Phoebe and Her Unicorn - 2025-11-22
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phoebeandherunicorn_feedOur babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test - now we're fighting to get them back
Nov. 22nd, 2025 02:34 ambbcnewsworld_feedThe Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
India's blind women cricketers chase history at first T20 World Cup
Nov. 22nd, 2025 02:07 ambbcnewsworld_feedMost players come from underprivileged, rural backgrounds and learned the sport in the last few years.
Premier League buildup, Barcelona return to Camp Nou and more – matchday live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:53 amguardianworldnews_feed⚽ Latest news and previews as Premier League resumes
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Barney Ronay on Cristiano Ronaldo’s visit to the White House to meet Donald Trump ahead of next year’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
It is worth being totally clear on what was happening here. This was, first of all, a state visit and a significant refresh of US-Saudi relations. But it was also a kind of executive benediction. First for Ronaldo, who hadn’t been photographed in the US since the leaking in 2017 of allegations of sexual assault, which he denies and have never been proven.
Not being in the US has cost the Ronaldo brand millions. A final pension-pot World Cup is looming. With Trump in the White House and MBS at his back, it seems this is now a safe space. The quid pro quo is obvious. CR7 is huge among young men on the internet. He’s the most winningest World Cup mascot. He’s a tall handsome guy. This is where we are, why Trump is up at his dais saying the word “Roonnnallldoo” in those sensuous cooing tones, like he’s whispering into the ear of his favourite doughnut.
Continue reading...guardianworldnews_feed Hosts reach their target after another wild day in Perth
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43rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of the over he finally gets a reprieve, a single to cover. Atkinson bumps Lyon but the ball sails way over his head.
42nd over: Australia 128-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 3) Lyon single first ball puts Doggett back on strike. Ohh, dropped catch! In at short leg, Pope under the mitre, and the ball reaches his fingertips but goes down rather than up. Mark Wood keeps peppering Doggett, who by the end of the over has faced every delivery so far today but two. The sixth ball he decides he’s had enough and aims a big drive, inside edges it, gets a run to fine leg, and keeps the strike.
Continue reading...guardianworldnews_feedTrump has demanded Ukraine accepts a ‘peace plan’ that would force it to give up territory to Russia and make other painful concessions
UK prime minister Keir Starmer will not visit Washington next week, it is understood, amid reports that European leaders are considering visiting Donald Trump to discuss his Ukraine peace plan, reports the PA news agency.
France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are among the leaders who are considering a trip, Sky News reported citing European diplomatic sources. But it is understood the UK was not involved in such discussions.
Continue reading...Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:37 amguardianworldnews_feedAcquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
The owner of the Daily Mail has struck a £500m deal to buy the Telegraph titles, in a move that will create a right-leaning publishing powerhouse.
Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) has entered a period of exclusivity with RedBird IMI, which has been seeking a buyer since being forced to put the papers up for sale last Spring, to finalise the terms of the transaction.
Continue reading...We should all be using dependency cooldown periods.
Nov. 21st, 2025 04:21 pmdotaturls_feed- 2025‑11‑21 - We should all be using dependency cooldown periods.
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Australia v England: hosts chasing 205 to win Ashes first Test on day two – live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:21 amguardianworldnews_feed Hosts closing on target after another wild day in Perth
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43rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of the over he finally gets a reprieve, a single to cover. Atkinson bumps Lyon but the ball sails way over his head.
42nd over: Australia 128-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 3) Lyon single first ball puts Doggett back on strike. Ohh, dropped catch! In at short leg, Pope under the mitre, and the ball reaches his fingertips but goes down rather than up. Mark Wood keeps peppering Doggett, who by the end of the over has faced every delivery so far today but two. The sixth ball he decides he’s had enough and aims a big drive, inside edges it, gets a run to fine leg, and keeps the strike.
Continue reading...Premier League buildup, Barcelona return to Camp Nou and more – matchday live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:17 amguardianworldnews_feed⚽ Latest news and previews as Premier League resumes
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Many thanks to Enzo Maresca, whose quote on Cole Palmer stubbing his toe (8.09am GMT) has made the comments under the line very entertaining for myself and others. A few of my favourites:
tedthetopcat to score the winner after coming on in the 80th minute?
Continue reading...guardianworldnews_feedTrump has demanded Ukraine accepts a ‘peace plan’ that would force it to give up territory to Russia and make other painful concessions
A Ukrainian drone attack targeted energy facilities in Russia’s Samara region, killing two people in the southern city of Syzran, the region’s governor said on Saturday.
The attack was repelled by air defence forces, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev wrote on Russia’s state-backed Max messenger app, reports Reuters.
Continue reading...‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:03 amguardianworldnews_feedThe Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up
Director Dan Farah grew up with aliens. As a child of the 80s and 90s, pop culture was awash with extra-terrestrial sightings. “How can you be a kid watching movies like ET and Close Encounters, TV shows like The X Files, and not end up curious about whether or not we’re alone in the universe?” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “And whether or not the US government does, in fact, hold secrets from the public.”
Farah’s exposure to otherworldly beings in fiction kickstarted an interest that’s now morphed into a professional quest, and the subject of his documentary debut The Age of Disclosure. Here, Farah makes the case that the United States has been hiding, for decades, a font of information related to UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) – the acronym rebrand of the stigma-ridden UFO.
Continue reading...Tense calm in far north as Israel prepares to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:00 amguardianworldnews_feedOn the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return
Noam Erlich looks out over what was his beer garden. Beyond the disordered chairs and tables and the sign instructing neighbours and friends to “pay whatever you like”, the ridge falls away to fields, then a fence, then hills littered with the skeletal ruins of shattered Lebanese villages.
The 44-year-old brewer is standing in front of the house his grandfather built when the Manara kibbutz was founded in the 1940s in the very far north of Israel. The building was hit repeatedly by missiles fired by Hezbollah during the conflict, which ended a year ago, and will now almost certainly be demolished, along with most of the neighbouring houses.
Continue reading...Beware buy now, pay later temptation on Black Friday, debt charities warn
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:00 amguardianworldnews_feedBillions will be spent on credit over the discount weekend but experts say the payment option is ‘not risk-free’
Black Friday bargain-hunters should be wary of the flood of “buy now, pay later” offers at the checkout, money experts have warned, amid record numbers of people seeking help with shopping debts.
Billions of pounds will be spent online and in shops over the coming weeks, with more than one in three Britons said to be planning to use this form of credit to help stagger their Black Friday spending.
Continue reading...New Caledonia activist says France is impeding travel home after prison release
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:00 amguardianworldnews_feedExclusive: Kanak leader Christian Tein, who was freed from prison in June, says France is ‘deliberately dragging out’ re-issue of his passport
A pro-independence leader from the French overseas territory of New Caledonia has accused the French government of “deliberately dragging out” his passport application, preventing him from flying home after his release from prison.
Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak leader, was arrested in New Caledonia in June 2024 over allegations that he had instigated the deadly pro-independence protests that had taken place on the island a month earlier.
Continue reading...guardianworldnews_feedThe Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
Fifteen years ago, discussing the success of his six-volume autofictional work My Struggle on Norwegian radio, Karl Ove Knausgård said he felt as if he had “actually sold my soul to the devil”. My Struggle had become a runaway success in Norway – a success that would subsequently be repeated across the world – but the project provoked anger in some quarters for its portrayal of friends and family members. This was a work of art that came at a price. Hence, for its creator, its Faustian aspect.
That experience lies at the root of Knausgård’s latest novel, The School of Night, the fourth volume in his Morning Star sequence, in which his typical character studies and fine-grained attention to the minutiae of daily life are married to a compelling supernatural plot involving a mysterious star appearing in the sky and the dead returning to life. Volumes one and three, The Morning Star and The Third Realm, cycled between the same group of interconnected characters, while the second book, The Wolves of Eternity, moved back to the 1980s and told the story of a young Norwegian man and his discovery of a Russian half-sister. Only towards the end of its 800 pages did the novel intersect with the events of The Morning Star. The School of Night, perhaps frustratingly for some, again moves backwards instead of forwards, this time to 1985 London, and follows the art school career of a young Norwegian, Kristian Hadeland, who is pursuing his dream of fame as a photographer. Kristian, events reveal, is someone who will sacrifice anything, and anyone, to succeed. Charting Kristian’s rise and fall is an addictive and eerie reading experience.
Continue reading...Australia v England: hosts chasing 205 to win Ashes first Test on day two – live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:50 amguardianworldnews_feed Hosts closing on target after another wild day in Perth
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43rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of the over he finally gets a reprieve, a single to cover. Atkinson bumps Lyon but the ball sails way over his head.
42nd over: Australia 128-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 3) Lyon single first ball puts Doggett back on strike. Ohh, dropped catch! In at short leg, Pope under the mitre, and the ball reaches his fingertips but goes down rather than up. Mark Wood keeps peppering Doggett, who by the end of the over has faced every delivery so far today but two. The sixth ball he decides he’s had enough and aims a big drive, inside edges it, gets a run to fine leg, and keeps the strike.
Continue reading...Premier League buildup, Barcelona return to Camp Nou and more – matchday live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:38 amguardianworldnews_feed⚽ Latest news and previews as Premier League resumes
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The highlight match in today’s 3pm kick-offs is Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, with most keen to see if Arne Slot’s side have … well, improved.
