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• Georgie Grier offered support after one person attends her Edinburgh show

  03-08-2023 23:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Comedians including Dara Ó Briain and Jason Manford share similar experiences with actorWell-known comedians have offered their support to an actor after she posted that only one person attended her one-woman play at the Edinburgh festival fringe.The actor and writer Georgie Grier posted on Twitter: “There was one person in my audience today when I performed my one woman play, ‘Sunsets’ at #edfringe. It’s fine, isn’t it? It’s fine…?” Contin
  
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• Apple revenues fall for third straight quarter as company invests heavily in AI

  03-08-2023 23:39 via theguardian.com
  
  CEO Tim Cook says increased R&D spending is in part driven by work on generative artificial intelligenceApple boss Tim Cook announced the company was investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday as the company announced its third consecutive quarter of declining revenues, the company’s most prolonged sales slump since 2016.Apple’s sales for the fiscal third quarter ending 1 July fell 1.4% to $81.8bn. Over the quarter the company made a profit of $19.9bn, higher t
  
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• Welsh police search for thief after 14 beehives go missing near Llangollen

  03-08-2023 23:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Police in remote Welsh town appeal to anyone who may have seen someone have ‘sudden influx of beehives’Police in a remote Welsh town are on the hunt for a thief who stole 14 beehives.Witnesses have been urged to come forward after the hives disappeared from Blackwood Road near Llangollen, North Wales, over the weekend. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump treats his new indictment as armor. Republican rivals sputter to defend him | Lloyd Green

  03-08-2023 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s legal woes get worse and worse – but to many Republicans he’s a certified martyr. Biden should bewareDonald Trump’s fall 2024 general election campaign kicked off Thursday afternoon with a not-guilty plea. Facing a magistrate judge, the 45th president contested the conspiracy charges leveled against him by the government. He was released without posting bail. Minutes after the arraignment, Trump referred to his travails as “persecution” and called it a
  
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• Sadiq Khan expands £2,000 Ulez grant to all Londoners with non-compliant vehicles

  03-08-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Capital’s mayor moves to reduce political fallout over scheme’s extension after Tory byelection win in UxbridgeSadiq Khan has expanded the grant scheme for London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to cover any household with a heavily polluting car or motorbike, spending an extra £50m after intense pressure over the political fallout of the plan.The revised proposals, announced on Thursday, also notably increase the scrappage payments available for non-compliant vans owned
  
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• Growing number of sewage monitors in England’s bathing waters ‘broken’

  03-08-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New analysis of Environment Agency data by Lib Dems shows more than 100 systems are faultyAn increasing number of sewage monitors in England’s swimming spots are broken, new analysis has shown, meaning unknown quantities of raw sewage may be present in bathing waters.New analysis of 2022 Environment Agency data by the Liberal Democrats has shown that more than 100 sewage monitors in bathing waters were faulty. This is an increase on 2021, when 88 of the monitors were broken. Continue readi
  
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• Six white ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on two Black men

  03-08-2023 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Goon Squad’ burst into a home on 24 January without a warrant and brutalized the two men, shooting one in the mouthSix white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say.The civil rights charges were unsealed Thursday as the officers – five former Ra
  
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• New Zealand: two people in critical condition after shooting in Auckland

  03-08-2023 22:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Incident occurred close to the site of the attack in July where a gunman killed two men and injured sixTwo people are in a critical condition after a shooting in downtown Auckland, in the second such incident in the New Zealand city in less than a month.Police were called after reports of a fight between a group of people at about 11.30pm on Thursday on lower Queen Street, in Auckland’s city centre. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump is hoping his ‘free speech’ defense will work. It won’t | Margaret Sullivan

  03-08-2023 22:27 via theguardian.com
  
  The first amendment is powerful but it doesn’t protect criminal behaviorWhen Jack Smith announced the latest indictment of Donald Trump this week, the special prosecutor’s language was remarkably clear.Smith used the phrase “fueled by lies” about Trump’s role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. (Trump officially pleaded not guilty today to charges that he conspired to defraud the United States, to disenfranchise voters and to obstruct the post-election transfer
  
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• ‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’

  03-08-2023 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  As rightwing media and the mayor target a Queens neighborhood, sex workers say they’re just trying to surviveIn 2000, Cecilia Gentili worked late nights as a sex worker on Roosevelt Avenue, a dusty corridor linking Queens’ most diverse communities, under the shadow of the clattering 7 train. It was the only way she could survive as a new immigrant. After coming out as trans, she had been shut out by employers in her native Argentina, and in New York, “I really thought that thin
  
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• Jeremy Hunt requests inquiry into ‘debanking’ of politicians

  03-08-2023 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Chancellor wants Financial Conduct Authority to investigate whether practice is ‘widespread’Jeremy Hunt has asked the financial regulator to urgently investigate whether banks are barring politicians from accounts on a “widespread” basis, after Nigel Farage had his account shut down by private bank Coutts.The chancellor said everyone must be able to express their opinions and people must have access to banking. Continue reading...
  
