Updates from the first day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Daniel via emailTalking of Andreeeva, here she is talking to Tumaini Carayol.I can’t wait to see how she develops but, seeded to meet Saba in round four, she might be on borrowed time. That, contest, though, would be a treat – and most likely a lot closer than our current one. Sabalenka breaks again for 4-0, but Stephens quickly earns 15-40 Continue reading...

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"These heated hand warmers have been an absolute life-saver for me!"

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The retailer has launched its biggest ever deals event this January

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A woman has gone viral after she shared a post about how TV shows such as Friends have set people up for failure when it comes to adult life and even friendships

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Palisades and Eaton fires continue to rage with more than 36,000 acres burned

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Melania ended up wearing a £5,500 powder blue cashmere dress and bolero by Ralph Lauren to her husband's 2017 inauguration - one of few designers who offered to create an outfit.

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Patients at King’s College Hospital waiting four days for a bed as it reaches 96.4% bed capacity – the second highest in  Southwark News

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A travel expert has shared something you should never buy in the airport when you're waiting to fly - but she did suggest a reasonable alternative you can take

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Rare drafts of one of Dylan’s best known songs found in journalist’s archive could fetch up to $1 million as part of wider legacy saleIn March 1964, the rock journalist Al Aronowitz awoke to find Bob Dylan asleep on his sofa and the lyrics to Mr Tambourine Man crumpled up in his rubbish bin.The 22-year-old Dylan had spent the night writing and rewriting his new song on a portable typewriter at Aronowitz’s home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, before chucking away the early drafts and stretching out on his friend’s couch. Continue reading...

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Company promises to create ‘special space’ to commemorate site

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Train managers at Avanti West Coast will walk out every Sunday until May 25 in an ongoing row over rest-day shifts, bringing another blow to venues which have already lost billions in previous strikes

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These stunning grounds unfortunately never saw the light of day, including a strange Liverpool and Everton hybrid stadium, and Chelsea’s grand Battersea Power Station design

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Follow all the action from the first round of the men’s and women’s singles tournaments in Melbourne

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Around 100 schoolgirls at a school in Dhanbad, India, were ordered to remove their uniform tops after their pen day celebrations, when friends write on their outfits

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Aurelio Rojas Sanchez, a cardiologist based in Malaga, Spain, has warned that ibuprofen and other everyday medications can cause 'heart problems' if taken too frequently

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Fitzrovia Chapel, LondonIn a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the way are glimmering mosaics, glowing stars and some of the most moving words I have ever read in a church.This chapel, where King Charles recorded his recent Christmas message, is all that remains of the old Middlesex hospital in the heart of London. A neo-gothic building of dark red brick, it once nestled inside this venerable teaching hospital, founded in 1745. Now it stands alone, and fully visible, dwarfed instead by the high-rise apartments and luxury shops of the Pearson Square complex that re...

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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.

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Neil Critchley lifts lid on recruitment process

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The beleaguered Belgian earned a vote of confidence but punters can't stomach any more

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As Dancing On Ice returns to our screens tonight, professional skater Vanessa Bauer has opened up about her beloved father Marco's tragic death after a seven-year battle with cancer

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See how many famous faces you recognise in these fascinating photos

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Anthony Joshua hasn't given up hope of striking an agreement to fight Tyson Fury in 2025 following the Gypsy King's failure to beat Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia last month

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The week began with a biting cold snap that hammered much of the U.S., the product of a jet stream that slips out of its usual path more often these days

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An influencer who was left with pneumonia, sepsis and blood clots after weight loss surgery said she doesn't regret her 'glow up' despite spending three months in hospital afterwards

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Conor McGregor made a surprise appearance for his Black Forge football team in Dublin this weekend, with the UFC fighter featuring their 1-1 draw against Harding FC

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26 y/o striker spent 14 days in a coma

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Contentious host will star in an episode of ‘Kate Garraway’s Life Stories’

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As she takes to the ice with Love Island's Chris Taylor, skater Vanessa Bauer opens up on the sad loss which saw her 'struggling' - and how she rediscovered her inner strength

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

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Alicia Douvall has had more than 400 cosmetic procedures totalling to a self-estimated £1 million.

