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index.feed.received.today — 19 avril 2025The Guardian

US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

19 avril 2025 à 08:13

The order is the latest example of how the courts are challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration system

The US supreme court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.

“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the justices said early on Saturday.

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© Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters

‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

19 avril 2025 à 08:00

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section

‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the wind as though spooling from a smoke machine.

It had only been an hour since I first met him and his wife, Michelle, as we all took shelter from the freezing wind in a hut at nearby Gwennap Head. I had asked why they were walking the South West Coast Path – the 630-mile (1,014km) trail that weaves its way from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset around to Poole harbour in Dorset, via the windswept headlands, secluded coves and beaches of Devon and Cornwall.

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© Photograph: FlixPix/Alamy

Gangnam Style to Baby Shark: YouTube’s 20 greatest viral hits

19 avril 2025 à 08:00

After two decades of video sensations, here’s a reminder of the streaming platform’s most unforgettable clips – year by year

From weird elephant videos to revolutionising TV: 20 years of YouTube

YouTube is 20 years old. Although video had existed online before, YouTube’s ease of use – for the first time sites could easily embed video into their content – made it revolutionary. As such, we now live in a world where people watch more YouTube than anything else. But how did we get here? Perhaps the best way to find out is to trace the most significant videos produced in each of its 20 years.

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© Photograph: Jason DeCrow/Invision/AP

What links dachshund, bad actor and African kigelia tree? The Saturday quiz

19 avril 2025 à 08:00

From grunge anthems and deodorant to weasel and woodpecker, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which trend started on a bridge in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia?
2 Which grunge anthem was inspired by a deodorant?
3 Where is the Roodee, the world’s oldest working racecourse?
4 Who was the legendary ninth-century female pope?
5 What Chinese book of divination contains 64 hexagrams?
6 Which two countries are named after the line of zero degrees latitude?
7 What fabric is made with the help of bombyx larvae?
8 Who is the only writer to win the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes?
What links:
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Pudong; Lantau Island; Urayasu; Marne-la-Vallée; Lake Buena Vista; Anaheim?
10 Dachshund; African kigelia tree; bad actor; angry Brexiteer?
11 Atomic; Bullet; Crazyhouse; Dunsany’s; Entangled?
12 Vaalbara; Ur; Kenorland; Columbia; Rodinia; Pannotia; Pangea?
13 Évariste Galois; Alexander Hamilton; Mikhail Lermontov; Alexander Pushkin?
14 Colossae; Corinth; Ephesus; Galatia; Philippi; Rome; Thessaloniki?
15 Cane toad and python; octopus and mako shark; weasel and green woodpecker?

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© Photograph: Alexandra Robins/Getty Images

Sunscreen and snail slime: what skincare experts do – and don’t do – to their skin

19 avril 2025 à 08:00

Think you look better with a suntan? Worried you don’t have a 12-step routine? Dermatologists cut through the noise to reveal the products they swear by – and those they’d run a mile from

Anti-ageing products that actually work: Sali Hughes on the 30 best creams and treatments

Looking after your skin used to seem so simple: for decades, a basic “cleanse, tone, moisturise” routine was seen as the gold standard. But the skincare industry has recently exploded with thousands of new products, while skincare influencers have been racking up millions of views with often bewildering (and conflicting) advice.

So, should you be putting snail slime or beef tallow on your face, like that video you saw on TikTok? And which products are safe for your teenager to use, if any? We spoke to eight dermatologists to find out their own skincare routines – and which mistakes they see most often. Spoiler: none of them use snail slime.

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© Photograph: Martina Lang/The Guardian

Tim Dowling: our dog is on heat – but I’m the one turning red

19 avril 2025 à 07:00

Regular parks are out of the question – there are just too many other dogs. And besides, lonely routes are better for hiding my embarrassment

It is mid-afternoon – post-lunch but safely before the schools let out – and I am walking the dog in the direction of what my wife and I now call the Triangle parks. The Triangle parks are the result of a long road cutting diagonally across the regular grid of suburban streets, leaving two small, three-sided communal gardens. They are close but hard to get to – a lot of roads round here come to unceremonious dead-ends – and it was only during my long lockdown walks that I eventually discovered a route to them.

