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The allergy timebomb
More and more youngsters are suffering extreme allergic reactions to everyday foods. What can be done to help the families living with constant terror?
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July 21, 2023
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'Life and death' - Stars argue action is aimed at protecting jobbing players
A lot of people are on the margins...this isn't an academic exercise
3 min |
July 21, 2023
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The quest for equity - What has been going on behind the scenes of raised fists?
63 Years since actors and writers last joined forces against the studios to fight for improved payments, including cover for healthcare
3 min |
July 21, 2023
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Lights! Camera! Industrial action!
Hollywood actors pulled focus as they joined a long-running strike by screenwriters who want to revisit how studios pay them for their work in an age of streaming and artificial intelligence
4 min |
July 21, 2023
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Imperial measures
This account of three South Asian nations and their journey to independence embraces food, cinema and personal history
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Blonde versus bombshell
In the pink corner, Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie. In the other, Christopher Nolan's epic Oppenheimer. Which will triumph in the box office smackdown?
4 min |
July 14, 2023
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Why women love the Boss
Bruce Springsteen is seen as one of the quintessential writers of male experience, but as a new book explores, his connection with female listeners is just as complex
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Africa, by Africans
A remarkable new photography show reveals a liberated view of the continent
6 min |
July 14, 2023
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It's only rock'n'roll, but the old timers teach us about more than music - Jonathan Freedland
It's a paper ticket, from before the age of the QR code, and it announces the Rolling Stones at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 26 June 1982. I was 15, but I still remember the buildup - the papers full of jokes about the band needing Zimmer frames to reach the stage and, perhaps, more frequent bathroom breaks. They called them \"the Strolling Bones\". On that day, Mick Jagger was 38 years old.
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July 14, 2023
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Addictive apps are bad for children's health it's time for regulation - Devi Sridhar
WhatsApp is for old people. At least that's what my first-year medical students tell me. Young people, especially teenagers, communicate through Snapchat, an app that reaches 90% of 13-to 24-year-olds and 75% of 13- to 34-year-olds across the UK.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Why is it so hard to create policies to effectively solve race inequality? - Kenan Malik
Should public policy be \"race-conscious\" or \"colour blind\"? Should it target the specific inequalities faced by minority groups or treat all citizens equally without any reference to individuals' racial and cultural backgrounds?
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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AI Utopia or dystopia?
From curing cancer to fighting the climate crisis, artificial intelligence could herald a limitless new dawn for humanity. Alternatively, it could just decide to wipe us all out. Steve Rose asks technology experts about the best and worst-case scenarios
10+ min |
July 14, 2023
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Boxed in
Extreme hoarding is more than just 'too much stuff'. It can be a distressing and dangerous condition that requires careful, targeted help
10+ min |
July 14, 2023
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With Trump in trouble, Republicans go for justice department
When Merrick Garland was nominated to the US supreme court by Barack Obama, Republicans refused to grant him a hearing. Now that Garland is the top law enforcement official in America, the party seems ready to give him one after all - an impeachment hearing.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Threads threat Zuckerberg's plan for the unravelling of Twitter
If Threads truly is going to upstage Twitter, then it claims it is going to do it with \"kindness\". Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta launched the social media platform last week, said positivity would be a big difference in a product that looks remarkably similar to its rival.
2 min |
July 14, 2023
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Hey, suckers
Biologist David Scheel's new study of the octopus separates misconceptions from the often more extraordinary facts
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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The female divers plucking waste from out the blue
The yacht Diversity leaves the harbour of Aqaba, the only coastal town in Jordan. To the right is the Israeli resort of Eilat; in the Red Sea, a boxfish makes leisurely circles in absurdly clear, turquoise water.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Last dance? Istanbul nightlife in peril as 100% inflation hits
It's 11pm at a rooftop restaurant overlooking Istanbul and the patrons are ready to party. In a corner, neon lights illuminate a DJ pumping Turkish pop music to long tables of patrons loose on raki, Turkey's aniseed-flavoured national drink.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Super-rich warned of a backlash over inequality
In the ballroom of the five-star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were last month advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with \"pitchforks and torches\" unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis.
2 min |
July 14, 2023
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Has WFH brought Canary Wharflow?
Uncertain future lies ahead for London's docklands financial district as big firms quit
4 min |
July 14, 2023
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The Cornish village that's braced for a wealthy teen invasion
For many locals and visitors alike, the seaside village of Polzeath is the Cornish dream. By day, holiday-makers eating ice-creams and pasties wander barefoot down its one main street.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Macron's uphill battle to rebuild from deep divisions
Emmanuel Macron is facing the biggest domestic challenge of his fraught second term in office, after the police shooting of a teenager of Algerian origin at a traffic stop last month led to night after night of urban unrest.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Teflon Mark Rutte the everyman PM who saw the tide had turned
He was the great survivor of Dutch politics, a man whose capacity to swerve criticism and survive scandal earned him the nickname \"Teflon Mark\", combining backroom skills with everyman appeal to become the country's longest-serving leader.
2 min |
July 14, 2023
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Cash for teens and a four-day week: Díaz revives leftist hopes
Sumar coalition leader says practical solutions can fend off the far-right threat in snap election
4 min |
July 14, 2023
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After unrest and scandal, Mongolians are steeled for change
In December, temperatures, amid sub-zero thousands of Mongolians turned up in Sükhbaatar Square in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, to protest about rampant corruption, and for a moment the Asian democracy, sitting uneasily between China and Russia, looked as though it might crumble.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Small steps Washington and Beijing are back on the line... for now
When Janet Yellen left Beijing last Sunday after four days of talks, the US treasury secretary in effect admitted that the delegation achieved its main objective simply by sitting down with top Chinese officials.
2 min |
July 14, 2023
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Cluster ruck The end justifies the means for Biden in sending banned bombs
Linda Thomas Greenfield, America's voice at the United Nations, usually chooses her words carefully. \"We have seen videos of Russian forces moving exceptionally lethal weaponry into Ukraine, which has no place on the battlefield,\" she told the general assembly last year.
2 min |
July 14, 2023
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Why it's business as usual for Wagner in Africa
Four days after Wagner group mercenaries marched on Moscow, a Russian envoy flew into Benghazi to meet a worried warlord. The message from the Kremlin to Khalifa Haftar, the self-styled general who runs much of eastern Libya, was reassuring: more than 2,000 Wagner fighters, technicians, political operatives and administrators in the country would be staying.
5 min |
July 14, 2023
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Disaster after disaster People are dying at sea as they try to flee from climate havoc
Before the Adriana, an overcrowded B trawler, left Libya on 9 June, Sajjad Yousef spoke to his father. His family had begged him not to make the treacherous journey from Pakistan to Europe.
3 min |
July 14, 2023
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Hottest week on record UN warns that climate crisis is now out of control
The UN secretary-general has said that \"climate change is out of control\", as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to 5 July were the hottest week on record.
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