The regeneration of historic warehouses has transformed this former red-light district into one of the port city’s most vibrant areas
A thin peninsula just south of Rotterdam’s centre, Katendrecht was once at the heart of the world’s busiest port, home to continental Europe’s first Chinatown and a lively sailors’ quarter. Its later reputation as a red light district has been shrugged off – part of the city’s wider reinvention in the aftermath of extensive second world war bombing.
This joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 200 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie Smith
In his opening paragraph, Philip Hensher declares that a novel not only “tells a good story” but is a good story in itself. We could extend that neat formula to include this book, which is not only a masterful account of fiction since 1719, when Daniel Defoe set Robinson Crusoe down on his desert island, but is itself a wonderful read. There is nothing dreary here; no sense of being back in the seminar room taking notes. Instead it is 600 pages of deep pleasure, an excuse to revisit old literary loves and be reminded of ones that have slipped from view.
Hensher is smart enough to know why his book works so well and vain enough to tell us. The usual methodology for a survey is to assemble a roster of academics and invite them to trot out a chapter on their specialism, whether that be “Thomas Hardy” or “High Modernism”. The result is a series of silos, with little sense of historical connection or intellectual unfolding. Hensher, by contrast, gives us a joined-up account of creative call and response. Equally crucial to this project’s success is Hensher’s own experience as a novelist. He brings a practitioner’s informed eye to such questions as why some chapters in Dickens’s Dombey and Son are in the present tense or how Henry James pulls off free indirect speech in What Maisie Knew.
In the heart of old Ljubljana, a mannequin with a bucket on its head welcomes visitors to a new and ambitious project – a museum focusing on the varied and sometimes antagonistic humour of the former Yugoslavia
On the main promenade along the river that runs through Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, tourists stop to photograph a mannequin with a bucket on its head. Dressed in a pistachio jacket and red leggings, the figure sits at a table in front of one of the houses in the historic Old Town, staring at a spilled cup of Turkish coffee, popular with Slovenes and with the other Balkan and central European citizens with whom they shared a country, until it collapsed in the early 1990s. A large sign in the background reads: “Bullshit Museum: The world is off the rails, and so are we. Yebiga!”
Yebiga, which can be loosely translated as “fuck it”, or “screw it”, is the red thread running through the museum that was launched in May and consists of five small rooms filled with mannequins wearing odd accessories, AI-generated images of laughing characters and scenes accompanying some of the jokes, framed or displayed on cardboard screens. The word encompasses the heart of Balkan humour, says the museum’s founder, Borut Kokelj, who wears a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “What part of yebiga don’t you understand?”
The climate crisis is hitting Europe hard in 2026, warming twice as fast as any other continent – and the consequences are deadly
The whole world is getting hotter as carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning traps ever more heat, but Europe is heating up twice as fast as other continents. The consequences are increasingly deadly, with tens of thousands of heatwave deaths so far this summer.
The Guardian’s climate forum 2026: On Tuesday 20 October, join Damian Carrington and our panel of experts, including Professor Andy Haines, Katie White MP, Asad Rehman, Shruti Suresh Gareth Thomas and Amy Fairman, for a hopeful and solutions-focused evening. Book tickets here or at guardian.live
Low-code, BPM и ESM-платформы — взаимозаменяемы или нет? Решают ли они одну задачу? Как формировать стратегию автоматизации, если отличия не понятны? Если запутаться в терминах, есть риск выбрать не то, что нужно для вашей задачи. Разберёмся, что может каждое из трёх решений.
Под видом grok-4.5 на LLM Arena, по наблюдениям комьюнити, уже около недели крутится то, что тестеры называют Grok 4.6. Параллельно xAI собирает связку Grok Build, Workflows, Grok Bot, Grok Imagine Image 2.0 и обновлённый harness.
А ну и стоит помнить что Grok Build опенсорс на Rust с топовым UX и производительностью.
In today’s newsletter: As ministers scramble to resolve overcrowding in prisons, experts say the crisis demands a rethink of who we lock up – and what happens when they’re set free
Good morning. On his family holiday last week, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, was reported to be taking daily calls from Ministry of Justice officials about his government’s early release scheme. A furious public outcry has gathered pace since it emerged that the plan – brought in by his predecessor, Keir Starmer, to alleviate overcrowding in prisons across England and Wales – might include two of the killers of PC Andrew Harper and other serious sexual offenders, including grooming gang perpetrators.
