25 minutes ago Flyer for Labour minister in corruption probe ‘found in palace of deposed Bangladesh leader’

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden insisted he has full confidence in Tulip Siddiq - and she denies any wrong doing

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9 hours ago Right to a trial by jury should be scrapped for thousands of offences, Labour grandee and former justice secretary Jack Straw says

Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw claimed it was a 'ridiculous anomaly' that some defendants can demand their cases be heard in crown courts rather than more quickly in front of magistrates.

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1 hour ago Hamas to release 33 hostages in breakthrough deal with Israel, report claims

A breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas could see 33 hostages released in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including women, children, and life sentences.

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3 hours ago Former finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas dumped out of Australian Open in first round

Tsitsipas was knocked out in the first round at the second grand slam in a row, as Alex Michelsen claimed a big upset

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79 minutes ago Migrant who raped sleeping woman avoids deportation after claiming he is 'bisexual ' and HIS life would be in danger if sent back to Jamaica

A migrant who raped a sleeping woman won't be deported because his life would be in danger if he was sent back to Jamaica because he is 'bisexual', a specialist tribunal heard.

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21 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice winner Ryan Thomas' life since show from 'wedding of year' to devastating loss

As a new series of Dancing on Ice kicks off tonight, what has last year's winner Ryan Thomas been up to since claiming victory?

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40 minutes ago Animator accuses Disney of copying idea for Moana 2 from his 2003 screenplay

Bucky Woodall claims there are clear overlaps between Moana 2 and his screenplay

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2 hours ago Declining Stock and Solid Fundamentals: Is The Market Wrong About Warpaint London PLC (LON:W7L)?

Declining Stock and Solid Fundamentals: Is The Market Wrong About Warpaint London PLC (LON:W7L)?  Yahoo Finance

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17 hours ago New England Patriots appoint former player Mike Vrabel as their new head coach

49-year-old found success as head coach of TitansVrabel replaces Jerod Mayo, who was fired last weekThe New England Patriots have hired their former player Mike Vrabel as the team’s next head coach. The news comes a week after Patriots owner Robert Kraft fired another former Patriots player, Jerod Mayo, after the team finished 4-13 in his lone season as coach.Vrabel, a fan favorite during eight seasons as a player in New England where he was a member of the franchise’s first three Super Bowl titles and an inductee into the team’s Hall of Fame in 2023, was the preferred candidate because of his long association with the Pats and coaching success during six seasons in Tennessee. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Zelensky ready to exchange North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian prisoners of war

Kyiv claims to have captured two North Koreans fighting in Russia’s Kursk region

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27 hours ago Landowner and music festival founder claims mass pylons will 'ruin' Highlands

Hundreds of miles of new powerlines and pylons are due to cross the Highlands.

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44 minutes ago How Jesy Nelson vowed to NEVER have children: Little Mix star who is pregnant with twins insisted motherhood is 'just not in me'... until younger boyfriend melted her heart

Pregnant Jesy Nelson has seemingly had a change of heart about motherhood, after previously claiming that she's 'never had that maternal feeling'.

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3 hours ago Stock market today: Asian stocks follow Wall Street's retreat, oil prices surge

Asian stocks have retreated after U.S. stocks fell as good news on the job market raised worries over inflation

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18 hours ago Tottenham player ratings vs Tamworth: Mikey Moore a rare bright spot but Timo Werner struggles continue

Few Spurs players can claim much credit after being taken to extra time by non-league opposition

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4 hours ago California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim

Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting

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46 minutes ago Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet and silly season has already begun | Sidney Blumenthal

He wants to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. And now wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of AmericaDonald Trump’s silly season has already caused irreparable damage to United States national security. Despite not yet holding office for a minute, Trump has made it plain that in his second term the U.S. will be an unreliable partner swayed by his personal whim, that he has no respect for historic alliances and that he has contempt for the rule-based international order that the U.S. has led since the end of World War II to prevent the reemergence of catastrophic great power collisions.Beginning with his “Merry Christmas to all” tweet that he wanted to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland, Trump has not relented in his absurd claims, extended to renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. His disdain for the sovereignty of independent nations—two of them NATO allies and Panama a fellow member of the Organization of American States—has undermined the cr...

