• Power giants to face windfall tax after all as Liz Truss delivers U-turn

    Prime minister accused of ‘another screeching U-turn’ having previously rejected calls to impose levyRenewable power companies will have their revenues capped in England and Wales, after the government bowed to pressure to clamp down on runaway profits.The announcement late on Tuesday night provoked immediate accusations that Downing Street had performed “another screeching U-turn” – having previously rejected calls to impose a windfall tax on power giants. Continue
  • Celtic out of Champions League as Timo Werner leads RB Leipzig win

    Champions League campaign over, Europa League hopes hanging by a thread. Celtic continue to learn only harsh lessons against a higher standard of opponent than they ever encounter at home.Nobody could reasonably claim Ange Postecoglou’s team were outplayed but the more ruthless team at each end of the pitch prevailed. As Celtic attacked far more in hope than expectation, the sense grew that Leipzig would show them how it is done. Continue reading...
  • England’s winning run ends as Czech Republic frustrate in stalemate

    Women’s international friendly: England 0-0 Czech RepublicSarina Wiegman’s side fail to score in Lucy Bronze’s 100th matchEngland endured a frustrating night in Brighton as they were held to a goalless draw by the Czech Republic. The Lionesses struggled to find their rhythm as a strong defensive performance from the visitors kept their customary prolific attack at bay.Sarina Wiegman, the England manager, saw the occasion as a “good learning moment” for her team. &ld
  • Ireland delight as Amber Barrett sends them to World Cup amid Scotland woe

    Scotland Women 0-1 Republic of Ireland WomenHosts’ Caroline Weir misses first-half penaltyAmber Barrett scored surely the most important goal in the history of women’s football in the Republic of Ireland, to secure Vera Pauw’s impressive side a ticket to their first major tournament.Barrett’s stellar second‑half finish booked Ireland an unexpected flight to Australia and New Zealand for the World Cup finals next summer, leaving Scotland – and Caroline Weir esp
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  • Aubameyang seals Chelsea victory after Tomori red enrages Milan

    Graham Potter’s understated revolution at Chelsea is starting to make some serious noise. There is no hint of Thomas Tuchel’s replacement struggling to cope with the big Champions League nights and, while it is not Potter’s style to blow his own trumpet, he could be forgiven for reflecting on how far he has come as he watched his new team cruise to victory at the San Siro.These are moments to cherish for a man who once coached students at Hull University. Potter is operating at
  • British businessman charged over helping Russian oligarch evade US sanctions

    Graham Bonham-Carter was arrested after being accused of funding properties purchased by Oleg Deripaska and expatriating his artworkA British businessman has been charged with conspiring to violate sanctions imposed by the US government on a Russian oligarch.The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Graham Bonham-Carter was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of funding properties purchased by Oleg Deripaska and expatriating his artwork, which Bonham-Carter denies. Continue reading...
  • Angela Lansbury: the scene-stealing grande dame of stage and screen for 75 years

    Best-known as the novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury’s winning charm and towering talent stretches back to the days of Noël Coward and Judy Garland• Angela Lansbury has died aged 96In a career lasting three quarters of a century, Dame Angela Lansbury won high praise and prizes in cinema, theatre and TV, and became a member of the acting aristocracy in three countries – Britain, where she was born; America, her home for most of her life; and Irel
  • Pound falls sharply against dollar after Bank confirms bond-buying end date

    Sterling falls more than a cent to below $1.10 after Andrew Bailey tells pension firms they have ‘got to get this done’The pound has fallen sharply against the dollar after Andrew Bailey warned the Bank of England would not extend its emergency intervention in financial markets beyond this week, after the turmoil sparked by the government’s mini-budget.Sterling skidded by more than a cent against the dollar to below $1.10 after the Bank’s governor insisted the £65bn
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  • Detroit extends contract with controversial gunshot surveillance firm

    City leaders voted on Tuesday to expand Detroit’s contract with ShotSpotter, after weeks of divisive debateThe city of Detroit is moving forward with a $7m expansion of its contract with ShotSpotter, after weeks of debate on its work with the controversial surveillance company.The Detroit city council voted five to four on Tuesday to expand the geographic footprint of ShotSpotter in the city throughout the next four years. Continue reading...
  • ‘It’s about ethics’: Nigeria urges British Museum to follow US and repatriate bronzes

