71 minutes ago Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics

More voters think tech tycoon’s comments on grooming gangs are unhelpful than those who back himMore than half of voters think Elon Musk is having a negative effect on British politics following his criticism of Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.The South African-born billionaire has spent much of the past week using his social media platform X to attack Starmer and the Labour government for their opposition to another national inquiry into grooming gangs. He accused Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of being a “rape genocide apologist” and falsely claimed Starmer was “deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes”. Despite strong suggestions that Musk is preparing to make a large donation to Reform UK, he also recently tore into Nigel Farage, saying he was not up to the job of leading the party. Continue reading...

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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

2 hours ago Sick 'Eunuch Maker' who offered desperate men £25k to lop off their genitals with knives

Marius Gustavson armed himself with instruments designed for farm animals to carry out his extreme mutilations on blokes in rented hotel rooms and grubby flats in London

Economics

80 minutes ago Outlander fans 'getting so tired' as season 7 finale won’t air for another week in major schedule shake

Fans of the hit Starz drama Outlander were left disappointed when the season seven finale failed to air this Friday

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23 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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12 hours ago Antiques Roadshow guest’s jaw drops as she discovers huge value of late husband’s worldwide hit children’s book

An Antiques Roadshow guest couldn’t contain her surprise when she was informed just how much a copy of her late author husband’s book and accompanying scrapbook were worth.

Culture

25 hours ago Elon Musk's Twitter is paying Nigel Farage's Reform UK MPs thousands of pounds every month

The party leader, along with ex-Tory Lee Anderson and Rupert Lowe all get a share of the ad revenue on their tweets on the social network - prompting questions over whether they should declare an interest when discussing the billionaire in Parliament

Technology

11 hours ago Medical expert verdict on mandatory face masks in UK over 'mystery' Chinese HMPV virus

EXCLUSIVE: The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has caused concern as the NHS creaks under the pressure of a 'quad-demic', with shocking footage from Chinese hospitals circulating online

Science

1 hour ago ‘He is peddling stories’: Bob Woodward denies Republican’s claim he said Biden was corrupt

Washington Post reporter says he never made comments to James Comer published in the congressman’s new bookThe Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward forcefully denied making statements attributed to him by James Comer, the Republican chair of the powerful House oversight committee, in which Woodward supposedly said Joe Biden was financially corrupt.“The statements attributed to me in what is apparently his book are false,” Woodward said. “I made none of those statements he attributes to me. I repeat none, and not even in a paraphrased form.” 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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6 hours ago Uranium prices hit record as thirsty AI data centres add to market squeeze

Industry pressured to build new conversion facilities to cover end of US import waiver and impact of Ukraine war

Economics

7 hours ago Barcelona transfer hiccup points to Manchester United reality Ruben Amorim must solve

Marcus Rashford appears to be in-demand across Europe with AC Milan, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund among those linked, but there's still a major concern for Man Utd.

Sport

71 minutes ago Kate Garraway 'trying to shift the gloom' after first anniversary of Derek's death

Good Morning Britain star Kate has admitted she is struggling with "a bit of gloom" following the one year anniversary of the death of her husband Derek Draper

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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...

Culture

33 hours ago Largest ever protein study set to revolutionise cancer and dementia tests

Tens of millions of pounds in investment is being provided by the group of firms which includes AstraZenecaa and Pfizer

Science

2 hours ago Caroline Flack's mum 'devastated' over Lewis Burton's romance with Lottie Tomlinson

Caroline Flack's mum Christine is said to still be struggling with her late daughter's ex Lewis Burton and Lottie Tomlinson's relationship after the pair started dating just months after Caroline's death in 2020.

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32 hours ago Channel 5's The Good Ship Murder cast list, plot, air date, filming locations and how many episodes

Mystery drama The Good Ship Murder is returning to Channel 5 for a second series

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10 hours ago OK! Style team shops– 'beat the blues' buys to lift your January mood from £3

Don't let the January blues seep in– we have just the mood-boosting buys you need to get a much-needed dopamine hit, priced from as low as £3

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8 hours ago Mikel Arteta's transfer admission won't please Arsenal fans as trophy chase falters

Mikel Arteta is desperate for reinforcements, but he has now conceded that Arsenal are unlikely to make many big signings in this year's January transfer window

Sport

1 hour ago Jude Bellingham’s dad hits back of the net as firm's assets enjoy huge 1014% increase

Former Non-League footballer and policeman Mark Bellingham, whose 21-year-old son signed for Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 for a potential £112million, owns a firm with net assets which hit £8.1million

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30 hours ago Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim

Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warningsBusiness live – latest updatesMark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.Citing internal Meta communications, the filing claims that the social network company’s chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company’s AI executive team that it is a dataset “we know to be pirated”. Continue reading...

