Author: The Guardian

timeThe television industry is shrinking rapidly. The peak period of TV dramas has reached its peak, and the number of new dramas produced is shrinking year by year. Soon, if things keep going the way they are, there won’t be enough snubs and surprise articles like this when the Emmy nominations are announced because there just aren’t enough shows for either.The Emmys seem to know this, too, which is why today’s nominations are filled with more snubs and surprises than ever before. Looking at the nomination list, even the most passive viewer will find something outrageous.Chief among them is that…

The next time you’re somewhere non-embarrassing, try this quick test: stand on one leg with your arms stretched out to the sides, imagining that one hand is holding a rock. Next, the tricky bit: “pass” the rock overhead to your other hand without putting your leg down, then pass it back, and repeat the whole movement 10 times without losing your balance. Don’t worry if you can’t manage it: that means you’ve got something to work on.Dan Edwardes, one of the UK’s most experienced coaches in the athletic obstacle-leaping discipline of parkour, calls this the “rock pass” drill – and…

Germany plan Halve military aid to Ukraine in 2025That will grow to 4 billion euros, according to a draft budget seen by Reuters, despite concerns about continued U.S. support. Instead, the German government hopes that Ukraine will be able to meet most of its military needs through a $50 billion loan obtained by freezing Russian assets approved by the G7, and that the funds earmarked for armaments will not be fully used. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Wednesday that “Ukraine’s financing is secured for the foreseeable future thanks to European instruments and G7 loans”. Germany has faced criticism…

First, there was the century of humiliation, in which China was subjugated by western powers. Then there was the era of reform and opening up, where China’s rapid economic development paved the way for what was supposed to be the Chinese century. But now, according to social media users , China is in another epoch worth naming: the garbage time of history.In recent weeks, Chinese chat groups and WeChat feeds have been buzzing with discussion of whether China has entered a period of economic stagnation or regression in which failure is all but inevitable, called a “garbage time of history”.The…

England ended the summer internationals with a 5-0 series victory and a record 13th win after beating New Zealand by 20 runs at Lord’s on Wednesday, but not before sparking another top-flight loss with spin Sequential fluctuations. Although Jon Lewis has denied it would cause concern on the pitch at the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in October.”I feel like we’ve pretty much covered all the bases right now,” the head coach said. “We’ve played some good cricket in this series and we’re confident we can win the World Cup.”Lewis has said he will send an unofficial ‘A’ team to…

US prosecutors on Wednesday formally appealed a federal judge’s decision just two days ago to throw out the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally stashing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence and elsewhere after leaving the White House in 2021.The office of special counsel Jack Smith filed a notice in court in Florida indicating it would ask the 11th US circuit court of appeals, based in Atlanta, to revive the case and reverse the 15 July ruling by the Florida-based US district judge Aileen Cannon, who unexpectedly decided that Smith had been unlawfully appointed in the first place by…

The government has removed “disastrous” references to Liz Truss’s mini-budget from an official King’s speech document after the former prime minister complained that her mini-budget was incorrect and a “blatant breach” of the civil service code. and.Truss wrote to cabinet secretary and head of the civil service Simon Keyes, calling on him to investigate the matter and remove the wording.The target of Truss’s ire was a section of the 106-page official briefing note of the King’s Speech, which lists the objectives of the 40 proposed bills.The description of the Budget Responsibility Act, which would force the Office for Budget Responsibility…

Joe Biden has caught Covid-19 and cancelled a speaking engagement at the last minute, before he was due to address a conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon, the White House has confirmed.The US president had developed symptoms, and just before he was going to address the UnidosUS annual conference in Nevada, and after a long delay, the organization’s president and chief executive, Janet Murguía, told those gathered he would not be taking the podium.Shortly afterwards, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, issued a statement saying, in part: “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden…

Sir Geoffrey Boycott has undergone successful surgery to remove a tumor from his throat, his family said.The 83-year-old former England batsman announced this month that he had been diagnosed with cancer again after undergoing extensive chemotherapy in 2002.Boycott, who scored 151 first-class scores for Yorkshire and England between 1962 and 1986 and scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests, said via social media on July 2: “In the past few years During the week I had an MRI scan, a CT scan, a PET scan and two biopsies, and it was now confirmed that I had throat cancer and needed surgery.However,…

Hot enough to melt metal and blanketed by a toxic, crushing atmosphere, Venus ranks among the most hostile locations in the solar system. But astronomers have reported the detection of two gases that could point to the presence of life forms lurking in the Venusian clouds.Findings presented at the national astronomy meeting in Hull on Wednesday bolster evidence for a pungent gas, phosphine, whose presence on Venus has been fiercely disputed.A separate team revealed the tentative detection of ammonia, which on Earth is primarily produced by biological activity and industrial processes, and whose presence on Venus scientists said could not…