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What we know about the Titan sub’s likely implosion

Families of the five people on board the Titan sub have expressed “profound grief” after the US Coast Guard confirmed the crew died following a “catastrophic implosion”.

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The Week Unwrapped: EU vs. Apple, lab-made embryos and power naps

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Rory Reid, Rebekah Evans and Suchandrika Chakrabarti.

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Glenda Jackson obituary: Oscar winner who spent 23 years as a Labour MP

Fearless, sharply intelligent and sometimes caustic, Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, “had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries”, said Michael Billington in The Guardian. From 1957, she enjoyed huge success on film (she won two Oscars) and on stage; then, in 1992, she gave it all…

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Biden’s dilemma: should he pardon Trump?

“To everything there is a season – a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow. And a time to heal. This is the time to heal in America.” So declared President Biden in his 2020 victory speech, said Marc A. Thiessen and Danielle Pletka in The…

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Rishi Sunak’s gambit: the bid to make Britain the world’s AI referee

During Rishi Sunak’s recent visit to Washington, he announced the UK would host “the first global summit” on artificial-intelligence regulation later this year, said Astha Rajvanshi in Time.

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Capturing The Moment review: a painting and photography journey

There is “a lot going on” in Tate Modern’s new exhibition, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Subtitled “A journey through painting and photography”, the show is a huge and ambitious attempt to explore the relationship between painting and photography from the early 20th century to the present day, examining…

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Archaeologist survived on ‘rhino urine’ tea

The late archaeologist Mary Leakey and her husband once drank puddles of rhinoceros urine during a dig in Tanzania, according to a new book. “They filtered it through charcoal, boiled it and drank it as a tea with lemon,” wrote Michael Scott. “But they could still taste rhino.” On another…

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Will interest rates come down again?

The Bank of England has increased its base interest rate from 4.5% to 5% in a bid to tame inflation. It is the 13th hike in row and the highest the rate has been for 15 years.

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Meghan and Harry: the end of their $20m Spotify deal

“When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their $20m, multi-year deal with Spotify in 2020, it was hailed as the centrepiece of the couple’s growing business empire,” said Nadia Khomami in The Guardian.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: conspiracy theorist and Democrat challenger

The nephew of assassinated US president John F. Kennedy appears to be gaining ground on Joe Biden after entering the crowded race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024.

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The green arms race explained

The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which came into effect last August, is sending shockwaves through not just the green technology industry, but through the entire global economic order.

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Cormac McCarthy obituary: a novelist of the ‘apocalyptic sublime’

The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country…

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How to cut your airport parking costs

Airport parking costs have soared, adding even more expense for holidaymakers jetting off for a well deserved break.

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Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan: ‘no such thing as a free lunch’

Edinburgh was “a brave choice as the venue for the launch of Keir Starmer’s new energy and climate policy”, said Fiona Harvey and Severin Carrell in The Guardian. It “showed a willingness to face head-on Labour’s energy dilemma”: how to move the UK to a low carbon footing, without destroying…

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Best Interests review: ‘heart-shattering’ drama on BBC One

“It was with a huge sense of trepidation” that I tuned into BBC One’s new four-part drama “Best Interests”, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. Written by Jack Thorne, it tells the harrowing story of a couple who must decide whether doctors should keep treating their desperately unwell daughter.

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42nd Street review: new production has ‘energy and pizzazz’

In 2021, the success of “Anything Goes” at the Barbican proved that there remains a strong appetite for “classic tune and toe shows”, said Fiona Mountford in The i Paper. And this new production of “42nd Street” – a musical that was first staged in 1980, but which is based…

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New world record set for solving a Rubik’s Cube

A 21-year-old from California has broken the world record for fastest time solving a Rubik’s Cube. Max Park, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism as a toddler, pulled off the feat in just 3.134 seconds, at an event in the US. Like all “speedcubers”, he’d been allowed to…

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Top chef tells vegans to ‘f*** off’

A chef has come up with a novel response for vegan diners hoping to eat in his restaurant. John Mountain, 55, a chef originally from Preston, who now runs Fyre restaurant in Perth, western Australia, has a “simple message” for anyone seeking a vegan meal, said The Times. “F*** off,” he told…

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Is Hunter Biden’s plea deal a gift to Republicans?

The US president’s son will plead guilty to tax charges and admit to illegally possessing a gun, after reaching a plea deal with the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Rebuilding Ukraine: why reconstruction can’t wait until after the war

Rishi Sunak is trying to secure a multibillion-pound package of financial support to help rebuild Ukraine at an international conference taking place in London today.

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Six good news stories about AI

The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes is sparking doomsday predictions ranging from mass lay-offs to the end of humankind.

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How to plug the pension gap by buying National Insurance credits

Older people have been given more time to fill gaps in their National Insurance (NI) record so they can maximise their state pension payouts, but it may not be worth it for everyone.

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The cat self-identity row gripping an East Sussex school

A heated discussion over the issue of self-identity, between pupils and a teacher at a school in East Sussex, has reignited the debate over how the topic is treated in schools.

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‘Pinnacle of gastronomy’: Lima’s Central is world’s best restaurant in 2023

After coming second place last year, Central restaurant in Peru’s capital city Lima has gone one step further by taking the No.1 spot on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023 list.

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‘Time is against us’: tapping heard in Titanic sub search

A military aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible heard “banging” noises from the last known location of the divers.

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