The Guardian - November 20, 2024

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November 20, 2024

Fears grow over Russian hybrid warfare campaign against west

Kremlin vows to respond after US allows Ukraine to use long-range missiles

4 mins

Winter fuel cut could put 100,000 in poverty

Cuts to the winter fuel allowance could force 100,000 pensioners into relative poverty, government analysis has shown, as ministers come under mounting pressure over a number of measures in last month's budget.

3 mins

Streeting orders review into role of physician associates in NHS

Wes Streeting has ordered a review of what physician associates do in the NHS, amid growing alarm in the medical profession about patient safety.

3 mins

Zoe Ball steps down from BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show to 'focus on family'

The BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball is stepping down from her breakfast slot after six years to be replaced by Scott Mills.

3 mins

Manifest's destiny: Cambridge names it the word ofthe year

\"Manifest\", meaning to dream or will something into existence, has been named the word of 2024 by Cambridge Dictionary, after a surge of celebrity-inspired popularity on social media.

2 mins

Macho society must change attitude, Gisele Pelicot tells court in rape trial

Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged by her husband and allegedly raped by dozens of men he invited into her bedroom, has told a court that \"macho\" society must change its attitude on rape.

3 mins

MPs to call on Musk to testify about X's role in August riots

MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the riots in the UK in August and the rise of false and harmful content disseminated by artificial intelligence.

2 mins

Family of woman found dead in car in London say police failed her

The family of a woman found dead in a car boot in east London have accused police of not doing enough to protect her, saying she had filed a complaint alleging domestic abuse by her husband weeks before.

3 mins

Starmer declines to condemn jailing of Hong Kong activists

Keir Starmer has twice declined to directly condemn the jailing of dozens of Hong Kong's pro-democracy figures after meeting China's president at the G20 summit in Brazil.

2 mins

Starmer denies waging class war as farmers talk of being 'betrayed'

Keir Starmer has denied that he is mounting a class war by targeting wealthy landowners and private schools, after the head of the National Farmers' Union accused the government of an extraordinary \"betrayal\" over inheritance tax changes.

3 mins

'It's a way of life' Tweed ancl tractors descend on streets of Westminster

Honking tractors carrying young farmers and a sea of people clad in tweed and wellies signalled the countryside had come to the capital yesterday to demand the scrapping of Labour's budget changes to inheritance tax on agricultural businesses.

3 mins

Clarkson leaves to applause, While the man from the ministry has a day to forget

It was a very civilised protest. The sort you might expect from roughly 10,000 asset-rich, cash-poor millionaire farmers from all over the country.

2 mins

Being fit could lower risk of dementia and delay its onset, study suggests

Being physically fit could lower the risk of dementia and delay the development of the disease by almost 18 months, research has found. Exercise could even help people who are genetically more predisposed to dementia to cut their risk by up to 35%.

1 min

First taste of winter snow brings closures and travel disruption

Large parts of the UK were blanketed with snow yesterday as the country got its \"first taste of winter\", which brought school closures, train delays, difficult driving conditions and an appeal to check in on vulnerable people.

2 mins

Cock-a-doodle-don't: man is fined over his noisy cockerel

A man has been fined after his pet cockerel subjected neighbours in a quiet street to \"torture\" by repeatedly crowing as early as 3am.

1 min

Film review Erivo casts powerful spell in sugar-rush fantasy

As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk discovered: it's not easy being green. Now another verdant character is gleefully brought to the screen by lyricist-producer Stephen Schwartz, screenwriters Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, and director Jon M Chu in an adaptation of Schwartz's Broadway musical, the first of two parts.

2 mins

Baltic Sea Germany 'assumes cable damage was sabotage'

Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibreoptic cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

1 min

Zelenskyy Ukraine 'could face loo,ooo North Korean troops'

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country could face 100,000 North Korean troops, as he urged European nations to intensify military aid in a speech marking 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

2 mins

Nuclear power Attacks on grid 'raise the risk of catastrophe'

Ukraine's power network is at \"heightened risk of catastrophic failure\" after Russia's missile and drone attack on Sunday, Greenpeace has warned, raising fears about the safety of the country's three operational nuclear power stations.

2 mins

Parents' dismay at baby girl's irreversible male birth certificate

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar's error, which her parents have been told they can't change.