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Made In Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh reveals the darkest days of her alcohol addiction, and the terrifying night that forced her to confront it

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed Kyle Walker was left out of the squad to face Salford City in order to push for a transfer exit during the January window

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This week PSR swings into action, with past points deductions against Everton and Forest a stark warningThe Premier League will issue disciplinary charges this week against any clubs it deems to have breached its profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) for the 2021-24 accounting period.Under a fast-track process introduced 18 months ago clubs who have recorded losses for the first two years of the reporting cycle were required to submit their accounts for the financial year ending June 2024 to the Premier League by 31 December. The Premier League has given its financial and legal departments 14 days to study the books of those clubs in danger of a PSR breach, and is expected to issue any charges on Monday and Tuesday. Continue reading...

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The world’s richest man Elon Musk spent his childhood in Merseyside with his scouse grandmother, a far cry from the upper echelons of society he now knows today

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Escape the January chill with this sunny city break destination, that's been dubbed the 'new Turkey'

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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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In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived“We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes more suddenly and profoundly than most of us can imagine. For more than 20 years, Morgan has been a specialist doctor in intensive care, labouring at the extreme margins of life. Just occasionally, in his day-to-day education in human mortality, he has witnessed what might, in other traditions, be thought of as supernatural events: people whose vital signs have flatlined, but who have returned to tell the tale. The stories in this book – a sequel to his bestselling Critical – are his accounts of those impossible second acts, and his reflections on what we can learn from those lucky few who have experienced both...

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It is exactly 20 years ago since Prince Harry caused outrage after wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party - and he later admitted the incident was one of the 'biggest mistakes' of his life

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Bentancur fell to the ground unchallenged during the first half of the Carabao Cup semi-final tie at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and sustained concussion.

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The utterly non-descript cardboard box was used in the Only Fools And Horses 1992 Christmas Special as part of one of Del Boy's get quick rich schemes

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The Steelmen's trip to Easter Road will be their seventh game in 22 days

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Miley Cyrus revealed that her 'soul aches' for the victims of the catastrophic L.A. wildfires six years after her own home in Malibu was destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey blaze.

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Loose Women star Judi Love has shared how she deals with the dreaded 'mum guilt' while working and parenting her two teenagers, admitting they constantly 'inspire' her.

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Payments are triggered when temperatures falls below 0C for seven consecutive days

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The utterly non-descript cardboard box was used in the Only Fools And Horses 1992 Christmas Special as part of one of Del Boy's get quick rich schemes

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Fire warnings will continue for days as winds threaten to fan the wildfires destroying parts of Los Angeles, which have claimed the lives of at least 11 while 13 others are missing

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EXCLUSIVE: Loose Women star Judi Love has detailed how she deals with tough 'mum guilt' when working away from her teenage kids, who she keeps away from the spotlight.

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

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Pair being interrogated in Kyiv, with intelligence agency SBU saying one had fake Russian military ID; Russia claims control of village near PokrovskSee all our Ukraine coverageUkraine said it was interrogating two North Korean soldiers after capturing the pair in Russia’s Kursk region – the first time it has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last year. The president, Volodymyr Zelensyy, said on X on Saturday the soldiers were captured by Ukraine’s special forces and were being interrogated by the SBU domestic intelligence agency in Kyiv. The SBU released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw. It said their questioning was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea’s NIS intelligence agency. Neither Russia nor North Korea immediately reacted to the announcement.The SBU said the two captured North Korean men had told interrogators they were experienced army sold...

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Perhaps grandma’s grudge against Jimmy Carter explains why Edward, 14th in line, was sentThat legendary boozer the late queen mother liked to entertain her guests with an “anti-toast”, in which she drank to people she disliked. One day the names ill-wished were “Tony Benn, Idi Amin and Jimmy Carter”. The benign US president featured in the same list as a mass murderer because, she explained, “he is the only man, since my dear husband died, to have had the effrontery to kiss me on the lips”.This alleged offence was enough for the queen mother to want it remembered, and not as an innocent accident. She believed it was her misfortune, her biographer William Shawcross wrote, to remind middle-aged men of their mothers; she recognised “the glazed look that came over their faces”, and thought this had made Carter reach in for his kiss. “I took a sharp step backwards. Not quite far enough.” So Carter could hardly help becoming aware of the accusation, which “distressed” him. Continue readin...

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

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Pity poor Princess (sic) Meghan. Just days from the launch of her new Netflix series, half of California goes up in flames.

