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• No Christmas gifts yet? Don’t panic – here’s your festive survival guide

  22-12-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Skip the Christmas scramble with our last-minute decor and gifting hacks; Jo Malone spills her shopping secrets; and the best tequila for festive tipples with a twist• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereTen years ago and newly married, I was invited to spend Christmas with my husband’s extended family. “We’re not doing gifts this year, there are too many of us,” my husband told me in early December when I queried who to buy for.So, I show
  
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• ‘I want that escape route’: once a sign of disloyalty, Americans seek dual citizenships under Trump

  22-12-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Some US citizens, grappling with issues from LGBTQ+ rights to the economy, are looking to the countries their families once left behindDaniel Kamalić was born and raised in New York City, where he spent his summers riding his bike around Brighton Beach before pedaling home to his “Brooklyn Jewish” mother and his “smooth talker” father. He went out for Cub Scouts and soccer before realizing, during his time studying at MIT, that he loved sailing most of all. Now 48, h
  
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• Mali 1-1 Zambia: Africa Cup of Nations – live reaction

  22-12-2025 16:59 via theguardian.com
  ⚽ Sinayoko fires Mali to winning start against Zambia at Africa Cup of Nations
  ⚽ Scores | Follow us on Bluesky | Email WillShe’s offered £36k under asking price. Surely she has no chance.We are the business end of A Place in the Sun on 4Seven before the football starts. Will they make an offer on a property? The tension is palpable!. Continue reading...
  
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• More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live

  22-12-2025 16:52 via theguardian.com
  YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a moveWes Streeting, the health secretary, used an interview with the Observer published at the weekend to suggest that he favours joining a customs union with the EU. This is something that Keir Starmer has ruled out.But Labour supporters back Streeting on this. According to YouGov polling for the Times, 80% of people who voted Labour at the last general election say a future leader should open negotiations on joini
  
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• Manchester music and football stars gather for funeral of Stone Roses’ Mani

  22-12-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  Liam Gallagher, Paul Weller, David Beckham and former bandmates among the mourners at Manchester cathedralThe Stone Roses singer, Ian Brown, has remembered his bandmate Gary “Mani” Mounfield as a “true musical comrade” and “always a beautiful soul and spirit” as hundreds gathered for the charismatic bassist’s funeral.Paul Weller, Liam Gallagher, Peter Hook, Tim Burgess, Bez, David Beckham and Gary Neville were among the mourners at the service at Manches
  
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• Fatberg weighing 100 tonnes discovered in east London sewer

  22-12-2025 16:33 via theguardian.com
  Mass of congealed fat, oil and grease 100 metres in length found blocking sewers in Whitechapel area of capitalA “fatberg” weighing an estimated 100 tonnes has been discovered blocking sewers in east London, officials have said.The mass of congealed fats, oils and grease measures about 100 metres long (328ft) and weighs about a third more than the heaviest of the British army’s battle tanks. It has been called the grandchild of the 2017 Whitechapel fatberg, which weighed 130 to
  
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• UK drivers being overcharged as fuel prices fail to track oil market, watchdog finds

  22-12-2025 16:28 via theguardian.com
  CMA rejects retailers’ claims on operating costs, saying weak competition is not passing on lower wholesale pricesDrivers hitting the roads over the Christmas holidays are being overcharged for petrol and diesel, the UK’s consumer watchdog has said, dismissing forecourt operators’ excuse for charging more at the pump.Fuel retailers have said they are unable to lower pump prices to keep pace with falling global oil markets because they need to make up for higher non-fuel “
  
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• Milan agree loan deal for Niclas Füllkrug as West Ham look to sign new striker

  22-12-2025 16:12 via theguardian.com
  Milan have option to buy German at end of seasonWest Ham interested in Wolves’s Jørgen Strand LarsenMilan have agreed to sign West Ham’s Niclas Füllkrug on loan with an option to buy at the end of the season. The Germany striker has toiled since moving to the London Stadium from Borussia Dortmund for £27.5m in the summer of 2024 and it is hoped that his exit will free up funds for Nuno Espírito Santo to boost his side’s fight against relegation by bring
  
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• Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

  22-12-2025 16:02 via theguardian.com
  Middlesbrough-born musician had hits with Driving Home for Christmas, On the Beach and The Road to Hell Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter whose hits included Driving Home For Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family said.The statement said that he died “peacefully in hospital … following a short illness”. Continue reading...
  
