A police officer who allegedly received a coffee with a pig drawn on the cup said he felt discouraged and disrespected

• The Independent
• 3 gün, 16 saat, 58 dakika

Opening statements are expected to begin in the trial of a Virginia man accused of murdering his wife and another man while carrying on a romantic relationship with a Brazilian au pair

• The Independent
• 3 gün, 17 saat

Liverpool is the highest ranking non-capital destination

• Liverpool Echo
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Manchester City's hectic January continues as they travel to Newcastle United for the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night

• Manchester Evening News
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

The winners of the prestigious Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards have been named.

• The Daily Record
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

In Beirut, a sold-out nightclub event featured an unusual DJ — Padre Guilherme, a priest from Portugal

• The Independent
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

A rise of murders is traumatising inmates and staff, and making life harder for staff. But even in prison, violence isn’t inevitable There are hotspots for violence in prison. The exercise yard, the showers. There are peak times, too. Mealtimes and association periods are particularly volatile. But first thing in the morning is not when you expect to hear an alarm bell. I certainly didn’t, at 6am in my office on the residential wing of a high-security prison in late 2018. All prisoners were locked up at that time. But overcrowding has long been a problem in UK prisons, and keeping three men in cells designed for one can be a recipe for disaster. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Paris trial’s outcome will determine whether leader of far-right National Rally can run for French presidency in 2027 The French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen will face a fresh trial on appeal on Tuesday over the embezzlement of European parliament funds in a case that will determine whether or not she can run in the 2027 presidential election. Le Pen, 57, who leads the far-right, anti-immigration National Rally (RN) , was considered to be a contender for next year’s election until she was barred from running for public office last March after being found guilty of an extensive and long-running fake jobs scam. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

As the writer turns 80, his masterful adaptation of the French novel is being revived at the National Theatre. It highlights his lifelong interest in political power play I once dubbed Christopher Hampton, who celebrates his 80th birthday this month, “the quiet man of British theatre”. By that I meant that he was less prone to expressing his views in opinion pieces than contemporaries such as David Hare and David Edgar. The term also implied that his plays possessed a less idiosyncratic style than the work of, say, Harold Pinter or Tom Stoppard. But I suspect that Hampton’s regard for the classical virtues of objectivity, lucidity and irony means that his work will prove as durable as anyone’s. He is also, as I have seen, a man of considerable private passion. One incident in particular is branded on my memory. In November 1990 I was one of a group, including the director David Leveaux and set designer Bob Crowley, despatched by the British Council to Cairo to give a number of talks ahead of a visit by the National Theatre. We were privileged to be given a private night-time tour of the pyramids and were enjoying a quiet drink in the neighbouring hotel in Giza when in burst Hampton, who had just arrived from London. “Have you heard the news?” he cried. “Mrs Thatcher has been attacked in the Commons by Geoffrey Howe and it looks as if she’s in trouble.” Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Despite internet blackout, a small number of Iranians are risking their lives to share messages as protests continue For most of Iran, the internet was shut off on Thursday afternoon – the most severe blackout the country has seen in years of internet shutdowns, coming after days of escalating anti-government protests. For a very small sliver of the country, it is still possible to get photos and videos to the outside world, and even to make calls. The Telegram channel Vahid Online on Monday posted photos of dead bodies lying next to a street in Kahrizak, on the southern outskirts of Tehran; on Sunday, it shared a video of Iranians chanting “death to Khamenei” at a funeral. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changed In the last stages of writing his book, Breath, James Nestor was stressed. “Which was ironic when writing a book about breathing patterns and mellowing out,” he says. The book was late; he’d spent his advance and was haemorrhaging even more money on extra research that was taking him off in new, potentially interesting, directions – was it really necessary, he wondered, to go to Paris to look at old skulls buried in catacombs beneath the city? (It was.) Then a couple of months before the book’s May 2020 publication date, the Covid pandemic hit, and Nestor was advised to wait it out. He couldn’t afford to. “One of the main motivations for releasing it at that time was to get that [on-publication] advance,” he says. “But I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to release it. I said: ‘How are you going to promote a book that can’t be sold in stores, that I can’t tour for?’” He expected, he says, “absolutely zero to happen”. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvation Standing ankle-deep in water between two bare cottonwood trees on a hot spring day, eight-year-old Anthony Waddle was in his element. His attention was entirely absorbed by the attempt to net tadpoles swimming in a reservoir in the vast Mojave desert. It was “one of the perfect moments in my childhood”, he says. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Sales of clothes and computers fall, but discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl enjoy bumper trading Retailers suffered a “drab Christmas”, ending the year with disappointing sales in their most important month, according to new data underlining the difficulties facing Britain’s high streets. Overall retail sales grew by just 1.2% in December compared with a year earlier, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said. That was below the 12-month average of 2.3%. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Delhi is world’s second largest purchaser of Russian crude, which is now cheaper than oil from Middle East Russia is already working to circumvent the latest US sanctions to ensure India can continue to import high levels of cheap Russian crude oil, according to industry analysts. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, India has become the world’s second largest purchaser of Russian crude oil , which has been heavily discounted due to the impact of western sanctions. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

Security chief Diosdado Cabello is nicknamed the Octopus for good reason, with the regime’s fate said to rest with him His nickname is the Octopus, he hosts a TV show called Hitting it with a Sledgehammer and many Venezuelans consider him the real power in the land. Diosdado Cabello runs the regime’s security apparatus and is perhaps the most feared, reviled and, in some quarters, revered government figure, with influence to rival that of the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez. Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika

In the new dog-eat-dog world order, appeasement doesn’t work. Time for the EU to grow up Fabian Zuleeg is chief executive of the European Policy Centre Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela is not a one-off shock. It epitomises his approach of interventionist isolationism based on a revisionist, neo-nationalist agenda in which power is exercised bluntly, international rules are optional and alliances are transactional. In such a dog-eat-dog world, hesitation and ambiguity do not stabilise the system; they become vulnerabilities to be exploited by a volatile and predatory Washington. The seizure of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro , combined with Trump’s renewed musings about acquiring Greenland , potentially by using the US military, should dispel any lingering illusion that this is merely erratic behaviour. It reflects a worldview in which sovereignty is conditional, spheres of influence are legitimate, and coercion is normalised when it delivers results in the interest of Trump and his administration. The real question now is not whether Europeans disapprove, but how pro-European liberal democratic forces respond. Three imperatives stand out. Fabian Zuleeg is chief executive and chief economist at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...

• The Guardian
• 3 gün, 17 saat, 1 dakika