67 minutes ago Roll up, roll up! The Trump inauguration may be the least great show on Earth | Emma Brockes

Despite a few more recognisable names (er, Kid Rock) due to appear than last time, this will not be the cultural event of the yearIn the quaintly upsetting era of George W Bush’s presidency, there was something people liked to pompously call the “cultural opposition”. This was made up of figures in popular culture pushing back against Bush, and 20 years later it may be imagined their spiritual heirs are limbering up for equivalent duties. The first formal opportunity falls next week with Donald Trump’s inauguration and, just as leaders in the tech and business worlds have failed spectacularly to rally against him, so a sense prevails that among certain artists and influencers there has been a gentle softening of spines too.This is a general observation and also one located in the figure of Carrie Underwood, the country star scheduled to sing the national anthem in Trump’s honour on Monday. Underwood, a 41-year-old who came to prominence via the fourth season of American Idol, may se...

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14 hours ago Grieving mum, 71, set to be evicted from house she’s lived in for 52 years after plans approved to turn it into a children’s home

Marie Hargreaves has been handed an eviction notice telling her she will be removed from the house this week

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3 hours ago Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on | Aditya Chakrabortty

Labour’s panicked reaction to turbulence is to promise ‘ruthless’ cuts. It has learned the wrong lessons from Britain’s shortest-lived PMBritain’s centre of power is stalked by a zombie. Across Westminster, the mere mention of her name summons up a grim past, but she remains ever present: blond bob, eyes that never move and a grin slightly aslant so it expresses not mirth, but faint menace. When least expected, she can bark a laugh that sends shivers up a cabinet minister’s spine. And whenever her shadow looms in SW1, the dread murmur starts: she used to be prime minister, you know.Liz Truss’s stint at the top of politics ended years ago. Perhaps close confidants and trained medics are yet to break the news, but for her, power is a fading memory, a shrinking image in the rear-view. As the voters of South West Norfolk ensured last July, she is now an ex-politician. Yet in British political culture, she is the great undead. No other prime minister since the Brexit vote so haunts curre...

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17 hours ago Ilona Maher: Rugby union needs culture shift to create stars and grow the game

The American has a social media following of over eight million people.

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2 hours ago The ultimate guide to The Real Housewives: From the chaos of New York to the twists and turns of Salt Lake City

With wine-throwing and screaming matches in Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Miami and more, it can be difficult to know which Real Housewives installment is for you. We break it down

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4 hours ago ‘I didn’t sleep for days’: readers on the TV shows that went way too far

From fish and chip shop-induced trauma to programmes packed with relentless death and gore, here are the television moments that had you reaching for the remote‘Just too horrifying’There are two specific scenes that have forced me to stop watching a show or movie, both involving infants. One is the final scene from the fourth series of Dexter, where he finds his wife’s murdered body in the bathtub and their young son sitting in a pool of his mother’s blood. As a parent, this scene was just too horrifying for me to contemplate. Cushla, 52, Dunedin, New Zealand Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Princess of Wales tells patient she 'got so attached' to her chemotherapy port as she battled cancer and 'hesitated' when medics said it could be removed

The Princess of Wales had been animatedly talking to 45-year-old patient Katherine Field during an emotional visit yesterday to the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, South West London.

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18 hours ago Motorcycle Road Safety Roadshows visiting five Scottish cities in February 2025

Motorcycle Law Scotland is hosting a series of Motorcycle Road Safety Roadshows in February 2025.

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1 hour ago Rare collection of ‘incredibly exciting’ Winnie the Pooh letters up for auction

Collection also features letters from Enid Blyton and JRR Tolkien

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16 hours ago The best London restaurants for Burns Night, from Origin City to Home SW13

Haggis and bagpipes, cranachan and ceilidh: feel the Burns this January 25 with one of these Scottish menus

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15 hours ago Office worker took £20,000 in sick pay after claiming she had HIV and cancer – but got found out

Emma Rorison told her insurance firm employers Domestic and General she was undergoing cancer treatment and also had HIV, falsifying letters from existing doctors to support her claims

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21 hours ago Switch 2 leak hints at exciting new way to connect with players as Nintendo teases big reveal

The feature may signal how Nintendo is getting ready for a wave of third-party games, including Call of Duty

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2 hours ago Japan YouTuber novelist woos global audience with visual, accessible horror

He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his signature mode of art

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12 hours ago 'SNL' show creator Lorne Michaels donates archive to University of Texas

“Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas

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2 hours ago Real story behind Anthony Robles as emotional biopic Unstoppable lands on Prime Video

Anthony Robles was born without a right leg but overcame the odds to become an NCAA wrestling champion and his story is now the subject of the new Amazon Prime movie Unstoppable

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22 hours ago I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real

I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet – and we will not in the coming decadesMy house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly. On Tuesday around 7pm, my wife and daughters went to a hotel as a precaution. I left the house with the dogs when the mandatory evacuation order came in around 3am. As best as I can put the timeline together, our home burned down around the same time that the sun came up, and I was able to drive in and see the damage around 2pm.Neighbors that went in after said it looked like a “war zone”. I have never been in a war zone thankfully, but I didn’t think so. There was nothing violent or chaotic about it. No one stopped me from driving in. There were no sirens. I stood alone – no one else around – in front of my house that was at that point just a fireplace and chimney. The house across the street was about halfway done with burning down, and the house behind ours had just started t...