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• US navy sailors arrested on charges of passing sensitive material to China

  03-08-2023 22:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Jinchao Wei, 22, and Wenheng Zhao, 26, accused in separate cases of ‘violating commitments they made to protect the United States’Two US navy sailors have been arrested on charges of handing over sensitive national security material to China, US officials said on Thursday.Jinchao Wei, a 22-year-old sailor assigned to the San Diego-based USS Essex, was arrested on Wednesday on a charge related to espionage involving conspiracy to sending national defense information to Chinese officia
  
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• Dowden’s jibe at fire union over migrant barge safety ‘disgraceful’

  03-08-2023 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Deputy PM suggested FBU’s Labour affiliation influenced its decision to raiseconcerns about the Bibby StockholmThe deputy prime minister has been accused of making “disgraceful” comments after claiming that the firefighters’ union had raised safety concerns over a barge due to house asylum seekers because of close links to Labour.Oliver Dowden suggested that the Fire Brigades Union’s affiliation and donations to the opposition were a motivating factor behind fire an
  
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• Great Britain crash out of men’s team pursuit at world cycling championships

  03-08-2023 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Charlie Tanfield’s on-track accident results in early eliminationPara-cyclist Jody Cundy sets new world record in GlasgowGreat Britain crashed out of the men’s team pursuit on the opening day of the UCI World Cycling Championships in Glasgow, after the 26-year-old rider Charlie Tanfield fell in the qualifiers in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.The defending champions looked set to breeze into the medal rounds before Tanfield’s crash reduced the starting quartet to only two riders,
  
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• Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm

  03-08-2023 21:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Opponents of Eritrean government tore down tents and set cars on fire, with ‘around 100’ people arrestedMore than 50 people have been injured and dozens detained in Stockholm after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed an event in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters.About 1,000 anti-government demonstrators who had been authorised to hold a protest nearby broke through a police barrier, tearing down festival tents and setting booths and vehicles on fire. Continu
  
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• Steve Borthwick knows cohesion is key for England but flair must flourish too

  03-08-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Presence of so many past and present Saracens and Leicester players should aid clarity but squad also needs the dash of Smith and ArundellIt is all about Wales this week, in theory, but even England’s attack coach, Richard Wigglesworth, admits there is an elephant in the dressing room. On Saturday night in Cardiff, Steve Borthwick and his England assistants will sit down and play their final game of selection poker before Monday’s official Rugby World Cup squad announcement. There wi
  
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• Russell Martin: ‘Lots wonder why we’ve got the job but I love proving people wrong’

  03-08-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Southampton’s new manager on being told to join the army rather than play football and preparing for Friday’s Championship openerAt the end of last season Russell Martin headed to Cervinara, an hour outside Naples, with his eldest brother, Jamie, an actor. The town, on the edge of the Partenio mountains, is home to his uncle, great-uncle and great-aunt, and some of his cousins.“It was an amazing place to be at that point,” Martin says, alluding to the atmosphere in the ci
  
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• ‘Horror exit’: Germany reacts to Women’s World Cup group-stage shock

  03-08-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Calls for structure review after fateful draw with South KoreaCoach Voss-Tecklenburg under pressure after rejig fails“Tears on the pitch” was the tabloid Bild’s choice of headline to sum up the distraught mood in Germany after one of the tournament favourites were driven out of the Women’s World Cup at the group stage for the first time, after their 1-1 draw with South Korea.The paper’s online edition focused on closeups of the players, most long since pin-up person
  
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• Sunak under pressure as Bank signals rates will stay high for months

  03-08-2023 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory MPs call for targeted tax cuts as Labour criticises 14th interest rate hike as ‘mortgage bombshell’Bank warns rates will remain high for at least two yearsMore pain in store: Bank raises a few eyebrowsExplainer: what the rate rise means for youRishi Sunak is under mounting pressure from Conservative MPs to boost the UK’s struggling economy after the Bank of England signalled that there will be no respite from the high interest rates hitting households and businesses until
  
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• Police officer pleads guilty to sexual activity with girl, 13

