59 m. ago Nectar mattress review 2025: A comfy and versatile option for every type of sleeper

The brand’s eco-credentials and warranty impress, but can its mattresses rival the bed-in-a-box leaders?

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68 m. ago Los Angeles protests live: California governor calls Trump ‘reckless and immoral’ after president deploys national guard

Gavin Newsom says Donald Trump is putting lives at risk; US president calls for arresting people in face masks and says ‘bring in the troops’ in late night social media postsPolice clash with LA protesters as opposition to Trump intensifiesAbout 300 Guard troops have been deployed to LA so far.President Donald Trump earlier said he would deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, despite the objections of California governor Gavin Newsom. Continue reading...

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74 m. ago Appleby horse fair aftermath sees fields covered in rubbish and van burnt

New photos show the aftermath of Appleby horse fair as rubbish and a burnt van can be seen on the fields where the festival took place

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77 m. ago Emily Eavis reveals Glastonbury capacity cut to avoid overcrowding

Festival organiser also shared that staff did not believe the festival suffered from overcrowding last year, despite complaints from some fans

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82 m. ago Scotland's 'best train holidays' for 2025 crowned including Harry Potter journey

Three railways trips have been named the best in the country.

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83 m. ago Simple hack using kitchen item will stop bananas from going brown too quickly

Bananas are a healthy and filling snack that are perfect for taking on the go for a sweet pick-me-up, but they can turn bad annoyingly fast. But there's an easy way to avoid this

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88 m. ago ‘Too many people lost work’: doubts in South Africa’s coal belt over ‘just energy transition’

The country wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions without destroying livelihoods, but progress is slow – and the residents of a small town are in the crosshairsCooling towers and smokestacks still loom over the single-storey houses of Komati, but the winter sky is clear: smoke hasn’t billowed from the vast concrete chimneys of the South African town’s power station since it stopped burning coal in 2022, 61 years after its inauguration.While the state power company Eskom didn’t fire any permanent employees, the end of coal generation and earlier job losses in nearby mines have fuelled doubts in the small town and wider coal belt that there are any benefits to South Africa’s “just energy transition” to renewable power. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Winter Fuel Payment: Labour restores 2025 allowance to millions of pensioners, eligibility

Older people are being urged to check if they qualify under new income rules ❄️

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1 hour ago The Eternaut speaks to our uneasy times – that’s why this cult comic has become a global Netflix hit – Jordana Timerman

There are no happy endings in this Argentinian sci-fi thriller – but it has already inspired real-world protestsThis article contains spoilers for the Netflix series The EternautAliens almost always invade New York, with a secondary preference for rural America. They’re typically vanquished by a collaboration of cowboy sacrifice and eloquent leaders who restore order under the stars and stripes. The Eternaut, Netflix’s new sci-fi series that became a global hit this month, breaks this mould: giant alien bugs controlled by an unseen extraterrestrial overlord take over Buenos Aires. Victory always seems far away – it’s not clear that humanity will triumph.Like the 1950s comic it’s based on, the series does not merely transpose alien invasion tropes on a new geography: it rewrites them. The Eternaut isn’t about a lone hero who saves the day – it’s a story about how ordinary Argentinians face existential threat. There is no single saviour in the story, according to the author, Héctor Ge...

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1 hour ago Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Glyndebourne, SussexBarrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead rolesThe Glyndebourne season continues with a revival by Donna Stirrup of Barrie Kosky’s 2015 staging of Handel’s Saul, widely regarded as one of the festival’s finest achievements and the production that cemented Kosky’s reputation in the UK as a director of remarkable originality. This is the first time I’ve seen it, having missed both its opening run and the 2018 revival, and it strikes me as an example of Kosky’s work at its finest: probing, insightful, sometimes witty, sometimes dark, always utterly engrossing.Premiered in 1739, Saul has often been compared to King Lear. There is much of Shakespeare in this portrait by Handel and his librettist, Charles Jennens, of the Old Testament king whose mind slowly disintegrates under the challenges presented to him politically and privately by David after the death of Goliath. Continue...

