2 hours ago Friends fans spot 'biggest ever lie told' – and everyone is saying same thing

Chelsea Torres, a mum from Honolulu, Hawaii, took to Instagram to share a video of herself enjoying a peaceful breakfast alone at home – then she realised one big thing...

Politics

3 hours ago Lauryn Goodman asks Kyle Walker to rent out £2m Sussex home amid plans to move abroad

The 34-year-old footballer is facing a turbulent period, with transfer rumours surrounding his playing career and reports of a divorce adding strain to his personal life

Society

14 hours ago Rachel Reeves insists she's won £600m of trade deals as critics slam her for going on controversial China trip with a 'begging bowl'

The Chancellor met Vice-Premier He Lifeng in Beijing to discuss trade and investment opportunities, saying she wants a long-term relationship with China in 'our national interest'

Economics

4 hours ago Friends fans are only just realising 'biggest ever lie told' during hit TV show

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

Sport

56 minutes ago Former child star with cerebral palsy dies 'needlessly' in LA fires as mum breaks down on camera

A former child star who was blind and had cerebral palsy "died needlessly" in the Los Angeles wildfires, his heartbroken mother has revealed

Events

11 hours ago BBC TV licence fee 'could be scrapped by end of 2027 and swapped for tax under plans being considered by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy'

The BBC TV licence fee could be scrapped and replaced by funding from general taxation under plans reportedly being considered by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy.

Culture

25 hours ago Protection zone set up after bird flu outbreak in Angus area of Scotland

Scottish government stresses risk to public is low, as chief veterinary officer says it is first outbreak since 2023A protection zone has been set up after an outbreak of bird flu in Angus, Scotland’s chief veterinary officer has said.On Friday night, Sheila Voas said a 10km (6.8 mile) surveillance zone had also been declared around the area as well as the 3km protection zone in Kirriemuir after a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was reported. Continue reading...

Science

19 hours ago Freezing dog left abandoned in boot overnight after driver smashes into parked car

West Midlands Police and Fire Service confirmed a freezing dog was found abandoned in the boot of a Volkswagen Passat in Dulverton in the early hours of this morning (January 11)

Transport

2 hours ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's subtle nod to LA wildfire victims as they pay visit to Pasadena Convention Centre

Meghan, 43, opted for a £23 LA Dodger hat in the shade 'essential blue', featuring a Los Angeles Dodgers 'LA' logo in white on the front.

Politics

14 hours ago Lauryn Goodman 'asks Kyle Walker for permission to rent out home' as she hopes to leave UK

Kyle Walker's ex Lauryn Goodman has reportedly asked him for permission to rent out her home as she 'hopes to temporarily leave the UK'

Society

21 hours ago 'I turned down Liverpool and Chelsea interest – now I could join Arsenal for £58million'

Ronald Araujo has reportedly told his Barcelona team-mates that he's eyeing a January move to Arsenal amidst rumoured interest from Mikel Arteta, according to a report from Spain

Economics

21 hours ago Morecambe goalkeeper becomes FA Cup hero as Chelsea fans rage at penalty controversy

Morecambe goalkeeper Harry Burgoyne made a brilliant penalty save to deny Chelsea taking the lead in the FA Cup but fans have been left slamming the referee

Sport

61 minutes ago Former child star with cerebral palsy died ‘needlessly’ in LA fires, says mother

The fires that began on Tuesday just north of central LA have burned more than 12,000 structures.

Events

19 hours ago Maya Jama addresses plans to start a family and TV future amid 'romance' with footballer

Love Island host and The Masked Singer panellist Maya Jama has opened up on her TV future and hopes for a family, amid reports she is dating a Premier League footballer.

Culture

2 hours ago Labour minister confronted over government's alleged monitoring of Elon Musk's Twitter

Science secretary Peter Kyle was confronted over reports Labour is monitoring Elon Musk’s social media accounts.

Politics

14 hours ago Bette Midler shares heartbreaking clip of family singing hymn in ruins of home they lost to LA fires

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.

Society

23 hours ago White House working on hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel, says CIA director

Donald Trump hopes agreement will take place before his inauguration amid renewed optimismThe White House is working to reach a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas before president-elect Trump’s inauguration, William Burns, the director of the CIA, has suggested.“Negotiations going on right now are quite serious and do offer the possibility, at least, of getting this done in the next couple of weeks,” Burns said in an interview with National Public Radio on Friday. “This administration worked very hard at that right up until 20 January. I think the coordination with the new administration on this issue has been good. President-elect Trump has made clear his interest in trying to get a deal, you know, before his inauguration.” Continue reading...

