57 minutes ago You've been storing your eggs wrong as expert settles debate on correct way

Egg experts revealed where you should store your dairy to keep them fresher for longer and make sure they do not develop bacteria which could harm you if ingested

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28 hours ago Novak Djokovic’s claim he ate ‘poisoned’ food in 2022 Melbourne hotel detention ‘possible but very unlikely’, experts say

Doubt cast on tennis former world number one’s comments in GQ interview as debate reopens about handling of visa sagaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastExperts have cast doubt on Novak Djokovic’s claim that he was “poisoned” by the food he ate in hotel immigration detention during his Australian Open visa saga, suggesting it is possible but unlikely.Interviews with the former world number one ahead of the 2025 Australian Open have reopened public debate about the chain of events in 2022, with Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios saying his home country had “treated [Djokovic] like shit” by cancelling his visa in 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Man United's 'ideal replacement for Marcus Rashford' has been compared to Thierry Henry

With Marcus Rashford's representatives speaking to other clubs over a move away from his boyhood club, Manchester United could replace the forward with a highly-rated attacking option

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15 hours ago ‘Imagine if Messi coached Ronaldo’: how Murray 2.0 will need to adapt to flourish with Djokovic

Five months after retiring, the Scot is throwing himself into his work with the most successful men’s player of all timeAt the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns almost five years ago, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray logged on to Instagram Live for a casual conversation from their homes. As some of their viewers began to send through questions, they were asked to list the first three things they do when they wake up. Djokovic went first: “Gratitude and prayer,” he said. “A couple of long, deep breaths. Hugging my wife if she’s still in bed and running to my children.”Murray, who seemed to be fighting hard to maintain a straight face throughout Djokovic’s response, offered his own contributions: “For me, too much information, but I go for a pee.” Continue reading...

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76 minutes ago California fires live: LA issues new evacuation order as thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’

Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for MondayAfter the fire, the insurance battles: new ordeals to comeLos Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and imagesCalifornians: have you been affected by the wildfires?The LA Fire Department issued a new immediate evacuation order at 7pm (local time) on Friday for the Palisades fire. It affects the following areas:It covers Sunset Boulevard north to Encino Reservoir; and from the 405 Freeway West to Mandeville Canyon.The fires, coupled with strong winds, have severely degraded air quality by releasing hazardous smoke and particulate matter, posing immediate and long-term risks to public health. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Stunning photos of Mercury’s North Pole captured in spacecraft’s final flyby

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet

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2 hours ago HMPV: Health expert's verdict on whether virus from China could trigger global pandemic

A surge in cases of HMPV (human metapneumovirus) has raised fears of another Covid-19 style pandemic after harrowing images in China show children in hospital beds needing urgent treatment

Science

20 hours ago DWP urged to make state pension change that would affect eight million people

MPs may have to debate the proposal

Economics

20 hours ago Manchester United coach Ruben Amorim speaks out on Kobbie Mainoo's future

Kobbie Mainoo's Man United future is uncertain but his contract at the club has a maximum expiry date of 2028.

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1 hour ago Matthew Perry's $8.55million Pacific Palisades mansion where he died narrowly misses being destroyed by LA wildfires as the devastation continues

The Friends star tragically died at the property in October 2023, and new images reveal the fire appears to have surrounded the property leaving the pool full of dirt.

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3 hours ago Eden Hazard says he's a greater 'pure footballer' than Cristiano Ronaldo but not Mo Salah

Chelsea legend Eden Hazard was happy to end the debate of who is best between himself and Mohamed Salah - but he believes he was better than Cristiano Ronaldo

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32 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: The economy's reeling from the disastrous Budget. Taxes or cuts are coming... and the big financial players I've talked to now all say it could spell the end of Labour

In the run-up to the General Election , Rachel Reeves boasted repeatedly of her qualifications for being Chancellor, even liberally embellishing her CV to bolster her credentials.

Economics

2 hours ago Matthew Perry's old home narrowly misses being destroyed by LA wildfires as the devastation continues

The Friends star tragically died at the property in October 2023, and new images reveal the fire appears to have surrounded the property leaving the pool full of dirt.

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4 hours ago Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’

Last month, her father was sentenced to 20 years for drugging her mother then inviting dozens of strangers to rape her. Now their daughter tells of the ‘crushing double burden’ of being the child of both victim and perpetrator – and the mental torture of not knowing what he did to her• ‘Did he abuse me?’ Read an exclusive extract from Caroline Darian’s memoirFour years ago, Caroline Darian thought she had a normal life. She was in her early 40s, she had a home in the Paris area, a job as a communications manager, a husband who worked for a TV breakfast show and a six-year-old son. She got on well with her parents, who had retired to the picturesque village of Mazan in Provence in the south of France, to a house with pastel-blue shutters where they would all often spend long summers together in the garden under the mulberry tree and splashing in the pool – with barbecues and music, dinner and board games on the patio and country bike rides with her dad.Darian remembers the exact mome...

