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In Big Walk, players just walk and talk – and find joy along the way: ‘Some stories we’ve heard are punch-in-the-gut beautiful’

By Alexandra Neill

After their hit Untitled Goose Game, Australian studio House House is back with a new game where your only goal is to go exploring with friends – so we took them on a big walk inside Big Walk When I arrive to meet with the tiny team at Melbourne game developer House House, they’re sitting in a circle under a eucalyptus tree. After introductions, the five of us set off into the scrub. Over the course of our hike we ta

Revenues up but profits down for ferry operator ICG in first half of year

By Ciarán Hancock

Results come against backdrop of €1.2bn MBO led by chief executive Eamonn Rothwell that would see shareholders paid €8 per share

Garda charged with soliciting murders of woman and three children

By Jack White

Officer has been suspended from duty since investigation first began

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How many new homes does Ireland really need?

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Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Melanoma vaccine success boosts Moderna and Merck

By Robert Langreth and Madison Muller

Late state trial met its main goal of showing that the vaccine, combined with another drug, reduced melanoma recurrences more than the immunotherapy alone

Lewes derailment: images show track defect before incident on hottest day

By Alex Daniel

Network Rail and Southern owner GTR apologise after investigators reveal picture of possible heat-buckled track Rail operators have apologised after a report into last Thursday’s derailment in East Sussex found a track defect on the approach to where the train derailed on the hottest day of the year so far. An interim report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said CCTV images showed the “track geometry

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Israeli strike on Gaza police station kills nine - medics

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Gaza health officials have said an Israeli strike on the municipal police headquarters in Gaza City has killed nine people, with the Israeli military saying it targeted a Hamas commander in that strike and another further south.

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Harvard to pay $53m over theft and sale of human remains from medical school

By Lucy Campbell

Former Harvard medical school morgue manager Cedric Lodge was sentenced to eight years in prison last year after guilty plea

Heart and lung transplant rates fail to recover to pre-Covid levels, study finds

By Darragh McDonagh

Number of transplants dropped substantially during pandemic due to lack of ICU places and have failed to recover

Spain to allow 500 children in Ceuta to go to mainland in immigration U-turn

By Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

Madrid government changes stance after previously saying anyone who entered territory illegally would be sent back Europe live – latest updates The Spanish government has U-turned and said it will allow 500 migrant children in Ceuta to relocate to the mainland. The majority of the estimated 70,000 people who crossed into Ceuta – a Spanish territory on the coast of north Africa – on 30 July have returned to Morocco. H

Germany’s firewall was meant to hold the far right at bay. It may have done the reverse

By Jon Henley

An AfD win in ​next month’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt would shatter a decades-long political consensus and reverberate throughout the EU • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here In just over two weeks’ time, Saxony-Anhalt – home to historic timber-framed houses, the dramatic Harz mountains and the birthplace of Martin Luther – will hold what could prove one of the most significant state

British energy bills forecast to hit three-year high this winter

By Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Expected quarterly price cap rise of 4% likely to wipe out benefits of Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity bills Household energy bills across Great Britain are expected to climb to a three-year high this winter as the impact of the Middle East war wipes out Andy Burnham’s tax cut on electricity bills. The government’s cap on energy prices is on track to rise by 4% from this October to the equivalent of £1,729 a ye

US justice department defends prosecution of James Comey over ‘8647’ seashell post

By Anna Betts

Justice department claims there’s ‘no dispute’ over whether ex-FBI head’s post could be read as a threat against Trump The US Department of Justice has defended its prosecution of former FBI director James Comey, claiming in new court documents there is “no serious dispute” that his social media post last year featuring a photo of seashells arranged to read “8647” could be interpreted as a threat against Donald Trump

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Not just big in Japan: Zion Suzuki has what it takes to follow Emiliano Martínez

By John Duerden

He is replacing a World Cup winner and is his country’s first Premier League keeper, but Villa’s new signing has already dealt with harder challenges In November 2001, the first Japanese goalkeeper to play English league football conceded a goal within the first minute of his debut. Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi may have struggled for second-tier Portsmouth, conceding 21 times in his 12 league games after being spotted by the

Garda charged with soliciting murder of woman, 3 children

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A garda in his 30s has appeared before Dublin District Court charged with soliciting a person to murder a woman and three children.

‘I’m not Mr Saturday Night’: the highbrow brilliance of Ahir Shah, past winner of comedy’s top prize

By Brian Logan

Three years ago, he won the Edinburgh comedy award with a work in progress. Now he’s back with a show inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Friedrich Nietzsche. Isn’t this all a bit grownup? Among past winners of the Edinburgh comedy award, few seemed less likely when the starter’s pistol fired than Ahir Shah in 2023. Not because Shah wasn’t a contender: he had been nominated twice before. But that year he arrived on

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Ukrainian diver arrested in Croatia over Nord Stream pipeline bombings

By Jakub Krupa

Berlin to seek suspect’s extradition for 2022 explosions that damaged gas pipelines to Russia A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia as part of an investigation into the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Germany and Russia. Undersea explosions in September 2022, just months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, damaged three of the four pipelines built to carry Russian fossil gas to

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Larry Dean: Hellbent review – SNL UK star’s cheery riffs on romance and royalty

By Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Emotionally open and a little weirder than usual, the Glaswegian comic updates us on his recent marriage When SNL UK hit big earlier this year, it made stars of several comics just starting their careers. That was not the case with Larry Dean, who has been peddling his brand of crowd-pleasing Glasgow comedy for well over a decade. You know what you’re going to get with a show from the f

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Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy? “I’ve had one person who told me that their intentions were creepy,” a man tells me over a video call, on condition of anonymity. He’s based in Los Angeles, and while we speak, he eats what appears to be tuna directly out of the can. “He said: ‘I go

Graham Norton pay from top-rated chat show falls again to €2.47m

By Gordon Deegan

ITV subsidiary So Television produces The Graham Norton Show for BBC and stations worldwide, including Virgin Media

Track defect found near Lewes derailment site, initial report says

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Initial findings from an RAIB investigation show an "irregularity" at the site near Lewes.

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'Extra money will not cure rough sleeping'

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Nobby Clarke, who ran a Coventry shelter, said the Prime Minister's plan "will not cure underlying issues."

Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on

By Sandra Laville

Recycling system in Cambridgeshire that could save thousands of litres a day is deemed not in line with rules The largest water reuse system in the UK, which could save thousands of litres of water a day for people living in one of the driest regions of the country, is not allowed to be switched on because of drinking water regulations. As water supplies in England reach critical levels, the Guardian can reveal that

Hogging weights, loud grunting and sweaty benches: 11 gym dos and don’ts from fitness experts

By Madeleine Aggeler

Here’s what professionals have to say about good workout etiquette, from using equipment to being on your phone I like to think of myself as a fairly laid-back person. Other people’s behavior is not my business. There is one notable exception: my gym nemesis. He brings his computer to the gym and takes work conference calls at full volume. He has four to six pairs of dumbbells around him at all times – then doesn’t p

Government rough sleeping funding may not ‘be enough’ to tackle problem, says Burnham – UK politics live

By Tom Ambrose (now) and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (earlier)

PM pledges to get rough sleepers off streets for Christmas but issues ‘rallying call’ for community and voluntary organisations to help with plan Andy Burnham has admitted government funding “may not fully be enough” to achieve his aim of offering a place to stay to every rough sleeper by Christmas, as he made a “rallying call” for communities to get behind his plan. Speaking on a visit to the north-east of England,