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• Early Life on Mars May've Wiped Out Early Life on Mars, a New Study Suggests - ScienceAlert

  22-10-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
  Early Life on Mars May've Wiped Out Early Life on Mars, a New Study Suggests  ScienceAlertMars Could Have Been Warm and wet, While Earth was Still a Glowing Ball of Molten Rock  Universe TodayLife on Mars killed off by Martians? Shocking study says so  HT TechEarly Life on Mars Might Have Wiped Out Life on Mars  Universe TodayView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• 90% of schools in England will run out of money next year, heads warn

  22-10-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Heads say they will be in deficit next academic year, even without cuts Jeremy Hunt is planningNine out of 10 schools in England will have run out of money by the next school year as the enormous burden of increased energy and salary bills takes its toll, the Observer can reveal.Early data from the National Association of Head Teachers – results of a survey of its members are due later this month – shows that 50% of heads say their school will be in deficit this year, with
  
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• Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care? - The Times

  22-10-2022 19:00 via news.google.com
  Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care?  The TimesPatients face a 55-day wait for cancer treatment as backlog worsens after Covid pandemic  Daily MailBritain’s cancer shame as patients wait 55 days to even start treatment  ExpressView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘Gotham Knights’ May Have The Worst UI In A Generation - Forbes

  22-10-2022 16:50 via news.google.com
  ‘Gotham Knights’ May Have The Worst UI In A Generation  ForbesGotham Knights Is An Enormous Disappointment?  Giant Freakin RobotGotham Knights Stuttering and Frame Rate Drop PC Fix Outlined  MP1stIn The Shadow Of The Bat: We Review Gotham Knights  Bleeding Cool NewsWho is the best character to play in Gotham Knights?  SportskeedaView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• More than two million UK households are in debt on their electricity bills

  22-10-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  People are already unplugging fridges, washing clothes by hand and skipping meals – with worse to come this winter, Citizens Advice warnsThe number of UK households in arrears on their energy bills soared to record levels in the second quarter of this year, with more than two million behind on their electricity payments.Data from the energy regulator Ofgem shows that at the end of June, 2,347,511 households were behind on their electricity bills and 1,858,585 on their gas bills. Both total
  
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• Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live

  22-10-2022 12:36 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the 12.30pm (BST) game at City GroundLive scoreboard: keep up with all Saturday’s goalsAny comments? Email Rob with your thoughtsForest make one change from the midweek draw at Brighton. The former Liverpool striker Taiwo Awoniyi replaces Brennan Johnson.Liverpool are without the injured pair of Darwin Nunez and Thiago Alcantara. They’re replaced by Harvey Elliott and Curtis Jones, which probably means Mo Salah will play up front. Fabinho is in for Jordan Henderson and J
  
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• T20 World Cup 2022 Super 12: New Zealand beat Australia by 89 runs – live

  22-10-2022 12:34 via theguardian.com
  New Zealand 200-3; Australia 111Devon Conway (92*) Player of the MatchOne of Australia’s key performers early on with the ball will be the accurate paceman Josh Hazlewood. He spoke to Simon Burnton recently about his long career on the fringes of T20 before his sudden ascendancy.One thing that makes his explosive return to T20s all the more remarkable is that during his time in the wilderness he not only did not train specifically for it, he did not even watch the shorter-form games. &ldqu
  
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• England v Afghanistan: T20 World Cup Super 12 – live

  22-10-2022 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Updates from England’s Group 1 opener in PerthAustralia v New Zealand – follow live coverageAny thoughts? You can email Taha or tweet TahaIn Sydney, New Zealand have thumped hosts and defending champions Australia by 89 runs. What a result that is. They were an over away from winning the whole thing in 2016. In 2021, things were looking good in the semi-final until Jimmy Neesham went big and Daryl Mitchell held his nerve. England have looked the part in this tournament since their 20
  
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• Tory leadership live: Priti Patel says she backs Boris Johnson as Rishi Sunak reaches threshold of 100 declared supporters

