3 hours ago Mark Zuckerberg’s end to Meta factchecking is a desperate play for engagement

As factchecking attempts end, Meta’s platforms will become a wasteland of fake news and misinformationMark Zuckerberg craves one metric more than any other: engagement, the statistic that tracks how long social media users spend scrolling, clicking, commenting, and viewing ads. More engagement, more profit. The Meta CEO will do almost anything to keep users online for an extra two minutes – even, it seems, surrender his websites to a flood of fake news.On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced that his company plans to fire its US factcheckers and weaken its ability to moderate disinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. This new policy is meant to curry favor with the coming Trump administration. It’s also a desperate attempt to boost engagement across all Meta’s social networks. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Dear Coleen: I fear a family fall out when we drive to my sister's Scots wedding

I have been driving for a decade and so has my husband, while my mum has been driving for at least 30 years, but doesn’t drive as much now due to declining health (and certainly not long distances).

Society

18 hours ago MSPs 'must back private jet tax' as super rich 'burn through carbon budget in 10 days'

Oxfam Scotland says shocking milestone highlights the need for Holyrood budget to rein in lavish private jet culture amongst super-rich.

Economics

3 hours ago Keir Starmer faces calls to pilot legal drug consumption rooms as first to open in UK

The Thistle drug consumption room - the first of its kind in the UK - will open in Glasgow on Monday in a bid to drive down Scotland's drug deaths rate

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35 hours ago 'Overwhelmed' Wuhan hospitals treat '2,000 kids daily' amid mystery virus outbreak

New footage from inside hospitals in Wuhan, China, display worrying scenes as families are turned away and put on IV drips while stood in waiting rooms due to a huge virus outbreak

Science

4 hours ago The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump’s denial and division fuel climate inaction | Editorial

Events in California reveal how political obstruction is deepening a climate crisis that needs urgent action to prevent it becoming an irreversible disasterThe wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, displaced 180,000 and scorched about 40 square miles – an inferno driven by fierce winds and severe drought in what should be California’s wet season. It is a sobering reminder that the climate crisis is driving wildfires to become more frequent, intense and destructive – leaving ruined lives, homes and livelihoods in their wake. The US president Joe Biden responded by mobilising federal aid. By contrast the president-elect, Donald Trump, a convicted felon who was criminally sentenced on Friday, used the disaster to spread disinformation and stoke political division.The climate crisis knows no national borders. Deadly floods in Spain, Hawaii’s fires and east Africa’s devastating drought show nowhere is safe from its effects. Countries must work toward the global c...

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29 hours ago The celebrity homes destroyed in LA fires mapped: As thousands lose their properties use our interactive map to behold the devastation

Anthony Hopkins , Miles Teller and Anna Faris are just a few of the many celebrities whose stunning mansions have been reduced to ash and rubble.

Society

22 hours ago Bitcoin miner refused access to landfill site to retrieve £598m hard drive, judge rules

James Howells has been fighting Newport council after his former partner accidentally took the hard drive to the rubbish tip in 2013

Economics

5 hours ago Sir Rod Stewart reflects on life as he celebrates turning ’80 years young’

The veteran rocker marked his milestone birthday on Friday by sharing a series of photos from across his life and 60-year career.

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35 hours ago Scientists drill deep into the earth's core to reveal secrets of ancient ice

A team of scientists have drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that is at least 1.2 million years old.

Science

7 hours ago ITV Coronation Street's David Platt star admits he never talks to axed colleagues

Coronation Street stalwart Jack P Shepherd, who has played David Platt on the ITV soap since 2000, has admitted he doesn't keep in touch with his former co-stars

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22 hours ago Greggs and Greene King among firms backing drive to get offenders into work

Leaders from major employers will be among those to sit on new employment councils in regions across England and Wales.

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5 hours ago DEAR CAROLINE: I moved hundreds of miles to nurse my boyfriend's dying mum

Occasionally I go for drinks after work with colleagues, more duty than pleasure. I always have a soft drink and make the excuse that I have to drive from the station (I don't).

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8 hours ago Jeff Stelling fumes as Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson can't join club including Jose Mourinho

Jeff Stelling and Ally McCoist made their feelings known after LMA rules meant Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson's 1,000-game milestone wouldn't be recognised

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26 hours ago Bitcoin miner can't recover '£600m' fortune, judge rules as ex 'sick of hearing about it'

James Howells claimed that Newport City Council should either allow recovery of the hard drive or pay him compensation for the value - but a judge has thrown out his case

Economics

5 hours ago How to be 80 years young! As Sir Rod Stewart celebrates milestone birthday in St Barts, the male octogenarians who haven't aged in decades

MailOnline takes a look at the male octogenarians who haven't aged in decades and reveal the secrets to their success as Sir Rod Stewart celebrates his 80th birthday.

