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• Deals: looking at the Google Pixel 9a and the alternatives - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

  22-03-2025 20:23 via news.google.com
  Deals: looking at the Google Pixel 9a and the alternatives - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.comPixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value  The KeywordMeager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI  Ars TechnicaGoogle Pixel 9a vs Pixel 10 — buy now or wait?  Tom's GuidePixel 9a release was delayed to April due to ‘component quality issue’  9to5Google
  
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• ‘Imagine if it died on my watch?’ The fight to save one ‘ancient’ Adelaide tree

  22-03-2025 20:00
  
  Cities lose thousands of mature trees a year. On Overbury Drive, neighbours were determined to protect a solitary giant dying red gum – stuck right in the middle of their roadSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsIt’s a striking image; in a suburban landscape where nature has been largely pushed aside to make way for roads, houses and driveways, the thick craggy trunk of a towering river red gum tree stands defiantly in place, forcing the bitumen to squeeze and buckle ar
  
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• Note perfect: Ed Atkins’s daily Post-it drawings – in pictures

  22-03-2025 18:00
  
  In 2020, the English artist Ed Atkins started drawing on Post-it notes and sticking them to his daughter’s school lunchbox. As well as “little hellos”, they were also, amid the power-down of the pandemic, “a way for me to achieve something every day”, says Atkins. Some of the drawings are cute if a bit creepy – a smiley-faced ghost, a bell lifted to reveal a foetal human underneath – while others involving axes and claws might induce nightmares in adults
  
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• Doctors’ best friends: dogs will help sniff out bacteria for cystic fibrosis sufferers

  22-03-2025 16:15
  Imperial College project could lead to less invasive testing and combat increase in antibiotic resistanceJodie is a canine with special ­powers, scientists have discovered. The golden labrador can smell and ­identify ­particular bacteria and could soon play a key role in helping researchers develop a programme in which dogs could sniff out individuals infected with dangerous microbes.The project, recently launched by scientists at Imperial College London, could be vital in the battle
  
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• Hamilton hits out at ‘yapping’ critics after sprint race success at Chinese GP

  22-03-2025 16:13
  
  ‘People underestimated steep climb of joining new team’Piastri takes first pole ahead of Russell and NorrisFeisty, confident and feeling vindicated, Lewis Hamilton will, to an extent, be at ease with how he fares in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix. After his victory in the sprint race on Saturday, the seven-time champion was energised and assured he is on the right path with Ferrari and even a tough day in Shanghai will not detract from the sense he has seized the reins.A long road
  
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• ‘Wellbeing’ isn’t a joke – it’s a tool for tackling populism

  22-03-2025 16:00
  In Britain, the Treasury is taking the idea of social happiness surprisingly seriously – and the chancellor needs to as wellLast week’s International Day of Happiness lives on. Not so much in the US, where the chaotic uncertainty engineered by Donald Trump and his Project 2025 supporters is creating misery, and not just for the public servants fired or suspended from their jobs.It might also be difficult to see how the goal of happiness is rated in Whitehall when the UK sits only one
  
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• The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

  22-03-2025 16:00
  
  International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’Oakland, California, is often treated as a city on the margins, best known for its struggles with poverty and gun violence, as well as for its history of radical Black activism. But a new book, The Pacific Circuit, argues that Oakland should be viewed as one of the centers of global change in the past century, serving both as a key nod
  
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• Santosh review – gripping police procedural about the murky side of modern India

  22-03-2025 16:00
  
  ​Documentary-maker Sandhya Suri’s remarkable feature debut​ pitches a new female cop into a ​complex rural murder caseThis is a phenomenal achievement: the feature film debut from British-Indian former documentary maker Sandhya Suri is a punchy, muscular Hindi-language police procedural set in rural north India. Elegantly scripted by Suri, Santosh combines gripping, gritty storytelling with a deft acknowledgment of some of the murkier aspects of modern India: the police c
  
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• On my radar: Raja Shehadeh’s cultural highlights

  22-03-2025 16:00
  
  The Palestinian writer and campaigner on Mahler, Gaza, Edinburgh – and the peace of his West Bank gardenRaja Shehadeh is a Palestinian author and lawyer, and co-founder of the human rights organisation Al-Haq. He won the Orwell prize in 2008 for his book Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, and his new book, Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, written with his wife, Penny Johnson, is out now. Continue reading...
  