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10 hours ago Russian businessman loses tax row after claiming the ground floor of his 'glorious' £6milllion London party pad was a commercial space

Andrei Tretyakov, who loves entertaining, purchased the 5,000 square foot, converted bacon-smoking factory in south London in June 2021.

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5 hours ago Notorious hunt accused of 'rampaging through Scots countryside terrorising foxes with hounds' despite ban

It’s claimed huntsmen pursued foxes with bloodhounds in Renfrewshire last Saturday under cover of an official NatureScot fox control licence.

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84 minutes ago Australian Open 2025: Kyrgios and Djokovic in action after Sinner, Swiatek and Gauff progress – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkBurrage’s luck turns; Tomljanović exacts swift revengeAny thoughts? Share them with Daniel via emailAnother multi-deuce service game for Coco Gauff, but this time it goes Sofia Kenin’s way. We’re back on serve on RLA in a match already averaging seven minutes per game. Gauff has served five aces and four double faults in an erratic opening. Kenin is just keeping the ball in play and showing that resilience from the baseline that became her trademark five years ago.20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the first set off 12th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve in the 12th game. It would be no surprise if the 2023 finalist became the first major casualty of the tournament. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Russian businessman loses tax row after claiming the ground floor of his 'glorious' £6milllion London party pa

Russian businessman loses tax row after claiming the ground floor of his 'glorious' £6milllion London party pa  Daily Mail

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8 hours ago LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing

County sheriff says anyone who tries to scam the thousands of people looking for accommodations will be prosecutedWildfires live updatesLos Angeles authorities are warning against scams and price gouging as thousands of displaced families seek new accommodations as a result of the wildfires that devastated whole neighborhoods and forced the evacuation of others.In a press conference on Sunday, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna warned against “anyone taking advantage of anyone who’s been victimized already, whether it is burglary looting, or any other crime, whether it’s a scam of some kind that you’re conjuring up to make money off of the poor people that have been involved in this”. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago A Quiet Evening by Norman Lewis review – they don’t make travel writers like this any more

From run-ins with Hemingway in Havana to gunmen in Guatemala, this colourful collection of the late writer’s long-form journalism shows why Graham Greene was an admirerThe travelogues of Norman Lewis, which are much admired for the extraordinary burnish they attain, were written by him in a spidery longhand. The author of acclaimed accounts of the Sicilian mafia and the exploitation of Indigenous tribes in South America, he scribbled his rewrites on fresh scraps of paper and, with the help of his wife Lesley, pasted them over earlier drafts until his manuscript crackled like parchment. I observed this process for myself when I interviewed the writer, by then in his 90s. We were at his home, an old rectory in deepest Essex enclosed by a wild garden which grew as high as an elephant’s eye. Here he recuperated between adventures in an “introspective, almost monastic calm”, or so the blurb on his book jackets improbably claimed. Rangy and moustachioed, he had been an early adopter of zo...

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11 hours ago Ronnie O'Sullivan's company launches £10.2MILLION lawsuit against snooker bosses for 'abuse of their dominant position' in the game

DAVID COVERDALE: The company claim that 'unlawful and anti-competitive practices' have been used to prevent players from competing in rival tournaments.

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10 hours ago Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk won't be able to upend UK politics, senior Tory warns

Dominic Cummings could persuade Elon Musk to back the Tories, Nadine Dorries claimed after it was revealed the controversial pair were communicating.

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31 hours ago This £22m school opened in September. So why are staff now facing redundancy and being told state of the art facilities may never be used?

The 'much needed' Ysgol Robert Owen, funded by the Welsh Government and Powys Council, has empty places and is making cuts five months after opening

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12 hours ago Barcelona run riot against Real Madrid again in dramatic El Clasico to win Spanish Super Cup

Ruthless Barca claim first domestic silverware of the season after stunning fightback in Saudi Arabia

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2 hours ago Numbers on your radiator dial have important function that could save you money

It turns out the small dial at the bottom of your radiator could make your home more efficient if used correctly - but the wrong setting can actually cost you money

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12 hours ago Mel Gibson's conspiracy theory that LA fires were 'commissioned' to clear homes

Mel Gibson 69, made the claim after his £12million Malibu mansion burned down. He revealed the lack of available water combined with the hurricane conditions had got him thinking

