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Nearly 50 people die of thirst in Sahara desert after lorry breaks down

Only two survived after trekking more than 50km (30 miles) across the desert to alert the authorities.

The Guardian World

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Missing Tasmanian devil Mary captured on CCTV escaping from Gold Coast wildlife park

CCTV cameras caught the carnivorous marsupial skulking around deserted grounds at 4am Tuesday morning Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A search is under way on Queensland’s Gold Coast for a missing Tasmanian devil who escaped her enclosure in a daring early morning dash caught on camera. The devil, named Mary, did a Houdini from the Paradise Country theme park, escaping from quarantine in the early hours of Tuesday. Continue reading...

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Successful Aussie startup founder issues brutal warning that business owners should desert the country to avoid the Albanese government's proposed new tax rules

Michael Kong, director of Sonic Labs, advised young Aussies to leave the country after being 'slapped in the face' by Labor's tax changes.

Daily Mail (News)

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BBC bias row after Desert Island Discs 'bans Farage': Reform leader ruled out of Radio 4 show to avoid upsetting woke staff, biography claims

A new biography claims the Reform UK leader will never be invited on to the prestigious Radio 4 show as his presence would make woke Corporation staff feel 'unsafe'.

The Guardian Culture

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio (Picador, £16.99) Kawakami’s latest opens with a bang, as narrator Hana learns that her old friend Kimiko has been charged with abduction. This MacGuffin takes us to their friendship in late-1990s Tokyo, when teen Hana and the older woman open a bar called Lemon: “Yellow attracts money.” But it’s a turbulent ride and soon Hana is in a world of organised crime. “The world is crazy. I feel like I’m living in a manga.” She’s not the only one, and you need an appetite for Kawakami’s style, which prefers to explore rather than explain – people come and go, buildings burn down, cancer is diagnosed, almost at random – but the relentless rush means there’s no time to get bored. At its best – as in a scene where Hana’s unreliable mother wants to borrow 2m yen for investment in lingerie that helps “your spine and organs move back to where they’re supposed to be” – this is a story both absurd and horrifying. All Flesh by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Pushkin, £12.99) “Forgive me for starting this story with bodily, unpalatable origins.” You may as well – it’s all like that. In an unnamed European country, a schoolgirl “born with no urge but to consume” is getting bigger and bigger. “My gut, my ass, my thighs – they were all set on reaching the farthest corners of the world.” She blames her gluttony on the need to silence the voice of her dead twin sister, who was “absorbed into my tissues” in the womb. She hates school, where other kids mock her, as though her own self-disgust weren’t enough. After a blackly comic scene where she gets stuck in her bedroom doorframe like “an uncooperative cork”, she falls in love with the lonely carpenter who arrives to widen the door – but there are more twists to come. This powerful story is deeply physical, but driven by a compelling voice describing the torment of a girl who is “the psychical mirror of our time … immoderation made manifest”. Continue reading...

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Gorgeous Wild West mining village on verge of becoming 'living ghost town' after judge ruled to protect endangered TORTOISES

A small desert community with a population of under 100 has expressed growing fears that its town will die without visits from off-roaders, who have now been blocked from visiting.

Daily Mail (News)

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JOHN LEE: Kevin Bakhurst's shtick has worn thin - just ask any RTÉ staff member. But worse still for the former BBC man, here's why all his friends in Leinster House's corridors of power are fast deserting him too...

Working people struggling in a cost-of-living crisis don't want to hear a State employee on €250,000 (who is also seeking a pay rise) whining.

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Nearly 50 people die of thirst in Sahara desert after lorry breaks down

Missing Tasmanian devil Mary captured on CCTV escaping from Gold Coast wildlife park

Successful Aussie startup founder issues brutal warning that business owners should desert the country to avoid the Albanese government's proposed new tax rules

BBC bias row after Desert Island Discs 'bans Farage': Reform leader ruled out of Radio 4 show to avoid upsetting woke staff, biography claims

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

Gorgeous Wild West mining village on verge of becoming 'living ghost town' after judge ruled to protect endangered TORTOISES

JOHN LEE: Kevin Bakhurst's shtick has worn thin - just ask any RTÉ staff member. But worse still for the former BBC man, here's why all his friends in Leinster House's corridors of power are fast deserting him too...