42 m. ago The host of one of TV’s finest foodie shows does a podcast: best listens of the week

Samin Nosrat from Netflix’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat creates an essential resource for food heads. Plus, a Grey’s Anatomy character goes under the microscope in a super-fun show about dubious people called Elizabeth Continue reading...

Events

1 hour ago Julie Lin’s recipes for cooking for one: yellow curry with baby aubergine, and Chinese

Fragrant, vegetable-led cooking for nourishing one-person feastsCelery divides people, perhaps because most of us are introduced to it in the form of batons dipped into hummus, which I don’t feel is its best form. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy raw celery – it has an earthy pepperiness that I find quite moreish – but I adore it in cooked form, especially with soy and garlic, and today’s recipe is a take on a wok-fried celery dish that we often eat at large banquets in Malaysia. But first, a silky, fragrant curry with tender baby aubergines and a golden coconut base that’s perfect with hot steamed rice and a scattering of fresh herbs. These baby purple aubergines are perfect for one person, and hold their structure well in a curry. I adore them. Continue reading...

Society

1 hour ago I tried same sandwich at Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's and one stole the show

Were're spoilt for choice when it comes to walking to the sandwich section of the supermarket, but there's one variety that we keep coming back to time and again

Politics

4 h. ago The 9 best California cities and towns to visit, from LA to Santa Barbara

Where to go if you want to experience the best urban settings in the Golden State

Politics

5 h. ago Fowl Play! Thousands of rare breed chickens are being slaughtered as Defra jobsworths panic irrationally over bird flu

The pictures of dead chickens began to arrive in Lee Grant's inbox two weeks ago, each of them dropping with an eerie 'ping'.

Politics

6 h. ago Angela Rayner is warned her plan to hand trade unions more power 'violates human rights'

As part of her reforms to employment rights, the party's deputy leader (pictured) is scrapping a Tory-era requirement for union members to opt in if they want to contribute towards political funds.

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7 h. ago Deliveroo to launch new family meal offering in 30 UK towns and cities

The takeaway delivery specialist said it is working with restaurant partners to create bespoke meal formats for the first time.

Society

8 h. ago Queen Camilla ‘fought off sexual assault’ by stranger on a train as a teenager, new book claims

The Queen reportedly disclosed the story to Boris Johnson during a meeting in 2008

Politics

8 h. ago Dine and dash thief scoffed £500 worth of food at three different restaurants

Lauren Halliday and her then-boyfriend targeted three different restaurants in Newcastle earlier this year and enjoyed fancy meals but left without paying their bill, a court heard

Society

11 h. ago Most Americans oppose gerrymandering in new poll – unless their opponents do it first

Democratic leaders in California have launched a redistricting effort to counter Texas’s new congressional map

Politics

12 h. ago Teen used ChatGPT for homework help... it ended up persuading him to take his own life, lawsuit claims

Adam Raine, 16, died by suicide on April 11 after spending the preceding seven months talking with ChatGPT about self harm in graphic detail, per a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family.

Society

13 h. ago Tiny village bolthole sells one of Wales' best sandwiches and I have to stop on every drive west

And everything else is ridiculously delicious too at this Carmarthenshire restaurant icon

Politics

14 h. ago Bread 'sommeliers' the latest food fad and you need a training course to be one

Want to be one? You need an extensive knowledge of all areas of bread, including its history, culture, types and styles, grains, milling, production, nutritional values, flavour profiles and sensory appreciation of bread

Politics

14 h. ago Doubts cast on Kemi Badenoch’s claim of US medical school offer

Stanford University staff and academic experts raise questions over Tory leader’s claim of place and partial scholarship offered at 16Doubts have surfaced over Kemi Badenoch’s claim to have been offered a place at a prestigious US medical school at 16, with admissions staff unable to recall the proposal and the university not providing the course.The Conservative leader has said in interviews that she was offered a place and a partial scholarship to study medicine – sometimes describing it as pre-medicine – at Stanford University in California, one of the most competitive in the US. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago The Guardian view on the killing of Gaza’s journalists: Israel wants to stop the world from seeing what it’s doing | Editorial

This is the most lethal war for the media in recent times. A generation of journalists is being wiped outDay by day, the death toll rises, the war crimes mount, and the outrage grows. Last Wednesday, the pope demanded that Israel stop its “collective punishment” of Gaza’s population. A day later, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, warned that “the levels of death and destruction are without parallel in recent times”. More than 500 UN staff have pressed the human rights chief, Volker Türk, to call it genocide. Half of registered voters in the US have already concluded that that is what Israel is doing in Gaza.The agony is deepening. On Friday, the Israeli military declared famine-hit Gaza City to be a combat zone, intensifying its assault and ending “tactical pauses” that allowed limited – if utterly inadequate – food delivery. Many inhabitants are physically incapable of fleeing again, and fear that they would be no s...

Events

14 h. ago Wowcher's Sunday roast carvery deal feeds 4 for just £8 each

Enjoy a roast dinner on a budget

Economics

14 h. ago ‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise

Pollution, warm oceans and hungry urchins devastated Pacific kelp. Now, thanks to divers with hammers, one of the world’s most successful rehabilitation projects has helped it reboundOn an overcast Tuesday in July, divers Mitch Johnson and Sean Taylor shimmy into their wetsuits on the back of the R/V Xenarcha, a 28ft boat floating off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, south of Los Angeles. Behind them, the clear waters of the Pacific are dotted with a forest of army-green strands, waving like mermaid hair underwater.We are here to survey the giant Pacific kelp, a species that once thrived in these ice cold waters. But over the past two decades, a combination of warm ocean temperatures, pollution, overfishing and the proliferation of hungry sea urchins that devour the kelp has led to a 80% decline in the forest along the southern California coast. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Houthis detain at least one UN worker in raids on two agencies in Sana’a

Iran-backed group’s security forces raid offices of World Food Programme and Unicef in Yemen’s capitalThe Iranian-backed Houthis have raided offices of the United Nations’ food and children’s agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining at least one UN employee, officials said, as the rebels tightened security across Sana’a after Israel’s killing of their prime minister and several cabinet members.Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme, said security forces raided the agencies’ offices in the Houthi-controlled capital on Sunday morning. “WFP reiterates that the arbitrary detention of humanitarian staff is unacceptable,” Etefa said. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Houthis detain at least 11 UN workers in raids on two agencies in Sana’a

UN condemns ‘arbitrary detentions’ by Iran-backed group at World Food Programme and Unicef offices in Yemen’s capitalThe Iranian-backed Houthis raided offices of the UN’s food, health and children’s agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining at least 11 employees, as the rebels tightened security across Sana’a after the Israeli killing of their prime minister and several cabinet members.The UN envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said on Sunday evening: “I strongly condemn the new wave of arbitrary detentions of UN personnel today in Sana’a and Hodeidah ... as well as the forced entry into UN premises and seizure of UN property. At least 11 UN personnel were detained.” Continue reading...

Politics

16 h. ago Tragic final days of world's fattest man who ate himself to death: How bed

For many years, Ricky Naputi, who at his heaviest tipped the scales at more than 64 stone, struggled with his relationship with food.

Events