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BBCOct 18Preview

Burnt out cars and shattered glass on Paris streets after protests turn to riots and looting

Around 1,800 people were arrested after nationwide protests saw outbreaks of violence and vandalism.

GuardianOct 18Preview

Chelsea v Tottenham: Women’s Super League – live

⚽ WSL updates from the 12noon BST kick-off⚽ Scores | Table | Read Moving the Goalposts | Mail Taha3 min: Chelsea finally get a decent hold of the ball and Kaptein looks through on goal after a flick-on from Malard … but the flag is up.2 min: It’s the visitors who take control of the ball, rolling it around at the back. Continue reading...

Taha HashimWomen's Super LeagueChelsea Women

GuardianOct 18Preview

NHS staff who wrongly accessed tiger victim’s records should be sacked, says Yvette Cooper

Health secretary says it is ‘total disgrace’ if staff looked up William Chapman, who died at Yorkshire Wildlife ParkNHS staff who inappropriately accessed the medical records of a man mauled to death by a tiger should be sacked, Yvette Cooper said.The health secretary said the incident – which followed reports earlier this year that staff had unnecessarily viewed details about the Southport attack victims and those murdered by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham in 2023 – was a “total disgrace”. Continue reading...

Josh Halliday North of England editorNHSYorkshire

NYTOct 18Preview

Oklahoma Families Faced the Hottest Summer Ever and an Electricity Crisis

Record heat, a rising demand for power and an electricity crisis are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.

Eli Saslow and Erin SchaffData CentersElectric Light and Power

GuardianOct 18Preview

‘How do we welcome the stranger, with humanity or anger?’ The forgotten Germans who found refuge in Ireland

A new play revisits the story of Ireland’s 18th-century German refugees, whose experience of prejudice and exclusion resonates with today’s debates over immigrationIn the early 18th century, a few thousand Germans fled religious persecution and near starvation in their homeland and ended up in remote rural Irish villages. The Irish Palatines, as they were known, were poor, conservative homesteaders who couldn’t speak the language and were the object of suspicion and violence – precursors to the displaced Syrians or Afghans of the past decade.Their story is told in Refuge, a co-production between Staatstheater Mainz and the Irish company Fishamble. Part love story, part social commentary, it is performed by a mixed cast, mainly in English but with some German interludes. Continue reading...

John KampfnerTheatreEurope

NYTOct 18Preview

The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention

The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling.

A.O. ScottBerger, JohnWays of Seeing (TV Program)

GuardianOct 17Preview

Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California

A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistanceSebastian Rucci zoomed in on a map in late 2024, looking closely at a large block of brown earth. The barren plot sandwiched between sprawling alfalfa fields and sleepy desert suburbs was exactly what he’d been searching for – the perfect place to realize his dream of building the largest artificial intelligence datacenter in California.The dusty expanse wasn’t an obvious location. It was in the Sonoran desert, just north of the Mexican border, where temperatures regularly rose past 100F (37.8C). Water was scarce in the once-booming agricultural area, which gets its supply from the beleaguered Colorado River. And then, there was the city of Imperial – population 22,000 – to win over. As controversial datacenter projects have sprung up across th

Dara Kerr and Gabrielle CanonCaliforniaTechnology

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