27 h. ago Huge number of people admit they'd be cool with their partner hooking up with a robot

A new survey has shed light on how comfortable people are with AI in their sex lives - and it seems many are willing to let their partners get jiggy with a robot

Politics

3 d. ago NHS warning for people with these conditions as hospitals under huge pressure

'Despite early signs of spring, winter illnesses continue to circulate at this time of year and can aggravate any existing health problem', warns one health leader

Events

4 d. ago Ange and the Boss: the Australian title and ties that bind Postecoglou and Puskás

There is emotional and cultural heft to the story revealed in a film about the Hungarian football great’s time as coach of South Melbourne HellasBased on a blur of childhood memory that hardly equals sociology, Australia in the 1980s and 90s was a place obsessed with celebrity. A small population at the far end of the world, a gap unbridged by cheap flights and eternal internet: when famous people came to visit, it was a huge deal.When Australians got involved in major events overseas, even bigger. There were years when Nicole Kidman just showing up at the Oscars felt like a national event. So it’s a hell of a story that one of the world’s greatest footballers coached a local soccer team in 1991, and hardly anybody noticed. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Fire chiefs issue statement after huge moor fire as people told to 'avoid the area'

Local farmers joined fire crews to help tackle the blaze

Events

4 d. ago Big oil is waging ‘biggest campaign of political interference in US history’, senator says

Fossil fuel groups poured a record $96m into Trump ahead of the 2024 election, demanding more scrutiny, not less, says Sheldon WhitehouseThe Republican party’s capturing of the Senate and House of Representatives has ended a congressional investigation into big oil just when it is needed most, according to the leader of the inquiry.“The fossil fuel industry is running perhaps the biggest campaign of disinformation and political interference in American history and they’re backing it up with immense amounts of political spending,” said the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse. “The consequences in the White House are enormous and having a huge effect but people aren’t aware.” Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Greek PM vows to upgrade railways as government faces confidence vote

Kyriakos Mitsotakis says protests over train disaster emphasise the need for ‘safe and modern’ transport systemThe Greek prime minister has vowed to upgrade the country’s railways as his embattled government braces for a vote of no confidence after huge protests over a 2023 train crash that killed 57 people.Two days after hundreds of thousands took to the streets in fury over the response to the disaster on its second anniversary, Kyriakos Mitsotakis acknowledged that not enough had been done to build a “safe and modern” transport system, saying the largest protests in recent history had emphasised the demand for action. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Terrifying moment Crown Princess cruise ship flung about in rough seas as 16 injured

The footage from inside the huge Crown Princess cruise ship - with capacity to hold 3090 people - showed the chaos that ensued on board as the ship began to tilt

Events

8 d. ago 'Huge' Sheffield 'explosions' wake people up and 'rattle houses'

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

Events

8 d. ago ‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten

Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happenedOn 20 March 2020, Rowan Brown started to feel a tickle at the back of her throat. Over the next few days, new symptoms began to emerge: difficulty breathing, some tiredness. By the following week, the UK had been put under lockdown in a last-minute attempt to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19. No one else she knew had yet been infected, so she posted updates on Facebook to keep people informed: “Oh, guys, it feels like a mild flu. Tonsillitis was definitely worse.”Brown didn’t know then she was at the beginning of a condition that did not yet have a name, but which has since become known as long Covid. After two weeks, she had a Zoom with a friend, and at the end of the conversation it was as if all life force had drained out of her body. Her doctor advised her to ...

Science

1 week ago 'We woke up, and suddenly it was a refugee centre': The village of 1,975 people who say a huge 93

EXCLUSIVE: Manston village, which has a population of just 1,975 people, is being threatened by the expansion of the Manston Asylum Processing Centre.

Events

2 w. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sink hole as 50k people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

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2 w. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sink hole as 50,000 people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

Events

2 w. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sinkhole as 50,000 people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

Events

2 w. ago How to avoid 'sneaky' tax traps as two million people face HMRC bill this year

More people have been pushed over their personal savings allowance due to huge improvements in rates over the past few years, with more than two million people expected to pay tax on their hard-earned cash

Economics

2 w. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

Politics

2 w. ago Scientists say eight huge cities and 100m people in danger of asteroid heading towards Earth

Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed a 'city killer' by experts, now has a higher risk of hitting the planet than any other in recent history

Events

2 w. ago Huge cordon around Hull's St Stephen's Shopping Centre as people urged to stay away

The shopping centre has been evacuated and a huge cordon has been erected with buses, trains and other transport links affected while investigations are carried out

Economics