Recently, however, they have proved useful: they’re both fenced and likely to be deserted mid-afternoon. When your dog is on heat, regular parks are out of the question.

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© Illustration: Selman Hosgor/The Guardian

Could Trump’s tariffs give a green light for corporate profiteering?

Expectations of inflation, and recent waves of price rises, could be self-fulfilling and fuel ‘greedflation’ – and it may not only apply to US consumers

Over the past few years consumers have grown used to seeing prices rise at an exorbitant rate. The cost of everything – from used cars to utility bills and the humble loaf of bread – has rocketed in the worst inflation shock across advanced economies since the 1980s.

While inflation has cooled in the past year, talk of fast-rising prices is back on the agenda from Donald Trump’s escalating trade war.

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© Photograph: Erik Verduzco/AP

How to turn surplus egg whites into marshmallows – recipe | Waste not

19 avril 2025 à 07:00

Here’s a fun way to turn an excess of egg whites into a tray of moreish bouncy sweets

Marshmallows are a magical sweet, with vivid, popping colours and an unbelievably soft, squishy texture. Even after 25 years as a chef, I still love making them and, like most things, they taste better homemade.

If you’ve cooked something like a creme brulee, mayo or carbonara, and have a few egg whites spare, today’s recipe is a fun and delicious way to turn waste into taste.

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© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian

Iranian minister says nuclear deal possible if US does not make ‘unrealistic demands’

19 avril 2025 à 06:59

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will resume talks in Rome on Saturday

Iran’s top negotiator believes reaching an agreement on its nuclear programme with the US is possible as long as Washington is realistic, as the two sides prepare to resume talks in Rome on Saturday.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, and the US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will begin indirect negotiations through mediators from Oman, after their first round in Muscat, which both sides described as constructive.

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© Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters

Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life

19 avril 2025 à 06:00

Tentative evidence for life on a distant world is exciting, but unconfirmed. As new telescopes bring exoplanets into sharper focus, is the truth out there?

Towards the end of his life, the cosmologist Stephen Hawking was asked about the odds of finding intelligent alien life in the next two decades. “The probability is low,” he declared in 2016, and took a lengthy pause before adding: “Probably.”

This week, other scientists from the University of Cambridge reported tentative evidence for two compounds in the atmosphere of a planet, K2-18b, that sits in the constellation of Leo 124 light years away.

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© Illustration: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge)

NBA play-in tournament: Morant plays through injury as Grizzlies secure No 8 seed

19 avril 2025 à 04:26
  • Grizzlies beat Mavericks 120-106 to lock up No 8 seed
  • Heat beats Hawks 123-114 to book spot in playoffs
  • Miami become first No 10 seed to reach postseason

Two-time All-Star Ja Morant promised a sprained right ankle wouldn’t keep him out of Memphis’ play-in game against Dallas with the Western Conference’s last postseason berth up for grabs Friday night.

Morant did more than just play. He delivered a thrilling start that included a high-flying, one-handed slam of a dunk that had teammate Desmond Bane yelling “Showtime!” at him in celebration as Morant elevated so much his eyes were level with the rim.

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© Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

Trump news at a glance: Maryland senator says Ábrego García moved from notorious El Salvador prison

19 avril 2025 à 04:05

Senator Chris Van Hollen accuses El Salvador’s government of planting margarita glasses to undermine his trip – key US politics stories from Friday 18 April at a glance

Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed that Kilmar Ábrego García had been moved from El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other inmates – to a detention center with better conditions.

Van Hollen met with Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported, and said that he had been left “traumatized” after facing threats in the Cecot facility.

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© Photograph: Nayib Bukele X account HANDOUT/EPA

Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says

19 avril 2025 à 01:20

Chris Van Hollen describes meeting with constituent held in Salvadoran prison against supreme court order

Wrongly deported Salvadoran man Kilmar Ábrego García has been held incommunicado and faced threats in prison that left him “traumatized”, a Democratic senator said Friday after returning from meeting him in El Salvador.

Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the state Ábrego García had been living in with his US citizen wife and son until he was deported last month in what the Trump administration conceded was an “administrative error”, traveled to the central American country this week to see his constituent. After initially rejecting his request to meet Ábrego García and preventing him from traveling to the prison where he was being held, president Nayib Bukele’s government on Thursday facilitated a meeting at Van Hollen’s hotel.

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© Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Dark chocolate Toblerone to be discontinued in UK due to ‘changing tastes’

18 avril 2025 à 18:13

Maker of triangular-shaped almond-and-honey-laced chocolate bar says it has made ‘difficult decision’ to withdraw product

Mars Delight, Cadbury Dream and Rowntree’s Texan are just some of the once beloved chocolate bars that have been discontinued over the years, and now after almost six decades the dark chocolate Toblerone is joining them in the confectionery graveyard.

The triangular-shaped almond-and-honey-laced chocolate bar is a staple of supermarkets and airport duty-free shopping, but will be discontinued in the UK.

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© Photograph: Adilson Sochodolak/Alamy

‘Shocking to the sense of liberty Americans hold dear’: the impassioned US court order in the Ábrego García case

Judges on the US court of appeals for the fourth circuit issued a memorable call for the return of Kilmar Ábrego García and the separation of government powers. Here is the text

Upon review of the government’s motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive’s robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.

It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.

This was excerpted from the order by the US court of appeals for the fourth circuit in Kilmar Abrego Garcia v Kristi Noem. It has been edited to remove some legal citations

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© Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters

China dismisses Zelenskyy’s claim it has supplied weapons to Russia

Beijing rejects Ukrainian president’s accusation as ‘groundless’ and says it is committed to ending the conflict

China’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “groundless” the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia.

The comments, made at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday, came a day after the Ukrainian president said China was supplying weapons to Russia, including gunpowder and artillery, and that Chinese representatives were involved in weapons production on Russian territory.

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© Photograph: Andrés Martínez Casares/EPA

Congo boat disaster death toll rises to 148, with more than 100 still missing

18 avril 2025 à 23:40

Fire broke out during onboard cooking before wooden vessel capsized with 500 passengers aboard

The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week has risen to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said on Friday.

About 500 passengers were on board the wooden boat when it capsized on Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in the country’s north-west.

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© Photograph: Junior Kannah/AFP/Getty Images

What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

18 avril 2025 à 22:21

Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban

Virginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her drooping toga exposing her left breast, has been banned from younger students in a Texas school district.

The district, Lamar consolidated independent school district, near Houston, took action against the image late last year when it removed a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by third through fifth graders, typically encompassing ages eight to 11, sparking a row, Axios reported on Thursday.

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Trump ousts IRS chief days after appointment amid Musk-Bessent feud

18 avril 2025 à 22:13

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent reportedly complained that Gary Shapley had been chosen without his knowledge

Donald Trump is replacing the acting commissioner of the US Internal Revenue Service after treasury secretary Scott Bessent reportedly complained to the president that the agency head had been appointed without his knowledge and under the instruction of Doge leader Elon Musk.

According to a report from the New York Times published on Friday, Bessent believed that the Doge head “had done an end-run around him” to get Gary Shapley installed as the interim head of the IRS, despite the fact that the IRS reports to Bessent. The report cited five anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation.

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© Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

18 avril 2025 à 22:13

Internal mission statements from Harmeet Dhillon pivots division’s priorities away from marginalized groups’ rights

The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards Donald Trump’s priorities including hunting for noncitizen voters and protecting white people from discrimination, according to new internal mission statements seen by the Guardian.

The new priorities were sent to several sections of the civil rights division this week by Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump ally who was confirmed a little more than two weeks ago to lead the division. Several of them only give glancing mention to the statutes and kinds of discrimination that have long been the focus of the division, which dates back to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Several of the mission statements point to Trump’s executive orders as priorities for the section.

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What would it mean for Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status?

18 avril 2025 à 21:59

After cutting off $2.26bn in funding, the US president reportedly gave the IRS a potentially illegal order

Harvard University is in a standoff with Donald Trump after rejecting a series of demands from the president’s administration, which critics view as an attack on the elite college for its reputation among conservatives as a bastion of liberal thought.

After cutting off its funding, Trump has reportedly given the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a potentially illegal order to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status. Such a decision would mark an escalation in the Republican president’s weaponization of federal government agencies against the people and institutions that defy it.

