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Beans are affordable, accessible and versatile – delicious in dense salads and creamy sauces alike.They grow worldwide and are good for the planet, enriching the soil they sprout from with nitrogen while emitting fewer greenhouse gases and requiring significantly less land and water per gram of protein than any animal source. Thanks to enormous diversity, more than 400 varieties are used in culinary contexts, some of which are gorgeous to boot.Yet fewer than 20% of Americans eat the daily half cup of beans recommended by health authorities, and in the UK more than 40% of the population eat no beans…

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday. NO OTHER CHOICE, (aka EOJJEOLSUGA EOBSDA), LEE Byung-hun, 2025. © Neon /Courtesy Everett Collection Courtesy Everett Collection Oscars Best International…

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The U.S. Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to proceed with his plan to require that passport applicants list their sex as what was designated on their birth certificate. The court’s decision overturns a lower court order pausing Trump’s policy and allowing applicants to choose for themselves whether they would like to identify with an M for male, F for female, or an X for neither. Male and female sex markers began to be listed on passports in 1976. The government has allowed citizens for over…

UK regional airline Eastern Airways has entered administration after the majority of its 330 staff were made redundant last week.The airline had operated across the UK, Ireland and Europe, and ran services supported by the Scottish government for people in the northernmost point of mainland UK.However, after a contract to operate services for Dutch airline KLM was ended, the carrier had been left with a cost base that was “too high to be sustainable”, the administrators said.Jamie Miller from RSM UK Restructuring Advisory, who has been appointed joint administrator, said sufficient staff had been retained to maintain the fleet while…

Bet on it Financial markets can turn on a dime, and AI can’t predict the future. However, Google seems to think that people make smart predictions in aggregate when there’s money on the line. That’s why, as part of the Finance update, Google has partnered with Kalshi and Polymarket, the current leaders in online prediction markets. These platforms let people place bets on, well, just about anything. If you have a hunch when Google will release Gemini 3.0, when the government shutdown will end, or the number of Tweets Elon Musk will post this month, you can place a wager…

By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that appears in this piece. Nov. 6, 2025 In the midst of the world’s unrelenting horribleness, it’s important to make room for beauty. True! But also something of a truism, an idea that comes to hand a little too easily to be trusted. The proclamation that art matters — that, in difficult times, it helps — can sound like a shopworn self-care mantra.So instead of musing on generalities, maybe we should focus our attention on a particular aesthetic experience. Instead of declaring the importance…

PA MediaLisa Nandy has been found to have “unknowingly” breached public appointment rules with her choice to be the boss of England’s new football watchdog.The culture secretary named sports rights executive David Kogan as the government’s preferred choice to run the new regulator in April.But she later stood back from the process, after establishing that Mr Kogan had donated £2,900 to her 2020 Labour leadership campaign, according to a report.Sir William Shawcross, the commissioner for public appointments, said Nandy should have checked beforehand and taken “any necessary consequential action”.”The fact of the donations was capable of giving rise to a…

Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Matt McGrath,Environment correspondent, BBC NewsPablo Porciuncula/AFPBrazilian President Lula warned of “extremist forces” when he addressed world leaders at the global climate summitPresident Trump was under attack on Thursday as world leaders lined up to criticise his stance on climate change ahead of the global COP30 summit.The US leader, who is absent from the gathering in the Amazonian city of Belém, was called a liar his rejection of climate science and “against humankind” for his rollback of key climate policies.UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the broader waning political consensus on the…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a 10% reduction in flights at America’s 40 busiest airports due to the ongoing government shutdown, warning of major travel disruptions and flight cancellations starting Friday.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that the Department of Transportation would require airlines to cut 10% of air traffic at the country’s 40 busiest airports in an attempt to “alleviate the pressure” on air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay since the federal government shutdown last month. The cuts, Duffy said, would start on Friday and increase to the full 10% over the next several days, which could…