Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices...
Shock to the cistern: the riotous, revealing world of graffiti in public bathrooms (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years
Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space (www.theguardian.com)
‘I feared for my life’: three women in mental distress say they were further traumatised by NSW police (www.theguardian.com)
The Choice of Life: Dr Johnson’s Christmas message (www.theguardian.com)
Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)
Greece to legalise papers for thousands of migrants to counter labour shortage (www.theguardian.com)
EU reaches asylum deal that rights groups say will create ‘cruel system’ (www.theguardian.com)
US officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for ‘anti-US sentiment’, documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Never thought I’d be in this situation’: US readers on their housing realities (www.theguardian.com)
Modern slavery ‘a feature’ of care sector in England since Brexit (www.theguardian.com)
End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs...
Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Nobel peace prize awarded to Barack Obama (www.theguardian.com)
US president in surprise win for ‘extraordinary efforts’ to improve world diplomacy and co-operation
Would you drink toilet water? California wastewater approved for recycling (www.theguardian.com)
US announces naval coalition to defend Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Egypt and Saudi Arabia notably absent from Operation Prosperity Guardian as more shipping companies forgo route...
Google agrees to pay $700m after antitrust settlement with consumers and US states (www.theguardian.com)
Google has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers disclosed in a San Francisco federal court....
China rights activist goes on trial for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ (www.theguardian.com)
Li Qiaochu, a human rights activist detained for nearly three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “inciting subversion of state power”....