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England’s Ashes flops should focus on their game and let others do the talking | Simon Burnton
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 …
Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say
Pharmacies are demanding tougher regulation of the online sale of weight-loss jabs amid a predicted new year’s boom in demand.
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), who represent independent community pharmacies, urged the regulator to require greater consultation with patients before dispensing weight-loss jabs and other high-risk medication online.
Current rules, …
‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves
To print a book in the days of the Bashar al-Assad regime, one first had to think of the censors. Was the book political in nature? Off to the ministry of information. Religious? To the ministry of religious affairs (
awqaf
). Literature? To the Union of Arab Books. All were …Twenty-five years on from Italy’s big entrance, the Six Nations’ pizazz never fades
It is more than 140 years since England beat Wales in the very first match of the old Home Nations championship, 2-0 at St Helen’s in Swansea in 1883, and there is an old man in the back bar of the Kings Head who will tell you that the English …
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
the world’s largest Holocaust archives
is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection. theWiener Holocaust Library
’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine …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, …
Victims to take centre stage at reopened Omagh bombing inquiry
Victims of the Omagh bombing, the single deadliest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles, are to take centre stage at the public inquiry which reopens on Tuesday.
The car bomb attack that ripped through the town on 15 August 1998, killing 29 people and unborn twins, was carried out by …
Chiefs return to Super Bowl after breaking Bills’ hearts in another thriller
Them again. The “three-peat” is alive for the Kansas City Chiefs after they narrowly overcame the Buffalo Bills in the AFC championship game on Sunday to set up a potentially historic Super Bowl clash with the Philadelphia Eagles.
The finale on 9 February in New Orleans is a reprise of …
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 …