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Dimbleby in his dotage is a devilish delight. RFK Jr’s bare chest, not so much

It’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned-around memoir by the former New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who took on the challenge of explaining what it is about Robert F Kennedy Jr she found so alluring.

4 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Gambling Secretive world in which big losers are bought and sold

The world of professional gambling is secretive by design.

5 min  |

December 06, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

'He is Heathcliff'

Margot Robbie defends new Wuthering Heights casting

3 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Number of streets named after birds soars despite falling populations

Skylarks, lapwings and starlings are increasingly being spotted on lists of British street names, even as bird populations decline in the wild.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Seeds of destruction

Flowers that saved Iceland's soil - then caused a crisis

3 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

More than 200 community groups object to ‘ruthless’ asylum plans

The home secretary has been urged not to “play into the hands of those seeking to build division” by more than 200 UK community groups who have described Shabana Mahmood’s plans to overhaul the asylum system as “cruel” and “ruthless”.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under digital laws

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has been fined €120m (£105m) after it was found in breach of new EU digital laws, in a ruling likely to put the European Commission on a collision course with the US billionaire and potentially Donald Trump.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

'Without unity, we can't beat them'

MP seeks to rally French left for battle

3 min  |

December 06, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Police patience pays off as theft suspect lays golden egg

Police in New Zealand say they have recovered a Fabergé egg pendant from a man accused of swallowing the item in a jewellery store.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

US weighs up broader sanctions on Sudan's army and rival RSF

The US is considering a much broader range of sanctions on the belligerents in the war in Sudan, in a tacit acknowledgment of the inability of the US envoy, Massad Boulos, to persuade the parties to accept a ceasefire.

3 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Facial recognition more likely to wrongly flag black and Asian people

Ministers are facing calls for stronger safeguards on the use of facial recognition technology after the Home Office admitted it was more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than white people on some settings.

2 min  |

December 06, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery in an $83bn deal set to shake up the industry

Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery in an $82.7bn (£62bn) deal that will dramatically reshape the Hollywood film and TV industry.

3 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Landscape recovery under threat as contracts can be 'ripped up after a year'

An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over the course of decades has been dealt a blow after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with just a year’s notice, conservationists have said.

2 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

An antidote to hate

This year's appeal is in honour of those keeping hope alive

4 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Flights resume after Edinburgh airport IT failure

Edinburgh airport was forced to temporarily suspend flights yesterday morning because of an IT problem in air traffic control.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Putin defies Trump with continued Russian oil shipments to India

Vladimir Putin has told the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, that Russia is ready to continue “uninterrupted” shipments of oil to India, signalling a defiant stance to the US as the two leaders met in Delhi and affirmed that their ties were “resilient to external pressure”.

2 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Jamie Oliver to revive his Italian brand six years after its collapse

Jamie Oliver is to revive his restaurant chain in the UK, more than six years after the celebrity chef’s brand collapsed.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

First-time buyers in best position for a decade, says Halifax

Those attempting to get on the UK property ladder are in the best position to buy a home in a decade, figures from Halifax show.

1 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

IVF couples in Britain use legal loophole to get IQ predictions

Couples undergoing IVF in the UK are exploiting an apparent legal loophole to rank their embryos based on genetic predictions of IQ, height and health, the Guardian has learned.

3 min  |

December 06, 2025

The Guardian

Queer as flock ‘Rainbow wool’ from gay rams hits the catwalk

When a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip and takes a deep breath - what’s known in animal husbandry as a “flehmen response” - it’s often a sign of arousal.

3 min  |

December 06, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Fizz-fuelled lust drives Coward comedy

Some revivals really do need the drama of their original setting. Noël Coward’s comedy of (wishful) female infidelity is one such play, first performed 100 years ago and brought to life now as a period piece that offers insight into the mores of the day - and Coward’s fearlessness in the face of bourgeois morality.

1 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Magassa's Hammer blow denies United

Until Soungoutou Magassa’s 83rdminute equaliser Manchester United seemed to be flowering in the cold of winter on the way to a win that would have been their fifth in eight games.

3 min  |

December 05, 2025

The Guardian

Man 'known to synagogue attacker' is charged with terror offences

A man has been charged with assisting the Manchester synagogue attacker Jihad al-Shamie by carrying out earlier reconnaissance on a UK defence facility.

1 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Lessons 'not learned' on Salisbury poisonings

The family of a British woman killed in the Wiltshire nerve agent poisonings have strongly criticised the British authorities for not doing more to keep the public safe, and believe that lessons have not been learned from her death.

3 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

'A very English war'

The communities fighting back over flags on lamp-posts

6 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

Boycotts as Eurovision clears Israel to compete

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

3 min  |

December 05, 2025

The Guardian

Referees' chair Collina backs VAR for corners at World Cup

Pierluigi Collina has said he would be in favour of the use of the video assistant referee system to determine whether corners have been correctly awarded at the World Cup.

1 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

'One of his best'

Root finally weighs in with Ashes ton away from home

2 min  |

December 05, 2025
The Guardian

The Guardian

'US may betray you': Macron gives reported warning to Zelenskyy

Emmanuel Macron has reportedly warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory, without clarity on security guarantees”, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported, quoting a leaked note from a recent call with European leaders.

3 min  |

December 05, 2025

The Guardian

Bump in the road

Zipcar's departure leaves car club users scrambling

4 min  |

December 05, 2025