    Culture minister says UK institution ‘should learn from what has happened’ as Smithsonian returns 29 Benin artefactsThe culture minister of Nigeria has urged the British Museum to follow the example of the Smithsonian Institution, which on Tuesday returned ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria at a celebratory event in Washington.Lai Mohammed praised the move by the US National Museum of African Art, which follows a recent restitution agreement with Germany that included the hando
  • Humm’s last-gasp strike in extra time ends Wales’ World Cup dream

    Switzerland Women 2-1 Wales WomenHumm and Bachmann send Switzerland to World CupWales’s hopes of reaching the World Cup finals and a first major tournament ended in heartbreak as Switzerland prevailed from this barmy playoff tie, the wily substitute Fabienne Humm flicking in a deft winner as the second half of extra time ticked into stoppage time.A topsy-turvy contest was heading for a penalty shootout after the excellent Ramona Bachmann, who was forced off late on through injury, cancelle
  • King to star in The Repair Shop for BBC’s centenary celebrations

    Then-Prince of Wales filmed bringing vintage royal clock and pottery to show’s craftspeople for repairKing Charles will star in a special episode of The Repair Shop later this month as part of events to mark 100 years since the BBC was established.Charles will meet the show’s host and furniture restorer, Jay Blades, and his team of craftspeople to talk about their interest in bringing new life to objects. Continue reading...
  • New York changes gun buyback after seller gets $21,000 for 3D-printed parts

    Participant used a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then exchanged for gift cardsThe attorney general of New York has changed the rules of a state gun buyback program, after a participant exploited the system by using a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then exchanged for $21,000 in gift cards.The seller, who identified himself by a pseudonym, said he traveled from West Virginia to a gun buyback on 27 August in Utica, New York, to take advantage of a loophole in th
  • Angela Lansbury, star of TV, film and theatre, dies aged 96

    Lansbury won an Oscar nomination for her first role in the 1944 film Gaslight, and gained international acclaim as Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher• Angela Lansbury: the sweet, scene-stealing grande dame of our screens for 75 yearsThe actor Angela Lansbury, best known as Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, She Wrote and for numerous film and theatre roles, has died aged 96.She died in her sleep on Tuesday, just five days before her 97th birthday, her family has announced. A
  • G7 leaders dodge decision on imposing price cap on Russian oil

    Promised plan still mired in debates over feasibility and wisdom, with Germany fearing further Russian energy cuts in responseG7 leaders appeared to sidestep imposing a price cap on Russian oil within weeks to strip Russia of its largest source of income to finance its war effort in Ukraine.The leaders of the world’s leading western economies have promised a cap before, most recently at a meeting of G7 finance ministers on 2 September, with the plan pencilled to come into force on 5 Decemb
  • ECJ must have no role in Northern Ireland protocol, David Frost says

    Ex-Brexit minister’s comments suggest the European court of justice remains divisive among ToriesDavid Frost has said Liz Truss must not surrender to the EU by giving the European court of justice a role in trade disputes in Northern Ireland.On Tuesday, the former Brexit minister told the House of Lords European relations committee: “The court of justice cannot have a jurisdictional or arbitrational role in the future arrangement. I can’t see how they will be stable while that
  • Manchester City thrash out draw at Copenhagen despite Sergio Gómez red

    Manchester City were as disjointed as they have been this season yet still emerged with a draw that secures qualification from Champions League Group G after Sevilla failed to beat Borussia Dortmund.On a night when an exhausted Erling Haaland was rested, after starting all the previous 12 games, Pep Guardiola’s men did a rare thing: failed to score, though this and their lack of fluidity could be traced to Sergio Gómez’s first-half sending-off following a VAR review in a 45 mi
  • Emma Raducanu searching for new coach after Dmitry Tursunov exit

    British player looking for fifth coach in less than two yearsAndy Murray’s former fitness coach set to join her teamEmma Raducanu is looking for her fifth coach in less than two years after Dmitry Tursunov opted not to extend their trial period into a long-term association.Raducanu has added to her coaching staff, though, with Jez Green, Andy Murray’s former fitness coach, joining her team. Continue reading...
  • Tories’ levelling up ad campaign broke the rules, finds watchdog

    Advertising promoting government policies in run-up to local elections in May described as party propaganda by LabourA major advertising drive promoting the government’s levelling up agenda broke advertising rules, a watchdog has concluded after complaints were made about the billboard and local newspaper campaign.The campaign preceded local elections this year and involved a significant number of placements on local newspaper websites, including the Grimsby Telegraph, the Derby Telegraph,
  • Martin Rowson on the pitfalls that lie ahead for Liz Truss – cartoon