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9 hours ago 'I found prettiest Welsh town you can easily drive past and I can't wait to go back'

Zoe Chamberlain had driven through the market town of Llandovery many, many times on my way to family holidays in Pembrokeshire. But this time, she finally stopped to check it out

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27 hours ago Man hunting £569m bitcoin fortune in rubbish dump suffers huge blow after court ruling

James Howells, 39, wants to retrieve a computer hard drive from a rubbish dump in South Wales which he says was thrown out by an ex-girlfriend and he claims contains £569million in Bitcoin

Economics

5 hours ago National Trust boss received ‘completely bizarre’ death threats over slavery report

National Trust is launching vast new drive to address the climate and nature crises

Events

13 hours ago Jakob Bro: Taking Turns review – lost masterpiece from great Dane’s understated jazz supergroup

(ECM)Played by world-class personnel including Bill Frisell and the late, great alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, this 2014 set is full of subtle, spontaneous ideasWhen Miles Davis led the 1948-50 sessions that became jazz’s Birth of the Cool releases, the most bewitching solo voice apart from his own trumpet was that of a little-known 21-year-old called Lee Konitz. The alto saxophonist’s quietly captivating work still shimmers as a central feature of Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s Taking Turns, also recorded in New York but more than 60 years later, and strangely consigned to ECM’s vaults from 2014 until now.Bro’s reputation grew when he succeeded Bill Frisell in drum master Paul Motian’s band in 2006, the connection that first introduced him to Konitz, who can instantly invent fresh lines to any composition put in front of him. Bro credits this ability with his own understanding of how to lead an improviser’s band that plays composed music with looseness and flow. Continue reading...

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36 hours ago Motorists given bizarre tea bag trick to avoid £2,500 fine this winter

A motoring expert has shared a surprising yet effective tip for drivers to prevent their car windows from misting up on cold winter mornings, without having to wait

Economics

7 hours ago Call demanding changes to free bus travel for Brits over 60 hits major milestone

A new online petition is calling for the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) to be expanded and follow the Scottish Government's lead by providing free bus travel to everyone over the age of 60

Events

16 hours ago 'I played for Arsenal for 13 years and I didn't want to leave – but I had to go'

Nigel Winterburn enjoyed an illustrious 13-year stint with Arsenal before his 2000 transfer to West Ham, but the legendary left-back has revealed that he never wanted to leave Highbury

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8 hours ago In their own words: AP photographers explain how selected images capture warming world

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on record, the latest in a long string of heat milestones that have been shattered in recent years as the burning of gas, coal and oil accelerate global warming.

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17 hours ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share heartfelt message to Californians as wildfires rage miles from their home

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex offered a list of ways to help those affected by the fires

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9 hours ago ‘It was extraordinary’: Spanish captain recalls rescue of woman who gave birth in dinghy

Mother and newborn saved from inflatable boat off Canary Islands, on a route on which thousands have diedThe call that would lead to one of the most poignant images of the humanitarian emergency in the deadly waters off the Canary Islands came at 4am.In the early hours of Monday, the Las Palmas command centre of Spain’s maritime rescue service, Salvamento Marítimo, told Domingo Trujillo, the captain of the search-and-rescue vessel Talía, that a small inflatable boat, packed with people, was adrift 97 nautical miles (180km) off the coast of Lanzarote. Among those onboard, they added, was a woman who was due to give birth at any moment. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago December delivers for Scottish retailers as Black Friday and Christmas drive sales

“As the Hogmanay bells tolled retailers won’t have been heartbroken to bid farewell to 2024” – David Lonsdale, SRC

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11 hours ago Furious celebs vent anger as man is arrested over devastating LA fires

Conspiracy theorists have been pushing the foul play narrative online since Tuesday, when two fires erupted in the city about 40 miles apart. Four additional fires have since broken out in area.

Events

23 hours ago Former head of the Royal Navy and senior Labour peer urges Keir Starmer to ditch the 'irresponsible' surrender of Chagos Islands

Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord and security minister, warned that pressing ahead would put Britain and its allies' security 'in danger'.

