48 m. ago Ghibli’s midlife crisis: as beloved Japanese studio turns 40 will the magic fade?

Much of Studio Ghibli’s success is down to one man: 84-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, a master animator whose presence towers over the studio’s outputDisney, Pixar Ghibli. For its legions of admirers, the Japanese studiohasn’t just held its own against the American powerhouses, it has surpassed them with the impossible beauty of its hand-drawn animation and its commentary on the ambivalence of the human condition.Although he would refuse to acknowledge it, much of Studio Ghibli’s success is down to one man: Hayao Miyazaki, a master animator whose presence towers over the studio’s output. Making a feature-length anime the old-fashioned way may require a large and multitalented cast, but Miyazaki is the thread running through Ghibli’s creative genius. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Man gets 16 years in prison for crash that killed a Connecticut officer

A 20-year-old Connecticut man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for causing a car crash that killed a Hartford police officer and seriously wounded the officer’s partner

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5 h. ago Supreme court widens court options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules

The Supreme Court is siding with e-cigarette companies in a ruling that'll make it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market

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5 h. ago Dead NASA satellite inexplicably comes back to life to fire huge pulse that lit up the sky

A NASA satellite that went silent nearly 60 years ago has shocked scientists by suddenly firing off one of the most powerful radio pulses ever recorded, briefly outshining the entire sky.

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6 h. ago NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander

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7 h. ago Teen driver who killed 'beautiful' girlfriend, 17, in horror crash before performing doughnuts in supermarket car park just weeks later is jailed

Logan Addison, 19, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years for causing the death of Lily-May Vaughan, 17, in Shropshire on February 4 2023.

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7 h. ago Watch: Woman ‘hauling mattresses’ arrested after police find 25 migrants hiding in truck

This is the moment Texas police discovered over two dozen undocumented migrants ‘crammed’ into a truck during a crash investigation.

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8 h. ago ‘Fashion murder’: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy fans aghast at first images from Netflix series

Style watchers quick to disapprove of late publicist’s portrayal in Ryan Murphy’s American Love StoryIn fashion, only the real favourites have acronyms. See SJP for Sarah Jessica Parker, ALT for the fashion editor André Leon Talley and – particularly relevant right now – CBK for Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.The wife of John F Kennedy Jr who died in a plane crash in 1999 is sometimes seen as America’s answer to Diana, Princess of Wales. Like Diana, she was loved for her style – called minimalist, chic or “quiet luxury”. Instagram is full of accounts posting archive images of her, influential brands such as The Row, Toteme and Gabriela Hearst design clothes that channel her approach to dressing and there have been books and auctions in recent years. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules

Court votes to back challenge to state waiver that allows it to set tougher car emission standards than federal limitsFossil fuel companies are able to challenge California’s ability to set stricter standards reducing the amount of polluting coming from cars, the US supreme court has ruled in a case that is set to unravel one of the key tools used to curb planet-heating emissions in recent years.The conservative-dominated supreme court voted by seven to two to back a challenge by oil and gas companies, along with 17 Republican-led states, to a waiver that California has received periodically from the federal government since 1967 that allows it to set tougher standards than national rules limiting pollution from cars. The state has separately stipulated that only zero-emission cars will be able to sold there by 2035. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago US supreme court divided as fossil fuel industry wins in car pollution case – live

The conservative-dominated supreme court voted seven to two to back a challenge by oil and gas companiesFuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rulesDonald Trump is once again repeating unfounded claims that the results of the 2020 presidential election were fraudulent, saying that the evidence is “massive and overwhelming” but not providing any of it. The president called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to the case.He wrote on Truth Social this morning: Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Serious injuries suffered after suspected drink and drug driving incident near Tenby

Officers are appealing for information to help with their investigation into the crash which happened on Thursday evening

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9 h. ago Driver being followed by police before fatal crash told passengers ‘to run’

Muhammad Qasim, 29, died in hospital after his car crashed into a tree in Birmingham while it was being followed by police, an inquest heard.

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9 h. ago ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally hereIt’s an overcast Thursday morning, and photographer Simon Wheatley is doing a soft-shoe shuffle through Roman Road in Bow, east London, as a market stall blares out exquisite 70s funk. “That’s more like it,” he says, with a grin on his face. “A bit of energy.” This was once grime’s artery, its chaotic central hub, even its muse – a street Wiley once told me was “the nurturer” of local talents like him and Dizzee Rascal. And it was here, in the 2000s, that Wheatley would create a vivid and intimate document of grime in its frenzied flush of youth, and of working-class neighbourhoods like this before they became considerably more sedate. Fourteen years after the release of Don’t Call Me Urban, Wheatley’s long-sold-out photo-book from that era – once described by Vice as “grime’s Old Testament” – it ...

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9 h. ago Wrexham's James McClean speaks for first time on scary car crash – 'Smoke was everywhere'

Wrexham captain James McClean has opened up on the car crash he was involved in on his way to training earlier this year and how he was lucky to escape unscathed

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10 h. ago Outrage as famous actress accuses British Air India plane crash survivor of lying

Bollywood star Suchitra Krishnamoorthi has now removed her social media post calling for British man Vishwash Ramesh to receive "some serious punishment" for lying

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10 h. ago Driver charged after horror crash killed three young men in Falkirk

A 21-year-old has been charged in connection with the fatal crash that killed all three of her passengers last year.

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10 h. ago James McClean's chilling car crash revelation as Wrexham star breaks silence on ordeal

Wrexham captain James McClean has candidly discussed how he narrowly avoided serious injury in a car crash on his way to training, describing the experience as 'scary'

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10 h. ago Woman, 21, charged after crash in Falkirk area left three dead

A young woman has been charged after a fatal crash in the Falkirk area left three men dead.

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11 h. ago A giraffe operation and a Juneteenth parade: photos of the day – Friday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Renfrewshire incident: Two charged after woman and four horses killed in crash on A737

Two charged over incident which saw woman and horses killed in crash

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