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• The trouble with Harry Styles’ triumph at the Brits? His teen fans weren’t watching

  11-02-2023 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s hard to argue with the uber-successful star carrying all before him. But attempts to lure younger viewers are doomed• Read the full news report
  • The night in picturesWithout wishing to sound hopelessly unpatriotic, the Brits is an awards ceremony that exists in the shadow of the Grammys. It almost invariably takes place a week or so after the US Recording Academy doles out its gongs in a ceremony that’s bigger, more star-studded and with more impact than the Brits can
  
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• Harry Styles sweeps male-dominated Brit awards with a quartet of wins

  11-02-2023 23:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Fresh from Grammys triumph, the star towered over the British music industry’s annual bash, where 60% of winners were male• Comment: the trouble with the Brits
  • The night in picturesHarry Styles has swept the board at this year’s Brit awards, winning all four of his categories. The 29-year-old musician claimed best song – for the ubiquitous As It Was, which spent 10 weeks at No 1 last spring – best album (Harry’s House), best pop/R&B act and the contr
  
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• Mum diagnosed with cervical cancer despite normal pap smears shares the one telling symptom - Daily Mail

  11-02-2023 22:59 via news.google.com
  Mum diagnosed with cervical cancer despite normal pap smears shares the one telling symptom  Daily MailSigns and symptoms of breast cancer: How mum’s chance act led to ‘shocking’ diagnosis after doctor told her ‘it’s all good’  7NEWSDevastated grandmother diagnosed with cancer eight months after raising concerns - and may take legal action against QA  Portsmouth NewsWoman diagnosed with cervical cancer says doctors dismissed four
  
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• Disabled woman made 1,000 calls for Ed Sheeran tickets

  11-02-2023 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why is it still so hard for disabled people to have easy online access to event tickets in 2023?
  
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• Raheem Bailey: Mum criticises police for dropping bullying investigation

  11-02-2023 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raheem Bailey's mum says police took other people's versions of events at "face value".
  
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• Jonbon fails to fire in Warwick win but Nicky Henderson ‘looks on bright side’

  11-02-2023 22:17 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘It will do him no harm,’ says Henderson after uninspiring runZanza and Funambule Sivola also victorious at meetingA week after Ireland paraded its strength at the Dublin Racing Festival, and three days after home stables accounted for barely a third of the Grand National entries, British jumping was hoping for something to look forward to at Cheltenham next month in the Festival trials at Newbury and Warwick on Saturday.By the end of the afternoon, however, Jonbon, one of the few Br
  
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• Townsend urges Scotland to improve after momentous win against Wales

  11-02-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Scotland win opening two Six Nations matches for first timeHead coach pays tribute to Doddie Weir after milestone victoryThe plaudits of an unprecedented two wins from two in the Six Nations were still ringing in his ears, but Gregor Townsend is more interested in gearing up for Scotland’s next two matches: France in Paris in a fortnight, followed by Ireland back at Murrayfield in a month.“It feels like an improved performance,” Scotland’s coach said of this record 35-7 w
  
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• 5,000 earthquake victims from single city in Turkey buried in cemetery - The Telegraph

  11-02-2023 21:33 via news.google.com
  
  5,000 earthquake victims from single city in Turkey buried in cemetery  The TelegraphTurkey's earthquake and the growing anger towards Erdogan  The SpectatorTurkey-Earthquake: Emergency Situation Report (11.02.2023) - Türkiye  ReliefWebAfter massive Turkey quakes, Istanbul residents fear the next one  Al Jazeera EnglishEarthquake in Turkey is only the latest tragedy for refugees  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Cost of living: Foodbank launched at Swansea University

  11-02-2023 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 70 food parcels were claimed within half an hour of the foodbank opening before Christmas.
  
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• Knowsley: Fifteen arrests over clash outside asylum seeker hotel

  11-02-2023 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A police officer and two members of the public suffered minor injuries during the disorder.
  
