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• UK law change for all flights as extra charges axed from Friday

  02-10-2026 11:09 via express.co.uk
  All flights will have charges axed from Friday.
  
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• Football Q&A: ask Ed Aarons your questions as the Premier League returns – live

  08-10-2026 17:34 via theguardian.com
  After a lengthy international break dominated by the Manchester City verdict, the Premier League is back on Saturday. Football writer Ed Aarons is online now answering your questionsSign in or sign up to take partFearandloathingpart2 asks: Given the political pressure that is inevitably going to be placed on Man City, do you think the independent regulator will take action? If they don’t, they lose any credibility but it just seems unlikely to me they’ll take serious action against t
  
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• Trump’s attempt to ban CNN, Politico, and MS Now from White House to be heard in court – live

  08-10-2026 17:29 via theguardian.com
  Federal judge who issued temporary restraining order on the media ban will hold hearing at 11am ETSign up for the US Breaking News emailDonald Trump has urged James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the US Senate race in Texas, to debate Ken Paxton – Republican attorney general that the president has endorsed in the election.On Truth Social, Trump described Paxton as “ready, willing, and able” to take on Talarico – the 37-year-old state representative who has been leadi
  
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• Two Latvian men arrested for trespass offences at RAF airbase – Europe live

  08-10-2026 17:28 via theguardian.com
  Two men arrested last night as security patrols near RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire found an abandoned vehicle and a breach in the fencein AthensOver in Athens, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, has been forced, yet again, to address allegations of misconduct by Kimberly Guilfoyle, America’s ambassador to Greece.Continue reading...
  
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• BBC pays compensation to PinkNews couple over false sexual misconduct allegations

  08-10-2026 17:23 via theguardian.com
  Broadcaster apologises after admitting claims against Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James were defamatoryThe BBC has apologised and paid “substantial” compensation to the couple behind the PinkNews website, after conceding that stories accusing them of sexual misconduct were false and defamatory.In a sweeping admission, the BBC accepted at the high court that a 2024 iPlayer documentary about the PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband, Anthony James, called PinkNews: Behind Clos
  
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• E.ON Next deal to buy Ovo Energy leaves UK with just ‘big three’ energy suppliers

  08-10-2026 17:16 via theguardian.com
  Competition watchdog clears takeover despite concerns that suppliers will have less incentive to lower billsAlmost three-quarters of households in Great Britain are now served by just three energy suppliers, after E.ON Next completed a deal to buy Ovo Energy despite fresh concerns about competition in the energy market.The takeover concluded on Thursday after Britain’s competition watchdog cleared it, despite concerns that the shrinking number of household energy suppliers could mean billp
  
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• Ex-police chief who had affairs with two officers guilty of gross misconduct

  08-10-2026 17:11 via theguardian.com
  Scott Chilton, who led Hampshire and the Isle of Wight police force, barred from becoming a police officer againA former chief constable showed a sense of entitlement, dishonesty and lack of integrity by having sexual relationships with two subordinate officers, including engaging in sexual activity while on call to lead major incidents, a misconduct hearing has ruled.The panel found that the behaviour of Scott Chilton, 53, who retired as chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight before
  
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• Inside NBA Europe’s $10bn plan that has football clubs queuing to join

  08-10-2026 17:08 via theguardian.com
  Some of the biggest names in European football will bid for a franchise in ESL-style league, now due to launch in 2028The launch of NBA Europe will be delayed 12 months until 2028, with a pre-qualifying competition planned for next year to find four temporary members to join the 16-team league’s inaugural season alongside 12 permanent franchises.The NBA is planning to invest about $10bn (£7.6bn) over 10 years in what sources have described as the sporting world’s biggest-ever s
  
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• Search warrants used in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor raids were unlawful, court rules

  08-10-2026 17:05 via theguardian.com
  Judge makes ruling after former prince brought judicial review of operation linked to Jeffrey Epstein investigationAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor has won his legal challenge against Thames Valley police over search warrants that led to his arrest.The former prince brought a judicial review of the legality of the force’s actions and those of the central criminal court, which granted the warrants. Continue reading...
  
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• Can hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen Pilcher

  08-10-2026 17:05 via theguardian.com
  A new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is keyThe new Living Planet Report is out. Published every two years, it assesses the health of the natural world and, historically, it’s made for gloomy reading.Take 2024’s report, which showed global wildlife populations had plummeted by 73% in 50 years and that ecosystems were being pushed toward collapse. Continue reading...
  