  03-08-2023 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  PC Luke Christopher Horner admits offence, which he recorded on victim’s phone, at Northampton crown courtA police officer has admitted to penetrative sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl in Northamptonshire after recording the act on the victim’s phone.PC Luke Christopher Horner of Thames Valley police travelled to Rushden, a town about 18 miles east of Northampton, while off duty to commit the offence on 11 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Far-right satanist on terrorist watch jailed for making child abuse image

  03-08-2023 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Harry Vaughan, convicted of 14 terror offences in 2020, admitted further crimes including possession of indecent images of childrenA convicted satanist and far-right extremist who was given a suspended sentence as a teenager has now been imprisoned after admitting further crimes including making an indecent photograph of a child.Harry Vaughan, from Twickenham, south-west London, was 18 when he admitted 14 terror offences and two of possessing indecent images of children during his first trial at
  
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• EU urges G20 to help persuade Putin to re-open Ukraine grain export route

  03-08-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Brussels’ foreign policy chief calls on nations to speak with a unified voice to help ‘people most in need’The EU’s foreign policy chief has written to G20 ministers urging them to help Brussels persuade Vladimir Putin to reopen the main export route for Ukraine grain to countries in Africa and the Middle East.In a letter seen by the Guardian, Josep Borrell warned that Russia’s decision to walk out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) last month was risking the
  
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• Italian PM Giorgia Meloni sues Placebo singer for calling her ‘fascist racist’

  03-08-2023 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Calls for overhaul of defamation laws in Italy after legal action brought against Brian MolkoThe Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is suing Placebo frontman, Brian Molko, for defamation after publicly calling her “racist” and “fascist”, according to local media reports.Molko made the comments during a performance by the band at the Sonic Park festival in Stupinigi outside Turin in July. “Giorgia Meloni, piece of shit, fascist, racist,” he appeared to sho
  
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• MailOnline suspends Dan Wootton as allegations investigated

  03-08-2023 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Journalist denies claims he used pseudonym to secretly offer colleagues tens of thousands of pounds for sexual materialDan Wootton has been suspended by MailOnline after allegations emerged that he used a pseudonym to secretly offer his colleagues tens of thousands of pounds in return for sexual material.The GB News presenter has had a lucrative job writing a twice-weekly column for MailOnline since 2021 but it has not appeared since the allegations were made public by his ex-boyfriend last mont
  
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• A Colorado city put a cap on new housing – and proved why it doesn’t work

  03-08-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The experiences of cities in California and Colorado suggest that growth caps don’t work to make cost of living more affordable – but other mechanisms canIn 2017, Stephanie Deveaux noticed her city and neighborhood were changing. Lying on Denver’s western outskirts, Lakewood was known for its spacious single-family homes, good public schools, pristine parks and Rocky Mountain views. But many of the things that made Lakewood so livable seemed under threat.“All these multiu
  
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• Ben Jennings on the latest indictment of Donald Trump – cartoon

  03-08-2023 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
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• King Charles’ Goodwood winner Desert Hero going for Classic glory in Leger

  03-08-2023 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Monarch taking place at racing’s top table in first season‘For king and queen to have horse like this is dream come true’The historic royal racing colours are set to go to post with a live chance in next month’s St Leger at Doncaster, the final Classic of the season, after Desert Hero, who was bred by the late Queen Elizabeth II, made a successful step up from handicaps to Group Three company in the Gordon Stakes here on Thursday.King Charles and Queen Camilla were at Asc
  
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• Thousands of British children caught in World Scout Jamboree chaos

  03-08-2023 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Parents complain about poor organisation as hundreds fall ill from extreme heat in South Korea eventThousands of British children attending the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea have been caught up in the extreme heat that caused 600 people to fall ill.The event, which started this week, has drawn 43,000 young Scouts from 158 countries, with the UK contingent the largest at 4,500 attenders. Continue reading...
  
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• Mountbattens’ biographer claims he has been spied on by the British state

  03-08-2023 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew Lownie, a historian seeking access to diaries and documents, says his activities have been monitoredA biographer seeking the release of the personal diaries of Lord and Lady Mountbatten, which had been saved for the nation using £2m of public money, says he has been spied on by the British state during his years-long legal battle with officialdom which has cost £450,000 in legal fees.Andrew Lownie has now gained access to a host of documents relating to him that were held by t
  
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• The Guardian view on high interest rates: losing the race against time | Editorial

  03-08-2023 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain’s 14th successive rise signals a grim 2024 for the economy and for Rishi Sunak’s governmentThe surprise would have been if it had not happened. As a result, the markets – political markets as well as financial ones – were able to greet this week’s 0.25% increase in the cost of borrowing with something resembling a collective shrug of the shoulders. This 14th successive rise, taking UK base interest rates to 5.25%, had been largely priced in. A 15th is widely
  
