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The agenda for the Middleton St George parish council meeting was quite dull: village show costs, condition of footpaths and a quote for a flagpole inspection.

But the meeting itself was more lively, with two councillors exchanging insults before a“wrestling match” that led to scratches, bleeding, a bruised finger and …

The Norwegian parliament has voted to open up protected rivers to hydropower plants, prompting fury from conservation groups who fear for the fate of fish and other wildlife.

The bill allows power plants bigger than 1MW to be built in protected waterways if the societal benefit is “significant” and the …

The first thing Olena Litovchenko thought, when she read the news of

Donald Trump’s phone call to Vladimir Putin

“It feels like Ukraine is being screwed,” said Litovchenko, a personal trainer who …

In his ghostwritten 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump delivers his own version of the American Dream. Get as much as you can for yourself. There’s always someone out there who’s stupider than you. Any attention is better than none. Promise people the Earth even if you …

The Israeli government has signalled it intends to stick to the hostage release schedule agreed in the ceasefire deal with Hamas, but warned that if the anticipated three surviving hostages were not released on Saturday, it would go back to war in Gaza.

The statement from the prime minister’s office …

My friend and former colleague Alan McCarthy, who has died aged 69 of cancer, was a microbiologist at Liverpool University and was also involved in the running of the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara), a body that supports academics who have fled from their homelands as refugees.

He began …

My father, Geoff Marsh, who has died aged 92, was a senior figure in the world of plumbing, a past master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers (WCoP), past president of the Institute of Plumbing (IoP) and the first chair of the World Plumbing Council.

Among his many achievements was …

Tim Radford, the Guardian’s former science editor, was the man who by his professionalism and enthusiasm made the paper take the subject seriously, perhaps for the first time.

Tim, who has died aged 84, was not the Guardian’s first specialist science correspondent and indeed he was appointed after working in …

Scarlett Johansson has warned of the “imminent dangers of AI” after a deepfake video of her and other prominent Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from Kanye West went viral this week.

The video contained AI-generated versions of more than a dozen celebrities, including Johansson, David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld, Drake, …

The testimony of the former Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith confirms exactly what the Campaign Against Arms Trade has been arguing for decades – the UK’s arms-export control system is rotten to its core (

I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit …