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National federations accept decision pause Israel ban Maccabi Tel Aviv due to face Dinamo Zagreb on Thursday Uefa has paused plans to ban Israel from European football after the announcement of Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for the region. Expectation had been growing of a decisive intervention by Uefa this week , amid growing pressure within football and from outside groups, including the United Nations. But Trump’s announcement of his plan in a joint press conference with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday put any measures on hold. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/GQbn4N1

Oregon has filed suit to block Trump’s move, warning there was no ‘legal justification’ and it will escalate tensions Portland is bracing for the deployment of 200 national guard troops as Donald Trump moves ahead with plans to bring the US military into another Democratic-run city. Oregon filed a lawsuit to block the deployment, which the state has warned will escalate tensions and lead to unrest when there is “no need or legal justification” to bring federal troops into Portland. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/S4l2tT3

Arsenal were rattled against Newcastle but overcame pressure and may yet prove they have edge of champions No side, perhaps, are quite so aware of how much each point matters as Arsenal. It’s only September: to speak of key moments in the title race at this stage feels exaggerated, even anachronistic. But there’s no denying this was a huge win for Mikel Arteta’s side if only because, had they not won, it would have felt like a huge opportunity missed – and Arsenal in recent seasons have become a side who have not taken their chances. That they began the weekend five points behind Liverpool was more to do with the fixture list than any great shortcoming on their part; losing away to the champions and drawing at home against Manchester City , even if there were reservations about the nature of the performances, are not in themselves terrible results. Nor could anybody have been too critical if they’d dropped points at Newcastle, particularly given their recent record at St James’ Park...

Ty Cobb, who managed Trump’s Mueller investigation response, said president is trying to ‘rewrite history’ The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the president’s political opponents. Ty Cobb, who defended Trump’s first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/IqSTuAl

The Zimbabwean writer – who has been twice nominated for the Booker – won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, with her story Hitting Budapest Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won the Best of Caine award, an honorary prize celebrating a story from past winners of the Caine Prize for African Writing, to mark its 25th anniversary. The prize was given for a short story praised by judges for its “powerful language, distinctive tone of voice, and bold, compelling storytelling”. Hitting Budapest , which won the 2011 Caine prize, follows a group of six children who sneak from their shantytown, Paradise, into an affluent neighbourhood, Budapest, to steal guavas. First published in the Boston Review, it examines poverty, social and economic inequalities, and the dreams of children. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/KZR7kgU

Sunderland continued their dream start back in the Premier League as Omar Alderete’s first-half goal elevated them into the Champions League places but for Nottingham Forest, for whom qualifying for Europe was not enough for Nuno Espírito Santo to keep his job beyond the season’s first international break, the wait for Ange Postecoglou’s first win in charge at the City Ground stretches to five games. Postecoglou took an understandably low-key approach to entering the City Ground dugout for the first time as Forest manager before the game, but it was the Sunderland fans who were celebrating come full-time after Alderete, their Paraguayan defender signed for £10m from Getafe in the summer, headed in the winning strike. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/NtivQDk

Rochelle Clark, Maggie Alphonsi and Catherine Spencer on seeing the game they love go supernova from the sidelines If you want to know how it feels to lose a World Cup final there are few better to consult than Rochelle Clark. She has been involved in four of them and England’s second most-capped player – male or female – has experienced defeat three times. The first, in 2006, was a particularly bitter pill. “It feels as if you’ve had your heart ripped out. It’s absolutely horrific. You don’t know pain like it.” So when “Rocky” did finally win one in 2014 , at her third attempt, it surpassed anything she had ever previously experienced. “For me it was the best day of my life and something I’ll always cherish,” she says. “Even talking about it now I’m smiling. I can still close my eyes and remember lifting up the trophy and the little gold ticker tape flying everywhere. It was magnificent.” Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/AtIjqFu

