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• The healthy superfood shockingly linked to cancer that could be in your pantry right now - Daily Mail

  19-04-2025 20:32 via news.google.com
  The healthy superfood shockingly linked to cancer that could be in your pantry right now  Daily Mail
  
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• Nuclear war expert reveals safest part of the world to live after atomic bomb blast if WW3 broke out - LADbible

  19-04-2025 18:36 via news.google.com
  Nuclear war expert reveals safest part of the world to live after atomic bomb blast if WW3 broke out  LADbible
  
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• England v Scotland: Women’s Six Nations rugby union – live

  19-04-2025 16:53 via theguardian.com
  Women’s Six Nations news from the 4.45pm BST kick-offYou can email Luke | And sign up to get The BreakdownFrance produced a second-half fightback to beat Italy 34-21 and maintain their 100% record in the Women’s Six Nations, setting up a potential Grand Slam decider against England.Joanna Grisez’s early try had given France a flying start in Parma, but after French lock Madoussou Fall was sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle, Italy recovered to lead 21-12 at half-time followin
  
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• Trying to lower your blood pressure? This common nutrient can help - Earth.com

  19-04-2025 16:32 via news.google.com
  Trying to lower your blood pressure? This common nutrient can help  Earth.comThe fruit that’s better at lowering blood pressure than cutting salt  The IndependentEating this fruit helps lower blood pressure better than cutting salt  Surrey LiveBananas ‘more powerful’ to treat high blood pressure than common diet change  Gloucestershire LiveAre Salt Substitutes The Wellness Hack We’ve Been Waiting For?  Haute Living
  
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• JD Vance had ‘exchange of opinions’ with senior cardinal, Vatican says

  19-04-2025 16:26 via theguardian.com
  
  US vice-president, who is a Catholic convert, discusses immigration and international wars with secretary of stateThe US vice-president, JD Vance, had “an exchange of opinions” with the Vatican’s secretary of state over current international conflicts and immigration when they met on Saturday, the Vatican has said.The Vatican issued a statement after Vance, a Catholic convert, met Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher. There was no indicati
  
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• Ukraine war live: Putin announces ‘Easter truce’ and claims Russia will not attack Ukraine again until Monday

  19-04-2025 16:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Russian president says truce has begun and will last until midnight on Sunday, though Ukraine is yet to commentHere are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, the RIA state news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Dabbagh sends Aberdeen past nine-man Hearts and into Scottish Cup final

  19-04-2025 16:15 via theguardian.com
  
  This most curious of Aberdeen seasons will end in Scottish football’s showpiece occasion. Time will tell whether this outcome proves fatal for the Hearts manager Neil Critchley, who has a damaging habit of falling on the wrong side of fine margins. Celtic or St Johnstone lie in wait for Aberdeen on 24 May. Jimmy Thelin’s team opened the campaign by going 16 unbeaten. A 12-game stretch where they could not win was to follow. The Scottish Cup final will round off their 2024-25.Oday Dab
  
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• Everton v Manchester City, Brentford v Brighton, Barcelona v Celta Vigo – live

  19-04-2025 16:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Follow live updates from Saturday afternoon’s gamesLive scores | League tables | Sign up to Football DailyWest Ham (4-2-3-1) Areola; Coufal, Todibo, Kilman, Emerson Palmieri; Soler, Ward-Prowse; Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Kudus; Fullkrug.Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Mavropanos, Luis Guilherme, Rodriguez,Soucek, Ferguson, Irving, Scarles.Southampton (3-5-2) Ramsdale; Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens; Walker-Peters, Downes, Fernandes, Ugochukwu, Manning; Onuachu, Sulemana.Subs: McCarthy, Aribo,
  
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• Ukraine war live: Putin announces ‘Easter truce’ and claims Russian troops will not fight again until Monday

  19-04-2025 16:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Russian president says truce started on Saturday at 3pm GMT and will last until Sunday at 9pm GMT, though Ukraine is yet to comment Here are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, the RIA state news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘People lay at my feet. I said: get up. They were silent’: Ukrainian survivors speak after Russia’s attack on Sumy

