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Warner Exits Test Stage Boasting Rich Tapestry Of Chaos And Artistry
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Warner Exits Test Stage Boasting Rich Tapestry Of Chaos And Artistry

For the man who was once aboy heralding the game's future, something a little old-fashioned leaves with him

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January 08, 2024
COP29 Host Azerbaijan Will Boost Gas Output By A Third
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COP29 Host Azerbaijan Will Boost Gas Output By A Third

Azerbaijan, which is to host this year's UN climate talks, plans to increase its fossil fuel production by a third over the next decade, according to an analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian.

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January 08, 2024
I Am Not Ready': Nadal Pulls Out Of Australian Open With Injury
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I Am Not Ready': Nadal Pulls Out Of Australian Open With Injury

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open after an MRI scan revealed that he had sustained a micro tear on a muscle at the Brisbane International, creating fresh concern that the 37-year-old may have played his final professional match in Australia.

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January 08, 2024
Díaz condemns wasteful Arsenal to miserable exit
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Díaz condemns wasteful Arsenal to miserable exit

It was one of those days when Arsenal might have played for another 90 minutes and failed to score. It was all so deeply frustrating for Mikel Arteta and the home support.

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January 08, 2024
Gibbs-White strike earns replay after Blackpool's fast start
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Gibbs-White strike earns replay after Blackpool's fast start

How Nottingham Forest must yearn for a little mundanity. Even by the standards of this endearingly quirky football club, the past few weeks have been chaotic.

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January 08, 2024
Dike delivers on return to end Aldershot's adventure
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Dike delivers on return to end Aldershot's adventure

Abit like Christmas, much of the magic was in the buildup, the outcome all but decided inside half an hour, but Tommy Widdrington, the Aldershot manager, is still daring to dream of Wembley.

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January 08, 2024
Gloucester undone by Englefield error as Bath climb to third
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Gloucester undone by Englefield error as Bath climb to third

Some mistakes are so frustrating they can defy an analyst's algorithm and turn a game on their own. Just after half-time, Gloucester's scrum-half, Caolan Englefield, offered a perfect case study of the phenomenon.

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January 08, 2024
Rybakina wins Brisbane title in ominous style
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Rybakina wins Brisbane title in ominous style

Elena Rybakina trounced the Australian Open champion, Aryna Sabalenka, 6-0, 6-3 to storm to the Brisbane International title.

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January 08, 2024
Out with the boiler Is investing in an air source heat pump at home a good idea?
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Out with the boiler Is investing in an air source heat pump at home a good idea?

Gillian Woodward, 50, says her house has been \"completely transformed for the better\" by installing an air source heat pump. Woodward, a community nurse in north Wales, was \"astounded\" to discover that she was eligible for a governmentbacked means-tested grant that covered the whole cost of insulating and installing a heat pump in her home.

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January 08, 2024
Photographer seeks solace in poetry after horror of Russian missile attack
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Photographer seeks solace in poetry after horror of Russian missile attack

On 27 June, a Russian Iskander missile struck a bustling pizza restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.

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January 08, 2024
European Council chief sparks race to stop Orbán taking helm
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European Council chief sparks race to stop Orbán taking helm

The European Council president, Charles Michel, has said he will run as an MEP in June's European elections and stand down if elected, sparking a race to replace him or risk the role reverting to Hungary's nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán.

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January 08, 2024
Beyond books European cities embrace new era of libraries as living rooms
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Beyond books European cities embrace new era of libraries as living rooms

Outside the futuristic glass-and-metal tiers of De Krook, Ghent's city library, stand four giant, brightly painted figures  leaning in towards each other - as if telling each other something.

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January 08, 2024
Proxy campaign Ex-president leaves bulk of legwork in Iowa to surrogates
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Proxy campaign Ex-president leaves bulk of legwork in Iowa to surrogates

Outside, traders braved the bitter cold to sell Trump hats, T-shirts and other merchandise.

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January 08, 2024
Labour and Tories to set out rival plans to cut school absences
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Labour and Tories to set out rival plans to cut school absences

Labour has pledged to reset the \"broken relationship between schools and families\" by tackling the crisis in pupil absences and child mental health, in advance of rival policy announcements from the party and the government this week.

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January 08, 2024
Boeing faces fresh scrutiny as US grounds 737 Max 9 jets after door panel blowout
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Boeing faces fresh scrutiny as US grounds 737 Max 9 jets after door panel blowout

The American jetmaker was facing fresh scrutiny as regulators temporarily grounded the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft after a section of a plugged exit door on an Alaska Airlines flight detached 16,000ft (4,900 metres) above Portland, Oregon, on Friday with 171 passengers and six crew onboard. The plane had been modified, requiring fewer emergency exits because it had fewer seats.

