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GuardianSep 27Preview

My holiday was full of tantrums and hangry meltdowns. And it wasn’t the kids who were to blame | Emma Beddington

For 20 years I have made sure everyone gets where they need to be, with the least possible drama. Now suddenly I’m the one who needs looking afterWe’re just back from a family holiday to Japan and after two decades, I’ve developed clear ideas about who does what on these trips. Historically, my husband has been responsible for energetic fun, ensuring we get everywhere too early, asking strangers questions the rest of us are too shy to ask, and keeping hold of all passports. My responsibilities are minutely researched accommodation and food choices, worrying about somehow causing offence, and taking my spouse for an early-morning coffee so our sons can sleep past 6am. They, at least in their teenage years, were mostly focused on staying in bed for as long as possible, crushing our excesses of enthusiasm and finding wifi. That only made the moments when they joined in with energetic fun, e

Emma BeddingtonFamilyParents and parenting

BBCSep 27Preview

US states declare emergency as powerful storm brings flooding and power cuts

Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path of the powerful weather system.

GuardianSep 27Preview

Does avoiding misery make you happy?

It might seem like self-preservation, but the results aren’t necessarily what you’d expectIn Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, the relentlessly upbeat Sam-I-Am spends the entire book badgering a grouchy, nameless narrator into tasting the eponymous dish. He cycles through one inventive but futile pitch after another – in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, on a train, in the rain – until the narrator, caving just to get some peace, tastes the dish and discovers he loves it. When my son was growing up, “Green Eggs and Ham” was my shorthand for telling him he was avoiding something he’d love if he only tried it.Of course, not every experience we fear or dread turns out to be a delicious surprise. Misery is an inescapable part of the human condition. We can’t avoid it, yet people try their hardest anyway. We cling to hope even when a situation is hopeless. We push painful thoughts out

George LoewensteinBooksHappiness

GuardianSep 27Preview

Poland is racing ahead with military spending – but will it help or damage its economic growth story?

In the first article in a series on the Polish economy, we look at the country’s defence boom and its implicationsA short distance north from Warsaw along the Vistula river, camouflaged missile launchers roll through the quiet village of Czosnów.As recently as two years ago, their destination – a hi-tech weapons facility opened this month – had been a cornfield. Now, as Poland drives up defence investment at one of the fastest rates in the developed world, this rural spot has been transformed amid Europe’s response to Russian aggression and US disengagement. Continue reading...

Richard Partington in WarsawPolandEconomics

BBCSep 26Preview

British national among six dead in building explosion close to Acropolis in Athens

Four Americans and a Greek national are among those killed in a suspected gas explosion, officials said.

NYTSep 25Preview

Far-Right Activist Danny Tommo Arrested After Slashing Dinghy in English Channel

The activist, Daniel Thomas on Thursday denied causing criminal damage when he filmed himself slashing an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel that had an emergency responder on board.

Isabella KwaiRight-Wing Extremism and Alt-RightIllegal Immigration

NYTSep 25Preview

Mamdani Accuses Netanyahu of Spreading ‘Baseless Lies’ After U.N. Speech

The Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, of antisemitism. The mayor has become a political foil for the prime minister.

Liam StackNew York CityMamdani, Zohran

NYTSep 24Preview

Netanyahu Lashes Out at Foes in U.N. Speech, Including Mamdani

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at a litany of enemies but took particular verbal aim at Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Richard Pérez-PeñaNetanyahu, BenjaminGeneral Assembly (UN)

BBCSep 24Preview

'This is the final offer,' says NI secretary over £1.5bn Stormont funding package

Some six months have passed since the executive should have set a budget for this financial year.

NYTSep 24Preview

Carney Says He Would Consider a Second Term, Depending on State of U.S.-Canada Relations

As he tries to break Canada’s dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he knows Canadians will feel pain from the trade war.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Sydney EmberCarney, Mark JCanada

BBCSep 24Preview

Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes

The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.

BBCSep 23Preview

Home secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

BBCSep 23Preview

Farmers' fury as race for £233m funding compared to 'scramble for Oasis tickets'

Farmers fear they may not be able to carry out environmental work because they lost out on funding.

BBCSep 11Preview

An extraordinary result - why did MPs reject assisted dying bill this time?

Although supporters say they will try again, for now the momentum has fallen away from a change in the law.

Al JazeeraSep 27Preview

Finding Desert Angels: Searching for the missing at the US-Mexico border

An ageing trailblazer of search and rescue risks his life to find a woman’s missing son in the US-Mexico borderlands.

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