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• Bomb squad carries out controlled burn of explosive chemicals found in St Leonards

  22-03-2025 15:41
  Five hundred canisters being examined after man arrested in East Sussex town on suspicion of producing illegal substancesA bomb squad has carried out a controlled burn of explosive chemicals discovered at a property in an East Sussex town as they continue to examine a further 500 canisters.A major incident was declared on Friday while an operation continued to make the chemicals safe, with 73 people forced to move to a nearby hotel. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Tax exile’s half-baked scheme’: Jim Ratcliffe challenged over Man Utd plan to use public funds for £2bn stadium project

  22-03-2025 15:20
  Club co-owner’s request for hundreds of millions of pounds to help regenerate local area labelled ‘outrageous’ by criticsSir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of Manchester United, has been challenged over the proposed use of hundreds of millions of pounds of public funds to deliver his vision of building the “world’s greatest stadium”.Ratcliffe, who has an estimated fortune of about £12bn, quit the UK for tax-free Monaco in 2020. He is now urging ministers to
  
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• Knight’s sacking exposes England’s failure to plan captaincy succession | Raf Nicholson

  22-03-2025 15:17
  
  Now just eight weeks until their next series they must appoint a coach, a captain and try to show they are serious about cultural changeThey say in cricket that one brings two: something that has proved true in the case of the England and Wales Cricket Board’s post-Ashes review. On Friday, Jon Lewis was sacked as head coach and, 24 hours later, Heather Knight followed him out of the door.A 16-0 error-strewn Ashes whitewash required big change and the ECB has certainly delivered on that sco
  
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• FKA twigs review – an eye-popping extravaganza of dancing and demons

  22-03-2025 15:00
  
  Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe ever out-there British artist tours her latest album, Eusexua, with a show whose mix of club vibe, winged beast props and prime back catalogue delights and confoundsSomewhere between a gig, a cutting-edge dance piece and a high-concept club night, the tour for the British multidisciplinary artist FKA twigs’s latest album, Eusexua, boldly defies convention. It’s exquisite and confounding. For one, it demands its audience be extremely tall to witness anythi
  
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• Emma Barnett: ‘People ask, is that the radio you or the real you?’

  22-03-2025 15:00
  
  The broadcaster and author talks maternity leave, childhood curiosity and her imaginary radio audienceAt school, I was the girl who wanted to dissect sheep lungs. I had a lack of horror around gore, I’m not squeamish at all, which was helpful when it came to all those needles for IVF. I thought about being a surgeon. I also thought it would be interesting to become a fishmonger. I’m fascinated by fish – I don’t know why.As an only child, radio was my companion. I had a li
  
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• Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts

  22-03-2025 14:56
  Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn The government’s plans to cut at least £5bn from disability benefits could end up driving more costs on to cash-strapped councils, according to campaigners and local government officials.Last week, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall published a green paper including a package of cuts to disability benefits. Up to 1.2 million fewer people could be eligible for Pip
  
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• Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies

  22-03-2025 14:54
  
  In a memo on Friday, president also revoked clearances for Antony Blinken, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Letitia JamesDonald Trump moved to revoke security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and a string of other top Democrats and political enemies in a presidential memo issued late on Friday.The security clearance revocations include former secretary of state Antony Blinken, former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, former Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger and the New York attorney
  
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• Israel strikes southern Lebanon amid calls for halt to ‘endless war’

  22-03-2025 14:45
  Strikes come as freed hostages and family members of people still held in Gaza urge Netanyahu to stop the fightingIsraeli artillery and airstrikes hit southern Lebanon on Saturday, in a fresh clash endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long conflict against Hezbollah, as 40 survivors of Hamas captivity called on the Israeli government to halt the “endless war”.’Three rockets fired from Lebanon towards Israel were intercepted by the Israeli air force, according to a spok
  
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• Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence

  22-03-2025 14:05
  
  Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within yearTeenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), set up to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime in the capital, said the new re
  
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• Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas

  22-03-2025 14:00
  
  The state with the most radical abortion law is seeking to make an example of Maria Margarita RojasTexas is a fairly decent place to be an armadillo (they’re the official state small mammal) and an increasingly dire place to be a woman. In 2021, it implemented a near-total abortion ban: the most radical abortion law in the US. Now it’s going even further in its crusade to outlaw abortion. On Monday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced the first criminal charges under Te
  
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• Pope Francis to make first public appearance since being admitted to hospital

  22-03-2025 13:55
  
  Vatican says pontiff will come to the window of his room on Sunday to offer a greeting and blessingPope Francis is poised to make his first public appearance in more than five weeks, greeting people from the window of his hospital room where he is recovering from pneumonia in both lungs.The pontiff, 88, wants to come to the window of his room at Rome’s Gemelli hospital after midday prayers on Sunday to give the greeting and blessing, the Vatican said in a ­statement today. Continue rea
  