Announcement leaves Nexstar as the only TV station owner still preempting the late-night talkshow Local TV conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group said its ABC-affiliate stations will start airing Jimmy Kimmy Live! again on Friday night, ending its preempting of the show. Sinclair, along with fellow station owner Nexstar Media Group, continued to preempt Kimmel’s late-night talkshow even after ABC had put Kimmel back on air . Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/K2DSzlp

The head coach, Peter Moores, and the captain, Haseeb Hameed, both long-since rejected by England, inspired team to first pennant since 2010 Nottinghamshire, who only just darted away from the closing doors of relegation last summer, are the surprise winners of the 2025 County Championship, ending Surrey’s run of wins from 2022 to 2024 and collecting their first title since 2010. It came with a big beautiful six from Kyle Verreynne, which arced over the midwicket boundary and took Notts past the magic 300-run mark, gave them a second batting bonus point and made them uncatchable. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/t1q7JYk

Beloved specimen triumphs in Woodland Trust contest over ‘King of Limbs’ oak in Wiltshire A much-loved ash tree in the heart of Glasgow has won the annual tree of the year competition organised by the Woodland Trust. While many trees that have featured in the competition are located in the remote British countryside, the Argyle Street ash is on one of the city’s busiest roads. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/df8WY63

The actor carries this modest relationship drama from a Black Mirror alum that takes us to familiar ‘what if?’ territory At last year’s Toronto film festival, British romance All of You premiered at a time when we were starting to feel a little fatigued with films like it. The drama was one of the many Black Mirror-adjacent dystopias of that time, shown at the same festival as The Assessment (what if the right to have children was decided by someone else) and Daniela Forever (what if a lucid dream trial could reunite you with a dead partner). The year before had seen The Pod Generation (what if babies could be grown in artificial wombs), Foe (what if a body double could take your place) and Fingernails (what if true love had to be scientifically proven) and given the mostly subpar quality of them, we had started to dream of our own radical future, a land where these copycats ceased to exist. After a lowkey festival debut, overshadowed by splashier fare, the film was picked up by ...

Six others were injured after drone explosions in Cité Soleil, where an alleged gang leader was distributing gifts At least eight children were killed and six others seriously injured in a drone attack on a birthday party in Haiti ’s capital where an alleged gang leader was distributing gifts, according to relatives and activists. The explosions happened on Saturday night in Cité Soleil, which is controlled by Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition which the US has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/COvVAIp

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running Chris Power: ‘As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them’ No debuts appear on this year’s Booker prize shortlist, which is dominated by established authors including previous winner Kiran Desai and previously shortlisted writers David Szalay and Andrew Miller. Ben Markovits, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are also on the list, which was announced at an event at the Southbank Centre in central London on Tuesday evening. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/x9f3zg8

North London’s boardroom reshuffles should mean a more collaborative approach at meetings, for now at least The high-profile billionaires and their little-known legal and administrative employees who govern the Premier League can look forward to a quieter meeting than usual when they gather in Covent Garden for their first shareholders’ summit of the season on Tuesday. If Daniel Levy’s absence after 25 years will feel strange to many longstanding attenders, it is the disappearance of Arsenal’s executive vice-chair Tim Lewis that will be most noticeable. “Tim used to bang the table so much that it needed reinforcing,” says one executive at another top-flight club. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/rg08HXB

Slot: stoppage time in derby was ‘completely correct’ Anfield tribute to Matt Beard before Carabao Cup tie Arne Slot has dismissed Everton’s criticism of the amount of stoppage time in the Merseyside derby on Saturday, insisting three minutes was correct and Liverpool do not waste time – unlike many of their opponents. David Moyes and Jack Grealish expressed frustration with the referee Darren England’s display during Liverpool’s 2-1 win at Anfield , with the Everton manager saying it was “very strange” that only three minutes were added to the second half. Grealish was booked after the final whistle for protesting against England’s decision to book Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall for taking a quick free-kick and also claimed Liverpool were trying to slow the game down when under pressure in the second half. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/mEXGj8n

