43 h. ago Strictly's Alexis Warr discloses reality show past alongside convicted fraudster

Strictly Come Dancing professional Alexis Warr appeared on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in 2021

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43 h. ago BBC Strictly star appeared on reality TV series with convicted criminal

A professional dancer from Strictly Come Dancing previously appeared on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

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49 h. ago What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat

In this week’s newsletter: Coroners can’t agree on how to count heat fatalities – and the dismantling of climate investments is leaving fragile communities exposed• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereDonald Trump’s decision to boycott Cop30, withdraw the US from the Paris agreement and illegally terminate a slew of investments in renewable energy will not change the reality of climate breakdown for Americans.In what has become an annual reporting tradition, I found myself in Arizona reporting on heat-related deaths during yet another gruelling heatwave, when temperatures topped 43C (110F) on 13 out of 14 straight days in Phoenix. Before embarking on this trip, I spent weeks combing through hundreds of autopsy reports, which I obtained from two county medical examiners using the Freedom of Information Act. Each death report gave me a glimpse into the person’s life, and I used clues from the case notes to track down friends and loved ones in the hopes of bett...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump prepares to 'expand US travel ban to more than 30 countries'

The news comes as the White House pauses all immigration applications from 19 countries as Donald Trump cites national security and public safety concerns

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4 d. ago Peter Kay's weight loss journey as comedian addresses his slimmer frame after tentatively returning to the spotlight following five year absence

Peter Kay was a household name with the comedian enjoying years of stadium standup success.

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7 d. ago ‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina NayeriIn 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to document the people suffering the first shocks of the climate crisis. They had just returned from China, where rapid, unregulated development has ravaged the natural landscapes. Back home, though, the debate still felt strangely theoretical. “In 2009, you still had people who denied climate change,” Braschler recalls. “People said, ‘This is media hype.’” So the couple, working with the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva and supported by Kofi Annan, began The Human Face of Climate Change, a portrait series that showed the people on the frontline of a warming world.Sixteen years later, climate change is no longer up for debate; the urgent discussions now revolve around solutions. Braschler an...

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8 d. ago Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implicationsVast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.Scientists at University College London (UCL), working with Watershed Investigations and the Guardian, analysed 2002–24 data from satellites, which track changes in Earth’s gravitational field. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Scotland’s House of Bruar – the expert's festive gift guide by Director Lorna

With so much choice, and everyone wanting something different, Christmas shopping can be incredibly stressful. We challenged Lorna Meikle, Director at the iconic House of Bruar, to come up with the perfect present for everyone on your Christmas list!

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8 d. ago Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds

Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdownAfrica’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilisers.The alarming shift, which has happened since 2010, means all of the planet’s three main rainforest regions – the South American Amazon, south-east Asia and Africa – have gone from being allies in the fight against climate breakdown to being part of the problem. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago I'm A Celeb star pays taxi drivers a 'fortune' to come into her house for 'creepy' job

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian McKeith has confessed to spending a fortune after calling taxi drivers to remove spiders from her house – insisting she never wanted them killed, just safely escorted outside

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1 week ago Virginia Giuffre died without a valid will – now an Australian court has appointed an administrator

WA supreme court orders come after lawyer for victim of Jeffrey Epstein and her housekeeper contested Giuffre’s sons being granted authority over estateAn interim administrator has been appointed to oversee the estate of Virginia Giuffre after she died without a valid will, meaning multiple lawsuits that had been on hold can now resume.Giuffre, 41, died on a small West Australian farm, 80km north of Perth, in April. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Republicans want to cut funding designed to help expand the nation’s energy grid

The cuts come as Republicans are facing pressure to lower household costs like energy bills

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2 w. ago End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final dealThe world edged a small step closer to the end of the fossil fuel era on Saturday, but not by nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown.Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress in January amid fallout with Trump

Decision by Georgia Republican and leading Maga figure to give up House seat comes after dramatic break with Trump, lately over the Epstein files billReaction: Trump calls resignation ‘great news for the country’From staunch Trump ally to ‘traitor’: key takeaways of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s careerMarjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday evening she will be resigning from office effective 5 January 2026, in the wake of souring relations with President Donald Trump, mostly recently over a vote to force the release of files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.In a four-page statement, the Georgia congresswoman said the legislative branch had been “sidelined” and accused Republican leaders of refusing to advance conservative priorities such as border security or “America First” policies. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ghislaine Maxwell will plead the Fifth in House probe on Epstein case, lawmaker says

‘She’s not going to answer any questions,’ Rep. James Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, said.

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2 w. ago Trump says he ‘absolutely’ would live in Mamdani’s New York during unexpectedly cordial first meeting – US politics live

Much anticipated sit-down comes same day US House of Representatives passed resolution denouncing ‘horrors of socialism’Robert Garcia, the ranking member on the House oversight committee, has sent a letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, urging the justice department to release the complete trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, despite the newly launched investigation into several Democrats’ ties to the late sex offender.“There is already a concern President Trump will attempt, on dubious legal grounds, to exploit a provision which allows DoJ to withhold information relevant to ongoing investigations,” Garcia wrote. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ghislaine Maxwell will plead the Fifth in House probe on Epstein case, lawmaker confirms

‘She’s not going to answer any questions,’ Rep. James Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, said.

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2 w. ago Households fear worse to come as London sculpture highlights energy bill crisis

The sculpture, on display in central London, is part of a wider campaign to spotlight the growing energy crisis

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2 w. ago There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning fossil fuels, gorging on meat and dairy, and failing to make even simple changes, the rich world imposes a massive burden of disaster, displacement and death on people whose responsibility for the climate crisis is minimal. What I’ve now stumbled into is the vast black hole of our ignorance about these impacts.What I wanted to discover was whether it’s true that nine times as many of the world’s people die of cold than of heat. The figure is often used by people who want to delay climate action: if we do nothing, some maintain, fewer will die. Of course, they gloss over all the other impacts of climate breakdown: the storms, floods, droughts, fires, crop failures, disease and sea level rise. B...

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2 w. ago Andrew ignores invitation to speak to US Congress about his links to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as deadline passes

The former prince was given until today to respond to a request to testify before the House Oversight Committee after calls to 'come clean' about his dealings with the billionaire financier.

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