22-year-old is from a successful skiing familyVonn continues to thrive in comeback at age of 40Lauren Macuga’s first World Cup race win – in a super-G where Lindsey Vonn impressed again in fourth – was no surprise to those who saw the 22-year-old American’s fast-improving results.Macuga was almost flawless on a course that caught out veterans like Federica Brignone and Lara Gut-Behrami, who made errors and knew crossing the finish line that their times would not hold up. Continue reading...

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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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Heinous images depict the horror hundreds of starving prisoners suffered, with some wearing false legs having undergone amputations, often brought about from being tortured.

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Spurs out to avoid third-round upset against non-League opponents

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The enormous image, captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite on January 9, shows Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, as well as the Summit and North of Montana neighbourhoods, engulfed in the smoke

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Acclaimed for her work on children’s books, the artist is teaming up again with her collaborator on Bear HuntThe imaginations of hosts of little children, many now parents themselves, have been shaped by the paintbrush of Helen Oxenbury. Her illustrations have guided millions of toddlers off to the Land of Nod, yet the first solo exhibition of her work has been a long time coming.And so, just as oddly, has any follow-up collaboration with Michael Rosen, considering the huge success of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, their 1989 picture book. Continue reading...

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The 'mystery virus' has sparked fears of another devastating pandemic due to videos of patients being treated in overwhelmed Chinese hospitals circulating on social media

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This provocative novel contains two narratives: the memoir of an activist starting a new life and the violent manifesto of a spy cop who knew herAnna McCormick, as many people did, is discovering that the first pandemic lockdown is playing havoc with time. Becalmed in her deliberately fortress-like London home with her young adult son Paul, she is simultaneously under pressure – teaching primary school children on Zoom, maintaining her stockpile of tinned goods, attempting to communicate with her mother’s care home – and forced into unnatural, unwanted inaction. As a survivor of domestic abuse, and several other threats to her safety and sanity, she is aware of the immense prize – a sanctuary, a job, meaningful relationships – she has secured, but also of its precariousness. Amid these conditions of unbidden contemplation, she begins to write a sort of memoir.So too does Buster, the shape-shifting, monstrous undercover cop who once infiltrated the OrKestrA, the “merry little band of...

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Vveteran actress Jean Boht rose from a relatively humble upbringing on the Wirral to amass a huge fortune with her American composer husband Carl Davis

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The finances of the Royal Family are something of a mystery - and that's the way they like it. 

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Injury situation improving for Gunners ahead of blockbuster third-round tie

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Spurs face one of the two non-league sides remaining in the competition

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The Masked Singer fans were stunned when Toad in The Hole star Macy Gray stormed off stage following the decision to reveal her - but not all of the antics were shown on air

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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...

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Justin Rose hailed as ‘phenomenal captain’ after convincing victory in Abu Dhabi

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The family of Jayden Clark, 22, bagged a huge windfall nearly 10 years ago but the young lottery winner has opened up on his 'winner's guilt' and what it's really like to win it big

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Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner will go to the Australian Open as defending champions with those who triumph in Melbourne - and those who go close - pocketing huge sums

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Ruben Amorim expected to keep changes to a minimum for third-round tie at Emirates Stadium

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Availability of manuals and instructions on less moderated apps and forums is making extremist content accessibleA spate of recent vigilante and extremist attacks in the US have highlighted how the booming availability of internet resources is a growing national security concern.Experts and world governments have been sounding the alarm on digital radicalization as accessibility to materials such as assassination manuals, files for 3D printed guns, or something as simple as ChatGPT grows. Continue reading...

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As the Dancing on Ice 2025 stars prepare to take to the ice for the first time, one celebrity has already suffered an early blow.

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Ms Johnson praised NHS staff for their care and revealed she has now left the Oxford hospital

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Tamworth goalkeeper Jas Singh revealed his partner gave birth to their son the night before his club’s FA Cup clash against Tottenham Hotspur.

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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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Kristrún Frostadóttir, who entered politics just four years ago, speaks to the Observer about feminism, the far right and reopening talks on joining the EUNearly 45 years ago, Iceland made history by producing the world’s first elected female president of a country, setting it on a path to being the global feminist frontrunner it is today.Since then it has had multiple female presidents and prime ministers, but it wasn’t until three weeks ago, when social democrat Kristrún Frostadóttir took office, that the country’s two top positions were both held by women at the same time. It comes after Halla Tómasdóttir became Iceland’s second female president in August. Continue reading...

