3 d. ago ‘Without the pub the village is just a collection of houses without a beating heart’

A grade II listed pub nicknamed 'The Rag' was the last publicly accessible building for an entire village

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3 d. ago Entire village made from pumpkins has a church, wind turbine and something terrifying if you're brave enough

This pumpkin village is the first of its kind in the UK

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2 w. ago The people in Wales who vanished without trace as devastated families search for answers

Anyone with information on their whereabouts should report it to the relevant police force

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2 w. ago ‘Multiple people’ dead after explosion at Tennessee plant as crews search rubble for missing workers

Multiple people are dead and more are missing following a blast at an explosives manufacturing plant in Tennessee, law enforcement officials have said.

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2 w. ago The West Bank's dwindling Palestinian Christian communities, in photos

Christians who are proudly Palestinian and live in the occupied West Bank continue to find hope in Sunday worship as they wish for independence and peace in the Holy Land, even as they struggle with growing violence from Israeli settlers, restrictions on daily life imposed by Israel and fears of growing Islamist radicalization. The village of Taybeh is entirely Christian — Catholics of the Roman and Greek Melkite rites and Greek Orthodox.

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3 w. ago Entire villages swept away by India landslides as rescuers search for people in debris

Downpours and road damage hampered efforts to reach several affected villages

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3 w. ago Rescuers in India search for missing after landslides kill 24 in Darjeeling region

Rescuers are scouring India's tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling to find several missing people

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4 w. ago NASA boss reveals plans for an entire VILLAGE on the moon by 2035

NASA will put an entire 'village' on the moon by 2035, according Sean Duffy, the space agency's administrator.

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last month The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial

Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the futureIn The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as “blindly resisting machinery”, wrote Thompson in his classic history. They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives.A distinction worth bearing in mind as Britain rolls out the red carpet for US big tech, thereby outsourcing a modern industrial revolution still in its infancy. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit. Unlice...

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