It’s like a time capsule’: 19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan (www.theguardian.com)
Modi-linked Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest (www.theguardian.com)
Offshore records suggest associates of wealthy Indian family spent years acquiring stock during rise of founder to be worth $120bn
Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU (www.theguardian.com)
Eleven planes and helicopter from bloc sent to tackle fire that has burned more than 300 sq miles of land...
UK ‘seeking to block ICJ ruling’ on Israeli occupation of Palestine (www.theguardian.com)
‘Coral are going to die’: Maui wildfires take toxic toll on marine ecology (www.theguardian.com)
Contaminants from the fires could damage marine life, and hardy non-native grasses might grow and kindle the next fire
US delegate says Solomon Islands PM was too ‘busy’ to meet him (www.theguardian.com)
‘If Stevie Wonder wants to play it, pay attention!’: how a bizarre new instrument found unusual success (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Into brain and the heart’: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan’s teenagers (www.theguardian.com)
China has made clear that it wants to take control of Taiwan, by force if necessary; and the two share a common language. That makes Chinese apps, music and drama particularly attractive and accessible to the Taiwanese and Taiwanese users a particularly important audience for Beijing. “The similarities in language make the...
‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy (www.theguardian.com)
At least 36 killed as wildfire sweeps through Maui (www.theguardian.com)
More than 40 feared dead after boat sinks in Mediterranean near Lampedusa (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians (www.theguardian.com)
From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world....
‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love (www.theguardian.com)
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From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors (www.theguardian.com)
Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales...
From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors (www.theguardian.com)
Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales...
Mr Spock belting out showtunes? How Star Trek became a fizzy, frantic romp (www.theguardian.com)
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See no evil: why have baddies vanished from our cinema screens? (www.theguardian.com)
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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)
‘Shameful loss’: wolves declared extinct in Andalucía (www.theguardian.com)
For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region....
US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows (www.theguardian.com)
‘Nature is being destroyed’: Russia’s arms buildup in Barents Sea creating toxic legacy (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s $6bn spend on ‘sportswashing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia has spent at least $6.3bn (£4.9bn) in sports deals since early 2021, more than quadruple the previous amount spent over a six-year period, in what critics have labelled an effort to distract from its human rights record....
Rebecca F Kuang: Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down (www.theguardian.com)
Emotions run high on Goodreads. In fact, I tell every author navigating their first book launch to stay off it. They’re not going to listen to me, because who doesn’t want to know whether their manuscript – this precious thing they’ve toiled on in solitude for years – has found its readers? And because I’ve been...
‘Outrageous’: MEPs condemn pesticide companies for withholding toxicity data (www.theguardian.com)
