66 minutes ago Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’

The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired himRichard Price, 75, is a screenwriter and author whose books include the 600-page drug-war epic Clockers (1992), which was filmed by Spike Lee and inspired the HBO crime drama The Wire, co-written by Price. Michael Chabon has called him “one of the best writers of dialogue in the history of American literature”. Born and raised in the Bronx, he lives in Harlem – the setting for his new novel, Lazarus Man, in which four strangers cross paths amid the collapse of a tenement block.The book’s acknowledgments mention its “incredibly long gestation”... I signed the contract to write this 17 years ago; if it was a baby, it’d now be applying to college. I’d just written Lush Life, a sort of panorama of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and I wanted to try to do the same for Harlem, but I’d only just moved there. New York City is 1,000 cities ...

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27 hours ago Night clubs and bars say tax rise could force dance venues to close in London, Manchester, Liverpool, and more

UK nightclubs are fighting for survival as rising costs and tax hikes threaten closures 🎶

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11 hours ago Boxing Tonight: TV channels, live streams, ring walk start times and fight cards

Callum Simpson faces a potential banana skin tonight in Steed Woodall - with the British star eager to defend his British and Commonwealth super middleweight titles

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98 minutes ago Five 'are fighting for life' and dozens injured as trams crash into each other in major incident at Strasbourg station

 At least 20 people were injured when two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France, French media said on Saturday.

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4 hours ago Photographer captures proposal at Scots tourist spot and begs others to 'get out shot'

"It wasn't a pleasure editing everyone else out though but all part of the job."

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30 hours ago Paris accuses Algeria of trying to humiliate France by refusing to admit a deported influencer

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has accused Algeria of “trying to humiliate France” after the North African country refused to admit one of its nationals who was being deported

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26 hours ago Logistics company seeking approval to carry out alterations to its Eurocentral base

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96 minutes ago Joe Biden got plenty right at home, but on the world stage he let himself be taken for a fool | Simon Tisdall

In another era, the outgoing president would have made a great cold war leader. Instead, his tenure was dogged by errors, naivety and overcautionIn a week when the US bade a sad farewell to Jimmy Carter, presidential legacies came under particular scrutiny. Yet few presidents are widely remembered beyond their lifetimes, their “historic” achievements even less so. In the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon make the truly memorable list. Most of the rest are mere school-book names and dates.Joe Biden’s standing in this unprepossessing pantheon is now being assessed, as he prepares to depart the White House on 20 January. Like his 44 predecessors, he reportedly frets about his “place in history”. All presidents do this. It smacks of vanity. They give valedictory lectures, endow foundations, build libraries, write memoirs. They confuse fame with continuing relevance. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus

To solve the climate crisis, power must flow away from the billionaire classWhen I feel uncertain, I find it’s helpful to write down things I know to be true. Fossil fuels are causing irreversible planetary overheating. Overheating threatens essentially all life on Earth. Oil and gas executives knew this but they chose to systematically lie and block a climate transition. They continue to make this choice.I choose to focus my energy on the climate crisis because a habitable planet is a prerequisite for everything worth fighting for, and because the prospect of losing a planet feels horrific and sad to me in a primal way that I can’t express with words. I’m also simply in love with the Earth. But planetary overheating is really just the most geophysical symptom of extractive colonial capitalism – “billionairism” – a system designed to pump wealth from the poor to the rich, creating billionaires, the healthcare crisis, the housing crisis, genocide, hierarchies like racism and patriarc...

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16 hours ago UK's rarest 50p coin rakes in £107 as Brits urged to check their change

A bidding war on eBay has amassed a huge amount of attention - with more of the rogue 50p coins expected to be in the wallets of the nation

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24 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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1 hour ago Polish general is sacked and four soldiers face up to five years in jail after 240 anti

To lose one anti-tank mine may be regarded as a grave misfortune, but to lose 240 -  and then have them turn up near an Ikea warehouse - has been deemed serious neglect by a Polish district prosecutor.

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23 hours ago Lynx 'deliberately abandoned' in Highlands safely captured after footage emerged

A further two lynx, who were "deliberately abandoned" in the Cairngorms, have been safely captured this evening

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2 hours ago How to watch 2025 NFL Playoffs in the UK as Wild Card Weekend schedule confirmed

The 2025 NFL Playoffs are underway and some of American football's biggest franchises will be fighting it out for a place in Super Bowl 59, which will take place on February 9

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22 hours ago The Rochdale grooming gang that has run up £2m bill for taxpayers after fighting attempts to deport them

Members of a child sex grooming gang have cost taxpayers more than £2m in legal aid bills while battling deportation - with £285,000 paid to the ringleader, it emerged yesterday.