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• The best outfits to wear on New Year’s Eve – whatever your plans

  22-12-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  From pub chic to sofa-ready, we’ve got looks for every kind of NYE celebration, including the New Year’s Day walk• The best party dressesWhether you’re curled up at home watching Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, braving the cold to catch a fireworks display or escaping to the countryside with your nearest and dearest, New Year’s Eve offers the perfect excuse to get dressed up.No matter your plans, there are simple ways to add sartorial sparkle to your night,
  
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• Chance of ‘odd wintry flurry’ of snow in UK for a white Christmas – Met Office

  22-12-2025 15:54 via theguardian.com
  South coast most likely to see snowflakes, though a full festive blanketing has been unlikely for decades now While ongoing showers might suggest this Christmas will be a washout, experts say a wintry snap is on its way and some areas of the UK might even have a white Christmas.According to the Met Office, high pressure is building – meaning that, while some areas may experience showers, many will have drier and more settled weather. Continue reading...
  
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• How to navigate difficult conversations on immigration at the dinner table – video

  22-12-2025 15:53 via theguardian.com
  Christmas dinner with family can sometimes feel tense, especially when topics like immigration or politics come up. While it’s tempting to shut down a difficult conversation or lead with facts alone, this can often lead to further resentment and division. We spoke to Who Is Your Neighbour?, a charity with fifteen years of experience in facilitating non-judgmental conversations. They suggest that meeting people with empathy and asking curious questions can be more effective than simply
  
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• You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

  22-12-2025 15:16 via theguardian.com
  Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has said repeatedly should be under US control.“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law … You cann
  
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• Larry Ellison provides personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

  22-12-2025 15:11 via theguardian.com
  WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Warner Bros Discovery, amid an extraordinary corporate battle over the entertainment giant.WBD urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount – which is controll
  
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• Yet again, released Epstein files raise more questions than answers | Moira Donegan

  22-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The documents are disturbing. But they seem largely to reflect information that has already been made publicAfter months of public outcry and pressure from within the Maga coalition, Donald Trump’s justice department released what it called The Epstein Files, with the Trump world’s typical fanfare. A media frenzy ensued. But the “files” that were released by Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice left many observers frustrated and confused. The release was partial and he
  
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• Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

  22-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientific importance, researchers say.The number of satellites circling the moon is set to soar in the next two decades as space agencies and private companies build moon bases and dabble with mining operati
  
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• David Walliams dropped from Waterstones festival

  22-12-2025 14:56 via theguardian.com
  The bookshop chain said the bestselling author will ‘no longer be appearing’ at a Dundee event after HarperCollins announced it won’t publish new titles by him following allegations of inappropriate behaviourDavid Walliams has been dropped from the Waterstones Children’s book festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The decision comes days after his publisher, HarperCollins, cut ties with the author. Walliams has denied the allegations.Walliams was set t
  
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• China hits EU dairy industry with tariffs of up to 42.7%

  22-12-2025 14:49 via theguardian.com
  Move made after first phase of anti-subsidy investigation widely seen as retaliation for bloc’sEV tariffsChina will impose provisional duties of up to 42.7% on certain dairy products imported from the EU from Tuesday after concluding the first phase of an anti-subsidy investigation widely seen as retaliation for the bloc’s electric vehicle tariffs.The tariffs will range from 21.9% to 42.7% – although most companies will pay about 30% – and target products such as milk and
  
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• Festive cars in South Africa and a youth protest in Nepal: photos of the day – Monday

  22-12-2025 14:43 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeal

  22-12-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims face strikeoutAppeal over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have both been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The
  
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• ‘As perfect as it can get’: pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis on his stellar 2025

  22-12-2025 14:28 via theguardian.com
  The world record holder on his remarkable year, that viral kiss and why he’s serious about music Plenty of sports stars strive for perfection. In 2025, Mondo Duplantis achieved it. He broke the pole vault world record four times. Retained his world indoor and outdoor titles. Won all 16 competitions that he entered. Was voted World Athletics’ male athlete of the year. And, for good measure, was named the BBC’s overseas personality of the year too.“There’s not necessa
  
