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Friday 13 November 2026

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UK-EU deal will lead to ‘growing pressure’ for parliament to scrutinise legislation, warns committee – UK politics live

The report on food and emissions comes ahead of a joint UK-EU summit next weekHello and welcome to the UK politics live blog.There will be a “growing pressure” for parliament to scrutinise EU legislation under new deals on food and emissions to be sealed ahead of the UK’s summit with the bloc next week, a Lords’ committee has warned.Although important details remain to be determined of the legal…

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‘Never thought I’d eat that’: how vegetable prescriptions are helping Britons with diabetes

WellFed participants in Cornwall are reporting better blood sugar levels with help of free veg, cooking and gardeningThe participants admitted that throughout their life, their food choices had been far from ideal: egg and chips, hearty roasts, raw fry – a Cornish one-pan dish of bacon, potatoes and onions, often fried in lard and once beloved of miners and fishers.But here they were, at a commun…

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NFL quarterbacks are under more pressure than ever from rushers. Why?

Despite all the advantages offenses have secured over the years, defenses are better at pressuring the QB than any other time in recent historyThe Baltimore Ravens are preparing to start their fourth quarterback this year, Jacoby Brissett, against the beleaguered Los Angeles Chargers on Monday, because of injuries to Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley and Joe Fagnano. That puts them dangerously close t…

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Pochettino to take over at Manchester United; Grealish apologises to Everton fans: football – live

USMNT head coach is due to speak later on FridayToday’s fixtures | Follow us on TikTok | Mail DavidJack Grealish has issued a public apology to Everton fans after he made his comeback in a behind-closed-doors match with Derby. Grealish has missed four matches and not played for the Toffees since 17 October following a breach of club discipline.Boss David Moyes has been reluctant to discuss any fi…

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The Strange World of… Suzanne Ciani

In her eightieth year, during her first ever trip to Scotland to close Sonica festival in Glasgow, electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani looks back on her career with Claire Sawers. Main portrait: Dan Wilton From her early days studying classical composition, to her game-changing friendship with the electronic instrument designer Don Buchla, Suzanne Ciani was always interested in world building.…

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Leaders meet in Dublin amid search for lead EU negotiator for peace talks with Russia - Europe live

Ukraine and Russia have agreed to expand next round of negotiations to include European countriesin DublinEU leaders will continue talks on their diplomatic and financial support for Ukraine today, after Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged them to “pay attention” to Vladimir Putin’s demands on security.“There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Europe had a functioning European security architecture until it…

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Australia race to paltry target after debutant quick Beardman routs England in first ODI

A week of quietly watching Australian cricket descend into civil war ended with smiles being wiped from English faces as a stunning debut from fast bowler Mahli Beardman consigned the tourists to an all-too-familiar hammering in Perth.Victory in a low-key one-day international was never going to atone for the galling start to that failed Ashes campaign here 12 months ago. Nevertheless, England ap…

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Chess: Carlsen comes to town with tantalising tests for London Classic Super Rapid

The Norwegian world No 1 will be among 500 competitors in the 10-round contest of 15-minute gamesMagnus Carlsen makes a very rare appearance in an open tournament on 5-6 December when the Norwegian, who has topped the world rankings for 15 successive years, competes in the 10-round Super Rapid at the XTX Markets London Classic. The venue is the Novotel West at Hammersmith and the time limit is 15…

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Ofsted’s menacing inspections are still disastrous. Schools should answer to the communities they serve | Simon Jenkins

For all the supposed improvements, inspectors still obsess over statistics and adjectives, but surely school success depends on teachers and parentsThe government regulation of state schools by Ofsted in England is a fiasco. Following the 2023 suicide of the Reading headteacher Ruth Perry, after her school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate, Ofsted appears to have referred to a diction…

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The beautiful game: revived art prize gives football its creative due once more | Emma John

Football and the art world have long remained distant but the breadth of entries for this year’s award revivals a healthy revivalIt may be the Beautiful Game, but in its early decades football was a rare subject for artists. The Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni whirled an athlete’s body into a vortex of movement in his 1913 painting Dynamism of a Soccer Player. You can see one of the earliest fi…

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US terror case sheds light on RAF Fairford arrests mystery

Suspect held in New York jail has been linked to handler behind Iran-linked operations in BritainWhen the US took custody of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi in May, investigators hoped the string of terror and arson attacks he was accused of promoting and directing against American and Jewish targets in the UK and Europe on behalf of Iran would stop. They were wrong.An updated indictment, rel…

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A new song gives Cop31 Eurovision vibes – but how should we score progress so far?

