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It’s the second season of Dark Winds. Plus: the wild story of cannabis smuggler Howard Marks. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, U&AlibiThis western noir crime thriller was an unsung gem when it started last year, so the second season is a welcome return. Lt Joe Leaphorn (Zahn […]

Former trade union activist who had Alzheimer's died peacefully at care home, says family The former British deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86, his family has announced.His family said he had “spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and […]

New poll finds 53% of Britons support permanent exhibition on Britain’s role in slave trade at British MuseumThe majority of people in the UK think the British Museum should have a permanent exhibition dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade, according to research.New polling data by YouGov […]

Israeli move follows Guardian report that 12-year-old girl’s evacuation for treatment had been repeatedly blocked The Israeli authorities have permitted Mazyouna Damoo, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl whose face was “ripped off” when an Israeli missile struck her home in June, to leave Gaza […]

The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth We now face, on all fronts, a war not just against the living planet and the common good, but against material reality. Power in the United States will soon be shared between […]

Exclusive: Trail would help region with few areas where people can walk in countryside, report saysA new trail along the east coast of England should be created, a Tory thinktank has said, because farmland is preventing those who live there from having access to nature.A report from Onward has […]

Relatives of those killed in 1974 attack urge government on its 50th anniversary to set up statutory inquiryRelatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have said “England’s biggest unsolved mass murder of the 20th century” should be at the top of the government’s list as they […]

Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searchingAlphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its […]

Science editor Ian Sample joins host Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories of the week. From a study finding that fat cells ‘remembering’ past obesity drives yo-yo dieting, to concerning developments in the bird flu virus, and research pinpointing which parts […]

Thousands of farmers descended on Westminster this week, to protest against changes made in last month’s budget over inheritance tax. The government claim that this will affect a small minority of farms. But with slim profits and many farmers saying it will spell the end of their businesses, has […]

This reunion between the star and The Good Place creator Michael Schur is adorable. Its tale of a widower’s undercover investigation in a retirement home will obliterate youIf Michael Schur has a trademark, it’s bone-deep niceness. A decade and a half ago, he transformed Parks and Recreation […]

It’s that season again, when the streamers bring us hot snowmen and heroes who still believe in Santa. Why are they competing to make the most ludicrous movie possible – and why do we keep watching them?I could summarise the plot of Hot Frosty – the surprise Netflix hit that has a 90% Rotten […]

John Calhoun designed an apartment complex for mice to examine the effects of overcrowding. It was hailed as a groundbreaking study of social breakdown, but is largely forgotten. So what happened?Standing before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 22 June 1972, the ecologist turned […]

Refugees who escaped Sudan’s civil war and fled to Ethiopia have found themselves on the run from another conflictAbdullah*, a Sudanese English teacher from Khartoum, had never imagined that fleeing one conflict would mean running straight into another.After escaping his country’s civil war and […]

At least 17 state agencies to be created or overhauled, a challenge the IfG says will require major investmentLabour is creating or overhauling at least 17 public bodies, a move which is likely to come with high costs, an Institute for Government report has found.Launching a new “tracker” of […]

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prizePercival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of […]

LA Lakers star plans to step away from social mediaJames, 40, hinted at disaffection after Tuesday gameLeBron James says he’s taking a break from social media.The NBA’s all-time leading scorer and Los Angeles Lakers star posted on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, and Instagram on […]

A greater degree of setup would have given this story of a Don Draper type’s determination to beat a terminal diagnosis more dramatic heftThis drama starts promisingly enough, with a zippy, self-aggrandising voiceover introducing our protagonist Arjun (Abhishek Bachchan). He’s a Don Draper […]

From long-range missiles being launched to North Korean troops being drafted in, Dan Sabbagh looks at whether the rapid escalation could signal the beginning of the end of the conflictTuesday marked 1,000 days of the Ukraine war – a conflict that for months had seemingly no end in sight. Russia […]

Moves to advance three resolutions, which would have halted recent sale of $20bn in US weapons to Israel, all failedThe US Senate has blocked legislation that would have halted the sale of some US weapons to Israel, which had been introduced out of concern about the human rights catastrophe faced […]