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26 hours ago Heartbreaking final words of LA man who died clutching garden hose to fight flames

A California man who died trying to put out the flames encroaching his property with a garden hose uttered tragic final words to his sister: 'Let me just sit here.'

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2 hours ago Addicts struggling to buy drugs after police crackdown in one part of Wales

North Wales Police have conducted 35 raids and made 180 arrests made in just one part Rhyl in eight months

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26 hours ago Poignant short film Clodagh shows ‘how art can change people’, says director Portia A Buckley

Oscar-longlisted film captures powerful moment someone’s life is changed ‘by seeing a form of artistic expression’

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3 hours ago How Trump's plan to make Canada the 51st state could change the U.S... and backfire on Republicans

President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on making Canada the 51st state, but expanding the U.S. to the north could be disastrous for Republicans in Washington, DC.

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28 hours ago Lanarkshire councils will share more than £1.5 billion in funding over next year

Under the Local Government Settlement, North Lanarkshire Council will receive £869.7 million with £805.8 million allocated to South Lanarkshire.

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35 hours ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal eye Araujo bid; Man Utd fight Liverpool for Kvaratskhelia; Kolo Muani to Tottenham

January window is getting busy as Premier League giants plot big signings

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2 hours ago Mystery as South Korean jet's TWO black boxes stopped recording four minutes before aircraft crashed and killed 179 passengers and crew

Investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of the crash that killed all but two of the 181 people on board.

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27 hours ago For Elton John, 'Never Too Late' isn't just a documentary and song — it is a life mantra

Capturing Sir Elton John’s 50-year career is a herculean task

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5 hours ago Ukraine captures two North Korean soldiers ALIVE as President Zelensky shares pictures

The wounded men - pictured - are the first taken alive since Kim Jong-un sent his soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin. They are now in Kyiv assisting the Ukrainian secret service

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34 hours ago Man whose £600m fortune was thrown away in a bin bag says 'they have refused to learn' as he's dealt further blow

James Howells lost his court fight to recover the 8,000 Bitcoins from a Newport landfill site

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3 hours ago ‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the turbine hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remainAs the world turns toward another fractured year, Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist, is at work trying to fathom how to create a house out of human hair. Salcedo, 65, has long made herself a channel of collective trauma, her art expressing profound anger at political crimes and atrocities at home and abroad – as well as creating imaginative spaces for mourning. Her hair project, she says, comes in response to what she has come to think of as “domicide”: the calculated bombing and destruction of places that people call home.“Most of my work is a response of some kind to war,” she says. “And we have all witnessed – of course for decades in Colombia, but also now in Ukraine and Syria and Sudan and in Gaza – this destruction of houses for the sole purpose of escalating human suffering. In Gaz...

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28 hours ago Giant sculpture inspired by the sun to go on display at National Trust properties

Luke Jerram’s latest work, entitled Helios, includes the sound of the sun captured by Nasa.

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7 hours ago Bring North Sea oil and gas under greater public control, report urges

Common Wealth thinktank warns that communities and taxpayer may have to pick up pieces when production endsNorth Sea oil and gas must be brought under greater public control to avoid a cliff-edge collapse of the industry and secure a sustainable future for workers and communities, according to a report.Under the current private ownership model the inevitable end of North Sea oil and gas production – whether through government action or the lack of viable oilfields – will lead to private companies abruptly abandoning the basin, leaving frontline communities and the state to deal with the social and economic consequences, the authors predict. Continue reading...

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42 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

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3 hours ago Here is why California can’t use ocean water to help fight the wildfires

Salt water can wreck a fire, but it can also wreck equipment and vegetation as well

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29 hours ago ‘They created a Vegas in 10 years’: photographing the hedonistic gambling mecca of Macau

Photographer Adam Lampton discusses capturing the vice, cash and sheer excess of the special administrative region of China – a place built on contradictions“I am not a huge gambler,” says Adam Lampton. “The first time I went to Macau, fresh out of grad school, I didn’t have any money to spare – it all went on camera film. People take it all very seriously, so I was too intimidated to sit down and be the white guy who didn’t know what the hell he was doing.”As a non-gambler in Macau, the American photographer would have been an oddity – most tourists go there to “play”, hoping Lady Luck glances their way. The former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region of China, is the world’s gambling mecca. Located on China’s south-east coast, just across the water from Hong Kong, Macau’s gambling revenues often put the US’s “Sin City” in the shade. The Macau government expects its gaming revenues to hit about $27bn in 2024, while declining Nevada looks set to fall below 2023’s r...