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2 h. ago Protests in LA, an entangled whale and a fairground ride: photos of the day – Monday

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

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2 h. ago Andy Murray apologises for his ‘diabolical’ tennis on Queen’s Club court named after him

‘I have a new life and [I am] enjoying being away from sport’Three-time grand slam champion opens Andy Murray ArenaAndy Murray admitted that his tennis is “diabolical nowadays” as he officially opened the centre court at Queen’s Club that now bears his name.The two-time Wimbledon champion was given a ball-girl guard of honour before hitting a couple of points with tournament director Laura Robson and two local schoolchildren. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Inside Love Island 2025 bombshell Toni Laite's health battle which left her hospitalised

Love Island's first bombshell Antonia Laites, a Las Vegas pool party waitress, has opened up about her health battle which being told she unable to attend her senior prom

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2 h. ago DoJ urged to investigate US group accused of working as Modi

Prominent Sikh gurdwara says Pennsylvania-based Hindu American Foundation has promoted ‘interests of the BJP’One of the largest Sikh houses of worship in the US is calling on the Trump administration to investigate a non-profit it has alleged is working as a “foreign agent” on behalf of the the Indian government and prime minister Narendra Modi.The Fremont Gurdwara Sahib, which said it draws 5,000 Sikh worshippers every week and is a “fulcrum” of the Sikh community in the US and around the world, has asked the Department of Justice to launch a national security investigation into the Hindu American Foundation, to determine whether the Pennsylvania-based non-profit should be required to file as an Indian foreign agent. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mythica: Stormbound review – new chunk of swords and sorcery tale ripe for avid franchise audience

The sixth instalment in this low-budget series has a meagre plot and shonky visual effects but the director and cast clearly care about the franchise’s audienceThis low-budget but reasonably competent swords and sorcery yarn is the sixth instalment in a series of Mythica films that goes back to 2014. It seems they were first bankrolled partly by crowdfunding, and then presumably kept going by the production’s low overheads and straight-to-retail distribution to an audience that clearly grooves to quasi-Tolkienian, Dungeons and Dragons-style quests featuring a motley band (there is usually an elf or dwarf). If you like your necromancy tales spiked with huge chunks of nattering as the characters endeavour to bulk out the running time with lots of banter and exposition, this may be just the ticket. Don’t worry too much about not having seen the other five films because this is reasonably watchable, especially as so much time is devoted to filling newbies in on the backstory via dialogu...

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2 h. ago Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for harissa and gnocchi

A spicy, warming take on the classic British supper, and ideal for nippier summer nightsI love fish pie, and gnocchi, and harissa, so what could be better than a combination of all three? Particularly if it saves you 15 minutes’ boiling and then mashing some potatoes. Bookmark this for chillier summer evenings – I’m determined to eat as many meals as possible outside right now, and this will keep you warm when the temperature dips to an unseasonal sub-15C. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Macron must lead the EU push to end Israel’s war on Gaza | Jo

The Israeli government is assailing the French president – but visible economic and political action is the only hope for peaceEmmanuel Macron has become enemy No 1 for the Netanyahu government. That’s because the French president aims to create momentum for a Palestinian state beside Israel encompassing the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and the Gaza Strip, reviving what is fast becoming an out-of-reach possibility – a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.That’s why Macron has earned the fury of an increasingly unhinged Israeli prime minister. France is expected to co-chair an organizing conference at the United Nations in New York in mid-June, taking advantage of heads of state already in North America for the Canadian-based G7 summit a few days earlier. He hopes this conference will include the all-important Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Who will win Love Island 2025? Here's how the bookies rate all 12 islanders' chances in series 12

Here’s who the bookies reckon will be the last couple standing this year.

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2 h. ago Aaron Judge crushes home run off Red Sox rookie after ‘crazy’ Yankees jibe

Pitcher said he would rather retire than play for YankeesYankees slugger says comments affected at batAaron Judge crushed a 436ft home run off Boston Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins after the pitcher aimed a jab at the Yankees in the run-up to Sunday’s game.Dobbins, a lifelong Red Sox fan, was asked about his team’s bitter rivals in the run-up to his start for Sunday’s game. “If the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire,” he told the Boston Herald. He added that his feelings towards the Yankees were not just down to playing for the Red Sox though. “I think whoever I was playing with or whoever I would have been drafted by, I’d still hate the Yankees,” he added. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘The death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own adsWPP chief Mark Read to step down as agency battles AIFrom using motion capture tech to allow the Indian cricketing star Rahul Dravid to give personalised coaching tips for children to an algorithm trained on Shakespeare’s handwriting powering a robotic arm to rewrite Romeo and Juliet, artificial intelligence is rapidly revolutionising the global advertising industry.Those AI-created adverts, for the Cadbury’s drink brand Bournvita and the pen maker Bic, were produced by agency group WPP, which is spending £300m annually on data, tech and machine learning to remain competitive. Continue reading...

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