  19-04-2025 16:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Alla Shyrshonkova was on a bus when Russian missiles hit the city. Now a toy bear and hippo mark the spot where 35 people, including two children, were killedLast weekend, Alla Shyrshonkova got on the 62 bus on a journey to her cottage near the Ukrainian city of Sumy. It was a warm spring day. “I thought I’d sit with friends, have some tea. Birds were singing. The weather was beautiful. It was so nice,” she recalled.“The bus was packed. There wasn’t a single free se
  
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• County cricket day two: Sussex v Surrey, Hampshire v Somerset, and more – live

  19-04-2025 16:05 via theguardian.com
  Live updates around the County Championship groundsSign up for The Spin | And mail Tanya or comment BTLDom Bess has ushered Yorkshire over the 300 line with a boundary but he’s losing partners, Ben Raine has bowled Sears to collect his fourth wickets of the innings.And Cameron Green, reluctantly, must leave the field at Canterbury – tries to stare down the umpire after he gives him out (unluckily) lbw, but the ump keeps his finger raised until he turns tail. Gloucs 385-9. Continue re
  
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• ‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor

  19-04-2025 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew CuomoCan a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York?Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly ­member in Queens, has been the surprise package in the Democratic primary and is now poised to take on the frontrunner i
  
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• Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s sexy southern gothic horror is a blast

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Michael B Jordan stars as twin 1930s mobsters in the Black Panther director’s phenomenal-looking, blues-infused supernatural taleIn Black Panther (2018) and its sequel, Wakanda Forever (2022), Ryan Coogler directed two of Marvel’s most satisfying and textured recent movies. His 2015 Rocky spin-off Creed represents the gold standard when it comes to franchise-wrangling, honouring the original series yet standing up and fighting its own corner as a distinct movie. If anyone has earned
  
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• Pray that this outlandish new social policy will fail to take flight | Phillip Inman

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Cooga
  
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• ‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotivesAbout 500 steam trains run across the UK each year, from Penzance in the south to Inverness in the north, ­transporting tens of thousands of passengers to a bygone age, ­bringing joy to the faces of enthusiasts and bemusing commuters.But the future of main line steam operations could be under threat unless the traditional fire-breathing machines can be fitted with pioneering m
  
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• It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Cooga
  
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• Further delay as Menendez brothers seek freedom after decades in prison

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Brothers had hoped resentencing hearing would pave way for immediate release – but judge orders pause until MayThe Menendez brothers have spent years waiting for another day in court and a chance to prove that they should be freed after serving over three decades in prison for the 1989 slayings of their parents.This week it appeared their time was perhaps finally coming – a judge was set to review their request for a resentencing and determine whether they have been rehabilitated. Th
  
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• Climatologist Friederike Otto: ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to do about itFriederike Otto is a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London. She is also the co-founder of the World Weather Attribution initiative, which seeks to determine the influence of global warming on intensity and likelihood of an extreme weather event. The project also examines how factors such as ill-suited architecture and p
  
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• Melchie Dumornay’s instant reply puts Lyon in control against Arsenal

  19-04-2025 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  It was an afternoon of missed opportunities for Arsenal as they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Lyon in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League semi-final. Melchie Dumornay’s late winner silenced the 40,000-strong Emirates Stadium crowd after Mariona Caldentey’s penalty had cancelled out Kadidiatou Diani’s opener.Joe Montemurro returned to his former stomping ground in north London with a side who are high in confidence, full of star quality and technical brilliance. The
  
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• Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into drinking water

  19-04-2025 15:16 via theguardian.com
  Bases in Norfolk, Devon and Hampshire face MoD investigation over possible leaching of dangerous PFAS into environmentThree UK military bases have been marked for investigation over fears they may be leaking toxic “forever chemicals” into drinking water sources and important environmental sites.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will investigate RAF Marham in Norfolk, RM Chivenor in Devon and AAC Middle Wallop in Hampshire after concerns they may be leaching toxic PFAS chemicals into thei
  
