‘Jazz isn’t about perfection’: drummer Billy Cobham on Miles Davis, Massive Attack and still learning at 80

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a story from The Guardian › International

After a grounding with genre greats, he fused jazz with rock to outrageously funky effect. Ahead of UK dates, he explains why two prosthetic hips aren’t slowing him down

Billy Cobham speaks the way he…

‘Oh, you’re a woman!’ Why are more than 90% of pilots still men – and can anything narrow the gender gap?

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a story from The Guardian › International

Get on a plane on either side of the Atlantic and you’re vastly more likely to find a man at the controls. Is it because of prejudice, the problems the job poses for family life – or something else?

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Tortured over a tweet: how the war between Kenya’s Gen Z and their president has moved online

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a story from The Guardian › International

Young Kenyans have aired their disappointment in President Ruto by posting satirical images of him on X – leading to some being abducted, beaten and tortured

Billy Mwangi is a 24-year-old student who …

Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

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a story from The Guardian › International

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge role

One hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior ad…

Man arrested in Japan after allegedly driving car into schoolchildren, say reports

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Seven children returning from school injured in suspected deliberate attack in Osaka, according to local media

A man has been arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka after allegedly driving his car int…

Lack of access to antibiotics is driving spread of superbugs, finds research

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a story from The Guardian › International

Focus on overuse contributes to antibiotics reaching less than 7% of people with drug-resistant infections in poorer countries, say researchers

Less than 7% of people with severe drug-resistant infect…

Israel declares state of emergency with 'largest ever' wildfires raging out of control towards Jerusalem - amid fury over posts celebrating devastating fires

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Fire and Rescue Service's Jerusalem District commander said firefighters had a long way to go before they could contain the blazes.

Father-in-law of Australian 'mushroom poisoner' was 'hunched' in pain before he died having eaten laced beef Wellington, her husband tells court

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

On the second day of a trial that has drawn global attention, the accused woman's husband Simon Patterson, described seeing his parents in hospital after they had been poisoned.

People are just realising there's a 'proper poop position', thanks to an unusual new toilet design - have YOU been going in the wrong way?

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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Social media users have been shocked to learn they've been doing a number two wrong, after learning of a new, bizarre toilet that's designed for the optimum bowel-emptying position.

Yasmin Le Bon, 60, joins forces with George at Asda as evergreen model fronts new affordable fashion campaign ahead of supermarket chain's 60th anniversary

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Le Bon, 60, fronts the campaign as Asda celebrates sixty years since the Asquith brothers joined forces with Associated Dairies to create the nationwide supermarket chain.