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43 hours ago World’s largest proteins study ‘invaluable’ for understanding disease – experts

The scaled-up project is backed by a consortium of 14 pharmaceutical firms.

Science

3 hours ago Monster of Avignon Dominique Pelicot's daughter Caroline Darian makes damning statement in first interview since his conviction in France's biggest

Caroline Darian remained a pillar by her mother's side during the grotesque trial of Dominique Pelicot, for raping and organising the mass rape of his wife, Gisèle.

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32 hours ago Family awarded £1m after doctor left bleeding woman to ‘go for a drink’

Malaysian judge rules woman died due to negligence soon after giving birth five years ago

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17 hours ago Wowcher's Mystery Holiday deal is back with trips to New York, Las Vegas and Disneyland

Wowcher's Mystery Holiday deal is back with a selection of luxurious long haul trips

Economics

28 hours ago Pictured: Mother, 24, charged with murdering baby girl at home in Rugby

Kinga Wydrzynska, 24, is accused alongside partner Michal Stasiak, 26, of killing their child, Isabella Stasiak, in Rugby, Warwickshire.

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2 hours ago 'British' woman, 20, dies after falling 500 feet while male friend grabs onto bush

The victim died after falling from the infamous Caminito del Rey pathway, close to El Chorro village in Malaga, where another person also fell to their death less than a month ago.

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3 hours ago As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker | Alison Phillips

Between Elon Musk, a free-for-all Facebook and Donald Trump, truth and decency are likely to have a hard time of it in 2025How did we get to a week in which the world’s richest man could label our safeguarding minister and women’s rights campaigner Jess Phillips a “rape genocide apologist”, and the boss of the world’s biggest social platforms could abandon moderating even the most despicable content in the US?Let’s go back 30 years. It’s 1995, cargo pants were slung low, Oasis were riding high. We were all going to Live Forever. And then the New York supreme court ruled against a long-forgotten company called Prodigy, which hosted online message boards. An unknown user had posted a message that the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont (which had inspired The Wolf of Wall Street) had committed fraud. Stratton Oakmont sued for defamation and a crucial question was asked: was the site that hosted the comment responsible for it, in the way a traditional publisher would be for a comment on it...

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33 hours ago New mystery virus leaves hundreds of adults and children bald as health officials baffled

Hundreds of people have been left bald by a mystery virus, with health officials at a loss as to what has caused it with not much in common between all 15 villages where it's been seen

Society

20 hours ago Pictured: Hacker recluse, 22, who made £42,000 stealing songs from the world's biggest stars including Taylor Swift, Adele and Coldplay

Skylar Dalziel, 22, sold new Adele tracks for £1,650 a time, songs by Canadian rapper Drake for £2,000, and Coldplay hits for £400.

Economics

31 hours ago Rangers fans want worst manager ever Clement out as spiralling Hotline panic leads to Celtic transfer confession

Fraser Wilson mans the phones with the heat firmly on the Rangers manager

Sport

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

4 hours ago Voices: Weddings should be about more than likes – so ban social media

Our relationship with social media and nuptials has gone too far, writes Olivia Petter – and now it should be banned from our special moments

Politics

21 hours ago Celtic 'ramp up' £7m transfer talks over rising Norwegian star who could solve ultimate winger conundrum

The Hoops are in the market for a new winger and might just have found their man

Economics

35 hours ago Squid Game fans joke ‘someone is getting fired’ after spotting major blunder at key moment in season 2 finale

Hit Netflix show has fallen victim to a filming error in new season

Sport

2 hours 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.

Events

4 hours ago BBC Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent show stars now from Sophie Evans to Connie Fisher

Between 2006 and 2010, Andrew Lloyd Webber launched four musical theatre shows with the BBC, and they proved to be a smash hit with audiences.

