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‘We won’t come again’: dazed visitors fed up with overcrowded Louvre
As the crowds poured out of the Louvre, the look of dazed exhaustion on many faces confirmed what
the museum’s director had warned last week
: a trip to Paris’s biggest cultural attraction has become a “physical ordeal”.Myriam, 65, a former secondary school science teacher had driven …
UK has spent £12.5bn from energy bills to fossil fuel power plants in past decade
Rachel Reeves tells MPs of plans to go ‘further and faster’ in pursuit of growth
Rachel Reeves has told MPs the government needs to go “further and faster” to increase economic growth, as Downing Street sought to reassure people concerned about the environment that net zero and increasing output go “hand in hand”.
The chancellor has unnerved some Labour MPs and green campaigners with her …
‘Memory hurts, memory guides’: Auschwitz’s survivors gather for 80th anniversary of camp’s liberation
On a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and presidents on Monday to remind the world, perhaps for the final time, of the horrors they had suffered there during one of the darkest moments of human history.
Beneath a white marquee erected in front of the …
Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds
A wholesome escape from the housing crisis: the Facebook group dedicated to retro Australian homes
There is one thing that unites the members of my favourite Facebook group: a shared hatred for white paint.
In the comments, people moan about mid-century homes being visited by “the white fairy”. Some discuss whether it’s possible to undo the horrors previous owners have wrought. One shares the link …
UK weather: storms threaten floods and disrupt travel in wake of Storm Éowyn
Stormy weather is bringing the threat of flooding to homes and businesses and disrupting travel across large parts of England and Wales, while Scotland and Northern Ireland are steadily recovering from the impact of Storm Éowyn.
On Monday morning, there were 48 flood warnings and 172 alerts in place for …
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 …
Search begins for UK sailor after yacht found ‘eviscerated’ off French coast
A 73-year-old British sailor is lost at sea and his yacht has been found “eviscerated” off the French coast in stormy weather.
A French air force helicopter was dispatched to find the man after he set off his distress beacon at 3pm on Saturday, approximately 50 miles (80km) west of …
Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned
In the days before President Joe Biden’s final moments in office, Justin Hansford, a Howard University law professor, received a call from a White House staffer. They told Hansford that Marcus Garvey, the revolutionary Jamaican leader who pushed for the unity of Black people and a collective return to Africa, …