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• US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

  19-04-2025 15:14 via theguardian.com
  
  The order is the latest example of how the courts are challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration systemThe US supreme court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the U
  
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• ‘Is there a place for the poor?’ Artists and activists try to revive Johannesburg, crumbling City of Gold

  19-04-2025 15:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Issues around basic services, corruption and class trouble vibrant Johannesburg, which this year hosts the G20 summitBethabile Mavis Manqele mops the veranda of the house she has lived in for most of the last 40 years. The ceiling above her is full of holes, blackened by years of cooking fires. Manqele, 64, isn’t sure how many people live in the house’s seven rooms. There are no utilities, the landlord is absent and she hasn’t paid rent in years, she says through a translator.
  
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• Pledge to create thousands more nursery places has backfired, early years groups say

  19-04-2025 15:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Schools are pushing out established groups as funding for more places comes on streamA government pledge to create more nurseries has backfired, according to early years providers. More than a dozen schools are evicting ­existing preschool providers that operate in classrooms amid concerns they are doing so to access state funding to set up their own provision.It means that the pledge to create thousands of nursery places may be fulfilled by cannibalising some of the existing preschools, acc
  
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• The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After months of mounting pressure on the university to defend itself, Harvard rejected a series of Trump administration demands – here’s what happenedIt took Harvard University less than 72 hours to reject a series of demands put forth by the Trump administration, setting up a high-stakes showdown between the US’s wealthiest and oldest university and the White House.The swift rebuke on Monday came after weeks of mounting pressure from Harvard faculty, students, alumni, and the
  
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• Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Duke of York’s, LondonA triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club nightHard-edged digital club music throbs from the theatre stage – a place mostly in darkness, its shadows hiding a drummer and a multi-instrumentalist. Standing in a row, glaring at the theatre audience, are Self Esteem and 10 dancers. They are not dancing. It’s a tense, delicious contradiction. The company stand stock-still f
  
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• Sci-fi Musk is brainstorming ways to breed his ‘legion’ more efficiently | Arwa Mahdawi

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A Wall Street Journal article offered disturbing details about the billionaire’s behavior. Imagine the backlash if he were a womanI regret to inform you that, once again, we are all being forced to think about Elon Musk’s gonads. Musk, who has had at least 14 children with four women, hasn’t officially launched a new mini-Musk for a while, but the Wall Street Journal has just dropped some disturbing details about the billionaire’s well-publicized breeding fetish.Arwa Mahd
  
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• Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
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  After 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The TraitorsWhen she was a child growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Holly Gramazio made up a game with her friend Summer. The two girls would lie back on swings with their eyes closed. When someone made too much noise nearby, they’d sit to
  
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• ‘It’s less intimidating, less vulnerable’: why cooking in company helps us to talk

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The pressure’s off when we’re not staring at each other, we can relax and have a nice chatOn the day after Boxing Day last year, my dad and I went to buy some cabbage. My aunt and cousins were joining us for dinner that evening and we had a meal to prepare. The local supermarket was closed and the cabbage, sourced from an Italian deli around the corner, was obscenely overpriced. In a bind, we bought some anyway and headed back home to begin cooking. Standing around the kitchen island
  
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• David Oyelowo: ‘My wife and I made the decision early on never to be apart for longer than two weeks’’

  19-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor, 49, talks about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney PoitierDavid, you are going to walk among kings.” This was my mum’s prophecy when I was small. My father is from a royal family in Nigeria, so I interpreted it that way. Remarkably, she was right: I went on to play King Pelasgus, Henry VI, Martin Luther King and Seretse Khama.My earliest memory is sitting on my dad’s shoulders as he walke
  
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• UK couple who died in Italy cable car crash named

  19-04-2025 14:42 via theguardian.com
  Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died in incident on ThursdayThe UK Foreign Office has said it is supporting the family of a couple who were killed in a cable car crash in Naples.Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died on Thursday at Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples in southern Italy. Continue reading...
  
