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Sir Mark Jones takes over as interim director of the British Museum
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Hartwig Fischer resigned after a senior curator was sacked when it was discovered a number of artefacts had gone missing from the museum -
Britons issued urgent warning over dangerous Asian hornets as experts ‘very worried’
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British bee keepers have raised the alarm after they spotted 22 Asian hornets so far this year, which they believe is a massive increase over the years. -
Kremlin hackers leak data linked to UK's nuclear submarines and chemical weapons facility
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Kevan Jones MP described the hack as "potentially very damaging to the security of some of our most sensitive sites". -
Braverman orders ‘woke’ police to not 'take the knee' and adopt political neutrality
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Suella Braverman unveiled a review into activism and impartiality in policing as she urged officers to adopt political neutrality. -
Sir Mark Jones put forward as interim director of British Museum
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Former head of V&A has suggested Parthenon marbles could be shared with GreeceA former head of the V&A Museum, who previously suggested the Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece, has been put forward as the interim director of the British Museum.Sir Mark Jones will replace Hartwig Fischer, who quit after it emerged thousands of objects had been stolen from the museum’s collection. A police investigation is under way regarding the reported thefts. Continue reading... -
Dan Evans fights hard but unable to stop supreme Carlos Alcaraz at US Open
via theguardian.comWorld No 1 wins 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to reach fourth roundJack Draper advances after beating Michael Mmoh in four setsCharged with the unenviable task of facing the best tennis player in the world in the sport’s largest stadium, Dan Evans did all that he could. He irritated Carlos Alcaraz with his wicked, searing slice, he ceaselessly swept to the net and he showed ample resilience even as the battle seemed lost.For all his variety and grit, though, he could only momentarily slow Alcaraz dow -
Teen ‘left for dead’ after hit-and-run in what dad calls ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’
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Harvey Aitken suffered a severe brain trauma as a result of the accident, with police appealing for witnesses as they look to identify the driver involved. -
Getafe will help Mason Greenwood ‘get back to his best’, says coach
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‘I can only talk about it in footballing terms,’ says José BordalásDropped charges ‘too delicate a subject to treat lightly’The Getafe coach, José Bordalás, believes the Spanish club can help restore the career of Mason Greenwood but that the controversy around the Manchester United striker is not to be taken lightly.Greenwood has joined Getafe on a season-long loan after 19 months of inactivity at Old Trafford. The player was charged by Greate -
Evil Myra Hindley's 'truth drug bid to find Keith Bennett' revealed
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Murderer Myra Hindley has agreed to take a "truth drug" in a bid to find missing Keith Bennett. -
The moment I knew: I was so spellbound by our payphone call, I didn’t notice I’d been robbed
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On a Buffy the Vampire Slayer online fan forum, Roz Bellamy and Rachel annoyed the moderators with their quick-fire repartee. When they met, it felt like a real-life Willow and TaraGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWillow and Tara were one of the first lesbian couples to kiss on mainstream TV. Willow met Tara at a university Wicca group and fell for her, which precipitated Willow’s realisation about her sexuality. The depiction of their relationship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer hel -
Biden tours Florida hurricane damage: ‘nobody can deny impacts of climate crisis’
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President arrives to survey damage left by Hurricane Idalia but governor Ron DeSantis has no plans to meet BidenJoe Biden said that no one can deny the impacts of the climate crisis anymore after he visited Florida on Saturday and surveyed the damage left behind by Hurricane Idalia.Speaking to reporters in front of fallen trees and debris, the US president pointed to this year’s extreme weather events and disasters, saying: “Nobody can deny the impact of climate crisis. There’s -
The Palace review – Roman Polanski’s tacky hotel farce is the worst party in town
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Set in a hotel on New Year’s eve in 1999, this dismal comedy finds room for John Cleese, Mickey Rourke and Fanny Ardant, but you’ll want to run for the hillsYou may need a stiff drink to get through the entirety of Roman Polanski’s new film; you may find you need several – whatever dulls the pain. Playing out of competition at the Venice film festival, the 90-year-old director’s latest (last?) production is a ghastly, flaccid hotel farce that starts with a conversat -