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• ‘We need to set the terms or we’re all screwed’: how newsrooms are tackling AI’s uncertainties and opportunities

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  Amid angst over the technology, a consensus isemerging about its capabilities – but there is an elephant in the roomIn early March, a job advert was doing the rounds among sports journalists. It was for an “AI-assisted sports reporter” at USA Today’s publisher, Gannett. It was billed as a role at the “forefront of a new era in journalism”, but came with a caveat: “This is not a beat-reporting position and does not require travel or face-to-face interview
  
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• This is how we do it: ‘She reminds me that sex is fun – not a test I’m going to fail’

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  She was only the second person he’d had sex with – after his ex-wife of 25 years. Now only anxieties about confidence and their age gap hold them backHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslySex used to feel like an obligation, now it feels like a team activity in pursuit of pleasure Continue reading...
  
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• Spurs’ Lenna Gunning-Williams: ‘A lot of people believe I’m a real-life Jack Marshall’

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  The forward on her role in the hit CBBC drama Jamie Johnson and her journey to Tottenham’s first teamFor most football fans, the name Jack Marshall would be of no significance. But for the Tottenham forward Lenna Gunning-Williams the name is synonymous with the start of a compelling – and unorthodox – journey into the world of professional football.Unlike most professional players in the modern game, the 20-year-old did not get her first taste of academy football until her mid-
  
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• ‘It’s a new kind of prison’: Amanda Knox on redemption, rage – and her unlikely friendship with the prosecutor who hounded her

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  Ten years ago she was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. But is Knox really free?• ‘I call us the Sisterhood of Ill Repute’: read an exclusive extract from her new memoirAmanda Knox says she is one of the lucky ones. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had their convictions for the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned for the second and final time in 2015. She now presents a successful podcast called Labyrinths, is a T
  
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• From the police to the prime minister: how Adolescence is making Britain face up to toxic masculinity

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  The Netflix drama isn’t just a critical smash – its tale of social media-fuelled violence to women by young boys has forced a national debate in the UK that might lead to genuine political changeWhen Adolescence launched on Netflix a week ago, its timing felt uncanny. This hard-hitting series about the malign influence of the online “manosphere” arrived just as news broke about a story that had been making UK headlines for nine months: that of notorious crossbow killer Ky
  
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• Alienated fans fear money-driven ticket exploitation is pricing out regulars

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  Dash for cash runs risks of damage to atmosphere and core local support the Premier League prides itself onIt is the time of year when season-ticket holders receive an email from their club spelling out how much it will cost to follow them through thick and thin once again. The email often lands without warning of an increase, that bit saved for lower down after explaining the financial challenges and how the owner wants to invest to bring success. Generally it will say it was a “tough but
  
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• Adam, Scott and Ryan Thomas look back: ‘We were known as the Corrie Boys. We lived like rock stars’

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  The brothers on being competitive children, cruel nicknames and how TV changed their livesBorn and raised in Manchester, the Thomas brothers established their careers in soap operas and on primetime reality TV. Adam, 36, is best known for playing Adam Barton in Emmerdale and Donte Charles in Waterloo Road, while his twin, Scott, found fame as a finalist on Love Island in 2016. Their older brother, Ryan, 40, spent 16 years as Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street. Adam and Ryan now front 99 to Beat
  
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• A garden of sunflowers … and an AK-47: Iranian murder plot comes to Brooklyn

  22-03-2025 13:00
  
  The trial of two Russian mobsters for a murder-for-hire scheme targeting the women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad revealed incongruous, and chilling, detailsMasih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her Brooklyn home when she spotted a “gigantic” man mulling about.At first, he seemed “like a normal guy”, the Iranian-American dissident writer recalled in court this week of a fateful day in late July 2022. “H
  
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• Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London

  22-03-2025 12:55
  
  Black Britons altered the DNA of music, fashion and sport in this country. But why is it framed as a London story? Bradford-born writer Lanre Bakare explores how it reaches far beyond the capital – and farther back in timeThe DVD slips into the loading tray, and I watch in hope rather than expectation. I’ve been told Tony Palmer’s The Wigan Casino is the greatest ever depiction of a northern soul all-nighter, and I want to see it for myself. The film is a window into the underg
  
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• The Sex Pistols rock London with first gig at 100 Club in 50 years

  22-03-2025 12:52
  
  Band members were joined on stage by former Gallows frontman Frank Carter as stars and fans welcomed their returnThere was anticipation on Oxford Street in London as the Sex Pistols rocked the 100 Club for the first time in more than half a century, playing classic tunes for a crowd of creaking punks.In a hot and sweaty venue, which harkened back to the band’s glory days, they darted on stage like squaddies on a march, to roars from the audience. They were celebrated by stars and superfans
  