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• Bad taste? McDonald’s vows to remove McCrispy ad next to crematorium sign

  11-02-2023 21:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Burger chain’s bus stop advertisement in Cornwall, England, provokes restrained backlash and a few chucklesThe US fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s has pledged to remove an advertisement for its new McCrispy chicken sandwich that was placed across from a crematorium in England.The McCrispy advertisement was placed at a bus stop in Cornwall, England, that is next to a road sign pointing motorists toward the Penmount crematorium, according to the local news outlet Cornwall Live. Co
  
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• British woman undertakes trip from London to Edinburgh using only £2 local buses

  11-02-2023 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands are following and supporting Emily Turner’s epic journey on TwitterA British woman undertaking an epic three-day expedition from London to Scotland using only local buses has expressed her surprise at the level of support from thousands of people following the chronicles of her journey on Twitter.Writer and podcast host Emily Turner, from London, began her nearly 400-mile journey in the early hours of Friday, announcing on Twitter: “I’ve been wanting to do this for YE
  
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• Nurses set to withdraw from A&E and intensive care units as strike intensifies

  11-02-2023 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  UK’s biggest nursing union prompts alarm among senior officials by calling on intensive care workers to join walkoutsThe UK’s biggest nursing union is preparing an escalation of its pay dispute with the government that will see members working in emergency departments, intensive care units and cancer care services being asked to join the next round of strikes.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is also planning to announce the first continuous 48-hour strikes running through two days
  
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• Welcome back the Champions League: will Napoli shake up the faltering big guns? | Jonathan Wilson

  11-02-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With European football in turmoil and leading clubs out of sorts, the knockout stages offer some welcome unpredictabilityWhen the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is made before Christmas, the warning always comes: wait till February. What can look a straightforward tie as the group stage ends may appear very different a couple of months down the line as form fluctuates and injuries, managerial changes and January signings take effect.Recently that has tended to mean the superclubs a
  
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• Brit Awards 2023: The eclectic outfits turning heads on the red carpet

  11-02-2023 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From Harry Styles's giant corsage to Lizzo's gold ruffles - there were plenty of head-turning outfits.
  
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• Six Nations 2023: Scotland 35-7 Wales - Townsend's men earn bonus point

  11-02-2023 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Finn Russell-inspired Scotland sweep aside Wales 35-7 to win back-to-back games at the start of a Six Nations for the first time.
  
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• Johnny Sexton sets Ireland’s sights on Six Nations grand slam after France win

  11-02-2023 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  World’s No 1 team end France’s 14-match winning runSexton describes victory as a ‘top-end Test match’Beyond the next game, beyond even this Six Nations and the prospect of an Irish grand slam, there is the World Cup. After Ireland’s extraordinary 32-19 victory over France, Johnny Sexton finally let slip that he’s been thinking about it, too, just the same as everyone else.“If everything goes to plan, and we get through our group there is a chance we will
  
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• Mikel Arteta ‘frustrated’ at officials for allowing Brentford equaliser at Arsenal

  11-02-2023 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Manager claims offside Ethan Pinnock was interfering with play‘Suddenly you change the rules,’ says Arteta after 1-1 drawMikel Arteta complained bitterly that Ivan Toney’s equaliser for Brentford ought to have been disallowed for offside after Arsenal failed to bounce back from last Saturday’s defeat at Everton with a win.Toney’s goal followed a deep free-kick which he himself sent back across the Arsenal area before it was returned by the substitute Yoane Wissa, wh
  
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• Police arrest 15 people after violence outside hotel housing asylum seekers

  11-02-2023 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  After the far-right demonstration in Knowsley, 13 men and two women were arrested, Merseyside police saidFifteen people, aged between 13 and 54, have been arrested after violent disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers on Friday night, Merseyside police have said.A demonstration outside the Suites hotel in Knowsley descended into violence with a police van torched and stones thrown. Continue reading...
  
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• The moment I knew: after my first sexual encounter with a man, I realised I only loved women

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For eight years, Maeve Marsden identified as bisexual. Then a one-night stand with Ben – or was it Steve? – cemented her identity as a lesbianGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen I came out as bisexual, aged 14, it was a total non-event. From my lesbian mothers, I received a vague “that’s nice, dear”, and from my school friends – girls raised in predominantly non-traditional families in Sydney’s leftie inner west – a resounding chorus of
  
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• The dramatic change the ‘wet’ brings to Lake Argyle – in pictures