After several weeks of “system says no” briefings, which Harper’s mother Debbie Adlam has described as “a rollercoaster … really draining”, yesterday Burnham endeavoured to put a pin in it until September.
UK news | Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK economy more than £4bn in lost economic output by the end of July, new analysis shows.
Meta | Courts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning the controversial Meta glasses, which can record video footage while being worn.
Middle East | Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing.
UK politics | Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice has been accused of using “nasty tactics” in an attempt to intimidate journalists and deflect attention from his own financial affairs after issuing a legal threat to the Guardian.
US news | Democrats called on Tuesday for a congressional briefing over a stunning charade in which Donald Trump was secretly spirited to a different plane than the one the public and press believed he was travelling on.
Votes are still being counted in the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor, with Rep. Francesca Hong and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley separated by only a few hundred votes. NBC News’ Steve Kornacki looks at the numbers as well as races in South Carolina, Minnesota, and Connecticut.
A Liberal figure under investigation for allegedly accepting illegal political donations has told an inquiry he paid for the brother of former premier Dominic Perrottet to travel to Fiji and urged the CEO of Catholic Schools NSW to “go to Brisbane” to avoid appearing before a parliamentary committee.
Consultant and lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood gave his third day of evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (Icac) Operation Rosny on Wednesday.
Russia released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment.
Host Discovery, пентест и аудит закрывали инфраструктуру, пока она стояла в стойке. Ноутбук в разъездах, виртуалка на сорок минут, ПЛК, который нельзя трогать активным сканером, - все это требует других методов. Разбираем агентское сканирование (что дает и чего принципиально не умеет), пассивный разбор трафика, SBOM и коннекторы к ИТ-системам. И почему после многометодного сбора первое дело - склейка данных, а не подсчет уязвимостей.
Я люблю метафоры. Они работают как алгоритм архивации знаний: имя становится ключом, а распаковка происходит почти мгновенно.
Для разных устойчивых управленческих подходов я подобрал геометрические объекты. Так их удобнее держать в голове и применять в работе. Я выделяю четыре основных формы…
The victory by Minnesota’s lieutenant governor was the latest for the left-wing movement in the Midwest. She could become the first Native woman in the Senate.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, has defeated DSA-backed candidate Francesca Hong in the WI Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, the Associated Press projects.
The UK's biggest energy supplier has urged customers to use less electricity during the solar eclipse - as Europe's power network companies set out contingency plans.
With some shops running out of stock, it may be too late to buy eclipse glasses - but you can still safely watch the spectacle using some household items.
<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/money-live-consumer-personal-finance-tips-sky-news-latest-13040934?postid=12212708#liveblog-body'>A wave of soon-to-be retirees are 'staring down the barrel' of homelessness - here's why</a>
The earthquake killed at least 181 people and left 2,595 injured, according to Colombian authorities. At least 195 remained missing, but civilian-run databases put that number closer to 4,000.
Master’s student made first bar with 100% UK ingredients since 1932 to highlight effect of climate crisis on cocoa plants
The late queen was the only person in history to have ever eaten a chocolate bar made with 100% British ingredients, after she was given one as a six-year-old in 1932 by the confectioner Rowntree’s.
The bar was created from a glasshouse-grown cocoa plant, at Rowntree’s headquarters in York.
The gooseberry makes itself welcome in both sweet and savoury settings: in a tarte tatin, in a lively salad for spicy, herby pork chops and in a crumble custard cake
In the summer glut of saccharine fruits such as strawberries and peaches, gooseberries may not be the ones you reach for first. But behind their strange burr of fine fuzz, these translucent, marble-like fruits offer a complex, defiant flavour. They are juicy, fragrant, a little sweet (especially the red ones that come along later in the season), but, overall, they are raspishly sour. Like rhubarb, they need sweetening if you’re using them in compotes or desserts, but their natural tartness offers a wonderful contrast and cuts through cheese, fatty meat such as pork or oily fish such as mackerel.
