3 hours ago Watch: Los Angeles County officials give wildfire update as fresh evacuation orders given

Watch again as Los Angeles County officials gave a wildfire update on Saturday (11 January) as fresh evacuation orders have been given.

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6 hours ago We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant

We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too highZero per cent contained. In layperson’s terms, that means “out of control and burning at will”. It’s a common designation for a wildfire – in the wild. But when a fire like this enters an urban area such as Los Angeles County, the most highly populated metropolitan area in the US, it becomes an exploding bomb, and this one has been detonating since last Tuesday.By now, the energy release from this wind-driven, drought-fuelled firestorm turned urban conflagration is into the megatons, and the nuclear-scale destruction is there for all to see: block after block and neighbourhood after neighbourhood levelled – roughly 12,000 structures destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, 55 sq miles of city and mountain burnt, nearly 200,000 residents evacuated – so far. There is more to come. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Debenhams reduces TOG24 puffer coat from £110 to £40 that's 'exceptionally warm and waterproof'

"This coat offers exceptional warmth and comfort. Its water-repellent coating and adjustable hood and waist ensure protection against light rain and wind."

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12 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

Sport

44 minutes ago LA wildfires mapped: 36,000 acre Palisades and Eaton blazes barely contained as fears wind could worsen spread

Death toll has risen to 11 while more than 12,000 structures have been burned down

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27 hours ago Actor films narrow escape from Palisades fire as he’s nearly forced into the ocean

‘It was hell. It was inferno,’ Sebastian Harrison described of the devastating wildfires

Culture

3 hours ago Watch live: Los Angeles County officials give wildfire update as fresh evacuation orders given

Watch live as Los Angeles County officials give a wildfire update on Saturday (11 January) as fresh evacuation orders have been given.

Politics

7 hours ago LA declares health emergency following raging wildfires as at least 60,000 homes left without power: Live Updates

The expansion of the Palisades wildfire has thrown Californians into fresh jeopardy as the blazes continue to rage for a fifth day.

Society

14 hours ago LA wildfires: Paris Hilton sets up emergency fund with £82,000 donation for wildfire victims

The US reality TV star and socialite said she will match donations of up to an additional £82,000 in a fundraising effort after she watched her Malibu home "burn to the ground on live TV"

Economics

27 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.'

Sport

69 minutes ago The Observer view: With Hollywood ablaze, ditching carbon targets would be an act of recklessness | Observer editorial

Legislation aimed at limiting the US’s role in global warming is likely to be an early target of Donald TrumpThe devastating wave of wildfires that has reduced thousands of Hollywood homes to ashes could not have afflicted the US at a more telling moment. Figures released last week revealed that for the first time the world overshot the 1.5C limit in global temperature rises that had been set as a desired upper figure by the Paris climate accord of 2015.It is clear that the floods that engulfed Valencia last year, along with the typhoons that ripped through the Philippines and the drought that afflicted the Amazon were all made more likely by this unwanted temperature rise, say scientists. From this perspective, Hollywood’s misery is just one of many examples of the destruction heaped upon the planet by our burning of fossil fuels and ever-rising emissions of greenhouse gases. Crucially, such disasters are only going to worsen until humanity abandons the widespread combustion of coa...

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30 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...

Culture

6 hours ago The Jesus Lizard review – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm

Manchester Academy 2Force of nature David Yow and band tour their superb first album in 26 years with a growling, spit-flecked fusion of pummelling songs and acerbic witThe Jesus Lizard singer David Yow is not naked – which is probably for the best. It’s a cold night. But the frontman’s lack of nudity is pretty much the only key element missing from tonight’s ear-ringing encounter with the reunited US band, touring their late-career album Rack (2024). Clad in a black shirt and jeans, Yow prowls the stage, spitting, hollering inchoate insights into the microphone, clamping the cord between his teeth, darkly exhorting the crowd not to stop clapping. He mocks security handing out “little shot glasses of water” – Yow says it in a baby voice – “because someone might be thirsty”.Every few songs, Yow launches himself into the audience, crowd-surfing all the way to the mixing desk. Less of a singer than a sui generis declaimer, he smears misanthropic lyrics across the grain of Duane Denison...

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8 hours ago Health emergency declared across LA as at least 60,000 homes left without power: Live Updates

The expansion of the Palisades wildfire has thrown Californians into fresh jeopardy as the blazes continue to rage for a fifth day.

Society

21 hours ago Auction house selling off iconic Only Fools & Horses prop for just £400

Fans of the classic BBC sitcom are being offered the chance to buy an empty box of Del Boy's Peckham Spring Water, which he famously try to pass off as genuine mineral water

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36 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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77 minutes ago Spencer Pratt slams trolls calling him a 'rich celeb' after losing home in LA wildfires

The Hills villain Spencer Pratt has rounded on his critics after he and wife Heidi Montag lost their home and possessions in the ongoing Los Angeles wildfire disaster

Events

31 hours ago Harrowing before and after photos show the full extent of damage caused by devastating LA wildfires

Huge swathes of LA and its coastline are seen laid to waste in the graphic pictures, with countless houses and structures having imploded under the ferocious heat and power of the fires

Culture

6 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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9 hours ago Health emergency declared across LA as fire ebbs closer to celeb hotspot of Brentwood: Live Updates

The expansion of the Palisades wildfire has thrown Californians into fresh jeopardy as the blazes continue to rage for a fifth day.