  22-10-2022 12:20 via theguardian.com
  Ex-PM arrives back in UK from Dominican Republic but Penny Mordaunt so far only confirmed runner to succeed Liz TrussWho is backing whom as next Tory leaderThe Conservative former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he was “confident” Rishi Sunak would run and was the “standout candidate” in the field.He said Sunak had been “consistently right” on the economy in the face of the “fundamental” economic challenges the country faces as well as the
  
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• Republicans always choose radicalization to energize their electoral base

  22-10-2022 12:20 via theguardian.com
  Conservatives have long harnessed the extremist, far-right energies of their base to animate the partyIn the days and weeks after the attack on the Capitol, Republican leaders publicly acknowledged Donald Trump’s culpability. Last week’s January 6 hearings presented footage of House minority leader Kevin McCarthy declaring Trump should have “immediately denounced” the attack, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell accusing Trump of ignoring his duty as president. It w
  
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• Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’

  22-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Jess and Annie Nichol want to undo the harsh criminal laws passed after their sister was abducted: ‘We don’t want our pain to be used to punish anyone else’Annie Nichol was seven years old on 19 March 1994 when she was brought to the White House to talk to Bill Clinton.With a stuffed dolphin by her side, the girl spoke to the president about her 12-year-old sister, Polly Klaas, who had been abducted five months earlier from the family’s home in Petaluma, California, while
  
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• I fund climate activism – and I applaud the Van Gogh protest | Aileen Getty

  22-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The Just Stop Oil protest shocked the world, but we must take disruptive action on the climate crisis before it’s too lateTwo climate activists who threw soup on the protective glass covering of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting have captured the attention of the world. While some have ridiculed the activists, as a funder of climate activism, I am proud of the bigger conversation they have started.When I saw the video, my first reaction was shock. Throwing soup on a beloved painting was
  
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• From going to the office to the cinema: creative ways to save on energy bills

  22-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  You can wrap up and turn the heating down, but could you also make savings by going out?This winter will be one of the most financially challenging ever for those on low to moderate incomes – and the new chancellor sent a chill wind blowing through many households this week when he slashed the energy price freeze safety net by 75%.The energy price guarantee that was going to run for two years will now be limited to only six months. After April 2023, help will be targeted at those most in n
  
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• ‘Fishless fish’: the next big trend in the seafood industry

  22-10-2022 12:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Alternative seafood’ is having a moment, with the rise of companies like BlueNalu and Wildtype, which has the backing of Leonardo DiCaprioIn the middle of San Francisco, there’s a pilot production plant for Wildtype, one of a handful of cell-cultivated seafood companies in the US. Inside, it’s growing sushi-grade coho salmon in tanks similar to those found in breweries – no fishing or farming required.Cultivation starts by taking a small sample from a living fish s
  
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• Tory leadership live: Priti Patel says she backs Boris Johnson as Rishi Sunak supporters say he has reached 100 backers

  22-10-2022 11:49 via theguardian.com
  Ex-PM arrives back in UK from Dominican Republic but Penny Mordaunt so far only confirmed runner to succeed Liz TrussWho is backing whom as next Tory leaderThe Conservative former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he was “confident” Rishi Sunak would run and was the “standout candidate” in the field.He said Sunak had been “consistently right” on the economy in the face of the “fundamental” economic challenges the country faces as well as the
  
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• T20 World Cup 2022 Super 12: New Zealand set Australia target of 201 – live

  22-10-2022 11:34 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the teams’ opening match at the SCGStart time in Sydney is 6pm AEDT/8pm NZDT/8am BSTAny thoughts? Email Jonathan or tweet @JPHowcroftOne of Australia’s key performers early on with the ball will be the accurate paceman Josh Hazlewood. He spoke to Simon Burnton recently about his long career on the fringes of T20 before his sudden ascendancy.One thing that makes his explosive return to T20s all the more remarkable is that during his time in the wilderness he not only did
  
