Please bookmark for future updatesAugustus Holm helped organize a San Diego footwear drive that earned a Guinness World Record – and it started from an idea he had when he was 13Some 18-year-olds who take time off from their studies after graduating high school head off to travel, learn a new language or gain employment. … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesThe wildly acclaimed novel about a perimenopausal woman going on a journey of erotic awakening has left a wave of women following in the protagonist’s wake‘I don’t read books that literally,” says Abra, 49, from Arizona. “I don’t read literature as self-help.” But we’re talking about All Fours, the second novel by … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesDespite some theological differences, both denominations look to her as an inspiration for cultivating compassion and hopeI had just finished teaching a class on “the Muslim Mary”. Many non-Muslims who attended were puzzled to find out that Muslims had a connection with Mary at all, and had no knowledge of how … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesThe instrumental theme tune is popular, catchy and authoritative – perfect for the coloniser’s news service. Unfortunately, everyone knows the lyricsThe British Broadcasting Corporation’s Somali service theme tune is one of the most popular and recognisable sounds for people in Somalia and the diaspora. With a whistling rhythm and melody, it … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesWhile some residents take to building houses in trees, officials recognise need for national response to climate disastersEvery summer, Dongting Hu, China’s second-largest freshwater lake, swells in size as flood water from the Yangtze River flows into its borders. Dams and dikes are erected around the lake’s edges to protect against … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesThe Dan Skelton-trained chaser is hoping to follow in the hoofprints of great greys at Kempton on Boxing DayA bold-jumping grey in the King George at Kempton: for a dozen years from the mid‑1980s, it was a Boxing Day tradition as Desert Orchid, One Man and Teeton Mill racked up seven … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesExclusive: Guardian testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden textThe Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesThe Oppenheimer director’s adaptation of Homer is scheduled for release in the summer of 2026, and will feature Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and ZendayaChristopher Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer will be an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, it has been revealed.Hollywood studio Universal, which is backing the project, posted on social … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesInvestigation launched after late-night ‘trap and drag’ incident on Elizabeth line in which man was freed by staffAn investigation has been launched after a rail passenger was forced to run several metres along the platform with his hand trapped inside the doors of a moving train in west London.The passenger, who … Read more
Please bookmark for future updatesPolice appeal for information about a male driver and a blue car seen leaving the scene in LlanpumsaintPolice are seeking a male driver after a dog walker was killed in an apparent hit-and-run collision in Carmarthenshire.Dyfed-Powys police said the man was in a collision with a car while walking on a … Read more