In this week’s newsletter: The climate summit has a new floor-filler to ‘bring down the heat’, but it may struggle to get countries to sing a different environmental tune• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe UN’s annual climate summit is known for being arcane, long-winded and frustrating. On Wednesday, however, Turkey brought a dash of Eurovision-style glamour to pro…

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Pochettino’s Chelsea maelstrom the best yardstick for what lies ahead at United

Argentinian oversaw high-scoring games in his one Chelsea season and Opta predicts his Manchester United side will move upfield quicker than that teamAmong the 20 managers with more than 290 matches in the Premier League, only the five “big beasts” of Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger, José Mourinho, Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have better points-per-game averages than Mauricio Pochettino. He is an…

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Nvidia scandal sparks US national security furore and calls to take tough line on China

Former CEO Jensen Huang and US commerce secretary to appear before Congress amid bipartisan concern that America’s security was put at risk Nvidia scandal – latest updatesAnalysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached?Nvidia’s ousted CEO Jensen Huang and Donald Trump’s commerce secretary are expected to testify before Congress in the coming weeks, as…

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Progressives are still so pessimistic, but why? The populist right can and will be defeated | Andy Beckett

From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our sideFrom Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so surprised by the right’s election defeats? Flávio Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Reform UK, the Tories and a vast array of Republican candidates have all been rejected in national or local conte…

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Children’s exposure to home wood-burning could be as significant as traffic exhaust, study suggests

Research finds highest levels of cancer-related PAH pollutants in cities that have widespread wood heatingChildren’s exposure to home wood-burning could be as significant as exposure to traffic exhaust, suggests new research across six European towns and cities.Scientists measured the air in buildings where children spend much of their time; in schools, sports centres and homes. Specifically, the…

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Boxer on death row in Iran vows ‘not to bow before oppression’ after winning rights prize

Political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran, given prestigious Magnitsky humanitarian award A boxer and political prisoner on death row in Iran said he will “never surrender” as he accepted a prestigious human rights prize on behalf of “the generation that is paying the price of freedom with their lives”.Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, an Iranian…

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‘They’ve cut all entry-level jobs’: unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threat

Bournemouth became a hub for thousands of finance jobs after the 1980s big bang, but new tech risks hurting Dorset’s economyA few minutes’ drive from Bournemouth’s sandy beachfront, on the site of a former farm, lies an unlikely nerve centre of international finance.Here, miles from the glass towers of London’s Canary Wharf, more than 5,300 staff including compliance officers, analysts and softwa…

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Hamlet Hail to the Thief could have been rotten but redeems Radiohead’s ‘record that got away’ | Alexis Petridis

The band’s uneven 2003 album has been judiciously reworked to accompany a staging of Shakespeare’s tragedy with quite extraordinary resultsAccording to the programme notes, Thom Yorke had serious reservations about director Christine Jones’ idea to stage a production of Hamlet featuring music from Radiohead’s 2003 album Hail to the Thief. Who can blame him? Many criticisms have been laid at Radio…

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Tara Cunningham – Warm Ground

Tara Cunningham Warm Ground Tara Cunningham’s latest mini-LP of small wonders proves a perfect counterpoint to our outsized era, says Bernie Brooks Warm Ground by Tara Cunningham We’re living through an era of apocalyptic sizing, of catastrophic scale. El Niño, high temperatures, glacier melt, funding cuts, deregulation, wealth inequality, the AI bubble, etc. Even the good stuff is epochal. In th…

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APOD: 2026 November 13 – NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 13 – NGC… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. NGC 206 […]

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12 12 12 review – Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan’s super fun heist hunt

From the moment a contortionist crawls out of a bank vault, the 12-hour hunt for the culprits is a thrilling ride. Just suspend your disbelief a bit and strap in for a fantastic timeA contortionist crawls out of a safety deposit box in the wall of an underground Swiss bank vault, legs wrapped around his waist, feet resting on his lumbar spine, landing on hands and displaced knees on the tiled flo…

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Experience: I was disembowelled by a hippo on my honeymoon

A mother hippopotamus protecting her young is one of the most fearsome forces of nature. Luckily, I’d just married someone ready to meet it head-onAnna and I got married in Portugal in September last year. We had been together for 13 years. She said in her vows, “I don’t know what life is going to have in store for us, but I know our love for each other is always constant.”Ten days later, I found…

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As housing protests sweep Portugal, police and politicians here seem bent on making the crisis worse | Ana Naomi de Sousa

While Spain, Germany and the UK have all introduced laws protecting renters’ rights, Luís Montenegro’s centre-right government is empowering landlordsAs Storm Charles reached Portugal’s shores this week, flights were aborted, schools were closed, and the global Web Summit in Lisbon was forced to cancel a whole day of lucrative events. But even the promise of some very bad weather was not enough t…

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World is now in ‘age of electricity’, energy agency chief says at Cop31

Exclusive: Fossil fuels no longer dominant energy source, IEA leader says, as summit considers electrification pledgeThe world has left behind the age of coal, oil and gas and is now firmly in “the age of electricity”, the world’s leading energy economist has said.Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said more than twice as much electricity generation woul…

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The sinister power of Friday 13th: how this maligned date affects our lives

Property sales that complete on this day have a lower median price. Air fares are cheaper. Weddings are non-existent. And motor collisions increase. How did it become so mired in superstition?“I have only worked one Friday 13th wedding in my 14 years in business,” says Caroline Smyth, a photographer and celebrant based in Larne, Northern Ireland. “I definitely think it is down to the fact that it…

