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The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.In 2023 and 2024, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the then Conservative government granted emergency authorisation to allow farmers to use a banned neonicotinoid pesticide on sugar beet crops.The pesticide, Cruiser SB, contains the active ingredient thiamethoxam. One teaspoon of this is enough to kill 1.25bn honeybees, according to Prof Dave Goulson, a bee expert at the University of Sussex.After a complaint by the campaign group ClientEarth, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), which…

Credit: Monty Rakusen/GettyIn April, Nature published advice from doctoral candidates and PhD holders who had managed the unthinkable: pursuing their PhD nine-to-five, or thereabouts.In response to a follow up poll in the Nature Briefing newsletter, 20% of 6,046 past and present doctoral students said that they spent up to 40 hours per week on their PhDs. But the vast majority — 78% — spent more than that, with some saying their PhDs required at least 80 hours a week (see ‘Clocking in’).Readers were asked to reflect on the concept of a nine-to-five PhD. Here’s what they had to say.Creativity doesn’t…

Key eventsMoving around the courts, Sakkari leads Rakhimova 6-3 0-5; Khachanov leads Hanfmann 6-3 6-4 2-2; and Duckworth leads Cobolli 6-7 6-3 4-3, so I’m going to turn off Fearnley, who’s two sets and a break down to Munar to watch that one.ShareNext on No 1 Court: Jakub Mensik (15) v Grigor Dimitrov.ShareZverev says for two and half sets he played an almost perfect match, then lost a bit of focus and concentration. He’s happy not to have played another set though he loves playing at Wimbledon and isn’t old yet but he’s getting to that point and needs to…

EXCLUSIVE: After 13 seasons, original cast member LaRoyce Hawkins is leaving the NBC police procedural as a series regular, sources tell Deadline. He will return to wrap up his character Kevin Atwater’s storyline in the first two or three episodes of the upcoming Season 14, we hear. Chicago P.D. is currently casting a new series regular, a Black cop who is an agent of chaos. A rep for Wolf Entertainment, which produces the One Chicago franchise with Universal Television, declined comment. Cast changes after each season of Chicago shows have become commonplace. Ahead of Season 13, Toya Turner left Chicago…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has entered the knockout stages, yet it has been remarkable not only for being the biggest in football history so far, but also for its unusual moments. It has delivered remarkable fan antics, underdog stories, emotional scenes and controversial decisions. On a personal note, because I’m visiting the US and Canada, two of the three North American hosts, I’m enjoying what I have often taken for granted, watching global games on live TV in my part of the world.  Replays are not my thing. I’m not sure I would have been able to follow the…

Smoke poured from the roof of a six-story hotel in central Kyiv on Thursday morning. Two ladder trucks sprayed jets of water that sent debris tumbling to the sidewalk below, where dozens of firefighters were gathered.They trudged in and out of the stately building in central Kyiv’s Shevchenko district, their faces sooty and red. Some sat down along a fence, chugging water in the summer heat and staring up at the burning building in front of them.It was one of many blazes in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday as Russia launched one of its deadliest barrages in recent weeks. At…

Allan Madrigal, a paramedic with the Costa Rican Red Cross, told journalists at the site that Gil had “emerged just perfect” from the ordeal.Madrigal is the rescuer who heard Gil’s faint cries for help emerging from the rubble on Sunday. “It was an emotional moment,” he recalled, explaining that at first he had not trusted his own ears and asked a colleague to confirm that he “wasn’t just imagining it”.From that moment on, rescuers raced to try and dig the security guard out. Gil had been on duty in a small concrete booth in the basement of the parking lot…

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc., the sandwich chain backed by Blackstone Inc., filed for an initial public offering that would join a rebound in US listing activity.

For a few days, it seemed like Universal decided that there would be no advanced screenings of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for influencers. But on Monday, influencers sat alongside traditional critics and journalists at special showings of The Odyssey specifically for the associated press junket. Despite what it may have looked like, Universal was not going back on its word. The studio was simply embracing an undeniable reality of the modern entertainment press.Much as it may pain some to admit, influencers and content creators have become a significant part of our media ecosystem — one that offers film studios an…

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has praised the local content policy of his administration, which delivered world class infrastructure projects and empowered Osun contractors and suppliers. The governor made the remarks while commissioning the Lameco Flyover Bridge in Osogbo, yesterday, noting that the policy has delivered several mega projects now ready for inauguration and public use. “This project is not isolated. Today marks the commencement of the unveiling for public use of several mega projects initiated by our government. “This is part of our administration’s promise to rebuild Osun through infrastructure that touches everybody’s life –…