11.12.2024 20:59What抯 on Your Best-of List for 2024? We Want to Know. Best cocktail or mocktail? Best advice? Best app you discovered? We want to know your highly subjective, hyper-specific, genre-agnostic favorites from the past year.11.12.2024 21:01Romania抯 pro-European parties agree to form coalition government The coalition will potentially endorse a single candidate in new presidential election.11.12.2024 21:06US judge rejects The Onion抯 purchase of Alex Jones抯 Infowars Onion CEO expresses disappointment in judge's decision, but satirical website remains interested in purchasing Infowars.11.12.2024 21:27Morocco, Spain and Portugal confirmed as 2030 World Cup hosts, 2034 edition awarded to Saudi Arabia The 2030 and 2034 World Cups each had only a single bid and both were confirmed by acclamation.11.12.2024 21:29Bank of Canada slashes interest rates with another jumbo cut Bank of Canada governor also said potential tariffs by Trump posed a 'major new uncertainty'.11.12.2024 21:34Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE arrests at churches, schools and hospitals The long-standing policy has prevented ICE agents from arresting immigrants at so-called "sensitive locations" except under certain circumstances.11.12.2024 21:35慗ust do something you enjoy! Have official targets made exercise a chore and happiness more elusive? We all know roughly how many minutes we should be spending getting sweaty every week, thanks to repeated messages from national governments and the World Health Organization. When it comes to mental health, the picture is a lot less clearRachel Ashe has always struggled with her mental health. But after a particularly vile year, she impulsively took part in the Loony Dook, a New Year抯 Day swim in the chilly Firth of Forth in Scotland. 揑 hated it! she says. 揃ut afterwards, I felt just a little glimmer of hope.擮n her return home to Swansea, that glimmer was enough to motivate her to take to the water again and invite others experiencing mental health challenges to come along. Five years on, Ashe, who has complex mental health issues, an autism diagnosis and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, heads up Mental Health Swims, a peer-support community with 140 groups across the UK. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 21:43SpaceX valuation surges to $350 billion as company buys back stock The valuation of燛lon Musk's燬paceX hit $350 billion based on a secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.11.12.2024 21:52Syria抯 al-Sharaa promises to punish those who tortured, killed detainees HTS leader seeks 'justice' for detainees as Syria's new rulers attempt to stabilise the country after years of civilwar.11.12.2024 21:57Kenya抯 President Wades Into Meta Lawsuits President William Ruto told outsourcers a new law would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter"11.12.2024 22:02Damascus抯 joy and worry as people wonder: What happens after al-Assad? People at Bashar al-Assad's villa in the Syrian capital celebrate but also express concern over Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.11.12.2024 22:04Saudi Arabia to host FIFA World Cup 2034: When and where will it be staged? Months of speculation about the World Cup 2034 host were put to rest when FIFA awarded the tournament to Saudi Arabia.11.12.2024 22:26Elon Musk becomes first person to surpass $400B net worth, according to燘loomberg Elon Musk's estimated net worth has now surpassed $400 billion, according to an estimate from Bloomberg News making him the first person ever to reach such a milestone.11.12.2024 22:27120 Miles of Russian Forest Couldn抰 Keep Two Siberian Tigers Apart Boris and Svetlaya were raised together as orphaned cubs, and then reintroduced to the wild separately. But Boris went on a trek that surprised the researchers who were monitoring him.11.12.2024 22:35Trump will throw US clean power into question Donald Trump's election sent clean energy stocks tumbling, and some firms have paused investments.11.12.2024 22:35慡omeone has to stay: how Ukrainian power plant workers keep the country running The Guardian visits a Soviet-era coal-fired thermal installation to explore how it has held up to Russian attacksIn the cavernous turbine hall of a coal-fired thermal power plant, deputy chief engineer Oleksandr runs through the extensive damage, pointing out various consequences of numerous Russian strikes over the past two years.Machinery is covered in thick dark streaks of grime, the residue of heating insulation that burned and rained down on the equipment. A roof girder, 10 metres long, is impaled in the floor. Oil tanks and machines are strafed with shrapnel marks. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 22:37European stocks close higher after U.S. inflation data comes in as expected; Zara owner Inditex falls 7% European markets closed higher on Wednesday, as traders digested corporate updates and the latest U.S. inflation data.11.12.2024 23:00慡exuality is as individual as a fingerprint: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on Queer In their feverish film, Craig plays a man embroiled in a drug-fuelled gay affair. He and director Guadagnino talk about love, ageing and a forgotten sex actThere is no shortage of directors who have made movies about gay life only to then backtrack and claim they were not specifically gay stories after all: Tom Ford did it with A Single Man, William Friedkin with both Cruising and The Boys in the Band. Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name and this year抯 steamy tennis romcom Challengers, is not about to play that game. 