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‘It’s much easier to stop someone lighting a match than to put out a 1,000-acre fire’
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Peru’s Sacred Valley, the breathtaking landscape between Cusco and Machu Picchu, has always had a few conventional fire brigades, but anyone who has ever witnessed a bushfire will know there is little you can do once ...
Boris Johnson and a robot from Abba? Someone put out an SOS…
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A dead ant has more dignity than Boris Johnson. In north London, the day that Johnson inconclusively resigned was also Flying Ant Day, when thousands of frenzied male ants, and a few new queens, fly the nest to mate. ...
Ex-campaign chief texted ally Trump’s January 6 rhetoric ‘killed someone’
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Donald Trump’s former campaign manager told another close ally that the then president’s rhetoric “killed someone” on 6 Januarie 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol. Brad Parscale ran Trump’s w...
Someone has to hold the government accountable (unless it is too soon). Introducing: ALBO WATCH
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‘What if he finds someone better?’: the agony and the ecstasy of an open relationship
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My mother will kill me for writing this article. She doesn’t get why my partner and I would want to have sex with other people; why, God why, would we want to question a structure as sacred and, let’s face it, success...
John Oliver on next-day shipping: ‘Someone somewhere pays the price’
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John Oliver discussed the many problems faced by truckers in the US and an industry that mistreats them. The Last Week Tonight host started by saying that “everybody loves” trucks, from kids to producers of reality sh...
‘He wants to give it to someone else’: rent rises leaving a toll on regional NSW
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In July last year, Anna’s* real estate agent called to say that her landlord had decided to sell the house in Bega, in the state’s south, where she and her partner had lived for the past two years. The deadline to mov...
TfL fined me for driving in the ULEZ – has someone cloned my car plates?
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Sometime in January someone started falsely using my car’s number plate. The first I knew about it was a parking charge at Stansted airport, which was quickly sorted out when I explained it wasn’t me or my car. Howeve...
Eight-year-old girl shot dead by Chicago gunman targeting someone else
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A gunman targeting someone else on Chicago’s south west side instead shot an eight-year-old girl in the head, killing her, polisie gesê. The Cook county medical examiner’s office identified the victim on Sunday as Me...
NSW Covid-19 update: Hazzard urges people to ‘give a damn about someone other than yourself’ - video
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NSW health minister Brad Hazzard has taken aim at the unvaccinated. ‘Can I just say to those people who have chosen not to get vaccinated, it’s time to give a damn about someone other than yourself', Hazzard said. ‘Gi...
‘Someone needs a kick up the butt’: Bexley voters consider Tories’ record
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Boris Johnson’s popularity dip may be such that Tory voters in Old Bexley and Sidcup brand the prime minister a “blithering idiot” and question his qualities as a leader, but Labour still faces an uphill battle to win...
There’s Someone Inside Your House review – empty Netflix cancel culture slasher
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There’s obvious business sense behind the cyclical resurgence of the teen slasher, age-old formula cheaply reproduced by barely-paid no-names aimed at an easily devalued and underestimated younger audience. What’s les...
'Iemand kan 'n oogbal uitsteek!'Why Metal Shop Masters is die anti Bake Off
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Metal Shop Masters is 'n nuwe Amerikaanse Netflix -reeks waar 'n klomp bekwame metaalwerkers meeding om die beste beeldhouwerk binne 'n strafbeperkte tydperk te maak. Die feit dat dit bestaan, is onvermydelik, want die w ...
‘I shot someone else’s target’: Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish suffers Olympic blunder
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The Ukrainian shooter Serhiy Kulish missed out on a medal after committing one of the most extraordinary howlers at the Tokyo Olympics by hitting an opponent’s target. Kulish, who won silver in the 10m air rifle event...
Why on earth would someone kidnap a lemur from a zoo?
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Evergreen question, but what is wrong with all of you? Today I am asking it after learning about a lemur kidnapping that allegedly took place late last year. Ja, a lemur kidnapping. Back in October, a 31-year-old ma...
I want a quiet birthday. Someone tell that to the cat
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When I wake, sunlight is streaming through the bedroom window. I look at my phone to check the time: just after 6am. Then I see the date, and I have a sudden and overwhelming need to escape the room before my wife can...