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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.

Starmer signals huge increase in UK green investment

Keir Starmer has signalled that his government will drastically increase its green investment plans in an attempt to avoid a rerun of 1980s-style industrial decline by safeguarding jobs in heartland manufacturing communities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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\".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dewsbury-Hall delivers as Gent hit by goal rush

With every result, Enzo Maresca is making Chelsea believe again.

'My home record is bloody good so it's hard to match that'

Chris Woakes is ready for the challenge of leading England's Test attack in Pakistan and justifying Brendon McCullum's faith in his ability overseas

Brewer to reduce emissions by making beer using heat pump

An independent brewery in West Sussex is poised to become the first in Britain to make its beer using an ultra-high-temperature heat pump in place of an oil boiler.

Carmakers complain of pressure to hit EV targets despite record sales in September

UK electric car sales hit a record high in September, even as bosses from major carmakers told the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, that government targets were putting too much pressure on the industry.

Bank of England monitoring crisis in the Middle East 'extremely closely'

The Bank of England is monitoring the Middle East crisis amid fears that a worsening conflict between Iran and Israel will make it impossible to stabilise oil prices and leave the global economy vulnerable to a 1970s-style energy shock.

'Speak the truth' Russia's opposition is rocked by claims over attack on Navalny ally

When Leonid Volkov, a longtime associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was brutally attacked with a hammer outside his home in Lithuania in March, it initially seemed yet another case of the Kremlin hunting down its enemies abroad.

Deaths from Hurricane Helene pass 200 a week after storm

A week after Hurricane Helene made landfall in the US, search-and-rescue teams are continuing to search for missing people in parts of the south-east that were devastated by the storm.