Brigitte Bardot auction in Paris fetches nearly €1m, with proceeds going to her animal welfare foundation and her son
The Guardianby Guardian staff and Agence France-Presse·23d ago
An auction of the French screen legend Brigitte Bardot’s personal items fetched nearly €1m (£858,000, US$1.15m, A$1.61m) in Paris on Monday, almost 20 times the estimate, according to the auction...
Martha’s rule to be expanded to every A&E in England
The Guardianby Andrew Gregory Health editor·23d ago
Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients, staff and relatives request a review of their care, is being expanded to every A&E in England, health officials have announced.
Healthcare in Africa ‘under growing strain’ after US withdrawal from aid programs, report warns
The Guardianby Tobi Thomas health and inequalities correspondent·23d ago
The United States’ withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South “under growing strain” a new report warns.
Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway
The Guardianby Tory Shepherd·23d ago
“She was pregnant with twins,” Tahlia Isaac says. “She was meant to be released in 10 days, but she went into labour early.” Isaac says officers handcuffed her fellow prisoner in the back of a van...
Two helicopter pilots killed while battling Yosemite fires
The Guardianby Maanvi Singh and agency·23d ago
Two helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon. The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres...
Come back soon Premier League, the endlessly moreish mega-product | Barney Ronay
The Guardianby Barney Ronay·23d ago
Get ready for the dopamine crash. And this one really is a proper autumn nosedive. The past 17 days up to and including Sunday’s cut-off gave us 30 Premier League games and 79 goals.
The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz: Germany’s chancellor must change course to halt the rise of the AfD | Editorial
The Guardianby Editorial·23d ago
After less than a year and a half in office, Germany’s beleaguered chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is already looking like a lame duck leader.
Race to be next UN secretary general could rest on US and China trade-offs
The Guardianby Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor, in New York·23d ago
Numerous last-minute entrants in the race to become the new UN secretary general are being discussed amid concerns that the world powers may not be able to agree a successor to António Guterres...
Trump set to press Zelenskyy at UN to agree energy ceasefire with Russia
The Guardianby Andrew Roth in Washington·23d ago
Donald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices...
Paramount settles lawsuits with 12 US states, clearing way for Warner merger
The Guardianby Gaya Gupta and Uwa Ede-Osifo·23d ago
Paramount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over a proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), according to reports on Monday, clearing the way...
Mark Carney is making an eloquent case for an alliance sidelining the US | Ted Widmer
The Guardianby Ted Widmer·23d ago
The speeches keep coming, each building on the previous one, as the Canadian prime minister builds a case for a new world order that has strikingly little to do with the United States of America...
Get tested and talk to your partner: how to have safer sex after age 50
The Guardianby Amanda Zuckerman Klarsfeld·23d ago
When I got divorced after 28 years of monogamy, I was excited to be having sex again, but had concerns.
US strikes on alleged drug boats may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’, UN finds
The Guardianby Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent·23d ago
A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and...
Europe is under attack from three sides – but the EU and Nato are unfit to defend us | Nathalie Tocci
The Guardianby Nathalie Tocci·23d ago
Europe’s strategic predicament is ever clearer, and ever darker. The continent is at war, which is being fought militarily in Ukraine, but is escalating rapidly across Europe through hybrid...
The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events | Margaret Sullivan
The Guardianby Margaret Sullivan·23d ago
On Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump’s latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers.
Football Daily | Brighton’s organised chaos viciously pecks Arsenal into submission
The Guardianby Barry Glendenning·23d ago
CAME IN LIKE A PECKING BALL … For an elite head coach who isn’t used to seeing his team lose, suffering a rare defeat on the weekend before an international break is particularly hard to take.
Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend: the 95-year-old who has turned her romance with Ted Hughes into a play
The Guardianby Jenny Valentish·23d ago
Liz Hicklin had missed the ferry that could change her life. Pelting rain had made the drive to the Sorrento terminal perilous.
A job that changed me: I cried nearly every day working in aged care, then realised I could bring joy instead
The Guardianby Carolyn Mullen·23d ago
In my 40s, I was beginning to wonder where I fit in the employment world. I had a variety of jobs including an improv instructor, actor and corporate facilitator, then Covid arrived and all those...
Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·23d ago
There’s no reason for anyone working on a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to be intimidated by the celebrated 1995 movie by director Ang Lee and screenwriter Emma Thompson...
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
The Guardianby Stephen Burgen in Barcelona·23d ago
A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics”.
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