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The world-famous conductor, now 70, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in BritainThe instruction was straightforward: “10.30am at home. Coffee and croissants.” Since timing, at least in part, is a conductor’s priority, a visitor feels the pressure – especially with the siren call of coffee – to be prompt. Simon Rattle lives on the edge of Grunewald, the expanse of forest and lakes to the west of Berlin, a haven for the prosperous who built villas there at the end of the 19th century, and a green lung for all Berliners today. I arrive a few minutes early – long enough to take issue with Christopher Isherwood who, in his Berlin Stories, complained about the “expensive ugliness” of the properties here, ranging from “the eccentric-rococo folly to the cubist flat-roofed steel-and-glass box”. Gables and turrets turn suburban houses into small castles, a reminder of Germany’s romantic folklore past. Fairy lights – we meet shortly before C...

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In the last academic year, the figure stood at 535,970 days, representing around 20 per cent of all health-related absences.

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British acting heartthrob James Norton chose The Palace Independent Cinema in his home town Malton, North Yorkshire, for a private charity screening for family and friends before Christmas.

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How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselvesHow should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the BBC, in a most patrician way, as a space where the nation could come together to enhance the (supposedly) British values of democracy, reasonableness and debate. Continue reading...

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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in his home on New Year's Day.

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Fans of the reality dating show might spot the symptoms when Luca settles into life at the South African villa

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Max George has revealed he made the heartbreaking decision to write a will after fearing he'd die while in hospital for an emergency heart operation.

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The perfumer and her husband enjoy life in Dubai, with its silk shops, water workouts, large lunches and friends who are like familyUp early? I’m not the earliest of risers, but I live in Dubai and can walk to the beach for sunrise at 6.30am. Other than people, I miss nothing about home – my husband Gary and I feel as if we’re living our senior gap year.Sunday breakfast? A green juice and a red juice but, if I’m hungover, it’s eggs Benedict. Continue reading...

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When Maya Jama dumped her rapper boyfriend, Stormzy, fans were left heartbroken that music's golden couple had split - but insiders suggest there was another reason than simply 'growing apart'.

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The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in EuropeTucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.It is part of a growing life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool, one of the largest in Europe, and a leader in vaccine development and manufacture, as well as infectious disease research projects in the UK. Continue reading...

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The reality star joins celebrities speaking out against Mayor Karen Bass in the wake of destruction

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It’s important that he knows how his actions and words are affecting youThe question My partner and I, both in our early 40s, have been together for 15 months, though this is our second time dating. We briefly dated four years ago, but he ended things via text, which has left me feeling anxious about the possibility of him leaving again. This relationship is important to us and we’ve moved in together while trying to start a family. However, since moving in, I’ve noticed changes in him. He sometimes seems distant and our sex life has diminished. He has struggled with maintaining an erection and attributed it to a “lack of attraction”, which was difficult for me to hear.Given the stress of fertility treatments, I suspect his issues may be emotional or physical, yet he focuses on attraction. He has suggested we reconnect through non-sexual intimacy like holding hands, which I’m willing to try. I also proposed couples therapy, which he’s hesitant about. I feel uneasy, especially when I...

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Chilly Brits have been taking shelter from the bitterly cold snap by propping up bars up and down the country to warm up. They necked 150 million pints in the first 10 days

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Food phobias are on the rise, particularly among children. So can a three-hour session with one of the world’s most sought-after practitioners for those with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder help cure Charlotte Cripps’s eight-year-old daughter Lola, who won’t eat anything except fish fingers and pizza? She took Lola along to find out

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Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir reveals the heartbreaking details of her opioid addiction, which escalated after she was prescribed painkillers following the birth of her twin daughters.

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'Through every challenge, we find new strength. Stay safe, help each other, and remember that brighter days will come. I'm praying for us all,' she posted to her Instagram Stories.

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The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards redSimon Schama, 79, is a writer, television presenter and professor of history and art history at Columbia University in New York. His bestselling, prize-winning books include The Embarrassment of Riches, about the Dutch Golden Age, and Citizens, a study of the French Revolution. His television series for the BBC include A History of Britain, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, and The Story of the Jews. His new series, Simon Schama’s The Story of Us, traces the history of postwar Britain in an effort to locate the origins of the current culture wars and to celebrate the art that has united us in the past.How did you begin thinking about this series?Well, I live most of my time in America, but I come back here often and it always pierces me. I’m heartfelt about it. I wanted to take the social pulse of Britain, and I wanted to lo...

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Channel 4 property expert Sarah Beeny has been a fixture on screens for decades, but has faced her fair share of tragedy and heartache in her personal life

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The SNP leader has opened up on his ambitions, and also talked for the first time about a heart scare in the back of a ministerial car that inspired him to take up running.

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Around 50 people are believed to have been injured at the scene at Gare Centrale station in the French city, as emergency crews are in attendance.

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