TIL how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
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Apple and Google face block on taking cut from in-app purchases in Australia (www.theguardian.com)
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Johnson & Johnson must pay $18.8m to cancer patient in baby powder lawsuit (www.theguardian.com)
‘Does it really matter who wrote it?’: the rise of ghostwritten celebrity fiction (www.theguardian.com)
Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ (www.theguardian.com)
Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ (www.theguardian.com)
Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (www.theguardian.com)
James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’
Indian opposition unites in attempt to oust Narendra Modi (www.theguardian.com)
Included in the coalition are India’s largest national opposition, the Congress party, as well as powerful regional parties such as Trinamool Congress, which governs the state of West Bengal under the popular chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, and the Aam Aadmi party, which governs Delhi and Punjab....
‘Outrageous’: MEPs condemn pesticide companies for withholding toxicity data (www.theguardian.com)
Henry Kissinger meets China’s defence minister in surprise visit to Beijing (www.theguardian.com)
Nicaragua fails to back censure of Russia at end of EU-Latin America summit (www.theguardian.com)
EU leaders have failed to persuade all of their Latin America and Caribbean counterparts to strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite watering down a joint statement closing a two-day summit in Brussels....
A man and two children shield themselves with plastic during monsoon rainfall (www.theguardian.com)
Bayer division 'knowingly sold' HIV-infected protein (2003) (www.theguardian.com)
Henry Kissinger meets China’s defence minister in surprise visit to Beijing (www.theguardian.com)
EU to give Tunisia €1bn to fight trafficking and prop up ailing economy - Von der Leyen to return with Italian and Dutch PMs despite warnings over ‘breakdown’ of democracy under Saied (www.theguardian.com)
40 Years of the Nintendo Famicom (www.theguardian.com)
40 Years of the Nintendo Famicom (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla directors agree to return $735m to settle claims they were grossly overpaid (www.theguardian.com)
First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000 (www.theguardian.com)
Italian media more focused on foreign coverage of heatwave than its effects (www.theguardian.com)
China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US (www.theguardian.com)
Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather (www.theguardian.com)
Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128F (53.3C) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said.
‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Top economists call for action on runaway global inequality (www.theguardian.com)
The letter says: “We know that high inequality undermines all our social and environmental goals. It corrodes our politics, destroys trust, hamstrings our collective economic prosperity and weakens multilateralism. We also know that without a sharp reduction in inequality, the twin goals of ending poverty and preventing...