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15 hours ago Beauty buffs 'ditch' plastic razors for £2 hair removal solution that 'tackles ingrown hairs and shaving bumps'

Its unique design aims to tackle ingrown hairs and shaving bumps while ensuring a smooth finish on even the 'longest and coarsest of hair'

Economics

3 hours ago The Crow Girl review – a gripping crime drama that fills you with hope for the world’s good people

This confident, stylish adaptation of a Scandinavian bestseller is an extremely well-made thriller about the race to track down a serial child killerThe most striking thing about The Crow Girl is the sight of young male bodies lying dead all over the place. It’s quite shocking. Those poor boys, you think. Isn’t it terrible? How could anyone ? It has the twin effects of drawing you deeper into the plot and showing you how inured we have become to the sight of young dead female bodies used as scenery and plot points. It’s good to be reminded now and then, I think, of what we deem normal and where we draw our cultural lines and have our consciousnesses and consciences shaken awake.Now that I’ve crow-barred that outrageous feminist point in – to business! This psychological thriller has been adapted by Milly Thomas from the Scandinavian bestseller of the same name by Erik Axl Sund. Eve Myles plays domestically harassed wife and mother (though in a far more credible way than is customary...

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14 hours ago ‘Homecoming’ show for artist Frank Auerbach to be held at Berlin gallery

Exclusive: First show of figurative painter’s work to be displayed in city he fled in 1939 to escape Nazi regimeFrank Auerbach is to be the subject of what has been billed as a homecoming show in Berlin, at which some of his final paintings will be displayed in the city he fled as a child.Auerbach, who died in November last year, never had a show in the city of his birth, which he left due to persecution by the Nazis. Both of his parents were later killed in Auschwitz. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Influencer called out for dressing up as a geisha in exchange for a Rolex: 'This is nasty'

A Canadian-born influencer has been accused of cultural appropriation in a tone deaf post to brag about getting a brand new Rolex watch from her partner.

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22 hours ago I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real | Benjamin Hamlington

I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet – and we will not in the coming decadesMy house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly. On Tuesday around 7pm, my wife and daughters went to a hotel as a precaution. I left the house with the dogs when the mandatory evacuation order came in around 3am. As best as I can put the timeline together, our home burned down around the same time that the sun came up, and I was able to drive in and see the damage around 2pm.Neighbors that went in after said it looked like a “war zone”. I have never been in a war zone thankfully, but I didn’t think so. There was nothing violent or chaotic about it. No one stopped me from driving in. There were no sirens. I stood alone – no one else around – in front of my house that was at that point just a fireplace and chimney. The house across the street was about halfway done with burning down, and the house behind ours had just started t...

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17 hours ago Statement issued on new £22m school where teachers face redundancy and state of the art facilities may never be used

Powys Council rejected claims that cuts would make Ysgol Robert Owen unsafe as it warned schools across the county have begun "management of change processes in response to the financial pressures"

Economics

4 hours ago As flames linger, talk turns to rebuilding Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled by wildfires

Heartbroken families, burned-out business owners and beleaguered Los Angeles leaders are beginning to ponder a monumental task: rebuilding what was lost in the Southern California wildfires

Events

3 hours ago Richard Gadd: Why Baby Reindeer creator will not be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe

Richard Gadd started taking shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010

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22 hours ago Ncuti Gatwa to virtually read play scripts with fans for National Theatre Live

Members of the public will be able to sit back at the Vue cinema in Manchester Arndale Centre and connect with an actor based at the National Theatre.

Society

18 hours ago Bank of Dave's Burnley Savings and Loans in real life after film made big change

Netflix's Bank of Dave: The Loan Ranger is out now and tells the story of businessman Dave Fishwick, whose company Burnley Savings and Loans was at the centre of the two films

Economics

3 hours ago The final verdict is in! Experts reveal what grade Joe Biden deserved on his last speech as president

Experts tell DailyMail.com what letter grade President Joe Biden deserved for his fiery final farewell to the nation Wednesday evening, tearing into Donald Trump and touting his policies.

