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An AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0 | Gene Marks

By Gene Marks

Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverable Some experts are warning of a looming “debt bomb” crisis because big datacenter builders such as Meta, Oracle, xAI and CoreWeave are not only raising billions to construct these facilities but are also not recognizing these long-term debt obligations on their balance sheets. Should we be conce

‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself

By Patrick Barkham

Farmer Derek Sayer let a boggy field run wild and just one annual hay-cut has led to remarkable biodiversity Tucked away on a country lane, a small field bursts with yellow and pink flowers. Quail and whitethroats call from the thick hedges and the plants, including common centaury, yellow rattle and marsh and common spotted orchids, bounce with hoverflies and butterflies. More than 150 plant species have been record

Burnham stays away from No 10 North wedding after bride’s plea

By Harry Taylor

PM sends video message to newlyweds instead after bride Sarah Burwin asked him not to ‘ruin’ vibe at Heron House Andy Burnham fulfilled a bride’s wishes by not turning up for her wedding after she asked him not to spoil her big day as she got married at the building housing No 10 North. Sarah Burwin had pleaded on TikTok in July for Burnham not to work from the building in Manchester that day, which hosts the governm

Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer

By Erica Jeal

Royal Albert Hall, London A suite of reconstructed dance pieces from 1918 by Edmund Thornton Jenkins made a moving start to Chineke!’s Prom, where soprano Angel Blue sang Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville and Dvořák’s Symphony No 8 made a breathless finale Slowly but surely, our perceptions of what a composer looked like in the early 20th century are widening. Chineke! ’s ongoing mission to unearth music by forgotten Blac

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Arrest warrant issued for wife of Massachusetts officer found dead at home

By Associated Press and Guardian staff

Woman remains missing more than five days after police found officer she was married to dead in their home An arrest warrant has been issued for a mental health advocate who remained missing on Sunday, more than five days after police found the Massachusetts officer she had been married to dead in their home. Karen Solomon, 58, was last spotted in a doorbell camera video, walking down a street in a T-shirt, shorts an

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West Brom surge back to floor Flemming-less Burnley amid transfer speculation

By PA Media

West Brom’s head coach, James Morrison, insisted his side must “stay humble” after Isaac Price inspired them to a 3-1 comeback win against promotion favourites Burnley in the Championship at the Hawthorns. The Northern Ireland international scored twice in the second half after setting up Harry Whitwell’s equaliser to cancel out Callum Styles’s early own goal. “I felt it was a top performance. I enjoyed it at times f

Readers reply: Is it inevitable that consumerism will literally fill up the planet?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers whether there is sufficient global physical capacity for all our discarded and worn-out purchases • This week’s question: If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly? If consumer capitalism continues at its current rate, will we reach a point at which there is literally no space left on Earth

The PM is promising to fix our everyday annoyances – and I have a list to get him started | Emma Beddington

By Emma Beddington

Andy Burnham hopes we’ll forget the big stuff if he sorts out our minor frustrations and low-level gripes. Pothole politics hasn’t won me over yet, but I know some changes that could This is a vulnerable confession, but I spend way too much time on the social media of the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Whether he is seemingly effortlessly speaking Mandarin, hanging out with kids or charmingly accepting that he

Aardman’​s Peter Lord and David Sproxton: ‘At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!’

By Harriet Gibsone

The ​s​tudio’s co-founders on ​accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other’s best ally Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations, which turns 50 this year. The pair began animating as teenagers, selling their first short – starring a superhero called Aardman – to the BBC’s Vision On in 1972. In 1977, they created Morph for the children’s programme T

Cheerleaders and a tennis-playing robot: photos of the weekend

By Arnel Hecimovic

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

How to make the perfect zaru soba, or cold soba noodles – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

By Felicity Cloake

Hot days call for cool dinners, and these are Japan’s nutty, salty and sweet solution. Fiery or pickled accompaniments optional Although every culture craves something different in hot weather – chilled beetroot soup in Lithuania, cooling buttermilk drinks in India, gazpacho in Spain – what many of these dishes have in common is a certain soothing silkiness as they slide down the throat, plus a decent helping of salt

Double jeopardy? Luigi Mangione state case unlikely to proceed, experts say

By Victoria Bekiempis in New York

Defense files motion to dismiss state case after federal guilty plea but prosecutors say they are prepared to litigate After Luigi Mangione admitted in Manhattan federal court that he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, most experts believe that the state murder case against is highly unlikely to proceed – though some still see a slim possibility that it may yet happen. Mangione, who pleaded guilty on 14 Augu

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I tested the viral Shark CryoGlow LED face mask 100 times – it’s not right for everyone

