Amazon Web Services Bezos snubs Amazon workers demanding action on climate crisisThe Guardian - Kari Paul in San FranciscoThousands of staffers have signed a letter urging the company to overhaul its climate policy Amazon’s chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos, refused to address employees demanding the company take action
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India News India election: counting to begin with Narendra Modi poised for victoryThe Guardian - Michael Safi in DelhiMore than 600 million Indians will learn the outcome of the country’s six-week elections on Thursday, as results are released progressively throughout the day. This year’s polls, held over seven phases
Andrea Leadsom Andrea Leadsom's defection reflects how toxic May has becomeThe Guardian - Katy BallsA minister resigning from Theresa May’s government rarely makes the front pages these days – since the 2017 election, the prime minister had lost 41 government ministers. However, there was a sense of
Environment Republicans give platform to climate science deniers while planet burnsThe GuardianThe climate crisis has become a top issue among Democrats running for president. But many Republican lawmakers are still resistant to the science showing global heating is a serious, manmade problem. Democrats
Danny Cipriani Danny Cipriani targets World Cup place after player of the season awardThe Guardian - Gerard MeagherDanny Cipriani has been named the Premiership’s player of the season in further recognition of an outstanding first campaign with Gloucester which he hopes will culminate with a place in England’s World
World News Women's brains work better in warmer offices, study findsThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressScientists have raised the stakes in the battle of the sexes over office air conditioning by discovering women’s brains work better at higher temperatures. Men, on the other hand, work better when the
Andrea Leadsom Leadsom's resignation helps steal a march on Tory leadership rivalsThe Guardian - Rajeev SyalAndrea Leadsom’s resignation has, her friends believe, pushed her to the front of the cabinet Brexiters jockeying for position to replace Theresa May. Her decision to resign as leader of the House of may
Jürgen Klopp Liverpool plot friendly as Champions League preparations continueThe Guardian - Andy HunterLiverpool are planning a friendly at their Marbella training camp this weekend as Jürgen Klopp steps up preparations for the Champions League final against Tottenham. The Liverpool manager wants his players
Sports University of St Thomas kicked out of conference for winning too muchThe Guardian - Guardian sport and agenciesThe Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has decided to oust the NCAA Division III league’s largest school, the University of St Thomas, for competitive purposes. The MIAC announced Wednesday
Summer of Rockets review – Poliakoff has pulled it off at last!The Guardian - Emine SanerThere is much to worry about in Summer of Rockets (BBC Two), Stephen Poliakoff’s latest drama. Will the posh Shaws turn up for the arriviste Petrukhin’s picnic? Will Petrukhin’s new invention save his
Qatar 2022 World Cup in Qatar to remain as a 32-team tournament, Fifa announcesThe Guardian - David ConnEfforts by the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams, which he said could help heal hostilities in the Middle East, have concluded in failure, with the tournament solely
Opinion (UK) Maybot plods on, each day a greater torment than the lastThe Guardian - John CraceMany believe that hearing is the last sense to be lost. If true, Theresa May must have been a goner for some time now. She hasn’t heard a word anyone has said to her for months. Her cabinet ministers all
The Theatre He Takes Her By the Hand … review – desire and dread in Bausch's MacbethThe Guardian - Chris WiegandIn Since She, the first of two new full-length pieces created by Tanztheater Wuppertal since the death of Pina Bausch, the dancers build a precarious bridge of chairs across the stage. They are now crossing
Michael Avenatti Michael Avenatti charged with stealing $300,000 from Stormy DanielsGuardian US - Guardian staff and agenciesMichael Avenatti, the attorney who rocketed to fame through his representation of the pornographic film star and producer Stormy Daniels in her battles with Donald Trump, was charged on Wednesday with
World News UN envoy attacks lack of 'moral motivation' to end Libyan warThe Guardian - Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorThe international community lacks the moral motivation to end the Libyan civil war and largely views the country as a prize to be captured, the UN’s special envoy for Libya has said. Ghassan Salamé’s came
Film (UK) Oh Mercy! review – self-admiring French murder dramaThe Guardian - Peter BradshawArnaud Desplechin is a storyteller who often finds a comic note of fairytale otherworldliness and whimsy – and there is a faint, disconcerting trace of this in his new film, a movie I couldn’t make friends
David Warner Steve Smith hits 76 as David Warner struggles on return to EnglandThe Guardian - Press AssociationSteve Smith marked his return to English soil with a typically assured half century – but there were contrasting fortunes for his Australia teammates David Warner and Usman Khawaja. Smith and Warner are
Andrea Leadsom May clutches at final straws of pretence as Leadsom resignsThe Guardian - Peter Walker, Rowena Mason and Rajeev SyalA truly bad day for Theresa May, one which would certainly count as the worst-ever for many other prime ministers, actually began very late the previous night as the newspaper front pages dropped on social
UK News Manchester police defend prosecution of two mentally ill peopleThe Guardian - Helen Pidd North of England editor and agenciesA police force has defended its decision to prosecute two mentally ill women who were charged after they caused traffic jams when trying to kill themselves. Greater Manchester police (GMP) charged the
Andrea Leadsom Andrea Leadsom quits over Theresa May's Brexit billThe Guardian - Heather Stewart and Peter WalkerAndrea Leadsom has resigned as the leader of the House of Commons, saying she no longer believed the government’s approach would deliver Brexit. Leadsom, who has signalled she expects to launch a leadership
The Theatre The Duchess (of Malfi) review – indictment of patriachal powerThe Guardian - Mark FisherThey’re a pathetic lot, the men who hang around this Duchess of Malfi. There’s the narcissistic cardinal, the needy twin brother, the loveless spy and the nice-but-feeble husband. They all need a good
Nancy Pelosi 'I don't do cover-ups': Trump lashes out over Pelosi accusation – videoGuardian US - US NewsDonald Trump rejected a charge by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, that he was engaged in a cover-up, saying he was the "most transparent president" the country had ever had. In a last-minute press conference
Nigel Farage Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attackThe Guardian - Amy WalkerNigel Farage has been forced to seek refuge on his campaign bus after being stalked by people carrying milkshakes in Kent, according to reports. The Brexit party leader and his campaign team seemed keen
Philip Green Does Philip Green think his offer stands a sporting chance?The Guardian - Nils PratleyHere comes Sir Philip Green, pleading poverty from Monaco. Or rather, it’s Lady Green, as the owner of the Arcadia fashion empire, who wants to shrink the business by 23 stores and would like landlords
Premier League finances: the full club-by-club breakdown and verdictThe Guardian - David ConnFinancial figures for 2017-18, for the 20 clubs who were in the Premier League during that season. All details from the most recently published annual reports at Companies House. Net debt is as stated
World News Google faces Irish inquiry over possible breach of privacy lawsThe Guardian - Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentThe Irish data protection commission has opened an investigation into Google over suspected infringements of European Union privacy rules. The statutory inquiry will probe whether Google’s online Ad Exchange
Heidi Allen Heidi Allen threatened to quit as Change UK leader over Lib Dem rowThe Guardian - Frances PerraudinThe Change UK leader, Heidi Allen, has said she threatened to resign during an internal party row over whether to endorse voting tactically for the Liberal Democrats in the EU elections. In a Channel News
Barrister misled court to block abuse trial, claims Tory MPThe Guardian - Rob EvansA former cabinet minister has accused a barrister of deceiving a court to successfully block the prosecution of a headmaster who had been accused of sexually abusing five boys. In a debate in the House
Play buttonNiki Lauda Lewis Hamilton takes time out after death of ‘close friend’ Niki LaudaThe Guardian - Giles Richards in MonacoLewis Hamilton has curtailed his pre-race activities before the Monaco Grand Prix as he comes to terms with Monday’s death of his friend Niki Lauda. Lauda was the non-executive chairman at the Mercedes