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3 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Sinner, Swiatek and Gauff through, Kyrgios and Djokovic to come on day two – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Joey via emailAnother multi-deuce service game for Coco Gauff, but this time it goes Sofia Kenin’s way. We’re back on serve on RLA in a match already averaging seven minutes per game. Gauff has served five aces and four double faults in an erratic opening. Kenin is just keeping the ball in play and showing that resilience from the baseline that became her trademark five years ago.20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the first set off 12th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve in the 12th game. It would be no surprise if the 2023 finalist became the first major casualty of the tournament. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago LA fires could test Getty Center’s claim of being safest place to store artwork

Getty team says no current plans to move prominent pieces from center deemed ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering’It houses some of the richest treasures of the art world, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, a popular Rembrandt and a priceless collection of paintings, portraits and other works spanning more than seven centuries.To protect them, the Getty Center in Los Angeles was built in 1997 as “a marvel of anti-fire engineering”, complete with fire-resistant stone and concrete, protected steel, and set in well-irrigated landscaping. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Pope’s pick for Washington archbishop sets stage for conflict with Trump, experts say

Appointment of progressive Robert McElroy comes as rightwing Catholics wield significant influence in US capitalWhen the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sought to shut down a Catholic charity that was was providing shelter and aid to undocumented migrants at the border, the San Diego cardinal, Robert McElroy, took a robust public stand against the attempt.“The state of Texas is using governmental pressure to curtail the work of the Church in one of its most fundamental obligations: to feed the hungry, to shelter the homeless, and to provide drink to the thirsty,” McElroy said in a statement at the time. “No government can morally tell us to abandon or limit this mission.” Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Trump attacks Newsom over emergency response as Trudeau hits back at 51st state comments: Live

President-elect claimed politicians in California were unable to put out raging fires – elevating his longstanding feud with Newsom

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4 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Sinner in action as Swiatek eases through and Tsitsipas stunned on day two – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Joey via emailAnother multi-deuce service game for Coco Gauff, but this time it goes Sofia Kenin’s way. We’re back on serve on RLA in a match already averaging seven minutes per game. Gauff has served five aces and four double faults in an erratic opening. Kenin is just keeping the ball in play and showing that resilience from the baseline that became her trademark five years ago.20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the first set off 12th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve in the 12th game. It would be no surprise if the 2023 finalist became the first major casualty of the tournament. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown review – a daughter’s journey to the heart of the climate crisis

An environmental writer returns to her father’s home for his funeral in a family memoir that becomes an examination of Shetland’s crucial role in the energy landscapeAs with many nature-centric memoirs of recent years, Marianne Brown’s debut, The Shetland Way, begins with personal loss. It opens at the funeral of her father, Bill, on his home island of Shetland, a place she knows only in glimpses; her parents separated when she was two, and her relationship with her father was characterised by absence, “always promising something it would never deliver”. But her connection with the islands and her late father is forced into an accelerated intimacy; the funeral takes place in February 2020 as the pandemic spreads, and Brown finds herself unexpectedly spending the months of lockdown with her partner and young daughter in Shetland: “Confinement in a land that claimed half my genealogy, a history and culture of which I knew next to nothing about.”They stay in the house that Bill, a pott...

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4 hours ago The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank – podcast

During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger. By Simon Parkin Continue reading...

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19 hours ago Rescuing strangers, cooking for firefighters: LA residents find ‘hope among the ashes’

The kindness of strangers allowed two men to escape the deadly Palisade fire, while businesses and non-profits gear up to assist evacuees Many things went wrong for Aaron Samson on Tuesday morning. But a few lucky breaks – and the kindness of two strangers – allowed him and his 83-year-old father-in-law, Ron, to escape the deadly Palisades fire as it swiftly closed in around them.After getting an alert about the impending wildfire on his phone, Samson sprang into action at Ron’s home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, where the retired cardiologist had lived for nearly 50 years. Samson grabbed clothes and medication for his father-in-law, who has Parkinson’s disease and was recovering from a recent surgery, and texted his own wife and kids, who were back home in Berkeley. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago What the numbers on your radiator dial mean – and how they can save you money

People are only just realising the numbers on radiator dials actually have an important function - and having them on the wrong setting could be adding money to your bills

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19 hours ago Moment LA mountain lions and goats flee to safety from blistering California fires

Videos show wild animals running from the wildfires which have already claimed the lives of around 16 people while burning over 37,000 acres of land and destroying 12,000 structures in its wake.

