56 minutes ago Mobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising

O2 Academy, IslingtonThirty years on from their album The Infamous, and seven years after the death of founder member Prodigy, Havoc teams up with Big Noyd for a breathlessly-paced setBig Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy got me not knowing how to act!” He and Havoc of Mobb Deep have not lost a coulomb of their electric, heart-racing energy.The first night of the New Yorkers’ European tour begins with a run of Survival of the Fittest, Eye for an Eye, Right Back at You and Give Up the Goods; Temperature’s Rising is performed by Havoc over isolated boom-bap drums, and stripped back, the song is all the more atmospheric. These tracks are all taken from their second album The Infamous, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is still revered for its cinematic darkness, conveying the grittiness of their Queensbridge neighbourhood through evocative and scene-setting lyricism. Continue readin...

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19 hours ago UnitedHealth has lost $63 billion in value since former CEO Brian Thompson’s shocking murder

Despite the shocking incident, and subsequent financial loss, the company posted a better-than-expected profit in the final quarter of 2024

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3 hours ago How missing fragments of ancient Stone of Destiny were hidden in plain sight for decades

The exact location of most of these small chips lost in the famous theft from Westminster Abbey remains a mystery

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1 hour ago David Lynch transcended film: he was one of America’s greatest artists

David Lynch’s death marks the passing of a true instinctive genius who stood apart from the rest of Hollywood

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8 hours ago Mac Miller’s posthumous album is a wonderful, if unsettling, reminder of a talent lost

Unlike your typical bucket-scraping rattlebag of audio oddities thrown together to con extra cash from grieving fans, this record feels complete and cohesive

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1 hour ago Alan Titchmarsh pushes for compensation for ‘enormously damaging’ roadworks

The RHS said it has lost £6 million as a result of the A3/M25 roadworks close to its flagship garden Wisley, in Surrey.

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26 hours ago High street brand launches huge sale with clothes sold 'cheaper than at charity shops'

Clothes, shoes, homeware and beauty items are all on offer at one retailer's enormous clearance sale, and one shopping enthusiast shared how you can bag new wardrobe items for as little as 50p

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4 hours ago Australian Open 2025: Naomi Osaka forced to retire with abdominal injury against Belinda Bencic

The 27-year-old lost a tight first set and was then unable to continue

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16 hours ago ITV Coronation Street fans rumble real reason Brie is taunting Lauren Bolton as they recognise actress

As Brie continued to provoke Lauren, the teenager eventually lost her temper and threatened her.

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1 hour ago You’re really spoiling us: Trump miscasts Gibson, Stallone and Voight by making them mere ambassadors

The president-elect’s latest trio of mischievous appointments show his genius for trolling the celebrity-woke communityDonald Trump has permitted himself the delicious pleasure of trolling Hollywood’s celebrity-woke community who once dreamed of preventing his second term with their collective prestige. He has found a new wellspring of liberal tears in which to bathe. But whatever our feelings about his proposed “Hollywood ambassadors”, Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone – ambassadors to Hollywood from Maga? to Maga from Hollywood? – it’s possible to wonder if the ambassadors themselves have a right to be a bit miffed.Hollywood ambassador? Gibson has directed a number of feature films, (Stallone and Voight also have directing credits); these are vast organisational challenges, requiring energy, vision, skill and political finesse. And that zero-experience lunkhead Pete Hegseth gets to be defence secretary? Despite only knowing how to do sycophantic interviews with the onc...

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27 hours ago Katie Price addresses her drastic weight loss and reveals she's lost so much that she's been forced to get bum fillers as her 'a**e is saggy'

Katie Price addressed her drastic weight loss as she opened up on her plans to get fillers in her bum.

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4 hours ago WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Unseen for 80 years, the secret diary with extraordinary insights into Hitler's private life that will shock the globe

In a world publishing coup, decades after being lost, the discovery of the intimate and horrifying leather-bound journal by the Mail is set to cause a global sensation.

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1 hour ago ‘It brought out the most vile side of lad culture’: Unilad founder Alex Partridge on online hate, alcoholism and ADHD

The entrepreneur suffered with anxiety all his life, then a court case fuelled his alcoholism and nearly cost him everything. Now, an ADHD diagnosis has brought him clarity, a podcast and determination to help othersWhen Alex Partridge decided to become a podcaster, he dismantled his bed and soundproofed his bedroom, spent a fortune ordering recording equipment, hired a producer and booked guests – all in one evening. As an entrepreneur, the creator of the online entertainment brands Unilad and LadBible, he thought a podcast about business was a great idea. He could certainly talk about the downs as well as the ups, given that he had been kicked out of one of those companies, and only got back in after a legal battle that pushed him into alcoholism.Three days later, before the equipment had even been delivered, he’d lost interest. “I remember just being so confused,” he says, “not understanding how I could have this feeling of emptiness, compared to the euphoria and the determinatio...

