3 hours ago Curtis Jones strikes to sink Chelsea and reclaim top spot for Liverpool

Contenders or pretenders? It was a legitimate question to ask of Liverpool following an almost flawless start to life under Arne Slot, albeit one lacking a first serious Premier League test. Chelsea provided it and Liverpool found the answers, returning to the top of the table courtesy of a gruelling, engrossing defeat of Enzo Maresco’s emerging team.Mohamed Salah and the outstanding Curtis Jones delivered victory – a seventh in eight league games under Slot – either side of Nicolas Jackson’s second-half equaliser. VAR and the referee, John Brooks, also featured prominently, unfortunately. Chelsea played with confidence but little cutting edge. Liverpool showed the resilience, organisation and penetration when it mattered to strengthen their claims as potentially the biggest threat to M...

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4 hours ago Heritage group goes to war with Oxford University over warrior skeleton it says should be returned to Wales

The 'Red Lady' of Paviland was discovered in a Gower cave, Wales, in 1823 and has been on display at Oxford University for the past 200 years.

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4 hours ago The Guardian view on North Koreans in Ukraine: a Russian war is using foreign labour | Editorial

Moscow is relying on soldiers and workers enlisted from abroad to keep its war goingAround 1 million soldiers are believed to have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war in Ukraine. In addition to the vast Ukrainian civilian and military toll, average Russian casualties reportedly rose to a new height of more than 1,200 soldiers a day in September. Russia has four times as many men, but a war described by its own fighters as a “meat grinder” is rapidly diminishing the ranks, and using conscripts has a political cost. On some estimates, seven times more Russian soldiers have died since the invasion than Soviet troops died in Afghanistan in a decade.Valerii Zaluzhnyi, formerly Ukraine’s commander in chief and now its ambassador to the UK, remarked recently that in war “the only thing that...

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4 hours ago Bill Gates urges UK to maintain lead role in helping the world’s poorest people

Microsoft founder Bill Gates came to London to urge Keir Starmer to maintain Britain’s global leadership in helping the world’s poorest - and said the 'golden age' of giving is over

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4 hours ago Russia only country waging war in Europe, says Healey, after ‘proxy war’ claim

The Defence Secretary rejected the Russian ambassador’s claim the UK was waging a ‘proxy war’ against Moscow in Ukraine.

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5 hours ago Storm Ashley brings rail, road and air chaos as UK on high alert over flood warnings

First named storm of the season is ‘likely’ to bring a threat of injuries and danger to life, Met Office says

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5 hours ago Inside ‘US street gang war’ as Tren de Aragua head for violent showdown with MS

EXCLUSIVE: Notorious gangs like Mara Sulvatrucha may feel threatened by Tren de Aragua's rise to power, something which could spell a violent showdown on US streets

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5 hours ago Vladimir Putin glee at 'gathering storm' in Middle East but 'it may spark World War 3'

A deepening crisis in the Middle East is being welcomed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin but it "could easily lead to a global war" now, warn security experts with two distinct sides in place

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6 hours ago Lauryn Goodman reporting Annie Kilner's historic 'death threat' to cops branded 'ridiculous'

Annie Kilner was reported to the police in January after a leaked text message said she wanted Lauryn Goodman "dead", but a source has branded the move "ridiculous"

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