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Tickets for an event featuring climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Edinburgh International Book Festival sold out in less than 24 hours, organisers have said.Ms Thunberg will take part in the It's Not Too Late To Change The World event at the Edinburgh Playhouse on August 13, where she will give a speech and have an in-depth discussion about her climate change activism.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Fatboy Slim showed his support for Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker during a live performance on Friday night.The face of the suspended BBC football pundit appeared as part of the visual effects used in the DJ's set at the O2 Victoria Warehouse, in Manchester.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Andrew Tate could lose assets, including his 4.8m Bugatti if he is convicted of human trafficking, rape, and organised crime offences in Romania, according to a report.

The lawyer representing social media personality Andrew Tate has claimed there is no evidence to support allegations of human trafficking, rape or organised crime against him.The former professional kickboxer turned online personality, 36, and his brother Tristan were detained in Romania last month as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.

A man claims he is facing a 7,000 energy bill after replacing his heating system with a 25,000 Government-backed green' heat pump.Officials are currently providing grants for up to 5,000 to home owners who remove a gas central heating and hot water system and replace it with a heat pump.But the new system, backed by many in the green lobby, has apparently left many UK homeowners in the cold.

by Adam

Reverse empathy
getty Social media can suck the life out of you - if you let it.It is possible to resist this life-sucking effect.Twitter and other apps have made it possible for anyone to openly share their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and ideas with an enormous audience over the past decade.

The cultural centre in Bethnal Green will replace the V&A Museum of Childhood when it opens July 1, following a three-year 13 million makeover - the biggest transformation in the museum's 150-year life span.Co-designed with children, the centre aims to support the next generation of creative minds, from artists and designers to performers and creative practitioners and will include an extensive range of voices amongst its initiatives, from Quentin Blake and Linda McCartney to the XR Families Group and voices from the early 1900s suffrage movement.

Protesters in the western German village of Lutzerath were joined on Saturday by Greta Thunberg, who condemned the use of police force to clear the demonstrators and called on others to join.She travelled to the village on Friday, and said she wasn't sure how long she'd stay there.'Germany is really embarrassing itself right now,' she told reporters as she joined other demonstrators.

On a Thursday around noon last month, Joel Paez heard a knock on the door at his house in Chicago.Paez, who works from home managing a domestic violence intervention program, opened the door to see an officer from the Chicago police department.The officer asked Paez if he had a relative in Atlanta.Surprised, the Venezuelan-born social worker said, Yes.

Climate activists gathered in Lutzerath, a village in west Germany, to protest the expansion of a coal mine over the weekend.Greta Thunberg, 20, was among the protesters in the area.On Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, Thunberg was detained by German police after breaking through a police barrier near a coal pit with other protesters.

A man claims he is facing a staggering 7,000 energy bill after replacing his heating system with a 25,000 Government-backed green' heat pump.Officials are currently providing grants for up to 5,000 to home owners who remove a gas central heating and hot water system and replace it with a heat pump.But the new system, backed by many in the green lobby, has apparently left many UK homeowners in the cold.

Self Destruct Button
We live in a technologically advanced global society and we've known about climate change for decades.So why, as a group of professors posit in a damning essay for The Conversation, are we "choosing to destroy" our planet - and with it, ourselves?The essay was written as the world prepares for the upcoming COP27 conference, the latest of the UN's annual climate change summits.