BRIT Paddy Pimblett will fight for UFC gold at the start of 2026. 'The Baddy' has surged up the lightweight ranks in double-quick time since debuting in MMA's top promotion in September 2021. Pimblett has taken out all comers, with his last outing being a one-sided destruction of fan favourite Michael Chandler in April. And...
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Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined An eight-year-old girl left destitute in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa has been barred from coming to the UK to join her parents. The Guardian reported on the case of Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown after the hurricane. Her mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, moved from Jamaica to be with Lati-Yana’s British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, in April 2023, leaving their daughter to be cared for by her grandmother. Continue reading...
Experience of domestic violence is at the heart of why many women are driven to commit violent crimes Read more in our Women in prison series The number of women globally who commit violent crimes is very small – in 2021 they were responsible for just 10% of homicides . Indeed, women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. But when women do kill, in many cases the victim is a male partner or family member and there is a history of domestic abuse. Data and research suggests the majority of women on death row around the world have been sentenced to death for the crime of murder, and that most of these were committed in the context of gender-based violence. Women kill to save themselves – only to face abuse and death again. Continue reading...
Harms include threats to release intimate pictures as charity warns against parents sharing photos or details of children online Nearly one in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, with harms ranging from threatening to release intimate pictures to revealing details about someone’s personal life. The NSPCC child protection charity also found that one in five parents know a child who has experienced online blackmail, while two in five said they rarely or never talked to their children about the subject. Continue reading...
We do judge books by their covers. Illustrations spark young imaginations, solve problems, present information - and shape our world, says the children’s author on National Illustration Day Since the origin of our species, humans have tried to make sense of chaos, to understand ourselves, and – at least until the divisiveness of social media – to understand each other. We have always relied on communication to do this. And thousands of years before we had written language, and possibly before even complex spoken language, we used pictures. This makes sense: as children, we learn to read facial expressions, body language and images long before we learn to read words. We all grow up with an instinctive urge to make visual marks and tell stories. If constellations were humanity’s first attempt to understand the universe, then they were also our first illustrated stories. Humans are and have always been a story-driven species, and we tell these stories in myriad ways. Continue reading...
Researchers using aircraft to sample exhaust plumes say infringements persist – even in stricter zones A new study has found that a significant proportion of ships are breaching air pollution limits. Although the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has set regulations for shipping pollution since 2005 , it is hard to know what happens once ships are at sea. Continue reading...
In the face of multiple crises, disruptive technology and populism, making Britain orderly again is an impossible goal This Labour government loves rules. Fiscal rules , stability rules, investment rules, immigration rules and rules restricting protests: this government’s first impulse, when faced with the fluidity and chaos of the modern world, is to put in boundaries and try to police them. Keir Starmer, a methodical person as well as a former director of public prosecutions, is so keen on orderliness that in 2022 his close colleague Lisa Nandy called him “ Mr Rules ”. There are things to be said for this approach. Many voters have been saying for at least a decade that they want politicians to exert more control over Britain’s erratic trajectory. Meanwhile the recent catastrophic administration of Boris Johnson, with its vast carelessness about Covid deaths, Brexit and immigration, still looms over our politics as a demonstration of what happens when governments have little interest in rules. As tech oligarchs, bond traders, international criminals, and digital and physical viruses increasingly prey on vulnerable people, it can be argued that a libertarian or fiscally loose government is a luxury most Britons can’t afford. Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Gillian Fairfield to lead review as critics say nothing has changed since 2023 report found systemic discrimination The Metropolitan police are to face a new inquiry into whether they have radically changed after a devastating report found the force was riddled with prejudice and failing the public, the Guardian has learned. The “Casey 2” inquiry was supposed to have been launched earlier this year but has been delayed. It is a follow-up to the review by Louise Casey that in 2023 found the Met to be institutionally racist and misogynistic , and concluded that Britain’s largest police force could be broken up if it failed to change. Continue reading...
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Make all the individual elements ahead of time, then, on the day, as if by magic, you can conjure up this amazing tower of choux buns and smother it in boozy chocolate sauce Christmas is the perfect time for something a bit more extravagant and theatrical. And a very good way to achieve this is to bring a tower of puffy choux buns to the table and pour over a jugful of boozy chocolate sauce and coffee caramel while everyone looks on in awe. To help avoid any stress on the day, most of the elements can be made ahead: the chocolate sauce and caramel can be gently reheated before pouring, while the choux shells can be baked the day before and crisped up in the oven for 10 minutes before filling. Continue reading...
Saving up for a new console or controller? There are some surprisingly good gaming deals on offer for 2025 – we’ve rounded up our pick of the best • The best Black Friday deals on the products we love • How to shop smart this Black Friday Being a gaming fan has been expensive in 2025. Tariffs and other factors have seen price hikes from all of the big manufacturers – so you may be surprised to find that there are any Black Friday discounts at all. Whether you’re after a PS5, Xbox or even the newer Nintendo Switch 2, there’s been a number of price reductions across the board. Some deals have already been and gone, but there’s still a chance to get a discount no matter which console you are after this Christmas – and we’ve rounded up our favourites on consoles, controllers and other accessories below. Continue reading...
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