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Gunners skipper’s form has dipped amid recent attacking malaise

Sport

Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim has hit out at landlords in Los Angeles who are trying to benefit from the devastating wildfires as he makes telling gesture

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Looking at a sepia-tinged picture of my grandmother, she has the kind of face you don’t see any more The photo shows my grandmother. She’s among the adults at the back, fourth from right, peeping out from a row of old-timey faces. The kind of faces you don’t see any more, faces that could only come from the past. Even without the sepia tint and the period clothing, you know you’d have a hard time showing them an iPhone or talking to them about AI. Frankly, you’d have a hard time explaining ITV4.But it is sepia-tinted, this photo, almost artificially so; its stock-still adults and fidgety kids captured in eerie permanence, so perfectly composed as to recall the cover of a stirring Irish childhood memoir. Judging by the boys and girls in their little suits and sparkling white dresses, it’s from a first holy communion ceremony, presumably one with pupils from the small primary school in Mulleek, Fermanagh, where she taught for 30 years. Continue reading...

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The Wanted star Tom Parker's wife Kelsey has opened up on potentially having more children with her new partner as she revealed what the late star said to her via a psychic

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A Real Madrid legend has revealed how he was on the verge of joining Manchester United but was later left in tears when his move to the Premier League powerhouse collapsed

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The 2024 Golden Boot winner flopped at Everton and faded away at Real Madrid but is still a maestro for ColombiaOn Monday, Rayo Vallecano released James Rodríguez on a free transfer. It hadn’t been much of a stay. In four and a half months at the club, he managed 136 minutes of league football. Only once did he start in La Liga. Rodríguez is 33 now. Since he left Everton in 2021, he has started just 37 league games and scored only 10 goals. This is the sixth season in a row in which he has been released on a free transfer as he has drifted from Real Madrid to the team currently 12th in the table, via Qatar, Greece and Brazil. The sense is of a waning career nearing its end.And yet in those three and a half years since his last game for Everton, Rodríguez has played 32 times for Colombia. While at Rayo, he has played 374 international minutes. True, he doesn’t often last a full game, but there are few other indications of decline. As Colombia reached the final of last year’s Copa Amé...

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EXCLUSIVE: 16-year-old Sheila Fox vanished for over five decades before being found in Watford in a bizarre missing persons case, Now MailOnline reveal the real story behind the headline.

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Charlie Brooks is taking part in Dancing on Ice 2025

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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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The ideal breakfast has been revealed for men and women

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Class of 92 owners will be dreaming of a famous win over Pep Guardiola’s side

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Kelyan Bokassa, 14, was tragically killed in front of passengers on the 472 bus in Woolwich, South East London, on Tuesday, just before 2.30pm. A manhunt is underway to find the suspect

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Dancing on Ice is skating back onto ITV tonight 🚨

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Psychologists say that singing, dancing and song preferences play a key role in the viability of romantic relationships“What’s the one thing your readers should do to help them use music to find and catch the partner of their dreams?” asks Patrick Savage, a senior research fellow in psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. “Go to karaoke and sing a duet. Go and sing A Whole New World with Brad Kane and Lea Salonga. That’s the number one recommendation by science. Well, just by me. I don’t have data on this, but from my personal experience, that’s the best.”Given that he is a musicologist, it is perhaps unsurprising that music is a key part of Savage’s relationship with his wife. But his experience with using music as a romantic tool is not unique. Love songs are found across cultures and despite not being a neat category they have historically been most popular – 67% of the top 40 tracks in America between 1960 and 2010 contained love themes. Continue reading...

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Are the wheels coming off Rachel Reeves's 'wagon'? Political allegiance may determine your answer to this question, but financial markets are adamant in their opinion.

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Blues aiming to end a run of four games without a win

Sport

Pep Guardiola's admission last night that Kyle Walker has asked to leave Manchester City to 'explore opportunities abroad' shows just how far the right-back's stock has fallen at the Etihad.

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A look at the contestants who will be taking to the ice rink for the ITV skating show when it returns to screens on Sunday.

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Proposal suggests restitution for colonial artefacts should also apply to underwater heritage Shipwrecked colonial treasures that have lain on the seabed for centuries could be recovered and returned to their countries of origin as reparations for slavery.Tim Maxwell, an international cultural heritage lawyer, said repatriating artefacts found underwater could help former colonial powers meet moral obligations to countries they had historically exploited for their transatlantic trade. Continue reading...