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• Heathrow boss defends running of airport after criticism of shutdown

  22-03-2025 12:46
  
  Thomas Woldbye says while ‘lessons need to be learned’, most other airports operate similar back-up power systemsHeathrow delays – live updatesThe chief executive of Heathrow has defended the running of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation stopped about 1,300 planes and disrupted the journeys of hundreds of thousands of global passengers.It comes after Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow for the
  
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• ‘We’re in an impossible situation’: co-founder of London bakery targeted with graffiti reacts

  22-03-2025 12:35
  
  Vandals accuse Dusty Knuckle of gentrification in Haringey despite its work with at-risk young peopleAn east London bakery – as famous for its long-fermented breads as the work it does with at-risk young people – has been targeted by vandals accusing it of destroying their local community.Ashley Walters, Jamie Oliver and Yotam Ottolenghi are among fans of the Dusty Knuckle’s menu, from its £11.50, two-hander, pilpelchuma celeriac sandwich to its £7.60 egg, pickled g
  
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• The limited ceasefire in Ukraine: what has been agreed and how will it work?

  22-03-2025 12:17
  
  As delegations from Moscow and Kyiv prepare to meet US negotiators in Riyadh, details of pact remain unclearUkraine and Russia have agreed in principle to a limited ceasefire after the US president, Donald Trump, spoke with the countries’ leaders last week. But uncertainty remains about how or when the part-ceasefire will take effect as Ukraine and Russia prepare to send delegations to Riyadh this week for parallel talks with the US. Continue reading...
  
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• How did it come to this? Labour’s journey from landslide victory to ‘deep unhappiness’

  22-03-2025 12:14
  
  Rachel Reeves’s speech next week is being crafted as a ‘re-education’ on Labour’s achievements amid gloominess and sinking poll ratingsWhen Rachel Reeves takes to her feet in the Commons to deliver her spring statement next week, she will try to pull off what her inner circle describe as a “re-education” exercise over how Labour has used its early days in power.“We want it to be a re-education on all the good things we’ve already done in office,&rd
  
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• The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism

  22-03-2025 12:00
  
  From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts sayEntering the magnificent great hall of the US Department of Justice, Donald Trump stopped for a moment to admire his portrait then took to a specially constructed stage where two art deco statues, depicting the “Spirit of Justice” and “Majesty of Justice”, had been carefully concealed behind a blue velvet curtain.The presiden
  
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• Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’

  22-03-2025 12:00
  
  He might be known for his stoner vibe and roles in comedies such as Superbad and Knocked Up, but behind the scenes the actor, writer, weed-lover and pottery fan has also become a producing power player. Has it changed him?Seth Rogen is itemising all the ways in which, when he’s producing a film or TV show, he’s inclined to agonise about his contribution. “Are my notes helping?” he says. “Am I making things worse? Am I actually inspiring the writers to create be
  
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• Pac-Man Live: filching fruit and fleeing ghosts in human-sized video game

  22-03-2025 12:00
  
  Nearly half a century after the little chomping yellow head was first seen, Manchester’s live version joins pantheon of immersive nostalgic exploits“There’s no need to look so nervous,” says a beaming man in a radiant yellow suit, inside what is essentially a darkened warehouse.Perhaps my game face is betraying my bewilderment. I’m only loosely familiar with the concept of Pac-Man, having played it a handful of times. There is something about being relentlessly purs
  
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• From Sels to Salah: a Premier League best XI of the season so far

  22-03-2025 12:00
  
  We select a starting team that features players from seven clubs and the manager most worthy of being in the dugoutPerhaps the most difficult decision in the XI. David Raya has been excellent at Arsenal and Mark Flekken quietly impressive behind a loose Brentford defence. But that Sels has been the third-busiest keeper in the league (89 saves) behind Flekken and Southampton’s Aaron Ramsdale, yet has conceded the fourth-fewest goals (35) shows his importance, particularly when nine of Fores
  
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• ‘I was raped at the age of 10’: sexual abuse and harassment reported at 1,664 UK primary schools

  22-03-2025 11:39
  
  Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and rape anonymously reportedWarning: contains content some readers may find distressingChildren and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivors, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to children under the age of nine.Experiences of sexual harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and even forced penetration have
  
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• The Searchers bring their musical quest to an end after 68 years

