The Guardian - November 02, 2024

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November 02, 2024

Trump strategy to challenge US election defeat revealed

Donald Trump's campaign already appears to be preparing to challenge the US election result if he loses next week, with the former president's team filing a lawsuit in a swing state alleging voter suppression.

4 mins

China and Russia team up to block four new marine parks in Antarctic waters

China and Russia are working together to block new Antarctic marine parks and loosen krill fishing restrictions, undermining an international convention designed to protect the region from overexploitation, according to analysts and conservationists.

3 mins

Disposable vape ban 'could push some users back to cigarettes'

Ministers have acknowledged that a plan to ban the sale of disposable vapes by next summer could lead some users to revert or relapse to cigarette smoking.

1 min

RMT calls off planned tube strike over pay

Members of the RMT union at London Underground yesterday called off plans to strike over the coming week, as transport officials urged tube drivers to follow suit.

1 min

Time's up for old adage that claims apes could replicate Shakespeare

Mathematicians have called into question the adage that a monkey typing randomly at a keyboard for long enough would produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

1 min

Ripping yarn: Tom Daley's first knitting show opens in Tokyo

Tom Daley's legions of fans will forever remember the Tokyo Olympics as the backdrop to his first gold medal, secured alongside Matty Lee with a flawless final dive in the men's 10m synchronised platform.

3 mins

Cash flow problem Dry Trevi fountain installs coin pool as it prepares to charge

One of the first things American students Fiona Hastings and Olivia Nieporte did when they visited Rome for the first time was to visit the Trevi Fountain, to partake in the age-old ritual of tossing a coin over their shoulder and into the world-famous landmark.

1 min

Consumers offered more cheap deals on meat than healthy food, research finds

Supermarkets are using multibuy promotional deals to encourage shoppers to buy meat and processed meat, despite the products being linked to a heightened risk of cancer, new research reveals.

2 mins

Red flags Holly Newton 'was too young to recognise warning signs'

Logan MacPhail, then 16, was \"calm and emotionless\" when he was arrested after repeatedly stabbing the 15-year-old Holly Newton. When he was told he was being charged with murder, he replied simply: \"Is she dead?\" DS Darren Davies of Northumbria police, who was in charge of the murder investigation, remembered MacPhail's chilling demeanour was the same throughout police interviews.

3 mins

Jealous teenager who stalked and stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death detained for life

An obsessed and jealous teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in an alleyway was detained for life yesterday and told he would serve a minimum of 17 years.

2 mins

Thomas Wei Huang named as boy jailed for private school hammer attack

A 17-year-old boy sentenced to life for attacking two sleeping pupils and a teacher with hammers at a private school can be named after a judge lifted reporting restrictions.

1 min

Austerity policies 'linked to rise in small and premature babies'

The introduction of austerity policies has been associated with a striking increase in the number of babies in Scotland being born smaller or earlier than expected, data suggests.

2 mins

Gone with a bang: Warhol screen prints stolen in explosive heist

Two works from a famous series of screen prints by Andy Warhol were stolen yesterday when thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands, leaving two other works badly damaged in the street as they fled the scene of the botched heist.

1 min

The final cut? Juror #2 and the curious case of Clint Eastwood's missing film

Here is a mystery at the heart of Juror #2, the 40th film directed by Clint Eastwood and - given that he is now 94 - quite possibly the final one.

2 mins

Ikea opens high street restaurant for lovers of Swedish meatballs

Its meatballs are as famous as its flat-pack furniture, with a meal in one of its restaurants often the highlight of an Ikea trip. Now shoppers can enjoy an Ikea meal without lugging around their new kitchen sink, as the furniture company has opened its first standalone restaurant on King Street in Hammersmith, London.

1 min

Race to spend £2bn Ballooning donations fuel advertising assault

It was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris's face on the 35-metre-wide, 111-metre-tall Las Vegas Sphere.

1 min

Race to spend £2bn Ballooning donations fuel advertising assault

It was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris's face on the 35-metre-wide, 111-metre-tall Las Vegas Sphere.

2 mins

Europe's view: Even far-right voters want a win for Harris

Most western Europeans - and even many who vote for far-right parties would like Kamala Harris to win next week, polling suggests.

