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Gaza documentary produced by the Guardian to receive world premiere at Venice film festival
A new documentary called NAZA, produced by the Guardian and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, will have its world premiere at the Venice film festival. The film examines Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza and is the only documentary competing this year for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, making it…
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Post your questions for Alex Winter
Alex Winter, best known for playing the vampire biker Marko in The Lost Boys and Bill S Preston Esq in the Bill & Ted films, is set to answer questions from Guardian readers as part of the paper’s ongoing interview series. The feature invites readers to submit queries about his career, which spans acting, directing…
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Woman granted UK settled status is left stranded in Spain after Home Office database mixes her up with identical twin sister
A British Columbia-based woman with settled status in the UK was blocked from boarding a flight home from Spain after the Home Office’s digital eVisa system confused her immigration record with that of her identical twin sister. Nidia Webb, who has lived in the UK for eight years and was granted status under the post-Brexit…
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore review – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, directed by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, gave the world premiere of Thea Musgrave’s new bassoon concerto Out of the Darkness at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. The performance stood out among this year’s premieres partly because of the composer’s remarkable pedigree: Musgrave, now…
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Moment ‘wolf’ attacks tourists in Italian resort leaving three injured
Three tourists were injured in a suspected wolf attack at a holiday resort in Gallipoli, southern Italy, with footage of the incident capturing a man fighting off the animal after it attacked a mother and daughter. The attack, one of several recent wild animal incidents across Italy, has prompted authorities to step up monitoring and…
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‘A cognitive cacophony’: hands-on with the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 beta test
A Guardian hands-on preview of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 early access beta, held over the penultimate weekend of August, found the new title delivers the boots-on-the-ground military shooting the series is known for, but is defined by relentless sensory overload, with the game likened to “the TikTok of gaming” because combat begins…
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Horrified tourist finds note on her restaurant receipt saying ‘burn the eggs and spit on them’ after she asked for them not to be runny
A Brazilian tourist, Maria Clara, was left shaken after staff at a restaurant in Romagna, Italy, wrote “burn the eggs and spit on them” on her receipt following a polite request for her eggs to be cooked more thoroughly. The note was written by a teenage waiter, reportedly around 17 years old, after Ms Clara…
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US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
US datacenters used around 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, three times the amount consumed in 2014, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report published by the Library of Congress. The surge coincides with a boom in datacenter construction driven by the rise of generative AI since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in late 2022,…
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De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year
GrapheneOS, the security-focused, open source version of Android, has outlined plans to officially support Motorola smartphones from next year, marking the first time the privacy-hardened operating system will expand beyond Google’s Pixel range. Support will begin with a traditional flagship handset before extending to Motorola’s foldables, and potentially cheaper models further down the line, in…
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Businessman at war with neighbours after building a garden room to house his giant state-of-the-art golf simulator
A businessman in Christchurch, Dorset, has clashed with his neighbours after building a large garden room to house a golf simulator without first notifying the local council. Pete Bransky, who runs a printing business called Colour Copier, constructed the 7m-wide structure between January and March, but neighbours say it is far bigger than initial plans…