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• Hugh Cutting/ Refound review – countertenor’s darkly compelling recital is an imaginative treat

  22-12-2025 14:13 via theguardian.com
  Wigmore Hall, London
  Cutting’s programme of songs and music were all connected to the theme of night, in an evening that felt more cabaret than concertHugh Cutting is still sometimes described as a rising countertenor. That should surely now be unconditional. Cutting has risen, almost to the top, and 2025 has been a stellar year. This enthusiastically performed and received recital, a world away from the general run of pre-Christmas concerts or countertenor recitals, and accompanied by the
  
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• Britons reported to be drinking less, as data shows consumption at record low

  22-12-2025 14:10 via theguardian.com
  More moderate alcohol habits rather than total abstention appear to have driven fallPeople in Britain are drinking less alcohol than in previous years, according to reports.The average UK adult consumed 10.2 alcoholic drinks a week last year, the lowest figure since data collection began in 1990 and a decline of more than a quarter from the peak of 14 two decades ago, according to figures published in the FT from research company IWSR. Continue reading...
  
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• Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes

  22-12-2025 14:06 via theguardian.com
  Mayor of La Bañeza says winning El Gordo Christmas lottery ‘is something that has fallen from the heavens’When the village of La Bañeza in Castilla y León was engulfed in one of the worst forest fires in Spanish history, the rain came too late to save it.But now the Christmas lottery has showered its 10,000 inhabitants with hundreds of millions of euros. Continue reading...
  
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• Avatar Fire and Ash: harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s threequel – discuss with spoilers

  22-12-2025 14:05 via theguardian.com
  Crucial tonal shifts mean the film asks harder questions than the series ever has before. Share your thoughts in the comments below
  • This article contains spoilers for Avatar: Fire and AshFor more than a decade now, James Cameron’s Avatar films have been built on the reassuring idea that the universe is alive, connected and spiritually pure. Part of the pleasure of making it to the end credits of one of them is the comforting feeling that we are nothing like all those evil humans who
  
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• Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard

  22-12-2025 14:03 via theguardian.com
  Research shows 97% of band’s streaming revenue comes from 1973 single I Wish It Could Be Christmas EverydayIf you listen closely to the start of Wizzard’s yuletide standard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, you’ll hear the kerching of a cash register.The sound might have been “a winning speck of cynicism in the tinselly facade” of 70s consumerism, according to the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis, but five decades on it has proved prophetic – the song acc
  
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• Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride

  22-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two yearsThe UK’s biggest businesses are rolling back their public support for Pride celebrations, Guardian analysis suggests, prompting warnings that “clear signals” are needed in the face of growing global LGBTQ+ hostility.Analysis of social media posts by the country’s biggest companies found mentions of Pride had plummeted by 92% since 2023, m
  
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• My big night out: I was hungover and locked in an apartment. The only escape? A high, narrow window ledge

  22-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  It was 1995, and I had spent the evening carousing and drinking neat vodka. Now I was trapped in a friend’s flat in Paris, with no phone – and he had flown to New YorkWinter 1995: I wake to the sound of a vacuum cleaner repeatedly striking the door near my head. I’m in a small bed in a tiny room. Wherever I am, I’m hungover.I remember: I’m in Paris, after a big night out. Just the one night – I’d arrived on the Eurostar the previous afternoon with a frie
  
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• Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera

  22-12-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  While the country’s capital is loosening regulations, the Catalan city is strengthening social housing. Their outcomes will affect all our futuresIn Spain, two cities face the same crisis, but are responding in fundamentally different ways. Over the past decade, the cost of housing in Madrid and Barcelona has soared – with rents rising by about 60% and sale prices by 90% – leaving young people, working families and retired people struggling to stay in their homes or even find o
  
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• Ten people rescued after boats pulled into sinkhole in Shropshire canal

  22-12-2025 13:49 via theguardian.com
  Major incident declared as 50-metre-long breach opens up and discharges water on to surrounding landTen people have been helped to safety after a sinkhole opened up in a Shropshire canal, pulling in boats and discharging large volumes of water on to surrounding land.Emergency services declared a major incident after the 50-metre-long sinkhole breached the canal in the West Midlands, leaving boats teetering on the edge of a steep drop or stuck at the bottom of the cavity. Continue reading...
  