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• Tory leadership live: Boris Johnson arrives back in UK as Rishi Sunak supporters say he has reached 100 backers

  22-10-2022 11:32 via theguardian.com
  Neither ex-PM nor ex-chancellor have yet declared they will stand, with Penny Mordaunt so far only confirmed runnerWho is backing whom as next Tory leaderThe Conservative former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he was “confident” Rishi Sunak would run and was the “standout candidate” in the field.He said Sunak had been “consistently right” on the economy in the face of the “fundamental” economic challenges the country faces as well as the &l
  
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• Tottenham v Manchester City: Women’s Super League – live

  22-10-2022 11:30 via theguardian.com
  Minute-by-minute updates on the action at Brisbane RoadAny comments? You can email Sarah or tweet SarahWelcome back to our coverage of the Women’s Super League with a battle between Tottenham and Manchester City!Both clubs have had mixed starts to the season. Spurs have two wins and a loss to find themselves in seventh and Man City have one win and two losses and are in eighth. It is familiar territory for City who had a bumpy start to the campaign last season but they recovered to finish
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: power blackouts in western Ukraine as Russian air strikes hit energy facilities

  22-10-2022 11:29 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian officials say energy restrictions have had to be applied in Kyiv and other areas after attackWhat we know on day 241 of Russia’s invasionIran has strongly condemned a call by France, Germany and Britain for the United Nations to probe accusations that Russia has used Iranian-origin drones to attack Ukraine, its foreign ministry said.Reuters reports that ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said Friday’s call by the so called E-3 group of countries was “false and basel
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for autumn pies

  22-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Warm up with a sustaining spinach, celeriac and gouda filling for a suet crust, make time for a luscious lamb and feta borek, and wrap up with a sweet pretzel and pecan banana rum piePies feel all kinds of right at this time of the year. Not only are they all wrapped up, so dressed perfectly for autumn, they’re also the ideal weekend project for when you’re hunkering down at home. So satisfying, so sustaining, so seasonal. Continue reading...
  
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• The dog that walks like a human – and other precocious pets: ‘We didn’t teach him, it was his idea’

  22-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Animal lovers describe what it’s like to care for an extremely talented animalWe bought Dexter as a puppy. He was an adorable bundle of energy, a pure-breed Brittany spaniel. My husband, two children and I fell in love with him straight away. We’d lost an elderly dog the year before, and had rescued another, who we tragically had to put to sleep. It devastated us. So we poured our love into Dexter. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It is like revisiting my childhood in vivid, high definition’: Gerry Brakus’s best phone picture

  22-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  While taking shots of her daughter during a holiday in France, memories of the photographer’s own youth flooded backIt was a stiflingly hot day in the south of France and editor and photographer Gerry Brakus and her 15-year-old daughter, Honor, had gone indoors to cool off. Along with her husband – the couple are both half English, half French – and beloved dog Rudy, the cavapoo, they were holidaying near Avignon. “I spent a lot of my own childhood in France,” Braku
  
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• How the US chip export controls have turned the screws on China - Financial Times

  22-10-2022 11:00 via news.google.com
  How the US chip export controls have turned the screws on China  Financial TimesTSMC halts work for China firm  台北時報Why US tech controls on China could end up hurting American semiconductors  Yahoo FinanceChina’s Biren GPUs Can’t Be Made at TSMC Due To US Regulations & Competition With NVIDIA  WccftechView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Cemeteries can show you what it means to be a person, and how this has changed | Rachel Connolly

  22-10-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  From a travelling zoo founder’s grave to family tombs, our resting places reveal our attempts to make a mark on the worldYou can tell a lot about a place from the local cemetery. I make a point of visiting them whenever I travel somewhere new. You’d never catch me reading a history book; I find them deadly boring. But the texture of a place comes to life in the dates, recurring family names and professions inscribed on gravestones. Highgate Cemetery in north London, for example, has
  