Dozens of police officers injured as anger erupts over billions allegedly spent on bogus relief projects Tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets on Sunday to protest against government corruption after it was alleged that taxpayers have lost billions of dollars to bogus flood relief projects. Students, church groups, celebrities, and citizens from different political camps filled the streets in Manila and other cities. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/vEnTNrU

Group of students from Gaza with places at British universities are due to arrive in the UK within days David Lammy has hinted that the UK government could U-turn to allow Palestinian scholars to bring their children to the UK. A group of 34 Palestinian students, including Chevening scholars, with places at British universities have been given permission to continue their studies in Britain. But nearly all have been told by the Foreign Office that they are not allowed to bring their children with them. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ZPmjvVH

Defending champion level on points with American Rare moment of joy for GB athletes amid relay failure Even after two energy-sapping days, seven thrilling events, and one almighty final heave, Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson sat slumped on the National Stadium track not knowing whether she had won a world championship heptathlon bronze. As she looked at the giant scoreboard and waited, the American Anna Hall’s name came up first. Gold with 6,988 points. Then Ireland’s Kate O’Connor, with a national record of 6,714pts for silver. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/SGiWgqy

Lawyers argue authorities prejudiced the case against Mangione by turning arrest into a ‘Marvel movie’ spectacle Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced the case against him by turning his arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by publicly declaring their desire to see him executed. Fresh from a legal victory that eliminated terrorism charges in Mangione’s state murder case, his lawyers are now fighting to have his federal case dismissed, seizing on US attorney general Pam Bondi’s declaration prior to his April indictment that capital punishment is warranted for a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America”. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/1ID0GJ4

American takes world 200m title in 19.52sec ‘I can’t wait to be the only man to win five 200m titles’ First Noah Lyles equalled Usain Bolt’s record of four straight 200m gold medals at a World Athletics Championships. Then he promised the greatest sprinter that has ever lived that he would surpass him in two years’ time. “I can’t wait for 2027 to become the only man to win five 200m titles,” said Lyles, who powered home in the second half of the race to win in 19.52sec, with his American compatriot Kenny Bednarek claiming silver in 19.58. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/J46UnFv

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Overcoming my terror of new housemates was gradual but by observing them I learned that pythons can be beautiful and clever Fifteen years ago, while perched on the back deck of my 1920s tin and timber Queenslander home in Brisbane, I realised I was being watched. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and I spun around to discover a snake dangling from the lattice. Terrified, I rushed inside and locked the door. Clearly, fear is not rational, or I would have understood that serpents don’t have arms. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/S3XziMc

PM cannot afford for US president to walk away from Ukraine crisis and must persuade him to publicly support specific Gaza plans With bear traps avoided and fireworks unlit, Keir Starmer will be delighted that his press conference with Donald Trump lent credence to his claim to be America’s first partner in defence, trade and now technology. Trump, for his part, got the “great pictures” he wanted and was on his best low-wattage behaviour. He said he did not disagree with his host about much, save Starmer’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state . And he teetered on the edge of being diplomatic, at least until he advised Starmer to use the military to stop small boats crossing the Channel. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/Mtpdlh1

Portrait of Dora Maar completed in Paris during war had been in private collection since being bought in 1944 Europe live – latest updates A newly discovered painting by Pablo Picasso of the French photographer and painter Dora Maar completed during the German occupation of Paris that has not been seen for 80 years, has been unveiled. The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), was finished towards the end of the couple’s turbulent nine-year relationship and shows Maar in a softer, more colourful light than Picasso’s previous portraits of his then lover. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3r8d1ts

Royal & Derngate, Northampton Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning When premiered in 1986, giving Derek Jacobi a key career role, Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code was instrumental in spreading knowledge of the precocious brilliance of mathematician Alan Turing, whose brutal treatment by a homophobic and ungrateful state contributed to his suicide in 1954 aged 41. Though drawing on Andrew Hodges’ 1983 biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma, Whitemore was ahead of several later plays and movies, including Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game (2014). So, for a long time, Whitemore and Jacobi’s portrayal of Turing formed his public image, which was inevitably tragic, given that he remained a convicted criminal for loving men and his theories had not yet been fully realised. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ZMpWaf1

