16 minutes ago Chelsea v Fulham, Newcastle v Aston Villa and more: football clockwatch – live

Live scores | Tables | FixturesGet in touch! You can email Luke hereSavinho has just committed a hilarious mis-kick for City against Everton when apparently attempting a cross. That’s all you need to know.Sporting have appointed Rui Borges as head coach, after the Portuguese champions sacked Joao Pereira on Boxing Day. The new head coach has signed a contract until June 2026, with an option to extend a further year. Continue reading...

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33 minutes ago ‘Attention spans are short. People want that dopamine hit’: Jordan Adetunji, the Belfast boy gunning for Grammys glory

Competing against Beyoncé, Future and others in the melodic rap category, the open-minded young vocalist explains how he ‘manifested’ his successFrom BelfastRecommended if you like Drake, Bryson Tiller, Cash CobainUp next New music anticipated in early 2025Standing among legends such as Beyoncé, Future, the Weeknd and Erykah Badu in the nominees for this year’s best melodic rap performance Grammy is Jordan Adetunji (pictured above), a 25-year-old from Belfast. While the Academy defers to Beyoncé at almost every opportunity, Adetunji could nab it with something he made in his bedroom. Continue reading...

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52 minutes ago Virgil van Dijk breaks silence on new contract as Liverpool owners FSG risk fury

Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold are yet to sign new contracts at Liverpool, as fans question owners FSG and their failure to tie down Arne Slot's best players

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54 minutes ago US applications for unemployment benefits hold steady, but continuing claims rise to 3

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years

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70 minutes ago Denzel Washington in Seven?: 13 actors who turned down movie roles – and then massively regretted it

Few actors are brave enough to admit that they turned down some of the most famous films in recent memory, but these ones did, writes Adam White

Culture

78 minutes ago Why this Mexican American woman played a vital role in the US sacramental peyote trade

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman who lived in the tiny border town of Mirando City in South Texas, played an important role in the history of the peyote trade

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2 hours ago Tiger among 20 cats to die of bird flu at sanctuary in Washington state

Bengal tiger, cougars, a lynx and bobcats dead as disease spreads rapidly among US poultry flocks and dairy herdsTwenty exotic cats, including a Bengal tiger, four cougars, a lynx and four bobcats, have died after contracting bird flu at an animal sanctuary in Shelton, Washington.The feline deaths come as bird flu, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, has spread rapidly through poultry flocks and dairy herds in the US, infected and killed domestic cats, and caused a severe illness in a person in Louisiana. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Ancient martyrs, fighting rules and disappearing cats – take the Boxing Day Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday, even on Boxing Day. How will you fare?The Thursday quiz cares not for your so-called Christmas traditions and bank holiday. It is Thursday, and so here we are, regardless of whether it is a national holiday in the UK or not. Although in reality, the quiz master is stuffed full of yesterday’s Christmas dinner and off to see Leyton Orient at home to Crawley Town, before stuffing himself again with festive leftovers, and actually wrote this weeks ago, with every question in it loosely tied to boxes. Have fun, guess well, and a very happy new year to you all!The Thursday quiz, No 190 Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Private detective hired to tail 'cheating husband' tells of moment he realised his target was actually helping to run a huge prostitution ring trafficking women in from Southeast Asia to exploit them

Daniel founded Anderson & Co surveillance just five years ago, but in that time he's caught hundreds of cheaters, catfishes and romance scammers.

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4 hours ago 'Mohamed Salah shouldn't quit Liverpool like I did – there's no reason for him to go'

Liverpool legend Ian Rush opened up on his two departures from Anfield but insisted Mohamed Salah has no reason to follow in his footsteps by leaving the club

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5 hours ago Schoolgirls falling out on Snapchat, a row over a parking space and a dead cat outside someone's home are all recorded as non

Freedom of information requests showed that other non-hate crime incidents included a rude word spelt with alphabet cups in Tesco and an 'offensive' dog name.

Technology

6 hours ago Virgil van Dijk makes feelings clear on new contract as Liverpool delay continues

Virgil van Dijk will see his Liverpool contract expire at the end of the season, with little sign yet of any progress in talks over a new deal for the Reds captain

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6 hours ago Fascinating reason Robbie William is shown as a CGI monkey in Better Man biopic

Robbie Williams will be portrayed by a CGI monkey in new biopic Better Man and there is a fascinating story behind the decision to have the singer shown as an animal

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6 hours ago In a Japanese restaurant in west London, this Chinese woman felt truly at home | Xinran

In my younger years I travelled all over China. But on a culinary tour of Bayswater with my son, I tasted belongingIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeIn 2006, during his gap year before starting university, my son Pan set out to discover a “world beyond books”. After spending four months backpacking through Australia and New Zealand, he shared with me his most profound realisation from his travels: the meaning of home.He told me: “Some people live in luxurious mansions but rarely share dinners or weekends with their families. Others, in crowded cottages, are enveloped daily by the sounds of children playing and the aroma of home-cooked meals. Some reside deep in the mountains, knowing every blade of grass, bird and rabbit, while others traverse busy city districts yet remain strangers to their own neighbours.” His words made me think about the places I have called home.Xinran is founder of the Mothers’ Bridge o...

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6 hours ago The symptom that means you have Covid rather than flu, RSV or norovirus

With more people getting ill, how can you distinguish one virus from the other?

Science

12 hours ago Labour closes in on outlawing trail hunting: Government warns practice is being used as a 'smokescreen' for killing foxes and hares

As thousands gather for traditional Boxing Day meets, the Government has confirmed it will outlaw the practice of hounds and riders following an animal scent laid across the countryside.

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12 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Biden slams Russia’s ‘outrageous’ Christmas Day assault on Ukraine

President reaffirms US weapons support to Kyiv after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, which Zelenskyy condemned as ‘inhuman’. What we know on day 1,037See all our Ukraine war coverageJoe Biden has asked the US defence department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, describing Russia’s Christmas Day attack against some of Ukraine’s cities and its energy infrastructure as “outrageous”. “The purpose of this outrageous attack was to cut off the Ukrainian people’s access to heat and electricity during winter and to jeopardise the safety of its grid,” Biden said. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Washington has committed $175bn in aid for Ukraine.Christmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles to target energy infrastructure across the country, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman”. “Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas to attack. What could be more inhuman? More than 70...

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12 hours ago Mohamed Salah contract latest as Liverpool close in on crucial phase of talks

Mohamed Salah's current Liverpool deal will run out at the end of the current season, and in theory he will be allowed to discuss terms with foreign clubs on New Year's day

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13 hours ago Is THIS Britain's tighest loyalty scheme? Penny pinching pub offers free pint to regular punters... but there is a VERY big catch

EXC: The Ecclian pub in Eccleshall, is offering his customers a free pint after the Chancellor bragged about cutting the cost of the pint by 1p.

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13 hours ago Junior medic, 21, killed when 'unsafe' colleague slammed ambulance into the back of a lorry

'Beautiful' Alice Clark, 21, suffered catastrophic injuries when Edward Riding crashed their emergency vehicle into the rear of a cement lorry, an inquest heard.

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