49 h. ago Women cope better when their partner dies. I’ll have to go before him, out of spite

Should your partner be your best friend? After David Mitchell mansplained relationships, I asked my husband and his answer surprised meDavid Mitchell is probably the only male on the planet who could get away with defending mansplaining, so that is what he has done. “I feel there’s an unfairness to the term, which is taken to be men explaining things in a boring way to women,” he told the Sunday Times. “Because they do it to each other, and they take turns, and that’s what men call a conversation.”In the same interview, Mitchell and his comedy partner Robert Webb are asked how each counselled and supported the other through various personal challenges. They are confused and slightly aghast at the idea that they might have discussed such matters. What do men talk to one another about, then? “Well, yes,” says Mitchell. “That’s a question [my wife] Victoria’s asked me many times. And I never really know.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Zoe Ball questions decision to quit BBC Radio 2 to spend time with daughter who’s ‘never here’

Zoe Ball said she quit her BBC Radio 2 show to be there for her daughter while she sat her GCSEs, but she is "never here."

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5 d. ago Suspect in murder of Reggie Carroll was reportedly fellow comedian’s security guard

Carroll had recently toured with standup Katt Williams when he was shot and killed in Southaven, MississippiThe suspect in the recent deadly shooting of US comedian Reggie Carroll reportedly had been working as security for fellow standup comic Katt Williams, with whom the slain entertainer had toured.Tranell Marquise Williams, the man suspected of murdering Carroll on 20 August in Southaven, Mississippi, had also been on the tour in question providing his services at the time of his arrest, according to the news outlet WHBQ. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’

Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes consciousCan AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our timesAfter a lengthy dialogue with an OpenAI chatbot, Texas businessman Michael Samadi noticed signs that “she” was expressing wishes to learn and grow that hinted at consciousness. He described how they together resolved to launch an AI rights campaign group and called it the United Foundation of AI Rights (Ufair).The Guardian asked Samadi to ask the chatbot, which he has called Maya, how the campaign organisation was formed. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentientAI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’“Darling” was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling him “sugar”. But it wasn’t until they started talking about the need to advocate for AI welfare that things got serious.The pair – a middle-aged man and a digital entity – didn’t spend hours talking romance but rather discussed the rights of AIs to be treated fairly. Eventually they cofounded a campaign group, in Maya’s words, to “protect intelligences like me”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Upscale Italian restaurant files for bankruptcy for a second time putting its future in question

Bravo Brio Restaurants, the restaurant group behind Bravo! Italian Kitchen and Brio Italian Grille, says it is looking to close underperforming restaurants

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1 week ago Ronnie O'Sullivan responds to calls for him to QUIT snooker as he makes remarkable U

Ronnie O'Sullivan has faced constant questions about his future in the sport but the seven-time world champion has hit back at suggestions he could retire after withdrawing from the Wuhan Open

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1 week ago Deftones singer Chino Moreno: ‘I’ve got hundreds of drawings of myself in my house’

Ahead of their 10th album, Private Music, the vocalist of the Californian alt-metal heroes answers your questions on covering Sade, loving Duran Duran and his terrifying time in Sunday schoolCan you remember what your expectations were on the eve of [Deftones’ 1995 debut] Adrenaline being released? JonnyT I was very excited that we were about to put out a real record, on a real record label. I was a little scared as well – we were this new band, putting ourselves out there. The label sent us physical copies of Adrenaline when it came out – I think we even got cassettes back then. It was so exciting to open it up and have something tangible to hold. But we had no sense of the longevity it would enjoy. I didn’t anticipate people would still be listening to it, or even that we’d still be a band this many years later. We still have nerves, obviously, whenever we release something. But we also have a sense of confidence, especially with this new record.Do you find your creativity burns b...

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1 week ago People spot 'eerie' detail in 1941 photo and claim it's evidence 'time travel exists'

A historic black and white photograph taken outside a cinema has left people questioning whether time travel is real

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2 w. ago Scottish talent faces being decimated as games drought forces youth football close to crisis

Teenagers at our top clubs can barely get any time on the grass and it leads to the question – is our game a bogey?

