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Readers recommendPop and rockA week's a long time to hold your breath, but here it is at last – RR regular suzi's top picks from last week's topicTangerine Dream's lovely instrumental Breath Kissing Matter's Mouth suggests the burgeoning and multiplying of life on Earth, the incredible fecundity of nature. But until around 2.4bn years ago our planet was barren, as we understand it. Then blue-green algae began to photosynthesise oxygen from sunlight.

Spain This article is more than 7 months oldReintroduction of endangered vulture in Spain paused over planned windfarmThis article is more than 7 months oldConservationists say plan to increase bearded vulture numbers in north-east would be ‘severely compromised’ Conservationists in Spain are calling for a “profound debate” on how best to balance the protection of wildlife with renewable energy demands after efforts to reintroduce endangered bearded vultures to an eastern area of the country had to be paused because of the threat posed by a huge new windfarm.

Marina O'Loughlin on restaurantsRestaurantsReview'The weaselly, underpowered guacamole is not a patch on what I knock up for an al-desko lunch'Mayfair has become so weird and foreign, I've taken to pretty much avoiding it. If I want weird and foreign, I'll go abroad. Apart from anything else, I'm scared of the natives: its restaurant population, with few exceptions, is savage, ready to scalp you at the first sign of weakness. Order a side dish and see.

Roman PolanskiIt’s 40 years this week since the director and convicted sex offender went on the run. What does his continued success reveal about the film world’s true attitude towards sexual assault? Forty years ago this week, Roman Polanski went from being one of the most celebrated film-makers in the world to becoming the United States’ most notorious fugitive from justice. On 1 February 1978, after 42 days in jail, Polanski fled the US while awaiting final sentencing, having pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

A dolphin protest and a lightning strike: Wednesday’s best photos Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Selected by Natasha Rees-Bloor Main image: A Xironda, Spain: locals dress up to celebrate Entroido, an ancient rural carnival celebrated in the run up to Ash Wednesday. Wed 22 Feb 2023 14.

Australia news‘Goblin mode’, situationship and pyrocumulonimbus among 3,000 new entries to the ninth edition Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Situationship, Barbiecore and “spicy cough”: these are among the 3,000 new entries in the latest update to the Macquarie Dictionary. Emphasising that dictionaries are in a constant state of playing catch up, Macquarie’s managing editor, Victoria Morgan, says a number of pandemic-era and more recent colloquial nouns have trickled into the ninth edition of Australia’s collection of vocabulary.

A stylised Ukrainian coat of arms tattooed on the neck of a woman in Kyiv.Tattoo artists in Kyiv raise funds for the fight against Russia with designs capturing Ukraine’s spirit by Emma Graham-Harrison Photographs by Alessio MamoUkrainians are inking the fight for their country on to their bodies, with artists getting requests for tattoos of molotov cocktails, anti-tank missiles and even a type of bread that has become an unlikely symbol of national identity because Russians struggle to pronounce it.

Peaky Blinders: episode by episodePeaky BlindersIt's all kicking off between the Lees and the Shelbys – and between Campbell and Tommy. But there's still a problem with clunky expositionSPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching series one of Peaky Blinders. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode four. Click here to read Julia Raeside’s episode three blogpost The much-talked about war with the Lee family took physical form this week, as the Shelbys’ bitter rivals came to turn over the bookies and plant a grenade in Tommy’s car.