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August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake
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August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake

Reporting season shows how consumers are responding to cost of living pressures and how retailers are respondingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians are buying less pizza but more weight-loss drugs. They love “dupes” but don’t enjoy writing letters.Here are five key takeaways from the August reporting season that show what consumers are buying as cost of living pr...

Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
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Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton

Bill Lee says he favors proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singerBill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Dolly Parton, who died three days earlier at age 80.In a statement, Lee said he and the managers of the airport in Tennessee’s capital city – where...

LAPD releases footage of death of man whom police handcuffed and beat
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LAPD releases footage of death of man whom police handcuffed and beat

Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz was arrested after a family altercation and restrained for ‘combative’ behaviorA cadre of Los Angeles police officers beat and restrained a handcuffed man in July, minutes before he was found dead in a jail cell, according to newly released body-cam footage.On 15 July, Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz, 58, was found unconscious in his cell at the Van Nuys regional jail. At the time,...

Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK
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Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK

Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residencyFar-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being detained on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order.Yiannopo...

Daughter traces mother and aunt’s last known location in Nepal through TikTok video

Daughter traces mother and aunt’s last known location in Nepal through TikTok video

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Tulshi Patel says mother Hemangini Jitendra Patel and aunt Hema Sunil Amin were last seen at Friendship Bridge on Nepal-China border• Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesThe daughter of a woman missing in Nepal has told how she traced her mother’s location through a TikTok video posted hours before the devastating flash flood hit.The catastrophic flash floods that hit Nepal and Tibet on Wednes...

Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot

Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot

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Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen received the Congressional Space Medal of HonorThe Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday.Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian whose lunar flyby for the US space agency Nasa set a new distance record for huma...

James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London

James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London

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Shadow minister for housing, communities and local government to resign with immediate effectJames Cleverly has resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London.The Tory heavyweight, who was once home and foreign secretary and is shadow minister for housing, communities and local government, told the Sunday Times he will resign with immediate effect. Continue reading...

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

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Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s bodyIn a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida who was shot ...

Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to nearly 3,000 as operations continue

Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to nearly 3,000 as operations continue

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Nepal requests foreign ⁠help in identification and storing of bodies, DNA testing and rescuing people from tunnelsVisual guide: how the deadly flooding unfoldedNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesThe number of people killed in the floods in Nepal has risen to at least 675, the country’s disaster authority has said.Seven have also been confirmed dead in Tibet by Chinese state media, taking the ...

Nepal-Tibet floods: Nepal calls for technical support for rescue efforts as number of missing rises to nearly 3,000 – latest updates

Nepal-Tibet floods: Nepal calls for technical support for rescue efforts as number of missing rises to nearly 3,000 – latest updates

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Nepali government says India and China are sending expert tunnel rescue teams, as minister estimates cost of rebuilding could be billions of dollars‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in NepalChinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the deadOutside the army camp in the Nuwakot district of Ne...

FBI no longer banning all applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers

FBI no longer banning all applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers

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Bureau to still dismiss those with encounters within past 10 years, three or more times or while in public safety capacityThe FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter.The...

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

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Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacityThe FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar...

‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital

‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital

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Family members pin photos of Nepal’s missing to hospital wall as people try not to give up hope on loved onesNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesPosters of the missing line the wall of the hospital, the glue still fresh beneath. A schoolgirl smiling in her uniform; a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby; a couple smiling on their wedding day; a young man, hands on hips, atop a mountain peak; a young g...

Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters

Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters

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Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the ChannelThe Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged.The “intense” 72-hour operation took place last week, with radars used to monitor four ships that made their way from the North Sea through to the Channel. Continue reading...

Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

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Attack on depot owned by Ukraine military causes detonations and huge fire, damaging residential buildingsAt least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs that was storing “explosive objects”.The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire and explosions in t...

Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for Trump speech bets

Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for Trump speech bets

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Gabriel Perez wagered on Kalshi about words president used in speechesA White House teleprompter operator who left his post amid accusations that he used inside knowledge to make bets on Donald Trump’s speeches on an online prediction market has been fined $172,000, according to federal regulators.Gabriel Perez exploited “material, nonpublic information” t...