Two men arrested by officers investigating NI police data breach
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Suspects aged 21 and 22 arrested under Terrorism Act after leak of names of 10,000 PSNI officers and staffTwo men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act by police officers investigating the PSNI data breach.The suspects, aged 21 and 22, were arrested on Saturday in the Portadown area of County Armagh, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said on X, formerly known as Twitter. They will be questioned at the Musgrave serious crime suite in Belfast. Continue reading... -
Ministers were ‘dangerously complacent’ on school safety, whistleblower reveals
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Senior civil servant says ‘many alerts’ crossed education secretary’s desk, but UK government was more concerned with saving moneyA senior civil service whistleblower has told the Observer that Tory ministers and their political advisers were “dangerously complacent” about crumbling school buildings constructed with aerated concrete, and that they were more concerned with saving money than improving safety.The source, who worked in the private office of Nadhim Zahaw -
Midfields in a mess as Mikel Arteta and Erik ten Hag struggle with upgrades | Jonathan Wilson
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Kai Havertz at Arsenal and Mason Mount at Manchester United are yet to fit in – but this is not a simple issue of personnelAfew years ago, the future seemed a world in which football teams would comprise 11 midfielders. Then it became 11 full-backs, at which it became apparent that nobody quite knew the difference any more. Then Pep Guardiola found his inner Tony Pulis and started fielding four centre-backs and it turned out that, while the present may be very much possession-driven, the f -
Horror as girl, 3, suffered ‘serious’ injuries after being mauled by dog outside a pub
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Police were called to the Market Tavern pub in Kirby, Merseyside, on Saturday afternoon after reports of a dog attack. -
Sadiq Khan lashes out after Nigel Farage blasts 'horribly divisive. festival
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Rishi Sunak’s approval rating slips as big summer push fails to spark revival
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Prime minister drops further in opinion polls after populist policies on migrants backfireRishi Sunak’s approval ratings have failed to improve over the summer political break – despite several weeks of Tory policy blitzes intended to win back voters.The latest Opinium survey for the Observer shows the Conservative have failed to shift the dial in Sunak’s favour, with the prime minister dropping two points in the past two weeks to a net score of -25% (24% approve, 49% disapprov -
‘It had a huge impact’: Silva fumes over controversial City goal against Fulham
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Aké’s header was awarded at 1-1 despite Akanji being offside‘Everyone that has played football knows to disallow that goal’An unhappy Marco Silva criticised the VAR official, Tony Harrington, by claiming that anyone who has played football would be “100% sure” to disallow Manchester City’s controversial second goal in Fulham’s 5-1 defeat at the champions. Erling Haaland, who scored a second-half hat-trick, admitted he would be “fuming” -
Heatwave set to arrive in UK next week after wet summer
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Temperatures could reach 30C for first time since early July, according to Met OfficeThe great British summer could finally be upon us next week with temperatures possibly reaching 30C for the first time since early July, forecasters have suggested.The Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said 29C was “certainly possible and we may also climb towards 30C” by midweek in the first week of meteorological autumn as many schools open after the summer break. Continue reading... -
‘Everything is ahead of us’: Ukraine breaks Russian stronghold’s first line of defence
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In an exclusive interview, a leading Ukrainian general says his forces have made a vital breakthrough near ZaporizhzhiaUkrainian forces have decisively breached Russia’s first defensive line near Zaporizhzhia after weeks of painstaking mine clearance, and expect faster gains as they press the weaker second line, the general leading the southern counteroffensive has said.Brig Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskiy estimated Russia had devoted 60% of its time and resources into building the first defensiv -
Warnings over concrete in schools were issued years ago. Why did no one act? | Observer editorial
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For too long ministers were content to ignore the evidence‘A near miss” is how the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS) described the partial collapse of a roof at a primary school in Kent in 2018. The collapse happened at a weekend, when the school was unoccupied; otherwise it could have resulted in injuries or even fatalities.That “near miss” caused SCOSS to issue an alert a few months later. It warned that the collapse was caused by the roof’s construc -
