Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden remains "really hopeful" over the resumption of the Premier League season, though insists the go ahead has not been given yet.

Family comes first for Tyler Cameron. On the latest episode of E!'s The Rundown, host Erin Lim spoke exclusively to The Bachelorette star about the very personal reason he's not...

Major pork plant closed after hundreds of workers contract coronavirus, while speeding up of poultry production lines raises concerns over standards

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The US government is accelerating controversial regulatory rollbacks to speed up production at meat plants, as companies express growing alarm at the impact of Covid-19 on their operations.

Last week Smithfield shut down one of the largest pork plants in the country after hundreds of employees contracted the coronavirus. The plant in South Dakota – whose output represents 4–5% of US pork production – is reported to be the largest single-source coronavirus hotspot in the US, with more than 600 cases. In response, the company said it was “critical” for the meat industry to “continue to operate unabated”.

Now it has emerged that as a wave of plants announce closures, US meat plants are being granted permission to increase the speed of their production lines. This comes despite warnings that the waivers for higher speeds on slaughter and processing lines will compromise food safety.

The pandemic reminds me of a different invisible enemy. Once again, coordinated action is the only effective response

Deja vu. In recent days I’ve had that sense more than once. Every time I come home, remove my mask and wash my hands, I start thinking whether it is safe to keep on wearing the clothes that I had on outside. What if they are contaminated by the virus? Well, I can change clothes, but what if the particles have already jumped somewhere else, and are now in my home? Some would call it paranoia. I call it deja vu. I recognise those thoughts and remember the feelings.

That is because I first experienced them more than 30 years ago, in May 1986, on a trip to Kyiv, then the capital of Soviet Ukraine. It was a few weeks after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, and I was in the city – about 100km from the disaster area – on a business trip. We already knew that there was radiation in the air. Water trucks were spraying the streets, foreign students were leaving the city, and overseas broadcasters like the BBC were telling us to stay inside. But our own government was sending confusing and distressing messages: there is absolutely no danger, but make sure you keep children inside, and pregnant women too. Oh, and close your windows when you are at home.

A short glossary of the changes we’ve made to the Guardian’s style guide, for use by our journalists and editors when writing about the environment

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In addition to providing updated guidelines on which images our editors should use to illustrate the climate emergency, we have updated our style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Our editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, said: “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue”. These are the guidelines provided to our journalists and editors to be used in the production of all environment coverage across the Guardian’s website and paper:

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Pavement chalking to draw attention to wild flowers and plants in urban areas has gone viral across Europe – but UK chalkers could face legal action

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A rising international force of rebel botanists armed with chalk has taken up street graffiti to highlight the names and importance of the diverse but downtrodden flora growing in the cracks of paths and walls in towns and cities across Europe.

The idea of naming wild plants wherever they go – which began in France – has gone viral, with people chalking and sharing their images on social media. More than 127,000 people have liked a photo of chalked-up tree names in a London suburb, while a video of botanist Boris Presseq of Toulouse Museum of Natural History chalking up names to highlight street flowers in the French city has had 7m views.

City leaders publish ‘statement of principles’ putting climate action at centre of recovery plans

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Mayors from many of the world’s leading cities have warned there can be no return to “business as usual” in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis if humanity is to escape catastrophic climate breakdown.

City leaders representing more than 750 million people have published a “statement of principles”, which commits them to putting greater equality and climate resilience at the heart of their recovery plans.

The 46-year-old actress is now revealing the agony she went through before receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) last August."Ever since my son was born, I was in an MS flare-up and didn't know, and I was giving it everything to seem normal," Blair told Robin Roberts in an interview that aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "And I was self-medicating when he wasn't with me. Blair recalled that she would get so fatigued prior to her diagnosis that she would need to pull over to take a nap after dropping her son, now 7, off at his school one mile away from their home. During her interview with "GMA" at her Los Angeles home, Blair was in an "exacerbation" of MS, or an attack that causes new symptoms or the worsening of existing symptoms.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that “I have not” read special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on Russian election...

Millions more coronavirus tests will be needed to safely reopen the country, the chairman of the Senate HELP Committee said at a hearing Thursday.

