in question was dismissed.The judgment, published on Monday, was immediately attacked by gender critical campaigners as “disappointing” for failing to provide employers with clarity on the practical
  
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• ‘The fans need something to believe in!’ Will this spin-off save Doctor Who?

  08-12-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  The War Between the Land and the Sea may already have been given a rude nickname on fan forums, but does the latest addition to the Whoniverse hold the key to the future of the franchise?The War Between the Land and the Sea, which debuted on BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday, is the only new “Whoniverse” content fans are getting for the next 12 months. Starring Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jemma Redgrave, it features a radical overhaul of a Doctor Who monster first seen in Jon Pert
  
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• Police look into claims Reform UK broke electoral law in Farage campaign

  08-12-2025 16:45 via theguardian.com
  Party denies councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last yearUK politics live – latest updatesPolice are looking into allegations Reform UK breached electoral law during its campaign to win Nigel Farage’s Commons seat at last year’s general election.Political opponents have urged the party’s leader to “come clean” over a former aide’s claims that Reform falsely reported election expenses in th
  
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• It’s Mohamed Salah v Liverpool, and nobody is coming out of it well

  08-12-2025 16:40 via theguardian.com
  Handing the Egyptian a contract extension while also bringing about a new identity has backfired terriblySign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereThere is perhaps nothing in a career as hard as the leaving of it. Unless something utterly remarkable happens, Mohamed Salah has played his last game for Liverpool. Left out of the starting lineup for each of the last three matches, he trained on Monday after his extraordinary post-match tirade following the 3-3 draw with Leeds but he has not been
  
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• Mohamed Salah left out of Liverpool’s Champions League trip to Inter

  08-12-2025 16:29 via theguardian.com
  Forward trained before trip to Milan but not travelledClub made decision following Salah’s outburst at LeedsMohamed Salah has been left out of Liverpool’s Champions League trip to Milan to play Inter on Tuesday following his criticism of the club and Arne Slot.Liverpool, in consultation with Slot, have decided to remove Salah from the first-team picture for a short period but have not disciplined the 33-year-old for his outspoken comments. The forward will miss the game at San Siro a
  
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• Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan

  08-12-2025 16:28 via theguardian.com
  Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselvesMonths before the government used the budget to launch plans to tackle Motability – the scheme that leases subsidised vehicles with some disability benefits – a website started quietly spying on disabled drivers. Motability Check – run by an unknown third party and now offline – allowed members of the public to type in any number plat
  
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• Bank of England cutting jobs as part of overhaul after critical Bernanke review

  08-12-2025 16:25 via theguardian.com
  Bank under budget pressures as it responds to former Fed chair’s report into failure to forecast surging inflationBusiness live – latest updatesThe Bank of England has said it is cutting jobs amid sweeping changes at Threadneedle Street after a highly critical review into its failure to forecast surging inflation.Under budget pressures as it responded to the report from the former US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, the Bank has opened a voluntary scheme last week as part of an ef
  
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• Japan issues tsunami warning after magnitude 7.6 earthquake

  08-12-2025 16:19 via theguardian.com
  Wave as high as 3 metres could hit north-east of country after powerful tremor 50 miles off coastA powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Japan, prompting tsunami warnings and orders for residents to evacuate.A tsunami as high as 3 metres (10ft) could hit the country’s north-eastern coast after the earthquake occurred offshore at 11.15pm local time (2.15pm GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Continue reading...
  
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