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The Guardian
Woman in Cabin 10 A fearless Keira Knightley on a yacht? No, being a hack isn't really like that
In The Woman in Cabin 10, Netflix's new potboiler, Keira Knightley plays a fearless justice warrior, a lone voice of dogged truth in a maelstrom of corruption, and this is not her first foray into such terrain: six years ago she played the whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets, the 2019 film about some pretty dicey US and UK behaviour before the Iraq war.
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Found in a crime boss's files: 'lost' chapter of Kerouac's life on the road
A \"very significant\" unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as \"a lost chapter of the On the Road saga\" has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years.
4 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
You'll never guess what the pope just said was 'degrading' journalism...
The pope has condemned clickbait as a \"degrading\" part of journalism, at an audience with global newswires.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
National guard units patrol Memphis as Trump faces fierce new legal challenges
National guard troops were seen patrolling in Memphis for the first time yesterday as part of Donald Trump's controversial federal taskforce, amid fierce legal challenges as he was blocked from sending troops to Chicago and a court ruling is awaited in Portland, Oregon.
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Victoria Beckham's show lacks spice, so I'm looking to CBS News for drama
The most affecting thing in the first episode of Victoria Beckham, the new three part documentary that arrived this week on Netflix, is a scene in which Beckham and her daughter, Harper, 14, create family content together.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Comedians decry lawsuit over Paddington Bear's hard swear
A decision to sue the makers of Spitting Image over a depiction of Paddington Bear as a foulmouthed drug addict is an \"attack on comedy\" and free expression, the comedians behind the sweary bear have warned.
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
'A relationship reset'
The shift in Labour's approach to China
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
'No stability' The struggle to support children left orphaned and wounded
Within a few months, the war in Gaza had made its own addition to the vocabulary of emergency medical assistance with the world’s most heartbreaking acronym: WCNSF, “wounded child, no surviving family”.
4 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
World's oldest head of state seeks eighth term in Cameroon vote
Cameroon goes to the polls tomorrow in presidential elections with Paul Biya, already the world's oldest head of state aged 92, the favourite to win an eighth term in power in the central African country.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Money hacks How to make the most of TV streaming services
Many of the streaming services offer free trials, so you could sign up to one, binge-watch the shows everyone is talking about, and then cancel before you are rolled over into a paid-for subscription. Read the T&Cs very carefully.
4 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Staff bonuses at slot machine shops linked to gamblers' losses
High-street slot machine shops are paying staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose, the Guardian has learned, prompting condemnation of the \"appalling\" reward scheme from MPs and campaigners.
4 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Afghan man found guilty of threat to kill Nigel Farage
An Afghan man who came to the UK on a small boat has been found guilty of making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage.
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
DRC accuses Europe of 'obvious double standard' over trade deal with Rwanda
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has accused the EU of “an obvious double standard” for levying wide-ranging sanctions in response to the war in Ukraine, while maintaining a trade deal with Rwanda, which has fuelled conflict in eastern DRC.
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Motoring
Scams exploit frustration over driving test delays
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
'Demands unmet' Gen Z's lightning revolt gives way to frustration in Nepal
Prakash Bohora was one of the first of Nepal's gen Z protesters to feel the pain of a police bullet. Like thousands of young people, he had taken to the streets of the capital last month to protest against corruption and a social media ban.
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Hatton's army of fans lines streets in emotional farewell
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Manchester yesterday to pay tribute to Ricky Hatton, the former world champion boxer who died last month aged 46.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Night of Russian airstrikes causes blackouts across Kyiv
A “massive” Russian drone and missile strike wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv yesterday, plunging Ukraine’s capital into darkness in the early hours in what Volodomyr Zelenskyy condemned as a “cynical and calculated” attack.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
'It didn't stop snowing'
Trekkers trapped on Everest in deadly storm
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Witchcraft trials Council seeks pardon for seven women hanged in 1652
On 30 July 1652, seven women were hanged on Penenden Heath in Maidstone, Kent. Witch trials and executions were far from unusual at the time, but rarely were so many convicted at once.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Informer who spied on activists found guilty of plot to rape children
A man who schemed to rape children as young as six was revealed at his trial to have been a police informer who spied on environmental activists.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Summit on extinction crisis held as losses in bird species revealed
More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Netanyahu tells Hamas: 'disarm the easy way or the hard way'
Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his pledge to force Hamas to disarm yesterday in a defiant and combative speech, just an hour after a ceasefire began in Gaza.
3 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
'Parallels to Windrush scandal' as toddler refused passport
The UK has failed to learn lessons since the Windrush scandal, campaigners say, after a UK-born toddler was denied a British passport and asked to prove she had the right to free NHS treatment.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
BA stalls over paying out £220 flight compensation
I booked a Tui river cruise package in Switzerland with flights by British Airways.
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Sultana says new party 'is back on' like Oasis after dispute
Zarah Sultana has said she and Jeremy Corbyn have patched up their combustible co-leadership of a new leftwing party, with the MP comparing the duo (above right) to Liam and Noel Gallagher (below right).
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Stage review
Less a play than a fever dream that plunges into madness
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Thirteen rare giant tortoises hatch thanks to artificial incubation trial
The slow-motion pitter patter of tiny giant tortoise feet has been worryingly rare in recent years, but that looks set to change thanks to the first successful hatching of the species using artificial incubation.
2 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Macron holds crisis meeting in frantic effort to appoint new PM
Emmanuel Macron summoned the leaders of several political parties to his office yesterday to demand they show “collective responsibility” as he attempts to appoint a new prime minister amid a deepening political crisis.
1 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
The £1m man Questions over why Johnson took his donor to Ukraine
As he boarded the night train to Ukraine, Boris Johnson had the usual entourage of aides and bodyguards - plus the man who had given him £1m. Less than a year had passed since Johnson had accepted what is thought to be the largest donation ever to an individual MP. It was from Christopher Harborne, one of Britain's biggest and most private political donors.
5 min |
October 11, 2025
The Guardian
Courts Democrats back state attorney general on ‘weaponised’ fraud charges
Leading New York Democrats rallied behind embattled state attorney general, Letitia James, yesterday after she was indicted on mortgage fraud charges by a federal prosecutor appointed by Donald Trump.
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