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The Guardian
Contactless card payment limit of £100 to be scrapped from March
The £100 limit on contactless card payments will be scrapped next year and consumers could be allowed to spend as much as they wanted without inputting their pin under changes announced by the UK financial regulator.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Australia to launch gun buyback scheme after Bondi terror shootings
Australia's federal government is to launch a gun buyback scheme in what the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said yesterday would be the biggest collection of weapons since after the Port Arthur massacre nearly three decades ago.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Kent cover-up claim over green plans
Reform-run Kent council has been accused of trying to block scrutiny after it refused, for more than five months, to produce evidence that it had saved more than £40m by cancelling two environmental projects that did not exist yet.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Government borrowed more than expected as pre-budget jitters hit
The UK government borrowed more than expected in November, official figures show, amid pressure on the economy before Rachel Reeves announced her autumn budget.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
South Korean president wants social insurance to cover hair-loss treatments
The South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness had become a “matter of survival” rather than a cosmetic concern for young people.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid a ban in the US
TikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump threatened to ban the social media platform over privacy and national security concerns, a move that further strained relations with China.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Maga disciples Trump's envoys raising eyebrows around Europe
When your goal is to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” because it is “weak” and facing “civilisational erasure”, your choice of highly trained operatives for the mission is plainly of paramount importance.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband receive 19-year jail terms
A woman who plotted with her secret lover to murder her husband so they could start a new life together was yesterday jailed for 19 years.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Have a low-fat Christmas: TV food ads fall in line with new junk food rules
The festive season is traditionally a time of national culinary overindulgence but eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that this year’s crop of big-budget Christmas TV ads have been decidedly lean and sugar-free.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Remarkable fundraising will preserve a Patagonian wilderness
A wide area of Chilean Patagonia has been preserved for future generations and protected from logging, damming and unbridled development after a remarkable fundraising effort by local groups, the Guardian can reveal.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Candidate who told Lammy to 'go home' queried 8 MPs' loyalty to UK
A Reform UK mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean” has suggested that at least eight other politicians from minority ethnic backgrounds do not have a primary loyalty towards the United Kingdom.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Safety fears raised over landslide alert equipment on railway tracks
Accident investigators have issued an urgent safety warning, saying that the railway network's landslide monitoring equipment may not work when the earth moves suddenly, after discovering sensors did not transmit after a landslip derailed an intercity train.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Publisher drops Walliams after claims of inappropriate behaviour
David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women, The Telegraph has reported.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Rise of wind and solar energy could herald greenest Christmas ever
Great Britain’s energy system operator has predicted that Christmas Day could be the greenest ever this year.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Crops becoming more calorific but less nutritious, study finds
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious - and also potentially more toxic, a study has found.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Home Alone for Christmas: TikTok drives trend of retro celebrations
Tinsel, DIY tree decorations, deep burgundy drapes - and Home Alone on VHS.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
WH Smith tries to claw back bonuses from ex-bosses as FCA investigates
WH Smith will try to take back as much as £7m in bonuses from former executives after revealing the UK's financial watchdog has launched a formal investigation into a devastating accounting error linked to its US business.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Bleak midwinter
War seeps into everyday life in Ukraine but the show must go on
6 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Will it be glitter Ball? Radio 2 presenter is a favourite to host Strictly - but who with?
After more than two decades hosting Strictly Come Dancing, Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly are approaching their last tango.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Baggy, carrot, flared or barrel
So which were the jeans of 2025?
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Furry fun: Paddington director to bring Labubus to film screens
Paul King, the director of the Paddington films and the Timothée Chalamet-led musical Wonka, is set to direct the Labubu film.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Lobby briefings Society of Editors says dropping session is 'deeply concerning'
The Society of Editors has raised concerns about Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce scrutiny of No 10 by political journalists, saying it risks weakening transparency.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Catholic church names new archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has been named as Bishop Richard Moth.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Le Carré with cocktails New-era Night Manager is ‘big, glossy, sexy’
I was in a market square in the Colombian city of Cartagena when Georgi Banks-Davies wondered if she had bitten off more than she could chew.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Ukraine claims strike on Russia shadow fleet off coast of Libya
Ukraine says it has attacked a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker with aerial drones 1,250 miles from its border, in the first such strike in the Mediterranean Sea since Moscow’s full-scale invasion nearly four years ago.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Bondi attack
'In this time of darkness let's spread light.' But still tensions flare
5 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Christmas chart topper for Kylie with first No 1 single in 22 years
Kylie Minogue has scored her first Christmas No 1, and eighth No 1 single overall, with the song Xmas.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Famine in Gaza is over but humanitarian and hunger situation still critical, UN says
The famine in Gaza has ended as a result of increased humanitarian aid deliveries into the territory, the UN said yesterday, though it warned that the territory's hunger and humanitarian situation remained critical.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'Underrated' Irish actor Gleeson to receive first Hollywood award
After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a rom-com heartthrob, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award.
1 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'Rather rude': Truss accused of poaching members from plush rival club in Mayfair
For Tory grandees licking their wounds and plotting their return after the disastrous general election, the opulent, firelit rooms of the exclusive club 5 Hertford Street area a sanctuary.
3 min |