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Joe Manchin This article is more than 1 year oldDemocrats ditch Manchin’s ‘dirty deal’ after opposition from climate activistsThis article is more than 1 year oldSenator had proposed to attach energy bill to appropriations legislation but plan fails amid criticism of party leadership A last-ditch effort to force through legislation that would weaken environmental protections and fast-track energy projects has failed. Joe Manchin, the fossil fuel-friendly senator from West Virginia, had attempted to latch the controversial deregulation and permitting reforms to a must-pass defense bill – after failing to get his so-called “dirty deal” passed earlier this year. [Read More]

MusicHymned by Pet Shop Boys, paninari dressed expensively, ate fast food, loved pop music – and some flirted with the far right. Now middle-aged, its scenesters explain its appeal On a sultry June afternoon the tables of a snack bar in Foglizzo, a small town in northern Italy, fill up with a dozen men riding motorbikes and dressed in colourful apparel. It’s a gang of paninari: a quintessentially Italian, once-dominant youth subculture. [Read More]

Homeland: episode by episodeHomelandEverything changed in this big, shocking season finale - so why did it feel as it was retreading old ground? Plan your festive viewing with our interactive Christmas TV guide SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for people watching the third series of Homeland at UK broadcast pace. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode 12. Catch up with previous episode blogposts 'What will you do, Carrie? Burn it all down? [Read More]

Jordan This article is more than 3 years oldJordan smoking rates highest in world amid claims of big tobacco interferenceThis article is more than 3 years oldExclusive: Health groups accuse firms of undue political influence as survey finds 80% of men use nicotine ‘Big tobacco wants our youth’s lungs’: rise of smoking in Jordan Smoking rates in the Middle East kingdom of Jordan have become the highest in the world amid what public health advocates say is widespread interference in policy-making by multinational tobacco companies. [Read More]

From the Guardian archiveMia FarrowMia Farrow at the witness box16 November 1968: The American actress finds herself at Bow Street Magistrates Court after 4am fracas outside hotel Mia Farrow, the American actress, used a four-letter word at Bow Street Court, London, yesterday, when she was called as a witness in the case against Canadian producer Iain Quarrier on a charge of obstructing a police officer. Quarrier, of West Eaton Place, Pimlico, London, who had pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined £10. [Read More]

TV reviewTelevisionReviewThis masterly autopsy documentary shows one woman’s rare, brave gift to science – but it never shies away from the truth ‘I try not to think about it too much,” says Jo Crews. “It’s a bit of a mind game, as a mum.” Jo is the mother of Toni Crews. Her daughter died at the age of 30, four years after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. It began in her tear duct and, despite the removal of her eye and much treatment thereafter, spread quickly and terminally throughout her body. [Read More]

US news This article is more than 9 months oldTokitae, the oldest orca in captivity, has path to freedom after 50 yearsThis article is more than 9 months oldMiami Seaquarium, where the whale performed, announced a ‘binding’ agreement to relocate her to her home – Puget Sound More than five decades after being captured in the waters off the Pacific north-west, Tokitae the orca has a plan to return home, delivering a victory to animal rights advocates and Indigenous leaders who have long fought for her release. [Read More]

National TheatreObituaryTony Haygarth obituaryDistinctive supporting actor on television, stage and filmTony Haygarth, who has died aged 72, was a salt-of-the-earth Liverpudlian actor who became a familiar face on television in series such as Emmerdale (in which he played Mick Naylor), The Bill and New Tricks, while sustaining a reputation as one of Britain’s most distinctive, and reliable, supporting actors on the main national stages. In the mid-1990s this reputation became a little more serious when he won Equity’s Clarence Derwent award for his performance as a compromised racetrack commissioner in Sam Shepard’s Simpatico, a wonderful series of duologues in junk towns on the freeway running from Los Angeles to the desert, at the Royal Court; and secured an Olivier award nomination for his magnificent performance as the blustery redneck Juror No 3 in Harold Pinter’s West End revival of Twelve Angry Men. [Read More]

Top 10sFictionThese interrupted stories, in fiction and real life, are powerfully moving and key into a universal anxiety A missing person is a story that doesn’t end. We grapple to make sense, to decipher, to make meaning out of something so unfathomable. Jon Billman refers to the “purgatorial underworld of the vanished”, a description that makes great sense to me. The missing are caught in an in-between place, not here but not gone. [Read More]

'Moments that can never come back': the other side of René Burri – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Swiss photographer was known for his celebrity portraits and black and white work – but a new exhibition explores his more colourful side too Main image: A man exercising on a beach, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1966. [Read More]