30 h. ago Russia's chilling threat to 23 UK locations as map shows Putin's potential WW3 targets

Russia has warned the UK could become "deadly dangerous" as it threatened to unleash a terrorist operation on a Second World War shipwreck packed with 1,400 tonnes of explosives in the Thames estuary

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32 h. ago Storm Amy latest: UK faces ‘danger to life’ warnings with 100mph winds and heavy rain after man dies in Ireland

Weather warnings cover much of country as first named storm of season brings travel chaos and leaves hundreds of thousands of homes without power

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34 h. ago Storm Amy live updates: danger to life warning in UK and Ireland after one killed and hundreds of thousands of homes without power

Weather warnings are in place across the UK and Ireland on SaturdayHere are some of the latest images from across the Ireland and the UK:The north of Scotland will face a new amber warning for “damaging” winds with gusts of more than 90mph in some areas. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago The best and worst US cities for pedestrians and cyclists named

Three of the 10 most dangerous cities are in Arizona, according to research shows

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47 h. ago The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data | Editorial

The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replacedThe threat to human creativity from technology took another step closer this week with the appearance of Tilly Norwood, the first 100% AI-generated actor. Unsurprisingly, her unveiling at the Zurich film festival in a comic sketch called AI Commissioner caused an outcry. Emily Blunt described the film as “terrifying” and the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned it as “jeopardising performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry”.There is much that is problematic about Norwood, not least the message her “girl-next-door vibe” sends to young women. But the more serious point is that her face has been made from those of real actors without their knowledge or consent. Her lighthearted debut masks the fact that she is part of a new model of media production that rides roughshod over longstanding norms and laws governing artists and their work. Hollywood has been anticipating Norwood...

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54 h. ago Storm Amy declared 'danger to life' as Brits told to brace for 95mph winds

Brits have been warned the oncoming Storm Amy could pose a 'danger to life' as weather warnings have resulted in closures of schools, rail links, air travel and ferries

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57 h. ago Storm Amy latest: ‘Danger to life’ warnings as UK to be battered by 95mph winds and heavy rain

Gale-force winds have been forecast for parts of the UK over the weekend

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68 h. ago Creepy fuzzy caterpillars are back in Florida. Here’s why they are so dangerous

The caterpillars are hard to spot, measuring close to an inch and easily blending into trees

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2 d. ago The Guardian view on the Manchester synagogue attack: a tragic wake

An assault of this kind was widely feared. Now that it has happened, Britain faces a choice between deeper division and greater toleranceThe attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester was outrageous. It took two innocent lives, and several others were injured. Yet it could have happened almost anywhere. It is an event with wider national meaning and lessons. On Thursday morning, Britain looked over the edge into one of the dark places to which modern public life has been heading. Having looked and seen, Britain now needs to learn and step back.The violence began around 9.30am, just as morning prayers were being held on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s most solemn and sacred day. The synagogue was inevitably well attended. Yet within a short period of time, two Jewish victims lay dead from stabbing, with four others injured, outside what ought to be a place of prayer and community. The attacker was then himself shot and killed, possibly as he attempted to get inside t...

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2 d. ago The Guardian view on climate policy: Britain needs clean power, not culture wars | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewablesLet’s scrap Britain’s successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the message of Kemi Badenoch’s new energy strategy. The Conservative leader proposes to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act in favour of a plan to “maximise oil and gas extraction”, and remove all legally binding carbon targets. It’s pitched as pragmatism. But it’s a lurch into ideological self-harm.Britain’s energy problem isn’t its climate legislation, which is admired globally, backed by industry and supported by the public. It’s that this country remains too dependent on volatile fossil fuels. Emissions targets are not the reason for high bills. It is gas prices, which skyrocketed after Russia invaded Ukraine. They set UK electricity prices. In Europe, they don’t – that’s why bills are lower...

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3 d. ago Met Office issues amber 'danger to life' warning for Storm Amy

There are also wider yellow alerts with a rosk of flooding and disruption

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4 d. ago Amir Khan slams ‘dangerous’ exhibition fights ahead of Mike Tyson vs Floyd Mayweather

Amir Khan has been critical of exhibition fights, with Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather set to face each other next year

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4 d. ago Trump vows to use 'dangerous' US cities as army training grounds to fight 'invasion from within'

Trump told senior generals that they will be going to 'war' against American cities after deploying troops in urban areas across the country

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5 d. ago The moment that cost Labour and Keir Starmer millions in militant union funding? Furious Unite boss cut off in middle of conference speech hammering his leadership

Sharon Graham was mocking Sir Keir's hopes of providing 'change' and had demanded he 'tax the rich' before she was told she had run out of time after just three minutes on stage.

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5 d. ago Top Mayfair jeweller says London 'too dangerous' to wear Rolex watch over fears of robbery and violence

Stephen Webster, whose avant-garde designs are favoured by the likes of Kate Moss and Madonna, claims people who flaunt expensive accessories in the capital are ‘idiots’

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5 d. ago Joe Wicks and I have created Britain's most dangerous 'health' snack. This is what's in it, why we've made it and everything it tells us about Britain's UPF scandal: PROF CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

Joe Wicks and I are launching a new, ultra-processed protein bar today. As you might expect, we're marketing it as being incredibly healthy.

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on catastrophe in Darfur: The world has looked away, but Sudan’s civilians can’t wait any longer | Editorial

A brutal war has been fuelled by outside powers. Diplomatic efforts must be intensifiedWhen the history of the 21st century is written, the name of El Fasher will surely appear on its bleakest pages. The besiegement of the city by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has lasted more than 500 days. Families are surviving on animal feed. An estimated 260,000 civilians face a terrifying choice: to stay and die of starvation or in an airstrike – or attempt to flee and face rape, robbery and death.El Fasher is the last major city in Darfur still defended by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – and allied fighters – in the bloody and unrelenting struggle with the RSF, which has lasted almost two and a half years. Yet a conflict that has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis has remained largely ignored as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have consumed international attention. In the runup to the UN general assembly in New York last week, the US finally appeared to be ma...

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6 d. ago Trump’s war on autism: how dangerous and demeaning are his claims?

Trump’s assertions about autism have left scientists and doctors in despair. Katie Strick debunks each of his ‘outright lies’

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6 d. ago Reeves to tell business: wake up to danger that Reform UK poses

Chancellor’s conference speech to form part of government’s onslaught on Nigel Farage’s ‘racist’ party

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial

Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the futureIn The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as “blindly resisting machinery”, wrote Thompson in his classic history. They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives.A distinction worth bearing in mind as Britain rolls out the red carpet for US big tech, thereby outsourcing a modern industrial revolution still in its infancy. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit. Unlice...

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