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• The Guardian view on Heartstopper: a phenomenon that defines a generation | Editorial

  03-08-2023 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Alice Oseman’s tale of queer romance is a global success story built on fans who want to feel good about themselves in tough timesAfter boy met boy in a crowdfunded graphic novel set in a British grammar school in 2018, hearts began to flutter and tills started to ring around the world. This week, the second season of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper landed on Netflix. In December, the author, who scripted the TV adaptation of her winsomely affirmative queer love story, will publish the f
  
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• Killer Queen sale: Freddie Mercury’s possessions go up for auction

  03-08-2023 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost 30,000 items including clothing and hand-written lyrics that belonged to Queen frontman exhibited before sale A black lacquered baby grand piano at which Freddie Mercury composed and developed some of Queen’s biggest hits, including Bohemian Rhapsody, is the centrepiece of a sale of the singer’s possessions next month.The Yamaha baby grand piano is on display at Sotheby’s auction house in central London for the next month, until almost 30,000 objects, artworks, items of
  
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• Underdogs bite back as Germany and Brazil crash out – Women’s Football Weekly

  03-08-2023 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Faye Carruthers is joined by Jo Khan, Chris Paouros and Claire Rafferty to wrap up an explosive final set of group gamesOn today’s pod: this World Cup is just the gift that keeps on giving! Shocks galore to bring you…Off you Popp, Germany - the two-time world champions are out, while Morocco make more history - the second lowest ranked team in the tournament are into the last 16. Continue reading...
  
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• Doctored Sunak picture is just latest in string of political deepfakes

  03-08-2023 19:22 via theguardian.com
  
  A growing number of doctored images are being used to disrupt politics. Here are four more recent examplesThe row over a manipulated photo of Rishi Sunak pulling an imperfect pint is the latest example of doctored or deepfake images attempting to disrupt politics.Using false information or imagery to alter public opinion is not new but breakthroughs in artificial intelligence threaten to take deception to a new level. Here are some recent examples of image-based disinformation. Continue reading.
  
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• School phone ban would hit autistic children the hardest | Letter

  03-08-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Barring smartphones from schools – as proposed by the UN – could leave autistic pupils feeling lost and overwhelmed, warns Carrie MyshkinI didn’t grow up with a smartphone at school. I’m 36. I had to make do with portable CD players and books. Nowadays, my phone is a vital part of my life. As an autistic person, it helps me play music and meditate, and generally shut out some of the overwhelmingness of the outside world.That could have helped me so much, had it been avail
  
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• Chatbots, self-checkouts and the human touch | Letters

  03-08-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Emma Beddington’s piece about the move away from person-to-person contact in everyday transactionsLike many people, I am concerned about the rapidly disappearing human element in our day-to-day interactions (Billionaires yearn for a life free of human contact – and they are imposing this on the rest of us, 30 July). For every bank branch that’s closed and every checkout that becomes self-service, the tide moves ever further away from the disenfranchised indiv
  
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• Two Met officers face gross misconduct hearing over Kevin Clarke death

  03-08-2023 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Pair have cases to answer in death of black man who died shortly after being restrained by up to nine officers, says watchdogTwo Metropolitan police constables will face a gross misconduct hearing after the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s reinvestigation into the death of Kevin Clarke, who died shortly after being restrained by up to nine officers.The watchdog said the constables should be subject to misconduct proceedings over their alleged failure to provide an appropriate level
  
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• Phoenix’s extreme heat withers saguaros, trademark cactus of desert landscape

  03-08-2023 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Cactuses are commonly assumed to be made to endure scorching heat, but even they have their limits, as has been shown recentlyAfter recording the warmest monthly average temperature for any American city ever in July, Phoenix climbed back up to dangerously high temperatures on Wednesday. That could mean trouble not just for people but for some of the region’s plants, too.Residents across the sprawling metro are finding the extended extreme heat has led to fried flora. Nurseries and landsca
  
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• Lizzo denies sexual harassment allegations levelled by former dancers

  03-08-2023 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer calls claims of harassment and a hostile work environment ‘sensationalized stories’ Lizzo has spoken out in response to several of her tour dancers levelling allegations of sexual harassment against her, calling their claims “sensationalized stories”.Earlier this week, a lawsuit filed by three of the singer’s tour dancers alleged that Lizzo had sexually harassed them and created a hostile work environment through sexual, racial and religious harassment in var
  
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• Jury member on Lucy Letby trial discharged for ‘good personal reasons’

  03-08-2023 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Remaining 11 members of jury will continue to deliberate in case against nurse charged with murdering seven babiesA member of the jury in the Lucy Letby trial has been discharged for “good personal reasons”, a judge has told Manchester crown court.The nurse, 33, has been on trial for almost 10 months charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another 10 on the hospital neonatal unit where she worked. Continue reading...
  