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‘I spend less, that’s all that matters’: life in the world’s most electrified countries

Owning an electric car, driving an electric motorbike taxi, riding scooters – we speak to people in Oslo, Kigali and Shanghai about their everyday routinesThe race to electrification has emerged as a key theme of this year’s UN climate summit: increasing the use of electricity – particularly from clean sources – has the potential to improve daily life for people around the world.The summit’s co-h…

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‘Women are pitted against each other. It’s a blood sport’: Billie Piper on industry infighting, Elsinore’s Oscar buzz and thriving on personal crisis

The teen pop star turned Olivier-winning actor stars as Andrew Scott’s best friend in the acclaimed Ian Charleson biopic. She talks kindred spirits, social media and trying to channel a ‘mad storm of grief’The late Billie Whitelaw, whom Samuel Beckett considered “a perfect actress”, was on stage in the middle of rehearsals one day when she asked the playwright: “Where should I be looking?” To whi…

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More than 60% of Germany’s female soldiers report harassment or abuse

Defence minister says extent of sexual misconduct found by study is ‘unacceptable’, as military tries to attract more recruits Germany’s defence minister has promised a “zero tolerance” approach to sexual abuse in the armed forces after a study found soldiers, particularly women, faced extensive harassment within the ranks.The first comprehensive study of its kind into the Bundeswehr, conducted b…

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‘The time is ripe’: ex-helicopter engineer poised to be Germany’s first female president

Backed by MPs from across the political divide, Bavarian Ilse Aigner offers an approachability and warmth the chancellor lacksGermany has had 12 presidents since the end of the second world war, all of them men. Now, for the first time, the federal republic is on the brink of getting a female head of state. But Ilse Aigner, the lead candidate for the post, is unusual in more ways than one.“No law…

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Darth Vader’s lightsaber, used in Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, sells for nearly $5m

Used in the famous ‘I am your father’ scene, the on-screen prop was originally expected to sell for a fraction of the priceAuctioneers estimated it would sell for over $1m, but on Thursday a Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the famous “I am your father” scene from The Empire Strikes Back ended up selling for nearly $5m.Darth Vader’s saber was one of 27 lightsaber props up for sale by H…

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Ukraine war briefing: Europe to join negotiations, says Kushner, as Putin warns against peace keepers

Jared Kushner says move will allow talks to address ‘broader postwar European security arrangements’; Putin refuses to soften territorial demands. What we know on day 1,724Ukraine and Russia have agreed to expand the next round of peace negotiations to include European countries, Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said late on Thursday, after meeting Russian president Vladimir Puti…

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Chips, creek water and Take Me Home, Country Roads: how an Australian teenager survived six nights in the bush

William, 17, says ‘nights were pretty cold’ and he ‘honestly didn’t think’ he’d surviveA teenage boy who survived almost a week lost in dense Australian bushland sang John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads as he held out hope of rescue on long nights alone in the wilderness.William, whose surname has been withheld, was dropped off by his mother for the weekend to camp with his friend in Victor…

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Australia v England: first men’s cricket one-day international – live

Updates from the ODI series opener at Perth StadiumPlay start time is 11.30am AWST/2.30pm AEDT/3.30am BSTAny thoughts? Get in touch with an emailPat Cummins opened his press conference saying he would stand there until every question had been asked and answered. He did just that for more than an hour as he covered a range of topics from sandpaper and ball tampering to Australian cricket culture a…

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‘Abrasive’, ‘arrogant’ and ‘ugly’: standout moments from Pat Cummins’ sandpapergate press conference

Australian cricket captain breaks silence over allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about 2018 ball tampering in South AfricaAfter a torrid week, Australia’s Test captain, Pat Cummins, promised he would answer every question thrown at him in one of the most eagerly anticipated press conferences in recent sporting memory.And, over the course of 70 minutes at Cricket Central in Sydney, he did just t…

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Microsoft outage live: Outlook and Teams failures impact government agencies, schools and businesses

Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and streamlined recovery process under way to end a global outageMicrosoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and TeamsHome affairs minister says Microsoft ‘do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event’Australia’s federal police and security services were affected by the Microsoft outage, the heads of those age…

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It’s Happy Harry Kane day as England’s finest seizes his moment in style | Barney Ronay

The Ballon d’Or validated the forward’s career and he extended his incredible record for England with yet another goal on his 126th appearanceHappy Harry Kane day! And many happy Harry returns. There is a process in clinical psychology known as semantic satiation. Subjects are asked to repeat a word or phrase so many times that it loses any kind of meaning. Suddenly “daffodils” is just an absurd,…

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Second world war ‘brain’ bunker in cliffs of Dover opens to public

Hidden bunker, entered via a hatch in a field, controlled a gun battery used to attack German ships in ChannelIt has been kept secret for decades, buried four metres deep into the white cliffs of Dover. But from Friday, members of the public will finally be able to visit a pioneering command bunker that was ordered by Winston Churchill and proved a vital defence during the second world war.The Fa…

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