Politics

22 hours ago People in Swansea can have say on how hundreds of millions of pounds are spent

Cabinet members have approved budget proposals and also changes to social service charges - but final decisions will come later

Economics

36 hours ago Arsenal reach unwanted conclusion after holding Alexander Isak transfer talks

Alexander Isak is top of Arsenal's shortlist when it comes to signing a new striker but the Newcastle hitman won't be joining Mikel Arteta's side in the January transfer window

Sport

2 hours ago Man dies after 'catching cancer' from liver transplant donor as tumour cells 'escaped'

Doctors said that the tumour cells were too tiny to detect, which meant the liver was declared safe for transfer, but 'escaped' and infected the patient and led to his death

Events

4 hours ago Andrew Lloyd Webber BBC talent show's biggest stars from Jessie Buckley to Samantha Barks

Andrew Lloyd Webber launched four musical theatre shows with the BBC between 2006 and 2010, and they proved to be a smash hit with audiences, with a number of stars going on to find fame.

Politics

27 hours ago 'Property firm upped service charge for elderly cancer patient by nearly £1,000 in 2 years'

This is the claim of Swansea MP Torsten Bell who was one of a number of politicians who called the MD of FirstPort to Parliament to answer questions over the company's 'shoddy behaviour'

Economics

2 hours ago PETER HITCHENS: Why I'm BEGGING you to read these disturbing new claims in the Lucy Letby case

In the words I reproduce in this article, there is something very shocking about the Lucy Letby case. It comes from a speech made in the House of Commons last Wednesday.

Events

5 hours ago Reeves accused of abandoning principles over China in ‘delusional’ bid to save UK economy

Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she has trashed the economy’

Politics

28 hours ago Londoners won't have to foot £150m bill to pedestrianise Oxford Street, vows Sir Sadiq Khan

Mayor’s new budget due next week could see his share of council tax bills hit £500

Economics

2 hours ago Train stations become hotbed for crime with 25 horror offences every day in UK

British Transport Police data shows the 10 worst-hit train stations had 9,376 crimes in the last financial year, including 3,831 serious offences such as sex attacks and robberies

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5 hours ago Reeves accused of ‘operation kowtow’ to China President Xi in ‘delusional’ bid to save UK economy

Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she as trashed the economy’

Politics

28 hours ago Uniqlo's £14.90 accessory hailed as 'perfect' by shoppers for warmth without bulk

Uniqlo's Heattech range has been a hit with shoppers ever since it first launched in 2003, and one of the most popular items is the Souffle Yarn Beanie, which is priced at just £14.90

Economics

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

5 hours ago China's mystery HMPV virus sweeps neighbouring countries as India and Malaysia see surge

HMPV has 'overwhelmed' areas of China and has now spread to neighbouring countries, with the UK now reporting an uptake in the virus, threatening to put more pressure on struggling hospitals

Politics

29 hours ago Martin Clunes shares harrowing farm ordeal as he opens up on the death of his sheep

Martin Clunes, 63, appeared on ITV's This Morning to discuss his new drama, Out There, but he also opened up on his farm and the 'annoying' animals he has to deal with

Economics

3 hours ago Rampaging tourist 'beat man to death with fire extinguisher as he was kicked out of hotel'

Piero Estefano But-Castillo is being held after beating a man who was trying to calm the situation to death with a fire extinguisher while being kicked out of a motel he was staying at

Events

6 hours ago Matt Smith packs on the PDA as he kisses mystery woman while on holiday in Rio de Janeiro

The Doctor Who star, 42, was seen locking lips with an unknown brunette before the couple also embraced while on holiday in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.

Politics

31 hours ago Thousands of military homes brought back into public ownership in £6bn deal

The Ministry of Defence has bought back some 36,347 houses from property firm Annington, reversing the 1996 privatisation process

Economics

3 hours ago Mark Wright shares touching gesture from 'one in a million' grandad just hours before his death

The reality TV star opened up about his grandad's sad death at the age of 92

Events

7 hours ago Teens turning to surgery in bid to look like Ariana Grande and social media filters

A top plastic surgeon has revealed he is turning away teens desperately trying to look like Hollywood superstars Ariana Grande and Zendaya

Politics

31 hours ago I make £1,000 a month as a 'financial dominatrix'. Married lawyer and mother AMANDA CARTER reveals her lucrative secret side

Curled up on the sofa after putting my children to bed, I can feel boredom creeping in. My husband is out for the evening - and wouldn't be much company if he was here, to be honest.

Economics

7 hours ago Matt Smith packs on the PDA in a passionate display as he kisses mystery woman while on holiday in Rio de Janeiro

The Doctor Who star, 42, was seen locking lips with an unknown brunette before the couple also embraced while on holiday in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.

