Retailers want police to respond more to shop theft reports.
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Shoplifting in the UK has become brazen, threatening to shop staff, and seemingly without consequence.
A new ban prohibits businesses in England from selling some single-use plastic products.
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The new ban will raise awareness about the plastic crisis. But failing to provide viable alternatives may simply displace the problem, instead of addressing it
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The regulator’s guiding principle is still to ‘maximise economic recovery’.
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Mobile phones have extended the reach and control of abusive partners.
China’s leader Xi Jinping at the 2023 Brics meeting.
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Understanding China’s history could help western observers see its foreign policy more clearly.
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Passionate, greedy and violent, Michael Gambon was electric as the gangster Albert Spica.
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People who were hospitalised with COVID are 14 times more likely to have lung abnormalities than people who have never had COVID.
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In my experience of university teaching, the title of the course seems to strongly influence the gender balance of the class.
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The pressure to ‘have a good conference’ is immense for a party hoping to win an election. But the anxiety isn’t really evidence-based.
Esh Alladi as Pipli in Great Expectations.
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This adaptation is set in Bengal in 1899, where rumours that the British Empire’s plans for partition have spread.
Pam Grier as vigilante nurse Coffy who seeks to punish drug dealers and corrupt officials.
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Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.
Many of the buildings in Kharkiv that bats roost in have been destroyed or damaged by shelling.
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Shelling may have led to the killing of 7,000 noctule bats in the city of Kharkiv alone
President Joe Biden talks to the widow of Republican senator John McCain at a speech he gave on democracy.
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Biden’s team are about to launch a US$25 million television advertising blitz in key battleground states.
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The SNP are set to lose a seat in a vote triggered by a COVID scandal. But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times.
When Pangea Ultima forms, conditions on Earth will be too inhospitable for most mammals to survive.
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A supercontinent could raise global temperatures to such a degree that it could wipe out mammals.
Keeping up morale: Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, with Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, after talks at Nato headquarters, September 28 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A woman walks past an ad for HS2 by the Curzon Street station in Birmingham.
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With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
Armed police are relatively rare in the UK.
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An expert explains how militarisation is changing policing and eroding public trust.
Dior Men summer 2023 group shot in front of a Charleston reconstruction.
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The Bloomsbury group’s distaste for formality helped to set the foundations for how we dress today.
Russia claims to have signed up at least 300,000 new military recruits since January 2023.
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It is Kyiv, not Moscow, that is feeling the pressure as the war drags on with no end in sight.