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TV tonight: Hamza Yassin’s delightful birding odyssey in Africa
Tonight’s TV highlights are led by wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin, who begins a new BBC One series exploring Kenya’s endangered birds of prey, including the martial eagle, and makes an enthusiastic case for appreciating vultures. Elsewhere, Suranne Jones returns as DCI Amy Silva in the twisty cop drama Vigil on BBC, now navigating a diplomatically…
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Heirs to $11 billion Jack Daniel’s fortune locked in bitter family feud as rebel brothers take aim at relatives over takeover bid
Two brothers who are heirs to the Brown-Forman fortune, which owns Jack Daniel’s, have publicly clashed with the rest of their family over the company’s leadership and its rejection of a $15 billion (£11.8bn) takeover approach. WL Lyons Brown III and Stuart R Brown sent a scathing letter to relatives on 10 July accusing the…
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Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is facing scrutiny over its financial ties to billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, whose extensive business interests span the global arms industry and military contracts. A Guardian investigation has found that the Thailand-based tycoon, who has funded roughly two-thirds of Reform’s donations and gave Farage an undeclared £5m gift now under…
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‘You’re at war when you get attacked’: Mark Carney shows combative nature in face-off with Trump
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has adopted an openly combative stance towards Donald Trump after trade talks between the two countries collapsed, framing the breakdown as an attack that Canada must resist rather than accept unfavourable terms. The shift is notable because Carney, a former central banker known for calming markets, is now one of…
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Which four hit songs were once the theme tune for ‘Ready Steady Go’ in the 1960s?
Ready Steady Go! launched on ITV in August 1963 with the tagline “The weekend starts here”, becoming Britain’s first major pop TV show aimed at the emerging youth scene and predating its BBC rival Top of the Pops. Unlike Top of the Pops’ reliance on official chart rankings, the show focused on London’s mod and…
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Gunman wounds two Columbia officers, Milo Yiannopoulos deported, Shapiro accused over measles deaths
A South Carolina park shooting left two police officers hurt and the gunman dead, Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the UK, and a Pennsylvania commissioner accuses Governor Shapiro of misrepresenting measles deaths amid RFK Jr’s intervention.
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“It was rough. There was no money. I was on the balls of my ass”: Aerosmith were one of the biggest American rock bands of the 1970s. And then it went to hell
This piece from Loudersound recounts how Aerosmith, one of the biggest American rock bands of the 1970s, imploded in the early 1980s under the weight of drug and alcohol addiction and internal conflict. It centres on singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, both of whom were spiralling into substance abuse even as their professional…
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Todd Blanche built his career on loyalty to Trump… but now he’s drinking from the poisoned chalice that wiped out Pam Bondi
Todd Blanche, now leading the US Justice Department, is struggling to deliver the aggressive prosecutions of Donald Trump’s political adversaries that his predecessor, Pam Bondi, also failed to achieve before her removal. The president has long targeted former officials including ex-FBI director James Comey, former national security adviser John Bolton and ex-CIA director John Brennan,…
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Coast Guard officer, 29, killed in ‘random’ drive-by shooting as heartbroken family offer $20K reward for information leading to killer
A US Coast Guard officer was shot dead in what police believe was a random attack in a Seattle-area neighbourhood, and his family is now offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to his killer. Connor Scott Overstreet, 29, an active-duty lieutenant, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington,…
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“Nobody was more surprised than I was when we started doing it, and today it’s my main activity”: Perfect but unplanned timing sent the Alan Parsons Project touring galaxies far, far away with I Robot
Alan Parsons has recounted how “I Robot”, the second album by The Alan Parsons Project, arrived in 1977 just as science fiction surged in popularity thanks to Star Wars, an unplanned coincidence that helped shape the band’s career trajectory. Speaking to Prog in 2013, the renowned engineer and producer explained how the album, inspired loosely…