Politics

32 hours ago Ronnie O'Sullivan PULLS OUT of snooker's £350k Masters on mystery 'medical grounds', 24 hours after meltdown where he smashed cue and binned it after bizarre behaviour

The announcement comes just days away from the tournament opener, which would have seen reigning champion O'Sullivan kickstart the competition against John Higgins on Sunday.

Economics

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

7 hours ago Jude Bellingham's logo trademark bid revealed as England ace aims for off

The Real Madrid icon’s firm has submitted an application to trademark the 'JB' logo for an array of products including toothbrushes, pillowcases, tea cosies, bins – and even clothing for animals

Politics

32 hours ago Wife of millionaire killed on Titan sub left less than £80k due to invalid will

Documents suggest multi-millionaire Shahzada Dawood, who died on the sub with his son and several others, died without a valid UK will, leaving widow Christine a fraction of his fortune.

Economics

3 hours ago Iran unveils underground 'missile city' that houses rockets to be used in attacks on Israel in chilling footage

Chilling footage broadcast by Iranian media on Friday showed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander inspecting an underground missile facility.

Events

7 hours ago People with 'sharp eyes' can spot sneaky reptile hiding in garden snap

Optical illusions can often be difficult to solve, but we can assure you the latest one might leave you scratching your head for sometime. So can you find the sneaky reptile?

Politics

32 hours ago I won a stunning £4million riverside mansion in Lake District beauty spot with Omaze

Hannah Drury, 42, was left 'speechless' when she discovered she had scooped the riverside bolthole in the Lake District.

Economics

3 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.

Events

7 hours ago ‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night

A new drama recalls the wild first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Making it was as much of a high-wire act as the show itself, the film’s director Jason Reitman and stars revealThere is no show in history more obsessed with its own lore than Saturday Night Live. Almost every week the long-running sketch show is sprinkled with returning alumni and jokes that reference the show’s illustrious and controversial past: its social club status for the great and good of New York; the drug-fuelled deaths of its brightest lights such as John Belushi and Chris Farley; the superstars it created in Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey, to name but five of hundreds.SNL is so fabled that it’s already inspired scores of documentaries and numerous scripted TV shows based on it, including 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In February, there will be a three-hour primetime special celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary, an event likely to be more starry...

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33 hours ago London Underwriters (LU) Announces Partnership with Draftrs Insurance on LU ONE to Deliver Professional Liability Coverage for Small Business Professional Service Firms

London Underwriters (LU) Announces Partnership with Draftrs Insurance on LU ONE to Deliver Professional Liability Coverage for Small Business Professional Service Firms  Coverager

Economics

3 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

8 hours ago Luke Littler, 17, gets 'back to normal for a few days' as teenage sensation posts social media update days after sealing record

The triumph marked the culmination of a whirlwind 12 months that saw him collect more than £1million in total prize money, putting him second in the PDC's Order of Merit.

Politics

35 hours ago Shoppers can snap up £300 'brilliant' dehumidifier that 'dries clothes quicker' for £85

Shoppers can currently bag a 'sleek and compact' dehumidifier for £85, down from £300, and it has garnered a wealth of positive reviews from satisfied customers

Economics

4 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

Events

8 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...

Politics

38 hours ago Stock market today: Asian shares slide further as rate cut, tariff worries hit market sentiment

Shares have fallen for a second day in Asia after U.S. markets were closed to observe a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter

Economics

4 hours ago Michelle Keegan breaks silence after husband Mark Wright's tragic family loss

Fool Me Once star Michelle Keegan has shared a moving tribute to husband Mark Wright's late grandfather following the 92-year-old's death earlier this week

Events

8 hours ago 'My boyfriend demands I change my cat's name – he says it's upsetting and rude'

A woman has shared how her boyfriend demanded she change her cat's name because it's 'awkward for him' - but social media users have urged her to dump him instead

Politics

38 hours ago Whitehall braced for spending cuts after UK hit by bond market turmoil

Rising gilt yields mean government departments may face further squeeze

Economics

4 hours ago Ant and Dec all smiles as Britain's Got Talent auditions resume after Liam Payne's death

Geordie duo Ant and Dec were in fine form as they took to the Britain's Got Talent auditions red carpet in Blackpool. It follows the ITV show pausing auditions after Liam Payne's tragic death in October

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