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• Alexander McQueen designates Seán McGirr as new creative director

  03-10-2023 21:34
  
  Irish-born, London-based successor to Sarah Burton continues pattern of brands promoting or poaching talentIn 2010, after the death of Lee Alexander McQueen, Sarah Burton, a then unknown insider at his namesake fashion house, took over the creative director position.Now 13 years later, after Burton’s final show on Sunday, the baton has been passed to another newcomer. Continue reading...
  
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• Abuse of Oxford’s trans students and staff saddens me, says vice-chancellor

  03-10-2023 21:03
  
  Prof Irene Tracey tells assembly free speech has been ‘centre stage’ at university during her first year in postOxford’s vice-chancellor has said she was “deeply saddened” by the abuse and attacks aimed at the university’s transgender staff and students during her first year in the post, including the controversy which surrounded an appearance by Kathleen Stock, a gender-critical feminist.Prof Irene Tracey, delivering her first oration since her appointment as
  
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• ‘That’s wrong that, Daz’: transcript of VAR audio for disallowed Díaz goal

  03-10-2023 21:00
  
  The conversation between officials that led to Luis Díaz’s goal being wrongly disallowed in Liverpool’s defeat at TottenhamHere is the full transcript of the audio between VAR Darren England, assistant VAR Daniel Cook and fellow officials that led to Luis Díaz’s goal being wrongly disallowed in Liverpool’s defeat at Tottenham, which has been released publicly by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited:VAR: Possible offside, Díaz. Continue readin
  
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• No-nonsense Wales intend to stay ‘on-script’ and avenge Georgia shock

  03-10-2023 20:32
  
  Warren Gatland’s side – fresh from thrashing Australia – will be confident of victory that will see them top World Cup Pool CIt may be Paris fashion week but Wales are not dealing in frills or fripperies. Hard graft remains the name of the game as they completed two tough training sessions before their game against Georgia this weekend, determined to finish top of Pool C and sustain the feelgood momentum they have been building.If the non-participation of their bench scrum-half
  
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• The Guardian view on Slovakia’s election: an ominous signal from central Europe | Editorial

  03-10-2023 19:54
  
  Victory for a Putin-friendly populist has given Viktor Orbán an ally and the rest of Europe a problemElections in Slovakia, a country of 5.5 million people on the eurozone’s eastern flank, do not normally generate global headlines. But these are not normal times. Amid fears of growing cracks in western unity over Russia’s war in Ukraine, the victory over the weekend of a pro-Putin populist committed to ending military aid to Kyiv sent an ominous signal.“Slovakia has bigg
  
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• The Guardian view on malaria vaccines: life-saving tools that are sorely needed | Editorial

  03-10-2023 19:54
  
  Deaths from the disease have risen in recent years, but the toll can and must be cut through a variety of measuresAfter almost six decades of painstaking research, scientists have done what at times seemed almost impossible: the world now has not one but two malaria vaccines. The need is unquestionable. Malaria remains one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases, claiming around half a million lives a year, mostly of children under five.Although research for a vaccine began in the 1
  
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• Labour picks wrong ideological battle with private school tax raid | Letters

  03-10-2023 17:56
  
  Dr Priyanjali Malik, Keith Barnham and Yvonne Williams respond to the party’s plan to add VAT on to school fees if it wins the next electionLabour will alienate swathes of middle-class families with its insistence on imposing VAT on private school fees (Rishi Sunak attacks Labour plan for VAT on private school fees, 28 September). First, not all of us who choose to send our children to independent schools are rolling in the stuff. Some of us make sacrifices in other parts of our lives in o
  
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• Follow the science: ultra-processed foods aren’t all unhealthy | Letter

  03-10-2023 17:55
  
  Scientists work with food companies to try to improve the health impacts of foods, says Prof Peter WildeI am writing in response to your article as one of the scientists named in it (Scientists on panel defending ultra-processed foods linked to food firms, 28 September). I am a researcher at Quadram Institute Bioscience with almost 40 years’ research experience. My research focuses on the mechanisms by which food and its composition underpin health benefits or harms.As a government-support
  
