The Guardian - October 05, 2024

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October 05, 2024

Police 'took bribes to help AI Fayed persecute staff'

Scotland Yard is facing claims that corrupt police officers helped Mohamed AI Fayed in persecuting members of his staff, including a young woman who allegedly rebuffed the Harrods owner's sexual advances.

5 mins

Cabinet set for split on assisted dying vote as Miliband backs the bill

MPs backing a new bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales hope to secure a Commons vote by Christmas, but cabinet ministers are set for a big split over support for the legislation.

3 mins

Freedom of speech? Argentina's leader 'lifted' lines straight from the West Wing

Argentina's rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the UN general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.

3 mins

You can't beat a bit of Freddie: Flintoff to host Bullseye revival

Andrew Flintoff is to relaunch his television hosting career by fronting a one-off Christmas special of the gameshow Bullseye.

1 min

Campbell says she failed in her charity duties but denies any personal gain

Naomi Campbell has admitted she failed in her duties as a trustee at the Fashion for Relief charity she founded - but insisted she never engaged in financial misconduct or used the charity for personal gain during its chaotic nine-year existence.

2 mins

Inquest into yacht deaths told millionaire died from drowning

The tech tycoon Mike Lynch's cause of death has been recorded as drowning after the Bayesian superyacht disaster, but his daughter's death is still under investigation, an inquest has heard.

2 mins

Hunt is on for the right kind of oak to rebuild Sutton Hoo's extraordinary Anglo-Saxon ship

The aim is ambitious: to complete a functioning reconstruction of the extraordinary Sutton Hoo burial ship by 2026 and test it on the river and sea, hopefully providing fresh insight into life in Anglo-Saxon times.

2 mins

Ehud Barak 'Nuclear sites could face symbolic hit'

Israel is likely to mount a large-scale airstrike against Iran's oil industry and possibly a symbolic attack on a military target related to its nuclear programme, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has predicted.

1 min

'Nir Oz was a paradise' Life stands still at kibbutz ravaged by Hamas

Post is no longer delivered to Nir Oz; the lights in the mailroom are off and the floor is gathering dust. Many of the metal boxes bearing each family's name now have new labels: red and black stickers that say \"killed\" or \"hostage\".

5 mins

Met officers in stop and search of top athletes get jobs back

Two former Metropolitan police officers who were sacked over a stop and search involving the British athlete Bianca Williams have been given back their jobs after winning an appeal.

2 mins

Industry on Industry Does financial drama chime with the lives of real City traders?

As the latest series of acclaimed TV drama Industry returns to screens with much fanfare, eagleeyed viewers may have spotted a cameo in episode two from what appears to be the Guardian's own business blog.

2 mins

Boris Johnson's memoir tops Amazon UK sales list before publication

Boris Johnson's memoir, Unleashed, which will be published next week, is already topping an Amazon UK books bestseller list, outselling recently published novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman.

2 mins

Starmer defends Chagos deal as Tory ex-ministers criticise each other

Keir Starmer yesterday defended giving up UK control of the Chagos Islands, as the decision descended into a political blame game among Conservative leadership candidates.

2 mins

Royal Navy apologises for 'intolerable' misogyny exposed on submarines

The head of the Royal Navy has issued an unreserved apology for \"intolerable\" misogyny within the Submarine Service, after a slew of investigations exposed sexual harassment, bullying and assault of women within its ranks.

3 mins

Inquest into baby death in 2014 told of years of 'dishonesty' by hospital

A grieving mother has told an inquest how secretive, evasive and \"patronising\" behaviour by NHS staff was \"traumatic\" and led to her spending years seeking the truth about her daughter's death.

3 mins

Renaissance men Midlife makeovers steal the spotlight at Paris fashion shows

Twenty-something pop singers are usually the default stars of fashion week. But it was older men who unexpectedly stole the spotlight at the latest Paris shows.

2 mins

Antarctica 'greens' at dramatic rate as heating brings profound change to icy continent

Plant cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has soared more than tenfold over the last few decades, as the climate crisis heats up the icy continent.

2 mins

Packham joins activist body but says 'stop disruption'

Climate activists need to stop blocking roads and start holding fossil fuel executives personally to account, Chris Packham has said, shortly after being appointed to the board of one of the biggest activist funds in the world.

2 mins

Obama to hit the Harris campaign trail in blitz on key battlegrounds

Barack Obama will go on the road to campaign for Kamala Harris next week as she and her Republican challenger, Donald Trump, prepare to crisscross the battleground states that will probably decide the 2024 presidential election, now just one month away.

3 mins

Evidence of boy's abuse prompts review of Menendez killers case

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city's district attorney said Thursday.

2 mins

Bet365 saved up to £140m in tax from boss's charity fund

A charity set up by the billionaire boss of Bet365, Denise Coates, may have saved her online gambling empire more in tax than the foundation has so far given to good causes, a Guardian analysis suggests.

2 mins

Dovid Efune Why frontrunner to buy Telegraph is causing alarm

A little over a decade ago Dovid Efune was juggling the editorship of the New York-based Jewish publication the Algemeiner Journal while also handling publicity for Israel's first world boxing champion.

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