Report by climate change panel says global warming is fuelling not only natural disasters, but potentially famine and war
Climate change has already cut into the global food supply and is fuelling wars and natural disasters, but governments are unprepared to protect those most at risk, according to a report from the UN's climate science panel.
The report is the first update in seven years from the UN's international panel of experts, which is charged with producing the definitive account of climate change.
Front National takes control of 11 town halls in local polls while Hidalgo's victory in Paris is only bright spot for Hollande
Paris elected its first female mayor on Sunday night, but the victory for socialist Anne Hidalgo was an isolated piece of good news for President François Hollande's embattled party as the far-right Front National (FN) appeared on course to win a record number of town halls.
"I am the first woman mayor of Paris. I am aware of the challenge," Hidalgo said in a victory speech after defeating the candidate of the conservative right, former minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.
Atlético Madrid's Diego Costa a target for Chelsea manager
Demba Ba, Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto'o under pressure
The future of Chelsea's current strikeforce looks bleak after José Mourinho confirmed he intends to revamp his side's front-line, as well as instil fight and focus into his other attacking talents, for an assault on the title next season.
Mourinho conceded his team's hopes of winning the Premier League were effectively over after Saturday's defeat at Crystal Palace, his first by a newly promoted club and a result that handed the initiative to Liverpool and Manchester City in the title race. The Portuguese praised the effort and commitment of his defence in the 1-0 defeat but was critical of others for "disappearing" in a game they might have anticipated winning. He had confirmed straight after the match that his side had lacked "balls" at Selhurst Park.
Improving economy prompts 80% of companies with turnover of more than £1bn to invest up to £200bn in next two years
Britain's biggest businesses are preparing to invest £200bn over the next two years as they seek to benefit from the recent upturn in economic growth.
A survey by accountants Deloitte found 80% of companies with a turnover of more than £1bn intend to invest this year, with close to 70% earmarking at least £250m of investments to drive growth.
30 people reported missing are feared to be buried
Official death toll from mudslide increases to 21
Some of the victims engulfed by the devastating mudslide that hit rural Washington state last Saturday may never be recovered, authorities have warned.
On Sunday, rescue and recovery teams continued to comb the ruins of the small community of Oso, north of Seattle, where 30 people reported missing are believed to be buried.
Liverpool top Premier League after Tottenham rout
Rodgers says City and Chelsea will find it 'tough' at Anfield
Brendan Rodgers has warned Liverpool's title rivals, Manchester City and Chelsea, that they face a "tough challenge" to knock Liverpool from the top of Premier League after watching his side reach the summit with a 4-0 victory over Tottenham.
The home side put in an awesome display against the London club, taking the lead inside two minutes through Younès Kaboul's own-goal, with goals from Luis Suárez, Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson wrapping up Liverpool's eighth successive league win and one which has put them within sight of a first title in 24 years. With six fixtures to go the race is in Liverpool's hands, and their home encounters against third-placed City on 13 April and second-placed Chelsea on 27 April are increasingly taking on the shape of defining encounters.
Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was too certain in the past about rising temperatures
Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "its just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
Harry Potter actor also describes trying to integrate at Brown University in the US, followed by British photographers
President Xi Jinping has put the burden of modernisation squarely on the single ruling party. It is quite an experiment
Errol Damelin will reportedly step down in the coming months, but will retain a valuable share in the company he founded
The multi-millionaire figurehead of the controversial payday lending industry is to stand down from his job as chairman of Wonga as a new City regulator prepares to impose tougher rules.
Liverpool's speed on the break catches out Spurs' defence
Tim Sherwood's positive impact is beginning to wane
Tory MP for Fylde quit as parliamentary private secretary to Alan Duncan following Sunday Mirror investigation into his private life
Retailers are increasingly targeting twentysomething men willing to splash out on luxury brands
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Amsterdam-based publisher Erik Kessels has produced 12 books of weird, often surreal, domestic photos, never intended for publication. Here are some of funniest, most enigmatic and inexplicably heartwarming pictures from his collection
Read more about the pictures hereBritish actor, who has died aged 74, played many memorable roles on screen and stage throughout her long career
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Actor best known for playing Alexis Colby's sister Cassandra
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Previous form would suggest a dominant performance from Liverpool as they take on Spurs. Can Tottenham turn expectation around and cause an upset? We bring you the best images from Anfield as they happen
Liverpool show they can win in a variety of ways, while Gylfi Sigurdsson must wonder what could have been
Match report: Liverpool 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur
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Supporter of Djurgarden club died from head injuries
Opening game at Helsingborg abandoned after 42 minutes
A supporter of the Stockholm club Djurgarden died from head injuries sustained in an assault before his team's opening Swedish league match at Helsingborg, police said on Sunday.
