Windy weather and single-digit humidity that created dangerous bone dry conditions across the region are expected to linger

Fierce and gusty winds and a heightened risk of wildfire outbreaks are set to return to southern California , and especially the devastated city of Los Angeles, as the region continues to deal with deadly blazes that have already killed at least 27 people and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes.

Windy weather and single-digit humidity that have created dangerous bone dry conditions across the region are expected to linger through Thursday, said Rich Thompson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

Campaigners call for transparency from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats about how decisions on pay and jobs are made

Takeaway delivery apps are facing pressure to crack open the black-box algorithms that govern the work of more than 100,000 couriers in the UK and reveal more about how decisions are made on pay and access to jobs.

A coalition including the TUC, Amnesty International, couriers’ unions and the campaign group Privacy International claim the opaque use of algorithms is “automating exploitation”. They say withholding vital information from couriers about their work is “creating precarity, stress, and misery”.

The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’

How does one stage Chekhov? His plays, embodying symphonic realism and equipped with precise visual and aural effects, would seem to defy massive reinterpretation. Yet we live in an age of director’s theatre and Benedict Andrews with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard and Katie Mitchell and Jamie Lloyd with The Seagull have all, with varying degrees of success, offered distinctive visions of the plays. Next month sees another Seagull, “conceived and directed by Thomas Ostermeier”, coming to London’s Barbican with a cast headed by Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke. As a great admirer of Ostermeier’s radical updates of Ibsen – especially An Enemy of the People – I shall be fascinated to see how far he goes with Chekhov, in an adaptation by Duncan Macmillan.

Having seen a flock of Seagulls over the years, I am struck by the seismic impact of small differences: in other words, casting, context and interpretation of character can alter one’s perspective without disrupting the period or setting. The first Seagull I ever saw, as a student critic, was an Old Vic production by John Fernald that opened at the Edinburgh festival in 1960. It was everything I had imagined classic English Chekhov to be except for one thing: the fact that Konstantin, the struggling young writer, was played by a 23-year-old actor fresh out of Rada and with a strong northern accent.

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I was a sobbing country kid, stranded without luggage at a big-city train station, when a voice inquired: ‘Can I help you?’

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I grew up in Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales and went to university in Bathurst.

I was 19 and heading back to uni at the end of the midyear break when I fell asleep on the Sydney-bound train, waking up just after the station where I was supposed to switch to a bus. I was an inexperienced traveller, so I asked the on-board staff what to do. “Stay on until Central and we’ll sort out your train to Bathurst from there,” I was told. I resisted the temptation to get off at the next station and call my family for a pickup. I told myself it was my mistake and I needed to figure it out.

We want to hear from people who have tried to secure care in a hospice and what the process has been like

We are interested in finding out more about people’s experiences of hospice care in the UK. Whether you have tried to secure in-patient care for yourself or a loved one, we would like to hear from you.

What has your experience been like? If you were not able to secure care in a hospice what happened next? Do you have any concerns?

Proof of group’s survival demonstrates stalemate that gave rise to ceasefire and is likely to fuel more conflict

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Hours after the ceasefire was declared on Sunday, Hamas fighters were back on Gaza’s streets. Not many, it was true, and those who appeared were armed only with Kalashnikov rifles and some rudimentary body armour, but they were there .

In Khan Younis, a handful of pickup trucks with gunmen aboard drove through cheering crowds of young men. Dozens of uniformed fighters with Hamas headbands were visible when the three Israeli hostages were handed over in Gaza City. Elsewhere, there were reports that Hamas policemen, dressed in blue police uniform, deployed in some areas after months in hiding to avoid Israeli strikes.

App has resumed operations after saying it received assurances over de facto ban, but future remains uncertain

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TikTok is restoring its service in the US after Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order when president to allow the app to continue operating.

It had shut itself down late on Saturday ahead of a Sunday deadline to divest its Chinese shareholders or face a ban, but resumed operations on Sunday, the day before Trump’s inauguration, saying it had received the appropriate assurances from the president-elect.

I don’t want to upset him, as he’s extremely proud and sensitive. But I am now having to grin and bear every sexual encounter we have

I love my husband of 16 years dearly and still think he is attractive but feel completely unaroused by him when we are in close proximity. As a result, our sex life has disappeared , which is causing a lot of resentment. Things that didn’t used to matter now do. I find his back hair and yellow teeth off putting . I don’t want to upset him so don’t feel I can tell him these things. He’s extremely proud and sensitive and would not react well, regardless of how softly the news was delivered. I feel that I am grinning and bearing every sexual encounter with him and he can tell. He is also the one who initiates sex and he does this through sending a text message, which I have to admit does nothing for me either.

We have to educate others about our needs, our likes and dislikes. You are being considerate in not wanting to hurt your husband by letting him know the things that turn you off, but frankly it would be a loving gesture to inform him of the truth, and it may just save your marriage. People who can’t deal with truth-telling (giving or receiving) are putting themselves and their relationship at risk. First, “grinning and bearing” is a very problematic choice. It can lead to a sexual pain disorder, as your body will eventually refuse to cooperate in becoming physiologically aroused. Second, only caring people who still hold out hope for continued loving and pleasurable intimacy will bravely ask their partners for changes they deem necessary; others choose other options such as withdrawal, affairs and breakups. Find a way to kindly and supportively – but firmly – encourage him to improve the fixable items. Be very specific about your preferred style of initiating sex. Always start by complimenting him for things you like, and be sure to reward him for a positive response and action.

Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders.

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