揑t is the most gigantic gay film in history, he says of his latest picture, for which he recreated 1950s Mexico City on 12 stages at the Cinecitt? studios in Rome. 揑 don抰 think there has ever been a bigger gay movie. Then again, he doesn抰 have much wriggle room: the film is called Queer.His feverish adaptation of William S Burroughs抯 novel, which was written in the early 1950s but not published until 1985, concerns an American expat, William Lee, who locks eyes with a young stranger across a crowded cockfight. This is Eugene Allerton, a clean-cut, blade-like presence, played by Drew Starkey. And who should star as Lee, the gauche, fumbling, sweaty goofball, but Daniel Craig? If No Time to Die hadn抰 killed off James Bond, Queer would have done it in a trice. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 23:00Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs Exclusive: Sources say there is belief that service has become too big after growing during Brexit and pandemic yearsMinisters are planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs as Whitehall departments battle to stay within spending limits under a new government efficiency drive, the Guardian has learned.Multiple sources said there was an acceptance that the civil service had become too big and unwieldy after expanding owing to the demands of Brexit and the Covid pandemic. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 23:02Crews Continue to Battle Malibu Blaze as Weather Improves and Fire Danger Diminishes Weather conditions improved enough in Southern California for forecasters to say on Wednesday that high fire danger had diminished significantly.11.12.2024 23:26The civil service grew under the Tories. Can Starmer reduce it without further harming morale? With departments required to make 5% budget cuts, civil servants are in for a demanding future Many civil servants breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the back of the Conservatives in July a hoped-for end to long-running pay disputes, the looming axe of job cuts and a sense of overall chaos.The past decade has seen a churn of ministers, with three different prime ministers in 2022 alone and 67 cabinet appointments. The civil service endured being dismissed as 搕he blob by ministers and Jacob Rees-Mogg pushing for up to 90,000 jobs to be cut. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 23:28Syria抯 gangster couple is on the lam The fraudulent masks of Bashar al-Assad and his 'desert rose' wife Asma are finally off.11.12.2024 23:30US man who faked drowning to face charges after returning from Europe Month-long search for Ryan Borgwardt after faked death in Wisconsin cost $35,000, law enforcement officials say. 11.12.2024 23:37How AI Is Making Buildings More Energy-Efficient A new study estimates AI could help buildings reduce their energy consumption and emissions by at least 8%. 11.12.2024 23:39The Tories are living in an echo chamber with Kemi Badenoch as its mouthpiece | John Crace KemiKaze neither listens nor learns as she loses to Keir Starmer week after week at prime minister抯 questionsFive years ago this week, Boris Johnson cruised to an 80-seat majority in the general election. Life hadn抰 been quite this good for the Tories since Margaret Thatcher抯 days. They couldn抰 believe their luck as they bathed in the unbearable smugness of being. They would be in government for another 10 years at a bare minimum. The Labour party? Who were they again? Remind me.Fast forward to the present day and the Tories are a hollowed-out rump with a mere 121 MPs. And the more intelligent Conservatives are thankful to have that many. Few think there is any easy way back for the party. The main lesson from the July election wasn抰 how much people loved Labour: it was how much everyone hated the Tories. They had wrecked the country and everyone had had enough. Good riddance.Taking the Lead by John Crace is published by Little, Brown (?18.99). To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply. Continue reading... ... 11.12.2024 23:40The Mets just invested $765 million in their glow up. Can they be bigger than the Yankees? Mets owner Steve Cohen's splashy investment in superstar Juan Soto came at the expense of their cross-town rivals. But can they 11.12.2024 23:44NFL approves sale of minority stake in the Philadelphia Eagles at $8.3 billion value The National Football league has approved the sale of a minority stake in the Philadelphia Eagles to two family investment groups.11.12.2024 23:47Luigi Mangione and the Danger of a Handsome Criminal What happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?11.12.2024 23:48Brandenburg: Dietmar Woidkes schwacher Start in die neue Regierung Dietmar Woidke brauchte zwei Anl?ufe, um vom Brandenburger Landtag erneut zum Ministerpr?sidenten gew?hlt zu werden. Seine ... 11.12.2024 23:48Saudi Arabia awarded 2034 World Cup, drawing criticism from human rights groups The 2034 World Cup was officially awarded to Saudi Arabia, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced Wednesday following a virtual congress. 11.12.2024 23:54Eskalation in Georgien: Auf Kurs in die EU oder Richtung Russland? Georgien war auf EU-Kurs, dann setzten sich die Kremlfreunde durch. Kurz vor der Pr?sidentenwahl spitzen sich jetzt die Proteste ... 11.12.2024 23:54Georgien: Auf Kurs in die EU oder Richtung Russland? - Podcast Georgien war auf EU-Kurs, dann setzten sich die Kremlfreunde durch. Kurz vor der Pr?sidentenwahl spitzen sich jetzt die Proteste ... 小褌褉邪薪懈褑褘: 797798799800801802803804805806807808809810811812813814815816817818819820821822823824825826827828829830831832833834835836837