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• Makeup is out, grey hair is in: the week it became cool for women to look their age

  03-10-2023 17:51
  
  The pro-ageing beauty revolution is here – as shown by the barefaced Pamela Anderson and proudly grey Helen Mirren and Andie MacDowell at Paris fashion weekParis fashion week usually celebrates youth, artifice and maximum effort in the department of physical appearance. But this week there has been a big old French fuss about the joy of being natural and authentic.Pamela Anderson has rocked up at shows “makeup-free at 56”. Andie MacDowell, 65, and Dame Helen Mirren, 78, “
  
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• Britain’s gymnasts look to extend medal run in worlds clash with US

  03-10-2023 17:49
  
  After winning the European title for the first time, the British women’s team take on the might of the USA in AntwerpGreat Britain arrived at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago as heavy underdogs with low expectations. Not only were they a young and inexperienced group but they had to ignore ample criticism about the team composition after the omission of Becky Downie. At the end of a chaotic, unforgettable night in the team final, though, they held their nerve and emerged as surprise bronze
  
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• NASA plans to build HOUSE on the moon by 2040 that could be the first off-Earth 'Airbnb' for civilians - Daily Mail

  03-10-2023 17:17 via news.google.com
  NASA plans to build HOUSE on the moon by 2040 that could be the first off-Earth 'Airbnb' for civilians  Daily MailNASA's plan to build homes on the moon with 'humans living and working there'  ExpressNasa moon house rental heralds ultimate break: Tech and Science Daily podcast  Evening StandardNASA plans buildings on the Moon in the next 17 years and here's what to expect  The MirrorHomes for humans on the moon by 2040  WIONView Full coverage on
  
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• Green economy workers: how will the UK’s net zero U-turns affect you?

  03-10-2023 16:23
  
  We want to hear from people working across the UK’s green economy sectors about how they will be impacted by the prime minister’s net zero U-turnsPrime minister Rishi Sunak has in recent weeks watered down key targets in the UK’s drive to becoming net zero carbon in response to the climate crisis.Sunak attracted condemnation from environmental experts in September for pushing back the deadlines for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers. Continue
  
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• Mercury Appears To Be Shrinking - IFLScience

  03-10-2023 15:46 via news.google.com
  
  Mercury Appears To Be Shrinking  IFLScienceView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘This is a forced migration’: the ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh

  03-10-2023 15:38
  
  Tens of thousands have packed their lives into their vehicles and fled the disputed region for ArmeniaAnoush, a 23-year-old recent English graduate from Martuni province in the self-declared republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, is one of tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians who have fled to Armenia this week, after officials announced that Nagorno-Karabakh will cease to exist on New Year’s Day 2024.Almost all ethnic Armenians have now left the disputed region, which broke away from Azerbaijan af
  
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• Face masks 'should be reintroduced' after rise in Covid cases - poll results - The Mirror

  03-10-2023 15:18 via news.google.com
  Face masks 'should be reintroduced' after rise in Covid cases - poll results  The MirrorLeicester: Face masks mandatory again in parts of city hospitals  BBCNew Masking Guidelines for Oxford Hospitals  104.7 Heart FMCovid chaos forces hospitals to bring back face masks as cases 'soar to five-month high'  Daily MailLeicester hospitals reintroduce mandatory mask wearing after increase in Covid cases  Leicestershire LiveView Full coverage on Google
  
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• A record crowd and a stunning win as WSL returns – Women’s Football Weekly

  03-10-2023 15:10
  
  Faye Carruthers has Ceylon Andi Hickman and Anita Asante alongside her to wrap up an action-packed opening weekend of the WSL seasonThe WSL is back – and back with a bang! Goals, red cards, controversy – we had it all on the first Sunday of the season. Liverpool did what Liverpool do on the opening day – causing an upset against one of the title favourites.No such problems for Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City who all kicked off with wins – throw Brighton in
  
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• The truth about wrinkles: what are they – and what do they really say about our skin?