  22-03-2025 11:30
  
  Exclusive: Merseybeat act, contemporaries of the Beatles, will play final show at Glastonbury this year after farewell tourThey are the longest-running band in pop history, selling tens of millions of records and filling venues worldwide in a 68-year career. But now the Searchers have decided to take their final bow.The group, who were contemporaries of the Beatles during “the British invasion” will play their last ever show at this year’s Glastonbury festival, after a “f
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi: I tried intermittent fasting, and hated it. This is why we need to ditch the diets and go back to basics

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  The chef says we need to forget fads and focus on the joy of good food cooked with love• Yotam’s recipes for roast chicken with butter beans, and perfect potatoesThe kids normally have breakfast at 7.30. I make eggs – soft boiled, scrambled or an omelette – sliced cucumber, toast with butter and a bowl of yoghurt on the side. Whether I eat too depends on how much I ate the previous night – and how late.Last year, I decided I’d skip breakfast altogether. I&
  
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• ‘The DJ’s focus makes time stand still’: Joshua Hasanoff’s best phone picture

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Quick work + a quirky concept + a cool neighbour = a winning shot for this young Australian photographerJoshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The Australian winter sunset is notoriously fast-moving, so I started preparing for the shoot as soon as I got home,” Hasanoff says. “I knew I’d only have a 20-
  
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• Splashing the cash: how wealthy retirees are avoiding ‘inheritance tax raid’

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Wave of spending is triggered by Rachel Reeves’s removal of IHT exemption on pensions from 2027What new UK rules on pension inheritance may mean for youFinancial companies are reporting a “huge” increase in well-off older people withdrawing sizeable sums from their pensions to splash out on family holidays and give to their children.This wave of spending and gifting has been triggered by the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to launch what some have called an “inh
  
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• Scientists identify ‘tipping point’ that caused clumps of toxic Florida seaweed

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Giant blobs along 5,000-mile-wide sargassum belt has killed animals, harmed human health and discouraged tourismScientists in Florida believe they have identified a “tipping point” in atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic Ocean they say caused giant clumps of toxic seaweed to inundate beaches around the Caribbean in recent summers.Previous theories for the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt that has killed marine animals, harmed human health and plagued the tourism industry in several co
  
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• Loud Zoom calls, hogging space, spending a pittance: no wonder laptoppers’ antics irk cafe owners | Emily Watkins

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Cafes are cracking down on remote workers – but we can save ourselves by following a few simple rulesOnce upon a time, it was socially acceptable to smoke inside, wear those mad, wide ties and pat your secretary on the bottom. Norms change, and that’s often for the best. But when it comes to laptops in cafes, falling from favour as owners lose patience with remote workers, I am begging society to reconsider. Don’t take my cafe nook – it’s the only thing keeping the
  
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• ‘I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t feel particularly well afterwards’: the best (and worst) vegan cheese, tested

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Which brand makes the cheesiest cheddar alternative? And whose tastes like grout? Meera Sodha samples popular plant-based blocks• ‘Hands down my favourite bit of kit’: 13 kitchen gadgets top chefs can’t live withoutWhen I was asked to review plant-based cheeses, I thought twice about doing so. Although there are some companies, usually smaller operations, that make non-dairy cheese out of fermented nuts or soya beans, more often than not it’s manufactured by big comp
  
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• Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge

  22-03-2025 11:00
  
  Musk lambastes judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as Trump administration’s judiciary clash intensifiesIn the days after a federal judge ruled Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID likely violated the constitution, the world’s richest person issued a series of online attacks against the American judiciary, offered money to voters to sign a petition opposing “activist judges”, and called on Congress to remove his newfound legal opponents from office.&ldquo
  
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• 'Long Covid stole the life I had'

  22-03-2025 10:49 via bbc.com
  
  Kaylee says she has hated having long Covid and just wants to get her life to living her life.
  
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• Mountaineer Chris Bonington: ‘I’ve come very close to death so many times, it’s difficult to pick the closest’

  22-03-2025 10:30
  
  The adventurer on climbing Everest the hard way, finding love again in later life, and his favourite ice axeBorn in London, Chris Bonington, 90, joined the army and became an Outward Bound instructor. In 1975, he led the first expedition to successfully climb Everest via its south-west face. Ten years later, he reached the summit himself. In 1996, he was knighted for services to mountaineering, and his many books include the memoir Ascent. He has two surviving children b
  
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• UK should step in to fund scheme tracing Ukrainian children, say Lib Dems

  22-03-2025 10:29
  
  Ministers urged to act after US ended support to help locate an estimated 20,000 children taken to RussiaThe Liberal Democrats are urging the government to provide replacement funding to an American project that locates Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia, as the party gathers for a spring conference heavily focused on the response to Donald Trump.British support for the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University could be part of a more robust approach towards the US president, particularly
  
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