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• Senedd election could be seismic, expert says

  06-05-2025 23:57 via bbc.com
  
  Labour has dominated Welsh politics for more than a century. Next year, could that come to an end?
  
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• Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live

  06-05-2025 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Pakistani PM calls India’s attack ‘cowardly’ Pakistan vows to retaliate after wave of Indian missiles hits countryUS president Donald Trump was just asked about the Indian missile strikes into Pakistani-controlled territory.“It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters. “We just heard about it.”In Ahmedpur East, we have information about the martyrdom of a child and 12 people injured … Two civilians were martyred in Kotli.We know that a mosque was st
  
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• Inter 4-3 Barcelona (aet, 7-6 on agg): Champions League semi-final – live reaction

  06-05-2025 23:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Italians will face PSG or Arsenal in Munich finalRead today’s Football Daily | And you can also mail Scott20 secs: Inter started quickly in Barcelona; Barca nearly return the favour here. Torres is found in space in the Inter box down the right, but the flag pops up for offside before he can roll a pass across for Raphinha to tap home.Inter get the ball rolling. Another 3-3 draw, please! We’ll have extra time and possibly penalties if so. Continue reading...
  
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• Friedrich Merz warns the US to ‘stay out’ of Germany’s politics

  06-05-2025 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Germany’s new chancellor cautions after far-right AfD receive strong backing from Donald Trump alliesGermany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned the US to “stay out” of his country’s politics after the far-right AfD received strong backing from allies of the US president, Donald Trump.Merz, 69, a conservative who was elected as chancellor of Europe’s biggest economy earlier in the day, also said he planned to speak by phone with Trump on Thursday. Conti
  
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• Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you - theregister.com

  06-05-2025 23:39 via news.google.com
  Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you  theregister.comUse AI to understand complex text online with Simplify, now on the Google app for iOS.  Google BlogMaking complex text understandable: Minimally-lossy text simplification with Gemini  Google ResearchGoogle’s iOS app will use AI to simplify jargon  The VergeYou can use the Google app to decode any eye-watering jargon you read on your iPhone – here&
  
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• UK parole hearing for notorious prisoner Charles Bronson to be held in private

  06-05-2025 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Bronson’s last parole hearing, in 2023, was one of the first to be held in public, but the board did not grant his latest applicationThe parole hearing for Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s longest serving and most notorious prisoners, will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided.The decision comes after the 72-year-old – who later changed his name to Charles Salvador – took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings in 2023. Con
  
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• Inter v Barcelona: Champions League semi-final goes to extra time – live

  06-05-2025 23:35 via theguardian.com
  Game poised at 6-6 on aggregate after two 3-3 drawsRead today’s Football Daily | And you can also mail Scott20 secs: Inter started quickly in Barcelona; Barca nearly return the favour here. Torres is found in space in the Inter box down the right, but the flag pops up for offside before he can roll a pass across for Raphinha to tap home.Inter get the ball rolling. Another 3-3 draw, please! We’ll have extra time and possibly penalties if so. Continue reading...
  
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• India strikes nine sites in Pakistan weeks after Kashmir militant attack – live

  06-05-2025 23:32 via theguardian.com
  
  India confirms ‘precision strike’; Pakistan vows response to ‘heinous provocation’US president Donald Trump was just asked about the Indian missile strikes into Pakistani-controlled territory.“It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters. “We just heard about it.”In Ahmedpur East, we have information about the martyrdom of a child and 12 people injured … Two civilians were martyred in Kotli.We know that a mosque was struck [in Ahmedpur]; ordina
  
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• UK and India agree ‘landmark’ trade deal after three years of negotiations

  06-05-2025 23:26 via theguardian.com
  Deal could help UK industries hit by Trump tariffs, as ministers say it will add £4.8bn a year to economy by 2040 Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would cut tariffs and add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040.The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has long been touted as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit. Continue reading...
  
