The Guardian Articles
The Guardian
Full Content
Filter by Category
RFU chief executive’s salary rose to £1.1m despite redundancies and record losses
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 17:10
The Rugby Football Union chief executive, Bill Sweeney, was paid a staggering £1. 1m for the 2023-24 financial year despite record losses and swingeing job cuts at the governing body. Sweeney’s basic salary rose from £684, 000 to £742, 000 – an increase of 8. 5% – and he was …
‘Bin surfer’ may have found novichok bottle minutes after agents dumped it, inquiry hears
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 17:06
A “bin surfer” may have found a fake perfume bottle containing a deadly nerve agent just minutes after it was discarded by agents trying to assassinate former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, a police counter-terrorism chief has said. A CCTV still, revealed for the first time atthe Wiltshire poisonings inquiry, shows …
Did you solve it? Brain training for Martians
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 17:00
Earlier today I set you three problems from a maths competition for Martian schoolchildren. By Martian, I mean Hungarian. In the mid-twentieth century, a generation of outstanding mathematicians and physicists from Hungary were humorously called Martians, as their intelligence was from another planet. Here are the puzzles again with solutions. …
My friend Denise Walker, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, began her working life as a bilingual secretary, spent time running an after-school French club and later taught IT at an adult education college. She also made a great impact through her volunteering, including at the Latika …
Girl, eight, injured in London shooting was in car with two-year-old, police say
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 16:52
A 22-year-old man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl was seriously wounded when multiple shots were fired into a car in west London. The child was in the vehicle with her 34-year-old father, who was also seriously injured, a two-year-old sibling and her mother, 32, both of whom escaped …
DHL plane crash in Lithuania may be result of sabotage, says German minister
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 16:43
The fatal crash of a DHL cargo plane as it approached Vilnius airport could have been the result of sabotage or an accident, Germany’s foreign minister has said. A Spanish crew member was killed and three others injured when the German plane crashed into a house near the Lithuanian capital …
Macy’s says single employee was responsible for hiding up to $154m in expenses
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 16:16
Macy’s revealed on Monday that a single employee was responsible for hiding up to $154m in expenses over the course of nearly three years, prompting the company to delay the release of its quarterly earnings report. The US’s largest department store chain, which owns other brands such as Bloomingdale’s and …
Season has only just begun but Gold Cup already looks destined for export | Greg Wood
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:57
After a memorable weekend of Grade One steeplechasing in both Britain and Ireland, the Cheltenham Gold Cup has a new favourite in Fact To File, and the possibility that there will be a British-trained winner of jumping’s showpiece event in 2025 – or in the 2020s, full stop – seems …
Trump tariff on China could lower global inflation, says UK economist
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:40
Donald Trump imposing massive US tariffs on Chinese imports could drag down global inflation by lowering the price of goods in other countries, a senior Bank of Englandpolicymaker has said. Swati Dhingra, an external member of the Bank’s rate-setting monetary policy committee, said Trump imposing a threatened60% tariff on goods …
What’s in store for returning Asda boss Allan Leighton?
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:36
Allan Leighton faces a back to the future challenge as he once again takes charge at struggling Asda. Two decades on from his first spell turning around the supermarket chain, he has beenappointedas its executive chair, tasked with repeating the feat. When Leighton, 71, left Asda in 2000 it was …
AI Model Selection
Avg. Response: 10.0s
Llama3.2:1b
MetaSize: 1B
Success Rate: 100.0%
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF
MetaSize: 1B
Success Rate: 100.0%
All models run locally on our servers. Response times may vary based on server load.