Thousands rally in Niger seeking withdrawal of French troops
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Demonstrators gather near base housing French soldiers as military junta accuses Paris of interferenceThousands of protesters rallied in Niger’s capital Niamey to call for the withdrawal of French troops, as demanded by a junta that seized power in June.The demonstrators gathered near a base housing French soldiers on Saturday, after a call by several civic organisations hostile to the French military presence in the west African country. Continue reading... -
Search launched for Paul McCartney’s first Höfner bass guitar
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Germanmanufacturer’s The Lost Bass Project hunts for Beatle star’s ‘favourite’ instrumentIn the years leading up to Beatlemania, Paul McCartney bought his “favourite” Höfner electric bass guitar for a mere £30 in Hamburg’s Steinway Musikhaus.Now, the German instrument manufacturer has launched a search – named The Lost Bass Project – inviting anyone to share information about the guitar’s whereabouts, last seen before the ban -
Bill Richardson, former statesman and hostage negotiator, dies aged 75
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Ex-New Mexico governor, energy secretary, congressman and UN ambassador spent his later years helping Americans held abroadBill Richardson, a 2008 presidential candidate, former New Mexico governor, congressman, secretary of energy and UN ambassador under the Clinton administration who later found a role as an international hostage negotiator, has died. He was 75 years old.Richardson was reported to have died on Friday at his summer home in Chatham, Massachusetts. “Governor Richardson pass -
‘It’s like a time capsule’: 19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan
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Schooner Trinidad hailed as ‘significant shipwreck’ after successful sonar search reveals well preserved vesselA long-lost shipwreck dating back to the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan.The Wisconsin Historical Society announced that the shipwreck hunters and historians Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck located the wreck of the schooner Trinidad in 270ft of water off Algoma, Wisconsin, earlier this year. Continue reading... -
Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
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Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settingsSenior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by the Observer.Correspondence reveals that the Home Office wrote to the Inf -
Maestro review – Bradley Cooper’s head-flingingly heartfelt Leonard Bernstein biopic
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Cooper’s impersonation of the great composer is eerily exact, and gets to the heart of the sacrifices great artists feel they need to makeJust last year at Venice, Cate Blanchett was introducing us to the tormented fictional conductor Lydia Tár by watching old childhood VHS tapes of her mentor, the great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein talking about the way music triggers in you emotions you didn’t understand and of which you didn’t know you were capable. Now Br -
Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’
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The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcastClaire Keegan’s five books to date run to just 700 pages and some 140,000 words. “I love to see prose being written economically,” she tells me. “Elegance is saying just enough. And I do believe that the reader completes the story.” Revered by critics and prize judges for the miraculous density of her short -
Beware the Tory Jubjub bird – cartoon
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It would appear that Conservative green policies are in fact blue…• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading... -
Chamari Athapaththu sets up T20 series decider as Sri Lanka cruise past England
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2nd T20: Sri Lanka, 110-2, beat England, 104 all out, by 8 wktsCaptain scores 55 off 31 balls in run chase after hosts collapseEngland may come to regret treating their September series against Sri Lanka as an Ashes afterthought. Saturday’s T20 at Chelmsford was an embarrassing display of hubris, which the hosts lost by eight wickets, after being bowled out for 104 in 18 overs – their worst performance at home since Australia saw them off for 87 eight years ago.Heather Knight, though -
Moroccan jetski tourist describes being shot at by Algerian coastguard
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Mohamed Kissi says forces approached and began fatal shooting after group strayed into Algerian watersA Moroccan man has described how Algerian coastguard forces drew level with him and a group of holidaymakers who had accidentally strayed into the nation’s waters on jetskis before opening fire.Mohamed Kissi said the incident took place at sunset on Tuesday when the four men travelling on two jetskis got lost after taking a wrong turn off the beach resort of Saïdia on Morocco’s -
Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
