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Posted by Guardian Staff

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/15/rise-voice-notes-thinking-of-you-dont-want-to-speak-to-you

Britons now send an average of 58 hours’ worth of these messages a year. But what about the recipients who are experiencing ‘voice note fatigue’?

Name: Voice notes.

Age: About 14.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/15/rise-voice-notes-thinking-of-you-dont-want-to-speak-to-you

Posted by Damian Carrington Environment editor

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/15/alpine-glaciers-rate-extinction-climate-crisis

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

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Glaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years, according to a study, with more than 100 due to melt away permanently by 2033. Glaciers in the western US and Canada are forecast to reach their peak year of loss less than a decade later, with more than 800 disappearing each year by then.

The melting of glaciers driven by human-caused global heating is one of the clearest signs of the climate crisis. Communities around the world have already held funeral ceremonies for lost glaciers, and a Global Glacier Casualty List records the names and histories of those that have vanished.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/15/alpine-glaciers-rate-extinction-climate-crisis

Posted by PA Media

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/15/cameron-menzies-cuts-hand-open-punching-drinks-stand-shock-defeat-charlie-manby-darts-pdc-world-championship

• World No 26 lost 3-2 to 20-year-old Charlie Manby

• Menzies left stage with blood streaming from right hand

Cameron Menzies saw red and punched the table in frustration following his 3-2 defeat by Charlie Manby in the first round of the World Darts Championship.

Scot Menzies led twice in the game as he took the opening set before going 2-1 up, but the 20-year-old from Huddersfield fought back to take it into a deciding set before he finally pinned double four, after both players missed several darts at double.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/15/cameron-menzies-cuts-hand-open-punching-drinks-stand-shock-defeat-charlie-manby-darts-pdc-world-championship

Posted by Jonathan Wilson

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/15/tottenham-hotspur-thomas-frank-premier-league

Spurs have faced low moments in their history, and this is one of them. How will the club respond in the post-Daniel Levy era?

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Tottenham Hotspur, Thomas Frank said after Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest, are “not a quick fix”. That’s been true for probably 40 years, since they lurched into financial crisis amid boardroom shenanigans in the 1980s, becoming the first soccer club to list on the stock exchange and embarking on a disastrous programme of diversification (the highlight perhaps being becoming Hummel’s distributor in the UK, a role they performed so badly that Southampton took a page of their own programme to blame Spurs for the fact that their shirts were not being delivered).

Right now, Spurs would probably settle for even a little bit of a fix, a slow hint of progress, a flicker of hope, anything to break them out of the current grim spiral. They have won just one of their last seven league games. When they beat Everton on 26 October, they were third, five points behind the leaders. Sunday’s defeat leaves them 11th, 14 points behind Arsenal. Given that Spurs finished 17th last season, perhaps that is not so unexpected – and the compacted nature of the table means they are only four points off fifth and probable Champions League qualification. But, equally, 22 points represents their lowest Premier League tally after 16 games since 2008.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/15/tottenham-hotspur-thomas-frank-premier-league

Posted by Yohannes Lowe

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/dec/15/covid-19-inquiry-rishi-sunak-pandemic-live-latest-news-updates

Former chancellor and PM faces questions on the economic response to the pandemic

Sunak said speed was “paramount” as “one thing that was crystal clear that this was happening very quickly” and was to have an “extraordinary impact” on millions of people across the country.

A damning official report on the handling of the pandemic found the UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”. It said the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

As it turned out, that was really the one of the easier things I had to do, given what then unfolded over the next few days, weeks, months, and at that moment things were moving very quickly. So even during the budget preparations, it was clear that what was happening with the pandemic was escalating.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/dec/15/covid-19-inquiry-rishi-sunak-pandemic-live-latest-news-updates

Posted by Anna Betts (now) and Fran Lawther (earlier)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/15/brown-university-shooting-manhunt-latest-updates

Tributes paid to two people killed as authorities search for a gunman who also injured nine others in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday

• Two victims named in Brown University shooting as police continue search for killer

More tributes to Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov came from the American Uzbekistan Association, who said he “was known for his sharp intellect, kind heart, and quiet willingness to help anyone in need”.

The association wrote on Instagram, praising his “humility and compassion” as well as his “curiosity, discipline, and generosity”.

More than a gifted student, Aziz was a beloved son, brother, and friend. He had a future filled with promise, and his life was cut short far too soon. His passing has left an immeasurable void in the hearts of his family, friends, classmates, and the broader Uzbek American community.

On behalf of the American Uzbekistan Association, we extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Mukhammad Aziz’s family during this time of unimaginable grief. We stand with them in mourning and are grateful to all who have offered prayers, messages of support, and solidarity.

Mukhammad Aziz will be remembered for his kindness, his potential, and the light he brought into the lives of others. His memory will endure.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/15/brown-university-shooting-manhunt-latest-updates

Posted by Lucy Campbell (now); Rachel Leingang and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/15/ilhan-omar-trump-immigration-politics-latest-updates

Somalia-born Minnesota representative says her son was let go once he produced his ID

Ukraine’s top negotiator has said that talks with the US have been constructive and productive, my colleague Frances Mao reports.

Rustem Umerov, secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said in a post on X that “real progress” had been achieved with hopes of lasting peace deal. He said the Americans, led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, were “working extremely constructively to help Ukraine find a way to a peace agreement that lasts”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/15/ilhan-omar-trump-immigration-politics-latest-updates

Posted by Andrew Pulver

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/one-battle-after-another-defeats-rivals-in-london-critics-circle-film-awards-nominations

Paul Thomas Anderson’s counter-culture thriller scores nine nods, ahead of Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, with Leonardo DiCaprio in contention for actor of the year

One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, has consolidated its place as the awards-season leader in emerging with the most nominations from the London Critics’ Circle film awards.

One Battle After Another, a counter-culture thriller loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, picked up nine nominations, including film of the year, director and screenwriter of the year for Anderson, and actor of the year for DiCaprio. Co-stars Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn were nominated in the supporting categories while Chase Infiniti was nominated for breakthrough performer.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/one-battle-after-another-defeats-rivals-in-london-critics-circle-film-awards-nominations