18 minutes ago 'Ryanair fined us more than the cost of our entire flight in complete madness bag size row'

Kirsty and Marc McVeigh, both 38, were flying to Milan with their family when they were stopped as they were boarding their plane and told their Nike bag was too large

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27 minutes ago Kamala Harris joined by Lizzo at campaign event; Donald Trump rallies in Pennsylvania – live

Vice-president is hosting a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit for the city’s first day of early voting, alongside Michigan-born rapper LizzoHarris is panicking over the Black male vote – but polls don’t show full pictureWith the US election only 17 days away, Kamala Harris is courting one demographic with particular fervor: Black male voters. Continue reading...

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32 minutes ago Martine McCutcheon's devastating health diagnosis 'left her sobbing all day'

Martine McCutcheon, who is best known for her role as Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders, was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in 2023, among other conditions

Science

46 minutes ago Huge queues form in the middle of Cardiff as people scramble to try new foodie spot

There were huge queues outside the door on its opening day on Saturday

Events

47 minutes ago ‘The bully of the bird table’: how the humble starling conquered the world

Some celebrate them, others despise them. Yet this mimicking, competitive and acrobatic songbird still exerts a powerful fascinationA stream of people heads steadily down the path, towards the viewpoint over the reedbed. As I walk alongside them, I’m reminded of a crowd ­heading to a football match, or a ­gathering of medieval pilgrims hoping for a miracle.There is usually a moment, about 20 minutes before sunset, when the gathering falls strangely silent, anticipating what we are about to witness. Then, just as some are ­wondering if they’ve come to the wrong place, or on the wrong day, the first birds appear in the far ­distance. A small flock of starlings, flying determinedly in our ­direction. A collective sigh of relief ripples through the crowd. We can relax. Continue re...

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47 minutes ago Ken Hom: ‘I was petrified of being in front of the camera. Doing TV was a nightmare’

The chef and broadcaster on peeling prawns by the kilo, his bicultural pride and being ‘addicted’ to fish and chipsDucks don’t like me when they look at me. I’ve cooked countless peking ducks, probably several thousand. On my first TV series [Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery on BBC Two, first broadcast on 29 October 1984] we did peking duck in the first programme and there was a run on ducks the next day in all the supermarkets. I’m their nemesis.My father died when I was eight months old, he had a heart attack. So I grew up in Chicago with a single mum who, because she came from China, never spoke English. I had to speak Cantonese to her and it’s been a blessing in disguise. Because of that, I became bicultural. I spoke English in a western world, but at the same time...

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47 minutes ago The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton

A gripping audio series about a killer-for-hire scam on the dark web is a reminder of how technology holds up a mirror to human natureThis column comes to you as a break from listening to a riveting podcast series called Kill List. It’s about a secret website that journalist and author Carl Miller discovered on the dark web, the slimy underbelly of the internet. The site essentially runs what one might call an “assassination market” or a murder-for-hire service. Customers identify and profile someone whom they wish to have killed and pay (in bitcoin, natch) for the service they require. Hence the title of the podcast series.The story starts in 2020 in the early days of the pandemic lockdown when a gifted IT expert and hacker, Chris Monteiro, was browsing the site and found a security vu...

Events

73 minutes ago Flyer shares 'airport hack' to avoid paying for drinks while waiting for plane

A traveller has shared their go-to airport hack that will save you money on drinks when waiting around in the terminal and other frequent fliers quickly praised it

Transport

90 minutes ago Body of woman found on Scots beach as police probe 'unexplained' death

The wman's body was discovered at Donmouth Beach in Aberdeen in the early hours of the morning.

Events

2 hours ago The Satanic Temple is taking on the Christian right. It may be effective – it’s definitely fun | Arwa Mahdawi

Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against themThe devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancing some cunning new plan to strip women of their bodily autonomy. As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically reduce access to mifepristone. Continue reading...

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