Following the sweeping anti-corruption drive within the Chinese military, President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged its senior officers to deepen ideological rectification and political refining for a “brand new look” to celebrate the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) centenary next year. Xi told the officers to maintain resolute political loyalty to the party and said that any thought or action driven...
Following the sweeping anti-corruption drive within the Chinese military, President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged its senior officers to deepen ideological rectification and political refining for a “brand new look” to celebrate the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) centenary next year. Xi told the officers to maintain resolute political loyalty to the party and said that any thought or action driven by self-interest or corruption was “fundamentally against the Communist Party’s nature and...
A batch of exported urea fertilizers is being concentrated at the port for shipment at Yantai Port in Shandong Province, China on March 26, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images An unusually powerful El Niño later this year could exacerbate food security fears as disruption caused by the Iran war strains supply for crucial fertilizer products. Climate scientists warn it appears increasing...
A batch of exported urea fertilizers is being concentrated at the port for shipment at Yantai Port in Shandong Province, China on March 26, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images An unusually powerful El Niño later this year could exacerbate food security fears as disruption caused by the Iran war strains supply for crucial fertilizer products. Climate scientists warn it appears increasingly likely that a planet-warming El Niño will take shape over the coming months, with U.S. meteorologists estimating a one-in-three chance of a "strong" weather event forming in October to December. European climate models indicate an even higher probability of a very strong or "super El Niño," although the so-called spring barrier means that these forecasts can be inaccurate. El Niño — or "the little boy" in Spanish — is widely recognized as the warming of the sea surface temperature, which occurs naturally every few years. Such an event is declared when sea temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise 0.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. A super El Niño, which doesn't have an official scientific category, is understood to refer to an exceptionally strong phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), when sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific rise at least 2 degrees Celsius above normal. Chris Jaccarini, senior analyst, food and farming at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said 2026 was shaping up to be another year in which conflict and climate risks have become a costly reality. "Food prices are being squeezed from both sides: by climate extremes disrupting production in major growing regions, and by a food system still hooked on fossil fuels and therefore exposed to spikes in gas, fertiliser, transport and packaging costs," Jaccarini told CNBC by email. "That is why the prospect of a strong El Niño matters," he continued. "It can turbocharge weather risks in a climate already destabilised by human emissions, compounding inflation dr...
Council backs £700,000 plan to save historic landmark at former RAF base in the New Forest A unique RAF watch office that has been crumbling for decades is to be turned into a smart hideaway home to be shared by holidaymakers – and the bats that already use it. The Landmark Trust , which rescues at-risk buildings, has been given permission to convert the ruined property in Hampshire into a holiday...
Council backs £700,000 plan to save historic landmark at former RAF base in the New Forest A unique RAF watch office that has been crumbling for decades is to be turned into a smart hideaway home to be shared by holidaymakers – and the bats that already use it. The Landmark Trust , which rescues at-risk buildings, has been given permission to convert the ruined property in Hampshire into a holiday retreat with four bedrooms and a roof terrace. Continue reading...
A rather pastoral feel accompanies this week’s simple recipe for a nutty chocolate cake Having been kept waiting for three hours, Dick Dewy leaves Miss Fancy Day snipping and sewing her blue dress. The plan is that he will return for her a quarter of an hour later, however, Dick convinces himself that he has been scandalously trifled with by Fancy and decides that, to punish her, he will not retur...
A rather pastoral feel accompanies this week’s simple recipe for a nutty chocolate cake Having been kept waiting for three hours, Dick Dewy leaves Miss Fancy Day snipping and sewing her blue dress. The plan is that he will return for her a quarter of an hour later, however, Dick convinces himself that he has been scandalously trifled with by Fancy and decides that, to punish her, he will not return. Instead, he leaps over the gate, pushes up the lane for two miles, takes a winding path called Snail-Creep, and crawls through the opening to the hazel grove in Grey’s Wood. Continue reading...
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? Welcome to the Guardian Thursday news quiz. Thanks to our illustration from Anaïs Mims , you must decide whether you are a neatly curled question mark of knowledge, or a miniature naughty dachshund of ignorance, cheerfully causing chaos and refusing to come when called, while balancing on a b...
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? Welcome to the Guardian Thursday news quiz. Thanks to our illustration from Anaïs Mims , you must decide whether you are a neatly curled question mark of knowledge, or a miniature naughty dachshund of ignorance, cheerfully causing chaos and refusing to come when called, while balancing on a ball. Fifteen questions on topical headlines, pop culture and general knowledge await. There are no prizes, but we always enjoy hearing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y! The Thursday news quiz, No 242 Continue reading...
Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious On 23 June 2016 , the British voter changed. Before that day, they picked a party, usually red or blue. By that morning, only two tribes mattered: remain or leave. And they kept mattering long, long after the result was declared. Rather than bin those short-lived an...
Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious On 23 June 2016 , the British voter changed. Before that day, they picked a party, usually red or blue. By that morning, only two tribes mattered: remain or leave. And they kept mattering long, long after the result was declared. Rather than bin those short-lived and now stale allegiances, voters made them their personas. No longer a “Labour man” or a “Conservative family”, they became instead “remoaners” or “Brexiters”. Even today, 60% of Britons still identify themselves by where they scrawled a single cross in a one-off poll 10 years ago. Ask about the difference Brexit has made and the answer normally concerns policy or high politics: how our economic trajectory has become bumpier, or how the Tories keep getting into punch-ups with each other. But it became so much bigger than Boris v Dave. The civil war blazed through the country, and recruited nearly all of us to one side or the other. The effects still ripple through our elections and media today. Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
ZÜRICH, Schweiz, 9. April 2026: Die gategroup Holding AG („gategroup“) hat heute ihren Geschäftsbericht für das zum 31. Dezember 2025 abgeschlossene Geschäftsjahr vorgelegt. In diesem Zeitraum erwirtschaftete das Unternehmen einen Umsatz von 5,61 Mrd. EUR (2024: 5,47 Mrd. EUR). Das EBITDA belief sich auf 467 Mio. EUR (Vorjahr: 410 Mio. EUR), was einer EBITDA-Marge von 8,3 Prozent entspricht (2024:...
ZÜRICH, Schweiz, 9. April 2026: Die gategroup Holding AG („gategroup“) hat heute ihren Geschäftsbericht für das zum 31. Dezember 2025 abgeschlossene Geschäftsjahr vorgelegt. In diesem Zeitraum erwirtschaftete das Unternehmen einen Umsatz von 5,61 Mrd. EUR (2024: 5,47 Mrd. EUR). Das EBITDA belief sich auf 467 Mio. EUR (Vorjahr: 410 Mio. EUR), was einer EBITDA-Marge von 8,3 Prozent entspricht (2024: 7,5 Prozent). Die Nettoverschuldung im Verhältnis zum EBITDA lag bei 3,25x (2024: 3,74x), während die Brutto-Investitionsausgaben (CapEx) im Berichtszeitraum 88 Mio. EUR betrugen (2024: 72 Mio. EUR)¹.