Politics

13 hours ago Spencer Pratt toasts huge milestone after house burns down in devastating LA fire

TV stars Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag confirmed earlier this week that their family home had burned down in the LA wildfires

Events

24 hours ago Bellingham and Rodrygo sink Mallorca as Real Madrid reach Super Cup final

Real Madrid 3-0 Mallorca Spanish champions set to face rivals Barcelona in JeddahSecond-half goals from Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo helped Real Madrid to a 3-0 win over Mallorca in the Spanish Super Cup semi-finals and set up a showdown with Barcelona in Jeddah.Bellingham broke the deadlock after the hour mark with a low drive following an excellent team move. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago At last! Fashion is making bags for women who work, not just ladies who lunch | Jessica Cartner

My work bag is closer in scale to a laundry basket than the tiny handbags clutched by modelsFashion sometimes excludes people on grounds that are truly nasty and toxic and which reflect and drive fundamental problems in our culture: race, weight, wealth. So I hesitate to bring up what I’m about to say because it is small-fry compared with those issues. What I want to talk about today is not, in the scheme of things, any kind of hard luck story. But I am going to bring it up anyway.The microaggression for which I would like to call out fashion, today, is for all the times it has made me feel excluded because my handbag is inelegantly big and heavy. I have quite often felt like a no-hope outcast from glamour, on the grounds that the outfits fashion celebrates on catwalks or billboards or red carpets feature a handbag no bigger than a hardback novel, while the bag I carry to the office and back every day is closer in scale to a laundry basket. Continue reading...

Events

29 hours ago TFGM issues statement on 'frozen' pedestrian crossings 'constantly' changing traffic lights to red

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has issued a statement after motorists became stuck

Politics

22 hours ago Inside the safe consumption room tasked with helping to drive down Scotland's drug deaths epidemic

Team behind UK first centre aim to save lives and improve public health

Events

29 hours ago Meghan Markle and Prince Harry break silence on LA wildfires as they face evacuation

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have urged their supports to help out following the ongoing wildfires which are currently sweeping across California – 70 miles from their home

Politics

22 hours ago Bosses at Greggs, Iceland and Oliver Bonas in major drive to help employ criminals

Prisons minister James Timpson writes below for The Mirror on how getting offenders into work can help make our streets safer and tackle the overcrowding crisis in jails

Events

30 hours ago Scottish woman just 5ft tall aims to become shortest person to complete 3,000

A Fife entrepreneur is set to take on an extreme endurance race in a solo 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic.

Politics

26 hours ago Harry and Meghan share heartfelt message to Californians as wildfires rage miles from their home

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex offered a list of ways to help those affected by the fires

Events

34 hours ago What do the stars have in store for your love life in 2025? JEMIMA CAINER reveals all

The year 2025 promises excitement and romance for all the signs. Both Venus, the planet of love, and Mars, ruling planet of passion and sex drive, make retrograde moves in the first few months.

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29 hours ago Motorists in Monklands warned to expect travel disruption when three roads shut this month

Diversions for drivers will only be in place during one of the trio of closures.

Events

35 hours ago Scots owner of stolen BMW says 'miracles do happen' as cops find car five miles from home

The convertible, which was stolen while defrosting on the owner's driveway, was found through a feature which pinpointed the vehicle's location through its GPS system.

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31 hours ago Astonishing video shows LA's scorched earth: Mile after mile of smouldering ruins of what used to be multi million dollar mansions as fires still rage out of control

Footage reveals how blocks of idyllic LA homes are now nothing more than smouldering ruins with only charred tree stumps and building struts left standing amid the detritus.

Events

39 hours ago Wishaw kids charity urging Lanarkshire residents to sign up to this year’s Kiltwalk

Once again, volunteers from the Les Hoey MBE DreamMaker Foundation will be tackling both the 20 miles and 14 mile treks later this year to raise funds for the charity.

Politics

31 hours ago ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary lifeFilippo Tommaso Marinetti was the Elon Musk of the early 20th century, combining a joy in technological innovation with an appetite for illiberal politics. Where Musk builds rockets, Marinetti celebrated those shiny new inventions, the aeroplane and the motor car. The Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote when the movement existed only in his head, begins with a rhapsodic account of a fast drive that ends in a crash, which delights him more than the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the famous Greek sculpture in the Louvre. Machines, he believes, make all previous art irrelevant. Futurism will hymn the hard new beauty.Marinetti’s role in the making of the modern world is insufficiently recognised, presumably because he was so contentious and offensi...

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31 hours ago Rotherham grooming gang survivor who found her rapist a mile from her house after he was released from prison blasts Keir Starmer for 'point scoring' and 'insulting the public' over the scandal

A woman who was repeatedly raped as a teenager told MailOnline how 'angry' she was after this week's comments by the Prime Minister on grooming gangs.

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31 hours ago LA's perfect firestorm: How a tiny spark in a back yard turned into the city's worst ever fire in HOURS and incinerated 20 square miles of mansions

Within minutes of the fire starting, a small plume of smoke had grown massively as the first flames began tearing through a wooded area. Before long, the City of Angels was ablaze

Events

32 hours ago EastEnders gears up for 40th anniversary with dramatic returns and exits

EastEnders is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary in February, and the BBC soap has a number of stars returning and leaving to mark the huge milestone

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