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• Tennis body defends ‘uncomfortable’ shower rule as criticism bubbles over

  19-04-2025 14:10 via theguardian.com
  ITIA responds after reminder about anti-doping rulesMark Petchey says that the statute is ‘unacceptable’The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has come under fire after it issued a reminder about anti-doping rules, saying players chosen to give samples must remain in full view of chaperones if they choose to take a shower first.In a note sent to players via the tours that has found its way on to social media, the ITIA said although it had worked hard to ensure that showers
  
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• Cardiff sack Omer Riza and hand reins to Ramsey in last-ditch bid to avoid drop

  19-04-2025 14:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Aaron Ramsey takes over for last three games of seasonBluebirds currently languishing 23rd in ChampionshipAaron Ramsey has been given the task of trying to save Cardiff City from relegation after manager Omer Riza was sacked on Saturday.The Bluebirds parted company with Riza after a 2-0 defeat at Sheffield United on Good Friday left them 23rd in the Championship, one point from safety. Continue reading...
  
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• Harborough FC ‘surprised’ as 100 Spanish fans turn up to watch game

  19-04-2025 14:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Fans are subscribers to YouTube channel focused on English football whose founder wants to strengthen links with clubFootball tourism is usually seen at Premier League stadiums such as Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates, so fans of Harborough Town, who compete in the seventh tier of the football pyramid, were stunned when 100 Spaniards arrived at Bowden Park to watch them take on St Ives Town.The Spanish fans, who turned up last Saturday, were subscribers to a Spanish YouTube channel, La Med
  
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• ‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump

  19-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the USThe world’s first reaction to the young military veteran and far-right radical who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City 30 years ago this month was near-universal revulsion at the carnage he created and at the ideology that inspired it.A crowd yelled “baby killer” – and worse – as 26-year-
  
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• Oat milk rises to top as Britain’s preferred plant-based drink

  19-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  UK brands are finding ever-inventive ways to quench consumers’ thirst for non-dairy alternativesWith white-suited operatives tapping buttons on huge machines and its walls a tangle of heavy-duty pipes, the sprawling complex in the Northamptonshire countryside could pass for a Bond villain’s lair, were it not for the comforting porridge smell.But rather than plotting world domination, the site’s owner, Navara Oat Milling, is piggybacking on Britons’ growing thirst for plan
  
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• Musk and AI among biggest threats to brand reputation, global survey shows

  19-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Appraisal of international public affairs leaders warned companies against aligning with ‘polarizing’ Trump allyAssociating with the Donald Trump administration’s multibillionaire adviser Elon Musk and misusing artificial intelligence are among the most surefire ways for companies to damage their brands, a new survey of more than 100 international public affairs leaders found.Those findings stem from an appraisal conducted by the Global Risk Advisory Council, which was chaired
  
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• Man on first date admits dangerous driving in Newcastle crash that injured police

  19-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seven officers taken to hospital after Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, crashed BMW while being pursued by police on A1A man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after seven police officers were injured when he crashed into them while being chased by police.Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, was taking a woman home from a date in the early hours of 9 April when he crashed his BMW while it was being pursued by police along the northbound carriageway of the A1, near junction 75 and the Denton Burn roundabout, near N
  
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• ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

  19-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answer instantly by turning to AI tools such as G
  
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• Gossip, gowns and Agas: could Ladies of the Cotswolds be reality TV’s next big thing?

  19-04-2025 13:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath The Cotswolds had better steel itself: reality television is upon it. A series is planned (rumoured working title: Ladies of the Cotswolds) and it sounds posher than most. It’s made by the company behind Grand Designs and set in the “chocolate box” town of Charlbury, in the Evenlode valley.Names are being proposed for the series, such as Gabriel
  
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• This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new onesI really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Tesla would do. Then I could plaster it with those “I bought this before Elon went mad” stickers, shamefacedly sell it at a loss and write a performative social media post about no longer being able to stomach the guilt of driving it around town. But as I don’t actually ow
  
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• This is how we do it: ‘Being with him again is bliss. I’ve not had an orgasm during sex since we broke up in 1982’

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nick and Lily were lovers in their 20s and reconnected 40 years later. But should they walk away from their marriages?• How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyFor the past two years we’ve been meeting up once a month, but I want more Continue reading...
  