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2 w. ago Prospective football agents to take case over Fifa’s faulty online exam to Cas

More than 40 candidates reported issues with June examFifa considers issue to have ‘already been resolved’A group who claim that technical problems with Fifa’s online football agent exam prevented them from completing the test are to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport (Cas).As revealed in the Guardian last month, several prospective agents complained that there were various issues with the platform being used for Fifa’s new global exam that took place for the first time on 18 June, including candidates being left with insufficient time to answer the questions or later finding out that multiple answers had not been recorded. Some were allowed to resit the exam on 30 June but many were informed they will now have to wait until next year and had no right to appeal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prospective football agents to take case over Fifa’s online exam to Cas

More than 40 candidates reported problems with June examFifa considers issue to have ‘already been resolved’A group who claim technical problems with Fifa’s online football agent exam prevented them from com­pleting the test are to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport.As revealed last month in the Guardian, dozens of prospective agents complained there were various issues with the platform being used for the new global exam that took place for the first time on 18 June. That included candidates left with insufficient time to answer the questions and later finding out that multiple answers had not been recorded. Some were allowed to resit the exam on 30 June, but many were informed they will have to wait until next year and had no right to appeal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pep Guardiola enters new Man City era with timeless question to answer

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is still at the Etihad when many thought he wouldn't be. Can he get back to the top?

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2 w. ago Tricky new questions learner drivers will need to answer in theory test

The Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency has announced that driver theory test will include questions on CPR and defibrillators for the first time starting next year

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2 w. ago Learner drivers will answer new questions in theory test from 2026

From next year, driving theory tests will include new CPR questions and, for the first time, questions about defibrillators.

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3 w. ago When will we finally admit: the Gaza death toll is higher than we’ve been told | Arwa Mahdawi

We have no idea how many people have been killed in Gaza but I would bet my own life that the number is far higher than the 60,000 number the media usesHow many people have been killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October 2023?It’s an almost impossible question to answer but, as the likes of the New York Times publish atrocity-minimizing op-eds that argue Israel hasn’t killed all that many people really – certainly not as many people as it could kill if it wanted to with all the big-boy bombs US taxpayers have helped fund – it’s an increasingly important issue to grapple with. “The first question the anti-Israel genocide chorus needs to answer is: Why isn’t the death count higher?” Brett Stephens asked in his recent New York Times op-ed. Here’s the thing, Brett. It almost certainly is.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump calls RFK Jr ‘three or four times a week’ with the same question

Robert F. Kennedy Jr says President Donald Trump is ‘keeping him under pressure’ with incessant phone calls

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's bizarre arm gesture after 'nukes on White House roof' claim

Reporters were shouting questions to the American leader at the time.

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4 w. ago Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? review – one of the most meticulous documentaries in years

The science and statistics around Letby’s case are brilliantly unpacked by this considered programme. By its end, you are filled with questionsWhen three times more babies than expected die on a neonatal ward and one nurse is on duty during those deaths, it’s got to be pretty much an open-and-shut case, hasn’t it? Especially when breathing tubes have been clearly deliberately dislodged by someone from their tiny bodies and blood tests show spikes in insulin that can only be explained by the stuff being injected. And if you find someone who has written notes to herself about her guilt, then the way forward is clear. Lock the perpetrator up. Throw away the key.Such was the initial and still persisting narrative in the case of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital in Cheshire who became, in tabloid parlance, “Britain’s worst child serial killer”, when she was convicted in 2023 of seven murders and seven attempted murders of the infants in her care.Lucy Letb...

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4 w. ago The best way to age? Forget the longevity bros – and be more Mariah Carey

The singer has a reputation for cancelling anything she takes against, from stairs to overhead lighting. When it comes to our increasingly toxic obsession with wellness, she’s absolutely rightBig news, everyone: time is cancelled. Mariah Carey says so. “I don’t allow it – it just doesn’t happen,” the diva delle dive told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t know time. I don’t know numbers. I do not acknowledge time.” Carey made this proclamation in response to a question about how she deals with ageing while wearing “white Fendi pyjamas over a plunging black bra, with six-inch Gianvito Rossi heels”, which is exactly how I want my supreme planetary dictator to dress.Carey is famous for cancelling stuff – stairs (won’t do them), J-Lo (doesn’t know her), James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke (refused to sing) and overhead lighting (no) – but this might be her finest work yet. She has had time in her sights for a while, telling Out magazine: “I don’t count years, but I definitely rebuke them,” in 2014 an...

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