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ben Broady took two series of shots – one in 2020 and another this month after the yearly monsoons – to illustrate the WA lake’s boom and bust cycleIn the yearly boom and bust rainfall cycles of the Kimberley region, Lake Argyle takes on two different forms.The man-made lake, located 75km south of Kununurra on the Ord River in Western Australia, is around 18 times the size of Sydney harbour and is Australia’s second-largest dam after Lake Gordon in Tasmania. Continue read
  
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• Tara June Winch: ‘Happiness is in the moment just before the thought to take a photograph’

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a series of short essays, writers consider what happiness means to them now, after the reckoning of the past few yearsI’ve never struggled with a question more. Am I happy now, as opposed to before? And if before I was happy by some measure, why would it have changed? How can I think of happiness now, when everything is terrible? Even if I know that this moment doesn’t differ from any other moment in history. That is to say that these new days are full of old sorrows, and long aft
  
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• Return to sender: writers mourn loss of physical letters as Australia Post contemplates decline

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The postal service predicts letters will become ‘peripheral’ as mass communication further shifts to digital – to the regret of someFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBefore email put them at risk and smartphones became an existential threat, handwritten letters played a vital role in everyday life. They could be used to declare love to a partner, or convey news of a tragedy. They un
  
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• Prescribing nature: the restorative power of a simple dose of outdoors

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The health benefits of green or blue prescriptions are many and there are calls to integrate them more into routine careGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn my mid-20s, I undertook the quintessentially Australian rite of passage of moving to London for a few years. Months into my first English winter, I started having dreams about the Australian wilderness.The images were so vivid and specific that I jotted them down. I had a recurring dream about looking a
  
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• Having my home invaded left me anxious and angry, but so did the calls to lock up the children who did it

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The relative impact of this one night on the whole of my life is nothing compared to setting up a child to reoffendI had modest plans for the Christmas just gone: get my family around, crank up the pizza oven, eat a whole box of shortbread on my own. More than anything, I wanted to relax. I hoped to be so intensely calm, in such exquisite respite, that I would simply become an amorphous blob and slide happily into my new life in a nearby drain.Then my house was broken into. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Ethical conundrum’: sending retired Australian greyhounds to US rescues some – but at what cost?

  11-02-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stricter breeding caps are needed to solve problem of rehoming former racing dogs at the source, animal welfare advocates sayFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThree weeks ago Arizona man Rory Goree took home his 47th greyhound in the past 30 years – his first from Australia.The greyhound, who is now named Volodya, once raced in Victoria, one of the few places in the world where greyhound racing
  
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• Why a shortage of Mr Rights means single mothers hold the key to the falling birthrate | Martha Gill

  11-02-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Raising a child on your own is tough. It would be a lot more appealing with extra state supportBirthrates are falling in the rich world and this leaves us with an unsolved puzzle. Women who want children are not having them. Why? Surveys tell us that, on average, women and men in rich countries would ideally like two children – near the coveted “population replacement rate” of 2.1 – but birthrates are falling far short of this. Women have more money and choices than ever,
  
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• Emmett Till relative’s lawsuit seeks to serve white woman’s arrest warrant

  11-02-2023 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Cousin of murdered Black teenager tries to compel sheriff to enforce 1955 warrant against Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 89A relative of Emmett Till has filed a lawsuit seeking the arrest of the white woman whose allegations resulted in the 14-year-old Black boy’s kidnapping, torture and murder nearly 70 years ago.Earlier this week, Till’s cousin, Patricia Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit against Ricky Banks, the sheriff in Leflore county, Mississippi, seeking to compel the elected offi
  
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• Protest at Tate Britain over drag queen children's story event

  11-02-2023 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Tate Britain gallery hosts a story-telling event with children's author and drag queen Aida H Dee.
  
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• Stuart Broad: ‘Being dropped by England arguably saved my career’

  11-02-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seamer was furious at being left out for Caribbean tour but is loving playing cricket under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullumTwelve months on from being dropped for a tour of the Caribbean – and back in the country where his record-breaking alliance with Jimmy Anderson began – Stuart Broad is almost grateful his England career nearly came to an abrupt end.Not that he was happy about it at the time. When Andrew Strauss stepped in as temporary team director after the Ashes meltdown in Au
  
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• Jeremy Hunt gees up the economy – cartoon

  11-02-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Weighed down by Brexit and austerity, the chancellor cracks his whip• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• 'I was holding one child's hand — the other was dead' - The Times