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8 hours ago Ross County vs Celtic LIVE as Yang, Kyogo and Adam Idah all start in Dingwall

The champions make the long trip north to a venue where they were left it late to win on their last visit and victory will move them 18 points clear

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3 hours ago Naturists go to war with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as he won't let them show their bits

Naturists are beefing up against Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and the firm's 'discriminatory moderation practices', because they want to see all sorts of naked bodies on social media

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29 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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8 hours ago Ross County 0 Celtic 0 LIVE score and goal updates from the Premiership clash in Dingwall

The champions make the long trip north to a venue where they were left it late to win on their last visit and victory will move them 18 points clear

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41 hours ago Spacecraft beams back riveting photos after buzzing Mercury’s north pole

Some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury were captured

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8 hours ago Ross County 0 Celtic 1 LIVE as Kyogo makes the breakthrough in Dingwall

The champions make the long trip north to a venue where they were left it late to win on their last visit and victory will move them 18 points clear

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5 hours ago Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final 4 minutes, officials say

Officials say the black boxes of a Boeing jetliner that crashed in South Korea last month stopped recording about four minutes before the accident

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41 hours ago Netflix's Squid Game season 2 dethroned from top series spot by a surprising new show

The long-awaited sequel to the popular Korean thriller series broke viewership records with its debut on the streaming service just last month.

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8 hours ago Ross County 1 Celtic 4 LIVE reaction as Kyogo, Engels and McCowan blow the Staggies away

The champions make the long trip north to a venue where they were left it late to win on their last visit and victory will move them 18 points clear

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5 hours ago Incredible timelapse shows how quickly Palisades wildfires spread across Los Angeles

An incredible timelapse video has captured how quickly the deadly wildfires spread across LA, devastating communities in their path.

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8 hours ago ‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice

As her ground-breaking biography of Aboriginal activist Tracker Tilmouth is re-issued, the acclaimed Australian author remembers her late friend and talks about her latest novel, PraiseworthyOn the day she decided she had finally finished Praiseworthy, after almost a decade of writing and rewriting until she was happy with every one of its 700-odd pages, Alexis Wright went out to her garden in Melbourne’s north-east, and started furiously weeding. “It was like another edit!” she laughs. “And that garden was weeded within an inch of its life.”Wright, an Indigenous Australian novelist – one of the Waanyi people from the Gulf of Carpentaria – has written four novels since 1997. Her most recent, Praiseworthy, described by the New York Times as “the most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century”, was an exhilarating, exhausting labour. “It took me a while to come down from it,” the 74-year-old says. “I didn’t realise how much emotional, physical ene...

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5 hours ago How Europe's only private army is based in BRITAIN: Soldiers in tiny regiment carry rifles from the 19th century, wear kilts and are loyal to a duke who lives in South Africa

With their Lee Metford rifles, broadswords and daggers in their socks, they look like men you would not want to get on the wrong side of.

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8 hours ago ‘I think there is life there. Today’: the race to put a human on Mars – in pictures

Ever since the first fuzzy images of its surface were captured in 1964, Mars has sparked imaginations worldwide. As Nasa publishes its photographic archives of the red planet, will Elon Musk’s wild predictions of a crewed flight in four years come true?Last September, Elon Musk used the social media platform he had bought for £35bn to remind the world that he had bigger things on his mind than the forthcoming US presidential election. “The first Starships to Mars will launch in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens,” he posted on X. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in four years.”Then came a grand restatement of even more impressive intentions. “[The] flight rate will grow exponentially from there,” he wrote, “with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years.” For those who still doubt whether this plan ought to be quite the priority...

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5 hours ago Ons Jabeur: ‘Kids are dying everywhere in Ukraine or Gaza. I have to speak out and use my platform’

Former world No 2 shares her struggles with seeing suffering in Palestine and how she is working with the World Food Programme to help Few players wear their heart on their sleeve as much as Ons Jabeur. The Tunisian, whose sublime skills and smile have lit up the women’s Tour over the past decade, reached the Wimbledon final in 2022 and 2023 and earned herself the nickname Minister of Happiness.But somewhere along the way, Jabeur lost the joy. Keen to start a family, she had told herself that if she won Wimbledon in 2023, that would be the perfect time to take a break. It didn’t happen – she lost to Marketa Vondrousova – and so continued playing. But injuries, illness and the scenes of human suffering in Gaza made her struggle over the past year. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Today's rugby news as Wales star likely to be hurt 'bad', Farrell sacked and North wins

The latest rugby news stories from Wales and beyond

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5 hours ago Ons Jabeur: ‘Kids are dying everywhere in Ukraine or Gaza. I have to speak out’