Master’s student made first bar with 100% UK ingredients since 1932 to highlight affect of climate crisis on cocoa plants
The late queen was the only person in history to have ever eaten a chocolate bar made with 100% British ingredients, after she was given one as a six-year-old in 1932 by the confectioner Rowntree’s.
The bar was created from a glasshouse-grown cocoa plant, at Rowntree’s headquarters in York.
Your mum’s favourite star of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doors, Spartacus and a new GoPro-filmed thriller is ready to answer your quetions
He’s your mum’s favourite, after playing the jolly nice man who is jolly nice to Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, and the jolly nice man who delivers the heartbreaking WH Auden eulogy for his partner in Four Weddings and a Funeral. But there is far more to John Hannah than a Scottish accent, magnificent eyebrows and an unrivalled ability to look soulfully concerned. In The Mummy films, he played treasure-hunting comic relief Jonathan Carnahan. In 2002’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he took on both halves of Robert Louis Stevenson’s character. He played a psychopathic killer in Truth or Dare, and appeared opposite Denzel Washington in The Hurricane.
On TV, he has been a transhumanist scientist in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD; a gruff but compassionate emergency medicine chief in Transplant; and a gladiator school owner in the blood-soaked, boobs-and-sandals epic Spartacus – which might have given your mum a shock if she was expecting more Mr Nice Guy. He was also the scientist at the beginning of The Last of Us who warned everyone that a fungi could destroy humanity – so don’t blame him, he did try.
Forecasters warned the Chinese capital could receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall over 24 hours
Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas at risk of flooding and landslides in Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Dolphin continue to bring torrential rain to northern and central China.
Forecasters warned on Tuesday that the Chinese capital could receive more than 150mm of rain over the following 24 hours, with some districts forecast to exceed 200mm – more than one-third of Beijing’s average annual rainfall of 528mm.
Forecasters warned the Chinese capital could receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall over 24 hours
Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas at risk of flooding and landslides in Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Dolphin continue to bring torrential rain to northern and central China.
Forecasters warned on Tuesday that the Chinese capital could receive more than 150mm of rain over the following 24 hours, with some districts forecast to exceed 200mm – more than one-third of Beijing’s average annual rainfall of 528mm.
Если вы когда-нибудь пытались просмотреть сетевые запросы десктопного или мобильного приложения через HTTPS-прокси, то наверняка сталкивались со странной ситуацией: прокси настроен, корневой сертификат установлен и доверен, системный прокси прописан, а в списке запросов пусто. Или приложение начинает выдавать ошибку сразу после включения перехвата.
Ниже будет описан набор реальных сценариев, со схемами работы на сетевом уровне и примерами того, как это выглядит в прокси-приложении. Для этого я использую Сольпугу и несколько демо-приложений с разными условиями.
В Тюмени из кранов идет вода с запахом фекалий, а в реке Туре, откуда часть города получает питьевую воду, массово гибнет рыба. Тюменская система водоснабжения была рассчитана на сравнительно предсказуемую Туру и не справилась, когда уровень и состав воды резко изменились. Эксперты предупреждают: по мере изменения климата такие погодные аномалии могут происходить чаще.
Anthony Albanese and the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, will mount a major bailout of Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, in a deal worth $2.5bn.
Resources giant Rio Tinto said in December it was contemplating ceasing operations at the Tomago aluminium smelter, located north-west of Newcastle, at the end of its current electricity supply contract.
Gubernatorial candidate and state House Speaker Lisa Demuth makes her case for the GOP nomination at the Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth on May 30, 2026. —Richard Tsong-Taatarii—The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty Images
MyPillow Founder Mike Lindell is refusing to to concede in Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial primary, despite Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth's win on Tuesday.
The Associated Press called the race just before midnight as Demuth was leading with more than 43% of the vote to Mike Lindell’s less than 33% of the ballots counted. However, the Trump-backed candidate alleges irregularity in voting totals.
“There’s 265,000 votes left to count. I’m down by 18,000 now,” he said on his live streaming network, LindellTV. “I’m not going to give up this race until the votes are counted. That’s nonsense.”
Lindell garnered national attention in the aftermath of the 2020 election as a prominent election denier.
