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• What did the dolphin say to the porpoise?

  29-08-2018 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A dolphin in the Firth of Clyde may be exchanging messages with porpoises.
  
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• Tyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk: undisputed heavyweight championship – live

  19-05-2024 01:07
  
  Heavyweight rivals meet for WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titlesFirst undisputed heavyweight championship fight since 1999Send Bryan a tweet at @BryanAGraham or email himOleksandr Usyk has made his entrance. He walks quickly and methodically to the ring like a tiger as his personal hymn (Гімн Олександра Усика by Браття) plays on the arena sound system.Ring
  
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• US PGA Championship 2024: third round – live

  19-05-2024 01:04
  
  Day three updates with Xander Schauffele in overnight leadScheffler shakes off ‘shock and fear’ of arrest to stay in huntLive scoreboard | And feel free to drop Scott an email“This could be the lowest scoring day in major-championship history,” opines Sky commentator Paul McGinley. No wind, soft greens, warm sunshine, all that. This being the case, you don’t want to be going backwards too much at any given point. So it’s a big putt for Bob MacIntyre on 3. Havi
  
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• Weaving magic: 14 of the best natural raffia bags – in pictures

  19-05-2024 00:45
  
  Nothing says summer like a straw bag slung over your arm Continue reading...
  
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• Trend watch: striped shirts

  19-05-2024 00:45
  
  A versatile striped shirt is the key to your capsule holiday wardrobeA blue and white striped shirt could be your most useful summer piece. It’s smart enough for cocktails, half tucked into tailored Bermuda shorts with flat sandals or a slingback heel, thrown over swimwear on the beach or worn with jeans and layered necklaces for a cool but casual look. Size up for a loose fit or look for a style cut with oversized proportions.Cult swimwear brand Hunza G (central model shot above) have lau
  
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• Hospitals to share waiting lists under Labour plans for quicker care

  19-05-2024 00:43
  
  Party says pooling resources across regions would deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week for patientsHospitals would have to share waiting lists and pool resources under Labour’s plans to reduce waiting times by delivering up to 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week.The party has announced that patients would be offered appointments at nearby hospitals, rather than necessarily at their local one, which would enable people to receive faster treatment. Hospital staff and resources would be
  
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• Rudy Giuliani indicted for role in Arizona fake-elector scheme

  19-05-2024 00:42
  
  Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is the last of 17 defendants to be served an indictment in Arizona’s fake-elector case for his role in an attempt to overturn former president Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the Arizona attorney general said.Kris Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday.
  
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• Bigger, yes, but better? Pep Guardiola tweaks template for latest City kick to line | Jonathan Wilson

  18-05-2024 23:33
  
  Champions have become less guardiolista to allow Haaland to flourish and it is telling the best player of late has been GvardiolFamiliarity inevitably breeds, if not contempt, then at least discernment. When Leicester won the Premier League what mattered was not how they had done it but merely that it had been done.You could talk about the performances of N’Golo Kanté, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, pontificate about how Claudio Ranieri had developed Nigel Pearson’s side o
  
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• Tony O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading business figures, dies aged 88

  18-05-2024 23:24
  
  O’Reilly, who was also an international rugby player for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, died in Dublin on SaturdayTony O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading business figures, has died at the age of 88.O’Reilly, who had a career in the media as well as being an international rugby player for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, died in St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Rebus review – Richard Rankin is the most irresistible incarnation yet

  18-05-2024 23:15
  
  The all-new Rebus is physical and forceful with a fag in hand and a willingness to crack skulls – but in a world full of shows about troubled, maverick cops, will he possibly be able to stand out?It starts promisingly, with a cigarette in Rebus’s mouth. In Ian Rankin’s noirish crime novels, Detective Sergeant John Rebus is an antihero to whom booze, fags and violence are key. Within a few minutes of the new BBC One dramatisation, the Edinburgh copper – played by Richard R
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi says it was a mistake for Tories to force Boris Johnson from No 10

  18-05-2024 22:30
  
  Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he and his Conservative colleagues were wrong to force out Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2022.Johnson resigned after less than three years in No 10 after more than 50 resignations from government of MPs and staff and waves of backbenchers urging him to quit over the handling of the Chris Pincher affair and numerou
  
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• The moment I knew: I said ‘marry me or never see me again’ – and he went straight down on one knee