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• Rail strikes: 'Significantly reduced timetable' as train workers stage 24-hour walk-out - Sky News

  22-10-2022 10:51 via news.google.com
  Rail strikes: 'Significantly reduced timetable' as train workers stage 24-hour walk-out  Sky NewsSoutheastern train strikes restart in November  Kent LiveRAIL Travellers Face More Weekend Strike Disruption  Inverclyde NowRMT workers on Avanti West Coast trains strike for 24 hours  Metro.co.ukAvanti West Coast rail services axed amid strike action  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy’s prime minister

  22-10-2022 10:44 via theguardian.com
  Meloni took the oath of office as Italy’s first female premier at the presidential palace on SaturdayGiorgia Meloni, whose political party has neo-fascist roots, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy’s prime minister.Meloni, 45, took the oath of office as Italy’s first female prime minister before the Italian president at the presidential palace. Continue reading...
  
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• Scott Mills: ‘My celebrity crush? Lewis Capaldi. He’s one of the funniest, cuddliest people you could ever meet’

  22-10-2022 10:30 via theguardian.com
  The radio DJ on Halloween pranks, a scary flight with David Hasselhoff, and why he wants to say sorry to Katy PerryBorn in Hampshire, Mills, 49, became a presenter on his local radio station, Power FM, at 16. He went on to work for stations in Bristol and Manchester before joining London’s Heart FM in 1995. Three years later, he started at BBC Radio 1’s early breakfast show. He spent 24 years at Radio 1, most recently hosting the weekday drivetime show. On 31 October he moves to Radi
  
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• Women’s World Cup 2023: England draw Denmark, China and playoff winner

  22-10-2022 10:21 via theguardian.com
  Lionesses avoid Netherlands, who land in Group E with USACo-hosts Australia in Group B with Canada, Ireland and NigeriaEngland have been drawn in Group D along with Denmark, China and a qualifying playoff winner at Saturday’s 2023 Women’s World Cup draw in Auckland.The European champions will begin their campaign in Brisbane on 22 July, but won’t know the identity of their first rival until February’s intercontinental playoffs complete the expanded 32-team draw. England w
  
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• Taylor Swift’s new album breaks Spotify streaming record

  22-10-2022 10:05 via theguardian.com
  Star thanks fans for helping new release, Midnights, break record for most-streamed album in a single dayTaylor Swift has thanked her fans for “doing something mind blowing” as her new LP broke the Spotify record for most-streamed album in a single day.The pop-megastar’s latest offering, Midnights, was released on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Whatever I was going to be I wanted to be really good’: Cormac McCarthy’s life in writing

  22-10-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Richard B Woodward, who has known McCarthy for 30 years, on the reclusive author’s love of scientific thinking, and why he will publish two novels in two months after a 16-year wait
  • Read an exclusive extract from Cormac McCarthy’s The PassengerFor the last 20 years or so, the most likely place to find the publicity-shy novelist-playwright-screenwriter Cormac McCarthy would be at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Co-founded in 1984 by Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 recipient of
  
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• Johnson on the way back? Truss, Trump … when politics is this crazy, only cartoons can do it justice | Martin Rowson

  22-10-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  An exhibition of how cartoonists covered the Johnson era shows the power of our genre in holding leaders to account The Cartoon Museum’s new show of Boris Johnson cartoons, This Exhibition Is A Work Event, chronicles Johnson’s time as prime minister through the work of 50 different cartoonists (including a lot of regular Guardian contributors). But there is a question that, even now – as Liz Truss self-detonates and Tory members talk about the possibility of bringing him back &
  
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• Ilhan Omar on the critical issues of the midterm elections: ‘People understand what’s at stake’

  22-10-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  From abortion rights to climate action, the Minnesota congresswoman outlines the work ahead for DemocratsThe snow is already falling in Minnesota and with less than three weeks until election day, the priority for congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the state Democrats is getting people out to vote early before enthusiasm – and the temperature – dips.“The number one concern for a lot of people I am talking to is Roe – it’s reproductive rights,” Omar said. “Ther
  
