58 minutes ago Schoolboy who attacked sleeping students with hammer in bloody rampage jailed

The teen, now 17, accepted responsibility for the hammer attacks, but claimed he was sleeping at the time and only remembered waking up to see the room "covered in blood"

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63 minutes ago McDonalds customer fuming after he tries McRib – but people say he's wrong

A McDonald's fan has shared his thoughts on the McRib, which has been brought back to the UK for the first time in years, and many were left surprised by his complaint

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68 minutes ago The Lion King in waiting? Why Ireland’s new talisman Caelan Doris fits the bill

The country boy from Lacken who is now a world-class No8 on enjoying captaincy, a fascination with psychology and his penchant for hot yogaIt will be another six months before Andy Farrell finally has to choose his British & Irish Lions captain for the 2025 expedition to Australia. Plenty of time for the landscape to change and, theoretically, for one or two surprise contenders to emerge from the shrubbery. Until, that is, you sit down with the staggeringly impressive Caelan Doris and realise there is little need for Farrell to look anywhere else.A bold prediction? Hardly. It is not rocket science that a world-class player with the universal respect of his peers, a university degree in psychology and a warm smile might just fit the bill. Ireland have produced some illustrious Lions ...

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73 minutes ago In Pictures: Animals enjoy smashing time with pumpkins before Halloween

Meerkats, tigers and macaques all got involved at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Scotland.

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76 minutes ago ‘She still sleeps in the bed she was tied to’: Anna Maxwell Martin takes down a serial killer

Delia Balmer spent four days as the hostage of her murderer boyfriend, only to survive his axe attack – and get him put away. The team behind a challenging drama about her horrific experience tell allNick Stevens is remembering the first time he met Delia Balmer, the only known survivor of serial killer John Sweeney, whose story he wanted to dramatise. The meeting went very badly. “She was half an hour late,” recalls the screenwriter. “She wouldn’t look me in the eye. She was very agitated and angry.”Even though Stevens was familiar with the sensitivities of true-crime stories from his previous dramas In Plain Sight and The Pembrokeshire Murders, this was extreme. But he soon realised that the behaviour of Balmer – played by Anna Maxwell Martin in new drama Until I Kill You – reflected ...

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79 minutes ago Liam Payne's 'emotional' final single Teardrops back in the charts week after album was put on hold

Singer had said that emotional song was snapshot into his mindset at the time

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1 hour ago Saka injury, Havertz risk and the seven players Arsenal could be without amid Man City title race

Arsenal and Manchester City are once again expected to be the leading title contenders in the Premier League this season

Sport

1 hour ago A royal welcome! Sweet images of King Charles and Queen Camilla are projected onto Sydney Opera House as historic Australia tour gets underway

The illumination at the Sydney Opera House was due to begin at 8pm local time (10am UK time), 30 minutes before the couple were due to land, but ran into trouble because of a Cunard cruise ship.

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2 hours ago Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he did not speak to FA about England job

Arteta was approached by then-England boss Fabio Capello in 2010 but was later deemed ineligible.

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2 hours ago Jews shut down the New York Stock Exchange to protest Israel. Here’s why | Elena Stein

As the descendant of a survivor of a genocide, the Holocaust, I refuse to be a bystander to another genocideTime after time, Sha’ban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old software engineering student living in Gaza, nearly escaped death. He began studying at Gaza’s al-Azhar University two months before it was destroyed in November by a US-made bomb dropped by Israeli forces.Sha’ban posted videos to social media, describing how his family – which he took care of, as the eldest of five – was displaced five times by the assaults and asking for financial support to flee to Egypt.Elena Stein is director of organizing strategy for Jewish Voice for Peace, the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world and currently the fastest-growing Jewish organization in the country. Continue reading...

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