1 min

Vegas baby Sin City hosts rival rallies as political circus comes to town

Las Vegas serves up spectacle bigger and brasher than anywhere else.

2 mins

Running for his life? Why election day may also be judgment day for Trump

Losing an election for the highest office is a crushing blow that no candidate forgets. But when the American electorate delivers its verdict next week, the personal stakes for Donald Trump will be uniquely high.

5 mins

Pennsylvania Last push to persuade undecided Voters in must-win state

Kamala Harris stood before a cheering crowd of hundreds of her supporters in Philadelphia and promised that she would deliver in Pennsylvania, a battleground state considered a must-win in the electoral college.

4 mins

From voting day to the inauguration A complete guide to the US election

The 60th US presidential election will decide the 47th president - widely held to be the most powerful job in the world - and 50th vice-president.

8 mins

Have they got news for us? How BBC's quiz show has gone down in the US

Have I Got News for You, halfway through its 68th series, is a British institution.

1 min

Yoga, massage and detoxification: om his majesty's secret retreat

For years it has been one of King Charles's favourite sanctuaries for rejuvenation. And as he made the lengthy journey back from his tour of Australia and Samoa this week, it seems the king could not resist a quick spa break at his favourite Indian wellness retreat.

2 mins

Morrissey donates £50,000 to help save Salford Lads Club from closure

Morrissey has donated £50,000 to the Salford Lads Club, the institution pictured on the inner sleeve of the Smiths' 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.

1 min

National insurance rises could devastate social care, charities warn

Services that support some of England's most vulnerable people have warned that tax increases in the budget will lead to cuts and closures that could devastate the charity sector.

4 mins

Tied up Reeves's pussybow blouse has a long history in high-stakes moments

It was a budget the chancellor said would \"match the greatest economic moments in Labour history\", and for the occasion Rachel Reeves chose to wear a garment to match the moment: a pussybow blouse.

2 mins

EU citizen caught up in post-Brexit backlog is removed from Britain

A European Union citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency has been forcibly removed from the UK.

2 mins

Rishi Sunak Former PM 'plans to stay as an MP on backbenches'

Rishi Sunak is planning to stay the course in parliament on the backbenches, as friends said the former prime minister is keen to prove a point after jibes about his potential return to California.

1 min

Who will be the next Tory leader? Kemi Badenoch v Robert Jenrick

Combative culture warrior unafraid to come out swinging Centrist remainer reinvented as anti-immigration populist hardliner

3 mins

'What a privilege': how gratitude is making a TikTok comeback

\"What a privilege it is to run in the rain. What a privilege it is to have a house I need to clean.\" Social media is usually criticised for being a toxic space, but an emerging trend is pushing back against negativity with gratitude.

1 min

'I always know where my keys are': survey backs Saoirse Ronan's words on self-defence

Rarely can 10 words dropped into a TV chatshow have caused such a powerful ripple effect as those of the Blitz actor Saoirse Ronan on The Graham Norton Show.

3 mins

Post-Brexit checks will raise price of Christmas trees, warn importers

Every year hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees make the journey into the UK to take pride of place in living rooms across the country.

2 mins

Sticking to the fax Why Northern rail and Dolly hold on to their old machines

There's not much Dolly Parton and Northern rail bosses can claim to have in common. Frustrated commuters from Manchester to Middlesbrough might complain the train service barely works 9 to 5. What does unite the two is that neither can let go of the fax machine.

3 mins

Police dismissed teenager's sexual assault claim against Fayed in 1995

Police dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of other similar claims.

1 min

Forgotten tragedy: film recalls disaster that left hundreds of allied POWs dead

A Chinese film that brings to light a little-known tragedy from the second world war has been barred from the Oscars best international feature prize because it contains too much English dialogue.

3 mins

'Like a gangster' How Tommy Robinson rose to be leader of Britain's far right

At a 40,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square in London in July, the far-right activist Tommy Robinson was characteristically defiant. \"Death, prison or glory, we will never submit to your lies,\" he declared. \"They want to send me to jail [but] the world will know I told the truth.\"

7 mins

Stage review: Tale of a small-town ogre told by a Virtuoso

What an astonishing performance. In a kind of true-crime version of Under Milk Wood, Jack Holden evokes the life of small-town Skidmore, Missouri, in an audacious display of technical skill.

