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The Guardian
Falling fertility What will the UK be like with fewer babies?
\"We happen to be alive at this really transitional moment,\" said Prof Jane Falkingham, director of the Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Car colours Choosing a trendy shade can cost hundreds more
Black means safety, blue is calming and red equals strength - the colour you pick for your new car is supposed to be a reflection of who you are.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
TV review Surprisingly touching tribute to a fading star
On paper, it looks dreadful. A Diane Sawyer interview with the second wife of a beloved actor now suffering from a life-changing disease to coincide with the launch of said wife's book about her experiences as a care giver? Pass the bucket, give me strength, have some dignity - these are just some of the natural and instinctive responses to such news.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Film review This muddled campus drama gets a fail grade
Luca Guadagnino misfires with this bafflingly overlong, overwrought #MeToo campus drama from the screenwriter Nora Garrett, broadly in the tradition of David Mamet's Oleanna or Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things.
1 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Buying glasses: Is spending more better for your eyes?
From eye tests to frames and lenses, the cost of looking after your sight can vary wildly. Rebecca Goodman looks at how prices compare
5 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
'Financial wellbeing' app targets low-wage workers with high-interest loans
Low-wage workers are being offered a controversial new type of high-interest loan of up to £25,000 through the \"financial wellbeing\" app Wagestream, a specialist lender that has signed deals with some of the UK's best-known employers including Asda and Pizza Express.
4 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Lebanon UN to pull out peace force at end of next year
The UN security council has voted to extend the body's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for a further 16 months, but ordered it to finish at the end of 2026 under Israeli and US pressure.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Flags Taken Down Over Safety Fears
A Reform-led council has started to remove flags and bunting displaying the St George's cross and the union flag after concerns were raised that they could cause accidents.
1 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
'Perfect symbiosis' From grapevines to crochet, how Spain cools down streets
As Spain takes a breath after yet another brutal summer heatwave, with temperatures in excess of 40C in many parts of the country, the citizens of the sherry-making town of Jerez de la Frontera have come up with a novel way to keep the streets cool.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Foods rich in potassium could reduce risk of cardiovascular problems by 24%, study finds
Eating foods rich in potassium, such as avocados, bananas and spinach, could reduce the risk of heart conditions, hospitalization and early death by 24%, a study suggests.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Man pleads guilty to sexual offences against six women in south London
A businessman who concealed cameras in his home and drugged women has pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences, with police fearing the scale of his offending may be \"vast\".
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Impact of the verdict Ruling could recharge tensions for councils
Last week, after an application by Epping Forest district council (EFDC), a high court judge ruled that asylum seekers could no longer be placed at the protest-hit Bell hotel and gave its owner, Somani hotels, until 12 September to rehouse the 138 people remaining there.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Farmers resist action despite 'worst ever' year for toxic algae in UK's largest lake
The UK's largest lake is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as rescue plans for Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland remain deadlocked.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
No, we're not facing another IMF crisis - but our problems still have a whiff of the 1970s
International confidence in the UK government's economic policies had steadily evaporated.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Putin visit to China: Ukraine war top of agenda as allies look to cement their relationship
Vladimir Putin will travel to China this weekend for what the Kremlin has called a \"truly unprecedented\" visit to his most important ally, which comes at a crunch moment in talks over Ukraine.
5 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Palestine Action lawyers accuse Cooper of 'cynical media campaign'
Lawyers for a co-founder of Palestine Action have accused the home secretary of running a \"cynical media campaign\" that breaches her duty to the court in proceedings challenging the group's proscription.
1 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
In a flap Unease at Taiwan's pigeon racing culture
Competitors have been kidnapped and then offered up for ransom.
4 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Julia Roberts Star rebuts critics of #MeToo film
Julia Roberts has defended her new #MeToo-themed film, After the Hunt, from accusations that it revives anti-feminist arguments, saying humanity was at risk of \"losing the art of conversation\".
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
'We will choose war' Iranians defiant as they face sanctions or a second conflict
As the worshippers streamed into the vast Grand Mosalla mosque in central Tehran to hear a call to prayer, the mood was one of determination and some trepidation as they faced the prospect of UN-wide sanctions in 30 days and even a rerun of the 12-day war with Israel.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Smackers Top brands cash in on expensive lipsticks
For the same price as more than 180 pints of milk, or around 60kg of rice, you can get your hands on the new Louis Vuitton lipstick.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
A Relatable Fairytale? How Swift Staged a Very Modern Proposal
To anyone following their two-year romance, Taylor Swift's engagement to the American football star Travis Kelce was no great surprise. Nor was the choreographed nature of the engagement shoot.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Famine-hit Gaza City is a combat zone - IDF
Israel's military will no longer pause fighting to allow aid into Gaza City, a military spokesperson has said, a decision likely to deepen the famine gripping the north of the territory.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Declare Gaza a genocide, hundreds of staff urge UN human rights chief
Hundreds of employees of the United Nations' leading human rights agency have backed an internal letter telling its leadership to declare Israel's offensive in Gaza a genocide.
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Sellers of fake Botox could be sent to jail for two years
Science correspondent
1 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Price of a school lunch rises as caterers blame staff costs and inflation
Parents across England are facing higher prices for school lunches as the new school year begins.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Rayner plans sanctions for councils that block new housing
Angela Rayner is poised to introduce tougher sanctions on councils in England that block local housing developments.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
These are amazing people' Pupils are the stars again as Educating Yorkshire returns
Basically, there's summat wrong with me. I'm like a psychopath. Genuinely!
3 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Kamala Harris Trump Stops Secret Service Protection
Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, according to a letter obtained by CNN and confirmed to the Guardian by a senior White House official.
1 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Republicans Join Criticism Over Sacking of Medical Official
The Trump administration is facing rare bipartisan pushback for sacking the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amid turmoil at the US's top infectious disease agency that prompted dozens of staff to walk out of its headquarters in protest on Thursday.
2 min |
August 30, 2025
The Guardian
Family who were given a stranger's ashes call for stricter funeral home rules
The family of a man whose body was found in a Hull funeral home after he was supposed to have been cremated have said it is \"easier to open a funeral directors than it is a sandwich shop\", as they urged the government to regulate the industry.
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