Arne Slot has said he may start Alexander Isak today ahead of fitter Liverpool strikers to give the £125m signing the game time needed to recapture his Newcastle form.
I had a conversation with the performance staff about what is the best way for Alex – not for Liverpool – to get him as fast as we can to 100%. I always have to find the balance between what is the best for him as an individual and for us as a team.
I do know that a 100% fit Alexander Isak is a big, big, big plus for this team. But for him to get there he might need to have minutes where you could argue that another player might be further ahead of him in terms of match fitness.
I think you want the team and yourself to be confident wherever you are going. You can’t guarantee these things.
We have got a team that can compete, and that’s a big thing. Every game means something and we are beginning to build that mentality.
Continue reading...Whatcha Reading? November 2025, Part Two
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:00 amsmartbitches_feed
November is quickly coming to a close. Here’s what we’re reading right now:
Elyse: I’m reading Christmas Fling by Lindsay Kelk. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Sarah: I have been reading The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic & Murder by Kiri Callaghan which is part murder mystery, part family drama, part fantasy quest – there’s been skulking in graveyards, magical tea, weird as murders, and fae cats. It’s got everything!
Alas, my TBR grows longer because as I record the Holiday Wishes episodes, my TBR gets more and more robust. What a terrible problem to have!
Shana: I was gifted several early 2000s large print Harlequins from a library book sale. I just read the first, Taming the Notorious Sicilian by Michelle Smart. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Sarah: Okay hang on – who does that cover photo look like? It’s like part Tom Holland with the nose and jaw of…
Sexy Squidward?
Shana: 1990s Chris O’Donnell?
It’s a mafia romance with a pediatrician heroine with a strong Not-Like-Other-Girls vibe. Looking at the cover, I don’t think it’s obvious which one of them is the notorious Sicilian though.
Sarah: YES 90s O’Donnell is very right.
Wait, the pediatrician is in the mob? Is this like those alien nanny books where the aliens need child care? The mafia needs a pediatrician?
OH HE is in the mafia. WOW I was like, dang, a heroine who is a mobbed up doctor? That’s new! LOLOL @ ME.
Shana: I would have enjoyed a mafia pediatrician MUCH MORE than one who kept trying to convince the mafia don to just call the police for help. Police love helping out organized criminals, you know.
Sarah: Oh sure all the time, yeah.
Amanda: I’m reading Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage, the first book since using my new TBR game board. I really like the characters and wowee the sex scenes are hot. However, part of the central conflict is the whole “best friend’s younger sister” which isn’t my bag at all. While the main characters talk about it and the heroine isn’t as hung up on the issue as the hero (and thinks the brother in questions is a bit of a nosy jackass), it does play a large role in their relationship.
Sarah: I’ve said before this is a conflict that always baffles me. In some situations, where the best friend sees the siblings’ family as their family, and doesn’t want to potentially compromise that, I get it. That seems like emotional security. But most of the time, I’m thinking, if you don’t want your best friend dating your sibling, wtf kind of friends do you have, and what kind of person are you?
Amanda: I think it’s more of the brother is a judgmental asshole and has always been overprotective. Like it’s clear he also thinks his sister’s BFF is a bad influence/troublemaker. And the hero is pretty upfront that “I like you and I don’t want this to be a secret,” but the heroine is working through some bigger things right now (coming back home after a traumatic injury on the barrel racing circuit). The brother has a future romance with the BFF, so I’m curious if his personality will be redeemed at some point.
I would LOVE if this sort of conflict is resolved with them telling the brother and him being like “oh cool, I love both of you and am happy for you both” given that there is still the injury part of the storyline to work through. But we’ll see!
Whatcha reading right now? Let us know in the comments!
Premier League buildup, Barcelona return to Camp Nou and more – matchday live
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:23 amguardianworldnews_feed⚽ Latest news and previews as Premier League resumes
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Last night Blackburn continued their climb up the Championship table as they earned a fourth win in five with a 2-1 derby victory at Preston. The hosts would have climbed to second if they had won, but Andri Gudjohnsen’s winner ended those hopes.
Although Alfie Devine cancelled out Lewis Miller’s opener within seconds in a frantic finish to the first half, Blackburn were the better side after the break and Gudjohnsen’s 62nd-minute header extended Rovers’ unbeaten run at Deepdale which dates back to 2019.
It can happen. I wake up many times during the night to go to the toilet. I hit my head, my legs, my everything, so it can happen.
The last time I saw him was yesterday morning, and he was without socks, without flip-flops, he was without nothing. He was working OK. The problem is that it’s a small toe, so the contact with boots can be painful.
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