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‘TikTok could malfunction’: app’s future in limbo as it remains off US app stores
Bristol may become first English council to collect black bins every four weeks
Bristol city council could become the first local authority in England to collect black rubbish bins only once every four weeks.
The Green-led council says that switching from a two to four-weekly collection would save it more than £2m a year and help reverse a dip in recycling rates.
The …
Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal
In June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia’s StB intelligence service made contact with a mysterious couple staying at a Prague hotel. The man’s passport identified him as a Syrian diplomat called Walid Wattar; his pregnant wife also had a Syrian diplomatic passport.
In fact, the man was …
Rwandan-backed rebels M23 claim capture of eastern DRC city Goma
Fighters from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group claim to have taken the eastern city of Goma after a lightning advance in recent weeks that has forced thousands from their homes and risked reigniting a broader regional war.
“We urge all residents of Goma to remain …
Stories woven in cloth in Pakistan’s first textile museum
As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.
After asking the mother of a sick boy routine questions about his family history, the woman looked outraged. Marching Askari outside, she took off her colourful shawl and laid it on …
Stockport station renamed Scottport to mark Scott Mills’ new radio show
What gift do you get Scott Mills as a welcome to the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show?, asked
the travel presenter Ellie Brennan
. You rename Stockport train station Scottport, obviously.Mills followed in the footsteps of Terry Wogan, Chris Evans and Zoe Ball by taking the reins …
Monday briefing: What if the climate crisis makes disaster insurance unaffordable?
Good morning. If the Los Angeles wildfires are bracing evidence of the general threat posed by the climate crisis, they have also brought home a specific problem: how can you make the insurance system work when the risks are so high?
That is not a question limited to California, or …
Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Maori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told
A marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown began on Monday amid widespread outcry the proposed changes are unconstitutional, socially divisive and an attack on Māori rights.
, which …AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Ministers have shut down or dropped at least half a dozen artificial intelligence prototypes intended for the welfare system, the Guardian has learned, in a sign of the headwinds facing Keir Starmer’s effort to increase government efficiency.
Pilots of AI technology to enhance staff training, improve the service in jobcentres, …
Among monarchs and presidents, focus of Auschwitz anniversary is on 50 survivors
Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries from 54 countries will assemble at Auschwitz on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, but the world’s focus will be firmly on its few remaining survivors.
About 50 former inmates are expected to attend the ceremony at …