By Sarah Matthews

Brilliant for managing breakouts and refreshing puffy eyes, but after months of treatments, is Shark’s light therapy device the one our writer would buy now? • The best LED face masks Of all the LED masks I’ve tested, the Shark CryoGlow feels like the most heavily marketed. Touted as a one-stop shop for anti-ageing, blemish-busting and undereye cooling, it’s trickled its way into countless influencer morning routines

Holding election in wartime would risk destroying Ukraine, says Zelenskyy

By Dan Sabbagh in Dnipro

President sharply criticises proposal, saying ‘elections right now are a tsunami for the state that will split Ukraine’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said holding elections in Ukraine during wartime would risk splitting the country at a time when Russia is amassing ballistic missiles and considering whether to mobilise an extra 300,000 soldiers. The Ukrainian president, responding for the first time to a demand made by the

Burnham to face pressure at Labour conference to recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide

By Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Grassroots groups to urge PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on Israel Grassroots Labour groups are gearing up for a conference showdown with Andy Burnham over Gaza, as the party’s members seek to force the prime minister to recognise Israel’s actions as a genocide and impose a full arms embargo. Momentum, Labour & Palestine, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and Palestine Solidarity C

Stores are selling Halloween stuff in August. Time has lost all meaning | Dave Schilling

By Dave Schilling

Capitalism and the climate crisis are conspiring to destroy the concept of seasons. I’ll take solace in my pumpkin spice Happy spooky season, everyone! Get those jack-o’-lanterns out, because Halloween is just around the corner! Just kidding, no, it’s not. Continue reading...

This Black August, Americans will study, meditate, fast, exercise – and read – for Black liberation

By Adria R Walker

Organizations across the country traditionally use the month as a means of activation for local communities In the 1960s and 1970s, California was brimming with radical energy and potential, which also meant it was brimming with extreme backlash. The Black Panthers, a revolutionary Black political activist organization founded in response to police brutality, were organizing members at the same time Ronald Reagan, th

Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide

By Ajit Niranjan with graphics by Lucy Swan, Harvey Symons and Paul Scruton

An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde inferno The ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever recorded, forced more people from their homes than at any point since the second world war and caused what scientists suspect is the country’s first firestorm thundercloud

Walking the Peak District, I discovered a wonderful rejection of the right’s monotone vision of England | John Harris

By John Harris

The landscape was striking, but so was the diversity of the hikers. We can make this the new normal – and we should A fortnight or so ago, my two teenage kids and I set out on a three-night visit to the Peak District where temperatures were hovering at a comparatively tepid 28C. We stayed at a youth hostel – more of which in a moment – and began the trip with the 20-minute ascent of Mam Tor, a modest peak that pulls

‘I was scared I was going mad’: Meg Mason speaks to fellow authors about the parasocial relationships that begin on the page

By Meg Mason

As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline - and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writer In the summer before university, my mother gave me a copy of The Pursuit of Love. We’d moved countries at the beginning of my A-levels and those months in between had been defined by a level of loneliness I h

Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life

By Dalya Alberge

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’ Unprecedented insights into the literary and intellectual life on the island of Guernsey during the middle ages have been revealed through the discovery of 17 medieval manuscript fragments. Dating from between the 12th and 15th centuries, they offer evidence of wide-ranging reading tastes, with everything from an ex

Dining across the divide: ‘I thought he was going to be quite “stop the boats, bring up the drawbridge”’

By Zoe Williams

A Green party member and a Labour-voting Brexiter didn’t agree on the EU, but what about renewable energy and the NHS? • Want to meet someone from across the divide? Click here to find out how Joe, 41, Trafford, Greater Manchester Occupation Press officer at a university Continue reading...

When my husband died in a surfing accident, life as I knew it was destroyed. Ten years on, this is what I’ve learned about grief

By Hannah Richell

One crashing wave on one single day changed everything for our family. How would I keep going? Before they enter the water, surfers will study the ocean. They consider wind and tide conditions. They analyse currents and patterns, break points and swells. They try to read the waves. I have travelled across oceans and a day to sit here on Tamarama beach in Sydney on a high-tide weekday morning in 2024. A notebook and p

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Jumpy bond markets make it clear: Trump risks driving US into debt crisis | Heather Stewart

By Heather Stewart

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm bond markets is a sign of weakness not strength “Look, there’s nothing magic about that $40tn number,” the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, told CNBC insouciantly last week, as the country’s debt mountain surpassed another bleak record. Yet Bessent’s decision to intervene in government bond markets in an effort to combat soaring yields belied his studied calm in

Ebola day 100: why this outbreak could become the deadliest in history – video explainer

By Kat Lay, Laure Boulinier, Kaamil Ahmed and Sarah Bertram

More than 2,000 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the first case of this epidemic was recorded in May. The Guardian's global health correspondent, Kat Lay, spoke to CDC Africa's Yap Boum II to understand why health teams on the ground are struggling and what is being put in place to try to contain the spread Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo now deadliest in co

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