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• Sally Phillips and her family look back: ‘I wanted to be the kind of actress who plays Juliet at the RSC, but it turns out people don’t take me seriously’

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The comic, her brother and her mum and dad on a nomadic childhood, not doing a PhD in spaghetti westerns, and taking the plunge as an actorBorn in Hong Kong in 1970, Sally Phillips is a comedian, writer and actor. After graduating with a first-class degree in Italian and linguistics at Oxford University, she began working as an actor. In 1997 she was cast in I’m Alan Partridge, and two years later she co-wrote and starred in sketch comedy Smack the Pony, followed by roles in
  
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• Roast chicken and citrus salad: Caroline Eden’s walnut recipes

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Enjoy a new way of cooking with abundant herbs and nuts, as they do in the South Caucasus, with chicken in a white wine and walnut sauce, and a citrus and walnut saladThe South Caucasus is a region that has taught me just how much can be done with herbs and nuts. Intensely fresh and fragrant, herbs are used liberally in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and never as an afterthought or as mere garnish. In fact, entire bunches of basil, coriander and tarragon will often accompany grilled and roast
  
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• More than 400 anti-Trump rallies planned in another wave of US protests

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Organizers have called for 11 million people across country to participate this weekend in effort to ‘protect democracy’The US will witness its second wave of protests in a fortnight on Saturday as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.More than 400 rallies are anticipated across the nation loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states,
  
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• An Israeli bomb took a teen’s arm in Gaza. She’s healing with a family in Philadelphia

  19-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tasneem Sharif Abbas, 16, flew with her sister to the US, where doctors awaited and volunteers cheered their arrivalDozens of people across the world were in non-stop communication for several months to arrange the arrival of Tasneem Sharif Abbas to the US. Abbas’s entire life changed when a bomb dropped on her family’s home in Gaza on 31 October 2023. A piece of metal severed her arm and she blacked out as rubble fell on her. Soon after, her arm was amputated at a local Gaza hospita
  
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• Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

  19-04-2025 12:55 via theguardian.com
  
  The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or sinceHe never crossed the Atlantic. Never sailed the Aegean. A cross-channel ferry was enough for Joseph Mallord William Turner to understand the might and majesty of the sea. His 1803 painting Calais Pier records his feelings on his first arrival in France as foaming green mountains of wav
  
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• Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time

  19-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Peer-reviewed study’s findings raises fresh question on the toxic substances’impact on fertilityMicroplastics have been found for the first time in human ovary follicular fluid, raising a new round of questions about the ubiquitous and toxic substances’ potential impact on women’s fertility.The new peer-reviewed research published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety checked for microplastics in the follicular fluid of 18 women undergoing assisted reproductive treatm
  
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• ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

  19-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’“I have had relationships with humans, but I’ve also loved a lot of people in stories,” Sayaka Murata, the Japanese author of the bestseller Convenience Store Woman, confides a few minutes into our interview. “I’ve been told by my doctor not to talk about this
  
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• ‘I’d named my autistic son in my will – I didn’t realise that would only cause problems’

  19-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In this extract from her book, Rhiannon Gogh says parents often aren’t aware specialist planning is needed if you leave money to a vulnerable dependantAs parents to an autistic son, my husband and I found it hard to accept his diagnosis. Developmental milestones were missed, and the difference between Tristan and others became stark. It could not be ignored, denied or explained away – our beautiful son was profoundly autistic.Tristan was offered a place at a school for children
  
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• ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

  19-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door …Early on the morning of 3 August 1944, a unit of heavily armed German soldiers arrived at the Villa Il Focardo outside Florence.They didn’t knock. They didn’t ring the bell. They simply smashed through the front door, marched in and started shouting for the villa’s own
  
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