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Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults

Ukrainian and European partners to join UK foreign secretary and US vice-president at Chevening for talks

Vibram’s toe-spreading styles are the ubiquitous side of a trend that can be traced back to 15th-century Japan

Tom Kerridge, Yotam Ottolenghi, Rachel Roddy and others reveal how they get the barbie started (with not a charred burger in sight)

Ready for a berry and banana fruit treat? We go in search of the perfect blend• The best blenders to blitz like a pro, tried and tested

Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity

Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t break. What does her story reveal about the dangers of young adult estrangement?