Economics

65 minutes ago Patrick Stewart's Rangers address ripped apart as Hotline warns history will condemn lack of drastic Philippe Clement action

New chief executive finds himself in the line of fire just 27 days into the job as Fraser Wilson. takes your calls.

Events

4 hours ago UK's biggest bin lover reveals 'perfect place' for odd hobby and slams rivals

EXCLUSIVE: "I think there’s something about that bit of street furniture [bins], most post boxes are the same, most phone boxes are the same but I think there’s more variety in the bin"

Politics

20 hours ago Eastenders star Patsy Palmer issues update after family evacuated from Los Angeles home

The fires have claimed the lives of 11 people, and burned down more than 10,000 homes

Society

23 hours ago Has Karen Bass become LA's most hated woman? Tears turn to anger as mayor is blasted by her own fire chief for $17m funding cut

Kirstin Crowley took aim at the city's leadership during an interview with KTTV on Friday, admitting it had failed those affected by the fires and prevented the LAFD from effectively doing its job.

Economics

74 minutes ago California fires live: around 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters

LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power; Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise; police say looters posed as firefighters coming out of housesFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsAs is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.“Looting is an issue, the number of arrests is continuously growing,” Capt Mike Lorenz of the Los Angeles Police Department said yesterday. Continue reading...

Events

5 hours ago Premier League disciplinary charges make clubs rush to balance the books

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...

Politics

23 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...

Society

31 hours ago 'Flattering' £38 River Island dress 'suits everyone' and will be great for spring

The denim shirt dress has wowed shoppers after a customer tried it on in a TikTok video that's gone viral

Economics

86 minutes ago California wildfires: Former British child star dies on family estate after ‘water shut off’

British-born star, who was born blind and lived with cerebral palsy, was unable to be rescued

Events

7 hours ago ‘I do the best I can’: Robert Zemeckis breaks down criticism of new AI

The Hollywood director behind ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ talks to James Mottram about dealing with bad reviews, accusations that his films are too sentimental, and using AI tech to de-age Tom Hanks in new release ‘Here’

Politics

24 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

1 hour ago Fury as California Governor Newsom claims 'he doesn't know how LA wildfires happened' and appears to throw LA Mayor Bass under the bus for not giving him 'straight answers'

Gavin Newsom has been accused of 'passing the buck' in his latest attempts to defend his response to the devastating 'Palisade Fire' which continues to rage.

Events

8 hours ago Disney worker vanished after wife buried him in garden and blamed daughter, 7

Michael Shaver, 36, from Florida, was reported missing by a friend three years after he was last seen - his wife Laurie Shaver had told people he'd left her for another woman

Politics

25 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

1 hour ago Millie Mackintosh says motherhood ‘poured fuel on fire’ of alcohol struggles

Reality star said she would start drinking during her children’s bedtime and almost ‘hit’ her husband

Events

10 hours ago Politicians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with Trump

California governor calls president-elect’s claim that water is being withheld from southern California ‘delusional’Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, appeared briefly to put his long-running feud with Donald Trump to one side on Friday, when he invited the president-elect to Los Angeles to survey devastation from the wildfires and meet with first responders, firefighters and the “Americans” affected.“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.” Continue reading...

Politics

26 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

1 hour ago California fires live: around 35,000 homes and business without electricity in LA as 16 deaths confirmed

LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power as Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to riseFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsHere is video of Los Angeles residents returning to their homes to assess the damaged left by the devastating fires which raged through multiple areas of the city:34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US.San Bernardino: 8,333Riverside: 7, 152Santa Barbara: 2,081 Continue reading...

Events

10 hours ago Gavin Newsom issues stinging rebuke to Trump in desperate bid to shift attention as fire blame game intensifies: Live updates

Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

Politics

1 hour ago Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim slams landlords taking advantage of LA wildfires

Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim said landlords were breaking the law by taking advantage of a natural disaster which has left thousands of people without a place to stay

Events

12 hours ago Special Forces secrets exposed... by the Ministry of Defence! Veterans slam officials for printing shadowy force's tests in magazine feature

Veterans have been angered by the disclosing of precise details of the tests applicants must take to apply for the Special Air Service (SAS), the Special Boat Service (SBS) and other secretive units.