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• Carney touts ‘constructive discussions’ with Trump and reiterates Canada ‘is not for sale’ – live

  06-05-2025 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Carney says he asked Trump to stop calling Canada the 51st state but does not reveal how US president responded to that requestTrump and Carney meet amid trade and sovereignty disputesFive takeaways from Carney-Trump meetingA group of US senators wants Congress’ watchdog agency to investigate whether controls on humanitarian aid deliveries by Israel and other foreign governments violate US law, according to a letter seen by Reuters.The six senators – Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin, Je
  
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• Flavio Briatore takes on Alpine F1 team principal duties after Oliver Oakes exit

  06-05-2025 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Briatore to return 17 years after Crashgate scandalDriver Doohan expected to be replaced by ColapintoThe Alpine team principal, Oliver Oakes, has resigned from the team with Flavio Briatore, the Italian who was once given a lifetime ban from Formula One, set to step up to assume team principal duties.Oakes was appointed only nine months ago and the 37-year-old’s resignation, which a statement from Alpine read they had accepted with “immediate effect”, comes with the team expect
  
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• Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

  06-05-2025 23:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.The declaration on Tuesday by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, came
  
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• No 10 ‘completely tone deaf’ on harm caused by winter fuel cut, critics say

  06-05-2025 23:14 via theguardian.com
  Polling finds two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy and would not see it as a sign of weakness Downing Street has been accused of being “completely tone deaf” over the damage wreaked by winter fuel cuts as new polling suggested two-thirds of voters would back a rethink on the policy.Senior Labour ministers have privately warned the policy is an electoral disaster while Eluned Morgan, the Welsh first minister, said she was “losing patience” with UK Labour
  
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• UK and India agree trade deal after three years of talks

  06-05-2025 23:11 via bbc.com
  
  The deal will improve access for UK whisky and cars to the Indian market, and cut taxes on India's clothing and footwear exports.
  
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• Emotional Regulation Offers a New Path to Relief - Neuroscience News

  06-05-2025 22:51 via news.google.com
  Emotional Regulation Offers a New Path to Relief  Neuroscience NewsChronic pain sent Jabez into a spiral of despair. Behaviour therapy brought her back  The GuardianChronic pain could be eased by learning to regulate negative emotions  New ScientistBrain retraining therapy offers new hope for chronic pain sufferers  New AtlasTherapy Targeted at Controlling Emotions Could Help Ease Chronic Physical Pain  Discover Magazine
  
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• India trade deal could undercut UK workers, opposition parties say

  06-05-2025 22:40 via bbc.com
  
  The trade deal gives a tax break to Indian professionals, which critics say undercuts UK businesses.
  
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• Call the Midwife film and prequel series announced

  06-05-2025 22:29 via bbc.com
  
  The new film and prequel series come as filming for the fifteenth series of the drama begins.
  
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• Attenborough at 99 delivers 'greatest message he's ever told'

  06-05-2025 22:13 via bbc.com
  
  Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.
  
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• Customer stabbed to death in city centre bank

  06-05-2025 22:09 via bbc.com
  
  A section of the road between St Peter's Church and the HSBC branch in Derby remains taped off.
  
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• Sudan to cut ties with United Arab Emirates over alleged RSF support

  06-05-2025 22:02 via theguardian.com
  UAE insists it does not provide arms to paramilitary group as Sudanese ambassador recalledSudan’s security and defence council has declared that it will break diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates over its alleged backing of the paramilitary Sudanese Rapid Support Forces.During a televised speech on Tuesday, Sudan’s defence minister, Yassin Ibrahim, said Sudan was “severing diplomatic relations with the UAE” and recalling its ambassador, claiming the Gulf nat
  
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• The Trump administration is defending abortion pill access in court. What?

  06-05-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It may seem a victory to some, but experts worry a win will allow the government to be coy about future attacksThe Trump administration on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that takes aim at the abortion pill mifepristone – a move that stunned many observers for what seemed a defense of the drug by a president who has overseen the most dramatic rollback of abortion rights in modern US history.At first blush, it may seem a victory for abortion access – but experts worr
  
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• US supreme court allows Trump trans military ban to take effect

  06-05-2025 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Justices rule ban can be enforced while challenge plays out in court, a decision that could lead to thousands dischargedThe Trump administration can begin to enforce a ban on transgender troops serving in the military while a challenge to the policy plays out in the courts, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday, a significant decision that could lead to the discharge of thousands of military members.The court’s order was unsigned and gave no explanation for its reasoning, which is typical of
  
