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Susie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s vocabulary

To help combat the impact of screen-time creep, the Countdown word supremo has a few suggestionsChildren’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie DentChildren’s vocabulary is shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, the Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent has s...

12/02/2026 12:18 The Guardian
Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent

Exclusive: Countdown lexicographer urges families to read, talk and play word games to help language developmentSusie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s vocabularyChildren’s vocabulary is shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, according to the lexicographer Susie Dent, w...

12/02/2026 11:46 The Guardian
Ukrainian Olympian banned from competing over helmet honouring war dead

A Ukrainian skeleton racer has been banned from competing at the Winter Olympics after he insisted on wearing a helmet depicting athletes killed since Russia's invasion....

12/02/2026 09:23 Skynews
Anthony Albanese raises bulldozed Australian war graves with Israeli president

Prime minister stresses importance of repairs to graves in Gaza being conducted as soon as possible in meeting with Isaac HerzogFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has raised the issue...

12/02/2026 06:43 The Guardian
Russia attempted to ‘fully block’ WhatsApp, Meta-owned company says

Move is a ‘backwards step’, company spokesperson says, amid concerns Kremlin is seeking more state control via messaging apps such as MaxRussia has attempted to “fully block” WhatsApp in an attempt to push users towards its own state-sponsored communications app, Max, a spokesperson for the...

12/02/2026 05:49 The Guardian
DNA technology used to catch Golden State Killer leads to NSW arrest over historic alleged sexual assaults

Police charge Kempsey man for alleged attacks between 1991 and 2002Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSex crimes detectives have used emerging DNA technology to arrest an elderly man for a series of alleged sexual assaults...

12/02/2026 03:52 The Guardian
Despite Trump’s threats, six House Republicans side with Democrats in effort to end tariffs on Canada – live

President warned that any Republicans who voted to end his tariffs ‘will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time’Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said the El Paso airport closure was to “address a cartel drone incursion”.“The threat has been neutralized, and there is no dan...

12/02/2026 01:42 The Guardian
Chaos and confusion in El Paso after airspace closed and quickly reopened

Officials in US border city say FAA decisions caused major disruption – and residents are still scrambling for answersOfficials in Texas were left scrambling for answers on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a surprise order to shut down the airspace over El Paso for...

11/02/2026 23:16 The Guardian
Trump’s attempt to indict Democrats for video to troops an ‘alarm for democracy’

Mark Kelly speaks out after grand jury declines to indict six lawmakers over video urging troops to resist illegal ordersArizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video urging servi...

11/02/2026 23:03 The Guardian
Former top civil servant warns ‘more due diligence’ to be done over replacement of Chris Wormald

Simon McDonald says if Antonia Romeo is the frontrunner for cabinet secretary role then ‘due diligence has some way still to go’A former top civil servant has urged No 10 to do “more due diligence” as it prepares to replace the cabinet secretary, Chris Wormald, with Antonia Romeo, the frontr...

11/02/2026 22:29 The Guardian
Weapons Used to Fight Drones Don’t Mix Well With Civilian Airspace

In the race to build anti-drone weapons intended for use in a war zone, it is unclear how they may be used safely in crowded skies....

11/02/2026 22:10 New York Times
House Is Set to Vote on Canceling Trump’s Canada Tariffs

Republican leaders have blocked challenges to President Trump’s trade war for a year, but dissent in their own ranks will force a vote....

11/02/2026 21:41 New York Times
Marwan Barghouti’s son calls on UK to put father’s release at heart of Palestinian renewal

Cross-party UK MPs campaigning for senior Fatah leader’s release from Israeli jail, saying he is unifying figureThe son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner often described as the Nelson Mandela of the Palestinian movement, has called on the British government to put his father’s releas...

11/02/2026 20:06 The Guardian
Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children

Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideationAI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said.Keir Starmer last year cha...

11/02/2026 19:39 The Guardian
Iran Commemorates Revolution, With U.S. Warships Lurking Off the Coast

The authoritarian clerical regime in Tehran came to power in 1979. Today, it presides over a country that is deeply polarized and under threat of an American attack....

11/02/2026 19:30 New York Times
Labour can win political argument for closer EU ties, says Rachel Reeves

Chancellor says stronger alignment with Europe is ‘biggest prize’ for trade and economic growthRachel Reeves has insisted Labour can win the political argument for a closer relationship with the EU, calling it the “biggest prize” for UK economic growth.Some Labour strategists have been wary...

