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2026-05-05 02:07:34 (2 days ago)

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The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:46 (2 days ago)

The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis

Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village

Sitting stoned on a hill above his village, a young man muses on his place in the world. Connor is proud to have fenced pastures while his mates have been away at university. But it’s overwhelming to think of all their lives being equally real and urgent. Are they part of the same story or separate ones? A phrase comes to him from a book he hated at school: something about “the roar on the other side of silence”. In this fine, subtle and strange novel from one of the most probing writers of contemporary rural life, Melissa Harrison earns that nod to George Eliot, whose words she gives to an anxious and ecstatic labourer clutching a can of Fanta.

The Given World follows the inhabitants of one village in a river valley, a place “as old as anywhere”, for six months between the equinoxes of a year. The time is now, or an imminent future when the seasons seem to have “ceased their metronome”. At first, the central figure appears to be Clare, who knows each flagstone of the ancient priory that has been the centre of her life. The six months are her dying time, from diagnosis to last thoughts. But, in a way that pays tribute to the solitary Clare’s understanding of interconnectedness, the novel goes out from the priory to trace a web of lives. In the breezeblock bungalow next door, a desperate farmer tunes in at dawn to American evangelists on the radio. Like Saj the postman, we call at addresses where literary fiction rarely bothers to ring the bell.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:45 (2 days ago)

Salisbury Cathedral restores stained-glass treasure by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris

Project to refurbish ‘Angels’ hailed huge success as dean says it will ‘lift spirits and rekindle hope’

Sam Kelly admitted there had been some nights of broken sleep as he led a two-year project to restore one of Salisbury Cathedral’s treasures, a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.

“It would be wrong to say I didn’t lie awake sometimes,” said the head glazier. “You are working on something that is very precious and if it fell on the floor, it would be very bad.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:44 (2 days ago)

‘It feels like an independent republic’: Madrid’s new arty barrio of Carabanchel

This traditional neighbourhood ‘across the river’ is where the city’s creatives are heading as the centre heats up

Madrid’s current boomtown dynamics are driving the city centre way upmarket, pushing the average punter to outer barrios in search of cheaper rent. As seen in New York and elsewhere, the creative class is moving too – crossing the River Manzanares to open studios in the former factories and metalworks of Carabanchel. Now the city’s most populous district, this used to be a separate municipality, which was annexed to the capital in 1948 and built up into canyons of high-rise flats to house the postwar influx from the provinces, and later from Latin America.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:44 (2 days ago)

Seen a ghost? The eeriest images from Fotografia Europea – in pictures

From gigantic goat hair costumes to small hidden rooms in houses, this year’s photography festival takes a turn for the spectral

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:44 (2 days ago)

Preemptive Listening review – artist’s film about sirens is buzzing with sonic ideas

With its striking images and experimental soundtrack, artist Aura Satz’s film is an endurance test that might work better in a gallery

This film from the London-based artist Aura Satz is an exploration of sirens – as in the warning devices, not the mythical creatures that lure unsuspecting men to their doom. Really it’s an art film, and might have been more at home in a gallery where audiences would be able to engage with its striking images and experimental soundtrack for as long as the mood takes them. As a feature-film experience it becomes an endurance test, a battle to pay attention and concentrate for the whole thing.

It opens with a drone shot of a huge siren in the middle of what looks like a residential neighbourhood, ready to alert residents to heaven knows what threat. Over the top, a shrill, insinuating track from composer Laurie Spiegel buzzes with the nagging whine of an electronic mosquito. There are some interesting ideas here. British-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla muses on the role of sirens in the 2011 Arab spring protests, and we learn that in Palestine loudspeakers in mosque minarets sound a siren every year on Nakba day – one second for every year that has passed since Palestinians were displaced from their homeland after the creation of the state of Israel.

CBC News - Top Stories

2026-05-05 01:59:59 (2 days ago)

Video captures jet ski striking grey whale in water off Vancouver

A grey whale's spray is visible next to a sailboat and an approaching jet ski.

Witnesses along Vancouver’s seawall saw the collision unfold in the water near Siwash Rock in Stanley Park around 7:30 p.m. PT on Monday.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-05 01:52:08 (2 days ago)

Iran says US military killed five civilians in attacks on passenger boats

Iranian commander says US military attacked two passenger boats, not IRGC vessels, in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.

Globo News - Mundo

2026-05-05 01:48:55 (2 days ago)

Explosão em fábrica de fogos de artifício na China deixa 26 mortos e dezenas de feridos

Bombeiros trabalham para extinguir o fogo na fábrica de fogos de artifício na China Via Reuters Uma explosão em uma fábrica de fogos de artifício na província de Hunan, na China, deixou 26 mortos e mais de 50 feridos, informou nesta segunda-feira (4) a emissora estatal CCTV. Inicialmente, 21 vítimas fatais foram confirmadas. Na madrugada desta terça (5), a emissora comunicou mais 5 mortes. O acidente ocorreu por volta das 16h40 em um dos galpões da empresa Huasheng Fireworks Manufacturing and Display. 📱Baixe o app do g1 para ver notícias em tempo real e de graça O presidente da China, Xi Jinping, pediu esforços totais para localizar pessoas ainda desaparecidas e garantir o atendimento aos feridos. Imagens que circulam nas redes sociais chinesas mostram uma densa coluna de fumaça branca se elevando no local da explosão. Explosão em fábrica de fogos de artifícios na China eixa 21 mortos e 61 feridos. Reprodução / CCTV Initial plugin text O impacto também danificou portas e janelas de casas em vilarejos vizinhos. Moradores relataram que pedras foram arremessadas para as margens das estradas com a força da explosão, e alguns disseram ter deixado a região por medo de novos incidentes. A explosão ocorre menos de três meses após outro acidente em uma loja de fogos de artifício na província de Hubei, que deixou 12 mortos após uma explosão seguida de incêndio. Vista aérea da fábrica de fogos de artifício exibida pela mídia estatal chinesa na manhã de terça-feira. Reprodução CCTV Explosão em fábrica de fogos de artifícios na China eixa 21 mortos e 61 feridos. Reprodução / Redes Sociais Vídeos em alta no g1 *Com informações da Reuters