Recent articles from publications based in United Kingdom.
UK battered in global bond rout as borrowing costs hit 28-year high
Mail Onlineby Angharad Carrick·14d ago
Britain's 30-year government bond yields hit 6 per cent for the first time since early 1998, piling further pressure on the Chancellor ahead of the Budget.
Meppen-Walter's family pay tribute to 'truly special soul'
Mail Onlineby David Kent·14d ago
The family of tragic footballer Courtney Meppen-Walter have paid tribute to a 'truly special soul' following his death aged 32.
Major energy firm to take over OVO to create 'UK's largest electricity provider'
Daily Express :by Holly Williams,Chris Samuel·14d ago
A major energy firm has been given the green light by Britain’s competition watchdog to acquire OVO Energy in a move paving the way for the deal to create the UK’s largest electricity supplier.
Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
World news | The Guardianby Kalyeena Makortoff·14d ago
The private equity owner of high street pharmacy Boots is reportedly closing in on a deal to sell the business to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family for $9bn (£7bn).
Would I want my child to study for a social media influencer degree? No, but it’s the way of the world
The Guardianby Emma Brockes·14d ago
Sometimes you read a story in the news that seems designed to wind up as many people as possible. This week, that story involves a degree in content creation from Nottingham Trent University.
US soccer’s youth system is expensive, chaotic and overdue for reform
Football | The Guardianby Beau Dure·14d ago
A few years ago, the idea that the US soccer community at large was neglecting youth soccer was met with silence or ridicule.
Group encouraging people to join Green party to back ‘Zionism is racism’ agenda
World news | The Guardianby Peter Walker Senior political correspondent·14d ago
An organisation pushing the Green party to equate Zionism with racism has encouraged people to join the party specifically to support that agenda, and has links to activists who say that pro-Israel...
UK bookmakers that warned over illicit market had deal with offshore casinos
World news | The Guardianby Rob Davies·14d ago
Three UK bookmakers that have repeatedly warned of the dangers of the illicit market have also benefited from a lucrative deal with one of the world’s largest offshore casinos, the Guardian can...
‘Is there still a glass ceiling? Of course’: Kazim-Richards fights for breakthrough at Crawley
Football | The Guardianby Tusdiq Din·14d ago
Colin Kazim-Richards accepts the enormity of the task of improving the situation at Crawley Town, who sit bottom of League Two after seven games.
‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations
The Guardianby Veronica Esposito·14d ago
With nearly 2 million people behind bars, America is the global leader in incarceration. When you look at it per capita, we have the highest rate of incarceration of any independent democracy and...
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
The Guardianby Elle Hunt·14d ago
As a PhD student at Oxford studying mating behaviour, Judy Wearing was suddenly struck by a thought: what was the purpose of pubic hair? The point of armpit hair?
‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump
World news | The Guardianby Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Caracas and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro·14d ago
He was one of the most passionate propagandists for Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian revolution: a feisty leftist TV personality who spent more than two decades singing the movement’s praises on his...
‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
The Guardianby Kaamil Ahmed, Yassin Abdumonab, Anna Leach, Prina Shah and Pablo Gutiérrez·14d ago
There are at least 10 camps like the one on the paddy fields at Hnget Thay, built after the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) took control of most of northern Rakhine state in 2024.
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The Guardianby Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender·14d ago
Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle...
Beansprouts, nonya paste and kefir – whose fridge is this?
The Guardianby Helen Goh as told to Anna Berrill·14d ago
Curry leaves I used to freeze fresh curry leaves, but then [the chef] Romy Gill said you lose all the aroma when you do this. So now I fry them and you get curry leaf oil, which keeps them fresh.
Nasa heads to Scottish Highlands in its search for life on Mars
BBC Newsby Steven McKenzie·14d ago
- Published Nasa scientists are studying rocks in the Scottish Highlands to help them understand if there was once life on Mars.
Andy Burnham slammed for 'tone deaf' Man City statement
Mail Onlineby Tamara Prenn·14d ago
Andy Burnham's claim that he would be 'really concerned' if Manchester City's owners were to sell the club after it was found guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League's financial...
House price growth halves in September as mortgage rates rise
Mail Onlineby Ed Magnus·14d ago
House price growth fell in September, according to the latest figures from Nationwide Building Society.
Hero who pulled jet out of plunge learned how to fly from documentary
Mail Onlineby Natalie Lisbona; Eliana Silver·14d ago
An Israeli grandfather who heroically took control of the plunging flydubai flight on Wednesday has revealed he learned to fly from watching plane documentaries.
Labour's 'shameful' prison early release scheme kicks off
Mail Onlineby Rory Tingle; David Barrett·14d ago
Gleeful prisoners thanked Andy Burnham today as they became the first of thousands of criminals to be set free under his 'shameful' early release scheme.
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