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• Fifa investigating claims Zambia coach rubbed player’s chest at World Cup

  03-08-2023 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Allegation relates to training session before team’s final matchBruce Mwape subject of previous allegations, which he deniesZambia’s coach, Bruce Mwape, has been accused of rubbing his hands over the chest of one of his players two days before his country’s historic victory over Costa Rica in their final match at the Women’s World Cup.Fifa has confirmed it received an official complaint about the alleged incident after Zambia claimed their first win at a World Cup on Mond
  
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• UK film and TV workers: how are Hollywood strikes affecting you?

  03-08-2023 18:12 via theguardian.com
  
  We want to hear how strikes by US actors and writers are impacting the UK film and TV industryHollywood actors and writers are on strike at the same time for over six decades.In July, the US actors’ union Sag-Aftra (the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on strike over contract negotiations. Continue reading...
  
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• Drug dealers jailed for life for mistaken identity murder of London man

  03-08-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rashid Gedel and Shiroh Ambersley were in group of six who fatally stabbed Sven Badzak, 22, and wounded his friend, 16Two drug dealers who stabbed a young man to death in a case of mistaken identity in London have each been jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.Sven Badzak, 22, and a friend, 16, were attacked by a group of six young men in Kilburn, north-west London, on 6 February 2021. Continue reading...
  
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• Immersive art firm behind Van Gogh and Monet shows files for bankruptcy

  03-08-2023 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  The struggles of Lighthouse Immersive, a major player in the booming industry, suggest the trend some critics praised as the ‘future of art’ may be short-livedIt has been billed as the “future of art” by some critics and praised as a way of bringing some of the world’s most iconic masterpieces to a mass audience. But now one of the biggest companies behind the boom in “immersive art” has filed for bankruptcy, suggesting the craze could end up being short
  
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• Stunning James Webb telescope images show death throes of distant star

  03-08-2023 17:50 via theguardian.com
  
  High-resolution images from cutting-edge space telescope reveal inner region around central white dwarfStunning images of the final stages of a distant star’s life have been captured by the James Webb space telescope (JWST) in unprecedented and exquisite detail.Released by an international team of astronomers, the snapshots reveal the doughnut-shaped structure of glowing gas called the Ring Nebula, a well-known object in the sky, which lies about 2,600 light years from Earth. Continue read
  
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• Biden calls on Niger’s junta to release Bazoum and restore democracy

  03-08-2023 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  US statement comes as Senegal increases pressure on coup leaders by pledging to join a military intervention if neededJoe Biden has called for the immediate release of Niger’s elected president and for the country’s democracy to be restored, in the highest profile statement by the US since the coup that removed Mohamed Bazoum from power, as Senegal also ramped up the pressure by saying its troops would join a a military intervention if necessary.“I call for President Bazoum and
  
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• ‘It’s a racism crisis’: call for action on Qur’an burnings in Sweden

  03-08-2023 17:41 via theguardian.com
  
  As the debate rages about freedom of expression, soundings from Stockholm suggest many feel the limit has been reachedStanding in the sunshine with friends in a park overlooked by Stockholm mosque, Sofia said she was becoming tired of the debates around freedom of expression that followed Qur’an burnings in the Swedish capital.The 36-year-old, who works in adult education, said she felt as if her religion was often cast as the problem, rather than the people behind the burnings. Continue r
  
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• ‘Geez, it was intense’: how cricketers feel after playing in an Ashes series

  03-08-2023 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Players are forever remembered for their performances in the Ashes – which is brilliant for some and brutal for othersBy James Wallace for Wisden Cricket Monthly“Ashes?” “LOL.” So went the text exchange between Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali that preceded one of cricket’s biggest about-turns in recent memory. When Stokes and McCullum pick up the phone, it must be hard to say no. But that is exactly what Moeen did last winter when asked if he fancied a piece of Engla
  
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• Student finance: How much does university cost and does it increase earnings?

  03-08-2023 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Given rising costs, some students are wondering whether going to university makes financial sense.
  
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• Mel Stride ‘glorifying gig economy’ by pushing delivery jobs for over-50s, says TUC

  03-08-2023 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Work and pensions secretary said working for Deliveroo could be good option for older people, despite low pay and job insecurityThe TUC has accused the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, of “glorifying the gig economy” instead of tackling the real challenges facing older workers, after he suggested unemployed over-50s consider becoming delivery riders.On a visit to the London headquarters of food delivery firm Deliveroo, Stride said it was “good for people to consider opt
  
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