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• French students vow to continue protests, saying ministers’ pledges not enough

  08-10-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Schools blockaded again across country as teenagers and teachers demand more investment and ‘concrete measures’ to improve conditionsEurope live – latest updatesHigh school students have again blockaded schools and marched through cities across France, promising to continue their campaign despite government pledges to address the grievances underlying 10 days of protests that have left hundreds injured.Large crowds took to the streets on Thursday for mainly peaceful demonstrati
  
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• Franz & Marie review – Woyzeck folk musical finds heart amid the horror

  08-10-2026 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Charing Cross theatre, London
  Büchner’s jagged masterpiece about a soldier’s descent is told with enchanting and stirring songs that occasionally defuse its stark terrorWhen Georg Büchner died aged 23 in 1837, he left behind Woyzeck as a bundle of papers that would be ordered and reordered for years to come, eventually discoloured by treatments used to decipher the playwright’s handwriting. His two dozen scenes, with a handful of extra fragments, form a tragic patchwo
  
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• BBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcasts

  08-10-2026 16:48 via theguardian.com
  Thinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cutsBBC Radio 4’s consumer rights show You and Yours is to be axed after more than 50 years, becoming one of the latest victims of the corporation’s £500m cuts plan.The programme, once described by the former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer as “one of the most important” on the station, is one of a handful to be cut as the BBC searches for shows that can be more easily
  
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• Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens

  08-10-2026 16:37 via theguardian.com
  Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early JanuaryDeposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan federal court papers unsealed Thursday.CNN first reported the expected indictment on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• The best beauty Advent calendars in the UK in 2026, tested – from bargain buys to cult favourites

  08-10-2026 16:36 via theguardian.com
  Christmas is getting closer, and this year’s calendars are already on sale. We tested the biggest releases to find the ones worth buying, including cruelty-free picks• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereChristmas might feel like an age away, but the festive season has already begun for fans of beauty Advent calendars. Most of this year’s calendars are now on sale or available to preorder, and many of the most popular could sell out long before Whamag
  
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• Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch

  08-10-2026 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  Marking a century since the Dutch artist stowed away to New York, this vast retrospective gloriously showcases the abstract expressionist’s fierce boundary-pushingWillem de Kooning was the last great artist who really knew how to draw. More precisely, if less provocatively, he was the last truly transformative painter to have been schooled in the academic tradition that produces what is still recognised, by most people, as “good drawing”. Accurate in the
  
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• The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art

  08-10-2026 16:19 via theguardian.com
  A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue mattress weighing 23kg around her university campus. The mattress was similar to the ones New York’s Columbia University used in its dorm rooms, where Sulkowicz said she had been raped by a fellow student two years earlier. Her performance/endur
  
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• Football Daily | Spygate: one of football’s stranger and more pointless transgressions

  08-10-2026 16:16 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!The recent international break has proved to be a goldmine for punishment admin, nicely wrapped up on Wednesday night with the latest chapter of the Southampton Spygate saga. It sounds like a three-part Netflix documentary – and almost certainly will be one day – but for now, here’s a reminder of what went down; feel free to add your own haunting synth soundtrack … two days before the first leg of their Championship play
  
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• Manchester United offer JJ Gabriel new deal but risk losing prodigy for £350,000

  08-10-2026 16:10 via theguardian.com
  Teenager almost certain to leave despite fresh offerCompensation for move to European rival would be lowManchester United have made JJ Gabriel an official scholarship contract offer, but remain at risk of losing the teenage forward for as little as £350,000.The prodigy, who turned 16 this week, stunned the club when he asked for his registration to be cancelled last month, setting in motion a scramble among Europe’s elite clubs for his signature. Continue reading...
  
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• Former Labour MP cleared over role in fraudulent Covid-19 testing company

  08-10-2026 16:06 via theguardian.com
  Court hears former justice minister Shahid Malik had only ‘very limited’ role in business that made £6.67m in three weeksUK politics live – latest updatesA former Labour MP and justice minister has been found not guilty of charges around his role in a fraudulent Covid-19 testing company.Shahid Malik, 58, was MP for Dewsbury between 2005 and 2010 and served as a minister in three departments in Gordon Brown’s government. Continue reading...
  
