1 hour ago Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson reunite in Mumbai... 5 months after breakup rumors

Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson seem to be back together again.

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9 hours ago Two jockeys in horror fall airlifted to hospital as families ask fans for 'prayers'

Two Australian jockeys had to be airlifted to hospital after a horror fall while competing at the Moruya racecourse on Friday (January 17) afternoon

Society

7 hours ago Alejandro Garnacho makes Manchester United transfer 'promise' as £46m deal claim made

Alejandro Garnacho has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford with Man United rejecting an offer from Napoli for the Argentine's signature.

Economics

4 hours ago US Senate forwards bill targeting undocumented immigrants accused of theft

Critics call Democratic lawmakers ‘spineless’ for joining GOP in making bill potentially big legislative win for Donald TrumpThe US Senate on Friday cleared the way for final approval of a bill that targets undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes, a preview of how Republicans will use their majorities to help Donald Trump deliver on his long-promised border crackdown – and an early test of how Democrats will respond.The Laken Riley Act, named after a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan national, cleared a key procedural hurdle by a vote of 61-35, with 10 Democrats joining Republicans to advance it. A vote on final passage was scheduled for early next week, making it potentially one of the first pieces of legislation he signs as president. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago The Graham Norton Show: Cameron Diaz's rock star husband and sideline business since quitting Hollywood a decade ago

Cameron Diaz is set to make her return to acting in the Netflix film 'Back In Action' alongside Jamie Foxx

Culture

6 hours ago Where is the flu surging across the US? Hospitals restrict access as cases spike

Physicians warns that flu season is not yet at its peak as emergency room visits rise in states across the country

Science

2 hours ago Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson  reunite in Mumbai... 5 months after breakup rumors

Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson seem to be back together again.

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13 hours ago Mysterious airstrip appears on Indian Ocean island in key shipping location

A mysterious airstrip being built on a remote island in Yemen is nearing completion, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press

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7 hours ago CBO projects U.S. debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts

The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump

Economics

5 hours ago Shock NHS hospitals probe finds deaths of 56 babies may have been preventable

Two maternity units at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals are rated 'good' by England's healthcare regulator - but a BBC investigation reveals poor care may have contributed to 27 stillbirths, 29 neonatal deaths and two maternal deaths

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10 hours ago From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked

The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in orderIt is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to fund another feature by America’s greatest film-maker of the time. Almost as much of a mystery was his final completed feature: the evil twin of his previous film, Mulholland Drive. As Laura Dern’s hexed actor segues into the character she is playing, this digitally shot rampage down Hollywood’s boulevard of broken dreams dials up the narrative fragmentation of his late period. It runs the gamut from inspired camcorder surrealism to making-it-up-as-you-go-along incoherence (which is what it was: Lynch shot without a finished screenplay). Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Kate Middleton reveals rare insight into chemotherapy treatment as cancer patient she met praises her 'warmth' and says meeting her was 'like talking to a friend about a really horrible time'

Speaking to PEOPLE magazine, cancer patient Katherine Field, revealed how the Princess discussed cold cap therapy during their meeting at London's Royal Marsden Hospital.

Science

2 hours ago Kate Middleton's secret trip to cancer hospital before Christmas: How Princess of Wales returned to thank nursing staff in private festive visit

The Princess of Wales undertook her first solo public engagement in more than a year as she visited the London hospital where she has secretly undergone her own chemotherapy treatment.

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12 hours ago Scots face £1,600 fine in Spain for doing one thing that's legal back home

Spain promises the lure of cheap holidays and beautiful beaches - but experts have warned the sunshine dream may turn into a nightmare if Brits don't take notice of a law

Economics

5 hours ago Erling Haaland sends Alan Shearer warning as he discloses Pep Guardiola role in new deal

Manchester City have tied down Erling Haaland for another decade and the lethal Norwegian striker is now eyeing Alan Shearer's longstanding record as the Premier League's all-time greatest goalscorer

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18 hours ago ‘In future I will just avoid it’: Inside crisis in London A&Es as patients face ‘horrendous’ 12

A severe flu wave has left hospitals overwhelmed and staff at breaking point. The Standard speaks to patients feeling the impact

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3 hours ago Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for years

Exclusive: Labour to announce delay to many of 40 planned projects as costs spiral to estimated £30bnAt least half the 40 new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built until the 2040s, the Guardian has learned, in a move described as “devastating” for staff and patients.Labour is preparing to announce that many of the crumbling NHS hospitals in England due to be replaced by 2030 are in effect being removed from the building programme’s timeframe. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Erling Haaland breaks silence on £247m contract with mega release clause – 'now I am City'

Erling Haaland has broken his silence after signing a massive £247m deal with Manchester City that will keep him with Pep Guardiola's team for the next decade

Economics

6 hours ago A doctor accused of sexual abuse by more than 200 former patients is indicted on rape charges

A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a doctor who is accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients over a period of more than a decade

Events

3 hours ago How an €83m inheritance feud with Germany’s playboy prince could tear apart Otto von Bismarck’s dynasty

A bitter inheritance feud is plunging the Bismarck dynasty into scandal, exposing decades of grudges and tarnishing a once-revered legacy

Politics

22 hours ago King's royal seat is beaten in Game of Thrones... By a Scots shopping centre built in the 1970s who aced prestigious Loo of the Year awards

The facilities at The Centre in Livingston scored top marks from the judges, beating 1,800 other conveniences around the country.

Economics

6 hours ago Paul Danan opened up about hidden health battle that 'ruined his relationships and took decades to be diagnosed' in unpublished interview

The Hollyoaks actor's shock death was revealed on Thursday as his management confirmed his passing at the age of 46.

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4 hours ago Max George looks in great shape while enjoying a dog walk with his mum Barbara in Manchester

The X-Factor alum, 36, had a pacemaker fitted after being admitted to the hospital in December, shortly after experiencing issues with his heart.

Politics

8 hours ago ‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires

As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood – and luckWhen last week’s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral image was of a lone house in Pacific Palisades that was left standing while all of the homes around it were destroyed.Architect Greg Chasen said luck was the main factor in the home’s survival, but the brand-new build had some design features that also helped: a vegetation-free zone around the yard fenced off by a solid concrete perimeter wall, a metal roof with a fire-resistant underlayment, class A wood and a front-gabled design without multiple roof lines. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Sadiq Khan admits concern developers are 'landbanking' London's green belt

The mayor warned against developers eyeing up land that ‘for decades has been the lungs for residents in this great city of ours’

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10 hours ago Caught short? