Biodiversity Wildlife and biodiversity are not the sameThe Guardian - LettersCongratulations for making serious and important decisions about your use of climate crisis terminology (18 May). With one big exception: the use of “wildlife” rather than “biodiversity”. “Wildlife” used
Philip Green The Guardian tracks Philip Green to Monaco – he warned 'it'll be unpleasant'The GuardianWhile Sir Philip Green’s 19,000 employees fear for their future as his Arcadia retail empire attempts to engineer a rescue deal, the Guardian tracked down the multimillionaire owner to tax-free Monaco
Pets The Secret Life of Pets 2 review – return of the funny furry friendsThe GuardianIn 2016, the team behind Despicable Me and Minions pulled off a blatant act of flattery with The Secret Life of Pets – a family animation imagining what the animals of a New York apartment block got up
John Delaney 2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change planGuardian US - The GuardianThe first three Democratic presidential candidates to declare their plans to tackle the climate crisis are focussing on setting deadlines to neutralize US pollution. But one Democrat is proposing something
FIFA The FiverThe Guardian - Barry GlendenningFinding itself on the back foot in the face of overwhelming global outrage for awarding the 2022 Ethics World Cup to Qatar, Fifa reacted with typically monotonous predictability and quickly hit upon a
Boeing American Airlines union: blaming pilots for Boeing 737 Max crashes 'inexcusable'The GuardianAmerican Airlines’ pilots’ union has hit back at Boeing for insinuating that some responsibility for the two crashes of its 737 Max jets lies with the pilots and claimed and claimed that American Airlines
Opinion (UK) Call Mark Spencer Xenon. He may be inert, but at least he’s a gasThe Guardian - John CraceThe front and back doors had been bolted and padlocked. In a darkened attic room, Theresa May scanned the CCTV footage for signs of intruders. So far, so good. Hunt, Saj and Govey were well outside the
Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi loses his seat in Congress party landslide defeatThe Guardian - Michael Safi in DelhiAs India’s opposition Congress party went down to a landslide defeat on Thursday, its leader, Rahul Gandhi, was also convincingly beaten in his own parliamentary seat – a north Indian constituency that
Play buttonClimate Strike ‘We need everyone’: youth activists call on adults to join climate strikesThe Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorGreta Thunberg and leading youth strikers for climate action from across the world have called for all adults to join a global general strike on 20 September. They are asking citizens to walk out of work
Opinion (UK) Young people have led the climate strikes. Now we need adults to join us tooThe Guardian - Greta Thunberg and 46 youth activistsTomorrow, schoolchildren and students will be out on the streets again, in huge numbers, in 150 countries, at over 4,000 events, demanding that governments immediately provide a safe pathway to stay within
King's College London King’s College London to probe allegations of lecturer verbally abusing remainerThe GuardianA senior mental health lecturer who allegedly called a remain campaigner a “fucking traitor” and brandished a union jack flag in his face is being investigated by King’s College London. In a video shared
Manga Manga belongs in the British Museum as much as the Elgin marblesThe Guardian - David BarnettIt’s a question the Guardian’s reviewer asked about the new summer exhibition that opens today devoted to the comic medium, which originated in Japan . The answer, I’d say, is: quite a lot. We’ve come
Play buttonFilm (UK) Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’The Guardian - Ryan GilbeyBeanie Feldstein is eating ice-cream in a red dress that is as bright as strawberry sauce. “This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever worn?” she says, her inflection rising at the end, as it often does,
Music (UK) The 1975 win two major awards at 2019 Ivor NovellosThe GuardianThe 1975 have received two of the most prestigious prizes at this year’s Ivor Novello songwriting awards. The band won songwriters of the year, for songs from their UK No 1 album A Brief Inquiry Into Relationships,
The Theatre Four Quartets review – TS Eliot's poems brilliantly dancedThe GuardianChoreographer Pam Tanowitz has been quietly plying her trade in New York for more than two decades. She now arrives for the first time in London with Four Quartets, the first authorised dance version TS
Fashion (UK) 'Heroin chic’ and the tangled legacy of photographer Davide SorrentiThe Guardian - Edward HelmoreThere is a sequence in See Know Evil, a new documentary-biography of the late photographer Davide Sorrenti, when the then US president, Bill Clinton, takes time out of a prayer breakfast to comment on
