Harvard to investigate Larry Summers’s Epstein ties as he exits OpenAI board 19. November 2025 (15:07) Newly released Epstein documents drag the ex-treasury secretary into deeper scrutiny as Harvard widens its reviewHarvard is set to launch a new investigation into its former university president and Bill Clinton economic adviser Larry Summers about his ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it also emerged Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI.The moves comes after Summers said he would be stepping back from public engagements after emails revealed the extent of his relationship with the late sex offender. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Krysty was diagnosed with breast cancer months after getting the all-clear. New Australian guidelines aim to help women like her 19. November 2025 (15:00) Exclusive: New federal guidelines advise GPs to provide additional care to patients with higher breast density, which can make cancers harder to detect in mammogramsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Krysty Sullivan had a routine mammogram in 2019, she was given the all-clear.Eleven months later, she felt a lump. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’ 19. November 2025 (15:00) Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forestsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt face value, the amount of forest in Australia is officially increasing, and has been since 2008.But if an old-growth tree is felled in a forest and seedlings grow elsewhere, is the official account ecologically sound? Not according to new analysis, which suggests that the way Australia calculates forest cover obfuscates the impacts of ongoing deforestation. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’ 19. November 2025 (15:00) Environment minister Murray Watt says other parties must decide ‘whether they want to see us do a deal with the other side of politics’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSenior Liberal MPs are optimistic a deal can be reached with Labor on a watered-down version of its new nature laws, allowing them to be passed in parliament’s final sitting week of the year.The environment minister, Murray Watt, is open to a deal with the Coalition that would require a raft of concessions, including revising a new provision designed to block projects that cause an “unacceptable impact” on the environment. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest 19. November 2025 (15:00) Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 yearsIsrael used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest.The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two different types of Israeli cluster munitions found in three different locations: south of the Litani River in the forested valleys of Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