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• Bank customer stabbed to death inside Lloyds Bank branch in Derby

  06-05-2025 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Man in his 30s, attacked in St Peter’s Street, Derby, at about 2.35pm on Tuesday, police saidA customer has been stabbed to death in a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby, police have said.The man, in his 30s, was attacked inside the bank on St Peter’s Street at about 2.35pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Man arrested after crashing car into front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s home

  06-05-2025 20:54 via theguardian.com
  
  The Friends actor was at her Los Angeles residence when the man was arrested and taken into custodyA man was arrested after crashing a car into the front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s home in Los Angeles, California, authorities said on Tuesday.Police told KABC-TV that the Friends star was home at the time of the crash. Continue reading...
  
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• Prisons minister vows to end ‘toxic’ cover-up culture in England and Wales

  06-05-2025 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  James Timpson says he will fight ‘normalised’ sexual harassment, bullying and racism within prison service Sexual harassment, racism and bullying have become “normalised” in jails and probation offices across England and Wales, the prisons minister has warned, as he announced a plan to overhaul a “toxic culture of cover-up” among senior staff.James Timpson said one in eight of HM Prison and Probation Service’s (HMPPS) 65,000 staff say they have been bull
  
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• ‘No fear’: Rice rejects Rooney criticism and sets sights on Arsenal comeback

  06-05-2025 20:47 via theguardian.com
  Pundit said Arsenal have ‘psychological fear’ of trophiesThomas Partey to play in deeper midfield role in ParisDeclan Rice has rejected Wayne Rooney’s claim that Arsenal have a “psychological fear” of winning trophies and insisted they are capable of overturning a one-goal deficit against Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League final.Mikel Arteta’s side were criticised by the former England forward after losing the first leg 1-0 at the Emirates Stadi
  
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• Transgender people’s lives at risk of being made ‘unliveable’, says Nicola Sturgeon

  06-05-2025 20:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Scottish first minister expresses concern about interim advice from EHRCUK politics live – latest updatesThe lives of transgender people in the UK are at risk of being made “unliveable”, Nicola Sturgeon has said in her first public comments about the supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, which was prompted by legislation she oversaw in the Scottish parliament.The UK supreme court ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equ
  
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• Reform accused of hypocrisy after advertising home working jobs

  06-05-2025 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Several paid roles at party are not in office despite Nigel Farage’s comments promising ‘no more work from home’ Reform UK has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged the party is advertising several jobs offering home working despite promising a clampdown on the policy.The party’s leader, Nigel Farage, told reporters he hoped to emulate Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge), which has attempted to slash federal spending in the US,
  
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• Student visa crackdown will make funding crisis worse, says Universities UK

  06-05-2025 20:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Vivienne Stern says universities face ‘critical moment’ amid reports students from abroad could be targeted for restrictionsNew proposals to crack down on student visa applications in order to reduce asylum claims will make the financial crisis facing beleaguered UK universities “considerably worse”, the government has been told.Ahead of the publication of an immigration white paper, there have been reports that student visa applications from nationalities considered like
  
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• US agrees ceasefire with Houthis in Yemen after dozens killed in airstrikes

  06-05-2025 20:34 via theguardian.com
  The Houthis have agreed to stop targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, but said attacks against Israel will continueThe US will halt its bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthis after the Iran-aligned group agreed to stop targeting shipping in the Red Sea.The halt – announced by the US president, Donald Trump, during an Oval Office meeting with Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, came on a day in which Israel claimed its jets had fully disabled Yemen’s main airpo
  
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• Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in public drinking water

  06-05-2025 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Republican governor Spencer Cox signs law despite pleas of health experts, who warn that children will be most hurtUtah on Wednesday will become the first state in the US to ban fluoride in public drinking water. Dentists who treat children and low-income patients say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed the law against the recommendation of many dentists and national health exper
  
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• John Lewis’s chair Jason Tarry to earn more than £1.3m this year

  06-05-2025 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-Tesco executive, who joined the group last year, earned £415,000 in his first four and a half months in the jobJohn Lewis’s chair, Jason Tarry, is to be paid more than £1.3m this year – about a fifth more than his predecessor, Sharon White – as he takes a more hands-on role.The former Tesco executive, who joined the group that owns Waitrose and a fleet of department stores in September last year, earned £415,000 in his first four and a half months in the jo
  
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• Swinney vows action on GP appointment 'lottery'

  06-05-2025 20:19 via bbc.com
  
  Scotland's first minister says the NHS will be at the heart of his government's plans for the coming year.
  