Moby Dick ‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’ – the worst moments from Moby’s memoirThe Guardian - Elle HuntYou can tell a lot about Moby’s second memoir, the follow-up to his 2016 effort, Porcelain, from its title: Then It Fell Apart. You can tell even more from its preface, about how it came into being: “After
Play buttonJ.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – what we learned from the Vanity Fair specialThe Guardian - Luke HollandIn just under seven months’ time, a saga spanning nine films, three generations and 42 years will finally be over, bringing the epic story of the Skywalker family to a close. After steering The Force into
Books Richard Osman lands 'seven-figure' deal for crime novel written in secretThe Guardian - David BarnettBroadcaster Richard Osman has scooped a seven-figure book deal after writing a crime novel in secret for the past 18 months. The Thursday Murder Club, Osman’s first novel, will be published in autumn Penguin
Salaries & Wages Lloyds boss called before MPs over his pension paymentsThe Guardian - Kalyeena Makortoff, Banking correspondentLloyds chief executive António Horta-Osório has been summoned in front of MPs over executive pension payments that have allowed him to pocket an extra £419,000 a year, on top of his £1.3m basic salary.
Politics Outcry after Trump officials reveal sixth migrant child died in US custodyGuardian US - Oliver LaughlandThe Trump administration has been forced to reveal that a 10-year-old migrant girl died in its custody more than seven months ago, sparking further outcry after a spate of recent migrant child deaths detained
World News EU leaders call for appointment of first female presidentThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsEU leaders are being urged to select at least one woman when replacing Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk as the presidents of the European commission and council, positions that have only ever been by
Mario Batali Mario Batali faces criminal charges for alleged assault in BostonGuardian US - Erin Durkin in New York and agenciesThe celebrity chef Mario Batali is facing criminal charges for allegedly groping and forcibly kissing a woman at a restaurant in Boston. Batali, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct,
Technology Facial recognition tech: watchdog calls for code to regulate police useThe Guardian - Steven Morris and agencyThe information commissioner has expressed concern over the lack of a formal legal framework for the use of facial recognition cameras by the police. A barrister for the commissioner, Elizabeth Denham,
Books 'The nicest person in children's books': readers' tributes and memories of Judith KerrThe Guardian - Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo‘I spoke to her on the phone last week – I am devastated’ I met Judith in the 70s when I started writing about her father Alfred Kerr. I published a 720 page biography of him in 2016 and consulted Judith
Black Pink Blackpink review – K-pop megastars tick off the clichesThe Guardian - Michael CraggEntering the world of girlband Blackpink – K-Pop’s second biggest export behind the juggernaut BTS – involves huge investment, of both money and time. Tickets are upwards of £100, while at the venue queues
UK Prime Minister Edward Heath 'saved VIP abuse accuser from attack by Tory MP'The Guardian - Simon MurphyA former nurse accused of fabricating claims of an establishment paedophile ring told police that ex-prime minister Sir Edward Heath stepped in to stop him being beaten by a Tory MP, a court has heard.
Salaries & Wages Bury players urge owner to leave, saying they have gone 12 weeks without payThe Guardian - David ConnThe financial crisis at Bury has been laid bare by a statement on behalf of the players, who won promotion to League One this season, that the club has not paid any of their wages since February. Nicky
Syracuse Mets Mets call-up takes 112-mile Uber to stadium then belts sealing homerThe Guardian - Associated PressRajai Davis took batting practice Wednesday afternoon in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The 38-year-old outfielder ended his night hitting a three-run homer that capped a thrilling eighth-inning rally for the
Financial Conduct Authority High court judge leads inquiry into London Capital & Finance scandalThe Guardian - Richard PartingtonThe government has launched an independent inquiry into the collapse of London Capital & Finance, the investment firm at the centre of a mounting £236m financial scandal in which thousands of investors