Society

25 hours ago Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

A leaked memo sent to Los Angeles fire departments revealed Mayor Karen Bass demanded an extra $49M in budget cuts on top of the $17.6million already cut a week before fires.

Economics

1 hour ago Santa Anita postpones weekend racing as track is staging area for fire relief efforts

A flareup of the wildfire on the west side of Los Angeles that prompted new evacuations has caused Santa Anita to cancel horse racing this weekend

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36 hours ago ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway announces 'breaking news' minutes into show

Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway announced 'breaking news' minutes into Friday's episode amid the devastating California wildfires

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7 hours ago Simple glass of water trick can help encourage better hair care journey

It's all to do with the way your hair absorbs moisture so all you need to do is cut a few strands off and then place it into a glass of water and watch the results...

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26 hours ago Mother gives house tour from hell as she shows viewers around her ruined home after it was devastated by the LA wildfires

The wildfires have been rapidly spreading across Los Angeles with firefighters conceding they remain powerless to contain the flames because of strong winds.

Society

26 hours ago Billionaire tycoon is blasted after hiring a private fire crew to protect his luxury outdoor mall as devastating wildfires continue to rip through LA

Los Angeles residents are furious a billionaire tycoon spent thousands of dollars on private firefighters to help protect his business while emergency services struggle to contain the flames. 

Economics

2 hours ago Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they didn’t predict this week

Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformedTalking about fire and Los Angeles is an exercise in repetition. Southern California does have seasons, Joan Didion once noted in Blue Nights, among them “the season when the fire comes”.Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes “grimly familiar pathways” down the canyons and into the subdivisions. The phrase comes from Mike Davis’s 1995 essay The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, and it is as true for the fires as for our talk of the fires. Even our reflections take on that grim familiarity: we cite Joan Didion citing Nathanael West. We fall in with the great writers of this great city who are always so ready to judge it. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hug victims of Los Angeles wildfires as they take in pals forced to flee their homes

The local mayor said their visit had 'really buoyed the spirits of the first responders'

Politics

33 hours ago The last house standing after California fires: Miracle as Malibu home is left intact while properties on either side are burned to the ground

Rows of glitzy waterfront houses lay in charred ruins after the punishing blaze ripped through them - save for one miracle structure which stood alone, flanked by smoldering debris

Society

28 hours ago My boyfriend spent £10k for 'sunset villa' Maldives trip despite knowing it was rainy season... and all we got was howling winds, four hours of sun and weather as bad as London

Diana Gorenco, from London, says her partner forked out £9,220 for the two of them to stay in a 'Over Water Pool Villa' from November 25 until December 2.

Economics

2 hours ago Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week

Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformedTalking about fire and Los Angeles is an exercise in repetition. Southern California does have seasons, Joan Didion once noted in Blue Nights, among them “the season when the fire comes”.Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes “grimly familiar pathways” down the canyons and into the subdivisions. The phrase comes from the writer and activist Mike Davis’s 1995 essay The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, and it is as true for the fires as for our talk of the fires. Even our reflections take on that grim familiarity: we cite Didion citing Nathanael West. We fall in with the great writers of this great city who are always so ready to judge it. Continue reading...

Events

9 hours ago Watch: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle comfort LA wildfire victims and first responders

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have met with Southern California wildfire victims to offer their help and support.

Politics

34 hours ago Paris Hilton returns to destroyed Malibu home after watching it burn down on live TV

‘It feels like my heart has been shattered into a million pieces,’ said TV star as she visited the burnt remains of her oceanfront mansion

Society

32 hours ago Mel Gibson's $14.5million Malibu mansion burned down while he was filming Joe Rogan's podcast as actor recalls returning home to 'nothing'

The 69-year-old actor said he is 'devastated' that his home has been torn down by the horror wildfires in an emotional interview on NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports.

Economics

2 hours ago Jennifer Lopez 'cancels all media appearances' amid LA fires so she can 'focus on supporting the community'

Beginning this Tuesday, the area was struck by its worst windstorms in over a decade, fueling fires that have destroyed thousands of structures and claimed at least 11 lives over the course of the week.

Events

10 hours ago The weirdest beauty trends on TikTok: Gen Z are slapping on bright green lipstick and recreating 'heatstroke' makeup on social media

If you've never heard of Beetlejuice lips, squirting your foundation into water or doing your makeup to make yourself look blisteringly sunburnt, you clearly aren't on TikTok.

Politics

42 hours ago Take That star Mark Owen and his family forced to flee LA home amid wildfires

The 52-year-old singer, his wife, his three children, and their animals had to immediately evacuate after they awoke to 'helicopters, thick black smoke and winds howling'.