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31 hours ago 6 Amazon products to help with damp, heating the home and more that our readers love

These Amazon products are perfect for the winter

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19 hours ago Captain Tom's family 'slash price of £2.25m mansion and wipe his name from listing'

Captain Tom’s family appear to have removed any mention of the late centenarian from the property listing

Economics

6 hours ago Parents issued with warning after man 'lunged at' young girl just three miles from attempted abduction: Police still hunting for pair who 'grabbed ahold of 11

A letter was sent out to parents and carers of Flixton Girls School in Manchester which said that a man had 'walked towards' a year 7 pupil and 'lunged' at her.

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7 hours ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Simon Schama's Story Of Us: Revealing 007's secret agenda has Schama schaken and schtirred...

The name's Schama, Simon Schama . . . Schaken, not Schtirred. Telly's foremost cultural historian is nursing a soft spot for literature's most politically incorrect spy.

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23 hours ago Captain Tom’s family slash £250,000 from asking price of country mansion as it fails to sell

Covid fundraiser’s loved ones removed any mention of him from online listing

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6 hours ago Leonardo Di Caprio pledges one million dollars after ‘devastating’ LA fires

The Oscar-winning actor and environmentalist made a pledge in collaboration with his organisation Re:wild.

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7 hours ago UN says it's ready to ramp up delivery of desperately needed aid to Gaza

The United Nations says it’s ready to ramp up the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza after a ceasefire agreement and urged the removal of major security and political obstacles so it can reach all those in need

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33 hours ago Church where Robert Burns attended Sunday service seeks £25,000 to protect 846

Robert Burns was a regular at St Michael’s in Dumfries.

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7 hours ago Biden warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address – live

US president also took credit for Gaza ceasefire deal, which was agreed hours earlierJoe Biden says ‘soul of America’ still at stake in farewell letter as presidentFact-checking and misinformation got a shout out during his address: “The free press is crumbling,” said Biden. “Social media is giving up on fact checking.”Biden spoke about the ravages of climate change and warned of corporate efforts to roll back climate protections. “Powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to eliminate the steps we’ve taken to tackle the climate crisis,” he said. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Governor forces out homeless people by New Orleans Superdome before Super Bowl

Louisiana authorities have begun clearing homeless encampments in New Orleans, removing people under threat of arrest and relocating many to a warehouse facility ahead of the Super Bowl hosted by the city next month

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7 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: US House speaker dumps key Ukraine backer Mike Turner

Mike Johnson removes his fellow Republican as chair of powerful intelligence committee; Poland says Europe must take care of itself. What we know on day 1,058Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, on Wednesday removed his fellow Republican Mike Turner, a vocal supporter of assistance for Ukraine, as chairman of the powerful House intelligence committee. Johnson, who has aligned himself closely with Trump, said he would soon announce a new chair because the “intelligence community and everything related to [the committee] needs a fresh start”. Turner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Meanwhile, US president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said the new administration would seek “bold diplomacy” to end the war. “There will have to be concessions made by the Russian Federation, but also by the Ukrainians,” he said.Russia launched missiles and drones at Ukrainian energy facilities on Wednesday, one day a...

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11 hours ago Joe Biden pens 'farewell letter' to all Americans and takes brutal swipe at Donald Trump

President Joe Biden's final words to Americans included a reminder about the 'attack on democracy' sparked by fanatical Donald Trump supporters before Mr Biden took office in 2021

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9 hours ago What products contain Red 3 dye? Checking ingredient labels is the best way to find out

The Food and Drug Administration is ordering food and drug makers to remove a dye called Red 3 from the products U.S. consumers eat and drink

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11 hours ago Tottenham's newest signing handed Ange Postecoglou reality check vs Arsenal

Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky enjoyed back-to-back clean sheets to kick off his career in English football - but his honeymoon came to an end during the defeat to Arsenal

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10 hours ago Angry mother who confronted California governor Gavin Newsom over LA wildfires breaks silence in Piers Morgan interview

An angry mother who confronted California governor Gavin Newsom over the raging LA wildfires has broken her silence.

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13 hours ago Key takeaways from Trump's energy secretary pick's confirmation hearing

Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would promote all sources of American energy, while also acknowledging the burning of fossil fuels causes climate change

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13 hours ago Met Office issues rare fog warning as Brits must do five things before driving

The Met Office has warned that people living in parts of the country subject to the latest weather warnings will have visibility reduced to 'below 100 metres' by 'dense' fog

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13 hours ago The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes | Editorial

February’s election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential since the second world warIn the German city of Karlsruhe, a police investigation has just been launched into the distribution of 30,000 flyers designed to resemble deportation plane tickets, many of which were placed in the letterboxes of immigrants. Organised by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD), the stunt recalled a similar malicious exercise by the neo-Nazi National Democratic party (NDP) in 2013. The difference is that while the NDP – now renamed the Homeland – is a fringe movement that has never crossed the 5% threshold of votes necessary to enter the Bundestag, the AfD is now running second in polls, at about 21%.The booming popularity of a xenophobic party officially suspected of anti-constitutional extremism is just the starkest signal of how much is at stake in next month’s snap election in Germany. A national poll in Europe’s largest economy will always be of deep continental signifi...