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Tens of thousands of ‘burners’ urged to conserve food and water and shelter in place in Nevada’s Black Rock desertTens of thousands of “burners’” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from leaving Nevada’s Black Rock desert after a slow-moving rainstorm turned the event into a mud bath.Organizers responding to the unusual weather indicated the closures could endure, as local reports -
US pipeline protester has ‘no regrets’ after conviction for felony obstruction
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Mylene Vialard, 54, found guilty after Minnesota trial beset by legal irregularities after effort to block fossil fuel pumping stationA non-violent environmental activist has been found guilty of felony obstruction for her role in trying to halt construction of a fossil fuel pipeline through Indigenous territory in Minnesota, in a trial beset by legal irregularities which ended with the prosecutor demanding jail time.Mylene Vialard, 54, was arrested in August 2021 after attaching herself to a 25 -
People with mental illness in England face ‘horrifically long’ ambulance delays
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Figures reveal services regularly breached response-time targets, with one person waiting three daysMinisters have been accused of “sheer neglect” of people with mental illness as figures reveal one patient waited nearly three days for an ambulance to arrive last year.Data obtained by the Liberal Democrats shows that ambulance services regularly breached response-time targets in emergency and urgent calls to help patients with a mental health crisis or severe illness last year. Conti -
Art lovers know not all philanthropy is virtuous. Tell that to our museums | Kadish Morris
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The opioid controversy should prompt cultural institutions to take the Sackler name off buildings. What takes them so long?I was pleased to hear that the V&A Dundee has finally dropped the Sackler signs from its site. The museum had received a £500,000 donation from the Sackler Trust before its opening in September 2018. Until now, a plaque in the entrance hall bore the name of the family whose company was responsible for making the lethally addictive opioid OxyContin. The company, Pur -
The week in audio: Finn and the Bell; Animal; The Rest Is Money – review
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An account of the tragic death of a young Vermont man is unforgettable; Radio 4 tells relatable tales of the animal kingdom; and Robert Peston and Steph McGovern launch a spoilerFinn and the Bell (Rumble Strip via Radiolab)| radiolab.org
Animal (BBC Radio 4) | bbc.co.uk
The Rest Is Money (Goalhanger Podcasts) | podcasts.apple.comMooching around my podcast feed the other day, I came across Radiolab and thought: “Ooh, I haven’t listened in ages, I’ll bang a quick episode!” -
Never forget: the lost elephant slides of Taiwan – in pictures
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In 2018, Taiwanese photographer Pi Cheng Hsiu came across a relic from his childhood: a playground slide shaped like an elephant, its trunk unfurled obligingly to the ground. “In the past, almost every primary school in Taiwan had one,” he says, “but they’re disappearing: they don’t meet today’s [safety] standards.” Enchanted by the colourful structures, many of them imaginatively decorated by local artists, Pi set about shooting the 400 or so that remai -
‘Hypocritical’ Royal Society of Arts faces its first strike in 270 years
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Union anger after bosses’ pay at arts charity rises 170% while staff are offered just 4%Charity workers could walk out on strike for the first time in the 270-year history of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) as a simmering row over pay, alleged union-busting and rising executive wages reaches boiling point.Union members at the enlightenment charity, which once counted Karl Marx and Nelson Mandela as members, are being balloted for strike action by the Independent Workers Union of Great Brit -
After bashing by the Springboks, will the real All Blacks turn up in France? | Liam Napier
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Just as New Zealand had bounced back to be considered Rugby World Cup pretenders, the flaws and angst have returnedFrom the brink of collapse to the precipice of redemption. Defeated and denounced to a Hollywood-worthy resurrection – only to crumble to their worst defeat in the final dress rehearsal at Twickenham. The All Blacks have fashioned an art form of traversing such extremes as they stumble toward the World Cup. Whether the canvas concludes in France in triumph or despair is brushe -
Mohamed Al Fayed: perennial outsider, savvy businessman and grief-broken father
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The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figureIf the novelists PG Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed, who died on Friday at the age of 94. Almost everything about the man was subject to dispute, including his age.For a long time, Who’s Who and hi -
Delight for Ferrari as Carlos Sainz beats Max Verstappen to Italian F1 GP pole