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  • Dead-eyed AI robot Ai-da sets the bar high for Truss and Kwarteng | John Crace

    A robot addressing a Lords committee evinced a clarity and personality all too lacking at the top of the Tory partyTake one day. Today. The Bank of England has again intervened to ensure there isn’t a fire sale of UK government bonds by pension funds. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published a report saying the government will have to find £60bn of spending cuts over four years to pay for the recent mini-budget. The International Monetary Fund has restated its criticism of said
  • Report reveals details of Bill Murray’s ‘inappropriate’ on-set behavior

    New report claims the actor straddled and kissed a younger female colleague on the set of Being Mortal, leading to suspension of productionBill Murray has reportedly paid $100,000 to settle a complaint by a woman on a film set that he straddled her and kissed her through a mask, as his 1980s co-star Geena Davis also spoke out about his famously “difficult” behavior on set.In April, Murray was accused of “inappropriate behavior” on the set of Being Mortal, an adaptation of
  • Six endangered wolves found dead in Washington were poisoned, officials say

    The state’s wildlife agency is offering a reward of $51,000 for tips leading to conviction in the case to help protect the animals Six endangered wolves found dead in north-east Washington this year were poisoned, officials announced on Monday, and a reward is being offered for tips leading to a conviction in the case.Washington state’s department of fish and wildlife said the agency had been investigating wolf deaths within the territory of the Wedge pack in Stevens county since aut
  • Typos and shutdowns: robot ‘gives evidence’ to Lords committee

    Ai-Da, described as ‘world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist’, struggles at times to answer peers’ questionsIn a groundbreaking hearing, a robot “gave evidence” to a House of Lords committee on Tuesday – where it read typos from its pre-written script, struggled to hear questions, and needed to be rebooted halfway through the session.“Ai-Da”, described by its creator, Aiden Meller, as “the world’s first ultra-realistic robot ar
  • No UK benefits decision until end of October, says chancellor

    Kwasi Kwarteng accused of compounding anxiety as he says announcement on uprating benefits will come in Halloween fiscal statementStruggling households will have to wait until the end of October to find out whether welfare payments will rise with inflation or be subject to a real-terms cut, the chancellor has announced.Kwasi Kwarteng was accused of compounding the anxiety faced by those already at the sharp end of the cost of living crisis by telling them clarity would not come until his Hallowe
  • What has the Bank done and is my pension safe?

    For the third time in a fortnight, the Bank of England has bought government bonds to calm financial marketsFor the third time in a fortnight, the Bank of England has deployed billions of pounds to buy government bonds and calm financial markets.The mini-budget on 23 September led to panic selling by pension funds, causing them to dump government bonds to raise money. The rout spooked foreign investors, and the Bank is now struggling to bring order back to the markets, despite spending £3.
  • Amazon: Coventry workers balloted for strike action in UK first

    Firm refuses to engage with unions but faces pressure from ‘associates’ fighting for better pay and conditions‘I just want to live’: how UK Amazon workers came to brink of strikeHundreds of Amazon workers at the company’s vast warehouse in Coventry hope to make history next week by becoming the first in the UK to vote for strike action against the delivery giant, which refuses to engage with unions.Workers at the site, on land formerly occupied by Jaguar Land Rover,
  • UK to designate China a ‘threat’ in hawkish foreign policy shift

    Redesignation will bring UK’s official position towards Beijing close to its stance on RussiaChina is to be formally designated a “threat” to Britain in a hasty rewrite of Boris Johnson’s defence and foreign policy that is being brought forward to end confusion among ministers about how to deal with Beijing.Under Johnson, China had been categorised as a “systemic competitor” but the new prime minister, Liz Truss, wants to take a more hawkish stance quickly, as
  • The Guardian view on Putin’s escalations: dangerous times | Editorial

    The Russian president is making civilians suffer for the successes of Ukraine’s counteroffensiveThe missiles that have rained down on Ukrainian cities far from the frontline since Monday morning, striking playgrounds and other civilian targets, are retaliation for the blast at the Kerch bridge between Russia and Crimea. But it is Vladimir Putin’s rage at the broader success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has shifted the war from a grinding military stalemate into a more dange
  • The Guardian view on Trussonomics: bringing on social and financial devastation | Editorial

    The government and its central bank are plotting a path that will create a painful recession. Both ought to change courseIn chess they call it zugzwang – a situation in which any legal move leaves the player worse off. Both the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and the Bank of England are searching for a winning way out of their predicaments, given the constraints imposed by public opinion. They are unlikely to find one. “Trussonomics” – a mixture of tax cuts, sharp reductions
  • EU foreign policy chief says diplomats are slow, ineffective and patronising