2 mins

Man, 92, arrested over 1967 rape and murder

A 92-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering a woman in Bristol almost 60 years ago.

2 mins

You're having a larf? Fake accents fool Londoners, study shows

It seems Londoners, and southerners more broadly, are among the worst at spotting people mimicking their accents, with northerners, Scots and the Irish performing better.

1 min

Romanian court finds flaws in case against Tate

A court in Romania has ruled that one of the public prosecutors' cases brought against the self-styled misogynist influencer Andrew Tate contains irregularities and ordered them to amend or withdraw it within five days.

1 min

Booker-winner Flanagan takes Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction.

2 mins

Knife crime 'blighting lives of too many children', says report

Serious youth violence in England is widespread and not restricted to particular ethnic or demographic groups, according to investigators who were told that children as young as 11 were carrying knives for protection.

2 mins

Woman reveals toll of 'c0ercive' relationship with police spy

A woman has revealed how an undercover police officer formed a long-term intimate relationship with her without disclosing his real identity, Vanished from her life and then reappeared seven years later.

3 mins

England's national parks face financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs

England's national parks face a 12% real-terms cut to their budget which would lead to mass redundancies of wardens and the closure of visitor centres and other facilities, park leaders have warned.

2 mins

Compassionate assisted dying bill backed by health minister

The health minister Stephen Kinnock has said he will Vote in favour of the assisted dying bill next week, arguing that it is the \"compassionate\" thing to do and will not automatically place NHS palliative care services under extreme pressure.

1 min

The climate in charts No sign of emissions slowing in bleak year

\"The era of global boiling has arrived,\" is what the UN chief, António Guterres, presciently declared last year.

3 mins

Meandering look at era of protest and change is low on punky irreverence

Picture the 1980s in Britain, and what comes to mind? Margaret Thatcher? Big hair? Striking miners? Shoulder pads? The poll tax? Greenham Common? New Romantics? Yuppies? Dole queues? Whatever you know, or indeed remember, of the country in its Sinclair C5 era, Tate’s exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain will remind you that there is an abundance of other perspectives.

2 mins

Hong Kong's jailing of pro-democracy activists provokes international fury

Governments and human rights groups have expressed concern and outrage at the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong following the city's largest national security trial.

3 mins

Looting of 98 aid trucks in Gaza sends price of flour to £80 a sack

Food prices have soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks amid an already severe food crisis caused by more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.

2 mins

Gaetz nomination 'A less than 50-50 chance'

Prosecutors who secured Donald Trump's conviction over a hush-money payment have opposed his bid to have the case dismissed.

2 mins

Pressure grows on Scholz to stand aside for Pistorius

Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party's candidate for the job in February's election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius.

1 min

Conor McGregor accuser will be 'a marked woman', Dublin jury told

A woman who alleges the Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor brutally raped her after a Christmas party six years ago in Dublin will \"always be a marked woman,\" simply because she had the courage to stand up to the fighter, a jury has been told.

1 min

South African officials weigh up rescue of trapped miners

South African authorities are assessing whether it is safe to rescue potentially thousands of illegal miners who may be trapped underground after police stopped food, water and medicine being delivered to them about two weeks ago to try to force them to the surface.

1 min

'Peaky Blinders' thieves still at large after 2002 Dutch gem heist

Police have said they remain confident of arresting four men who stole jewels worth tens of millions of euros in broad daylight at the Maastricht art fair, despite a search of a Belgian river failing to yield any clues.

1 min

Thousands of New Zealanders march against Maori treaty bill

A protest march estimated to be one ofthe largest in New Zealand history arrived at its parliament yesterday, flooding the grounds with song in a display of unity against a contro Versial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty between Maori and the crown.

3 mins

'Like a dream' Basquiat, Dali and Haring's theme park rides again

Five years ago, the creative director Michael Goldberg was working from home when he spotted a reference to Luna Luna on an obscure website. \"I may have yelled on my couch,\" he says. Goldberg had chanced upon the lost world of Luna Luna, an avant-garde \"theme park\" staged in Hamburg in 1987, created by the artist Andre Heller, which featured surreal and playful rides designed by the great and the good of the art world.

