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• Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are showing the resilience of champions

  01-12-2025 16:40 via theguardian.com
  In the past, moments like Chelsea’s shorthanded goal might have sent Arsenal reeling. No longerSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereThe gap at the top is five points. Arsenal have now played two of their three toughest away games of the season. They’ve come through a potentially extremely tricky week with reputation enhanced, despite being without one of their starting centre-backs for all three games and both for one of them. If there is any sense of disappointment, it is onl
  
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• Arsenal v FC Twente: Women’s Champions League – live

  09-12-2025 20:04 via theguardian.com
  ⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off
  ⚽ Live scores | Follow us on Bluesky | And email SarahAs you may have noticed, Leah Williamson is on Arsenal’s bench. She is set to play a “few minutes” this evening, according to Arsenal manager Renée Slegers. It will be the first time she has played since the 2025 Euros final because she sustained a knee injury at the major tournament.FC Twente’s team news has dropped. Former Arsenal player Jill Roo
  
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• Atalanta v Chelsea, Tottenham v Slavia Prague, and more: Champions League – live

  09-12-2025 20:02 via theguardian.com
  ⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offs
  ⚽ Live scores | Follow us at Bluesky | And you can mail Niall
  ⚽ Tottenham’s Pride flag moved on ‘security grounds’ Depressing news emerging from the Spurs game, where the club’s rainbow flag has been moved away from its usual spot, close to visiting fans, after a request from Slavia Prague.A statement by Proud Lilywhites said: “Slavia have raised concerns that some of their supporters may damage
  
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• Inter v Liverpool: Champions League – live

  09-12-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  ⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off
  ⚽ Live scores | David Squires on Salah | Follow us at BlueskyArne Slot makes four changes from the 3-3 draw at Leeds: Andy Robertson, Joe Gomez, Alexis Mac Allister and Alexander Isak replace Milos Kerkez, Conor Bradley, Florian Wirtz and Cody Gakpo. Liverpool have named only eight of a possible 12 subs.Cristian Chiva sticks with the Inter side that hammered Como at the weekend. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on waste: the festive season is a good time to think about rubbish | Editorial

  09-12-2025 19:49 via theguardian.com
  Weak regulation is to blame for disastrous failures in relation to pollution. But there are solutions if people get behind themA study suggesting that as many as 168m light-up Christmas ornaments and similar items could be thrown out in a single year, in the UK, is concerning if not surprising in light of longstanding challenges around recycling rates and waste reduction. Even if the actual figure is lower, there is no question that battery-powered and electrical toys, lights and gifts are proli
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial

  09-12-2025 19:49 via theguardian.com
  The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back.Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Monday was so hastily arranged that Mr Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to meet Croatia’s prime minister, while Mr Merz was due on
  
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• Brigitte Macron filmed using slur against feminist protesters in Paris

  09-12-2025 19:34 via theguardian.com
  First lady seen making sexist and derogatory reference to women who had disrupted theatre show by Ary AbittanBrigitte Macron was facing criticism on Tuesday after video emerged of her using a slur to denounce feminist protesters.The scene filmed on Sunday showed France’s first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Bergère theatre in Paris with Ary Abittan, a French actor and humorist previously accused of rape, before a performance he was about to give. The previous night, femi
  
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• London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils

  09-12-2025 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’Staff at a London academy instilled a “climate of fear” among pupils, with a drive for academic success likely to have harmed vulnerable children including those with special needs, according to a damning independent investigation.The report by Sir Alan Wood, one of the country’s foremost experts in children’s services, found that staff at Mossbourne V
  
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• US puts sanctions on network said to funnel Colombian mercenaries to Sudan

  09-12-2025 19:20 via theguardian.com
  US treasury accuses Colombian nationals and companies of aiding the RSF, which has committed horrific war crimesThe United States has sanctioned four people and four companies accused of enlisting Colombian mercenaries to fight for and train a Sudanese paramilitary group accused by Washington of committing genocide.Announcing the sanctions on Tuesday, the US treasury said the network was largely composed of Colombian nationals and companies. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Jennings on Australia’s social media ban for under-16s – cartoon

  09-12-2025 19:18 via theguardian.com
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• Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’

