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"We found a boat-lifting machine and asked the actors to jump aboard, then set the mechanism in motion as we started to shoot."

Everything was grey. I could hear my friend Priscilla screaming and voices all around me, but I couldn’t see anything. The paramedics lifted the gurney – “One, two, three” – and that’s when I came to.

Rejecting official information channels, Rio’s citizens are navigating their city using crowdsourced data on shootings and robberies as they happen.

Images of pigs in filthy pens and barren conditions have sparked a row between animal welfare activists and the makers of Italy’s Parma ham. The campaigners have released footage that they claim exposes barren living conditions with no stimulation, and injured animals with abscesses and hernias being left without adequate treatment. Their expose of follows a series of investigations over the last few years...

Earlier this month Wendell Pierce, who played detective William “Bunk” Moreland in the seminal HBO television series The Wire, tweeted his excitement about a new block of Baltimore apartments in which he is a major investor.

A driver who knocked down a group of children, leaving a girl with a broken neck, was targeting a man walking in front of them, police have said. Five children aged 12-14 were standing on a pavement in Castlemilk, Glasgow, at around 3.30pm on Saturday when they were hit by a silver Vauxhall Astra. Police Scotland said the target was a 21-year-old man who was crossing the road in front of the children. The motorist struck him with the car, then drove into the children and reversed back over an

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook’s privacy practices following a week of scandals including whether the company engaged in “unfair acts” which cause “substantial injury” to consumers. Facebook’s stock, which already took a big hit last week, plunged as a result. Facebook’s privacy practices have come under fire after revelations in the Observer that Cambridge Analytica got data on Facebook users, including information on friends of people who had downloaded a psycholog

A number of possible criminal offences may have been committed by members of the official Brexit campaign during the EU referendum, according to the expert view of some of Britain’s leading barristers. Intensifying the pressure on senior figures within Theresa May’s cabinet and No 10 Downing Street, Helen Mountfield QC and Clare Montgomery QC of Matrix Chambers, concluded there is a “prima facie case” that a number of electoral offences were committed by the Vote Leave campaign. An urgent inve

The courier company DPD is to offer all of its drivers sick and holiday pay and will abolish its controversial £150 daily fines for missing work, as part of wholesale reforms to its gig-working model sparked by the death of a driver it charged for attending a medical appointment to treat his diabetes and who later collapsed. The announcement came six weeks after the Guardian exposed the case of Don Lane, who was delivering parcels for the company on behalf or retailers including Marks & Spencer

French investigators are treating the killing of an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris as an antisemitic murder, after it emerged that she had survived France’s most notorious second world war round up of Jews in 1942. Mireille Knoll lived alone and was found dead after a fire broke out in her flat in Paris’s 11th arrondissement on Friday night. An autopsy showed she had been stabbed several times before the fire. Two suspects who were arrested are to appear before judges as judicial sources co

French investigators are treating the killing of an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris as an antisemitic murder, after it emerged that she had survived France’s most notorious second world war round up of Jews in 1942. Mireille Knoll lived alone and was found dead after a fire broke out in her flat in Paris’s 11th arrondissement on Friday night. An autopsy showed she had been stabbed several times before the fire. Two suspects who were arrested are to appear before judges as judicial sources co

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook’s privacy practices following a week of scandals including whether the company engaged in “unfair acts” which cause “substantial injury” to consumers. Facebook’s stock, which already took a big hit last week, plunged as a result. Facebook’s privacy practices have come under fire after revelations in the Observer that Cambridge Analytica got data on Facebook users, including information on friends of people who had downloaded a psycholog

Russia has vowed to expel dozens of western diplomats in the growing diplomatic dispute over the Salisbury nerve gas attack. Officials promised a swift and most likely tit-for-tat response after the expulsion of Russian diplomats across Europe and North America on Monday in a show of solidarity from British allies that represents the biggest concerted blow to Russian intelligence networks since the cold war. In an official communique, the Russian foreign ministry issued a “determined protest

Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who spoke out on US TV on Sunday night about her alleged affair with the future president and threats she said she had received. Cohen’s lawyer, Brent Blakely, wrote to Daniels’ attorney to say she had made false and defamatory comments, “namely that he [Cohen] was responsible for an alleged thug who supposedly visited” and threatened Daniels. “In truth, Mr Cohen had absolutely nothing

If a Muslim man planted bombs in predominately white neighborhoods before blowing himself up, you could bet that the White House and various media outlets would label him a terrorist and draw some connection between his religion and his violent acts. But the case of the Austin bomber reveals an enduring double standard: white Christian terrorists continue to get a free pass.

Provided on-location shoot assistance for Owen Jones whilst on a work placement at The Guardian.

I assisted in camera set-up and comment selection for this Owen Jones live stream whilst on a work placement at The Guardian.

Hunted by police but idolised by followers, some street riders have risen from their inner-city neighbourhoods to find fame and big money sponsorship. Could urban dirt biking do a Nascar?

Growing up in an Igbo home, one of the things we looked forward to was village meetings, which parents had to attend at least once a month. It afforded us relaxing Sundays free of our bickering parents. With time, we noticed that the women’s wing of the meeting was a lot more serious than the menfolk — they had uniforms which were diligently followed, fines for latecomers and absentees, and most important to us, post-meeting debates that usually kept my mother busy on the phone.

Darren McGarvey, also known as Loki, tells the Guardian columnist how he has enjoyed Jeremy Corbyn shaking things up in UK politics. (Credited as Production Assistant)

The scale of food safety and hygiene problems in meat plants around much of the UK is revealed by new analysis showing more than half of all audited plants have had at least one “major” breach in the last three years. Inspection figures from the FSA reveal there were on average 16 major plant safety infractions every week

Shocking hygiene failings have been discovered in some of the US’s biggest meat plants, as a new analysis reveals that as many as 15% (one in seven) of the US population suffers from foodborne illnesses annually.

Speeding up production lines at US pig processing plants could lead to unsafe meat getting into the human food chain as a new analysis shows higher levels of error in plants where they are experimenting with faster lines.

US campaigners are calling once again for the closure of a legal loophole that allows meat with salmonella to be sold in the human supply chain. The bacteria isn’t classified as an “adulterant” in US law meaning producers have no obligation to withhold contaminated batches

Explore the glitz and glamour of 1930s New York: from the hottest bars and cocktails of the era to elegant art and architecture - transport yourself back to the decade of art deco with our interactive map of Manhattan

The commemoration of a 200-year-old British military victory in India has spilled over into days of violence and protests. Streets in Mumbai were deserted as hundreds of Dalit protesters blocked roads and train lines and attacked buses, forcing transport delays and the closure of schools in the financial hub.

A large majority of white evangelicals voted for Roy Moore – 80%, according to exit polls – in Alabama, in the deep south, in a solidly red state. And they lost. The results of Alabama’s Senate race are an omen for the future of white evangelical politics. White evangelicals, as a whole, are still flexing some political muscle. But their future outlook is of an embattled political bloc with extremist views and diminishing power to decide elections. Moore was a fundamentalist Christian hero. He

Just a short walk down a wooded gangway into the rainforest of Waipoua, near Dargaville on New Zealand’s north island, is a living giant. Its name is Tāne Mahuta and it’s a kauri tree – one of the largest types (by girth rather than height) in the world. Tāne is named after the Maori forest god and, in the myth, is the fruit of the primordial parents: his growth having broken apart the embrace of Ranginui, the “sky father” and Papatūānuku, the “Earth mother,” allowing the space and light for lif

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