Attorneys for the Grammy-winning musician say he is receiving in-patient treatment after pleading not guilty to charges Lil Nas X is in treatment, his attorneys said this week, following his arrest last month on multiple charges for allegedly charging at police officers who stopped him as he walked in his underwear down a Los Angeles street. The artist, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer during the August incident. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ALZGPmw

Revelation relating to then Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, a ‘matter of grave concern’ MI5 has conceded it “unlawfully” obtained the communications data of a former BBC journalist, in what was claimed to be an unprecedented admission from the security services. The BBC said it was a “matter of grave concern” that the agency had obtained communications data from the mobile phone of Vincent Kearney, a former BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/VOJrRhH

Ruben Amorim is not the biggest problem at Old Trafford, but it is becoming harder to deny he is one of the issues Perhaps the best that can be said of Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United is that you know exactly where you stand with them. It’s 10 months since he was appointed but he is yet to win back-to-back league games. Having beaten Burnley last time out, amid scenes of revealing euphoria, they were never going to win at Manchester City. Which must have been a relief for City, who had lost two of their first three games this season for the first time in 21 years. There was, for them, particularly after half-time, a pleasing sense of normality returning. Rodri, shaky early on, began to dominate as he used to before his knee injury, while there were fine performances from Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku and Phil Foden. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/kqyNO1E

Documents show intent to deploy 1,000 troops to conduct law enforcement operations in urban centers Donald Trump’s administration has drafted a proposal to deploy 1,000 Louisiana national guard troops to conduct law enforcement operations in the state’s urban centers, the Washington Post reported Saturday, citing military planning documents it had obtained. Trump has made crime a major focus of his administration even as violent crime rates have fallen in many US cities. His crackdown on Democratic-led municipalities has fueled legal concerns and spurred protests, including a recent demonstration by several thousand people in Washington DC. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/PKWRbFe

Fresh from taking the extraordinary step of calling for resignations at the top of their club, perhaps the next step for West Ham’s Fan Advisory Board is to issue a vote of no confidence in their team’s defence. There is no other way to put it: this was another shocker from Graham Potter’s dreadful side. They were humiliated again in a big London derby and while this result could be interpreted as Tottenham embracing their newfound pursuit of sporting success after their recent boardroom bloodletting, it is worth pointing out that there was no kinder way to start life without Daniel Levy than with a trip to the London Stadium. This unhappy ground had emptied out long before the end. The expressions were grim when the cameras picked out David Sullivan, West Ham’s largest shareholder, and Karren Brady, the vice-chair, in the directors’ box. They are presiding over an utter mess and it was hard to disagree with the assessment of the travelling Spurs fans, who spent most of the second hal...

Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in the world North Korea has executed people for distributing foreign television shows, including popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on personal freedoms, according to a UN human rights report. Surveillance has grown more pervasive since 2014 with the help of new technologies, while punishments have become harsher – including the introduction of the death penalty for offences such as sharing foreign TV dramas, the report said. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/L3jlEWZ

Top Senate Republican says Democrats see shutdown as ‘politically advantageous’ as 30 September deadline looms The US government is drawing nearer to a potential shutdown after Donald Trump told Republicans on Friday “don’t even bother dealing with” the Democrats , whose congressional leaders are refusing to support spending bills that do not include their healthcare priorities. Congress is up against an end-of-the-month deadline to approve legislation funding the federal government, otherwise many departments will stop work and employees will be told to stay home. While the Senate and House of Representatives have made some progress on passing the 12 appropriations bills that make up the budget, it seems certain that Congress will need to pass a short-term measure to keep the government open beyond 30 September. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/57ehwxL

Media conglomerate putting together majority cash offer for WBD backed by ultra-rich Ellison family, reports say Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing a takeover offer for Warner Bros Discovery, in a bid to pull together two of the largest US legacy media conglomerates and Hollywood movie studios. Less than a month after Skydance, a production firm run by David Ellison, son of the billionaire tech mogul Larry Ellison, closed its merger with Paramount , the firm is considering other blockbuster deals. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3eEL1z5

Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world South African prosecutors will reopen an inquest into the death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko , nearly 50 years after he died in police custody. Biko, the founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977 aged just 30 , after being beaten into a coma by police who had arrested him nearly a month earlier. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/FS9tRlc

Game on Sunday to be played at Johan Cruyff Stadium Club’s last match at old Camp Nou was in May 2023 Barcelona have announced that their opening home game of the season against Valencia will not be played at the Camp Nou – five days before it was due to take place. The club had been given permission to play their first three fixtures away from home in order to complete the first phase of construction work at their stadium, and that was followed by the international break. But they were still unable to fulfil the requirements needed to get the permits in time, leaving a public deadline unmet for the third time having originally set an opening date of November 2024. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/TQjOEPv

Toronto film festival: the Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film about three thinly written women involved in a Paris fashion week show The otherworldly beauty and consuming, tattoo-strewn look of Angelina Jolie hasn’t always allowed for a great deal of versatility as an actor, a difficult face to seamlessly slot into most stories. The star hasn’t seemed to be all that interested in acting for a while anyway (since 2012, she has physically appeared on screen just seven times) and has preferred to spend time behind the camera and focusing on both her family and her philanthropic pursuits. Her films as a director have been of both genuinely noble intention and minimal cinematic value (her last effort, Without Blood , premiered at last year’s Toronto film festival but still doesn’t have US distribution) and as she enters her 50s, it seems like she’s rediscovered her passion for acting again. The catastrophic box office for her ill-advised entry into the Marvel u...

Attaullah Baig, fired this year, said he had warned Mark Zuckerberg engineers had unaudited access to user data WhatsApp ’s former head of cybersecurity filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that parent company Meta disregarded internal flaws in the app’s digital defenses and exposed billions of its users. He says the company systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight, potentially violating a US government order that imposed a $5bn penalty on the company in 2020. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ds1m5ZY

The UK’s ambassador to Washington may believe the US president is merely a ‘risk taker’, but that doesn’t represent my point of view – and it probably doesn’t represent yours. That’s why we must make our voices heard Is it ever the right time to worry about what Peter Mandelson has just said? Given he is so famously allied with the darkness, and the government is beset by more urgent problems, everywhere, it feels as if Mandelson should cut us a break and just say inoffensive things, or ideally, nothing. Instead, the ambassador to the US made a speech on Sunday to the Ditchley Foundation . Of Donald Trump, he said: “The president may not follow the traditional rulebook or conventional practice, but he is a risk taker in a world where a ‘business as usual’ approach no longer works.” According to Mandelson, those of us arguing for a pivot away from the special relationship are guilty of “lazy thinking”. Some things are so depressing that they make themselves urgent, just by resting the...

Compressed timetable and worries about potentially toxic atmosphere narrows field to replace Angela Rayner A series of senior female Labour MPs have dropped out of contention to replace Angela Rayner as the party’s deputy leader, as a compressed timetable for nominations and worries about a potentially toxic atmosphere narrowed the field. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is expected to enter the race, where she would be seen as a de facto Downing Street choice, potentially putting her against Emily Thornberry, who would position herself as a voice for backbenchers. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/Zjc4sOo

World No 1 has proved she can control her emotions to become one of the most consistent big tournament players Aryna Sabalenka thought she had everything figured out. She believed she had done all the work necessary, harnessing successfully her once uncontrollable power into consistent excellence. After overcoming so many hurdles en route to becoming the best player in the world, she felt ready for anything. Sabalenka was convinced she could handle any challenge that came her way. It was not until her excruciating French Open final defeat against Coco Gauff that Sabalenka understood this was not true. As she struggled with her nerves under such significant pressure and punishing windy conditions, the 27-year-old was outplayed by a tireless, gutsier opponent in Gauff who broke her down by forcing her to work hard for every single point. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/gNH2jCm