  11-02-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
  'I was holding one child's hand — the other was dead'  The TimesTurkey-Syria earthquake: Boy, nine, pulled out alive after five days underground in arms of his mother  Sky NewsKahramanmaras rescuers find more survivors alive against odds  Al Jazeera EnglishSeven-month old baby rescued from under Turkey rubble after 140 hours  The TelegraphRescuers pull girl from rubble 147 hours after Turkey earthquake  Guardian NewsView Full coverage on Go
  
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• Amy Bloom: ‘I have a minor interest in gardening, but really it’s people’

  11-02-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The US writer and psychotherapist on helping her husband to die and finding the humour in writing about it – and why she’s now spending more time with waves and sunsetsAmy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She has written four novels and five collections of short stories, including Love Invents Us, Lucky Us and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You. Her memoir, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , is a searing account of her journey with her husband, Brian Ameche, to
  
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• Russia’s plans to seize eastern Ukraine could take two years, says Wagner boss

  11-02-2023 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments suggest Moscow is preparing for a long conflict, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy renews appeal for fighter jets• Ukraine war liveThe boss of the Russian mercenary Wagner group said it could take Russia two years to seize the entire east of Ukraine in a rare interview that suggests at least some key figures in Moscow are gearing up for a protracted conflict.Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has emerged from the shadows to become a high-profile figure since the start of the war
  
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• Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit

  11-02-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Leading Brexiters and remainers, including Michael Gove and David Lammy, met for two-day ‘private discussion’ with diplomats and business leadersAn extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.The two-day gathering of
  
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• Top lawyer to investigate if Scottish ferries contract was 'rigged'

  11-02-2023 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Procurement body CMAL asked its legal team to appoint a KC to probe the contract for two ferries.
  
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• Police too quick to declare Nicola Bulley was in the river, expert says

  11-02-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Faulding said Lancashire constabulary should have kept other lines of inquiry open for longerDetectives investigating the disappearance of Nicola Bulley made a mistake by declaring too “early” that she was in the River Wyre, a diving and forensics expert involved in the case has claimed.Peter Faulding, whose Specialist Internationalist Group firm searched a stretch of the river where Bulley was last seen, said Lancashire constabulary should initially have kept other lines of in
  
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• Tories hope for growth. They never plan for it | Phillip Inman

  11-02-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kept aloft by North Sea oil or privatisations, the economy under the Conservatives never got the long-term vision it neededListening to Bank of England officials in recent days, the message is clear: Britain’s economy is in a dire state.Bombed out by the 2008 banking crash and stunned by the Brexit vote before being poleaxed by Covid-19 and then a war in Ukraine, every industry is suffering, and to a considerable extent. Business tries to drag the economy out of the morass only to find the
  
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• The week in audio: The Last Soviet; Stolen Hearts; Namaste Motherf**kers; Magic Radio Premium

  11-02-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A cosmonaut chooses to go it alone, while a cop falls for a robber. Plus, standup meets the boardroom, and extra lashings of MagicThe Last Soviet (Samizdat and Kaleidoscope) | samizdataudio.com
  Stolen Hearts (Wondery) | Apple Podcasts
  Namaste Motherf**kers (Cally Beaton) | Apple Podcasts
  Magic Radio Premium | Planet RadioEarly in the first episode of excellent new podcast The Last Soviet, our hero, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, is alone on Mir, the space station, orbiting the globe. It’s 1991
  
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• Salman Rushdie is determined to have the last word | Tim Adams

  11-02-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The novelist is still recovering from a knife attack last summer, but the loss of an eye won’t stop him writing about it“The world,” Salman Rushdie wrote in The Satanic Verses, “is the place we prove real by dying in it.” Happily, defiantly, the author, 75 and among the greatest of all living make-believers, is not ready just yet to test that theory. Reading his interview with David Remnick in the New Yorker last week, the first he has given since he was attacked on
  
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• Plywood renderings of modernist buildings – in pictures

  11-02-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  One afternoon at the Barbican in London, Helen Waites was enjoying the way the light and shadows changed as the hours passed. It reminded her of a carved wooden relief her parents used to have. Inspired, she set up a Kickstarter funding campaign in order to found Plyconic, an east London design studio that specialises in 3D artworks (PlyForms) depicting postwar modernist architecture in layers of plywood. A selection of Plyconic’s work is currently on display at the Modernist gallery in Ma
  
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• One arrested amid Tate Britain protest over drag queen children’s event

  11-02-2023 17:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Rightwing demonstrators outside gallery met by counterprotesters including trans-rights campaignersOne person has been arrested amid a protest outside Tate Britain, where a drag queen storytelling event for children was being hosted.The Metropolitan police said one person was arrested on suspicion of making a racially aggravated comment towards a police officer outside the art gallery near Westminster. Continue reading...
  
