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Plastic pollution talks collapse after 'obstruction from oil states'
Global talks to create a treaty aimed at ending the scourge of plastic pollution have collapsed, with no deal agreed and no clear path forward.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Bolivia Turns Right: Voters to Reset Dial as Support for Morales' Old Party Slumps
In Plaza Murillo, the heart of Bolivia's political capital, La Paz—and home to the presidential palace, parliament, and the country's main Catholic cathedral—time may be running out for a clock that runs backward.
5 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Suspend prosecutions related to Palestine Action, letter urges
Protesters arrested for supporting Palestine Action should not be prosecuted until a legal challenge to a ban on the group has been heard, organisations including Greenpeace and Human Rights Watch have told the attorney general for England and Wales.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
US Woman Criticises UK Police Over Handling of Stalking Case
A travel influencer stalked by a British man who travelled to her Indonesian home and threatened to kidnap her has strongly criticised police over the way her case was handled.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Consuming like Carrie How Sex and the City shaped the way we shop
Before Sex and the City, the cosmopolitan was just vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau and lime juice.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Met urged to scrap facial recognition camera plans for Notting Hill carnival
The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend's Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with \"racial bias\" and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Embryos seen implanting into human uterus for first time
A human embryo being implanted into a uterus has been pictured in real time and in 3D for the first time by a team of scientists.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Fishing, power prayers and a call from Kemi Something: what JD did on his summer holiday
After landing at London Stansted, me and the family had an easy drive with our small security detail of 12 cars to David Lammy's cabin in Kent, England.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Sergei Lavrov Minister trolls Ukraine with USSR jumper
In a not-so-subtle act of trolling, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska on the eve of the US-Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with \"CCCP\", the Russian initials for the USSR.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Warm home discount: Why you must check your name is on your energy bill
The government is urging people who qualify for the warm home discount to check they are named on their energy bills so that this winter's price cut can be made automatically.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Public urged to stay away from injured dolphin off Dorset coast
The public have been warned to keep away from an injured dolphin that was filmed dancing and playing with swimmers off the coast of Dorset.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
It's not a pay issue' Happy workers boost productivity, says peer
It's about how you are being treated and how your employer is developing you in the workplace' Mark Price Founder of WorkL
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
After Lineker 'Chappers' is off the bench as Match of the Day host
He’s spent years sitting on the bench, playing second fiddle to one of England’s best ever strikers. But now that Gary Lineker has hung up his shirt and said farewell to Match of the Day after 26 years, Mark Chapman can finally have his moment.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Flash floods kill more than 200 people in India and Pakistan
Flash floods have killed more than 200 people and scores of others are missing in India and Pakistan, officials have said.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
TV review A warning of reality shows' demand for extremity
A warning of reality shows' demand for extremity
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Suspended Labour councillor cleared of encouraging violent disorder
A suspended Labour councillor who called at an anti-racism rally for far-right activists' throats to be cut has been found not guilty of encouraging violent disorder.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
On the flipside Could Apple make devices exciting again with its first folding phone?
Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
The name's Bond... Oddjob's hatter and King Charles's tailor supply evidence in 007 trademark fight
King Charles's personal shirtmaker. The world's oldest hatters, designer of fitments for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation crown and with fans including Winston Churchill. A luxury sports brand with a \"spy-ready\" ski-suit. Has James Bond assembled a crack team that can take on his latest adversary?
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Stage review Audacious testament to a jazz genius
Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity for a performer to emulate the famous person in question. What elevates Miles, a tribute to the jazz legend Miles Davis, is the role of the musician Jay Phelps.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Britain's Biggest Bailiff Firm Forced to Set Up Refunds Scheme After Overcharging
Britain's biggest bailiff company overcharged people it was pursuing for unpaid debts and has been forced to launch a refunds programme, the Guardian can reveal.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Tales of rows, insults and online hostilities in Britain's royal families
I'm not sure I can bring myself to actually read it, but the publication this week of Entitled: the Rise and Fall of the House of York, by Andrew Lownie, promises to enliven a dead patch of summer with — putting Jeffrey Epstein aside — a wealth of petty revelations, a jog back through Prince Andrew's most ridiculous episodes and an opportunity to use the phrase \"the disgraced duke.\" Shall we?
4 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Vienna's living streets The city where anyone can build an urban oasis
In a quiet corner of Vienna's well-to-do 18th district, Jana is explaining how her assembly of wooden decking and planters is bringing a bit of greenery to the area. \"There's not a single tree on this whole street - it's just parking spaces on both sides.\"
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Farage calls for PM to appoint Reform peers to House of Lords
Nigel Farage has called for the right to nominate Reform UK supporters to the House of Lords, claiming it would address a \"democratic disparity\".
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Money Hacks: Blazers to Biros – Get Set for the New School Year
To get your children's uniforms sorted in time, and at a good price, you need to start early – you will avoid long queues and have plenty of choice of style, size and price point.
4 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Comedy review Prehistoric passions are the new Long game
\"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.\"
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Waterstones says book sales up as young adults snub screens
Times may be tough on the high street, but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and online competition eases.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Essex protests Council seeks order to shut asylum hotel
A high court judge has been asked to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers amid concerns about violence and disorder seen at far-right protests at the site.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
North Korea Putin sends letter to thank 'heroic' troops
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, hailed North Korean troops sent to fight in Ukraine as \"heroic\" in a letter to Kim Jong-un, North Korean state media reported yesterday.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Firefighters 'pushed to the brink' as UK record for wildfires set to be broken
Firefighters have warned that 2025 is on track to beat the UK record for wildfires, with frontline staff \"pushed to their limits\".
2 min |
August 15, 2025
The Guardian
'What about us?' Emotions run high in frontline city over risk of deal ceding land to Moscow
Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia's invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a \"land swap for peace\" deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
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