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Shearling Announce New EP Don’t Look At Me The Way A Dog Might Look At Your Leg: Hear “Believe Me (Dust)”
Experimental rock band Shearling have announced a new EP, titled Don’t Look At Me The Way A Dog Might Look At Your Leg, due for release this week. It follows the band’s acclaimed 2025 debut, the single-track album Motherfucker, I Am Both: “Amen” And “Hallelujah”…, and marks a shift towards more conventional, song-based structures while…
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Krallice Announce New Album Scour Order: Hear “Living Useless Ritual”
Krallice, the experimental New York black metal band formed in 2007 by Mick Barr and Colin Marston, have announced their first-ever European tour alongside a new double LP titled Scour Order, the follow-up to 2024’s Inorganic Rites. The announcement is notable both for the rare pan-European trek from a band known for its dense, dizzying…
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Devastating European wildfires in maps – and how they’re being tackled
Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes, with France recording more land burnt than in any year this century and Madrid officials calling the blazes the worst the region has ever seen. The fires follow a summer of intense heatwaves across Europe, with temperatures exceeding 40C…
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Yellowstone tourists get dangerously close to a resting bison in shocking nature video
A video circulating online shows tourists standing dangerously close to a resting bison at Yellowstone National Park, the latest in a series of clips highlighting visitors’ reckless behaviour around the animals. The footage has drawn criticism for demonstrating how little regard some park guests show for basic wildlife safety, with commentators noting that bison are…
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Ed Miliband to take seat on board of World Bank – with overseas aid and climate ‘central to UK’
Ed Miliband has taken up the UK’s seat on the board of the World Bank, saying international development and the climate crisis are “central” to government policy. The foreign secretary, who previously served as energy and net zero secretary, described the move as “personal leadership” of overseas aid and global finance, and pledged to help…
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TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85
TV presenter, comedian and naturalist Bill Oddie has died at the age of 85, his agent David Foster announced. Oddie found fame in the 1970s as part of the anarchic comedy trio The Goodies, before becoming one of the best-known faces of British wildlife broadcasting, notably as an original host of BBC’s Springwatch. Foster described…
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How ‘fire-generated thunderstorms’ make wildfires more deadly
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the Gironde region around Bordeaux as firefighters battle wildfires that have generated an unprecedented “pyrocumulonimbus” cloud in France. These “fire-generated thunderstorms” form when intense heat from a blaze forces air to rise rapidly, carrying smoke, ash and water vapour high into the atmosphere, where it cools…
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PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling
Leading climate scientists who helped Andy Burnham design Greater Manchester’s carbon neutral by 2038 plan have written to him urging him, as prime minister, to reject new North Sea oil and gas drilling. The intervention comes amid weekend reports suggesting his government could approve development at the Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields, a move the academics…
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CNN staffers see Paramount merger as ‘inevitable’ despite legal battle delaying Ellison takeover
A delay in the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has done little to ease anxiety among CNN staff, who reportedly regard the tie-up as “inevitable” regardless of ongoing legal wrangling. The deal would place CNN under the control of David Ellison, and the uncertainty comes at a difficult time for a network that has already…
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UK’s iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts
The Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the UK’s largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its government funding and faces closure, the BBC understands. Scientists have called the decision “heartbreaking” and “scientifically misguided”, warning it would end the site’s near seven-decade role in radio astronomy, Cold War missile monitoring and training future scientists, and…