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Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away | Emma Brockes

By Emma Brockes

It’s simple, says the SpaceX boss – according to something called the ‘Kardashev scale’, we just have to move energy production ‘off-planet’ Next time the weather gives the UK 61 days without rain and we wonder idly if this is the end, there is a term we may whistle up to soothe us. Like murmuring the rosary, or putting our fingers in our ears and humming, this phrase is to be mumbled on repeat – “the Kardashev scale

Ref, I barely brushed him! The artist who’s painted all of Roy Keane’s red cards

By Larry Ryan

Before he was an irascible TV pundit, the Irish midfielder was equally feared on the pitch. Irish painter Seánie Harte has documented all the times Keane was sent off playing for Manchester United. ‘It’s a bit of fun,’ he says Across his career in the 1990s and early 2000s, Roy Keane, the Ireland and Manchester United footballer, was a widely decorated midfielder with a relentless will to win. He also had his share o

You be the judge: should my partner stop hogging my side of the bed?

By Interviews by Georgina Lawton

Pádraig has a favourite side, whereas Dave likes to sleep farthest from the door. Help us put this argument to bed • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror I sleep better on the left side of the bed. I shouldn’t have to swap just because we’ve moved to a new flat Continue reading...

Rising UK consumer confidence gives Andy Burnham ‘golden opportunity’, survey says – business live

By Julia Kollewe

BRC says confidence in economy hits highest level since the lows reached at start of Iran war In Germany, factory gate inflation hit a three-year high in July, adding to signs of fresh inflationary pressures in Europe’s largest economy. Prices charged by manufacturers for their goods, ranging from food to cars and tools, climbed 3% year on year last month following June’s 1.8% rise, Germany’s statistics office said.

Key moments in Prince Harry and Meghan's six years in US

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Erin Patterson’s mushroom murders sentence too lenient and she should die behind bars, prosecutors argue

By Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Crown prosecutor tells Victorian court that all seven of Patterson’s grounds for appeal should fail while arguing for tougher sentence Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Triple murderer Erin Patterson should have been given no possibility of ever being released from prison, or a non-parole period so lengthy that she was likely to die behind bars, Victoria’s highest court has heard. Patterson,

Councils turn to AI in attempt to fill £4bn black hole, BBC investigation reveals

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Councils across the UK are making cuts of £3bn this financial year, despite recent funding reforms.

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Central African Republic artisanal gold mine collapses, killing more than 100

By Eromo Egbejule in Cotonou, news agencies

Landslide happened in the village of Zamboye, near the border with Cameroon

Prosecutors demand life in prison for mushroom killer

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Australian prosecutors have asked judges to stiffen mushroom murderer Erin Patterson's prison sentence - saying she should never be set free.

US national debt has hit a record $40 trillion

By Myles McCormick, Kate Duguid

Borrowing rises at a historic pace despite Trump pledge to control spending

Liechtenstein changes its heir ways after 400 years

By Derek Scally

Principality six times smaller than Dublin has been a slower mover on women’s rights

‘The only way is up’: cycling Norway’s mountainous ‘Milky Way’

By Ailsa Sheldon

The Mjølkevegen was once used to bring milk from high pastures to the towns below. Now cyclists are discovering the road’s breathtaking panoramas of peaks and lakes, dotted with cosy inns ‘Norway is a hilly country,” shrugs Glenn Roar Berge. He’s not wrong, though he is fond of an understatement. I’m in Valdres in southern Norway to explore the cycle routes that skirt the edges of Jotunheimen national park. Glenn fro

Blizzards, nuclear anxiety and a fragile bond: two sisters in Japan – in pictures

By Guardian Staff

Sayuri Ichida and her sister used to be distant – until their mother died. This exhibition traces their close relationship through sun, wind and snow Continue reading...

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Farage using Christianity ‘to stir anti-Muslim feeling’, says Rowan Williams

By Caroline Davies

Former archbishop of Canterbury also has ‘awkward questions’ for activist Tommy Robinson on his claimed faith A former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of misusing the UK’s Christianity “to channel anti-Muslim feeling” and said he also had “some awkward questions” for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Dr Rowan Williams, who was the archbishop of Canterbury for 10 years until 2012, said there was

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Capture the Dark 2026: Winning photographs

By Guardian Staff

A selection of winning images from DarkSky International’s 2026 Capture the Dark photography contest. It is the sixth edition of the annual night-time photography competition, which drew 2,288 submissions from 30 countries Continue reading...

How I’ve Tried to Change the World by Alexei Sayle review – does protest make a difference?

By Andy Beckett

The comedian charts his life in demos from 1960s Liverpool to 2020s London in this fiery and addictive book At 74, the comedian Alexei Sayle is approaching a dangerous phase for veteran British leftists: becoming a national treasure. Once described by special branch, in a surveillance file gleefully quoted in this memoir, as an “intellectual thug” who made “foul-mouthed comments about the royal family”, Sayle now app

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Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood

By Logan Scherer

A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been considered a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to confront the only f

Working in Keir Starmer’s No 10 ‘unbearable’, says Sue Gray

By Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Former chief of staff tells of fears her conversations were being recorded and leaked to media by colleagues Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff has lifted the lid on how “unbearable” it was working in No 10, revealing she feared her conversations were being recorded by colleagues seeking to leak her remarks to the media. Sue Gray, who was the most powerful adviser in Downing Street before her resignation in 2024, w

Short on land, long on vision: Dutch lead the way on food production

By John Gibbons

Ireland could learn much from a nursery and research institute in the Netherlands

Oil advances as Trump takes aim at Iran’s economy

By Rong Wei Neo and Nicholas Lua

‘Economic warfare’ intended to crush Iran’s economy

Results point to tricky waters for ICG and property experts debate the big issues

By Dominic Coyle

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

What is Moderna’s new cancer vaccine and how big a breakthrough is it?

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Cancer vaccine approach may change how the disease is treated more broadly, experts say

Three boys to represent UK at Pokemon World Champs

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The boys are travelling to San Francisco to compete against the top players in the world.

Do not give up says apprentice who got zero GCSEs

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Olivia Mackay, from Wolverhampton, says she is now working towards her dream career.

TV tonight: David Mitchell’s crime-solving Ludwig returns

By Phil Harrison, Hollie Richardson, Priya Elan,Jack Sealeand Simon Wardell

The popular cosy-crime drama is back – with a couple of changes. Plus: some late-starters get into the dating game. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC One Continue reading...