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Booktopia will not fill orders and may not issue refunds, say administrators
The Guardian· 14 hours agoThe administrators handling the collapse of Booktopia have announced that orders placed with Australia’s largest online bookseller will not be filled – and there may be no refunds either. It ...
Irish woman charged with ‘attempted suicide’ in Dubai has travel ban lifted
The Guardian· 9 hours agoThe Irish premier, Simon Harris, has said that a travel ban imposed by Dubai authorities on Tori Towey, an Irish woman who was reportedly charged with attempted suicide, has been lifted. Towey ...
‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo...
The Guardian· 10 hours agoIt’s 1.30am and the band El Guajiro y su Changüí, led by freestyling lyricist Celso Fernández, are cooking on all burners. Changüí is reportedly a mashup of a Congolese word meaning “jump for ...
Germany’s first black African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse
The Guardian· 14 hours agoThe first black African-born MP to enter the German parliament has announced he will not be standing in next year’s federal election, weeks after he revealed the hate mail, including racist ...
Brighton target top-four WSL finish after making Dario Vidosic new coach
The Guardian· 12 hours agoBrighton have appointed the Melbourne City manager Dario Vidosic as their head coach on a three-year contract. The 37-year-old former Australia winger spent a year in charge at Melbourne City ...
‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets
The Guardian· 13 hours agoITV has had to defend itself against the strong arm of the law after the name of its new comedy landed it in hot water. The series about trainee police officers is called Piglets, a word that ...
Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study
The Guardian· 13 hours agoAlmost 34 million people in 65 major US cities, or 15% of the country’s population, are experiencing temperatures that are 8F higher than their surrounding areas, according to a new analysis ...
Rust trial prosecutors say Alec Baldwin violated ‘cardinal rules of firearm safety’
The Guardian· 2 hours agoAlmost three years after the fatal shooting on the movie set of Rust, prosecutors began to lay out their case against Alec Baldwin in a packed Santa Fe courtroom, painting a picture of an unsafe ...
Vulnerable House Democrat calls on Biden to end campaign ‘for the good of the country’ – as it...
The Guardian· 3 hours agoDemocratic congressman Pat Ryan, whose district is one of the most closely contested in the country, told the New York Times that he does not think Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump, and that ...
‘I was resuscitated three times’: England’s Andrew Strawbridge on the horror of sepsis
The Guardian· 12 hours agoPlenty of people have overcome adversity in their rugby careers but Andrew Strawbridge’s story is in a league of its own. England’s new assistant coach, back on tour in his native New Zealand ...