Cells for arrested offenders may run out without early prison release, says Labour

Cells for arrested offenders may run out without early prison release, says Labour

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Bridget Phillipson says government would not have to consider releasing prisoners early if Tories had created more capacityCells to hold newly arrested people could run out without the early prison release scheme, a government minister has said.Bridget Phillipson defended the plan to address the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales by releasing thousands of prisoners early, which has been c...

Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026

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Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe annual Edinburgh comedy award has been won by the standup Chris Cantrill, two years after his comedy partner Amy Gledhill – in the raucous northern double act The Delightful Sausage – won the same prize.Cantrill, 42 a...

Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations

Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations

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Former Duchess of York moved to Swiss chalet during fallout over her friendship with convicted child sex offenderSarah Ferguson is set to return to the UK after relocating to a Swiss chalet amid the fallout over her and ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports.The scandal over the pair’s relationship with Epstein saw...

Russian strike on warehouse near Kyiv kills at least 37

Russian strike on warehouse near Kyiv kills at least 37

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Attack on business apparently storing ‘explosive objects’ sparks huge fire, damaging residential buildingsAt least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs which appears to have been storing “explosive objects”.The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire a...

US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths

US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths

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Recent deadly water-related incidents amid heatwave leads National Park Service to issue water-safety remindersAs a heatwave continues to bake the western and central US, officials are urging swimmers to be cautious when seeking respite from the summer heat, especially amid a score of recent deadly water-related incidents.Each year, from April to September, drowning deaths rise nationwide, accordi...

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

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Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based projectThe next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as she becomes the 13th figure to contribute to the Future Library project.Anderson joins Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Ocean Vuong and other prominent authors who have written secret manuscripts, which hav...

‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

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Looking for an alternative to fast fashion, Eve Ogden Schaub decided to create a garment from homegrown flaxFrom crop tops to shorts and brightly patterned dresses, many of today’s clothes are the result of fast fashion. But one woman is taking a radical approach to challenging this trend by growing her own dress.Eve Ogden Schaub is in the midst of a project to create a linen garment made from fla...

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts

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Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in FloridaA $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill is set to lift off from Florida early on Sunday as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts, ...

Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

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Fighters in legal limbo after accepting ‘total peace’ plan of Petro government just days before hardliner Abelardo De la Espriella took overIn mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one, handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine guns and grenade launchers.They a...

They laid down arms. Now ex-guerrillas in Colombia fear fate under new hardline president

They laid down arms. Now ex-guerrillas in Colombia fear fate under new hardline president

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‘Total peace’ plan of previous government led only 99 of Colombia’s 30,000 armed combatants to disarm, but new president Abelardo De la Espriella opposes peace agreementsIn mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one, handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine gun...

Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers work through night at hydropower tunnel as number of missing climbs to almost 3,000 – latest updates

Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers work through night at hydropower tunnel as number of missing climbs to almost 3,000 – latest updates

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Nepali army digs through thick mud that has filled tunnel at plant in Rasuwa, as death toll from flash floods rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in NepalChinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the deadThe Nepalese government said the army is d...

Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials

Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials

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In move that could generate millions, Exeter academics to deliver MA at National Defense University in RiyadhThe University of Exeter has approved plans for a “formal partnership” with Saudi Arabia to train senior military officers and government officials, despite long-held concerns about the Saudi government’s human rights record, the Guardian has learned.In a deal that could generate millions o...

Nepal-Tibet floods: number of missing climbs to nearly 3,000 as search for survivors enters fourth day – latest updates

Nepal-Tibet floods: number of missing climbs to nearly 3,000 as search for survivors enters fourth day – latest updates

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Nepali minister estimates cost of rebuilding could be up to $5bn, as death toll rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in NepalChinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the deadIndia said it is increasing surveillance of glaciers and glacial lakes i...