Politics

2 hours ago Prince Harry's sweet gesture to elderly Los Angeles fires victim while staying anonymous revealed

The royal couple, who live in Montecito near Santa Barbara, around 90 miles away from LA, were seen comforting victims as they handed out food parcels.

Events

15 hours ago Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feud rumours furiously slammed by A Simple Favor director

A rumour emerged that A Simple Favor 2 had been cancelled due to 'tensions' between lead stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick - but director Paul Feig has provided a defiant update

Politics

2 hours ago Wild conspiracy theories over LA fires emerge after lush green palm trees stand untouched amid burning wreckage

Lush green palm trees still standing in Los Angeles despite the raging wildfires consuming California have sparked wild conspiracy theories online. 

Events

15 hours ago Jack Smith resigns from Justice Department after completing Trump reports

The Hague prosecutor was appointed to oversee federal criminal investigations into the president-elect

Politics

2 hours ago 'My house exploded in LA Fires and I watched it all happen on my Ring doorbell'

Evan Brau, 52, was left devastated after the brutal wildfires claimed his home in the Pacific Palisades as he was forced to watch the home he lived in with his wife and two children go up in smoke

Events

16 hours ago Badenoch calls on PM to sack Treasury minister over property allegations

Media reports have raised questions about a number of properties connected to Labour MP Tulip Siddiq and her family.

Politics

2 hours ago Another crackdown on illegal streaming means you'll struggle to watch Sky TV for free

A seller of dodgy Fire TV Sticks has been handed a prison sentence after his operation was closed down

Events

17 hours ago Love Island's Luca Bish shares mum's fears over second stint as he slams trolls

Luca Bish is heading back into the Love Island All Stars villa for a second chance at love after his split from Gemma Owen, the daughter of footballing legend Michael Owen

Politics

2 hours ago London Waterloo evacuated after reports of smoke and fire from station platforms

London Waterloo evacuated after reports of smoke and fire from station platforms  NationalWorld

Events

17 hours ago Nigel Farage slammed over 'astonishing amount' of earnings from his NINE jobs

Nigel Farage earns more than any other MP from outside jobs, in less than six months

Politics

2 hours ago Donald Trump breaks his silence on LA fires after failing to respond to Gavin Newsom's invite to visit wildfire ground zero

Donald Trump has finally broken his silence over the Los Angeles fires that have consumed the west coast city

Events

17 hours ago Strip club suspended from Musk's X for 'hate speech' after cheeky swipe at Trump

The Penthouse strip club in Vancouver, Canada, was banned from the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter after a photo of its latest marquee went viral

Politics

2 hours ago California wildfires: How and why did fire hydrants run dry across Los Angeles?

Critics have erroneously blamed California environmental policies and empty reservoirs for lack of water

Events

17 hours ago A Simple Favor director slams rumors that Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feud has ‘shelved’ sequel

Online rumors claimed that Lively has ‘refused’ to promote the forthcoming sequel amid her messy legal battle with Justin Baldoni

Politics

3 hours ago Dogs, horses and peacocks were rescued from the LA fires. A charity waits for the owners

Injured animals are still being taken into pet shelters

Events

19 hours 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...

Politics

3 hours ago California fires latest: LA firefighters battle high desert winds forecast for days as 16 confirmed dead

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

Events

19 hours ago What's really riling Vaclav Cerny as Rangers winger snaps at reporter – but the look on his face tells whole story

Cerny wasn't happy in the Dens press room on Thursday night as the Czech winger had to explain yet another dismal display

Politics

3 hours ago Another UK Fire Stick TV crackdown just made it harder to watch Sky TV for free

The crackdown on streaming content illegally continues to intensify with one seller of so-called 'dodgy' Fire TV Sticks feeling the full wrath of the law.

Events

19 hours ago Louis Moult comes up trumps for Dundee United as St Mirren fall short again amid Paisley pandemonium

Moult netted a late winner to put the Tangerines three points clear of Aberdeen in third place

Politics

3 hours ago California wildfires: Former child star dies on family estate after ‘water shut off’

British-born star, who was born blind and lived with cerebral palsy, was unable to be rescued

Events