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6 hours ago Our daughter was desperate to be a mum. She died after a scan to confirm a miscarriage found something even worse

Rhiannon Morgan devastatingly only discovered she had cancer after having a scan following a miscarriage

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4 hours ago Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson: ‘Being desired is not something I’ve been particularly used to’

The sought-after British star of ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘The Iron Claw’ speaks to Adam White about shooting graphic BDSM scenes with Nicole Kidman in his provocative new thriller, privilege in the acting industry, and why he’d hate for his looks to be his ‘sole currency’

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8 hours ago California fires: 11 killed and 10,000 structures destroyed as blazes continue

Strong winds and low humidity continue as five fires rage across Los Angeles area, with death toll expected to riseLos Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and imagesWeather forecasters in Los Angeles were expecting fast, dry winds to return towards the end of the weekend, threatening to fuel wildfires that have already destroyed 10,000 structures and killed 11 people.Urgent “red flag” alerts – meaning critical fire weather conditions – announced by the US National Weather Service (NWS) said moderate to strong wind and low humidity would continue on Friday morning, as five fires raged across the metropolis. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’: Pelicot’s daughter speaks; and Philippa Perry on the deceptive ‘spark’ – podcast

Caroline Darian, daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot, tells of the ‘crushing double burden’ of being the child of both victim and perpetrator. Plus Philippa Perry invites one reader to see what happens when you prioritise someone who offers you stability and decency Continue reading...

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8 hours ago The bitter truth about how 'boring' Richard Hammond was 'blindsided' by wife's shock divorce demand... as friends tell KATIE HIND they fear things could turn ugly

It's hard to imagine that Mindy Hammond once joyfully declared that her family was 'lucky'. Nineteen years on, and much has changed.

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6 hours ago Lifeboat crew recall 'violent' weather during search for Solway Harvester on 25th anniversary of tragedy

Peter Cowin and John McCreadie were speaking on a special Manx Radio podcast ahead of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.

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9 hours ago 'You'll see your family in a coffin': Threat made by woman police allege poisoned her family with an arsenic Christmas cake, relatives claim to TOM RAWSTORNE. Now her father

From the smiles it might be imagined that they were one big happy family. But as the world now knows, nothing could be further from the truth.

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9 hours ago Only those with 20/20 vision can spot 15 differences in tricky brainteaser

Discover whether you have perfect eyesight and faultless attention to detail by finding all 15 differences in this living room image in just 30 seconds or less. Seriously, you'll need your specs for this one

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9 hours ago AMANDA PLATELL: I know the sad and cynical truth about why Harry and Meghan's offer over Los Angeles fires has gone up in flames

No sooner had the flames of the devastating fires in Californian begun destroying homes and lives than Meghan and Harry leapt to the rescue.

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16 hours ago Lynx on the loose in Scotland highlight debate over reintroducing species into the wild

Scottish environmental activists want to reintroduce the lynx into the forests of the Highlands

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11 hours ago Lucy Letby was on duty for all but one of 13 baby deaths in one year at hospital where she worked, despite claims by supporters

EXCLUSIVE: The former neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies, who died between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

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17 hours ago BORIS JOHNSON: Rachel from Accounts has been rumbled. It's time for her to make her way to HR and collect her P45

There is only one commodity that really matters to the UK economy. It is the one resource upon which the whole country depends - every single one of us. That substance is trust.

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11 hours ago Why Britain now needs a Ministry for Civil Defence: Few want to admit it, but we are effectively already at war with Russia, writes Winston Churchill's grandson NICHOLAS SOAMES

Look up. You might imagine that, under a British sky in January, a good old umbrella will keep you safe from the worst that the clouds above can throw at you.

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17 hours ago 'If Elon Musk’s Scouse Nan were still alive she’d send him this long post on X'

Scouse nans, they don’t hold back. Coincidentally, it’s come to light that Elon Musk might be obsessed with events in the UK because he had a Scouse nan. Really? Well I’d like to imagine that, were his Scouse nan still alive, she’d send him this long post on X.

Politics

11 hours ago Now Robert Burns is sidelined in Scotland's schools...in the name of 'diversity' as education chiefs 'reposition' national poet in favour of more 'relevant' novels

For centuries he has been celebrated across the world for his plain-speaking verse and wry observations on the human condition.

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17 hours ago SFA panel deliver verdict on Rangers penalty incidents against Hibs and Dundee plus Diomande red card debate

Majority decision reached on Easter Road talking point

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14 hours ago Now Robert Burns is sidelined in Scotland's schools...in the name of 'diversity'

For centuries he has been celebrated across the world for his plain-speaking verse and wry observations on the human condition.

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17 hours ago BORIS JOHNSON: Rachel from Accounts has been rumbled. It's time for her to make her way to HR and collect her P45

There is only one commodity that really matters to the UK economy. It is the one resource upon which the whole country depends - every single one of us. That substance is trust.

