68 m. ago Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve.Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Uefa gives ‘reluctant’ approval for domestic games to be played abroad this season

Governing body says go-ahead shouldn’t set precedentBarcelona poised to play in US and Milan in AustraliaUefa has given its “reluctant” approval to Serie A and La Liga each playing a domestic game abroad this season. The decision clears a path for Barcelona and Villarreal to meet in Miami in December and for Milan and Como to play in Perth, Australia, in February. Uefa said in a statement that it had “reiterated its clear opposition to domestic league matches being played outside their home country” but that because “the relevant Fifa regulatory framework – currently under review – is not clear and detailed enough, the Uefa Executive Committee has reluctantly taken the decision to approve, on an exceptional basis, the two requests referred to it”.The move comes after the Italian and Spanish football federations applied for those matches to be played abroad. Uefa said its national associations had agreed to engage with it before submitting any future requests. Continue reading...

Sport

2 h. ago Stella admits McLaren ‘face difficulties’ managing Norris and Piastri in title run

Oscar Piastri furious with Lando Norris for risky overtakeSingapore result reduces championship lead to 22 pointsThe way in which McLaren manage Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, after the pair clashed again at the Singapore Grand Prix, is now crucial to avoid the drivers losing trust in the team’s approach on the title run-in, the team principal, Andrea Stella, has acknowledged.The team will conduct an extensive review of their decision-making during the race at the Marina Bay circuit where Norris barged into his teammate while overtaking him in the opening corners. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Rosie Jones has wine hurled at her in cruel 'ableist and homophobic' attack on the train

The 35-year-old said she and her comic pal Lee Peart, who are both gay, were assaulted by three people on the train home from a gig in Brighton

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2 h. ago Nearly one in four West Lothian children living in poverty is 'mark of shame'

Despite the shocking statistics laid before the council’s Corporate Policy and Resources PDSP, the baseline level of child poverty has marginally improved since the last years of the pandemic.

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3 h. ago I had a first look at M&S’s beauty advent calendar 2025 – here’s my full review ahead of its launch

This year’s calendar will include Clinique, Colour Wow and Estée Lauder

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3 h. ago 'Calculating and insidious' rapist who pursued men and women after drunken nights out in Manchester's Gay Village is sentenced to life in prison

Sid Ali Djelid, 39, stalked drunken and vulnerable victims in around the Canal Street area of the city before raping two men and one woman and stealing phones and jewellery.

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3 h. ago Pet owners snap up £20 home diffuser that reduces anxiety and stress in dogs

This 'easy to use' diffuser is perfect for helping calm our four-legged friends during storms and fireworks.

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3 h. ago 'Calculating and insidious' rapist jailed after 'horrifying' attacks against revellers in Manchester Gay Village

Sid Ali Djelid, 39, stalked drunken and vulnerable victims in around the Canal Street area of the city before raping two men and one woman and stealing phones and jewellery.

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4 h. ago Comedian Rosie Jones and her friend attacked by thugs who threw red wine at them in 'ableist and homophobic' assault on a train

Rosie Jones has revealed she was attacked by a group of thugs who threw wine at her and an openly-gay friend in an 'ableist and homophobic' assault.

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5 h. ago Martin Carthy at EartH: 'Bob Dylan's appearance drew gasps at tribute to English folk hero'

Barney Whittaker re[orts on a remarkable event paying tribute to Martin Carthy which featured appearances from an array of legends

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6 h. ago Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover

A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identityOne day, someone is going to make a film about a cop who goes undercover and doesn’t get too close to the people he’s spying on and doesn’t start questioning his own identity and life choices. Until that day comes, here’s Carmen Emmi’s drama about a cop in early 90s New York who is part of an entrapment team at a suburban shopping mall prosecuting gay men who cruise the bathrooms (a type of police work that you might think went out in the era of Alan Turing).Tom Blyth plays Lucas, an undercover officer suffering from depression after the death of his dad and breakup with his girlfriend to whom he confessed having feelings for men; his nervous unease is not made any easier by a loudmouthed homophobic uncle at family gatherings. The movie is interspersed with Lucas’s anxiety-flash glimpses of his own life, significantly shot in the same dull, flat analogue video that the cops use to recor...

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6 h. ago Malaysian cop’s call to punish girls in statutory rape cases slammed by rights groups

Remark made by Kelantan police chief Yusoff Mamat has drawn sharp criticism

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6 h. ago Review, Ladram Bay in Devon: I stayed at possibly the best holiday park you have never heard of

A view over the sea, a five-minute walk to a private beach, and getting away from it all those are near the top of many people’s holiday wishlist, and they are certainly on mine.

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7 h. ago ‘Logs falling from the sky’: the harrowing true story behind wildfire drama The Lost Bus

Paul Greengrass’s anxiety-inducing new disaster drama relives the devastating 2018 Camp fire in California, a day relived by its survivors hereSchoolteacher Mary Ludwig gets goose bumps when she remembers the first time she met bus driver Kevin McKay. “I said, ‘Who the heck are you?’” she says via Zoom. “’Cause I knew all the bus drivers from field trips. He’s like, ‘I’m Kevin McKay.’ I said, ‘You’d better be good!’”The pair were setting off on a terrifying, five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary school students as the Camp fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. It was the start of a beautiful friendship. “That day I met a stranger and put my complete trust in that stranger and today we’re very close, lifelong friends,” Ludwig adds. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The Magnetic Fields at Union Chapel: '69 Love Songs over two nights is staggering'

New York cult band The Magnetic Fields play their legendary album 69 Love Songs over two nights at the reverential Union Chapel

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8 h. ago One Bladder After Another: why bros are finally having to queue for the loo | Emma Beddington

There are few things more irritating than waiting outside the Ladies while men sail in and out of their own facilities. A new, very long film has changed all thatThere’s an issue, apparently, with the rapturously reviewed new Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another, and it’s not that it’s loud and confusing (my review based on watching the trailer, an experience that left me craving a little lie down with a Maeve Binchy – I like films where people in nice clothes discuss their feelings).No, the problem is peeing. With a run time of nearly three hours, people who hold out until the end are bursting, and with audiences skewing heavily male (PTA’s fanbase is pretty bro-y), queues for men’s lavatories are unusually apparent. New York magazine collated social media posts on this: one woman said the gender imbalance was something she had only previously experienced at hockey games; another said her favourite part of the film experience was getting “to skip right past” the men’s...

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8 h. ago Andrea Stella: McLaren need to be accurate with crash review as a lot at stake

World championship rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri collided for the second time this season in Singapore.

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9 h. ago 'A shame': Enzo Maresca breaks silence on Liverpool red card in fresh Chelsea message

Blues boss was sent off for his celebrations after Estevao’s 95th-minute winner at Stamford Bridge on Saturday

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9 h. ago I tried to get a 10K PB in just four weeks with Runna – here’s what happened

The running app coached me through my training for a ‘first to fast’ 10K run

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