Former world No 2 shares her struggles with seeing suffering in Palestine and how she is working with the World Food Programme to help Few players wear their heart on their sleeve as much as Ons Jabeur. The Tunisian, whose sublime skills and smile have lit up the women’s Tour over the past decade, reached the Wimbledon final in 2022 and 2023 and earned herself the nickname Minister of Happiness.But somewhere along the way, Jabeur lost the joy. Keen to start a family, she had told herself that if she won Wimbledon in 2023, that would be the perfect time to take a break. It didn’t happen – she lost to Marketa Vondrousova – and so continued playing. But injuries, illness and the scenes of human suffering in Gaza made her struggle over the past year. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago What time is Caroline Dubois vs Jessica Camara? Start time and fight card

Caroline Dubois will be looking to once again show the world why she's one of the brightest talents in the world when she takes on Jessica Camara

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7 hours ago We're already at war and no one in Britain is safe. This is the appalling truth about the threat we face: A chilling warning from Sir Winston Churchill's grandson NICHOLAS SOAMES

The stormclouds forming over the UK are more dangerous than anything we've seen in our lifetime. And if bombs, drones, missiles or rockets begin to fall out of the sky, we have very little to protect us.

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12 hours ago What links Selena Gomez, James Bolam and David Jason? The Saturday quiz

From grasshopper pie and Scotch woodcock to Welsh rabbit, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which film, according to Barry Norman, featured the “oldest bunch of teenagers in the world”?2 What is burned at the culmination of the Up Helly Aa festival?3 Spanish civil war heroine Dolores Ibárruri popularised which slogan?4 Which marine predators have worn dead salmon “hats”?5 The rivers Trent, Don, Calder and Aire are crossed by which motorway?6 Which cathedral is the home of the Church of England’s Diocese in Europe?7 What were famously designed by Humphrey Paget and Christopher Ironside?8 Which US firm is the world’s biggest asset manager?What links: 9 Shirley Bassey; Lulu; Tina Turner?10 Robert Aske; Francis Bigod; Robert Kett; Thomas Wyatt?11 Grasshopper pie; Rocky Mountain oyster; Scotch woodcock; Welsh rabbit?12 Dorney, Bucks; Hadleigh, Essex; Waltham Cross, Herts; Isle of Portland, Dorset?13 N (3); B (3); R (5); Q (9)?14 Bamboo; chrysanthemum; orchid; plum blossom?15 Ja...

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7 hours ago Lynx released illegally into Highlands has died overnight, keepers say

The big cat was one of a second pair to be captured near the the Dell of Killiehuntly on Friday.

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13 hours ago Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell

There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheldIn early 2017, Mark Zuckerberg was on what might be termed an “apology tour” of the United States. In the tumultuous few months since Donald Trump won his first presidential victory, the young chief executive of Facebook was reeling from his company’s part in serving US voters Russian disinformation, and widespread accusations that the social media platform had disseminated a vast spray of “fake news”. Fighting a rearguard action, Facebook announced changes to its algorithms, and a major initiative to include “third-party factcheckers” as part of the content moderation efforts.Touring the country, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, stopped off in Selma, Alabama. They posed for a casual photo outside the offices of the iconic local paper, the Selma Times-Journal. Zuckerberg posted a heartfelt “thank you” to journalists “who work tirelessly and sometimes put their lives in danger to s...

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7 hours ago Lynx 'deliberately abandoned' in Highlands dies after being captured in Cairngorms

The wild cat sadly passed away overnight.

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20 hours ago Two more lynx captured in Scottish Highlands as big cats moved to Edinburgh Zoo for quarantine

A joint effort from Police Scotland and rangers from the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) led to the capture of the two abandoned wildcats at 6.30pm on Friday

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7 hours ago 'I couldn't wait to see the faces of the UK extradition officers', says cage fighter who spent years on the run in Dubai

Paul 'Boom Boom' Cahoon was a 'senior figure' in a gang which trafficked drugs between Liverpool and South Wales

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20 hours ago Graham Potter beaten on West Ham bow as Aston Villa fight back for FA Cup win

Andre Onana and Morgan Rogers struck to earn Villa victory in their 150th anniversary match.

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7 hours ago South Korean plane crash investigation in bombshell twist as black box 'stopped recording'

South Korea's transport ministry revealed on Saturday the black box on the aircraft, which was carrying 179 people, stopped recording just moments before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Maun Airport

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22 hours ago Two remaining ‘deliberately abandoned’ lynx roaming Highlands captured safely

They were caught by humane traps near the Dell of Killiehuntly, near where the previous two lynx were captured on Thursday.

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9 hours 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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23 hours ago Kim Jong Un demands North Koreans use their own poo for gross purpose sparking thriving black market

Fights have broken out, there have been thefts and a thriving black market has grown for human excrement in North Korea due to a new bizarre decree by dictator Kim Jong Un

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10 hours ago Warning of ‘rogue rewilding’ dangers after second pair of lynx captured

Police are searching for answers after the wild cats were found in the Highlands.

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