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© Photograph: Sophie Park/Getty Images

US releases thousands of files related to Robert F Kennedy assassination

18 avril 2025 à 21:56

Release of files, ordered by Trump, includes notes from killer, who said presidential candidate ‘must be disposed of’

About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy, including handwritten notes by the assassin, who said the US senator and Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of” and acknowledged an obsession with killing him.

The release continued the disclosure of national secrets ordered by Donald Trump after he began his second presidency in January. It comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of president John F Kennedy were disclosed. The earlier documents gave curious readers more details about cold- war era covert US operations in other nations but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK, RFK’s brother.

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© Photograph: Dick Strobel/AP

Alex de Minaur beaten by in-form Alcaraz in Barcelona quarter-final

18 avril 2025 à 21:19
  • Australian goes down 7-5, 6-3 against the world No 2
  • Victory gives the Spaniard a 4-0 record in head-to-heads

Alex de Minaur’s 50th tour-level quarter-final has ended in defeat, the Australian No 1 beaten 7-5 6-3 in 100 minutes by defending champion Carlos Alcaraz at the Barcelona Open.

De Minaur began well, breaking the top seed in the third game before taking a 3-1 lead, and breaking again in the seventh after Alcaraz had broken back. But the Spaniard took four of the last five games to claim the set.

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© Photograph: Marti Segura Ramoneda/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Kyren Wilson: ‘It’s not just me that’s world champion. It’s my whole family’

18 avril 2025 à 21:00

The 2024 winner reflects on the emotional backstory to Crucible triumph amid major health concerns for his family

“‘I still believed in myself but it was quite soul-destroying out there,” Kyren Wilson says in a back room at Barratts Snooker Club in Northampton. The world champion once worked here as a barman because he had lost his place on tour after his first season as a professional in 2011. He was still only 19 and he had little idea that an avalanche of adversity would engulf him in the years ahead.

Wilson begins the defence of his world title, with a first-round match against Lei Peifan, in the venerable Crucible in Sheffield on Saturday morning. But it seems fitting that we should meet here, in the unpromising surroundings which once defined Wilson’s life, as he describes his extraordinary world championship backstory.

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© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Trump officials create uncertainty to evade court orders rather than comply

18 avril 2025 à 16:00

Recalcitrance appears to be product of Trump White House’s maximalist interpretation of executive powers

Faced with a flurry of adverse court orders it would rather not follow, the Trump White House is increasingly deploying a strategy of claiming or even manufacturing its own uncertainty to dodge their effects without appearing to outright defy them.

The Trump administration has faced several major legal setbacks in recent weeks, most notably in its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants without due process under the Alien Enemies Act or in spite of protective orders.

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© Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

If Harvard, armor-plated by history and padded with funds, can’t beat Trump, no one can

18 avril 2025 à 14:00

The awe-inspiring might of the government is pitted against the might of the revered US university: let the fight begin

Donald Trump attended the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event of his new presidency on Saturday, reveling off stage in a standing ovation from Maga supporters and on stage in the barely controlled violence of a sport he has long adored.

The previous day he instigated his own UFC bout, picking a fight with one of the US’s most formidable opponents: Harvard is not only the world’s richest university, with a $53bn endowment that is bigger than the GDP of almost 100 countries, it is also the oldest in the US.

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index.feed.received.yesterday — 18 avril 2025The Guardian

Oxford United v Leeds: Championship – live

18 avril 2025 à 21:45

Peep! Here we go, then. Leeds, making their first-ever visit to the Kassam Stadium, are in their navy third kit.

Gary Rowett: “Having won against Sheffield United, another top, top team, it gives us confidence, but this is a very different test. It’s a question of ‘how do you stop them?’” On survival: “We’ll keep going until it’s done. We’ve come too far to let it slip now.”

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© Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

18 avril 2025 à 21:00

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play while Blues fans tend to like forceful football. Conflict seemed inevitable

There was a news story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”

What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink.

