headlines
Thursday
28
April
2016
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Obama administration urges states to curb use of solitary confinementUS president has introduced federal-level reforms, but without getting states to do likewise their impact will be minimal
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Airstrike on MSF-backed Aleppo hospital kills patients and doctorsOne of Syrian city’s last paediatricians among the dead, as UN envoy says ceasefire is now ‘barely alive’ -
Can the Republican party solve its science denial problem?Dana Nuccitelli: Evolution and climate science denial are predominant on the political right; there is no equivalent on the left -
highlights
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How Zuckerberg won the internetHe has dominated the desktop internet. He’s dominated the mobile internet. Now he’s going to dominate Facebook itself
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All-star cast conjure a visceral O'NeillJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O’Neill’s finest play
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Defiant, victorious and gloriousMarlins Park, Miami
She stunned the world with her magnum opus Lemonade and now Beyoncé’s new world tour puts the furious politics of black womanhood centre stage -
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Curry-less Warriors rampage into second round of playoffsThe Golden State Warriors made light work of Houston while their were vital wins for the Hornets and Trail Blazers
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Why some players wonder if Jake Arrieta is making history or make-believeDavid Lengel: A healthy cynicism of Arrieta’s otherworldly achievements is good for the game. Plus, Maeda-mania draws near, Rob Manfred takes on the Goose and Thor takes Manhattan
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Ranieri: from inveterate tinkerer to do-nothing tactical master?In his darkest Chelsea days the Leicester manager’s need to tamper seemed almost out of control. Now he is proving that doing nothing is sometimes the thing to do
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Sakho suspended for 30 days over doping violationLiverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has been suspended for 30 days after Uefa opened disciplinary proceedings against him following a doping violation, European football’s governing body has announced
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Solitary confinement is inhumane. I should know – I spent 30 days thereAfter a month in segregation, I emerged gaunt and scared of everything. I was so thin that inmates thought I’d been away getting some type of chemotherapy
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Despite all the feminist progress we’ve made, women and girls are still subject to mixed messages about how their bodies must be perfectWhy do girls want labiaplasty? They're told to hate every inch of themselves
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Staffers bid farewell to a Passover traditionThree aides unable to get home for the holiday hosted the future president at a hotel ceremony in 2008. It became a yearly ritual, leading to the first White House Seder
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13-year-old boy shot by police on anniversary of Freddie Gray riotPolice say the boy, who is expected to recover, was carrying a ‘a replica gun’; shooting happened one year on from Freddie Gray funeral and ensuing riot
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A year after the Bali Nine executions, the firing squads are ready againDeaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks away
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Dilma Rousseff admits she may miss out on Olympics roleBrazilian president admits possibility that she will play no part in Rio Games if senate passes impeachment motion
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in brief
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People with more friends have higher pain thresholds, study suggestsLink between larger friendship circles and high pain thresholds may be down to the way the the brain’s endorphin system has evolved, researchers say
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We should have sold bricks to Ai Weiwei, say bossesToy company chiefs say order was blocked by employee who misinterpreted rule on political neutrality, but deny they were influenced by China concerns
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How television evolved from pregnancy scandals to 'pegging'The proliferation of television has brought more extreme sex, the invention of ‘sexposition’ and portrayals of sexuality that haven’t been seen before
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Why Jerry Maguire's full-length mission statement is for superfans onlyOn the 20th anniversary of the film starring Tom Cruise, the director publishes the exhaustive 5,000-word mission statement he wrote for his crisis-hit sports agent
in depth
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Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a wombIndia is trying to stop surrogacy for foreign couples – purportedly to prevent the exploitation of poor women. But will this make matters worse?
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Battle of New York's urban titansWhen city planner Robert Moses proposed a road through Greenwich Village in 1955, he was fought by local resident Jane Jacobs. It was the start of a decades-long struggle for swaths of the city
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Why so many Iranians have come to hate the hijabOver the years the state crackdown on women’s dress has become more of a show to placate the country’s hardline base. Our correspondent shares stories from her personal repertoire illustrating the point
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Rival gangs push for peace after Freddie Gray deathBloods and Crips say a truce formed a year ago continues to inspire them to reduce violence in the city
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Flanders, Belgium: where cycling is religionA remarkable exhibition in a church in Roeselare, West Flanders, compares cycling to religion
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Brain ‘atlas’ shows how words are organizedUsing brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain
Millions saved: studies in global health
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Ambitious projects in African and Asian countries have seen success, thanks to improved information-gathering processes and smartphone technologyHow good data helps improve community health -
We can learn from programs that practically wiped out meningitis A in regions of Africa, greatly reduced traffic casualties in Vietnam and kept Kenyan orphans in schoolsWhat makes a global health campaign successful? – podcast -
Eradicating an illness requires tremendous effort from healthcare experts, government leaders and local communities. How close are we to wiping out sickness worldwide?Polio, guinea worm and measles: the fight to make diseases disappear -
The Meningitis Belt, composed of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, experiences an outbreak of meningitis A every five to eight years. African leaders had to unite to find an affordable solutionFighting disease in Africa's Meningitis Belt – video
video & pictures
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Unseen Bowie, Blondie and B-52s album shootsThe new book Outside the Lines gathers behind-the-scenes pictures, outtakes and lost images from the cover shoots of punk and new wave’s most famous LPs. Take a look, and read what their photographers recall from the sessions
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Beyoncé kicks off Formation tour in MiamiBeyoncé performs on the opening night of her Formation World Tour on Wednesday in Miami. In these clips she performs Hold Up and Daddy Lessons
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The most iconic 20th century photography to be auctioned at Sotheby'sWith works by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh and Guy Bourdin, as well as contemporary photographers such as Miles Aldridge and David LaChapelle, these are arguably the images which defined modern fashion photography as we know it
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Putin watches first rocket launch from new Vosochny cosmodromeRussian president Vladimir Putin watches the first rocket launch from the new Vosochny cosmodrome in the country’s far east on Thursday
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Pepper spray flies at Donald Trump rally in AnaheimSupporters and opponents of Donald Trump clash at a rally in Anaheim, California on Tuesday, with pepper spray being used against each other
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Photographs from the LA Gun ClubOn a visit to a US gun range, photographer Jane Hilton decided to do some shooting of a different sort. But rather than focusing in on the people wielding the weapons, she concentrated on the targets
people
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The Somali-British poet quoted by Beyoncé in LemonadeShe was London’s Young Poet Laureate, becoming a voice for its marginalised people – now her work has been recited by the queen of pop
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Mobile games make me want to throw my phoneVideo games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to make mobile titles worth playing
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Director in talks to take on George Washington biopicThe General will be a gritty take on the former US president’s time as leader of the colonial forces during the revolutionary war
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In North Carolina I insisted on a transgender bathroomHaving conquered pop and musical theatre, Lauper went to Nashville to record a country album, Detour. She talked about working with legends and why she chose to perform in a state with anti-LGBT laws
the big picture
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Photo highlights of the dayThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world
Donald Trump Ten problems with his 'America-first' foreign policy speech
Live Cruz and Fiorina hope to pry Indiana from Trump's hands