2 hours ago ‘All of this is to displace people’: Nabatieh reels from Israeli attacks on Lebanon

Airstrikes Israel says are targeting Hezbollah have killed the city’s mayor as well as civil defence workersMiddle East crisis: latest news updatesHussein Jaber, the head of Nabatieh’s civil defence station, picked his way through a mess of shattered concrete and twisted metal piled knee high, surveying what was left of the city’s Ottoman open-air market, built in 1910 and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last Saturday.“When we were kids, everyone would come here to buy their things. This market wasn’t just for Nabatieh, but for all the villages around,” said Jaber, 30, gesturing at the ruined promenade, still smoking five days later. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Seven gang members jailed for more than 100 years after revenge shooting after Peckham stabbing

The gang grabbed a shotgun and blades to attack rivals who had stabbed their friend, a court heard

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2 hours ago Seven gang members jailed for more than 100 years after revenge shooting following Peckham stabbing

The gang grabbed a shotgun and blades to attack rivals who had stabbed their friend, a court heard

Events

3 hours ago Grandmother, 67, recreates photo she took in front of Blackpool Tower as a teenager

Built in 1894, the Blackpool Tower has stood tall over the Fylde Coast for 130 years and has since become one of the UK's most iconic landmarks.

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3 hours ago Inside pretty UK village where Martin Lewis grew up as homes fetch £324k

Martin Lewis has had a successful career in journalism and as a television presenter and is known for helping people save money - but he grew up in a rural village in Cheshire

Economics

4 hours ago The pretty seaside town in Cornwall with secret coves home to the best crab shack

The town of Fowey, where Daphne du Maurier and Kenneth Grahame lived, boasts a crab shack which has been named the best in the area

Society

6 hours ago ‘The case became a witch hunt’: how ‘killer nurse’ Daniela Poggiali fought to clear her name

Italy’s ‘angel of death’ was imprisoned and demonised by the press before her convictions were overturned. Now the expert who came to her defence has turned his attention to Lucy Letby’s case‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly patient and suspected of dozens of other murders.“I struggled to rationalise it,” she says, “I just thought they were grabbing a crab.” (This is a curious Italian phrase that roughly translates as doing something irrational or idiotic.) Continue reading...

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6 hours ago ‘A little hyped up’: experts downplay claims over Petra archaeological find

Researchers urge caution after Jordan tomb excavation and say new clues about Nabataean culture may lie elsewhereFor one of the most famous ancient sites on the planet, there is a surprising amount about the city of Petra – and the Nabataean people who built it – that we don’t know for sure.What exactly were their origins? How did their society operate? And why did they hand-carve such spectacular monuments into the reddish rock of the Jordanian desert? Continue reading...

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6 hours ago The 20 most underrated albums ranked, from Swamp Dogg’s Rat On! to Kirsty McColl’s Kite

Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the critical mid-table, from the little-heard cult gems to the guilty pleasures. Mark Beaumont and Roisin O’Connor pick their favourites

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6 hours ago I heard Pep Guardiola answer question nobody asked about Man City future

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola spoke about his future at the club as his contracts at the Etihad runs down

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