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BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-01 01:29:34 (12 hours ago)

Tears and celebrations as river 'wiggle' restored

The meander in the River Kemp has been restored in a project led by Severn Rivers Trust.

BBC News - Entertainment & Arts

2026-07-01 01:23:52 (12 hours ago)

Rare David Bowie items to begin V&A exhibition tour in Dundee

Stage costumes, musical instruments and drawings are included in the show, which opens in Dundee in November

BBC News - Entertainment & Arts

2026-07-01 01:17:16 (13 hours ago)

BBC deal in jeopardy for studio use in Belfast attraction

A council committee has voted against a commercial agreement linked to the £100m Belfast Stories development in the city centre.

Times of India

2026-07-01 01:08:54 (13 hours ago)

Scientists may have solved the mystery behind Yellowstone's 640,000-year-old mega eruption

New York Times - World News

2026-07-01 01:07:34 (13 hours ago)

Venezuela’s Maduro Accused in Lawsuit of Authorizing Police Killings

Five families whose loved ones were killed during a deadly police campaign have sued the former Venezuelan leader in U.S. court in Brooklyn.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-01 01:05:05 (13 hours ago)

Raid to relief as US military aids Venezuela after twin earthquakes

The US military has established a robust footprint of US forces in and around Venezuela to support relief operations, with more than 900 personnel inside the country and another roughly 800 in Caribbean hubs Puerto Rico and Curacao, according to the top US general for Latin America. General Francis Donovan, the commander of US Southern Command, said US forces had participated in search-and-rescue operations, helped get the airport up and running and mobilised air and naval assets to ‌allow for...

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-01 01:03:04 (13 hours ago)

Oman Air targets Singapore with new nonstop flight as Gulf carriers ramp up services

Oman Air is looking to capitalise ⁠on the Gulf ⁠state’s appeal as a largely ⁠untapped tourism destination as it launches flights from Muscat to Singapore on Thursday and considers an expansion to North Asia over the next year. The new nonstop Singapore service was underpinned by a lower cost ‌base and the airline’s year-old membership in the Oneworld alliance to aid with connections, as serving the city state with a stopover in Kuala Lumpur failed nine years ago, Oman Air CEO Con Korfiatis said...

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-01 01:01:32 (13 hours ago)

Why is MAGA in meltdown over the Supreme Court birthright ruling?

The US Supreme Court has rejected Trump’s bid to stop the children of some immigrants obtaining US citizenship at birth.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-01 01:00:27 (13 hours ago)

Women behind the lens: ‘My grandma dressed like a celebrity, even matching the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits’

Egyptian photographer and curator Farida Mahdy was inspired to document her grandmother’s style after finding a collection of her photos

This image is a portrait of me and my grandmother, Ehsan Ouf, in her flat in Cairo. It is part of a project Grandma and the Fur Coat that I started in 2024. I lived with her for four years, while I was studying photography, and we spent a lot of time chatting and watching TV on that couch.

The dress I’m wearing is her engagement dress from 1971 – one of the very few items she wore as a young woman that she still has – and the fur coat she’s wearing was a gift from my late grandfather. I persuaded her not to sell it – and that is partly why I decided to start this project: to document how stylish she was. In the 70s and 80s she dressed like a celebrity, wearing brands such as Chanel and Dior. She had a collection of wigs, and even matched the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-01 01:00:27 (13 hours ago)

‘Complicated and expensive’: Burnham is right about the risks of nationalisation | Nils Pratley

Track record of Welsh Water shows public ownership is not the answer to all the woes in the utilities sector

Good news for Andy Burnham: one of the original 10 water privatisations from the Thatcher-era has returned to public ownership already. Thanks to a complicated turn-of-the-century corporate saga, Welsh Water, serving 3 million people, converted to not-for-profit status in 2001. It has no shareholders. Financial surpluses go “straight back into keeping bills down and looking after your water and beautiful environment”, as the website blurb puts it.

How’s it going? After a quarter of a century without dividend-hungry shareholders to feed, has the model proved its superiority? Not exactly. Welsh Water usually has high scores on customer trust metrics but its performance on bills and spills tends to be middle of the pack.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-01 01:00:27 (13 hours ago)

Smoky chipotle tomatoes and chargrilled courgettes: Thomasina Miers’ barbecued meze recipes | Sunday best

Sweetness and smoke are at the fore of these summer salads

We are at one of my favourite times of the year, but also one of the busiest, with the world seemingly hell-bent on fitting everything in before the summer starts proper. For us, family birthdays abound, with celebrations to organise, cakes to dream up and a constant worry about finding the right presents. Our anniversary is mostly forgotten amid the chaos! What is not forgotten is our deep love of sitting outdoors over long summer evenings that appear to make time stretch magically, languorously. Whether it’s lighting the barbecue or simply turning to my ancient but beloved griddle, a bit of Butch Cassidy-style smoke and swagger is what I am looking for in my food. Chargrilling courgettes brings out their sweetness, and givesthem tantalising, smoky notes, while smoked chillies lend even the freshest salad some attitude. Happy days.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-01 01:00:26 (13 hours ago)

Energy price cap rise ‘will push millions in Great Britain into fuel poverty’

Typical bill will surge by £220 a year from Wednesday, forcing 13.5m homes to spend over 10% of income on fuel

Millions of households in Great Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty after months of volatility on the global gas markets as energy bills rise by more than £220 a year under the government’s price cap from Wednesday.

As the cap on gas and electricity rates rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year, the number of households forced to spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills will increase to 13.5m from almost 11.3m in April, according to fuel poverty campaigners.