12 h. ago Senior ministers wipe away tears as Holocaust survivor addresses Cabinet

Mala Tribich, 95, received a standing ovation after her five-minute speech at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday.

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12 h. ago Clinique has just launched a new product in the black honey range – and it’s already my favourite

The bestselling collection just got even bigger

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12 h. ago ‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster.In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago The books to read before they hit the screen in 2026: From gothic classics to modern thrillers

Whether it's falling in love at a Bridgerton masquerade or surviving a deadly Hunger Games, reading the book first lets you savour every twist, turn and forbidden romance.

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13 h. ago ‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games

Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressureThe latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters – from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest flicker of treachery. But one faithful stood out for her quiet determination, despite a ceaseless onslaught of suspicion and accusation. That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn’t at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer.“Minecraft was my way in, when I was 15,” she says. “I made loads of friends at school playing that.” From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. “That’s where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in,” she says. Continue readin...

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13 h. ago Nottingham stabbings survivor in 'nightmare' pain was 'not warned about new report'

Wayne Birkett says they were given no warning of a critical report into the NHS mental health services behind the care of the paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who went on a devastating killing spree in Nottingham

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13 h. ago Auschwitz survivor, 93, who saw his parents and seven siblings killed in death camp says 'humanity has not learnt' from the Holocaust

Ivor Perl was just 12 when he arrived at the gates of Auschwitz, a place he still views as 'literally hell on earth' - but in a sad indictment on today's world he said 'humanity has not learnt anything'.

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13 h. ago The Unfragile Mind: Making Sense of Mental Health by Gavin Francis review: 'sits on the fence'

By taking a “mibbes aye, mibbes naw” approach to some of the big questions around mental health, Gavin Francis’s new book can read as if the author desperately trying to avoid causing offence, writes Stuart Kelly

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13 h. ago America has reached a tipping point on fascism – and on opposition to it | Robert Reich

A chance encounter reminded me: there are two ways to look at what’s happened in MinneapolisOne of the few advantages of being as conspicuous as I am is that many people come up to me whom I don’t know, to talk about what’s happening in America. It’s like a free-floating focus group.On Monday morning, I was at a restaurant counter finishing my breakfast when a middle-aged man sat down next to me and said he didn’t want to intrude. (He just had, so I put down my knife and fork, wiped my mouth with my napkin, and turned toward him.) He wanted me to know that although he’d been a life-long Republican, the events of the past weeks had caused him to leave the Republican party.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Grizzly Night review – animals attack in campsite thriller of rogue bears and wayward teens

The terrifying animal at the centre of Burke Doeren’s thriller is convincingly ferocious but the supporting humans don’t match its powerDespite its lurid poster art, as an ursine rampage film this falls closer to the serious Grizzly Man/Timothy Treadwell end of the scale, rather than the Cocaine Bear one. Based on a freak August 1967 tragedy in which two women were separately mauled to death by grizzlies in Montana’s Glacier National Park (described here as a “trillion to one” occurrence), Burke Doeren’s debut grips in tooth’n’claw terms, but is considerably less sure-footed when it comes to people.Down at the park, fire season is all the rangers think they have on their plate, but they’re not reckoning with wayward teenagers and rogue bears. At the giftshop, Michele (Ali Skovbye) leans on Paul (Jacob Buster) to join her posse and help her shoo off an unwanted suitor at Trout Lake. So he leaves colleague Julie (Brec Bassinger) to a sexy bivouac with boyfriend Roy (Matt Lintz) in a s...

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13 h. ago DWP issues PIP eligibility review update for new and existing claimants

Changes to PIP eligibility are on hold until a comprehensive review of the benefit has been completed.

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14 h. ago Survivor of Nottingham attacks which killed three people says victims should have been involved in care review of NHS trust which looked after his attacker

Schizophrenic Valdo Calocane killed Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, and tried to kill three more people in Nottingham in June 2023.

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14 h. ago This Chanel gift is just £35 and makes a perfect Valentine’s Day present

This chic little mirror is bound to please on 14 February

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14 h. ago I just got back from the slopes – this is the best tried and tested skiwear

We’ve been testing the best skiwear brands in the Dolomites, Austria and France

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14 h. ago Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos

A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece eventRemoving the United States as co-host of the 2026 World Cup would hurt for pretty much everyone. Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby). Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on. It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale, the likes of which have never been seen before in sports. It would be eminently sad. And it would be entirely justified.It brings me no pleasure to say this. The United States has been eager to host a men’s World Cup for more than a decade and a half. The desire survived and even grew after 2010’s failure to out-bid Russia and Qatar (in public and behind closed doors) for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. With hosting rights for 2026 later secured alongside Canada and Mexico, the US soccer scene prepared to show off ...

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14 h. ago Born in a concentration camp: A Holocaust survivor tells her story for the first time

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors after being born into the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945

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15 h. ago Mayor survives after assassins blast his vehicle with an RPG and machinegun in third attempt on his life in the Philippines

Dramatic CCTV footage in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur, shows the rocket attack on the vehicle of Mayor Akmad Mitra Ampatuan, who was travelling with several security personnel.

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15 h. ago Survivor of Nottingham attacks that killed three people says victims should have been involved in care review of NHS trust that looked after his attacker

Schizophrenic Valdo Calocane killed Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, and tried to kill three more people in Nottingham in June 2023.

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15 h. ago At least 23 soldiers killed after landslide slams into training camp in Indonesia

Landslide buries a facility in West Java preparing troops for border patrol

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15 h. ago Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo review – the Korean bestseller about platonic partnership

A quietly revolutionary account of cohabiting captured a nation’s heart – but what does it mean for the rest of the world?When Sunwoo and Hana met on Twitter, they were in their 40s and committed bachelorettes. Both raised by the sea in Busan, they studied in Seoul before entering the city’s famously brutal rat race, Sunwoo as a fashion journalist, Hana as a copywriter. They shared the same taste in music and books, and importantly, both had rejected marriage. No wonder. In South Korea’s stubbornly patriarchal culture, women in dual-income families spend nearly three hours more a day on household chores than men. Instead, Sunwoo and Hana joined the large number of South Koreans living alone. At first, independence felt exhilarating. By middle age however, loneliness was beginning to gnaw, and their boxy studio apartments felt oppressively small.Two Women Living Together, a 2019 South Korean bestseller that spawned a popular podcast, charts Sunwoo and Hana’s ...

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