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Households are set to be hit with a raft of price hikes in early 2025, including council tax, energy bills and mobile phone and broadband contracts

Economics

The Blues made light work of their League Two counterparts

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

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DONALD MACINTYRE: More than 20 years ago, I watched the filming of a documentary that followed the work of Bradford Social Services. 

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Walker has told Pep Guardiola he wishes to leaveFull-back played no part in City’s 8-0 rout of SalfordNathan Aké has stated Manchester City will “massively” miss Kyle Walker if he leaves in the winter window after the 34-year-old informed the club he wishes to do so.After City’s Saturday’s 8-0 FA Cup third-round rout of Salford City, Pep Guardiola revealed the defender was left out of the matchday squad after his request on Thursday to “explore the option” to play abroad. Milan are interested in signing Walker, though a move to Saudi Arabia is not thought to be an option currently. Continue reading...

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The Love Island star, 30, delved into the difficulties she has faced since welcoming her daughter Lucia in April last year.

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Georgian superstar has asked to leave Napoli this month

Sport

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

Events

ITV Dancing on Ice 2025 will return to screens on January 12 for it's seventeenth season.

Culture

The latest Bluebirds transfer news

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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...

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Blues aiming to end a run of four games without a win

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Memo obtained by the Guardian mandates that court would maintain ‘exclusive’ control of all security-related recordsA newly uncovered document reveals that the US supreme court sought to beef up judicial protection, while also reducing public scrutiny of the court’s doings, before the court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v Wade.The heavily redacted memorandum of agreement (MOA) on security is dated March 2022, and was obtained by the Guardian after being recently surfaced by governmentattic.com. Continue reading...

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Rebecca Ferguson has confirmed she is in talks to compete in the upcoming 2025 Eurovision Song Contest - but fans might be shocked by the details that she has shared

Culture

Meghan Markle was 'practical' yet 'emotional' as she and Prince Harry visited survivors of the Los Angeles wildfires, a body language expert has claimed.  

Politics

A woman has flipped eight homes in the city and has shared how she has made a huge profit. 

Economics

FA Cup third round weekend begins at Anfield

Sport

Ryan Quigley was celebrating the new year with former teammate Martin ‘Tiger’ Bech, one of the 14 victims killedAmong those who were injured but survived the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack on New Orleans’ most famous street was a former Princeton University football player whose ex-teammate was murdered by the assailant.Ryan Quigley, 26, was in New Orleans with Martin “Tiger” Bech – who grew up about a two-hour drive west of the city in Lafayette, Louisiana – to ring in 2025 after both had forged a friendship while playing for Princeton University’s college football team. They had joined other revelers on Bourbon Street when a former US army veteran inspired by the Islamic State (IS) terror group managed to drive a pickup truck into the crowd that had gathered on one of the world’s most festive thoroughfares. Continue reading...

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In 1983 David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész , and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn travelled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he says. “It’s lovely to read – the touch of the paper, the ease of being able to check back a few pages. But we’re at a time now where we’re not quite sure whether, in the future, books on paper are going to disappear.”David Hurn’s On Reading is published by RRB Photobooks (£35) Continue reading...

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World No 1 beats Sloane Stephens 6-3, 6-2 in first roundSabalenka looking to match Hingis’s Melbourne hat-trickAs Aryna Sabalenka strode down the tunnel inside Rod Laver Arena that leads players straight to the court, the cameras momentarily captured a perfect shot. The pathway to Melbourne Park’s premier court is filled with large, rectangular plaques emblazoned with the names of former champions and the dates of their triumphs.For a second, Sabalenka stood perfectly next to the sign that memorialised her 2023 and 2024 Australian Open victories. Already focused on new records and objectives, however, she kept on moving. Continue reading...

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Housing charity Shelter and bank HSBC UK are urging those with concerns to seek support.

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Blues aiming to end a run of four games without a win

Sport

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...

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The Florida cop initially claimed his drove into another car because his breaks had locked up – however bodycam footage revealed he was 'multitasking' at the time of the collision

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The British actor appeared to confirm he was in a new relationship while out in public with an attractive lady-friend during a New Year break in the South American coastal city.