  09-12-2025 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Green light intended to limit amount consumers pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high generationThree major UK electricity “superhighways” could move ahead sooner than expected to help limit the amount that households pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high power generation.Current grid bottlenecks mean there is not enough capacity to transport the abundance of electricity generated in periods of strong winds to areas where energy demand is highest. Continu
  
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• England’s Ashes approach is scrambling the brains of the next cricketing generation | Mark Ramprakash

  09-12-2025 19:00 via theguardian.com
  This squad aren’t just throwing away the series, they’re messing up the minds of the young cricketers I try to coachThe cracks are starting to show with this England team and with the narrative we’ve been fed for three years after another defeat. Their identity of always taking the aggressive option, of relentlessly putting pressure on their opponents, isn’t holding up to scrutiny. So far in this series they haven’t had the strength needed to achieve it, and they ha
  
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• Netflix v Paramount: Trump wades into Warner Bros battle | The Latest

  09-12-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  The battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery, has captured Donald Trump’s attention. The US President has declared he’ll be involved in the decision on the company’s sale, as both Netflix and Paramount fight to take over the entertainment giant. Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian US deputy business editor Callum Jones Continue reading...
  
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• Iain Douglas-Hamilton obituary

  09-12-2025 18:47 via theguardian.com
  Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephantThe British scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 83, became the world’s leading authority on the behaviour of African elephants and played a vital part in ensuring their conservation.His efforts to save the African elephant began in 1965 when, as an Oxford zoology graduate who had also just received his pilot’s licence, he flew his Piper Pacer bush plane from Nairobi down to Tanzan
  
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• Gianni Infantino accused of breaking Fifa rules with Trump’s peace prize

  09-12-2025 18:42 via theguardian.com
  Complaint from FairSquare calls for investigationInfantino awarded Trump peace prize at World Cup drawFifa president Gianni Infantino has been accused of breaching his organisation’s rules on political neutrality in relation to United States president Donald Trump.Infantino and Trump have formed a close bond in recent years, with the US one of the co-hosts for next year’s men’s World Cup. Infantino even presented Trump with the inaugural Fifa peace prize at last Friday’s
  
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• Britain’s ‘golden egg’: how IRA agent Freddie Scappaticci was protected to the end

  09-12-2025 18:25 via theguardian.com
  ‘Agent Stakeknife’, who carried out sadistic killings then was helped to relocate to England, only once saw the inside of a courtroomMI5 impeded inquiry into Stakeknife agent who murdered for IRA, says official report‘I’m not going to hide again’: Stakeknife report met with relief by victims’ familiesWhen Freddie Scappaticci, 77, suffered the stroke on the morning of 16 February 2023 that would kill him, he had not worked for two decades.It was nevertheless in
  
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• Donald Trump has finally won a peace prize – from Fifa, no less. Here are five other awards he should win | Arwa Mahdawi

  09-12-2025 18:24 via theguardian.com
  The inaugural award bestowed upon the US president could pave the way for many more colourful accolades. I have some ideas ...What a privilege it is to be alive in such a peaceful and prosperous time. If you ignore the genocides in Sudan and Gaza, fighting in eastern Congo, continued attacks on Ukraine, military airstrikes in Myanmar, near-daily strikes on Lebanon, “extrajudicial killings” on Venezualan vessels, increased political violence in the US, along with various other inconve
  
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• The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

  09-12-2025 18:23 via theguardian.com
  Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are the latest A-listers to announce their relationship status online. But there are many ways to do it - from fancy dress to panicked deletionsAs a mark of pure intent, going Instagram official has become a firmly entrenched dating marker. To post a picture of you and your new partner on Instagram – on the grid, mind you, not hiding behind the cowardice of a story – is to not only declare that you are in love, but also that you are confident enough in y
  
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• Storm Bram batters Britain and Ireland with strong winds and heavy rain

  09-12-2025 18:22 via theguardian.com
  More than 300 flood warnings or alerts across UK as homes left without power, sporting events cancelled and transport disrupted Flights, trains and ferries were cancelled, motorists faced long delays and thousands of properties left without power across the UK and Ireland after Storm Bram brought heavy rain and strong winds.By Tuesday night, there were more than 300 flood warnings or alerts across the UK and sporting matches and festive events were cancelled because of the weather. Continue read
  
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• Is it a good idea to have a hot toddy when you’re sick?

