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My week
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June 08, 2025
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Edmund White
The American novelist and memoirist known for his candid depictions of gay life, love and sex
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June 08, 2025
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Ratify high seas treaty to halt 'wild west' exploitation
The ocean is Earth’s blue heart, It sustains all life on this planet, regulating climate, producing half the oxygen we breathe and feeding billions.
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June 08, 2025
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Pornhub cries liberté after France enforces age-limit regulations
French visitors to the pornography website Pornhub were greeted with an unusual sight on Wednesday: not a collection of X-rated videos but a mocked up image of Eugène Delacroix's 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People.
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June 08, 2025
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US trade team to meet Chinese in London
Delegations from the US and China will meet in London tomorrow for trade negotiations aimed at resolving the superpowers’ feud over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.
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June 08, 2025
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Family of murdered Maltese journalist welcomes convictions
The family of an investigative journalist who was murdered on the island of Malta has said they are \"a step closer to justice\" after two men were convicted for supplying the car bomb that killed her.
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June 08, 2025
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Shaping the new warfare complex
The future of the defence industry is the now focus of fierce debate everywhere.
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June 08, 2025
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Trump vs Musk: behind the scenes at the big bad billionaire bro battle
When the world's most powerful man fell out with the world's richest man, it was always going to be loud and ugly. watched, with a large bowl of popcorn
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June 08, 2025
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NHS England pauses AI project fed health data of 57m patients
One of the biggest AI projects in the NHS has been paused after concerns were raised that it may have used the health records of 57 million people without the correct permissions.
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June 08, 2025
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Our rivers are dying – and women are bearing the burden
Elif Shafak
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June 08, 2025
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Human capital investment is the missing ingredient in the chancellor's growth plan
Ever since last November's budget, it's been clear that this week's spending review and the parallel unveiling of the 10-year infrastructure strategy would be the real test of this government's growth mission.
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June 08, 2025
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Kyle to report on progress at AI summit
All eyes will be on Peter Kyle, right, at the artificial intelligence summit in London on Wednesday and Thursday, where the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology is expected to update 4,500 business insiders on the government's progress with its AI Opportunities Action Plan.
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June 08, 2025
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Our sights on 5% of GDP for defence spend, admits Healey
John Healey has indicated that the UK could agree a fresh target to spend 5% of GDP on defence, saying \"we are up for that discussion\".
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June 08, 2025
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We must let local wisdom and science be our guides
Not long ago, I stood with Inuit elders on the ice fields of Greenland, watching sheets of ancient ice crack and cascade into the sea.
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June 08, 2025
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Move over Doge – it's time for some creative bureaucracy
As bromance gave way to fratricide after Elon Musk’s exit from the US “department of government efficiency” (Doge), an alternative approach to reform was celebrated last week in Berlin at the Creative Bureaucracy festival.
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June 08, 2025
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Rachel Reeves: I did well at school but I'm here for the girls who didn't
Who does Rachel Reeves have in her “mind’s eye”, as the prime minister put it, ahead of her first spending review this week?
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June 08, 2025
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US doesn't care about Africa, say nations hit by Trump travel ban
Countries deny they are havens for terrorism, insisting that the White House has simply picked on targets too small to fight back.
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June 08, 2025
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Kylie Jenner's boob job and the dark side of oversharing
It's hard to know, in our era of oversharing, what kind of admission from a celebrity could truly shock the public.
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June 08, 2025
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Surprise extra £4.5bn for schools as Reeves goes to wire on cabinet cash
More money for SEND reforms and teachers' pay while health and defence are big winners in spending review
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June 08, 2025
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With a bit of luck and a following wind: Epsom's winners on and off the field
It was a breezy day at the races for punters, runners and riders, celebrities and corporate guests alike.
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June 08, 2025
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Ex-ITV chair's 'save public service broadcasters' plea
The co-chair of the Creative Industries Council and former chair of ITV has called for the government's forthcoming industrial strategy to include a plan \"not just for the future of the BBC, but for the future of public service broadcasting\".
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June 08, 2025
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£86bn boost for science in 'modern industrial strategy'
A boost to science and technology worth £86bn will be announced in the spending review on Wednesday to “turbocharge” the economy and fuel cutting-edge research.
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June 08, 2025
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Business rates to make 'ghost towns' of UK high streets
Some of the country's biggest retailers have written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warning that the government's plans to overhaul business rates risk turning UK high streets into “ghost towns”.
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June 08, 2025
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As London vaunts Nvidia, it shouldn't forget ARM
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive of chip-making powerhouse Nvidia, will be the star attraction at London Tech Week, which starts tomorrow.
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June 08, 2025
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Divine comedy: fringe standups turn to religion for inspiration
When Sam Williams first used the word \"Christianity\" in his standup routine at comedy clubs, he said audiences would freeze. He felt \"the weight of that word\".
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June 08, 2025
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The world is watching: it’s time to honour our oceans
My grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, revealed the wonders of the ocean. Through his films and expeditions, he offered a first glimpse into a hidden realm, sparking a global fascination with the sea.
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June 08, 2025
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Hello New World... and bye bye Brexit
The New European, a newspaper that launched in the wake of the 2016 referendum to campaign against Brexit, has turned the page by rebranding itself as the New World.
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June 08, 2025
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Neither man received anything like the kind of nourishment boys need
When it comes to messed-up men, they don't come more messed up than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. That these two found each other was inevitable; top predators in the human food chain are going to bump into one another, and so an uneasy alliance needs to be made.
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June 08, 2025
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Your country needs you – shame about the poor pay and toxic culture
The UK's strategic defence review has a lot to say about military hardware.
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June 08, 2025
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Aid budget diverted to pay for asylum hotels
The Home Office plans to spend about £2.2bn of the foreign aid budget on supporting asylum seekers this financial year.
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