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• No more kitchen martyrs – a guide to sharing the load at Christmas

  22-12-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  From peeling sprouts to pouring drinks, there’s an art to being genuinely useful during festive cooking• Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast“Anything I can do to help?” If ever a line was guaranteed to incense the person in charge of cooking for a crowd, it is this one: uttered in seeming innocence by a guest roused by the sound of clattering pans, and who wants to seem polite but in reality hopes the answer is: “No, thank you.” This was drilled
  
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• Chinese robotaxis due in London next year as Lyft and Uber reveal tie-ups

  22-12-2025 13:20 via theguardian.com
  Firms agree deals with Beijing-based Baidu to take self-driving cabs to UK capitalChinese robotaxis are due to be on the streets of London next year after the US ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber announced tie-ups with Beijing-based Baidu to deploy its self-driving technology.Lyft is the third firm to announce plans to introduce self-driving taxis to the UK capital next year, after Uber and Waymo, the main operator of robotaxis in the US. Continue reading...
  
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• Villarreal tried everything against Barcelona – except moving the game to Miami | Sid Lowe

  22-12-2025 13:17 via theguardian.com
  In a match mercifully on Spanish soil, Villarreal bombarded Barça but were undone by profligacy and ill-disciplineMarcelino García Toral came bounding down the steps like an excited schoolboy when the bell goes. He flew past the substitutes and staff, skidded left, and sprinted up the line all wide-eyed and excited, shaking his fists and beaming. He had gone 15 or 20 metres, maybe 25 when he realised – just a fraction later than everyone else – that something had gone w
  
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• Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate

  22-12-2025 13:05 via theguardian.com
  Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditionsYangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager.When the pair, who are researchers at Nottingham Trent University, set out to study how environmental conditions in churches had changed over time, Knight explained that all over the country many organs had notebooks full of data tucked away in their
  
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• Doctor Zhivago at 60: David Lean’s sweeping romantic relic endures

  22-12-2025 13:03 via theguardian.com
  Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s once dangerous novelThere’s no more perfect illustration of the cinematic crossroads of the mid-1960s than the year Julie Christie had in 1965. First, she starred as an amoral model in John Schlesinger’s Darling, a snapshot of Swinging London that reflected the trendy, flashy, forward-thinking culture that had seduced young adults. Then she starred as an elusive Russian beauty i
  
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• UK consumers saving less as taxes squeeze incomes, data shows

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  ONS finds households’ savings ratio has dropped to lowest rate for more than a year across third quarterUK consumers saved less money during the third quarter of the year as higher taxes squeezed disposable incomes.The households’ saving ratio – which estimates the percentage of disposable income Britons save rather than spend – dropped 0.7 percentage points to 9.5%, the Office for National Statistics said. That is the lowest rate for more than a year. Continue reading...
  
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• The best design and architecture of 2025

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  This year’s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist ‘corncob’ tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle• The best art and photography of 2025
  • More on the best culture of 2025In a case of contents outshining the container, the V&A’s national museum of everything takes the public up close and personal to a gallimaufry of precious things, from porcelain to poison darts, textiles to tiaras. Elegantly s
  
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• The best art and photography of 2025

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year
  • The best design and architecture of 2025
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• My weirdest Christmas: my family had a picture-perfect celebration – but the presents left me distraught

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  I grew up in a Muslim family in Dubai, but became obsessed with the Hallmark vision of Christmas, and with Macaulay Culkin. The reality was a disappointment only Home Alone could assuageWhen I was eight years old, I was living in Dubai and desperate to experience a western Christmas. My family are Muslim, and Christmas was something we’d never celebrated – but after consuming countless festive Hallmark movies, I was hooked on the dream of having turkey, tinsel and, most importantly,
  
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• John Updike’s best books – Ranked!

