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The Guardian
Football: Uefa has paid millions to support clubs in Russia
Uefa has paid more than €10.8m (£9.4m) in \"solidarity\" funds to Russian football clubs since they were banned from taking part in European tournaments after the invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian can reveal.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
'Not acceptable': raw sewage is reported 'seeping' on to beach in Wales
A Senedd member has demanded that Dŵr Cymru, or Welsh Water, invest more money in pumping stations after beachgoers reported raw sewage \"seeping\" on to a popular beach in north Wales during the peak of the school summer holidays.
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Anniversary leads to calls to find heart of 'Liberator'
On his deathbed Daniel O'Connell, the man known as \"the Liberator\" of Ireland, made a request: \"My body to Ireland, my heart to Rome and my soul to heaven.\"
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Households near new pylons to receive discount on energy bills
The government is pushing ahead with a plan to offer those who live near new electricity pylons £2,500 off energy bills over 10 years to ease the backlash against clean power plans.
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
The MPC's gift comes wrapped with threat of looming headaches for the chancellor
A reduction in interest rates by the Bank of England should be a summer gift to borrowers.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Stage review Toxic climate of a worldly love affair
Does a musical romance with a climate message sound a tad worthy - and one in which the couple represent \"Earth\" and \"Humanity\"? In fact, Earth (Danielle Steers) is a Bridget Jones-style singleton who is 750m years into looking for love.
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Latest Tariff Blitz Kickstarts Global Scramble for Trade Deals with US
More than 60 countries around the world are scrambling to respond to the latest wave of US tariffs announced by Donald Trump that came into force yesterday.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Prayers and tears Lammy's unlikely wooing of JD Vance
It was famously something that Tony Blair did not do with George W Bush, or at least not something to which the then prime minister wished to admit. But these are very different times.
3 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Police brace for disorder as far right promotes anti-migrant protests
Police are braced for potential disorder in towns across England this weekend amid the far right's promotion of a range of protests against asylum seekers, with anti-racism activists planning counter-protests.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
All-electric Kent town to help feed power into UK grid
One of Britain's first all-electric towns to be built with almost no reliance on fossil fuels could soon help to power the grid with renewable energy.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Antarctic Shells from 100 years ago reveal alarming effect of acid seas
Three glass specimen jars full of satsuma-sized sea urchins, sit on Dr Hugh Carter's desk in the Natural History Museum.
3 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Surveillance UK insists flights over territory are to find hostages
Britain continues to run near daily surveillance flights over Gaza with the help of a US contractor at a time of growing questions about how the intelligence obtained is used and shared with the Israeli military.
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Indian officials in Kashmir ban books accused of 'promoting secessionism'
The government in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has banned 25 books, including works by the Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, accusing them of promoting a \"false narrative and secessionism\" in the disputed territory.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
War crimes Kyiv opens investigation into head of notorious jail
The director of Russia's notorious Taganrog prison, where officials are accused of overseeing the systematic torture and starvation of hundreds of Ukrainian detainees, has been notified by authorities in Kyiv that he is suspected of having committed a war crime.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Boycott call More than 200 writers sign letter urging immediate halt to trade
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson are among more than 200 writers who have signed a letter calling for an \"immediate and complete\" boycott of Israel until the people of Gaza are given adequate food, water and aid.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Pill helps patients lose average of 12% body weight in clinical trial
A daily weight loss pill has been shown to help patients lose about 12% of their body weight in a clinical trial.
1 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
Winners and losers What interest rate cut means for borrowers and savers
For the vast majority of borrowers the answer is no: more than 7.1m (85%) of Britain's 8.4m existing residential mortgages are on a fixed rate, which means monthly repayments will stay the same.
2 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
'Heightism' Stop picking on short men, says Blackadder star
Stop picking on short men, says Blackadder star
3 min |
August 08, 2025
The Guardian
A million calls an hour' How Microsoft enabled mass surveillance of Palestinians
One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief's agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company's cloud.
8 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Starmer Plays Down Tax Rise Forecasts After Prediction of £51bn Shortfall
Keir Starmer sought to play down warnings that the government will be forced to raise taxes this autumn and said some of the figures being circulated \"are not ones I recognise\".
2 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Former County Coach Banned Over Sexual Misconduct
An unnamed former county cricket coach has been suspended from the sport for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct.
1 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Only the finest cuts Same hosts, invisible edits - is MasterChef a little too much like business as usual?
To say the latest series of MasterChef has been an unmitigated calamity feels like an understatement.
4 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Vaccine research RFK's funding block makes the world less safe, scientists say
It was a blow many were braced for, yet the block on US funding for mRNA jabs by Robert F Kennedy Jr has left scientists reeling, with some stating the move could make the world less safe.
3 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Study Finds Genes That Could Raise Risk of ME
Scientists have found the first robust evidence that people's genes affect their chances of developing ME/CFS, a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community.
3 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Gyökeres labours as the new-look Arsenal fall short against old boy Pepe
Home debut for £64m striker falls flat in friendly, as Arteta talks up ambitions for season
3 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Trump says Russia talks made 'great progress'
Donald Trump claimed \"great progress was made\" in talks on ending the war in Ukraine between his special envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin yesterday.
4 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Platypus diplomacy The strange tale of Churchill's 'magnificently idiotic' plea
When Winston Churchill asked Australia for a platypus in 1943, Canberra hatched a plan to ship a lively male named Winston to Downing Street. In the end, Winston (the platypus, that is) never made it.
3 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
After six months of offering only carrots, president's threat of big stick seems too little, too late
After Donald Trump required six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of what \"belongs to Russia\", the deadline he set for the Russian president to agree a Ukraine ceasefire or face US sanctions on oil exports arrives tomorrow.
5 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Hundred's days numbered with switch to T20 in play
The Hundred could be changed to a Twenty20 competition as soon as next year.
2 min |
August 07, 2025
The Guardian
Villarreal fans decry possible Partey deal as 'darkest day'
News that the former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey is poised to join Villarreal has upset fans of the Spanish club, with hundreds signing a petition urging a halt to what has been described as the \"darkest day in the club's history\".
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