  18-05-2024 22:00
  
  Chelsea Reed and David shared a workplace and a love for 60s pop. Then an expiring visa threatened to end everything before it had even begunIt was 2015, and my then-boyfriend and I were living in Canada on working holiday visas from Australia. In the dead of a Toronto winter, I got a job at a restaurant that hosted open mic nights every Sunday, and as a singer-songwriter myself, I was excited to perform.The open-mic host, David, a bespectacled guy with a neat haircut, bore a striking resemblanc
  
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• ‘Oh my god, I am beautiful’: the people who pay to have their portrait painted

  18-05-2024 22:00
  
  It’s never been easier to take a flattering image of yourself. So why do people commission professional portraits of themselves or loved ones?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThey’re the artwork the public rarely sees: the custom personal portraits hanging in homes, maybe above a mantelpiece, in a study or a bedroom; images of ourselves, family and other loved ones, sometimes even our pets.With selfies available to anyone with a smartphone and professional photography affor
  
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• Lai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency

  18-05-2024 22:00
  
  Friends and analysts say Lai’s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: ChinaThe house itself is a modest, two-storey dwelling on a larger parcel of picturesque land. Mist floats down from the jungled hills behind, settling in the narrow lane that winds towards the rundown remnants of a mine.The only people there on the day the Guardian visits are curious tourists. They are there for one thing: to see the family home of Lai Ching-te, Taiwan&rs
  
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• I have taken babies from their mothers. After my son was born I feared it was my turn to be punished | Ariane Beeston

  18-05-2024 22:00
  
  Four days after my child was born, I began experiencing postpartum psychosis. What I learned changed my lifeThe first time I start hallucinating I am home, alone, with my baby. Drunk from lack of sleep I watch as his features morph in and out of shape. I take photo after photo, trying to capture what I see.A few days later, while I am pushing the pram outside, it happens again. I pull the hood down to hide my baby from prying eyes. I no longer know who I can trust.I am dead, I am dead. And becau
  
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• How relevance deprivation syndrome has liberated me in my retirement

  18-05-2024 22:00
  
  I am now free to fully lean into my incompetence – a pleasure denied to me when working and suffering from Impostor SyndromeThe human being is a complicated beast, and many of us suffer from all kinds of syndromes and complexes. In this era of measuring, naming and documenting everything, the experts keep coming up with ever more conditions for us to worry about.Take Stendhal Syndrome, AKA Florence Syndrome. It has you fainting and possibly hallucinating when exposed to great beauty. And w
  
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• Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

  18-05-2024 21:09
  
  Benny Gantz’s threat to withdraw his opposition party from coalition calls into question future of governmentThe Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government.During a press conference on Saturday, Gantz announced that if a plan for postwar governance of the territory is not consolidated and approved by 8 June, his opposition National Unity party will
  
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• Third of voters believe Starmer was wrong to let Elphicke into Labour party

  18-05-2024 21:00
  
  In latest Opinium poll, only 16% say accepting rightwing Tory MP’s defection was the right move – against 33% who see it as a mistakeMore voters believe Keir Starmer was wrong to allow a rightwing Tory MP into Labour than think it was the right move, after anger from within the party’s ranks over the defection.Natalie Elphicke, the Dover MP, said the Tories had become “a byword for incompetence and division” when she made her shock departure to Labour earlier in May
  
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• Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool rescued the league from brand-busting monotony

  18-05-2024 21:00
  
  No manager has combined heart and soul with details and hard maths like the German, no wonder he has run out of energy“I am, how can I say it, running out of energy.” It is, in its own way, the saddest of managerial farewells. Not to mention the most decisive. This is Jürgen Klopp’s thing. He’s an energy source. He’s joules, watts, volts, catalytic reactions. His energy is his energy, both in the tactical pattern of his teams and as a sustained feat of personal
  
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• Emma Hayes ‘hasn’t got another drop to give’ after Chelsea WSL title triumph

  18-05-2024 20:57
  
  Exhausted Chelsea manager signs off with fifth successive title‘I felt we deserved title,’ says Manchester City’s Gareth TaylorEmma Hayes said she doesn’t “have another drop to give” after bowing out as Chelsea manager with a fifth Women’s Super League title in a row, while Manchester City’s Gareth Taylor felt his team would have deserved to be champions.Hayes spoke passionately and emotionally after her side won the league on goal difference with
  
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• Emilia Perez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style