    Josep Borrell criticises staff for not anticipating Ukraine invasion, and says he sometimes learns more ‘by reading newspapers’The EU’s foreign policy chief has accused his top diplomats of being slow, ineffective and patronising towards the countries they work in, also berating them for failing to anticipate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.“This is not a moment when we are going to send flowers to all of you saying that you are beautiful, you work very well and we are
  • Buffer zone to be set up outside Bournemouth abortion clinic

    Anyone caught protesting or harassing visitors or staff could incur fixed penalty notice of £100An extensive buffer zone is being put in place around a clinic in Dorset in order to prevent anti-abortion campaigners harassing service users and staff.The zone will cover six streets around the British Pregnancy Advice Service clinic in Bournemouth and will be in force for 12 hours a day, five days a week for the next three years. Continue reading...
  • Sam Tarry’s deselection is just one part of a bigger shakeup of the Labour party | Elliot Chappell

    A reported change in strategy is allowing Keir Starmer to shape the party in his imageYou can be forgiven for not knowing the intricate workings of Labour’s internal mechanisms. But the processes by which the party selects its candidates matter. They matter because, particularly in a safe Labour seat, those rules will usually determine who will be the next MP.Labour started its trigger ballot process late last year. Where there is an incumbent Labour MP, it gives local members a simple cho
  • Lviv braces for cold times as Putin seeks to weaponise winter

    Mayor of western Ukrainian city urges local people to gather heaters and firewood after Russia destroys two of its power plantsThere was scant attempt to sugarcoat the assessment. With the trams stilled, lights going down across the city and the mobile network intermittent, arguably there was little point in doing otherwise.“We have to brace ourselves for hard times,” said Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, as he addressed local and international journalists in a building off the wes
  • If the Tories U-turn on no-fault evictions, they'll be guaranteeing misery for renters | Daniel Lavelle

    Britain’s housing market feels like it’s stuck in the 19th century. Keeping cruel section 21 legislation will make it worseThe Tories have not exactly hidden their contempt for the British public over the past 12 years, but they’re not even trying to maintain the facade any more. In Liz Truss’s latest gambit to hand Keir Starmer the keys to Downing Street, the government may be about to break its promise of banning no-fault evictions. It risks creating a homelessness cata
  • Families mourn victims of Thailand mass shootings and stabbings

    Mourners attend cremation ceremonies after policeman kills 36 people, 24 of them childrenHundreds of mourners and victims’ families have gathered to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift furnaces at cremation ceremonies for the young children and others who died in last week’s mass killings in Thailand’s rural northeast.Families bid their final goodbyes at a Buddhist temple a short distance from the Young Children’s Development Centre in the town of Uthai Sawan, where
  • King Charles must lead by example on climate crisis | Letters

    Dr Rhian Barrance says we need climate leaders who can be honest about the actions required to tackle the climate emergency. Plus letters from Jo Inge Svendsen and Trevor JonesJohn Vidal makes some good points about the role that King Charles could take as a climate leader, including divesting from fossil fuels, selling the family silver to pay for climate action and rewilding his estates (Here’s a plan for green King Charles: sell the family silver and use the cash to save the planet, 6 O
  • We have no great expectations of Liz Truss | Letters

    Sheila Cross agrees with Michael Rosen that social conditions now appear Dickensian, while Peter Riddle warns of real turbulence and Dr Neil Denby wonders why the wealthy always need carrotsMichael Rosen is right that social conditions under Liz Truss seem Dickensian (Liz Truss, we see the Dickensian world you dream of – and we refuse to go there, 7 October). It’s beyond irony that the new shopping centre in Northallerton, the largest town in Rishi Sunak’s prosperous constituen
  • Madeleine suspect charged over string of sex attacks - The Times

    Madeleine suspect charged over string of sex attacks  The TimesMadeleine McCann suspect charged with separate sex offences  BBCMadeleine McCann suspect ‘will not face trial on separate sex charges this year’  The IndependentMadeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors  The GuardianMcCann suspect won't face trial in other cases before 2023  The Washington PostView Full coverage on Google News
  • Keir Starmer axes chief of staff to put Labour on ‘election footing’

