82 minutes ago ‘I am valued here’: the extraordinary film that recreates a disabled boy’s rich digital life

Mats Steen had muscular dystrophy and died very young. But a touching new documentary has used animation and his own posts to reveal the fulfilling gaming life he led in World of Warcraft – right down to his first kissThe night after their son Mats died aged just 25, Trude and Robert Steen sat on the sofa in their living room in Oslo with their daughter Mia. They couldn’t sleep. “Everything was a blur,” remembers Trude of that day 10 years ago. “Then Robert said, ‘Maybe we should reach out to Mats’ friends in World of Warcraft.’”Mats was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive condition that causes the muscles to weaken gradually. He was diagnosed aged four and started using a wheelchair at 10. By the end of his life, Mats could only move his fingers, and required a tube to...

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86 minutes ago UK unions could seek bargaining rights with just 2% of workers as members  

Ministers will consult on range of measures aimed at easing representation

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1 hour ago I tried Tesco Christmas meal deal with gravy dip – it felt wrong but tasted so right

EXCLUSIVE: "Christmas starts earlier every year" has become something of an adage when the nights begin to draw in but surely there's no place for my festive meal deal choice just yet

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1 hour ago Woman ‘terrified’ after ruling upheld that her daughter’s killer should be freed

The board was asked by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reconsider its recommendation that farm worker Steven Ling should be released.

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2 hours ago I've been in business for 40 years and have never felt as desperate as I do under Labour... I fear staff will take more sick days than ever before

Nimisha Raja (Pictured) has revealed she feels more desperate than ever under Labour rule as she fears staff will take 'more sick days than ever before' amid new controversial workers' rights reforms. 

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2 hours ago Pennsylvania man ‘threatened to skin alive’ political party worker who was recruiting Election Day volunteers

John Pollard of Philadelphia has been charged with threatening to kill the unnamed victim in a series of violent text messages

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3 hours ago One of the rarest species of whale in the world sees population increase

Conservationists called on shipping and fishing industries to do more to bring the animals back from the brink of extinction

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3 hours ago Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return? | Arwa Mahdawi

Billionaire funding is flooding into the ex-president’s campaign. If he wins, will we see prisons on Mars and Taylor Swift shot into space?Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in which you can win a million bucks if you help a billionaire buy an election. As 5 November draws closer, Elon Musk has decided to try out some interesting – and possibly illegal – tactics to get his pal Donald Trump back into the White House.First up: cash payments. On Saturday, Musk announced that “America Pac”, his pro-Trump political action committee, will give away $1m every day until the election to a randomly selected signatory to his petition supporting free speech and gun rights. He had previously offered to pay registered voters in swing states – and only registered voters in swing sta...

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3 hours ago Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement

Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hote...

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