  18-05-2024 20:40
  
  Cannes film festival
  A thoroughly implausible yarn about a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to arrange his transition is carried along by its cheesy Broadway energyAnglo-progressives and US liberals might worry about whether or not certain stories are “theirs to tell”. But that’s not a scruple that worries French auteur Jacques Audiard who, with amazing boldness and sweep, launches into this slightly bizarre yet watchable musical melodrama of crime and gender, set in Me
  
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• Doctor Who: Boom – season one episode three recap

  18-05-2024 20:35
  
  Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who has alien planets, murderous AI – and Ncuti Gatwa trapped in an incredibly tense race against timeAfter two episodes, where Doctor Who seemed determined to greet any potential new Disney viewers with everything that could be fun, camp and ridiculous about the show, this was a darker turn from the pen of former showrunner Steven Moffat.The conceit that the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) could not move for nearly the whole episode, and instead had to rely on
  
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• Georgian president vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law

  18-05-2024 20:34
  
  Salome Zourabichvili says bill contradicts constitution but ruling party is expected to override her action in coming daysGeorgia’s president has vetoed a “foreign agents” bill that has split the country and appealed to the government not to overrule her over a law she said was “Russian in sprit and essence”.Salome Zourabichvil followed through on her stated intention to use her veto on Saturday although the governing Georgian Dream party has the votes to disregard
  
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• Police arrest six student protesters at University of Pennsylvania

  18-05-2024 20:03
  
  Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, accord
  
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• Meet Becky, aged 14, suicidal, alone and unwanted. Victim of a cruel and uncaring state | Louise Tickle

  18-05-2024 20:00
  
  I have followed the life of this desperate child as her life has been ruined by a bankrupt systemYou’re a teenage girl and you’ve been locked in a bare hospital room for more than 15 months. Your bed is a platform attached to the floor. There’s a plastic toilet and a sink moulded into the wall. Your only human contact is through a hatch in the door. Sometimes you get to hold your mum’s hand through it.You’ve tried to kill yourself multiple times, including trying to
  
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• Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts

  18-05-2024 20:00
  
  As the inquiry publishes its final report, the chancellor is under pressure to find £10bn to put right a longstanding injusticeThe chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will come under pressure to stay true to his word and sign off on immediate compensation payments totalling up to £10bn to victims of the contaminated blood scandal when the long-awaited final report on the affair is published on Monday.The scandal is described as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, with more than 3,000 p
  
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• Chelsea eye up Kieran McKenna with Mauricio Pochettino’s future in balance

  18-05-2024 20:00
  
  Owners undecided on whether to keep PochettinoBrighton want McKenna as replacement for De ZerbiChelsea have identified Ipswich’s Kieran McKenna as one of the leading  candidates to take over from Mauricio Pochettino, whose future is up in the air before his end-of-season review with the club’s hierarchy.While some key figures at Stamford Bridge are in favour of Pochettino staying, the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership is yet to reach a consensus on whether a change is requ
  
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• Oxford beat Bolton in League One playoff final thanks to Murphy double

  18-05-2024 19:35
  
  Revenge, as Oxford would swear, truly is a main course best dished out in front of a 30,000-strong ­yellow wall at Wembley, while contesting a Championship spot. Sixty-seven days might be footballing light years, but that Bolton swatted Des Buckingham’s team aside by five clear goals so recently did not bode well for Oxford. Yet the only point of clarity here was, courtesy of a pair of Josh Murphy goals, how deserving United were of victory.Buckingham insists he has never rewatched tha
  
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• ‘Clean water is a basic right’: protesters against sewage in seas and rivers gather across the UK

  18-05-2024 19:16
  
  Surfers and families vent their frustration with water companies after more news of poisoned drinking water and polluted lakes“Cut the crap” and “Fishes not faeces” read some of the many colourful slogans at Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth where hundreds of protesters gathered on Saturday to demand action over the scourge of sewage pollution in British waterways.Wearing fancy dress and waving inflated plastic poops, they paddled into the bay on surfboards, kayaks and standu
  
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• The Observer view on child poverty: Labour must tackle this scourge as soon as possible | Observer editorial

  18-05-2024 19:00
  
  Growing up in a poor household is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, yet it affects millions of children• Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal
  • Torsten Bell: We can easily end child poverty
  • Archbishop urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ benefit capAlmost one in three British children now live in relative poverty. Former prime minister Gordon Brown last week referred to this generation as “austerity’s children”: children who have
  
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