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• Tom Gauld on the perfect book cover – cartoon

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
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• Think Westminster’s a mess? It’s nothing compared to the north’s mismanaged rail system | Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Failed franchises are causing daily misery and costing local economies billions. If this was London, it would be a national scandalIf you want to truly understand the full extent of this country’s present dysfunction, forget about the chaos going on in Westminster and instead spend a day trying to travel across the north of England.By now, if the 2019 Tory manifesto is to be believed, we were meant to be experiencing the joys of being levelled up. Instead, people’s spirits are being
  
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• Streaming: the best films set on trains

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Hurtling Brad Pitt thriller vehicle Bullet Train follows in the tracks of classics from Shanghai Express and The Lady Vanishes to UnstoppableIn the ranks of films set on the railways, new-to-streaming Bullet Train is strictly stuck in second class – and hey, most of us can travel in that carriage happily enough. Placing a grizzled assassin (played by Brad Pitt) on board the world’s fastest train alongside an international assortment of fellow killers, and letting mayhem ensue, David
  
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• Savings: make the most of UK rate rises by switching accounts

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Inertia or an excess of trust results in billions of pounds languishing in accounts paying little or no interestSavings rates are continuing to rise, with best-buy deals offering 5%-plus, so if your money is earning a pittance, now is the time to switch to a better-paying account.Research issued this week found that while there are a growing number of fairly decent deals emerging, almost £270bn is languishing in accounts paying no interest at all. It also found that fewer than a third of p
  
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• Ronaldo: ‘The pressure pushed me ever further down. It has a cost’

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Brazil’s goalscoring great on his highs and lows, why he wants Pep Guardiola to coach the seleção and what he thinks of NeymarNobody does it like Ronaldo. A couple of weeks ago, he says, a fan club sent him some stats. They had worked out that he had dribbled round the goalkeeper to score more than 90 times in his career, more than a fifth of his absurd goal catalogue. There is a gasp and not for the first time – not for the last, either – that smile flashes acros
  
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• Oded Oren’s recipes for green tortilla and fish kebabs with preserved lemon

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Tel Aviv on a plate: a fresh, herby tortilla brings back memories of childhood street food, while technique is the key to moreish white fish kebabsFresh herbs pretty much define my cooking. Whether it’s parsley, coriander, mint, chervil or even the green part of spring onions (which people tend to discard), I just love them all and add them to many of my dishes. They add another layer of flavour without compromising the main ingredient, freshening up every dish. These two recipes require l
  
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• ‘Matter of time’: experts warn of risks to referees amid epidemic of abuse

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Calls for tougher sanctions against those who abuse or attack match officials as the number of incidents continues to rise“At half-time as I was standing in the centre circle, the player I had [sent off] during the first half approached me, started shouting in my face: ‘Why don’t you start fucking getting decisions right and you’re fucking useless.’ I replied: ‘Move away from me.’ He then pushed me three times in the chest and said: ‘What are you g
  
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• Landowners call for scrapping of plans to ban solar energy from England’s farmland

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Farmers say having solar sites allows them to subsidise food production during less successful yearsFarmers have urged whoever succeeds Liz Truss as UK prime minister to abandon plans to ban solar energy from most of England’s farmland, arguing that it would hurt food security by cutting off a vital income stream.Truss, who resigned on Thursday, and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, hoped to ban solar from about 41% of the land area of England, or about 58% of agricultural land
  
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• ‘I came back. I proved people wrong’: England’s Rosie Galligan on her long road to the Rugby World Cup

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  England lock has overcome meningitis and a shattered ankle and is aiming for glory in New Zealand with the Red RosesLife could have been very different for Rosie Galligan. When the Harlequins second-row runs out to make her Rugby World Cup debut against South Africa in Auckland on Sunday, an arduous journey through some punishing yet character-forming experiences will be complete.Three years ago she faced the grim possibility of a double leg amputation due to a bout of meningitis. Her impressive
  
