The Guardian

by Sarah Butler on 22 October 2019 at 17:35

Once a newspaper empire that backed apartheid, it now has interests across the globeThe bid for Just Eat by Prosus is the latest in a string of tech bets which have transformed an old newspaper empire into one of the world’s most forward-looking and valuable companies.Prosus, which became […]

by Kevin Rawlinson (now); Frances Perraudin and Ben Quinn (earlier) on 22 October 2019 at 17:32

Rolling updates on today’s political developments as prime minister plans to ram his deal through parliament by ThursdayTusk: EU likely to grant extensionMPs opposing bill are ‘trying to thwart Brexit’Withdrawal bill: what does it say? 6.32pm BSTThe Conservative MP, Sir Roger […]

by Adrian Searle on 22 October 2019 at 17:30

Royal Academy, LondonWhether he’s just a shadow or staring at us, open-mouthed and wide-eyed, the great self-dramatist remains curiously unknowableLucian Freud at 18, his head ballooning out of the frame, flat-faced, a glint in his liquid eye where the light catches the varnish. His eyebrows […]

by Angela Giuffrida in Rome on 22 October 2019 at 17:23

Campaigners gather outside Vatican as church struggles with shortage of priestsCampaigners have gathered in Rome to call for the lifting of a ban on female priests that would “save the Catholic Church” where it is failing to ordain enough men.Activists from the Women’s Ordination […]

by Poppy Noor on 22 October 2019 at 17:12

65-year-old Dennis Quaid is engaged to 26-year-old Laura Savoie – which will be his fourth marriage and continue a wreckless patternDennis Quaid, a 65-year-old man who already looks like his own wax work, yesterday announced his engagement to Laura Savoie. At 26, she already looks like every […]

by Peter Walker and Rowena Mason on 22 October 2019 at 17:09

PM faces down MPs pushing for concessions to prevent no deal before agreeing to timetableLatest Brexit news – live updatesBoris Johnson has threatened to pull the Brexit legislation and seek an election rather than accept a three-month delay, but hinted he could live with a very short […]

by Ian Sample Science editor on 22 October 2019 at 17:00

Tests at MIT have shown a boost to the activity of the brain’s immune cellsDoctors in the US have launched a clinical trial to see whether exposure to flickering lights and low frequency sounds can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.A dozen patients enrolled in the trial will […]

by Graeme Wearden on 22 October 2019 at 16:56

Rolling coverage of the latest business and financial news, as home delivery firm Just Eat receives a rival takeover offerLatest: Biggest drop in factory orders since recessionBreaking: Just Eat in £4.9bn takeover battleJust Eat turns offer downEarlier:Sterling calm ahead of Brexit […]

by Philip Oltermann in Berlin on 22 October 2019 at 16:54

Roland Berger held up his father, Georg, as a role model – but the real story is darkerIt was an inspirational tale: after watching the horror of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, a German man tore up his Nazi party membership card in protest and turned against the regime.His Christian-based […]

by Mat Youkee and agencies in La Paz on 22 October 2019 at 16:34

Protesters set fire to electoral offices in three cities across the country late on Monday amid fury over allegations of vote-riggingBolivians are bracing for further protests after the country’s electoral authorities said that Evo Morales was close to winning an outright victory in his bid […]

by Rafael Behr on 22 October 2019 at 16:33

Among the ‘smashed avocado metro-elite’ is a generation of young people who have been radicalised by BrexitA remainer was once defined as a voter who wanted the UK to stay in the EU. Then the term got looser, scooping up politicians who pledged to fulfil the referendum mandate while […]

by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent on 22 October 2019 at 16:31

As the law changed at midnight, same-sex couples celebrated the culmination of a rollercoaster campaignAmanda Milnes proposed to her partner Christina Conlon in January when same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland was illegal. It was an act of love and hope.On Tuesday, 10 months after Milnes went on […]

by Alison Flood on 22 October 2019 at 16:25

Almost 6,000 copies of Girl, Woman, Other sold in the week after Evaristo’s win alongside Margaret AtwoodBernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other more than doubled its lifetime sales in the week following its Booker prize win, with joint winner The Testaments by Margaret Atwood also […]

by Oliver Milman in New York on 22 October 2019 at 16:23

Lawyers representing an elephant say she is being detained by the Bronx Zoo ‘illegally’ due to her personhoodLawyers representing an elephant have argued in New York court that their trunked client be considered a person, in a fresh attempt to upend human dominance over this […]

by Madeline Clegg on 22 October 2019 at 16:20

We are a scapegoat for rapid expansion and estate agents’ greed. It’s time for students and local residents to work together “Antisocial behaviour.” “Parties of the worst extremes.” “A continuous festival of noise.” These are just a handful of the […]

by Paul Rees in Tokyo on 22 October 2019 at 16:14

• Defence coach wary of Springboks ‘blowtorch speed’ out wide• Wales aiming to reach their first Rugby World Cup finalWales back themselves physically against anyone and if they justify that confidence against South Africa on Sunday they will very probably reach the final for […]

by Nick Ames on 22 October 2019 at 16:06

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It doesn’t take a long stretch into The Fiver’s Tin-addled memory to foggily recall a time when taking too much of a liking to non-mainstream foreign teams left you labelled as a “football hipster”. That’s sooooo 2010 […]

by Stuart Heritage on 22 October 2019 at 16:06

An ad posted by a wealthy Russian family asks for a butler who can ‘solve any issue’, is familiar with Jeeves and Wooster – and isn’t a Libra or AriesButlering doesn’t exactly look like fun. When Buckingham Palace posted a recruitment advert for a butler last week, it […]

by Oliver Milman on 22 October 2019 at 16:02

New York lawsuit alleges company was ‘exposed to far greater risk from climate change than investors were led to believe’ExxonMobil is to face trial in New York City on Tuesday, accused of misleading investors over the business risks caused by regulations aimed at addressing the climate […]

by Nigel Fountain on 22 October 2019 at 15:57

Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to walk in spaceOn 18 March 1965, 90 minutes after their Voskhod-3KD capsule’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and at the end of the first of their 17 orbits around the Earth, the Soviet cosmonaut Pavel “Pasha” Belyayev […]