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14 hours ago Tony Slattery's tragic final podcast: Beloved comedian discussed having therapy before he died of a heart attack aged 65

In the last edition of his podcast before his death at the age of 65, Tony Slattery spoke poignantly about the perils of having therapy - a subject close to his heart after his own mental health struggles.

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14 hours ago Ronnie O'Sullivan's smashed cue had to be removed from bin after furious outburst

Ronnie O'Sullivan has spoken out after he was forced to withdraw from The Masters just days after his angry outburst at the Championship League last week

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14 hours ago What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine

Will water soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good?There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects, turns two turbines, and water gushes from three gigantic sluices. The wretched masses surge forward to catch the deluge in their pots and bowls. And as imperiously as he opened the gates, Joe shuts them. “Do not become addicted to water,” he roars. “It will take hold of you.” But, of course, he already has taken hold of them by withholding, essentially, life.We don’t have to await the dystopian future for the water wars to begin. The struggle over water, between private interests and the public good, the powerful and the weak, is raging now. From Love Canal to Flint, Michigan; Bolivia to Ukraine to Tunisia; budget-cutting, privatization, corporate malfeasance and climate crises are conspiring to create political violence, mass migration, property damage and death. Continue...

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15 hours ago Marcus Rashford's move to AC Milan 'collapses' with Napoli now set to swoop in

Manchester United's wantaway star Marcus Rashford could be set for a loan move to Napoli are his AC Milan deal collapsed and Sir Jim has blocked English clubs

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14 hours ago Shocking moment sacked barber torches shop while baby gets first haircut

Dilovan Sindi set himself and another man on fire at a Newcastle barber shop in a horrifying revenge attack after he was fired over allegations of stealing, leaving the other man with burns so bad he was left 'half a person'

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15 hours ago Renee Zellweger bemoans ‘notorious and famous’ becoming the same thing

The actress is making a return as Bridget Jones in the fourth instalment of the movie series.

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14 hours ago Mother may not have told police her husband was sexually abusing her 12

The husband is currently on trial after being convicted of rape, sexual assaults and ill-treatment of the girl - his step-daughter - over the course of several years.

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15 hours ago Tories are ‘snowflakes’ and Truss on ‘bizarre quest to cancel’ PM – Phillipson

Sir Keir Starmer also referred to Liz Truss’ cease and desist letter against him and said it was ‘crashing the economy that damaged her reputation’.

Politics

15 hours ago TV star heartbreakingly spent just one night in new home before it was destroyed by LA fires

An ABC News star’s home was burned down in LA’s wildfires just one night after she moved in

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16 hours ago Tommy the Bruce, by James Yorkston review: 'The satellite characters are straight from central casting'

The new novel from acclaimed musician James Yorkston , writes Stuart Kelly

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15 hours ago Miliband blasts Farage and Tories for turning net zero into a ‘culture war’

The energy secretary appealed for cross-party unity on net zero just hours after it was revealed Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attended the launch of a climate change denying lobby group

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16 hours ago The ripple effect of burnout: How leadership exhaustion undermines organisational success

It's only the second full week of work in January, like many Scots, are you already feeling a bit frazzled? French-born Clinical Hypnotherapist and Burnout Advisor Charlene Gisele has some insight and tips on how to tackle burnout if you're a business leader or are self-employed.

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15 hours ago Teenager stabbed in transphobic attack by gang of youths outside Harrow roller blades disco

The victim suffered nine knife wounds and was subjected to transphobic slurs

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16 hours ago Love Island All Star Rules: These are the weird rules the islanders have to follow

It’s not all fun in the villa - there are a whole list of rules that are enforced by telly chiefs.

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15 hours ago Italian police accused of making female activists remove underwear and do squats

Climate activists say they were subjected to degrading treatment during questioning in Brescia on MondayItaly’s interior minister has been urged to open an investigation into police in the northern city of Brescia amid allegations that seven female climate activists were made to take off their underwear and perform squats during questioning.The activists were among 22 people brought to Brescia’s main police station on Monday morning after officers interrupted a protest held outside the Italian aerospace and defence firm Leonardo’s factory. Continue reading...

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