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A subterranean public toilet from the Victorian era has been turned into "one of the strangest places in Oxford to stay."

Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, SydneySimon AtkinsonBBC News, MelbourneEPAIan Wilkinson is the only guest who survived the toxic lunchTriple-murderer Erin Patterson has stolen “years of love and laughter”, family members of the victims poisoned by her toxic beef Wellington lunch have told a court.Patterson, 50, was last month found guilty of killing three relatives – and attempting to kill another – with a death cap mushroom-laced meal in July 2023.In a hearing on Monday, ahead of her sentencing on 8 September, a group of relatives gave emotional statements about the impact of their loved ones’ brutal deaths.The sole survivor of the lunch,…

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Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said.The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco.In an interview with the Guardian, Clegg heaped praise on his former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Meta, but was scathing of the culture fostered in the tech capital…

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment celebrates novels written about or during America’s Gilded Age era, which many scholars roughly peg between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the early years of the 20th century. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books.

“So, Yoane won’t be involved. But as far as I’m concerned, there’s been no movement in any way and fully expect Yoane to be here come next Tuesday.”Andrews felt the decision not to involve Wissa against the Cherries was “best for the group”.The Brentford boss, appointed in June after Thomas Frank’s departure to Tottenham, said he always knew Wissa – who has scored 49 goals in 149 appearances for the Bees – would be a transfer target this summer.”I knew there was, or would be, interest,” added Andrews. “Naturally, when you score that amount of Premier League goals and play…

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South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, will face a pivotal moment on Monday when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington for their first summit, as the countries’ decades-old alliance strains to confront rapid geopolitical changes.

Evergrande, formerly one of China’s biggest property developers, has been delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange, capping the end of a long fall from grace.The company was removed from the exchange on Monday after an 18-month freeze on trading, imposed when the developer – once valued at more than HK$400bn (US$50bn) – was put into liquidation.Liquidators had told investors earlier in August the listing was set to be cancelled and they would not seek a review, after the stock exchange warned the company it had passed the July deadline to resume trading.The company could no longer be viewed on…

As you will already be aware, one of the downsides of the streaming era is decision paralysis. In times gone by, people would watch television by simply turning their television on, watching whatever was showing at that precise moment and then complaining about it. But now, as you find yourself forced to pick from every single film and series ever made, you feel overwhelmed. You spend entire evenings scrolling through submenu after submenu, glazing over as your inability to find something to watch ossifies into dissociative panic.The challenge for the streamers is how to effectively curate this infinite content. In…