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Following the publication of the novelist’s letters, we count down the best of his books, from the dark magic of The Witches of Eastwick to the misadventures of Rabbit AngstromInspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells’s The Time Machine, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green’s Concluding), Updike’s debut imagines a near future where the residents of a care home stage a revolt in which two antagonists, John Hook and Stephen Conner, stru
  
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• ‘It’s not up to me is it?’ McCullum wants to stay on despite England’s Ashes defeat

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Coach insists his methods are not about scoring ratesPaying off McCullum’s contract would cost seven figuresBrendon McCullum has stressed his desire to stay on as England head coach but acknowledged this is now a question for those higher up.Australia winning this much-anticipated Ashes series at the earliest opportunity has thrust McCullum’s role into the spotlight but with a multi-format contract that runs up to the end of the 50-over World Cup in late 2027, removing him would cost
  
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• Freed Nigerian schoolchildren to be reunited with families

  22-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Month-long ordeal ends but no details released on how they regained their freedom or who was behind abductionA final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with their families in the central Niger state on Monday, ending a month-long ordeal that drew global concern.Last month, unknown gunmen took an estimated 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St Mary’s Catholic school, Papiri community in Niger state, which runs we
  
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• Bosses at City & Guilds handed million-pound bonuses after training firm is privatised

  22-12-2025 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Executives at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver awarded pay rises and bonuses after sale to private firm – as hundreds of jobs may be offshoredA pair of City & Guilds executives have each been awarded million-pound bonuses and sizeable salary increases after the skills charity’s business was acquired by an international company in October, the Guardian understands.The payments – which are understood to include a £1.7m award for the chief executive, Kirsti
  
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• ‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical

  22-12-2025 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estatesThe founder of an investment firm buying large estates across Britain to restore woods and peatland has said it is “unashamedly and proudly” capitalist, and plans to make tens of millions of pounds in profit.Rich Stockdale, the chief executive of Oxygen Conservation, said his model of “regenerative capitalis
  
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• MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns

  22-12-2025 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive dataUK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.The investigation by the Zurich-based research collective WAV and the Swiss online magazine Republik details Palantir’s efforts, over the course of seven years, to sell its prod
  
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• Academic ‘prepared to take legal action’ after gender lecture disrupted at Bristol University

  22-12-2025 12:07 via theguardian.com
  Prof Alice Sullivan claims university failed to protect her right to freedom of expression after protest at eventA UK university faces the prospect of legal action over claims it failed to protect the right to freedom of expression of an academic who was invited to give a lecture on sex and gender.Prof Alice Sullivan has written to the University of Bristol and the university regulator the Office for Students (OfS) to complain after her talk was disrupted by protesters. She told the BBC some peo
  
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• Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

  22-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industryThe Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would no doubt have understood and even appreciated the latest attack by the Trump administration on climate researchers and their work.The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, is to be dismantled after more than 50 years at the forefront of global research on climate science and monitoring.Professor Michael Mann is the
  
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• The EU’s deeds as much as Putin’s words will ensure the war in Ukraine continues | Rajan Menon

  22-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  A €90bn loan is a lifeline for Zelenskyy. But make no mistake – the bloodshed won’t end while the Russian president believes he can still winVladimir Putin’s marathon press conference on 19 December, an annual year-end event, offered no evidence that Russia may abandon the goals the president set for his “special military operation” against Ukraine in February 2022: conquering Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. True to form, Putin seemed unperturbed th
  
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• Police allege Bondi shooters had ‘tennis ball bomb’ and made IS-inspired video manifesto, court documents reveal

  22-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Documents released Monday outline allegations against Naveed Akram and his father Sajid over the 14 December attackNew details about the police case against the alleged Bondi terrorists have been released, including details of an alleged video manifesto linked to the Islamic State and the undetonated explosives – including a “tennis ball bomb” – found at the scene.Naveed Akram, 24, faces charges of murdering 15 people and injuring dozens more in the shooting at a Hanukah
  
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• Rita Guarino​ ‘really excited’ about taking charge at WSL strugglers West Ham

  22-12-2025 11:52 via theguardian.com
  Italian replaces Rehanne Skinner at east London club‘I want to build a team that is aggressive with the ball’Rita Guarino​ has declared herself “really excited” about the project at West Ham after being confirmed as the club’s new head coach on Monday.Guarino has signed a contract until 2027 with West Ham, as the Guardian reported on Sunday, replacing Rehanne Skinner, who was sacked on Thursday after two-and-a-half years in charge of the Women’s Super Le
  
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