The state Republican Party, meanwhile, opted to endorse Kendall Qualls, a businessman and Army veteran, at a state convention in May.
Despite earning neither endorsement, Demuth remained competitive in the race—and ultimately pulled out the win.
She now heads to the general election in November, where she is expected to face an uphill battle against Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell makes his case for the GOP nomination at the Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth on May 30, 2026. —Richard Tsong-Taatarii—The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty Images
How Trump shaped Mike Lindell’s campaign for Minnesota governor
Trump has never won Minnesota in any of his three presidential runs, but Lindell, who appeared to open a lead in the polls in recent weeks, touted the President’s endorsement days before the election.
"I have an advantage over everyone up here,” Lindell said at an event on Sunday. “I can call up and work with the President of the United States.”
The former CEO, like Trump, has vocally denied the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden. Lindell has faced defamation suits over comments he made related voting machines, someof which are ongoing. Last June, he was ordered to pay $2.3 million to a Dominion Voting Systems executive after a jury found that he spread false and damaging claims related to the 2020 election.
Prior to that election, Lindell had also become known for his MyPillow advertisements and his self-published memoir What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, in which he chronicled his experience overcoming substance abuse and gambling. He stepped down as CEO of the pillow company earlier this month to focus on his campaign.
Lindell aligns largely with Trump’s approach to many issues, including slashing government spending. Among his campaign proposals was a “Minnesota DOGE,” a reference to the Trump Administration’s now-shuttered Department of Government Efficiency.
Although he later secured the President’s public support, Lindell was beat out by both Qualls and Demuth in the contentious voting process for the state GOP endorsement, being eliminated after finishing third in the fourth round of voting. After 10 ballots, Qualls just surpassed the 60% vote needed to formally secure the endorsement.
Qualls, the first Black candidate to win a major party endorsement for governor in Minnesota, called for unity in the party following his win.
“Now is the time to remind everyone what our first Republican President said on the field of Gettysburg: That a house divided cannot stand,” Qualls said. “If we’re going to win, we got to win as a united Republican Party.”
Gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls makes his case for the GOP nomination at the Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth on May 30, 2026. —Richard Tsong-Taatarii—The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty Images
Can Republicans flip the Minnesota governor’s mansion?
Minnesota hasn’t elected a Republican governor since 2006, while the last Republican senator was elected in 2002. In presidential elections, it holds the current record among the 50 states for the longest streak of voting for the Democratic candidate; it last went for a Republican in 1972, when it gave its electoral votes to Richard Nixon.
However, Qualls and Demuth aimed to make headway.
Qualls has never previously held public office, but he was not a new face on the campaign trail in Minnesota. This year’s primary marked Qualls’ third campaign for a major seat. He mounted an unsuccessful bid in the race to represent Minnesota’s third congressional district in the U.S. House in 2020 and previously ran for governor, also unsuccessfully, in 2022.
In his bid this year, Qualls called for a “radical transformation” to the state’s tax policy and education system. “We can do a lot more with less,” he said to ABC affiliate 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Demuth largely aligned on policy with Qualls, but sought to distinguish herself on the campaign trail by emphasizing her government experience as the first Black woman and Republican woman to serve as House Speaker.
“I am the best candidate who is able to look forward to November and beating Amy Klobuchar and I’ll say the Democrat machine,” Demuth said in an interview with KSTP in June. “And the reason I know I’m best-positioned to do that is when you look at my work as Speaker of the House I can draw people together.”
Demuth, who leads a state House with an even split between the two parties, touted her ability to broker deals and communicate within a thinly divided government.
“I have solid, conservative values that really do cross party lines,” she said at a news conference. “It’s not just Republican values. They’re conservative values that are supported by many Minnesotans.”
Tim Walz, who has been the governor since 2019, launched a bid for a third term but dropped out in early January amid investigations into state welfare agencies and government-affiliated programs that were widely targeted by fraud.
The Cook Political Report rates the Minnesota governor’s mansion as Solid Democrat, among those it deems least likely to flip in this election cycle.
Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models
Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development.
Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients, helping them identify which treatments are best for different people based on the particular pathology underlying their condition.
