Tennessee prisoner awake and speaking after surviving state’s attempt to execute her last Wednesday Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say Christa Pike’s lawyers are holding a press conference today after revealing last night that their client was “conscious and speaking” following last week’s botched execution attempt in Tennessee. The 50-year old deat…
The number of pharmacies stocking the MS-2 Step medication increased from 2,228 to 4,107 after rules relaxed in 2023 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The number of Australian pharmacies stocking an abortion pill increased by almost 50% when prescribing restrictions were relaxed, with researchers saying the findings suggest deregulation of abortion promotes safer and fast…
Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The drastic land use changes wreaked by colonisation created a “catastrophic wildfire loop” that rendered south-east Australia more susceptible to climate-fuell…
We appear to be entering a new era, in which political desperation at home leads to increasingly unhinged threats abroad Donald Trump was in Nebraska on Monday, and though his long rally speech had elements of a performance, this was no Bruce Springsteen album. He offered another dark meditation on a world spiraling out of control, one in which the destruction of American cities is increasingly a…
Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, adds to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s For Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire Goldsmith family was a gateway to elite society and he wanted to be in their circle. The disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 facing sex-trafficking charges, longed for a billionaire’s lifestyle and cultivated…
Exclusive: 11 facilities shut, seven for lack of staff and four over issues such as infestations or lack of running water Eleven bail hostels that were supposed to have housed dangerous prisoners during the early release of stalkers and domestic abusers in England and Wales have been closed, the Guardian can disclose. Seven of the halfway house facilities, known as approved premises, were shut bec…
New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health?
Iranian authorities are trying to persuade prominent singers in exile to return home. While the state seeks to harness music as a political tool, music has also become a powerful expression of dissent and resistance.
At Conservative conference, some worry about becoming a one-woman party, while others say party should thank their lucky stars they have her UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has long said that the Conservatives were “under new management”, but in a TV interview to mark the end of a party conference at which she has been front and centre of more or less everything, she took the analo…
Veteran leftwinger has been ‘in exile in the east’ in Russia and not been to Holborn and St Pancras constituency since campaign began George Galloway has been elected seven times to parliament, but his attempt to succeed for an eighth this week, in the London seat formerly held by Keir Starmer, is undoubtedly his most curious effort yet. Since the byelection campaign began, the leader of the Worke…
NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ’s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls The Trump administration has been sued over its plans to deploy “a historic number” of election monitors to polling stations during next month’s midterm elections. The bid “stands to jeopardize” the elections and could “interfere with the right of voters to participate in the election fr…
New ‘support and training centre’ prompts concern in region but China says it is ‘not directed at any third party’ Satellite images show attack jets stationed at a new overseas Chinese military facility in Laos, which opened last week and gives Beijing’s air force its first foothold in mainland south-east Asia. Images provided by the commercial satellite provider Vantor show eight light attack air…
The big question facing Andy Burnham is not whether Brexit has harmed Britain, but if a rapidly changing Europe will keep the door open if the UK decides it wants back in • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It was lobbed into the national conversation without fanfare or warning, almost a footnote in the UK prime minister’s first speech as leader to his governing Lab…
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Users reject site’s explanations after detailed instructions for writing response to post on popular forum was published Mumsnet has denied using AI to produce content after detailed instructions to help an AI model write one of its popular “am I being unreasonable” (AIBU) posts appeared on a Mumsnet message board. Users of the long-established forum, which is known for its frank discussions of fa…
Pennon slashes dividend and launches £550m cash call ‘to drive improved outcomes for customers and communities’ The owner of embattled South West Water has slashed its dividend and launched a cash call to investors as it attempts to fund infrastructure investment, days after it was hit by a record £7.9m fine for hundreds of sewage spills. London-listed Pennon said on Wednesday it would tap investo…
After a surprise first-round victory, critics suggest son of disgraced ex-president could seek to continue his father’s authoritarian rule Flávio’s surprise first-round win highlights rapid rise of Brazil’s House of Bolsonaro Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right frontrunner to become Brazil’s next president, has vowed to “re-democratise” the South American country, fuelling fears over a move into autho…
Matt Brittin fields questions on whether executives are being spared and also lays out potential iPlayer overhaul Matt Brittin, the BBC’s director general, has faced a barrage of accusations that frontline staff are being laid off instead of those from the “very bloated” senior ranks. In an all-staff call, Brittin conceded the BBC was “going to be smaller” but said it could still have a bigger imp…
Forced closure marks low point in UK-Israeli relations, with reports UK is considering retaliatory expulsion of Israeli diplomats from London Israel marks three years since 7 October attack – live The UK consulate in East Jerusalem gave few signs that it was at the centre of a geopolitical controversy this week, with little movement around the high-walled building save the fluttering of the union…