Actor Nick Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, has once again posted on her husband’s condition as he battles the COVID-19 virus. Cordero has had horrible complications since being hospitalized more than a month ago. His struggle has been memorialized by Kloots on Instagram, and she has again updated his health status. Kloots shared in an Instagram […]

Five Dock is divided over the news a new train station will be built in the heart of the suburb with some fearing a repeat of the CBD light rail disruptions, while others looking forward to the economic injection from better transport.

The Federal Energy Minister says he will apologise to Sydney's Lord Mayor for "not clarifying" figures he used to criticise her over the council's travel costs.

Fines for cyclists who do not wear helmets in New South Wales are more expensive than anywhere else in Australia, and should be drastically lowered, according to university researchers.

A court hears an Australian Federal Police officer told ABC lawyers he did not want to see "sensationalist headlines" prior to a raid of the broadcaster's Sydney headquarters this year.

Challenged by animal activists over the slaughter of newborn male calves, some dairy farmers are marketing older calves as veal to the ethical consumer.

A former Catholic priest accused of assaulting 40 victims across eight NSW parishes from the 1960s to the mid-1990s has pleaded not guilty to the 139 charges.

A father is dead and his son is fighting for life in hospital after both were stabbed at a construction site they owned in St Peters.

(LONDON) — The World Health Organization said Friday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new coronavirus, it does not recommend that such markets be shut down globally. In a press briefing, WHO food safety and animal diseases expert…

Trump Administration not sticking to its own order.

She is the daughter of the legendary Lenny Kravitz.

Everything worth having comes at a cost.

The former Bulls star saw himself as a basketball player. The current Lakers star sees himself as something more. “I have a responsibility to lead,” James says.

The sportswear giant says it will pull its products — from shoes to jerseys — from the e-commerce behemoth because it wants to create its own direct ties to online shoppers.

The dirty little secret of Black Friday — and its cousin, Cyber Monday — is that the best deals are still to come.

"Extended warranties are generally a bad value," says one consumer advocate. "Rarely do they pay off."

Sweetgreen has long said nothing from its stores goes to landfill. On closer inspection, that's more aspiration than guarantee.

Two California state agencies are intervening in a class action suit against Riot Games, saying women who worked at the company could deserve more money.

Remote work is rising as organizations react to the coronavirus. The technology is ready, but the real hurdle might be our real-world workplace habits.

Dan Cey has resigned as Calabasas' baseball coach after being reprimanded following a complaint by a neighbor about changes to the playing field.

Kickers Lirim Hajrullahu and Austin MacGinnis welcome the challenge of a three-man competition with Rams draft pick Sam Sloman to replace Greg Zuerlein.

Josh Rebholz, who helped with UCLA's fundraising efforts and was a point man on recent coaching hires, is not a finalist for the athletic director job.

Scientists have challenged a key plot point of the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park with new research suggesting raptors hunted alone rather than in packs.

In recent days a new slickly produced video has been circulating on social media, proposing scientifically impossible claims about the coronavirus and how to treat it.

An international study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists found that the global mean sea-level rise could exceed 1 meter by 2100 and 5 meters by 2300 if global targets on emissions are not achieved.

Temperature and latitude do not appear to be associated with the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a study of many countries published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), but school closures and other public health measures are having a positive effect.

The care home where she worked says they no longer needed the help of the UK’s youngest parliamentarian.

Notting Hill Carnival has been cancelled for the first time ever because of the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Joe Biden is going to have to offer US voters inspiration If he is to derail a candidate as adept at media manipulation as Donald Trump.

Neither emerges from their handling of the pandemic with any honour.

EDDIE McGuire has told fellow club chairmen there is more work to be done in the precinct surrounding the club’s opulent Melbourne Park home base before he hands over the presidency.

THERE'S so much wrong about the Eddie McGuire-James-Brayshaw-Danny Frawley pack mentality attack of Caroline Wilson. As was the AFL's insipid response on Monday.

The ACT Education Minister's decision to cut short remote learning in favour of returning students to class has caught many parents and teachers off-guard, with some calling the decision "deeply disappointing and stupid".

While there have been no new cases of coronavirus for the third day this week, Queensland's Health Minister Steven Miles says the Government is not expecting to completely eradicate the virus.