1 hour ago Parents see kids' play dates as a food contest with others, poll reveals

It seems, the modern playdate has become a far more staged affair - with educational games, healthy food and screen-free activities on the cards.

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2 hours ago Child among four killed after airstrike hits Lebanon's biggest hospital: Deaths come hours after IDF said Hezbollah was hiding $100millions under another clinic

Israel's bombardment of Lebanon has displaced more than 1.2million people multiple times, according to the country's authorities.

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3 hours ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sending migrants to St Helena is 'nothing like' Rwanda, wailed the Lefties. True

QUENTIN LETTS: Tories pointed out that the plan was remarkably similar to the one they had to send migrants to Rwanda. This accusation of hypocrisy was pooh-poohed by Labour MPs.

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4 hours ago The Franchise review – Armando Iannucci’s superhero satire is saved only by a standout star

This spoof from a team of comedy greats ends up a bit of a mess – largely due to the lack of great jokes. But one actor comes up with the goodsIt is a strange truth that to satirise something effectively, you have to love it – at least a little. You have to see it in the round and understand not just where it fails but where it succeeds, and why some people like it while others loathe it. Good satire doesn’t come from indifference: it comes from disappointment, rage and the desire to show not just how things fail but how they could be better.Jonathan Swift wrote about people eating babies because he was furious. Jane Austen looked at Georgian women’s lot and laid bare all its miseries through laughter. Leaping over a few centuries, the likes of Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister an...

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4 hours ago Middle East crisis live: Israeli airstrike hits front of hospital in south Beirut, spokesperson says

Attack hit entrance of Rafic Hariri university hospital – the largest public hospital in LebanonIsraeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said.They also rounded up men and ordered women to leave the camp, they said. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Man ‘kidnapped girl, 9, outside Harrods before drugging and sexually assaulting her’

Robert Prussak is accused of luring the young girl back to his flat after she lost her parents

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4 hours ago Chris Kaba's family reveal their 'devastation' after Met Police officer Martyn Blake cleared of murder

Martyn Blake, 40, was dramatically found not guilty today after being accused of shooting dead Mr Kaba, 24, 'without justification' to stop the fleeing suspect escaping police.

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5 hours ago Fury as radical Australian senator Lidia Thorpe posts beheaded King Charles cartoon hours after hijacking and embarrassing King by accusing him of 'genocide' at royal welcome event

Dressed in a native fur coat, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, 51, shouted at Parliament House in Canberra that the King had 'committed genocide against our people', adding: 'F*** the colony'.

Politics

5 hours ago Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI firm for ‘illegal copying’

Publishers file suit against Perplexity AI, accusing startup of ‘brazen scheme’ and ‘freeriding on valuable content’The media baron Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Monday, claiming the artificial intelligence startup engages in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their copyrighted work.The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a bitter ongoing battle between publishers and tech companies over how the latter may use copyrighted content without authorization to build and operate their AI systems. Continue reading...

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