6 h. ago It’s another Labour reboot challenge: how many adults do they need ‘in the room’ before they start telling the truth? | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

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6 h. ago Now showing: it’s Keir Starmer’s march of the ‘grownups’ – the disaster movie we’re all being forced to watch | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

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16 h. ago Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can New Zealand vaccinate its rare species before bird flu gets to them?

In the last continent to remain untouched by the virus, hopes are being pinned on immunisation as migration season approachesIt is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall at New Zealand’s southern Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Tired from its long journey, the petrel seeks refuge in the burrow of a green kākāpō: a critically endangered flightless species that is the world’s fattest parrot.If the seabird intrudes when the kākāpō is primed to breed, the male parrot may attempt to mate with the smaller petrel, accidentally smothering it in the process. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?

Trial in only continent untouched by avian flu suggests jabs will be key to survival as migration season approachesIt is easy to imagine how it could happen. A petrel, flying east from the Indian Ocean at the end of the Austral winter, makes landfall at New Zealand’s southern Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Tired from its long journey, the petrel seeks refuge in the burrow of a green kākāpō: a critically endangered flightless species that is the world’s fattest parrot.If the seabird intrudes when the kākāpō is primed to breed, the male parrot may attempt to mate with the smaller petrel, accidentally smothering it in the process. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Animal poo could save millions of humans as scientists tacke killer superbugs

Scientists at the University of Leicester have found that thousands of phages, bacteria eaters, are hidden in animal poo and they're exploring whether it could treat human superbugs

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64 h. ago Brits told one thing they must do now to see rare birds in their garden

It's always exciting when you spot a rarer species of bird in your garden. Fortunately, an expert has revealed one simple way you can encourage more of these feathery friends to visit

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3 d. ago Wales v Canada Live: Sean Lynn's side behind after opening try

Wales Women need to pull off a big result to save their Rugby World Cup campaign

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4 d. ago Woman's horrifying six words as she ripped out her own eyes outside church

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Kaylee Muthart, 20, was left blind after she gouged out her own eyes in a meth-induced psychotic episode in which she believed the act of self-mutilation would save the world and bring her closer to God

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5 d. ago Gaza’s children being starved to death are now too weak to cry, says Save the Children chief

More and more children express the wish to be dead, top official at humanitarian aid agency says

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5 d. ago ‘I’m proud of them going out into the world’: Young naturalists on their quest to save harvest mice

Spurred into action by the species’ threatened future, two best friends embarked on a project to release 250 of the animals in DevonDoing somersaults in the corner of a field in Devon this week were the fluffy results of an audacious wildlife project by two 13-year-old girls.Best friends Eva Wishart and Emily Smith had become devoted to harvest mice, and were upset, a couple of years ago, to find out the species is threatened in England due to farming practices and habitat loss. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chilling update as bid to save woman stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak abandoned

The rescue mission to save 47-year-old Natalia Nagovitsina has been called off after one fellow climber died from frostbite and a military helicopter later crashed into the side of Victory Peak

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1 week ago How Melania is the one person who really does have Trump's ear... and why she's now determined to secure his legacy as the man who saved the world

It was billed as a triumph of diplomacy when Donald Trump yet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Yet, a source close to Mr Trump told the Daily Mail it was a move by Melania that turned out to be crucial.

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1 week ago Bid to save woman stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak with broken leg abandoned

Natalia Nagovitsina has been stuck up Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan for a week-and-a-half after she suffered a significant injury while undertaking the 24,406ft climb

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1 week ago Light pollution causes urban birds to stay awake longer each day, study finds

Researchers ‘shocked’ to discover some species settling down for sleep 50 minutes later than rural counterpartsUrban birds stay up significantly later than their rural counterparts, according to research that highlights the impact of light pollution on wildlife.The study, based on recordings submitted by bird enthusiasts to a popular species identification and mapping website, showed that light pollution caused birds to sing for an average of 50 minutes longer each day, with some species waking up an hour earlier and settling down for the evening an hour later. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Race to save one of the world’s tallest trees following fire

Emergency services are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast

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1 week ago ‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland

The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful pastTwo old family photos show the same group: a short-haired woman, a girl in a striped dress, and a man in uniform. But there is one difference between these well-preserved, sepia pictures: in one, the man wears a Wehrmacht uniform; in the other his military dress has been altered to conceal his wartime service.Donated to the Museum of Gdańsk by the son of the girl in the striped dress, these images feature in a new exhibition about the mass forced conscriptions of Pomeranians into the German army. Consisting of photo albums, family heirlooms and oral testimonies of Poles who served in the Wehrmacht, the show asks whether someone can be both a victim of and a soldier for an aggressor, and suggests that confronting these complexities is vital to the national identity. Unsurprisingly, the e...

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1 week ago Bayesian victims could have been SAVED: Bombshell claim of world's leading salvage expert who believes doomed £30million superyacht could be refurbished

Master salvage expert Captain Nick Sloane said said a properly equipped rescue squad could have saved additional passengers who were trapped in air pockets as the Bayesian sank.

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2 w. ago Race to save woman stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak with broken leg and no food

Avid thrill seeker Natalia Nagovitsina has been stuck up Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan for about a week after she suffered a significant injury and needed a sleeping bag to be delivered to her

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2 w. ago Dongji Rescue review – epic tale of British PoWs saved by Chinese fishers gets blockbuster treatment

With Imax cameras and an $80m budget, this second world war epic about the rescue of 384 British prisoners boasts stunning scenes but a simplistic scriptThe sinking of the Lisbon Maru, an extraordinary second world war story in which 384 British PoWs were saved from a bombed Japanese cargo liner by Chinese fishers, has recently been excavated in an exhaustive, emotional documentary. In Dongji Rescue, co-directed by Zhenxiang Fei and Guan Hu, this staggering tale gets a blockbuster makeover that involves Imax cameras and an $80m budget. The film opens with the stunning vista of the eponymous island, then under Japanese control. The seeds of discontent are there, as the local Chinese population are forbidden from fishing. Still, they endure the occupation with grim acceptance.Standing apart from the pack are a pair of brothers, Abi (Zhu Yilong) and Adang (Wu Lei), orphans said to descend from pirates. Their physical prowess acquires a near superhuman dimension as they are shot scaling...

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2 w. ago Saved By The Bell's Jessie Spano star Elizabeth Berkley looks worlds away from show

Actress Elizabeth Berkley shot to fame as a teen in the nineties playing Jessie Spano in the High School comedy, Saved by The Bell, but three decades later she's all grown up

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