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• Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

  08-10-2026 16:03 via theguardian.com
  Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of RedThe Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. Continue reading...
  
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• Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  08-10-2026 16:01 via theguardian.com
  Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogueA single inspired by the birth of bassist Conor Deegan’s daughter, It’s Amazing to Be Young is a lovely example of Fontaines DC operating in euphoric mode, a relatively recent addition to their emotional mood board: “Sometimes,” offered frontman Grian Chatten, “optimism is a necessary delusion.” Continue reading..
  
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• Women and the Piano album review – Tomes brings her poetic instincts to a rewarding compilation

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Susan Tomes
  (Hyperion)
  From Marianne Martines – taught by the family lodger, Haydn, to Teresa Carreño who played for Lincoln, there’s names new and old in this fascinating and appealing collection This attractive compilation came out of Susan Tomes’ research for a book on female pianists across history. As she discovered, many wrote music as well, producing short works for the salons and domestic circles to which they were frequently restricted. Thanks to pioneering perf
  
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• Russian attack on bus kills at least 30 people near Ukraine frontline

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Zelenskyy says Kremlin deliberately targeted ‘ordinary public transport stop’ in Kramatorsk, with 18 wounded Europe live – latest updatesA Russian missile strike on a bus in the eastern city of Kramatorsk has killed at least 30 people, officials have said, in one of the worst attacks by Moscow on Ukrainian civilians this year.The regional prosecutor’s office in the Donetsk region said on Thursday the vehicle had been hit at 10am by an aerial bomb. “As of now, the de
  
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• I spent years postponing my own joy. Here’s how I learned to say yes to the juicy bits of life | Sheree Joseph

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Society tells us there is one way to live a life, and joy is a byproduct on the path there. But you don’t need a reason to enjoy the act of being aliveI have been dwelling on what it means to live well. Not because I have mastered it, but because I have become very comically bad at it. I have spent years rushing through my life, panicked and convinced I was running out of time. I worried constantly about work – getting it, keeping it, doing it, caring about it too much, hating it and
  
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• Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a dryly funny memoir

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The Handmaid’s Tale author reflects on her loves, losses and literary achievements in a memoir that showcases her wisdom and witMargaret Atwood had to be persuaded to write a memoir. The thought of writing about herself initially seemed “dead boring. Who wants to read about someone sitting at a desk messing up blank sheets of paper?” Yet, she continues, time passed and the possibility of a memoir took on a “lurid phosphorescent glow. ‘Wasn’t there something ap
  
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• An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘nowhere left for people to go’

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homesTo say that Maria Zamudio and her team have been busy lately would be a gross understatement.Every Monday at 9am, the phone lines at the downtown clinic of San Francisco’s Housing Rights Committee start ringing, and they keep ringing until closing at 5 pm. In-person counseling appointments for renters facing eviction or landlord misconduct fill days in advanc
  
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• A good friend brings her dogs when she stays with me. I kind of dread it. What can I do? | Leading questions

  08-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  People often forget social rules when dogs are involved, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But you’ll have to say something if you want things to changeRead more Leading questionsA good friend of mine stays with me regularly when she comes into town. She brings her husband and two dogs that don’t get along with my dog. They’ve “used the bathroom” in our house before. I try to be nice and help clean or pretend it doesn’t bother me so that they feel
  
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• Asos says customers’ names, contact details and search histories hacked

  08-10-2026 15:54 via theguardian.com
  Experts say breadth of data accessed could help attackers devise “highly convincing” phishing scamsBusiness live – live updatesAsos hackers gained access to millions of customers’ recent search histories as well as names, addresses and phone numbers, the online fashion retailer has revealed.Terms typed in by customers such as “glamorous wide fit” and “Asos petite” were in the data accessed in the cyber-attack, which emerged on Tuesday after app use
  
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• Italian opposition cries foul as Meloni’s electoral reform passed in secret ballot

  08-10-2026 15:42 via theguardian.com
  Parties vow to challenge law in court, arguing that extra reward for those with 42% of support distorts public representationEurope live – latest updatesA controversial overhaul to electoral law that critics say is aimed at boosting Giorgia Meloni’s chances of clinging on to power in elections next year has been given final approval by the Italian parliament.Meloni, the Italian prime minister, says the new system, which introduces a fully proportional model, including bonus seats for
  
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