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The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian. 

Mike Figgis said Sands had been ‘very secure in himself’ and he had found his boldness ‘endearing’.

Chelsea seem to be in the market for a versatile forward this summer, with Kai Havertz expected to wrap up a move to Arsenal soon

More than 1,350,000 vapes were seized by trading standards at Hillingdon council in west London alone

The behavior may be "leapfrogging" between orca populations, and it could be in response to human activities such as fishing.

Fearless, sharply intelligent and sometimes caustic, Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, “had a career unmatched by any of her contemporaries”, said Michael Billington in The Guardian. From 1957, she enjoyed huge success on film (she won two Oscars) and on stage; then, in 1992, she gave it all…

“When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their $20m, multi-year deal with Spotify in 2020, it was hailed as the centrepiece of the couple’s growing business empire,” said Nadia Khomami in The Guardian. 

The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country…

Edinburgh was “a brave choice as the venue for the launch of Keir Starmer’s new energy and climate policy”, said Fiona Harvey and Severin Carrell in The Guardian. It “showed a willingness to face head-on Labour’s energy dilemma”: how to move the UK to a low carbon footing, without destroying…

We still don’t know what happened to the Titan on its way to the wreck of the Titanic, but the options aren’t good

We still don’t know what happened to the Titan on its way to the wreck of the Titanic, but the options aren’t good