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10 hours ago New girlfriend of Kiena Dawes' vile abuser is 'besotted' with the thug and knew his victim

Emma Croft, who supported Ryan Wellings during his trial after his assault and years of domestic abuse of Kiena Dawes, lost her job at The Powder Room, a beauty salon in Blackpool, Lancashire

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3 hours ago Woman who lost 2.3 stone after struggling with menopause weight praises weight loss 'pen'

50-year-old Charlotte joined a weight loss programme and used a handy gadget to support her goals

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13 hours ago SpaceX’s Starship test flight ends in failure after spacecraft is destroyed

Rocket’s six engines appeared to shut down one after another after nearly nine minutes, while booster returnedSpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad.Elon Musk’s company said the spacecraft’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with contact lost just 8min 30sec into the flight. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago ‘The river that runs in the sky’: readers choose their wonders of the world

From Margate to Uzbekistan our tipsters reveal the special sites that made a lasting impression on themThomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the centrepiece of a world heritage site that crosses three counties and two countries. They call it “the river that runs in the sky”, and there is a rough magic to standing halfway across, looking down on the tumbling River Dee, source of the slow-moving flow at your heels, water Telford drew from Horseshoe Falls for his impossible project. Rather than a chain of locks cut across the valley, his iron trough spans it, joints sealed with red Welsh flannel dipped in boiling sugar. Opened in 1805, it is the highest, longest aqueduct in Britain. Fiona Collins Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Racer and TV analyst Townsend Bell lost 3 homes in California wildfires

Townsend Bell waited the entire offseason to learn if Fox Sports wanted him as an analyst for its inaugural season of IndyCar coverage

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7 hours ago An interesting speech full of hard truths? Kemi Badenoch is clearly rattled | Gaby Hinsliff

The Tory leader gave an address that was full of candour about her party’s failures. You can sense Nigel Farage’s delightWell, finally. Only eight years on from kneecapping the economy and crowing “you lost, get over it” at anyone impertinent enough to notice, a Conservative party leader has tacitly admitted the painfully obvious: Brexit was an act of wilful negligence by a government that dragged Britain out of its most important trading relationship “before we had a plan for growth outside the EU”. There wasn’t a considered Plan B, just a government frantically trying to catch itself up as it went along. And that’s only the start of it, Kemi Badenoch argued this week, in the first interesting thing the Conservative party has had to say to the nation since its bone-crushing defeat.Successive Conservative governments dating back to David Cameron’s had promised to get immigration down but hadn’t thought through how to do that either, she pointed out, and consequently achieved the opp...

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16 hours ago Nicolas Cage leads tributes to ‘singular genius’ David Lynch after death aged 78

Cage said he ‘never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch’.

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8 hours ago ‘People often don’t feel treated as equals’: Adrien Brody on complexity, comebacks and The Brutalist

Twenty-two years after The Pianist, the actor is again Oscar frontrunner for a post-Holocaust epic. He talks about renovating a castle, unfulfilled yearnings and making his parents happyAdrien Brody puts down his phone. “I’m heartbroken,” he says. The latest of many friends in Los Angeles has just lost their home to the city wildfires. The actor, 51, hasn’t had a place in LA for some years, he says. Still. “It’s horrible. Unfathomable.” The mood is sombre, but he is also at work. He sits in the corner of a London hotel room, legs crossed in a chic black coat. A publicist hovers in the en-suite bathroom.Brody is here to spread word about The Brutalist, the epic drama in which his star performance is likely to secure the best actor Oscar. It would be his second. He remains the youngest man to ever win the prize, having done so in 2003 for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. An awards campaign is now under way, a process not much less fraught than a run for political office. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg suspended amid investigation into claims of 'gross misconduct'

Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg has been suspended amid an investigation into claims of 'gross misconduct', The Police & Crime Commissioner confirmed today.

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9 hours ago At 55 I finally discovered the unexpected secret for losing weight fast. Just 12 weeks later I'd not only lost 18kg but my skin was glowing too

Aged 55 and a long-time follower of a healthy diet, Dawn was suffering excruciating inflammation in her joints, a dull complexion and low energy. Then it changed.

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20 hours ago Met officer’s ‘disastrous’ claim may prevent 300 rogue police being sacked, force warns

Sergeant Lino Di Maria lost his vetting clearance after allegations of rape, domestic abuse and sex in public car parks

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21 hours ago Thames Valley Police chief constable suspended over gross misconduct claims

Watchdog investigating allegations against Jason Hogg

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13 hours ago Australia’s Daniel Sanders on the verge of historic Dakar Rally triumph

Motorcyclist holds nine-minute lead with just ceremonial ride leftSanders set to become just second Australian to win raceDaniel Sanders is on the verge of racing into Australian motorsports history as just the second man from his country to win a coveted Dakar Rally title.With just one short, sharp stage left after a draining two-week Saudi Arabian slog in the world’s toughest motor race, the Yarra Valley motorcyclist needs just to protect a substantial nine-minute lead over the final 131km loop around Subaytah, including 61km against the clock, to follow his friend Toby Price into the record books. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Thames Valley Police chief constable suspended amid misconduct investigation

Jason Hogg was suspended with immediate effect amid an IOPC investigation.

