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Nasa delays ISS spacewalk due to astronaut’s medical issue
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Nasa is delaying a spacewalk at the International Space Station because of a medical issue involving one of its astronauts. Officials announced the postponement on Monday, less than 24 hours before Mark Vande Hei was ...
Is the contact lens solution shortage a Brexit issue? I can’t see it anywhere
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Contact lens solutions for gas permeable lenses are – it seems – only made by Bausch & Lomb in a factory in Milan. Since May, there have been no solutions in any pharmacy or optician, and no information on their r...
Slowdown in UK recovery may be more than a supply chain issue
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Newspapers call August the silly season because not a lot happens. That’s not always the case, as events in Afghanistan have shown, but it is certainly true of the UK economy this year. And that’s not good news. Each ...
Lancashire police issue appeal for abducted girl, 2, taken to Spain
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A two-year-old girl has been abducted and taken to Spain, Lancashire constabulary have said. Police have launched an urgent appeal for Gracie-May Rogers and said her parents, Kelly Gibson and Lee Rogers, were wanted o...
‘I believe it’s a mental health issue’: the rise of Zoom dysmorphia
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The effects of staring at ourselves for hours at a time during video conference calls has resulted in a breakdown of how we perceive our own self image. The phenomenon has been nicknamed “Zoom dysmorphia” by the derma...
Raab’s Afghan debacle is turning into a competence issue for the whole government
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Dominic Raab’s appearance before the foreign affairs select committee was more notable for what he didn’t say than what he did. After a fortnight of criticism over his department’s handling of the crisis in Afghanista...
BMA to issue damning critique of government over Covid crisis
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Chronic neglect of the NHS, poor pandemic preparedness and flawed government policies have contributed to the appalling impact of the Covid-19 crisis in the UK, according to a damning assessment from the British Medic...
David Bowie: unreleased 2001 album Toy to get official issue
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David Bowie’s lost 2001 album Toy, which mixed new songs and new versions of lesser-known songs from 1964-71, is receiving an official release as part of the latest raft of posthumous reissues. The album’s co-producer...
IMF to issue downbeat outlook as spectre of stagflation looms
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Weaker global growth, vaccine protectionism and the spectre of 1970s-style inflation haunting large economies. As the International Monetary Fund prepares for its annual gathering this week, the contrast with the spri...
DC Comics reveals latest Superman as bisexual in new issue
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Jonathan Kent, the new iteration of Superman, is bisexual, according to DC Comics. The traditionally heterosexual superhero will embark on a same-sex relationship with a friend in a new comic. Kent, who is the son of ...
How did Republicans turn critical race theory into a winning electoral issue?
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What is critical race theory? Developed by the former Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell and other scholars in the 1970s and 80s, critical race theory, or CRT, examines the ways in which racism was embedded into Ameri...
Rafiq says ‘institutional racism’ is key issue after Ballance admits using slur
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Azeem Rafiq responded on Thursday to the latest news in the Yorkshire cricket racism story after a former teammate of the cricketer, Gary Ballance, admitted using a racial slur against him. Rafiq posted a short statem...
Wales issue lifetime ban to pitch invader in game against South Africa
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Wales have handed a lifetime stadium ban to the supporter who ran on to the pitch during last Saturday’s defeat by South Africa. The incident occurred in the 63rd minute of Wales’s 23-18 defeat by the Springboks, with...
Prince Harry says online misinformation is ‘global humanitarian issue’
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Prince Harry has described online misinformation as a “global humanitarian issue” that needs to be tackled by policies including investment in local journalism and cracking down on super-spreaders of false content. L...
Sport’s trans issue is here to stay. But at last, the debate is starting to change
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It is funny how times change. The Guardian has obtained a letter, written in 2003 by Dr Richard Budgett, in which he discusses the consequences of trans women competing in women’s sport. Responding to a government inq...
Lukaku issue looms large but Chelsea are really suffering for loss of control
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Thomas Tuchel used to be about control. When he arrived at Chelsea a year ago, that was what he brought: suddenly a team that had been desperately vulnerable on the break stopped conceding on the counter. They held th...