3 mins

Mulberry to cut a quarter of HQ staff amid losses

The luxury bag maker Mulberry is cutting a quarter of its head office staff after reporting that half-year sales had slumped by almost a fifth and losses had widened.

1 min

Google may be forced to sell off Chrome browser

US Department of Justice officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser to dismantle the monopoly it has over the internet search market, in a major intervention against one of the world's biggest tech companies.

2 mins

Stock markets fall and bonds jump amid fear of escalation in Ukraine war

Global stock markets fell and bond prices jumped yesterday after reports that Ukraine had fired a US-made long-range missile into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin approved changes to Moscow's nuclear doctrine.

1 min

The nation's retailers deserve a break, but their letter to Reeves Won 't prompt a rethink

While hundreds of farmers took to the streets of Westminster, the nation's shopkeepers protested in the old-fashioned way.

2 mins

Stars on tour drive record £7.6bn year for UK music industry

The value of the UK music industry has hit a record £7.6bn after superstar acts including Elton John, Beyonce, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran embarked on Covid-delayed tours.

1 min

Pension fund loses more than £350m on incinerator power plants

One of the UK's biggest pension funds has lost more than £350m on a series of \"calamitous\" investments in incinerator power plants which are expected to go bust in the coming days.

1 min

ONS may have 'lost' a million workers from job figures since the pandemic

Policymakers have been \"left in the dark\" by omcial jobs figures since the pandemic which may have \"lost\" almost a million workers, according to a Resolution Foundation report.

2 mins

Constitution Hill 'defeat' a twist before return

As Nicky Henderson said one thing about Constitution Hill after his exercise gallop at Newbury yesterday morning, the betting markets said another. That just added another twist in the buildup to his muchanticipated return to action at Newcastle in 10 days, time.

1 min

Hatton ready for Ryder Cup warm-up as LIV cold war thaws

The latest indication of thawing relations between golf's establishment and LIV rebels is expected today, with Tyrrell Hatton to be named in the European Ryder Cup team's warm-up event in Abu Dhabi. Sergio Garcia, however, will miss out despite paying around Elm in fines to rejoin the DP World Tour.

1 min

"There are times you just need to survive day-by-day mentally'

The big interview Toto Wolff Mercedes F1 team principal on his struggles with mental health, losing Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari and the accusations against his wife, Susie

7 mins

Lawrence: Eddie's tough love was the making of me

Ollie Lawrence has revealed he questioned why Eddie Jones was \"on his case so much\" when he was the England head coach but has since reached the conclusion the Australian's home truths have been the making of him.

2 mins

Wales seal promotion after Cullen sparks emphatic win

Given the strides Wales have made under Craig Bellamy in the past three months, for supporters the only dampener is that they now have to wait another four to witness the next step on this journey.

3 mins

Plans to play Barcelona v Atletico in Miami dropped

La Liga has dropped plans to host next month's fixture between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the US, although the Spanish top flight still intends to host domestic games abroad in future.

1 min

Wiegman 'concerned' by Kelly's lack of game time before USA test

Sarina Wiegman said Chloe Kelly's lack of action for Manchester City was concerning after including the forward in the England squad to play friendlies against USA and Switzerland.

2 mins

Chelsea criticise homophobic abuse of Kerr and Mewis

Chelsea's captain Millie Bright and manager Sonia Bompastor have strongly condemned homophobic abuse aimed at Sam Kerr, after the Chelsea striker and her partner, West Ham's Kristie Mewis, shared news that they are expecting a baby.

2 mins

Nadal reliant on rescue from Spain teammates after singles defeat

As the Spanish national anthem rang out for possibly the final time in his career, Rafael Nadal could not stop his emotions from flowing.

3 mins

Great Britain 'gutted' after dramatic loss extends 43-year wait

Great Britain's hopes of reaching the Billie Jean King Cup final for the first time in 43 years were ended as they suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat by a spirited Slovakia team yesterday.

3 mins

Fifth runner disqualified from London's dirtiest race

The London 2012 race, regarded as one of the dirtiest in history, has expunged yet another name from the record books after Tatyana Tomashova was stripped of her women's Olympic 1500m silver medal.

1 min

Guardiola agrees City contract extension

Pep Guardiola has agreed a new one-year contract with Manchester City in a huge boost for the Premier League champions, the new terms taking his tenure to the summer of 2026.

1 min

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