53 h. ago The Guardian view on global aid cuts: a malaria resurgence could be the canary in the coalmine | Editorial

The consequences of Donald Trump’s decision to scrap USAID, and other countries’ decisions to reduce funding, are playing out in deadly fashionMalaria is a pandemic disease that hits the voiceless hardest: most of those who fall ill and die are small children and pregnant women in Africa. It is the leading infectious killer of the continent, responsible for nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Cases are rising and there is an urgent need for more funding, yet western donor countries are instead cutting back on aid. We still hear brave talk about eliminating malaria. But an expert report now warns of a potential resurgence that could add almost a million more deaths to the annual toll by the end of the decade.Most of the money to fight the mosquito-borne disease – 59% – comes through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Its executive director, Peter Sands, said last week at the World Health Summit in Berlin that of the three killers, the one that kept him awake...

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57 h. ago Change means 600,000 to miss £300 winter fuel payment for 12 months

People born 'one day late' could miss the £300 winter fuel payment due to state pension change in 2026

Economics

3 d. ago The Guardian view on electronic implants: a new way of seeing, not of being | Editorial

Electronic implants are helping people to see again. Their promise is profound, but so are the risks. Progress must be guided by ethics and accessibilityIn medical terms, the eye is not the window to the soul, but to the mind. The retina and the optic nerve are outgrowths of neural tissue, and the remarkable success of electronic implants in restoring sight shows how far brain-computer interfaces have come. These have not delivered a sci-fi vision of augmented humans with incredible new powers but, perhaps more happily, significant progress has been made, restoring ability and agency to those who have suffered injury or disease.People with age-related macular degeneration face a fading world. The disease, affecting about 600,000 people in the UK, causes progressive loss of central vision. There is no cure, but new trials offer something else: a new way of seeing. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Royal British Legion club is threatened with closure after couple move into £600,000 bungalow next door then start complaining about the noise

Company director John Cordner and his wife Jane moved into their £600,000 home in the Dorset village of Corfe Mullen in 2020.

Society

7 d. ago Passenger numbers at Cardiff Airport nudge upwards towards the one million mark

They are still though 600,000 lower than the year before the pandemic

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9 d. ago Welsh Water fine for 800 sewage breaches significantly reduced after appeal

The company was fined £1.35m earlier this year after it admitted breaches of its environmental permits to discharge sewage

Politics

9 d. ago Scottish rugby legend Chris Paterson launches 2025 Scottish Poppy Appeal

The former Scotland player visited Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh for a tour of the premises and to find out about Poppyscotland's work with the Armed Forces community.

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1 week ago ‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school

With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopesJuwayriya Adwan, 12, al-Mawasi, Khan Younis Continue reading...

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1 week ago Millionaire in pristine white Bentley filmed being robbed of his $600,000 watch

The attack, captured on surveillance cameras, shows three masked men blocking the victim's car, before dragging him to the ground, and beating him.

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1 week ago Spanish police investigate as Picasso painting vanishes on way to exhibition

Still Life with Guitar, worth €600,000, noticed missing after van arrives in Grenada from MadridPolice in Spain are investigating the disappearance of a tiny Picasso painting, worth €600,000 [£520,000], that vanished en route from Madrid to an exhibition in the southern city of Granada.The gouache and pencil work, Naturaleza muerta con guitarra (Still Life with Guitar), was due to go on show at a new exhibition at the CajaGranada foundation, which opened last week. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘A defining moment of our nation’: Cape Verde goes wild to celebrate historic World Cup spot

By blending diaspora players with homegrown talent the island nation of fewer than 600,000 people has qualified for 2026 tournament On 5 July 1975, the Cape Verdean flag was raised for the first time at Estádio da Várzea in the capital city of Praia, marking the nation’s declaration of independence from Portugal. At that moment, there was no national football team – and no sign of what was to come.Exactly 100 days after the 50th anniversary of independence, the same flag was waved at the very same ground, where crowds gathered to celebrate Cape Verde’s historic first World Cup qualification with the players who had earlier secured the decisive 3-0 win over Eswatini five miles away at the National Stadium. This island nation off the coast of Senegal, with a population of fewer than 600,000, has become the second-smallest country to qualify for the tournament, after Iceland in 2018. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Major travel company refunds £600,000 to customers thanks to its Price Drop Protection guarantee

A major travel company has refunded a huge amount to customers as a result of its Price Drop Protection guarantee.

Economics

2 w. ago China’s Ming Yang to invest up to £1.5bn in Scottish turbine factory

Company says the project is subject to ‘final approvals’ from the UK government

Economics

2 w. ago Chinese firm piles pressure on UK government to approve massive wind turbine factory in Scotland

Ming Yang ‘excited by the prospect of investing’ but UK government ‘will not be rushed’

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2 w. ago Chinese firm to build UK’s largest wind turbine factory in Scotland

Ming Yang said the project will see investment of up to £1.5 billion, and create as many as 1,500 jobs.

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2 w. ago Boxer burns to death under bus in horror crash as devastated trainer pays tribute

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING The boxing star was killed in a horrific accident after his motorbike broke down, leading to an outpouring of grief from his trainer and friends

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2 w. ago Didn’t see that coming: Fortune tellers accused of stealing almost $600,000 from victim by claiming they’d ‘remove curse,’ police say

Fortune tellers claimed they would lift curse from client in exchange for money, luxury goods and concert tickets

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2 w. ago Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each yearA plastic recycling industry potentially worth £2bn and 5,000 jobs is dying in the UK because of government failure to close a loophole which allows 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste to be exported each year.The Guardian can reveal that in the past two years 21 plastic recycling and processing factories across the UK have shut down due to the scale of our exports, the cheap price of virgin plastic and an influx of cheap plastic from Asia, according to data gathered by industry insiders. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Brit conman admits role in brazen £75million vintage wine fraud

James Wellesley faces up to 12 years in prison in New York after pleading guilty to involvement in a £75 million fine wine fraud scheme. His company, Bordeaux Cellars, brokered loans for expensive wine collections, which did not exist.

Economics

3 w. ago North Lanarkshire emergency: Investigation after man dies in incident at Cumbernauld packaging factory

An investigation to establish the full circumstances is ongoing.

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