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January 08, 2024
UK surgeon who led Europe's first liver transplant dies at 93
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UK surgeon who led Europe's first liver transplant dies at 93

Professor Sir Roy Calne, the pioneering surgeon who led a team that performed the first liver transplant in Europe, has died at the age of 93.

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January 08, 2024
Chancellor taken to task over defence of North Sea oil and gas
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Chancellor taken to task over defence of North Sea oil and gas

Jeremy Hunt has come under fire from the head of the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) over his assurances that the government can meet its climate targets while allowing companies to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea.

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January 08, 2024
Sotheby's faces New York trial over Russian oligarch's claim it aided in fraud
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Sotheby's faces New York trial over Russian oligarch's claim it aided in fraud

A Russian oligarch will accuse Sotheby's this week of helping an art dealer to trick him into overpaying for art masterpieces including Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which went on to become the most expensive artwork ever sold.

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January 08, 2024
"I was just terrified' The people whose lives were changed for ever
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"I was just terrified' The people whose lives were changed for ever

The Post Office's pursuit of 3.500 operators over 16 years with wrongful allegations including theft had a huge effect on the innocent people targeted. Mark Sweney highlights a few of the cases

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January 08, 2024
Trusts accused of exaggerating staff shortages to weaken strike
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Trusts accused of exaggerating staff shortages to weaken strike

Hospitals are exaggerating how short-staffed they are to try to get junior doctors to break their strike and return to work, according to the British Medical Association.

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January 08, 2024
Wuthering blight? Plan for windfarm on moors where Brontës wandered
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Wuthering blight? Plan for windfarm on moors where Brontës wandered

Heathcliff! It's me, Cathy, I'm up by the wind turbines.\" It's not quite what Kate Bush had 'in mind, and probably not what Emily Brontë imagined when she wandered the Yorkshire moors and created Wuthering Heights.

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January 08, 2024
Spanish woman removed from UK after returning from visit to family
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Spanish woman removed from UK after returning from visit to family

A 34-year-old Spanish woman was forcibly removed from the UK after returning from a Christmas holiday near Málaga despite presenting Brexit paperwork to border officials showing she has a right to live and work in the country.

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January 08, 2024
Channel 4 may cut 200 staff after ad income falls
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Channel 4 may cut 200 staff after ad income falls

Channel 4 is drawing up plans to cut as many as 200 jobs in the biggest round of redundancies in more than 15 years, amid the worst TV advertising downturn since 2008.

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January 08, 2024
Post Office suspected of further injustices
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Post Office suspected of further injustices

The Post Office is suspected of wrongly prosecuting dozens more operators who took part in a pilot scheme of the faulty Horizon system, the Guardian has been told.

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January 08, 2024
Top Tory says party faces 'obliteration' in election
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Top Tory says party faces 'obliteration' in election

The Conservatives face “obliteration” at the next election after leaving the country in a worse state than they inherited it in 2010, a senior Tory MP has warned, in a stark assessment of the party’s 13 years in government.

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January 08, 2024
The man behind campaign to force Harvard's president to resign
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The man behind campaign to force Harvard's president to resign

Chief among the campaigners celebrating the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University was a man who arguably did the most to push Gay, Harvard's first black president, out of the door: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager and Harvard alumnus.

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January 06, 2024
Pistorius, freed on parole, to attend anger and violence courses
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Pistorius, freed on parole, to attend anger and violence courses

Reeva Steenkamp's mother, June, has said the family \"are the ones serving a life sentence\" after Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole.

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January 06, 2024
'We're playing Whac-A-Mole' Is the aid system broken and how could it be fixed?
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'We're playing Whac-A-Mole' Is the aid system broken and how could it be fixed?

The queue for water at Metche, a camp of 40,000 refugees on the Sudan-Chad border, starts at dawn and lasts until sunset. The aid agencies helping the people there, who fled fighting in Sudan last year, do not have enough money to drill boreholes, so there is a chronic water shortage.

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January 06, 2024
Buddymoon Newlyweds opt to take friends on honeymoon
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Buddymoon Newlyweds opt to take friends on honeymoon

Jess Robinson and her husband Keiran have always enjoyed holidays and big gatherings with friends and family so decided against a J honeymoon, instead inviting their guests to join them on a \"buddymoon\".

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January 06, 2024
Guardian charity appeal Why a safe place to call home is life-changing for refugee women
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Guardian charity appeal Why a safe place to call home is life-changing for refugee women

At the end of a quiet cul-de-sac 10 minutes' drive from Manchester city centre is a house with A a white front door. Inside live five female refugees from Eritrea. The neat, terraced property, they say, has provided them with a lifeline.

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January 06, 2024