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GuardianSep 30Preview

Stella McCartney makes waves with ‘sea life, not sea food’ theme in zero-wool Paris show

Designer showcases wool alternatives and ocean-inspired clothes and says ‘kindness requires real work’Stella McCartney has been talking about animal rights at fashion week for 30 years. She is usually a lone voice, but the issue is back in the headlines this season. Outcry over the physical restraining of a Peta protester at a catwalk show by Steven Kolb, the president of New York fashion week’s governing body, has put cruelty in wool production – previously considered niche compared to the hot button topic of fur – on the news agenda.“There is no wool on the runway this season, and I’m proud of that,” McCartney said after her show. She has been working on wool alternatives, including Brewed Protein, a fermented alternative to cashmere and wool developed in collaboration with the Japanese biotech firm Spiber, which was first used in her collections a year ago. Continue reading...

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NYTSep 30Preview

UK Believes Iran Played a Part in RAF Fairford Air Base Incident, Burnham Says

The British prime minister, Andy Burnham, said there were “strong indications” Iran played a part in the events at R.A.F. Fairford on Sunday, without providing details why.

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BBCSep 30Preview

Regulating AI 'not the right place to start' says Bailey

AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.

GuardianSep 30Preview

How do you cope when your sacred land becomes Times Square? The art of the first Native New Yorkers

A new exhibit of Lenape paintings, traditional dress and music proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and aliveDuring the 19th century, the US government funded more than 500 “Indian boarding schools” aimed at forcibly assimilating Native American children into western culture. Students were taken from their families, frequently by force, and forced to cut their hair. They were stripped of their original names, and taught to feel shame regarding their heritage and customs. Run like military academies, these institutions required children to wear uniforms and subjected them to severe physical punishment, such as solitary confinement and flogging. Richard Henry Pratt, who established the first of these schools, declared that their explicit purpose was to “kill the Indian, save the man”.These assimilation practices persisted for decades, during which numerous children endured physical a

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BBCSep 30Preview

US actor Chad Lowe 'heartbroken' by death of daughter Fiona aged 13

Lowe and his wife Kim Painter announce the death of their daughter, who "was the light of our lives".

BBCSep 30Preview

Tories would keep the triple lock as it is, says party chairman

The triple lock, which was introduced but the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in 2011, ensures state pensions rise by whichever is highest out of average earnings growth, consumer price index (CPI) inflation or 2.5%.

GuardianSep 30Preview

How Deep Is Your Love review – under the sea at Earth’s last frontier with the Psychedelic Elvis Worm

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea miningFor the marine biologists in this whimsical eco-documentary, the answer is about 5000 metres down. In the lab, we watch them observing, describing, and classifying the bonkers-looking creatures that survive in the freezing-cold waters of the deep sea: blobby little sea pigs and alien glow-in-the-dark sea cucumbers. It seems 90% of life in the deep sea has yet to be named, explains film-maker Eleanor Mortimer in her quirky voiceover. It is the last frontier of exploration on Earth.Mortimer accompanies a team of scientists on an expedition to the eastern Pacific. It takes the ship’s robot four hours to descend the four kilometres to the ocean floor where it trundles along, grabber claw at the ready. A biologist explains that 80% of what they brin

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BBCSep 29Preview

The start-ups hoping to return battery making to the US

Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.