Society

35 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

Economics

2 hours ago California fires latest: 11 confirmed dead and at least 13 missing as dangerous winds set to return after weekend

Palisades and Eaton fires continue to rage with more than 35,000 acres burned

Events

11 hours ago Alessandra Ambrosio flaunts her flat midriff in bikini as she holds hands with boyfriend Buck Palmer in Brazil

Alessandra Ambrosio showcased her body in a bikini while enjoying another beach day in her home country of Brazil - amid the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

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36 hours ago Ninja's Thirsti water bottle 'perfect for the gym' is £4 for shoppers who do one thing

The best selling Ninja Thirsti is leakproof and works for hot and cold drinks and now shoppers can get it at its best ever price - but only if they're quick

Economics

2 hours ago Los Angeles wildfires force new evacuations as 13 people missing and 22 arrested

Fire chiefs warned of a ‘significant flare-up’ on the blaze's eastern edge, with flames now moving northeast

Events

12 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

Politics

2 hours ago Dennis Quaid emotionally reveals ‘many of his friends have lost’ their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires

Billy Crystal, Adam Brody, Paris Hilton, and Miles Teller are among the list of A-listers who’ve lost their homes in the fires

Events

13 hours ago Meghan Markle Netflix series 'With Love, Meghan' release date and all you need to know

The Duchess of Sussex hosts a new reality series alongside a host of celebrity guests from an estate near her home in Montecito, California

Politics

3 hours ago Jeremy Clarkson hits out at claims celebrity lives ‘don’t matter’ in California wildfires

‘It doesn’t matter how much money you have, it always hurts,’ said the presenter

Events

14 hours ago Californians scrambled to evacuate dogs, cats, horses, even pigs as LA flames closed in

Animal owners in Los Angeles have scrambled to get themselves and their beloved companions out of the way of fast-moving wildfires this week that have incinerated whole neighborhoods

Politics

3 hours ago Patsy Palmer gives emotional update on LA home as she admits she feels 'helpless' over in London after being left 'heartbroken' by wildfire devastation

The EastEnders actress, 52, moved to Malibu in 2014 along with husband Richard and her children, however she is currently in London for work.

Events

15 hours ago I went to iconic UK city and it felt more like a European tourist hotspot

There was a speed boat on the water alongside a jet ski as I checked into the hotel

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3 hours ago EastEnders star Patsy Palmer reveals heartbreak after Malibu home narrowly escapes LA wildfires

Soap star confirms family are safe as Malibu surrounded by flames

Events

21 hours ago California Dems worry Trump will make fire aid political again: ’Such a wild card’

‘Even if we nominally secure some of these things, the money won’t flow until Trump is president,’ California Democrat warns

Politics

3 hours ago LA wildfires mapped: 35,000 acre Palisades and Eaton blazes barely contained as fears wind could worsen spread

Death toll has risen to 11 while more than 12,000 structures have been burned down

Events

21 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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3 hours ago Shock new theory emerges over what could have sparked the deadly Los Angeles inferno

Amid ongoing investigations into the cause of the devastating Los Angeles fires, a shocking new theory has emerged from a major California electrical company.

Events

21 hours ago ‘My whole city is gone’: As evacuations are lifted, LA residents are returning home to find nothing left

At least 10 people have been killed as the Palisades and Eaton fires continue to scorch the Los Angeles area

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3 hours ago Patsy Palmer confirms her LA home is 'miraculously ok' as she admits she feels 'helpless' over in London after being left 'heartbroken' by wildfire devastation

The EastEnders actress, 52, moved to Malibu in 2014 along with husband Richard and her children, however she is currently in London for work.

Events

24 hours ago Stop playing politics with the LA fires and address the key cause: man

Editorial: With uncontrolled blazes still raging around Los Angeles, on the day it was confirmed that last year was the hottest in human history, it would be a good time for global leaders to finally take climate change seriously. But the signs are that no such Damascene conversion is about to be witnessed

Politics

4 hours ago Khloe Kardashian brands Mayor Bass 'a joke' as stars continue to lose homes in LA wildfires

Khloe Kardashian and Spencer Pratt were among those voiced their concerns alongside Fire Chief Kirstin Crowley, who had hit out at the city's leadership amid LA's dangerous wildfires

Events

24 hours ago Scottish Water urge people to be vigilant and check for burst water mains and pipes during upcoming sub

The utility has recorded a 30 per cent increase in the past two days in bursts on its network of water mains.

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25 hours ago Loch Ness Monster hopes boosted after mysterious 20ft dark shape spotted in water

A mysterious object has been spotted in Loch Ness and many are hoping this could be a new sighting of the world-renowned Loch Ness Monster - Scottish folklore's most famous export

Politics

4 hours ago Every British celebrity home destroyed in LA fires as Mark Owen's wife slams trolls

The California wildfires have claimed the homes of multiple celebrities, including Take That star Mark Owen and actor Sir Anthony Hopkins

Events

25 hours ago Trump says meeting with Putin being planned as fight over Arctic set to begin

Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland

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4 hours ago 'A miracle.' James Woods posts on X that his house survived Los Angeles wildfires

Actor James Woods says his house in Pacific Palisades has survived the Los Angeles wildfires that had devastated much of his neighborhood

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