13 m. ago DWP sees 105,100 more Pension Credit applications as 1.4m receive support

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed a large increase in the number of people claiming Pension Credit over the past year following Reeves' slashing of winter fuel payments

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35 m. ago Beijing's deflation dilemma: Falling prices signal bigger troubles ahead for China's economy

China's leaders are overseeing a spell of deflation, or falling prices, that contrasts with inflationary pressures prevailing elsewhere in the world

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2 h. ago Threatened species: court asked to compel Australian ministers to create recovery plans

The Wilderness Society launches legal action in hope of helping animals on brink of extinctionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne of Australia’s largest conservation organisations has launched legal action alleging that successive federal environment ministers failed to meet their obligation to create recovery plans for native species threatened with extinction.The Wilderness Society (TWS) filed the proceedings in the federal court on Monday.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Mark Wright shares excitement to become a dad as pregnant wife Michelle prepares to give birth

Mark Wright has shared his excitement over the impending arrival of his and wife Michelle Keegan's first child together, saying he 'can't wait for it to happen'

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7 h. ago Mark Wright 'excited' as pregnant Michelle Keegan prepares to give birth

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright has discussed the fact he "can't wait" to welcome his first child as pregnant wife Michelle Keegan counts down to her due date

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7 h. ago Trump says ‘no room left’ for deal that avoids tariffs on Mexico and Canada

Announcement leads to sharp sell-off on Wall Street as Trump also vows tariffs on farm products starting in AprilThe US will press ahead with steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico from Tuesday, Donald Trump has said, setting the stage for a trade war with his country’s two largest economic partners.Hours before his administration was due to hit America’s closest neighbors with sweeping import duties, the US president claimed there was “no room left” for a deal to avoid their imposition. The announcement led to a sharp sell-off on Wall Street. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Plant diverse tree species to spread risk in climate crisis, study says

Uncertainty over climate and economy means ‘investment portfolio’ approach needed, researchers sayAn “investment portfolio approach” needs to be applied to large-scale tree planting across the world to reduce the risks of the wrong species being planted in the wrong place, economists have said.Countries have made ambitious pledges to plant billions of trees to remove greenhouse gases and tackle global heating. The UK has committed to plant 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of trees each year by 2025 and maintain the rate until 2050, the European Commission has pledged to plant 3bn trees across member states by 2030, and the US under the previous administration committed to planting 1bn trees by the same date. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago DOGE is claiming credit for ‘canceling’ contracts that were ended decades ago

There were errors in DOGE’s top five largest cancelled contracts, all of which have been scrubbed from its website

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8 h. ago Texas Republican suggests renaming ‘New York strip’ to ‘Texas strip’ – as measles outbreak rages

Texas produces the largest amount of beef in the United States

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8 h. ago And the loser is politics: why was this year’s Oscars so reluctant?

Taking place in the middle of a chaotic time for the US and the world at large, this year’s ceremony was light on statements and devoid of the Trump word entirelyTwenty-two years ago, the last time Adrien Brody won the Academy award for best actor, film-maker Michael Moore accepted his own Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, a documentary about America’s obsession with guns, by offering a preview of sorts of his next feature, Fahrenheit 9/11. He decried then president George W Bush as “fictitious” (alluding to his fishy, supreme court-assisted election win a year and a half earlier) and excoriated the Bush administration for sending the United States to war with Iraq – just three days earlier, in fact – for “fictitious reasons”. It was received with a mixture of applause and boos, probably the most memorable moment of the night, give or take Brody planting a kiss on Halle Berry.Two years later, when Fahrenheit 9/11 might have been similarly honored (and almost certainly would have been...

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9 h. ago Lobster fishermen can sue environmental group for defamation, judge says

A federal court has ruled that a group of fishermen can sue one of the world’s largest seafood watchdog groups for defamation for publishing a report that described Maine lobster as an unwise choice for consumers

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10 h. ago ‘The price was huge’: Hezbollah reeling as Lebanese ponder sacrifices of its war

The fighting with Israel has weakened the group and brought heavy losses to residents in its southern heartland Crowds of people gathered last week in the ruined town square of Aitaroun, south Lebanon, to attend the mass burial of 95 people, one of the largest funerals held in Lebanon since the start of the Hezbollah-Israel war.Hundreds of people waving Hezbollah flags watched as rows of coffins were brought in by four lorries, the vehicles’ procession lined with flattened buildings destroyed in Israeli bombardment months earlier. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works

Companies will never solve the climate emergency alone. The impetus for change needs to come from government It would be very easy to be sharply critical of BP, given its sudden volte-face on its environmental commitments. Under pressure from a shareholder, Elliott Management, it has abandoned the green ambitions it announced in 2020 and pivoted squarely back to an overwhelming focus on oil and gas.While easy, it would arguably be unhelpful, and perhaps even misguided. Because viewed in the round, this isn’t really about BP: it’s about capitalism at large, and its inability to respond to the climate crisis in the manner we need.Brett Christophers is a professor in the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden’s Uppsala University and author of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the PlanetDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters se...

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10 h. ago BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works | Brett Christophers

Companies will never solve the climate emergency alone. The impetus for change needs to come from government It would be very easy to be sharply critical of BP, given its sudden volte-face on its environmental commitments. Under pressure from a shareholder, Elliott Management, it has abandoned the green ambitions it announced in 2020 and pivoted squarely back to an overwhelming focus on oil and gas.While easy, it would arguably be unhelpful, and perhaps even misguided. Because viewed in the round, this isn’t really about BP: it’s about capitalism at large, and its inability to respond to the climate crisis in the manner we need.Brett Christophers is a professor in the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden’s Uppsala University and author of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the PlanetDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters se...

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10 h. ago David Pipe dealt huge Cheltenham Festival blow as major British fancy ruled out

The exciting Windbeneathmywings was Britain’s best hope of winning the Weatherbys Champion Bumper since 2016 but has suffered a setback in training

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10 h. ago Tonight's rugby news as Welsh 'freak' compared to Springbok giant and star's shock diagnosis revealed

The latest headlines from Wales and around the world

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10 h. ago Swinney's stance backing hydrogen boilers for home heating 'makes no sense' campaigners warn

The First Minister hailed the 'exciting opportunity' of hydrogen for domestic heating but it flies in the face of official expert advice.

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10 h. ago The main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are | Emma Brockes

Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politicsThe Oscars ceremony on Sunday night was long and boring, as it has been for a few years, but this year its shortcomings landed differently. Hollywood’s waning influence, which registered most glaringly last month in the large number of American nominees who showed up in London for the Baftas – not something they were inclined to do in better times – gave the ceremony a sense of low-stakes irrelevance that was frankly a relief from the rest of the news cycle. Still, the question lingers as to why the actors and presenters largely, and mercifully in my view, stayed away from mention of Donald Trump.After the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles in January, the classy thing to have done this year would’ve been to cancel or at least radically downsize the Oscars ceremony, but of course no one involved was going to vote for that. Instead, audie...

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11 h. ago Three men 'plotted to murder career criminal convicted of Britain's largest cash robbery' after 'snatching Ming dynasty antiques from Swiss museum'

Convicted armed robber Paul Allen was paralysed for life after two bullets were fired through the kitchen window of his rented home in Woodford Green, East London, on July 11 2019.

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11 h. ago I hate the gym... but the latest exercise tech had me burn more calories without ever leaving my home

People on our DailyMail.com team range from self-professed couch potatoes to a weight lifter who hits the gym before the sun comes up. So we were excited to try the newest exercise tech.

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