The match was subsequently abandoned before half-time after Djurgarden fans stormed the pitch.
I owe my career to the time I spent living with my mum and dad, so no wonder nearly 50% of young Europeans do it
How to survive living with your parents
Just over a week ago, I received a text message from my brother Pete. It was a photo of a baked potato on a plate, accompanied by the caption: "She actually hates me." He'd sent it because my mum had given him a baked potato for dinner, and he'd taken the gesture either the presentation or the potato itself as a sign of violent hostility on her part. Pete is 30 years old. For the life of me, I can't work out what he found so catastrophically offensive about a baked potato. But this was bound to happen at some point. They live together, after all.
Pete has moved back in with Mum and Dad for a few months while he waits to get the keys to his new flat. He has been there for about three weeks, and already the situation has transformed into an inadvertently hilarious psychodrama of epic proportions. Pete who, as far as I'm aware, exists on a diet of nothing but poultry and creatine doesn't like the food that Mum gives him. Mum who, until about 1998, wrote pasta off as something unnecessarily exotic thinks that Pete has turned into a snob. Pete doesn't like yappy little dogs. Mum has two yappy little dogs. I'm going to visit them all on Saturday, and I'm already quietly bracing myself to walk in on the aftermath of a grisly murder-suicide.
Victims of domestic abuse face devastating funding cuts, while their plight is ignored by our media and political elite
When Margaret Thatcher's government took on the miners 30 years ago, she confronted an enemy that was organised: they had collective strength and a voice. The sides were not equal, but the miners' strike could nonetheless be described as a "war" of sorts. Many of the targets of this government, on the other hand, are deeply fragmented, rarely seen or heard and often airbrushed out of existence by our media and political elite. Women who face domestic violence and abuse are just one chilling example.
To understand the attack on some of Britain's most vulnerable women, let's take East Sussex as an example. A year ago, the discretionary social fund which provided crisis loans to cover living expenses for people in desperate circumstances as well as community care grants was scrapped across Britain. It was replaced by a local welfare assistance fund that was devolved to local authorities, but with around £150m less cash. It was up to councils to set up their own initiatives, and Conservative-run East Sussex county council set up a support scheme that could help, among many others, women fleeing abusive partners.
L'Wren Scott, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Winehouse Why do we grieve when we hear about the death of someone famous? We didn't know them, so why does it hurt?
It wasn't that I cared a whole lot about Princess Diana, or that I was particularly sad when she died. It was that I drove around London that night with my mum, through the crowds of red-eyed strangers in their jackets, and I smelled the flowers. Do you remember? They were piled up in the places she'd stayed like bonfires, higher than people, and the whole city was like a scented candle. The petrol stations had signs up saying they'd sold out of bouquets. And in that smog of roses I understood, suddenly, that each of these people, strangers to the woman, were honestly and deeply affected by her death. But in the same moment I felt sad for them, I felt sort of mortified, too. Were their lives so lacking in emotion that they found it here, on a pavement, on the very edge of their realities?
You see it today on Twitter, that first rush of celebrity RIPs a mixture of shock, of competition, people rushing to report it first, and in between it all, the people who feel truly bruised by the loss. Not because they knew them, and not because they played a part in their lives her song was not the first dance at their wedding, for instance; her face was not tattooed on their shin but because something about her story reminded them of something about theirs. And she was a person, and so are they.
More than 670,000 households in UK face increase in council tax from Tuesday, a survey of local authorities reveals
More than 670,000 of the poorest households in England will face an increase in council tax of £120 a year on average from Tuesday as the government withdraws a benefits safety net, a survey of local authorities has revealed.
Using freedom of information requests, a joint investigation by the Guardian and the campaigning organisation False Economy found that from April, 83 local authorities are reducing protection for vulnerable residents.
Russian foreign minister and US secretary of state enter talks again as 40,000 Russian troops mass on Ukraine border
Russia set out a series of tough conditions on Sunday night for agreeing a diplomatic solution to the crisis over its annexation of Crimea, demanding that the US and its European partners accept its proposal that ethnic Russian regions of eastern and southern Ukraine be given extensive autonomous powers independent of Kiev.
Emergency talks between Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, and John Kerry, the US secretary of state, got under way at the Russian ambassador's residence in Paris after a day in which tensions over Ukraine deepened appreciably. Neither man made any substantive comment before the talks began. Suggesting it might be a long session, Lavrov told reporters: "Good luck and good night."