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19 hours ago David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

From disturbing debut Eraserhead to his masterpiece Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s dark tales combined radical experiment with everyday AmericanaDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78No director ever interpreted the American Dream with more artless innocence than David Lynch. It could be the title of any of his films. Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness.Lynch was a film-maker who found portals to alternative existences and truffled in them like they were erogenous zones, moist orifices of existential possibility. He was the great American surrealist, but his vision was so distinctive that he became something other than that: a great fabulist, a great anti-narrative dissenter, his storylines splitting and swirling in non sequiturs ...

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22 hours ago ‘A ton of unknowns’: months ago, LA residents lost wildfire insurance. Then the fires came

After insurers like State Farm dropped policies, to switch to the state’s Fair plan was prohibitively pricey for manyWhen James Borow realized last Tuesday that his Palisades house was on fire, he was 300 miles away in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The power was out at his house but a friend suggested he remotely turn on his Tesla and see if the cameras showed anything.From the car camera, he watched in a panic as his house burned. As he drove home from Vegas to LA, he called his parents and told them: “You’ll see it on the news tomorrow, but the house is totally gone. I just watched it.” Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Paul Danan's epic row with Sarah Harding on CBB as fans mourn late stars

A video of Paul Danan and Sarah Harding's infamous Celebrity Big Brother fight has resurfaced, with both stars now lost too soon

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23 hours ago Quadruple amputee with violent past bit police officers and hit bus passenger with hook

Thomas Proudfoot, who lost all his limbs in a train accident, hit an innocent passenger at Perth Bus Station before assaulting two police officers who arrived to arrest him

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24 hours ago Coleen Rooney says she felt ‘lost’ on I’m A Celeb as she reveals skin secrets

The reality star teased future new projects.

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23 hours ago After Dad died I dressed like an extra from The Matrix. Now I’m blooming again like the flowers on my psychedelic new vest | Nick Buckley

For a while I lost my sense of self and dressed in void-core black. Finally I’m finding myself again in a new, colour-filled wardrobeFirst my dad died, followed by my gran, the resulting trauma forced me to quit my job, the love of my life left and before I knew it I was an only child who didn’t know who they were any more. All inside 18 months. I didn’t recognise the person who showed up at social gatherings, spoke for me or stared back from the mirror. That vanished person really enjoyed playfully dressing up but the new me only felt comfortable wearing black – an unconscious tonal shift to match life’s darkness.As a kid I’d often be deep in my puppeteer mum’s dress-up box, and she gave me a small clothing allowance from an early age (which I’m sure she sacrificed her own needs to provide) that gave me autonomy over my image. I was the only boy in my high school sewing class and for a time I wanted to be a tailor. I’m straight but my choice of clothing became a target for homophob...

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25 hours ago TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all | Sophia Smith Galer

Nothing has challenged Silicon Valley like the Chinese app. Blocking its use in the US would be like stealing half the books in a libraryHow many times in your life can you say that one of the culture-defining platforms of your era is being forcibly removed? This is what will happen to the one third of American adults who use TikTok – and the other two-thirds whose lives have been undoubtedly affected by it – if the US supreme court upholds its ban on the Chinese-owned app, as it is expected to do on 19 January, in the interests of national security.I have spent the last few years researching instances of linguicide, where authoritarian regimes have burned dictionaries, or sent people to prison just for singing a song. I see alarming parallels with the dismantling of TikTok in the US; a ruthless cull of a communication tool that challenges Silicon Valley hegemony and gave the US a serving of what it is allegedly supposed to prize: healthy, full-fat competition.Sophia Smith Galer is ...

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24 hours ago Police in Hamilton issue appeal to find owner of lost Springer Spaniel

The liver and white-coloured canine was found wandering in the Slamannan area in the early hours of this morning.

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26 hours ago Mary Berry shares genius hack to achieve perfect 'juicy' salmon fillets each time

Salmon fillets are notoriously easy to overcook, but Mary Berry said her method will prevent this from happening.

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25 hours ago The greatest celebrity anecdote of all time! How David Schwimmer triggered Rod Stewart’s divorce

According to a recent chatshow appearance, the Friends actor’s pre-fame job landed him a run-in with a rock megastar – and he’s glad he’s not met him sincePut yourself in David Schwimmer’s shoes for a moment. You have a new show to promote. It’s a new run of Goosebumps, the kid-friendly horror series, and you’re faced with a choice. Do you promote Goosebumps by trying to engage with the material, or do you promote it by telling the single greatest celebrity anecdote of all time?Reader, David Schwimmer did the latter. On Colbert this week, Schwimmer revealed that he served Rod Stewart with divorce papers as a teen. Continue reading...

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26 hours ago Ruud van Nistelrooy at his 'lowest point' since leaving Man United as Leicester hit new low

Leicester suffered their sixth straight Premier League defeat on Wednesday night as they lost 2-0 at home to Crystal Palace

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31 hours ago Voices: I’ve lost a friend because I can’t stand her terrible boyfriend

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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32 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

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