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© Illustration: Nathan Daniels/The Guardian

Ruth Chepngetich and Peres Jepchirchir withdraw from London Marathon

Par :Reuters
18 avril 2025 à 20:42
  • World-record holder Chepngetich ‘not in right place’
  • Defending women’s champion Jepchirchir has ankle injury

The women’s world-record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, and the reigning champion, Peres Jepchirchir, have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks before the race.

Kenyan Chepngetich broke the women’s record in Chicago last year, running 2hr 9min 56sec to become the first woman to break 2:10, and had hoped to improve on that time in London on 27 April. “I’m not in the right place mentally or physically to race my best in London and I am therefore withdrawing,” she said in a statement. “I am very sad to miss the race and I hope to be back next year.”

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© Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

18 avril 2025 à 20:07

Site that once provided health information now includes criticism of Anthony Fauci, who led response to pandemic

The Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, vaccines, treatment and secondary conditions such as long Covid – with a treatise on the “lab leak” theory.

The site includes intense criticism of Dr Anthony Fauci, who helmed national Covid policies under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the World Health Organization (WHO) and state leadership in New York.

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Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before

18 avril 2025 à 20:00

Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells

After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has seen before.

The bold – and contested – assertion follows an experiment in which researchers in the US had laser pulses fired into their eyes. By stimulating individual cells in the retina, the laser pushed their perception beyond its natural limits, they say.

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© Photograph: Austin Roorda

Hamilton hopes he and Ferrari can ‘ride rollercoaster’ to success

18 avril 2025 à 19:39

Briton in cautious mood before Saudi Arabian GP but maintains Scuderia are ‘greatest team in F1 history’

Weathering the choppy waves of his new career with Ferrari it is still clear that every time Lewis Hamilton climbs into the car the seven-time Formula One champion believes he is taking a step forward, regardless of how it seems to others. He remains unfazed by the process of adapting, having long considered it would be an evolution, even given the weight of all the expectation and scrutiny.

This weekend at the fifth round of the season in Saudi Arabia, Ferrari and Hamilton are optimistic they will be making another stride in bridging the gap to the dominant McLaren.

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© Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

The week around the world in 20 pictures

18 avril 2025 à 19:33

Russian airstrikes in Sumy, a paediatric hospital in Gaza, Holy Week processions in Spain and Rory McIlroy winning the Masters: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

  • Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
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© Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images

Trump’s second state visit to UK to be disrupted by ‘even bigger’ protests

18 avril 2025 à 19:33

Stop Trump coalition to dust off blimp, hoping demonstrations will surpass those during US president’s 2019 visit

Donald Trump’s second visit to the UK later this year will be disrupted by “even bigger” protests than those that coincided with his state visit in his first term, campaigners have vowed.

On Thursday Trump let slip that he expects to visit the UK in September, after Keir Starmer handed him a personal invitation from King Charles III during his visit to the White House in February.

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© Photograph: Imageplotter/REX/Shutterstock

Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial

18 avril 2025 à 19:32

Ex-media boss moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrial

Harvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s request to stay there rather than in jail when he is not in court for his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges.

The judge, Paul Goetz, late on Thursday ordered that Weinstein, 73, be immediately relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex to the prison ward at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan so he can receive necessary medical treatment.

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© Photograph: Mike Segar/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

Federal judge blocks Musk team’s effort to shutter top consumer agency

Order comes a day after the ‘efficiency’ team sent out orders to lay off 1,500 of the agency’s 1,700 employees

A federal court has blocked the sweeping termination of staff at the top US consumer protection agency, a day after the Trump administration moved to axe about 1,500 of the agency’s 1,700 workforce, while officials investigate whether the action violated existing judicial orders.

The ruling from the judge Amy Berman Jackson put a legal hurdle in front of mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Thursday, which came after a federal appeals court modified – but did not eliminate – an injunction limiting the agency’s ability to terminate employees.

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© Photograph: Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Regulators approve $35bn merger of Capital One and Discover Financial

18 avril 2025 à 19:14

Acquisition expected to be completed on 18 May after Federal Reserve and currency comptroller sign off on deal

The pending merger between Capital One and Discover Financial services received approval from several regulators on Friday, bringing the $35bn tie-up closer to completion.

The Federal Reserve and the office of the comptroller of the currency (OCC) signed off on the deal, which was first announced in February 2024.

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© Photograph: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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