1 hour ago Silent Crime: Red flag signs to spot if someone is trying to sell you a stolen phone

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1 hour ago Why can’t politics in the UK or US get to grips with Taylor Swift? Because she is a force in her own right | Gaby Hinsliff

On each side of the Atlantic, so much rests on what she says, positions she takes and who meets her approval. She is where pop meets politics nowWhen people say that music can change the world, they don’t usually mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel.They mean protest songs, political songs, anthems against the Vietnam war; not the soundtracks to aching teenage summers or to eight-year-olds’ dance routines in the playground. They don’t, in short, mean Taylor Swift songs. But that was what Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel peace prize-winning campaigner for women’s right to an education, used to sing with her friends growing up in Pakistan. Music, she posted on Instagram, after attending one of Swift’s London gigs this summer, “made me and my friends feel confident...

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2 hours ago The Prodigy’s Leeroy Thornhill on fame, raves and his late best mate Keith Flint: ‘I love him and I always will’

He and Flint joined the band as teenagers, leaving Essex to travel the world and mix with royalty. As Thornhill publishes a book of photographs from that era, he talks about the fun, friendship, chaos – and sorrowThe first time I encountered Leeroy Thornhill, he invited me around to his place to smoke banana skins. I was only 12 years old at the time – but before you call social services, let me reassure you that this wasn’t a real-life interaction. I was simply reading the sleeve notes of his band the Prodigy’s debut album, Experience, where the peculiar fruit-based invitation was offered up to the band’s fans. Just above it was a photograph of the group sharing a joint. They seemed thrillingly above the law – and the rules of being in a band itself.For a start, half of them – Thornhil...

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2 hours ago Hundreds flee as explosions heard in Beirut after Israel warns of overnight strikes

Blasts began in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital on Sunday evening

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3 hours ago Still Game star 'Auld Eric' to receive top royal honour as family joke that King will need translator

Still Game star Jimmy Martin's daughter explained how her dad got his big break as an actor.

Politics

4 hours ago Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Politics

5 hours ago INSIDE SPORT: Premier League fears grow that leading clubs will snub USA summer tournament, while Erik ten Hag breaks bread with media he accused of spreading 'fairytales and lies'

MIKE KEEGAN: No Premier League club has yet committed to the second Summer Series in the promised land of the United States as teams consider their pre-season plans.

Society

6 hours ago You could easily save £235 a year on your TV, broadband or mobile bill, researchers say

Research by consumer group Which? found customers could save hundreds of pounds by switching their TV, mobile or broadband contract - or even just haggling with their current provider

Economics

6 hours ago Nicolas Cage, 60, beams at wife Riko Shibata, 29, while being honored at Newport Beach Film Festival

The Oscar winner is 31 years older than the Kyoto native, and the couple are parents of two-year-old daughter August Francesca Cage

Culture