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• How Trump’s walkaway diplomacy enabled Israel’s worst impulses

  06-05-2025 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  The common perception is that Trump has largely moved on, leaving an emboldened Netanyahu to his own devicesThe Israeli plan to occupy and depopulate Gaza may not be identical to Donald Trump’s vision of a new riviera, but his inspiration and the US’s walkaway diplomacy have ushered Benjamin Netanyahu to the precipice of a dire new chapter in the Israel-Gaza war.The common perception in both Washington and Israel is that Trump has largely moved on, leaving an emboldened Netanyahu to
  
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• Front row? Dublin orders tourists to leave statue’s cleavage alone

  06-05-2025 20:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Touching breasts of city’s Molly Malone statue is supposed to bring luck, but not everyone is happy with traditionEach time a tourist sidled up to the statue and reached for the most famous cleavage in Dublin, a voice called out: “No touching please.”Two city council stewards stood vigil over the landmark on Tuesday to notify would-be gropers that Molly Malone was to be left alone. After years of supposedly bringing good luck to whomever touched the breasts, they were now off-l
  
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• Rwandan talks with US over deported migrants are chance to expand its influence

  06-05-2025 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  African country looks to position itself as a useful option for countries’ anti-migration policiesUS politics live – latest updatesTalks between Rwanda and the US to host deported migrants are the latest move by the African country to position itself as a useful option for the anti-migration policies of allied governments.Previous high-profile attempts, however, including with the UK, Israel and Denmark, failed after becoming beset by controversy. Continue reading...
  
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• Kristi Noem says travelers without Real ID will still be able to fly after deadline

  06-05-2025 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Homeland security chief says people without new ID ‘may be diverted to a different line, have an extra step’Kristi Noem, the head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said on Tuesday that travelers without a REAL ID will still be able to fly when the updated identity system comes into effect on 7 May, but they may face extra scrutiny at transportation security agency (TSA) checkpoints.Noem told lawmakers that 81% of travelers already have IDs that comply with the REAL ID
  
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• Elon Musk reveals scary reason Mars is ‘life insurance for humanity’ - Metro.co.uk

  06-05-2025 19:59 via news.google.com
  Elon Musk reveals scary reason Mars is ‘life insurance for humanity’  Metro.co.ukMusk unveils ‘life insurance’ plan for self-sustaining city on Mars  The IndependentElon Musk shares vision of Mars as 'life insurance' for humanity: 'Multi-planet civilization'  Fox News'Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his drive to colonize Mars  SpaceElon Musk leaves Fox News host stunned as he reveals t
  
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• The Guardian view on Germany’s political uncertainty: Merz must recover from this rocky start | Editorial

  06-05-2025 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  The initial failure of coalition members to back the new chancellor in sufficient numbers was a bad beginning at a treacherous moment for the nationThe election of Friedrich Merz as chancellor by German legislators on Tuesday morning was meant to end months of political instability, since the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government half a year ago – itself the result of bitter infighting at the top. Many fear that this could be the last chance to keep out the far-right Alternative
  
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• The Guardian view on Labour’s drift and Tory collapse: Reform fills a vacuum they created | Editorial

  06-05-2025 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Faragism’s rise isn’t a surge of enthusiasm – it’s a symptom of exhaustion with two parties failing to offer vision, justice or renewalSir Keir Starmer promised change – and, in a way, he has delivered it. Gone are the days of bold, expansive pledges; in their place are cautious, measurable goals: 6,500 new teachers, 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week. Yet voters, oddly ungrateful, remain unmoved. Perhaps it is because these modest gains barely scratch the su
  
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• BBC admits lapse in standards around coverage of Prince Harry interview

  06-05-2025 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Radio 4’s Today programme did not include responses from Home Office and Buckingham Palace to ‘stitch-up’ claimsThe BBC has admitted to “a lapse in our usual high editorial standards” over its coverage on Radio 4’s Today programme of the broadcaster’s recent interview with the Duke of Sussex.The admission came after it failed to include responses from the Home Office and Buckingham Palace to allegations made by the duke. Continue reading...
  