  09-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Experts weigh in on if the traditional remedy of whisky, honey, lemon and hot water can actually help your coldThe hot toddy has a reputation as a folk remedy for illness. And if you’re sick, a steaming cup of whisky, honey, lemon, and water can sound like a lot more fun than crackers and broth.But what about the alcohol? Here’s what experts say about hot toddies and colds. Continue reading...
  
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• Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield to chair grooming gangs inquiry

  09-12-2025 17:51 via theguardian.com
  Peer named as chair of national inquiry, which is expected to cover England and Wales, after long-delayed searchUK politics live – latest updatesThe former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield will chair the national grooming gangs inquiry in what will be a “moment of reckoning” for the nation, the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced.Lady Longfield, who will resign the Labour whip in the House of Lords, was recommended by Louise Casey after a long-delayed sea
  
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• Faith Evans obituary

  09-12-2025 17:46 via theguardian.com
  Talented editor and literary agent who was a co-founder of Women in PublishingIn 1987 Faith Evans, who has died aged 83, set about realising the concept of a small literary agency with a distinct identity, akin to the list or imprint of a publisher. It would focus on ideas and the kind of books that would enable her to combine her editorial, publishing and business experience with making a living. This meant looking out for and thinking up projects to which she could contribute, and which accord
  
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• Questions we should actually be asking in UK citizenship test | Letters

  09-12-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Anne Johns, who volunteers with refugees, says she regularly witnesses highly skilled and qualified people failing the test on idiotic questions Oh, how I agree with Emma Beddington (Forget Hadrian’s Wall. The UK citizenship test should ask about Corrie, bus queues and Greggs, 7 December). I volunteer with refugees and regularly witness the distress of highly skilled and qualified people failing the test on idiotic questions that most Britons couldn’t answer. When simple facts c
  
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• Principled reasons to cut the number of jury trials | Letters

  09-12-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Retired judge Michael Harris says we should not reject reform, we should refine it. Christian Mole says the system is blighted by inefficiencyI understand the main argument for reducing the number of cases tried by jury: they take longer and are significantly more expensive (‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries, 7 December). But two further points deserve emphasis.First, most countries do not use juries. We are one of very
  
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• Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show

  09-12-2025 17:43 via theguardian.com
  President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa CookDonald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling “mortgage fraud” when done by political rivals, records show.ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that within seven weeks of each other in late 1993 and early 1994,
  
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• AI researchers are to blame for serving up slop | Letter

  09-12-2025 17:43 via theguardian.com
  They have unleashed irresponsible innovations on the world and their slop generators have flooded academia, says Dr Craig ReevesI’m not surprised to read that the field of artificial intelligence research is being overwhelmed by the very slop that it has pioneered (Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’, 6 December). But this is a bit like bears getting indignant about all the shit in the woods.It serves AI researchers right
  
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• Shouting at the class has never been OK | Brief letters

  09-12-2025 17:42 via theguardian.com
  Teaching methods | Holly stripped bare | Cricket in state schools | Flat Earth Society physics prize | Impact School of MotoringAs a retired teacher with family and friends who are still in the profession, I must take exception to John Harris’s assertion that our current method of education consists of “standing in front of 30 kids and shouting at them for an hour” (The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it, 7 December)
  
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• Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine

  09-12-2025 17:36 via theguardian.com
  US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace planNew Trump doctrine identifies ‘weak’ Europe’s problem: not enough racismDonald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration’s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as “weak” and “decaying” and claiming it was “destroying itself” through immigration.In a rambling and some
  
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• More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says

  09-12-2025 17:34 via theguardian.com
  Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months agoMalnutrition continues to take a toll among Gaza’s young despite a ceasefire declared two months ago, with more than 9,000 children hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October alone, according to the latest UN figures.While the immediate threat of famine has receded for most of the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza after the ceasefire announcement on 10 October, the UN and other aid
  
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• Moonpig’s use of AI to design and personalise cards drives up sales

  09-12-2025 17:30 via theguardian.com
  About half of purchases involve shoppers using online retailer’s artificial intelligence-led featuresThe online card service Moonpig has reported a bump in sales thanks in part to its increased use of AI to help design cards, personalise customers’ messages and answer queries.The company said sales rose 6.7% to £169m in the six months to 31 October and had remained strong in the weeks since then, largely as a result of increased orders and spend per order at its main Moonpig br
  
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