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Weatherwatch: Chinese farmers hope for rain at time of ‘small fullness’
In May, farmers in China look for heavy downpours to fill the rice paddies so that they stay wet throughout summerThe Ch...
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US charges Google employee with insider trading bets on Polymarket
The Justice Department and the CFTC allege that Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo profited $1.2 million on Poly...
World
Ghana welcomes home citizens evacuated from South Africa
The first flight carrying around 300 Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa following anti-immigrant tensions.
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tozzetti, AKA dipping biscuits with chocolate chips and orange
These crunchy ‘cupboard biscuits’ from central Italy are just made to be dunked, be that in a cuppa or in wineConsiderin...
Football
If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why? | Jonathan Liew
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer...
World
Thursday news quiz: A shooting pooch, avatar anger and a collective noun for ‘Derren Brown’
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?Amid a heatwav...
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What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals
Investigators are still searching for what caused the recent deaths of a mother and her calf, but conservationists say t...
Business
The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?
She made millions as a tween and teenager by posting clips of herself and her friends on YouTube. Then the business coll...
Tech
Rechalking beloved Cerne Giant is a sticky process – and climate crisis is making it worse
Volunteers head to Dorset countryside to restore the figure, but increasing heat means techniques have had to be adapted...
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To reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness | Tarik Abou-Chadi
Be more strident and ambitious, take on economic inequality, and progressive voters will reward you as they have the UK’...
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‘Not many people had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland
Fairyland is a bittersweet film about a girl brought up by her gay father in a blizzard of glitter and feather boas in 1...
Tech
‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound
The German duo are returning with the results of their whirlwind session with the late dub legend, best heard in a ‘spat...