Politics

17 hours ago Pakistan Airlines comes under fire for 'tone deaf' advert 'showing jet flying into the Eiffel Tower'

The airline, which was banned from flying to the UK, US and EU, posted an image showing a jet, the tower and the French flag, with the caption: 'Paris, we're coming today.'

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18 hours ago Fears big cat on the loose in UK after farmer finds gruesome remains of deer 'ripped open'

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE Farmer Jimmy Adams was shocked to find the dead deer, with the animal's insides appearing to have been ripped out, on his land in Bradford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds

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19 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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22 hours ago Digested week: put away the hot wax and don’t eat your Christmas tree | Lucy Mangan

Never trust a hippy selling pine-flavoured butter. Plus, a watch that finally explains it allThe AFSCA (Belgium’s federal agency for ensuring food supply chain safety – but of course you knew that) has been forced to issue a warning to the good people of Poirot’s homeland not to eat their Christmas trees. This is after the city of Ghent – an environmentalism hotspot in northern Flanders – posted tips on how to recycle their obsolete festive conifers into food, including using them to make pine-flavoured butter. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Alex Salmond's death did not change anything for me, says Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon said she "wouldn't have wanted" to speak to her predecessor "unless he had been prepared to acknowledge some of the things that he had done".

Events

22 hours ago Digested week: Put away the hot wax and don’t eat your Christmas tree | Lucy Mangan

Never trust a hippy selling pine-flavoured butter. Plus, a watch that finally explains it allThe AFSCA (Belgium’s federal agency for ensuring food supply chain safety – but of course you knew that) has been forced to issue a warning to the good people of Poirot’s homeland not to eat their Christmas trees. This is after the city of Ghent – an environmentalism hotspot in northern Flanders – posted tips on how to recycle their obsolete festive conifers into food, including using them to make pine-flavoured butter. Continue reading...

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21 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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23 hours ago Raducanu turns down insect bite treatment over doping fears in Australia

Raducanu snubs spray after Swiatek and Sinner sagas‘I’m going to tough it out because I don’t want to risk it’Emma Raducanu says the chance of ingesting a contaminated substance is a notable concern on the minds of tennis players at a time when Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek continue to navigate the fallout of two of the most high profile anti-doping cases in the history of the sport.Speaking at her pre-tournament press conference at the Australian Open before her first round match against the 26th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday, Raducanu said players must “manage the controllables” as well as they can. She had suffered a significant insect bite the previous day but declined the antiseptic spray she was provided because she did not want to risk taking a banned substance. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Will Nick Clegg put a rocket under European tech now he’s out of Meta?

Our former deputy PM has parted ways with Mark Zuckerberg. Speaking to sources close to him, Chris Blackhurst ponders what’s next

Events

23 hours ago I’m not one for new year’s resolutions – except when it comes to my garden

With a new year comes new plans, but don’t forget to relax in and enjoy your garden at this time of year, tooI don’t love gardening to-do lists – they make it feel too much like work – but I do think there’s value in thinking about what you’d like to do with your garden this year. Perhaps you haven’t been out in it for weeks, or maybe just for a few minutes here and there, to add the sprout leaves to the compost bin. But while January might be the sleepiest time in the garden – perhaps a snowdrop swelling somewhere, but otherwise fallen leaves and perennials tucked well beneath the earth – it’s still the start of a new year.I have never been a huge one for new year resolutions, but I make gentle exceptions for my garden. Gardening is a practice that exists in the temporal space of hope. At this time of year, we imagine warmer days and flick through seed catalogues (if you want something more substantial, I recommend Katharine S White’s Onward and Upward in the Garden, a&nb...

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24 hours ago Police hunt for two men in appeal to find missing mother, 43, and son, seven, who vanished from Richmond seven months ago

Karima Mahmoud, 43, and Adam Glanville were last seen together on June 3 in Richmond, West London. Police have now released an image of two men they think may have information on the disappearance.

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23 hours ago Business expert explains why Jiffy's radical proposal to cut Welsh regions makes sense

Jonathan Davies' forthright views on what needs to happen in Welsh rugby have certainly sparked debate. Here, a business expert gives his views

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24 hours ago LA fires before and after: Haunting images reveal extent of huge blaze's devastation

Haunting images have compared what Los Angeles looked before wildfires began to take over the city. Numerous homes of Hollywood stars have been destroyed, as well as civilians who have nothing left

Events

25 hours ago Cardiff City legend tells club what to do with rising star as transfer debate put to bed

The youngster impressed from the off against Sheffield United in the FA Cup third-round win

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27 hours ago Hollywood sign fire: Horror as AI image of landmark alight in 'apocalyptic' wildfires goes viral

The latest horror blaze erupted in the Hollywood Hills on Wendesday and lead to a number of fake photos and video going viral online - which appeared to show the world-famous structure on fire

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