    Restructuring includes departure of Sam White, as party leader seeks to capitalise on slump in Tory supportPolitics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has announced a major shake-up of his political team, including the departure of his chief of staff, Sam White, saying Labour is now on an election footing.Boosted by turmoil in the Conservative party and a string of hefty leads in opinion polls, Starmer said the party needed to move into the next phase of election readiness. Continue readin
  • Abortion on the ballot: here are the US states voting on a woman’s right to choose

    Voters in five states will dramatically shape abortion policies for millions of women this NovemberWhen the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in June, it put the matter of regulating abortion entirely in the hands of the states. This November, voters will weigh in on ballot initiatives that will decide the future of abortion in five of those states: California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont.Reproductive rights proponents are hoping to replicate their historic win in Kansas, where
  • Mother walked in on nurse Lucy Letby trying to kill baby, court told

    Defendant accused of murdering seven babies allegedly said ‘trust me, I’m a nurse’ when interruptedA mother of twins walked in on a nurse attempting to murder one of her baby boys who then told her: “Trust me, I’m a nurse,” a court has heard.Lucy Letby, 32, was trying to kill the five-day-old boy when his mother arrived on the neonatal ward with his milk, jurors were told. Continue reading...
  • Family of man who died in Israeli detention rejects claim about deal

    Relatives of Palestinian Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad, 78, say no settlement has been reached with Israeli defence ministryThe family of an elderly Palestinian-American man who died after being forcibly detained by Israeli soldiers has disputed a claim from Israel’s defence ministry that the parties have reached a compensation settlement.In a rare case of compensation for a Palestinian claim of wrongdoing by Israeli forces, on Sunday the defence ministry said in a statement that it had rea
  • ‘I’m a venal narcissist’ – standup Leo Reich on skewering his inner Gen-Z monster

    The hotly tipped comic was the talk of Edinburgh with his blistering hour of hilariously hollow egomania – and audiences haven’t a clue whether to pity or deplore himUK standup has a new superstar – and we have Covid (just a little bit) to thank. When Leo Reich was plotting his 2020 Edinburgh fringe debut, it was with a “a slightly template-y, self-pitying, anecdotal show,” he says, “about the various hardships I’ve been through. ‘It’s so har
  • Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors

    Officials say new charges relate to offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017German prosecutors said they have charged a 45-year-old German man, who is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, with several sexual offences he allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017.Police in Germany had announced in 2020 they were investigating Christian Brückner in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine, who went missing from
  • Cinemas aren’t considered ‘cultural spaces’. As we’ve seen in Scotland, this has consequences | Anna Bogutskaya

    The loss of two Filmhouse cinemas and the EIFF shows how these important public venues have been devaluedLast week, the independent Filmhouse cinemas in Edinburgh and Aberdeen and the Edinburgh international film festival (EIFF) suddenly closed. One hundred and two staff, including myself, were notified and made redundant, effective immediately. This was my first year programming for the EIFF.The closure was particularly painful as it came during the same week that critics breathlessly covered t
  • Baltimore prosecutors drop all charges against Adnan Syed of Serial podcast

    Syed, 41, who spent more than 20 years in prison, had conviction for 1999 murder of girlfriend overturned in SeptemberProsecutors in Baltimore have dismissed all charges against Adnan Syed, who was released from prison last month after the overturning of his murder conviction in the case that was at the center of the famed podcast Serial.Syed can still be retried depending on what the Baltimore state’s attorney, Marilyn Mosby, decides, according to CBS, because there is no time limit to pr
  • London’s ‘execution economy’: grisly exhibition charts 5,000 public deaths

    From traitors to pickpockets, researchers draw up roll call of 700 years of state killing in the capitalIt used to be said that London’s streets were paved in gold but in reality they were running in blood – the blood of tens of thousands of people executed by the state for crimes ranging from treason to petty theft.Over 700 years, public executions in the capital – often intended as a deterrent against criminal activity – were watched by vast crowds, creating an “e
  • Charming and lively? You must own a border terrier. Faithful and a good listener? A jack russell!

    Research by the Kennel Club suggests that not only can owners look like their dogs, they share personality traits tooName: Dog ownersAge: The domestication of wolves began 30,000-40,000 years ago. Continue reading...
  • One in three Britons will cut holiday spending as living costs rise

    Travel industry research suggests people will seek all-inclusive and cheaper packages due to fears over inflation and weak poundOne in three holidaymakers will cut back on holiday spending next year, seeking all-inclusives and cheaper package deals due to the cost of living crisis, according to travel industry research.The travel association Abta said a strong recovery in demand for travel this year was expected to continue next year, but its own surveys suggested people would opt for cheaper tr

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