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The Queen condemns ‘really irritating’ world leaders for snubbing Glasgow climate talks
Audio reveals the 95-year-old monarch sharing her unguarded views about the COP26 climate summit: “they talk, but they don’t do.”
- by Bevan Shields
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Norway’s bow-and-arrow killings seen as an ‘act of terror’
Norwegian media reported a court granted a restraining order for the suspect to keep him away from his parents for six months after threatening to kill one of them.
- by Mark Lewis, Jan M. Olsen and Paal Nordseth
Banksy painting, returned to scene of shredding, auctions for $34.3M
“I can’t tell you how terrified I am to bring down this hammer,” joked Sotheby’s auctioneer Oliver Barker after 10 minutes of bidding.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
Post-Brexit Britain opens door for 800 foreign butchers to process ‘backlog of pigs’
A combination of Brexit and COVID-19 has sparked an exodus of east European workers, leaving some 120,000 pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
BHP shareholders strongly endorse climate plan as chief says ‘it’s a step forward’
BHP shareholders have offered a resounding endorsement of the Australian mining giant’s climate transition strategy.
- by Bevan Shields
Residents flee as lava from volcanic eruption spreads on Spain’s La Palma
Around 300 more people fled their homes early on Thursday as flows of molten rock pouring from the Cumbre Vieja volcano threatened to engulf another area on the Spanish island of La Palma.
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Danish man arrested after bow and arrow killings in Norway
Five people died and two are in intensive care, including an officer who was off duty and inside a shop where an attack took place, police say.
- by Terje Solsvik
Global coronavirus cases decline: WHO
The UN health agency says there were about 2.8 million new cases and 46,000 confirmed deaths in the last week, a drop of 7 per cent and 10 per cent respectively.
Dutch princess could marry a same-sex partner and keep throne, PM says
The government’s new position on royal succession and gay marriage comes ahead of Princess Amalia’s 18th birthday in December.
- by Sammy Westfall
‘Back to the science’: New WHO team to study coronavirus origins
What most needs doing in the hunt for COVID-19’s origins is something that the new advisory group will be powerless to get: evidence from China.
- by Benjamin Mueller
The Nobel Prize has a gender problem but quotas are not the answer: academy
People should win the prize for science, the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, “because they made the most important discovery”.
- by Miriam Berger