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SOURCE SPORTS: NFL Announces Teams for 2025 International Games in London  The Source Magazine

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People with obesity, as well as those with kidney or liver disease, are more likely to suffer with bad odour. Some medicines are also linked to the problem.

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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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FA Cup third round weekend begins at Anfield

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Awa Keita, 18, had a daughter aboard the dinghy on Sunday last week while making the Atlantic crossing to the Canary Islands.

Events

Maura Higgins has opened up on her true feelings towards former flame Curtis Pritchard as he gets ready to look for love once more on Love Island All Stars

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Matt Groening, creator of the television series The Simpsons, has revealed the truth behind character Waylon Smithers' change during the series as fans share their theories

Sport

Injuries mean Spurs rotation will be restricted for third-round tie

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Kraf’s charming and challenging fourth and final novel, now published in the UK, is narrated by a New Yorker who experiences psychotic episodes“I am glad I have the radiance. This time I am wiser,” begins Elaine Kraf’s 1979 novel – now published for the first time in the UK – in irresistibly intriguing style. The narrator is Ellen, an artist living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where she regularly experiences periods of what she calls radiance, or what the rest of us would call psychosis, mental illness, or detachment from reality.And what “the rest of us” think is part of the problem for Ellen, because the radiances make her happy and she is no threat to anybody. “Fools! No one likes anyone for what they really are.” So she becomes Esmeralda, self-styled princess of 72nd Street. “I am not one of those rulers who is never seen on the streets mingling with the common people.” Continue reading...

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Red Devils out to build on encouraging display against Liverpool

Sport

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...

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Taking the overnight train between the capital cities and on to Dresden is all about slow travel and the romance of life on the trackOn the evening of our overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin and on to Dresden aboard the European Sleeper, we enjoy a restorative plate of oysters and steak tartare on the decks of Amsterdam’s BrasserieMarie overlooking the Amstel. Then, after a nightcap in the adjoining Freddy’s Bar, a legendary spot in the Hotel De L’Europe, we make the short stroll to Amsterdam Centraal Station for the so-called Good Night Train.At 22.20 we board the train to Berlin, the bunks are swiftly made up and the blinds part pulled down for sleep. You can open the window for fresh air, brush your teeth in your own basin and there is crisp, clean linen. This slow journey is all about the romance of life on the track – and, for me, a lingering nostalgia. Continue reading...

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Injury situation improving for Gunners ahead of blockbuster third-round tie

Sport

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.

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Two kinds of zesty citrus celebration to brighten any winter’s dayThe kitchen is aglow with citrus fruit. The lemons came with their wide, glossy leaves intact. Oranges, their skin flashed with viridian at the stem and sporting thin, pointed leaves, smelled of their own blossom. A box of wrinkled green makrut limes, warty and beautiful, now sit waiting to be grated into a green curry sauce. There is even a handful of bergamots, the yellow-green lemons whose tantalisingly perfumed zest I will use in a pot of citrine yellow curd.The tight-skinned citrus varieties, such as the neat clementines and larger, almost perfectly round Valencias, are inevitably the juiciest and a world away from the watery flavour of the easypeel varieties with baggy skins. Bergamot lemons and yuzu are a rare find, but worth tracking down during their brief season in midwinter. The juice of the bergamot is peppery with a kick of sherbet about it and is best used in tandem with that of a classic lemon. On its o...

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FA Cup third round weekend begins at Anfield

Sport

Clasico rivals meet in Jeddah in pursuit of domestic silverware

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Spurs out to avoid third-round upset against non-League opponents

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Gunners supporters could not celebrate due to Covid restrictions

Sport

In an extract from their unflinching memoir, Christie Watson and daughter Rowan Egberongbe recall the post-Covid psychological collapse that fractured their bond, and how social media was both the hero and villain of the hour “Can you collect Rowan, please? It’s pastoral care at the school. We’re just a bit worried about her ... She seems manic.’ Continue reading...

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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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Reds are out to book a place in round four

Sport

Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise, with firefighters racing to contain Palisades fireFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsCalifornia attorney general Rob Bonta has warned that it is illegal to engage in price gouging, looting or scamming of any kind and those who do in response to the fires will be held accountable by the law.“We’ve seen businesses and landlords jack up the price,” he told journalists at a press conference yesterday. “It’s called price gouging. It is illegal. You cannot do it. It is a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and fines.” Continue reading...

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