1 min

Less 'crush and rush'? Euston rule change brings stress relief but station still unloved

Waiting for her train home to Glasgow, Beth Johnson expresses a sentiment familiar to those who regularly travel north out of London: \"Euston is hell.\" The station, a dreaded entry and departure point to and from the capital, is synonymous with nightmarish scenes of overcrowding and passenger crushes caused by last-minute train announcements.

3 mins

A month in Ambridge Poor George, all banged up with the big lads

Poor George, all banged up with the big lads

2 mins

Death toll from Spanish floods rises to 205 as extra troops mobilised

The death toll from the floods in Spain this week has risen to 205, as residents in the Valencia region were warned to brace for more rain and an additional 1,000 soldiers were earmarked to help with the rescue operations.

3 mins

Mass gunfight shows that France is at tipping point over drugs, minister says

A shooting and massive brawl linked to drug trafficking has seriously wounded five people, including three teenagers, in western France, in the latest such gunfight to injure children.

2 mins

Botswana's BDP voted out after 58 years in power

Botswana's president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has conceded defeat as early results from Wednesday's election showed his Botswana Democratic party (BDP) losing by a landslide after nearly six decades in power.

1 min

Huge demand for $700 a month sleeping pods in San Francisco

A company that rents \"sleeping pods\" in downtown San Francisco for $700 (£540) a month has had 300 people apply for its remaining 17 beds, the company's chief executive has said.

1 min

Frozen assets Ski resorts keep their snowfall on ice to beat the climate crisis

Before the arrival of electric fridges and freezers, people across Finland would saw a block of ice from a river or lake before the spring thaw, thickly cover it in an insulating layer of sawdust, and stack it in a barn, pit or ice cellar to be protected from the warm air of the summer months.

3 mins

Apocalyptic conditions Israel's ban on Unrwa 'will mean mass starvation'

In bags were piling up at one end of the chaotic main thoroughfare in Shuafat refugee camp yesterday morning as shoppers walked by, stepping over a stream of wastewater trickling from a nearby drainpipe.

4 mins

Pollution: Lahore and Delhi choke as annual smog rolls in

As the smog descended over Lahore, people began to feel the familiar symptoms. First came the scratchy throat and burning eyes, then the dizziness, tightness in the chest and the dry racking cough.

2 mins

Lebanon PM denies US requested unilateral ceasefire

The US asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire to revive stalled talks to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, according to a report later denied by the Lebanese prime minister.

2 mins

Living in fear of Russia Georgia and Moldova cool on joining the EU

Lately, Levan just can't stop thinking about the time he saw Russian tanks roll into his home town of Gori, an hour's drive from Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.

4 mins

Cloud-milking Extraction of water from fog is revolutionising recovery of forests

Cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water from fog, is revolutionising the recovery of forests devastated by fire and drought.

3 mins

Income inequality rises among European farms

The income gap between the biggest and smallest farms in Europe has doubled in the past 15 years and hit record levels at the same time as the number of small farms has collapsed, a Guardian analysis of agricultural income data has found.

2 mins

'Everything is expensive' No end to price pressures for your average family

I sort of assumed the cost of living crisis would be temporary and things would go back to how they were before,\" said Jess Daly. \"Maybe I was being naive. Everything is just expensive now.

4 mins

US adds only 12,000 jobs in final report before election, as hurricanes and strike bite

The US added only 12,000 jobs last month, less than a tenth of the number economists had forecast, a figure affected by the strike at Boeing and two hurricanes, in a final snapshot of the employment market before the country chooses a new president.

2 mins

House price rises slow but stamp duty move may lead to 'buyer rush'

The growth in UK house prices slowed unexpectedly last month, Nationwide said, as it warned buyers to expect a rush in transactions early next year prompted by changes to stamp duty rules in the budget.

1 min

Superstar of cuteness Hello Kitty turns 50 and makes $4bn a year

She sports a signature red bow; her hobbies are travelling, reading and baking, and - despite celebrating her 50th birthday - she stands at only five apples tall.

2 mins

Budget checklist What you need to do now to make the most of your cash

Rachel Reeves's changes could make a difference to the tax you pay. Rupert Jones, Hilary Osborne and Shane Hickey report

5 mins

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