11/02/2026 18:51 The Guardian
Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns

President Trump has reshaped the country’s economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire....

11/02/2026 18:45 New York Times
Michelin two-star chef in hygiene row hits out at ‘prehistoric’ inspectors

Gareth Ward of Ynyshir in Wales vows to fight on after inspection report is disclosed revealing concerns about fliesA chef whose Michelin two-star restaurant in Wales was given a one-star hygiene rating has claimed the inspection regime is “prehistoric” as it emerged officers raised concerns abo...

11/02/2026 18:18 The Guardian
Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum

Small opening cut into floor at Merchant’s House Museum indicates site was probably used as ‘safe house’, experts sayA landmark house in Manhattan preserved as a museum to New York’s 19th-century history has revealed an even more intriguing secret: its previously unknown status as a refuge f...

11/02/2026 18:08 The Guardian
NATO Is Expected to Step Up Arctic Security. Here’s Why.

As Russia displays its military might in the Arctic region, the Western alliance is beginning a mission to increase its presence there....

11/02/2026 18:04 New York Times
Putin ‘trying to break the Ukrainian people – they will not be broken,’ says Nato’s Rutte - Europe live

Head of alliance warns that Ukraine ‘cannot sustain this fight or secure this peace alone’As part of the increased focus on Arctic and High North, UK defence secretary John Healey is expected to confirm today that the number of British troops deployed to Norway will double over three years from...

11/02/2026 16:41 The Guardian
Moscow preparing to evacuate Russian tourists from Cuba amid US oil blockade

Cuban aviation authorities have warned country is running out of jet fuel, threatening to derail tourism industryAir Canada cancels all flights to Cuba as US oil blockade cuts off fuel accessMoscow has said it is planning to evacuate Russian tourists from Cuba within days as a fuel crisis triggered...

11/02/2026 16:14 The Guardian
Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules

Lucy Harrison died after being shot in chest by alcoholic Kris Harrison while staying at his home in US last yearA Cheshire woman who was shot dead by her “reckless” father while visiting him in the US after a row about Donald Trump was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.Lucy Harrison, 23, w...

11/02/2026 14:43 The Guardian
Rejecting Muslim hostility definition sends message ‘your safety doesn’t matter’, peer says

Shaista Gohir says every group has right to be protected after critics warn proposed definition risks breaking lawFailing to adopt a definition of anti-Muslim hostility would signal to British Muslims that their safety does not matter, a charity’s head has warned, as critics argue that adopting a...

11/02/2026 14:00 The Guardian
Trump official allies with Europe’s far right in attacks on migration and hate speech policies

US state department’s Sarah B Rogers has become face of White House’s hostility to European liberal democraciesAs Donald Trump redoubled his war of words on the European Union and Nato in recent weeks, a senior state department official, Sarah B Rogers, was publicly attacking policies on hate sp...

11/02/2026 12:00 The Guardian
Sussan Ley looks doomed but Angus Taylor would still face a huge job

Resignation looks likely to spark a spill as Taylor seeks to recruit moderates such as Jane Hume to his causeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnnouncing his plan to quit Sussan Ley’s opposition frontbench on Wednesday...

11/02/2026 10:56 The Guardian
Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened

This blog is now closedAngus Taylor resigns from shadow cabinet and says he does not believe Sussan Ley in position to lead LiberalsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTurnbull says Liberals should stop ‘chasing Pauline Hanson down a rightwing populist burrow’Turnbull has...

11/02/2026 09:31 The Guardian
Broken ribs, ruptured bowels: ebike injuries double at major Sydney hospital in one year

More than half of the cases presenting to the St Vincent’s emergency department in Sydney had self-reported speeds of more than 25km/hFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“You don’t understand the power of an ebike unt...

11/02/2026 06:20 The Guardian
‘I’m thinking of building an ark’: the Cornish village soaked by 41 consecutive days of rain

In Cardinham, which has had 366mm of rain this year, there’s little need to check the weather forecast: more rainTell us: how have you been affected by the rainy weather in the UK?“I’m thinking of building an ark,” said Sarah Cowen, an artist and cafe owner. “It’s been horrendous. We’v...

11/02/2026 06:00 The Guardian
Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown

The throttling of the communication app, used by more than 100 million Russians, endangers what remains of the country’s free internet....

10/02/2026 23:04 New York Times
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