  03-10-2023 15:00
  
  The human face shows the most visible signs of ageing – from frown lines to crows’ feet. But some scientists suspect wrinkles could also be driving the ageing processThe face is like a party balloon. At the height of the fun it is plump and firm, the skin is taut, the surface smooth. It shines with good health. But once the games are done and the cake demolished, there’s a perceptible sense of deflation: the firmness goes, the structure sags, the surface dulls and wrinkles.As t
  
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• 5G satellite briefly becomes brightest object in night sky - The Register

  03-10-2023 14:30 via news.google.com
  5G satellite briefly becomes brightest object in night sky  The RegisterAstronomers express concerns over light pollution from massive new satellite  TechSpotThe ‘brightest star in the sky’ isn’t what it seems – and stargazers are shocked...  The SunReport Warns New BlueWalker 3 Satellite for Mobile is Too Bright  ISPreview.co.ukBright BlueWalker 3 satellite and Starlink pair seen streaking across night sky  VideoFromSpace
  
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• Daylight reveals damage to Oxfordshire fireball plant

  03-10-2023 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firefighters inspect the smouldering remains of the recycling plant that exploded after a lightning strike.
  
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• The Breakdown | Five big takeaways from the first half of the Rugby World Cup

  03-10-2023 11:51
  
  From the right way to play to how to continue the minnows’ progress, there have been many talking points in France so far1) France 2023 will shape the game’s future At Lyon’s Part-Dieu station late on Sunday night, a lone youth in a hoodie sat down at a piano tucked away to the side of the main concourse and began to play. He was extraordinarily good, to the point where people started looking around for hidden television cameras. As the strains of his mini‑concerto drifte
  
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• The Evenki people, custodians of the resources of Yakutia – photo essay

  03-10-2023 09:00
  
  The north of Russia conceals innumerable riches such as gold and diamonds –but also Indigenous cultures. The Evenki are Indigenous people of reindeer herders who guided Russian prospectors to mineral deposits, helping the industrial development of the Soviet Union. Today, their homeland is massively felled, riverbeds are ransacked and groundwater is pollutedOn 29 July 2022, on a shore of Lake Baikal, Evenki people from all over Russia gathered for the first time. The Evenki are Indigenous
  
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• Fay Godwin’s land of hope: Britain’s scenic beauty – in pictures

  03-10-2023 08:00
  
  From stormy skies to lonely trees, Godwin’s stunning landscape photography went hand in hand with her environmental campaigning Continue reading...
  
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• S5 E2: Shirley Ballas, dancer

  03-10-2023 06:00
  
  This week, Grace heads out of her kitchen and into the home of dance legend Shirley Ballas to cha-cha-chat all things Comfort Eating. Shirley’s become TV royalty as head judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she’d already been ruling the dancefloor for decades. She and Grace chat about wedding buffets, steamy backstage rendezvous and where to stand in the queue to get the best helping of school dinner. And, as ever, the comfort snacks she turns to when she kicks off her
  
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• Everything you need to know about the menopause – podcast

  03-10-2023 06:00
  
  Madeleine Finlay meets menopause expert Dr Louise Newson to find out about some of the myths surrounding the menopause, how women can prepare for this stage in life, and why information and support can be so difficult to access Continue reading...
  
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• Out in the cold: the spy scandal gripping Denmark - podcast

  03-10-2023 04:00
  
  Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Denmark’s former defence minister and Lars Findsen former head of Denmark’s foreign intelligence agency, have been charged with divulging state secrets and face lengthy prison sentences. Harry Davies investigates why the scandal will reverberate well beyond ScandinaviaIn December 2021 Lars Findsen was the head of Denmark’s foreign intelligence agency. He was on leave at the time, had been overseas for a few days, and boarded a flight home to Copenhagen
  
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