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6 hours ago Westall Papets: Sensational claims secret file detailing truth about Australia's largest UFO encounter is hidden in bowels of Defence archives

On the morning of April 6, 1966, about 200 students at Westall High School witnessed something strange and unnerving hovering above the school's oval and the nearby Grange Reserve...

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20 hours ago Moira Salmond hits out at those 'determined to damage' late husband's reputation

Widow’s comments follow Nicola Sturgeon’s claim she stepped in ‘many times’ when Alex Salmond was ‘really rough on people’

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6 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Sinner and Swiatek in action as Tsitsipas stunned on day two – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Joey via emailAnother multi-deuce service game for Coco Gauff, but this time it goes Sofia Kenin’s way. We’re back on serve on RLA in a match already averaging seven minutes per game. Gauff has served five aces and four double faults in an erratic opening. Kenin is just keeping the ball in play and showing that resilience from the baseline that became her trademark five years ago.20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the first set off 12th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve in the 12th game. It would be no surprise if the 2023 finalist became the first major casualty of the tournament. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Badenoch has ‘clear direction’ for Tories but policy takes time – Stride

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride defended his party leader Kemi Badenoch after criticism of her lack of policy decisions.

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6 hours ago Frontier Airlines is offering a year’s worth of free flights — here’s how to claim it

The contest runs from January 6 to January 31

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21 hours ago Teenage girl cried with her family and mourned grandfather's shock death for months

Brittney Jade Dwyer, then 19, from Redbank Plains, Queensland , stabbed 81-year-old Robert Whitwell in the neck and chest at his Adelaide home in August 2016.

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7 hours ago Disney sued by animator claiming the studio stole his screenplay for Moana and its blockbuster sequel

Animator Buck Woodall previously sued Disney, claiming Moana was stolen from him, but the lawsuit was tossed due to the statute of limitations.

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21 hours ago Where it all went wrong for Kyle Walker: Inside the muddled mind, love triangle chaos and niggling injuries as Man City captain demands move abroad, revealed by JACK GAUGHAN

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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7 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Sinner and Swiatek in action, Gauff through on day two – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Jonathan via emailAnother multi-deuce service game for Coco Gauff, but this time it goes Sofia Kenin’s way. We’re back on serve on RLA in a match already averaging seven minutes per game. Gauff has served five aces and four double faults in an erratic opening. Kenin is just keeping the ball in play and showing that resilience from the baseline that became her trademark five years ago.20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the first set off 12th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve in the 12th game. It would be no surprise if the 2023 finalist became the first major casualty of the tournament. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago California governor Gavin Newsom hits out at 'delusional' Donald Trump over wildfire criticism

California governor Gavin Newsom has hit at Donald Trump over his LA wildfire response claims, calling the president-elect “delusional”.

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8 hours ago Does your washing machine leave you in a spin? Almost of half of Brits don't know how to use home appliances and stick to same settings, poll reveals

The poll reveals that four in ten always stick to the same washing settings because they are scared of using the wrong one, while some considered the washing machine the most confusing piece of tech

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22 hours 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.

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9 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Gauff, Swiatek and Sinner in action on day two – live

Updates from the second day of action at Melbourne ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Jonathan via emailStefanos Tsitsipas reached the final here in 2023, and made three semi-finals in the four years before that. His form has nosedived since, plummeting from third in the world to 12th, with only two tournament victories in that time.He has the full throated support of Melbourne’s massive Greek community out on John Cain Arena this morning, but he has his work cut out against 20-year-old rising star Alex Michelsen who has vaulted from 601 in the world to 41st in just two years.Since her much-discussed break with coach Brad Gilbert after her disappointing US Open performance (losing to fellow American Emma Navarro, who is the eighth seed in Australia), Gauff’s record is an extraordinary 18-2 since the US Open. With new coach Matt Daly, Gauff has ironed out much of the issues with her forehand and serve and is playing a brand of highly confident tennis. Further, the fact that Gauff is o...

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23 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

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