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• Papal in-tray: new pontiff will have to hit ground running on many urgent issues

  06-05-2025 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  From conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, to migration, the climate crisis and schisms in the church, the honeymoon period will be short In the coming days, the Roman Catholic church will have a new leader, cheered by the faithful in St Peter’s Square. Once the prayers are over and the crowds have dispersed, what issues must the new pope grapple with? Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s just a tree’: Sycamore Gap accused couldn’t understand media interest, court hears

  06-05-2025 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Adam Carruthers, 32, and Daniel Graham, 39, deny felling tree and damaging Hadrian’s Wall in 2023A man who denies felling the Sycamore Gap tree has said his interest in the story was because he could not understand why it was making so many headlines, “almost as if someone had been murdered”.Adam Carruthers, 32, told a jury: “It was just a tree.” Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’ve been burnt a few times’: Emma Raducanu on betrayal and A-levels

  06-05-2025 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The British tennis star is seeking stability with familiar faces after her world was transformed by US Open success“I am very independent and I think now I’m actually just listening to myself and my intuition more,” says Emma Raducanu, smiling, from one of the few quiet corners of the vast, handsome Foro Italico complex in Rome. “For so long, I’ve had other opinions, I’ve tried to justify my gut feeling because my brain is very logical [and] I didn’t fee
  
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• Shell doesn’t need to bid for BP

  06-05-2025 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The opportunity to build a European mega-cap firm is tempting, but it’s hard to beat the appeal of share buy-backsThe stars never aligned for a grand merger of BP and Shell over the decades, despite the deal being touted regularly as inevitable at some point. How about now?BP has been torturing itself, its shareholders and the outside world with its on-off green transition plans and its ponderous strategic “re-sets”. Not even a hard kick from the activist boot of Elliott Manage
  
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• Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’

  06-05-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
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  The former Take That singer’s show features line drawings filled with therapy speak, greeting-card banter and meaningless affirmations. Can this really be presented as art?For a while there, Robbie Williams was pretty damn insistent that he would just rock all night, DJ. But artistic geniuses cannot live on rock alone, and the former boyband superstar has been looking for other ways to satisfy his pangs of creative hunger. And judging by the awkward, anxious paintings and scul
  
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• Denmark’s museum objects at risk from ‘extreme’ new mould, say conservators

  06-05-2025 18:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The ‘epidemic for Golden Age paintings’ may already be a global problem, with the fungi a possible health hazardA new type of “extreme” mould is sweeping through Denmark’s museums, threatening some of the nation’s most important paintings and cultural objects, conservators have warned.Described as an “epidemic for Golden Age paintings”, the highly resistant mould covers objects in a white coating and has been detected in 12 of the country’s m
  
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• Rebekah Vardy told to pay £1.4m of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs

  06-05-2025 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Long-running legal battle comes to end as judge highlights ‘extraordinary expenditure of costs’ incurred by both sidesA judge has criticised Rebekah Vardy over a torturous finale to the high-profile “Wagatha Christie” libel battle against Coleen Rooney, as he ruled she must pay Rooney at least £1.4m in legal costs.Costs judge Mark Whalan said that Vardy’s negotiations on the final settlement were “the definition of bad litigation”. Continue reading
  
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• Investigations ongoing over alleged terror plot, says minister

  06-05-2025 18:40 via bbc.com
  
  A Home Office minister says the arrests on Saturday were among the biggest counter-terror operations in recent years.
  
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• Ukrainian drones target Moscow for second night as foreign leaders arrive

  06-05-2025 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Russia says its defences shot down two drones en route to capital, where preparations are under way for Victory Day paradeUkrainian drones targeted Moscow on Tuesday as the first foreign leaders landed in the capital ahead of a major military parade marking the end of the second world war.Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said Russian air defences shot down two drones en route to the capital on Tuesday evening. Continue reading...
  
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