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• Bird Flu Has Taken Out Millions Of Chickens And Turkeys. What That Means For Humans. - BuzzFeed News

  11-02-2023 17:46 via news.google.com
  Bird Flu Has Taken Out Millions Of Chickens And Turkeys. What That Means For Humans.  BuzzFeed News'Really concerning' bird flu crisis could herald next pandemic 'just like Covid'  ExpressAmid ‘largest bird flu outbreaks in recorded history’, will it be next pandemic?  Hindustan TimesDeadliest bird flu kills thousands of millions of birds, spreading to animals  ThePrintAs bird flu spreads to minks, sea lions and other mammals, scientists are on
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith calls for arrest of Chinese governor for ‘crimes against humanity’

  11-02-2023 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Erkin Tuniyaz is head of the Xinjiang region, where human rights abuses are alleged to be taking placeThe former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has joined calls for a governor from a region of China where the UN has said crimes against humanity may be taking place to be arrested during a potential visit this week.The Tory backbencher said that the governor of Xinjiang, Erkin Tuniyaz, should be arrested if he arrives in the UK. The House of Commons heard this week that he was due
  
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• Three arrested after man killed in knife attack in Great Yarmouth

  11-02-2023 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The men were arrested in West Yorkshire and Norwich, police say.
  
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• Tintin drawing by Hergé sells at auction for record £1.9m

  11-02-2023 17:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Belgian cartoonist’s black and white artwork from 1942 was used for the cover of Tintin in America An artwork by Tintin creator Hergé has set the world record for the most valuable original black and white drawing by the artist after selling at auction for more than €2m.The drawing, Tintin in America – created in 1942 – was used for the colour edition of the Belgian cartoonist’s 1946 book of the same name. Continue reading...
  
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• England up and running at Women’s T20 World Cup with win over West Indies

  11-02-2023 17:18 via theguardian.com
  
  West Indies 135-7; England 138-3. England win by seven wicketsNat Sciver-Brunt and Knight ease England homeAnd so ‘Jonball’ is born. “I’ve just made that up,” said Nat Sciver-Brunt, as she described the new ethos coach Jon Lewis has brought to the England team after they thumped West Indies by seven wickets in their T20 World Cup opener in Paarl. “But we haven’t ever spoken about Bazball [as a team], so let’s make Jonball a thing.”The last ti
  
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• Well, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agents | John Naughton

  11-02-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers for a pharmaceutical company stumbled upon a nightmarish realisation, proving there’s nothing intrinsically good about machine learningHere’s a story that evangelists for so-called AI (artificial intelligence) – or machine-learning (ML) – might prefer you didn’t dwell upon. It comes from the pages of Nature Machine Intelligence, as sober a journal as you could wish to find in a scholarly library. It stars four research scientists – Fabio Urbina, Fi
  
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• I’ve always bought too many clothes, but my life was being ruined by hoarding

  11-02-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I’d spent years in a tearful cycle of shame and anxiety about my possessions and didn’t understand why – until I got helpI’ve bought my fifth ball gown today and although I don’t need it – and I’m not convinced the waistband would actually zip up around my thigh – I’m definitely going to buy it. It’s an absolute steal at £30 when the price tag indicates it was originally £700. I cannot believe how much money I will be savin
  
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• ‘It’s hell – everyone cries’: UK families of earthquake victims race to their aid

  11-02-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the scale of destruction from the disaster is revealed, friends and relatives tell of their heartbreak and desperationWithin hours of getting news of Monday’s devastating earthquakes, Dundee-based takeaway owner Ali set off with three family members to Turkey. The plane from Stansted airport was full of people on their way to Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep and Sanlıurfa, all embarking on the same desperate challenge: a race against the clock, across Europe, to rescue loved ones.But reach
  
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