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‘He growls death metal in his pants!’ The Eurovision 2024 bangers to watch out for

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 7 May - 13:11

From a man with a mullet letting off fireworks to a Slovenian witch, this year’s Eurovision has some of the wildest entries ever. It makes our own entry look rather bland …

The bookies’ favourite, and you can see why. For one thing, it addresses a hot-button social issue – the lyrics deal with Nemo Mettler’s non-binary gender identity – that’s also very Eurovision-friendly. In 1998, Eurovision had a transgender winner, Dana International, 34 years before Kim Petras became the first transgender woman to top the UK and US chart with Unholy. More importantly, it’s that rare thing, an original-sounding Eurovision entry that’s charmingly preposterous rather than straight-up daft – its drum’n’bass-influenced rhythm interrupted by high-drama mock-operatics and a vocal that shifts from rapping to falsetto melodrama. You could imagine it in the UK singles chart, which is something one seldom feels with Eurovision songs.

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Five men in custody after ‘unauthorised’ crossing into Australia through Torres Strait

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 7 May - 07:59

Australian Border Force officers picked up the men, believed to be Rwandan nationals, on Saibai Island, near Papua New Guinea

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Australian border authorities have picked up five Rwandan men categorised as “unauthorised maritime arrivals” on an island in the Torres Strait.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) found the five men on Saibai Island, four kilometres from the Papua New Guinea mainland in the strait off Cape York in Australia’s north-east.

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Men believed to be missing surfers died from gunshots, Mexican officials say

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 5 May - 20:35

Families of men presumed to be two Australian and American who went missing in Baja California arrive in Tijuana to identify bodies

The bodies believed to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California showed the three men were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general, said the families of the missing men had arrived in Tijuana to verbally identify the bodies. Authorities expect to have official confirmation shortly.

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Horror and fury in Australia as epidemic of violence against women sweeps across the country

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 5 May - 06:22

Anger and grief have erupted, with women demanding action from the government on what has become a national emergency

It was the death of Samantha Murphy that prompted a sense that something in Australia was very wrong.

The 51-year-old mother of three left her home in Ballarat in regional Victoria to go for a jog at around 7am on a Sunday morning in early February and did not return.

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‘A complete 180’: how a trial treatment in Sydney for heroin addiction is changing lives

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 5 May - 00:00

Exclusive: Robbie Mason wanted to give up but just didn’t know how. Then he and his partner joined Australia’s first hydromorphone trial

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Robbie Mason started using heroin when he was a child.

His hands are dotted with pinprick scars. He used for so long he stopped being able to inject into the veins in his arms, so he turned to his fingers.

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‘Exceptional’: rare book of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 4 May - 10:00

The full set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May

John Gould was one of the most sought-after taxidermists in 19th-century London, commissioned by King George IV to stuff the first giraffe to arrive in England.

But Gould’s lasting legacy is birds. He travelled the world documenting and cataloguing as many avian species as he could find, many of them never seen before, earning him the nickname the Bird Man and the appointment as official “bird stuffer” to the Zoological Society.

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Three bodies reportedly found in northern Mexico where Perth brothers went missing

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 3 May - 22:01

Siblings Callum and Jake Robinson and US citizen Carter Rhoad were travelling on a surfing holiday when they were reported missing

Three bodies have reportedly been found in an area of northern Mexico where two Australian brothers and an American friend are missing.

Reuters cited two sources with knowledge of the investigation as saying Mexican authorities had found three bodies in Baja Peninsula. The bodies were reportedly found near a cliff, but have not yet been formally identified.

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The not-so-secret cost of being superhuman: elite sport’s problem with disordered eating

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 3 May - 15:00

Athletes are breaking their silence about their experience of eating disorders and disordered eating. Why is this happening in an arena celebrated as the epitome of health?

Elite sport has long been consumed with the idea of the superhuman. Pushing the capabilities of the human body to its extremes in the hopes of uncovering the blueprint to engineer bodies that can jump higher, run faster and endure longer. And, as professionalism has increased, so too has the optimisation of athletes’ bodies in the quest for peak human condition.

But recent revelations that former Australian women’s cricket captain Meg Lanning cut her international career short due to struggles with disordered eating have exposed some of the cracks that have long been forming in the elite sport system.

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Glencore may trigger bidding war for mining rival Anglo American

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 3 May - 11:43

Swiss company considers making takeover offer, while BHP could move again after initial rejection

The mining company Glencore is considering making a takeover offer for Anglo American that could trigger a multibillion-pound bidding war for the company, according to reports.

It prompted a 3% jump in Anglo American’s share price on Friday, making it the top riser on the FTSE 100 and helping to drive the index to an all-time high of 8,215 points.