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Scuderia take advantage at home race, Lewis Hamilton in eighthSainz and teammate Leclerc avoid penalties for slow laps in Q1How pleasing if the Red Bull express train is to be diverted, however briefly, it should be within the seething cauldron of passion in front of the Ferrari faithful here, rather than to indifference at a soulless, empty enormodrome in the desert.With the Scuderia’s Carlos Sainz claiming pole for the Italian Grand Prix in dramatic and impossibly tense fashion, the Span -
Mohamed Al Fayed obituary
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Former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC whose stormy relationship with British institutions denied him citizenshipFor Mohamed Al Fayed, who has died aged 94, the truth was always a relative commodity – bent and shaped to fit his need of the moment. The little-known Egyptian who emerged as the new owner of Harrods in 1985 had to explain the source of the £573m used to purchase control of its parent company, House of Fraser, valuing it at £615m. So, decades before Donald Trump&rsqu -
Makeup artist who created prosthetic nose for Bradley Cooper film apologises
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Kazu Hiro says he was surprised by ‘Jewface’ criticism over actor’s portrayal of composer Leonard Bernstein in biopic MaestroThe makeup artist who worked on Bradley Cooper’s movie Maestro has apologised to anyone who felt hurt by the use of a prosthetic nose, which has been criticised by some as an example of “Jewface”.Speaking at a press conference at the Venice film festival – where Maestro, a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein, will premiere – -
‘Stiff walks and parlour games’: Sunak becomes latest PM to visit Balmoral
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Welly boots were a must during stays with the queen, but King Charles may take a new approachMargaret Thatcher reportedly described it as “purgatory”, while Tony Blair needed a stiff drink to survive it.Now Rishi Sunak is expected to meet the king during a weekend trip to Balmoral Castle, continuing a long-held tradition of the monarch hosting the prime minister at the Scottish royal retreat. Continue reading... -
When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably | John Naughton
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The Starlink system has been vital to Zelenskiy’s forces, but it can’t be good to have a volatile billionaire playing a crucial role in a major European warIn February 2022, as Russian tanks rumbled into Ukraine, a cyber-attack took down the satellite system run by Viasat that was providing high-speed communications for Ukrainian military forces, rendering them instantly blind, deaf and dumb. With his forces knocked offline, the Ukrainian digital minister sent a plea to an American b -
The BBC’s Katya Adler: ‘I was never in danger of taking myself too seriously’
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In 30 years of frontline reporting, the multilingual Europe editor has had her share of seismic news stories. But she still loves conversing with irate callers and is not above giving viewers a laugh at her own expenseThis summer alone, Katya Adler has covered riots in France, a snap Spanish general election and a Nato summit in Lithuania. She even made it to London to debut as a Proms presenter, enthusing about Beethoven’s Fifth and discussing the enduring power of folk music with compose -
‘He’s my own Dark Knight’: TV’s new sleuth, invented by a Bradford pharmacist
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It took Amit Dhand years to create the British Asian detective Harry Virdee. Now he’s coming to the small screenWhen he was a child growing up in Bradford, Amit Dhand used to sneak VHS videos from the corner shop his parents ran and watch them when everyone was in bed.Aged about 10 or 11, he first watched The Silence of the Lambs. During the film’s tense finale, when Jodie Foster’s FBI agent Clarice Starling is stalking through the pitch-black home of serial killer Buffalo Bill -
Engineering firms lose out to fintech and IT in recruitment war
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Work is needed to counter the ‘oily’ image of jobs for engineers, and stop the digital sector from luring the best graduates‘It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,” says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. “I have never known it to be this tough to find engineering staff.”While many companies are withdrawing job adverts, worried abouthigher interest rates and the threat of an -
‘Details I made, they made’ – designers hit back at Shein’s imitation game
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Independent fashion brands across the world have seen duplicates of their clothes offered on the Chinese retailer’s site at ultra-low prices. But there appears to be little they can do about itOnline hyper-fast fashion company Shein was last week hit by yet another lawsuit for copyright infringement, with the latest complaint brought by accessories and apparel brand Chrome Hearts. The luxury label, which is based in LA, alleges that Shein has been selling accessories with a cross-and-dagge
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