Eating fewer animal products and less dairy would make a huge difference to carbon emissions

Something is cooking in the world of climate politics. Or, perhaps more accurately, something isn’t.

This week, the American recipe website Epicurious announced that, for environmental reasons, it wouldn’t publish any new beef recipes. No more steaks, burgers or creative ways with mince; no more juicy rib. Since about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock farming, with beef responsible for nearly two thirds of those, it wanted to help home cooks do their bit.

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The CAP Prize has announced 25 shortlisted projects with the highest ratings at the online showcase Award Winning African Photography - photo basel Takes a Closer Look. Here we take a look at a selection of the shortlisted photographers work.

• Five of the projects will be awarded with the CAP Prize 2021 in September 2021

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On Friday José Gregorio Hernández, doctor, scientist, university professor and pioneer of bacteriology, will be beatified, a step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic church, after 72 years of efforts by Venezuela’s Catholics

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The economic data contrasted with rosy numbers from the United States.

The top U.N. envoy for Myanmar says the strong united demand for democracy by its people has created “unexpected difficulties” for the military in consolidating power after the February coup and risks bringing the administration of the nation to a standstill

Afghan officials say a suicide truck bomber has struck a guest house in eastern Logar province, killing at least 14 people and wounding as many as 90

India reported another record caseload over the past 24 hours, as the army opened its hospitals and patients struggled to access beds, oxygen and life-saving treatment.

The annual gathering draws people to northern Israel's Mount Meron for prayers and bonfires.

Russia’s top diplomat says his country’s relations with the United States are even worse now than during Cold War times because of a lack of mutual respect

Trevor Lawrence becomes the first overall pick of the 2021 NFL draft after being selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Key parliamentary committee says government has duty to end violence and rights abuses in Ethiopia

The British government’s claims that its new development strategy would make it a “force for good” will be tested by whether it helps to end the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, a parliamentary select committee said on Friday.

Failing to act would be “devastating” to the claim that the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) could lead the world by combining diplomacy and development, the MPs said in their report on the humanitarian situation in Tigray.

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Russian authorities have launched a criminal probe against a lawyer representing a former Russian journalist accused of treason and the team of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny

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After staying up late for his live coverage of President Joe Biden’s big address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, a “punchier” than usual Stephen Colbert kicked off his Late Show monologue on Thursday by taking more than a few shots at Senator Ted Cruz, who was caught sleeping through the speech.

Noting that Biden the president wants to pay for his ambitious new social programs by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, Colbert said, “Yes, he’s taking from the rich and giving to the poor, which has led a lot of people to compare him to Robin Hood.”

“And he’s of course opposed by his arch-enemy, the Sheriff of Rotting Ham,” he added, as Cruz’s photo appeared on screen. From there, he explained that while the vast majority of Americans who watched the address supported Biden’s message, “Republicans enjoyed the speech a little less. Take Texas senator and divorced Porky Pig, Ted Cruz.”

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Russia has blacklisted eight officials from the European Union in retaliation for EU sanctions over the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Guardian analysis shows rapid progress rolling out vaccine is fuelling boom in consumer spending

• UK economy rebounds as hopes grow for end to Covid crisis
• Ángel Gurría: overhaul of global tax system can wait no longer
• OECD: Biden offers ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to end tax abuse

Britain’s economy is building momentum and the Bank of England is expected to sharply upgrade its annual growth forecasts next week, as a Guardian analysis shows rapid progress rolling out the Covid vaccine is fuelling a boom in consumer spending.

Activity has held up better than expected after businesses adapted to life under the third national lockdown, while the reopening of non-essential retail and hospitality venues outdoors in England and Wales has benefited from pent-up demand.

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Part environmentalism, part treasure-hunting, magnet fishing has attracted a tight group of enthusiasts around Glasgow who cast their lines out for grenades, knives, cannon balls – and shopping trolleys

It doesn’t take long to see the appeal of casting a high-powered magnet into a canal to find anything from scrap metal and weaponry, to unexploded bombs and historical artefacts.

For 13-year-old Cole Gartshore from Kirkintilloch, the mystery factor is so appealing that he has been out on the water with his dad most weekends since the pandemic began.

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A team of scientists discovered tens of thousands of barrels containing what is believed to be chemical waste

The discovery of tens of thousands of underwater barrels containing what scientists believe to be chemical waste has raised alarm and reopened scrutiny into a history of toxic dumping that persisted off the California coast into the 1970s.

A team of scientists announced this week that they had found more than 25,000 containers, many of which they believe to be DDT waste, which has been linked to cancer and disease in humans and mass die-off events in the natural world. The barrels cover a seafloor area double the size of Manhattan off the coast of the Santa Catalina Island, near Los Angeles.

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A hundred days into his first term, it is clear that Joe Biden is a much different kind of president than his predecessor. But even as new political eras are born, public opinion shifts, and leaders come and go, one thing remains constant at The Daily Beast: our commitment to uncovering the truth.

Since the early days of his campaign, and now administration, we have worked tirelessly to hold Biden and his people accountable, expose behind-the-scenes hypocrisy, and call out the promises left unfulfilled—giving credit where it was due along the way. For the Presidency’s first big milestone, we took some time to reflect on the highs and lows, and what they might mean for the days ahead. Read on for the 100-word insights from your favorite Daily Beast editors, writers, and columnists—and if you want to support this kind of work through the next 100 days (and beyond), please consider becoming a Beast Inside member.

Molly Jong-Fast, Editor-At-Large:

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The disaster happened early Friday at a Jewish religious gathering for Lag BaOmer in northern Israel. Scores of people were injured.

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A lawyer for former New York City mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said the Justice Department revealed on a Thursday conference call that the feds had penetrated Giuliani’s iCloud long before Wednesday’s search warrants were executed.

“I was told about it today in a conference call with the [U.S.] Attorney’s office,” attorney Robert Costello, a longtime friend of Giuliani’s, told The Daily Beast on Thursday night. “They told me they obtained a ‘covert warrant’ for Giuliani’s iCloud account in ‘late 2019.’ They have reviewed this information for a year and a half without telling us or [fellow Trump-aligned attorney] Victoria Toensing.”

During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Thursday night, Giuliani himself briefly referenced the warrant to search his iCloud account. “In the middle of the impeachment defense, they invaded, without telling me, my iCloud,” the Trump confidant said. “They took documents that are privileged. And then they unilaterally decided what they could read and not read. So the prosecutors at the Justice Department spied on me.”

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