Pool A: USA 60-0 Samoa Tafuna scores four tries as USA finish third in Pool A There was only one thing on the agenda in York on Saturday afternoon: points. The reality was always going to be that the United States would pick up a first win of the tournament and inflict a third straight defeat on Samoa. That was never really up for debate. But it was always going to be about how many points the Eagles could rack up to pile the pressure on Australia later in the day. Nobody really knew what would be enough. Some were saying 60, some were saying 70; others felt they might need as many as 80 to stand a chance. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/QC1B4dh

It’s hard to avoid the feeling that, after Brighton boldly took their chance, Mikel Arteta let one slip against Liverpool Last Sunday, Fabian Hürzeler made a quadruple substitution an hour into Brighton’s Premier League game against Manchester City . Brighton had been scratchy, had struggled to create and were a goal down, but the changes transformed the game and they won 2-1. Hürzeler explained he had been guided by “a feeling that comes from inside … In some moments my body says something to me. Not just in football but generally in life you need to have the courage to take the decisions you want to.” Hürzeler had spent most of his press conference trying to deflect or at least share out the praise. He talked of his players and how important their energy and belief had been, and he stressed that the substitutions had been a collective decision made with his coaching staff. Management these days is a world of data and analysis, of careful programming and meticulous plans. But ultima...

Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ZtxXpcb

Saturnine frontman blames ‘disagreeable and vexatious characters’ for decision to cut ties with band In a sullen episode befitting some of his more gloomy lyrics, Morrissey, lead singer of the Smiths, has abruptly shut down an email address he was promoting to sell his business interests in the band. The notoriously saturnine frontman blamed “disagreeable and vexatious characters” involved with the band for his sudden decision, and claimed he had endured decades of misery, in a post on Friday on his website morrisseycentral.com. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/M7JTx4i

August’s report gave signs of a cooling labor market with negative job numbers for the first time since 2020 – here’s what we learned A closely watched report on US jobs released Friday gave signs of a cooling labor market. The economy added just 22,000 new jobs in August, coming in below expectations, while the unemployment rate ticked slightly up to 4.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the beginning of the year, over 100,000 jobs were being added each month. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/WkBy0RD

Prime minister cautions Canadians as Ottawa moves to curb spending to balance near-record military expenditures Mark Carney has told Canadians to prepare for austerity measures and his finance minister warned of “tough choices” in the coming months, as the government attempts to balance near-record defence spending, cuts to government programs and a trade war with the United States. Carney, the former central banker and economist turned politician, has been meeting senior ministers before the fall budget, and hinted cuts were coming to the federal bureaucracy. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/0pyd2vi

Gift comes 8o years after Welsh guards first left replica uniform for Belgian statue to commemorate end of Nazi occupation When British forces commemorated the liberation of Brussels for the first time in 1945, they left a unique gift – a replica Welsh guards uniform for the Belgian city’s emblematic “peeing boy” statue, the Manneken Pis. Now 81 years after the Welsh guards freed Brussels from Nazi occupation, the gift has been renewed: the Manneken Pis has a new regimental uniform, including scarlet jacket embroidered with gold lace, gleaming white belt and authentic bearskin hat. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/HyDuRcn

President laments accident on railway that carries passengers up and down a hillside in Portuguese capital At least three people have been killed after Lisbon’s Gloria funicular railway derailed and crashed, leaving about 20 people hurt, authorities said. Three people are gravely injured. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/FgCOyom

Venice film festival Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media. In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall , and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV whi...

A murder investigation was launched Sunday after apparent homicide as authorities ask public for help Nevada sheriffs are asking the public’s help in identifying a man killed on Saturday in an apparent homicide at the Burning Man festival. In a statement on Monday, Pershing county sheriff Jerry Allen asked for assistance to identify the man, who was found dead in the futurist encampment of Black Rock City as the festival reaching its climax when an effigy – the eponymous burning man – was set alight. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/I7zybHG