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• Chelsea Manning: ‘I struggle with the so-called free world compared with life in prison’

  22-10-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Nihilist, anarchist, idealist, troubled young transperson crying out for help: when a 22-year-old US military analyst leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, everyone thought they knew why. They were wrong, she says. This is what really happenedChelsea Manning’s memoir opens like a Jason Bourne novel with a scene in which the then 22-year-old, on the last day of two weeks’ military leave, tries to leak an enormous amount of classified data via a sketchy wifi connection
  
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• First Blood at 40: Rambo’s first outing mixed violence with vulnerability

  22-10-2022 08:03 via theguardian.com
  The 1982 action thriller saw Sylvester Stallone play a wounded veteran with depth that was later betrayed by a series of xenophobic sequelsThe original ending of First Blood had John Rambo, an ex-Special Forces super-soldier in Vietnam, pulling a gun from his mentor’s holster and asking him to pull the trigger: “You trained me. You made me. You kill me.” Finally surrounded after waging war against seemingly every armed man within CB range in the Pacific north-west – a loc
  
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• What links the Monkees to Minder? The Saturday quiz

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From Bella and Bertie to Barchester, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 In 1841 which instrument debuted at an exhibition in Brussels?
  2 Bella and Bertie stand on top of which building?
  3 What story was inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s postnatal psychosis?
  4 Antiqua vs Fraktur was a German dispute over what?
  5 What royal event was BBC TV’s first outside broadcast?
  6 Which Italian liqueur is made from unripe walnuts?
  7 Jane Couch is a pioneer of which sport?
  8 Which rul
  
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• ‘Mind-boggling’: Covid victims’ families react to talk of Johnson comeback

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  People whose relatives died during pandemic outraged that former PM, who broke lockdown rules, may stand againTory leadership contest – latest updatesFor Jackie Green, whose mother died alone with Covid in hospital on the same day that No 10 held a boozy Christmas party, the thought of a Boris Johnson comeback is horrifying.“It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that anybody could even be considering the fact that he should run again,” she said. Continue reading...
  
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• Does Rishi Sunak’s £730m fortune make him too rich to be PM?

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  With a weekend home sporting a £400,000 pool and spa, the ‘insanely rich’ ex-chancellor is dividing opinion in his Yorkshire seatTory leadership contest – latest updatesIf Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister, it will be first time in history that the occupants of No 10 Downing Street will be richer than the monarch in Buckingham Palace – and at a time when millions of Britons are struggling with a cost of living crisis.Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, are sitting o
  
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• Current accounts: customers urged to switch to pocket up to £200

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Several banks and building societies are offering deals – and some have deadlines this monthTime is running out to pocket cash freebies worth up to £200 for switching your current account.Several banks and building societies are offering financial incentives that could prove useful but some of the deals are due to end in the next few weeks. Continue reading...
  
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• Can cats see the same things as humans can? Try our kids’ quiz

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzesSubmit a questionMolly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a weekly podcast answering children’s questions, out now as a book.Does your child have a question? Submit one here Continue reading...
  
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• Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In an exclusive extract from his memoir, the singer looks back“Anything strange or startling?” That’s how my da, Bob, opens our conversations. We’d meet in our “local” pub in Dalkey, Dublin. Finnegan’s is its own country with its own laws and customs. Time is said to change shape on crossing its door. I have experienced that. It’s a constitutional monarchy with Dan Finnegan the head of state, his sons effectively running the government with his eld
  
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• Barrister says she became legal expert while in Home Office immigration detention

  22-10-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Aderonke Apata says she has Home Office to thank for career as she fought removal to NigeriaA refugee who has just been called to the bar says she has the Home Office to thank for her career after she became an amateur legal expert while locked up in a detention centre.Aderonke Apata, 55, from Nigeria, said she was proud to take part in a ceremony last week where she, along with dozens of other newly qualified barristers, were formally called to the bar. Continue reading...
  
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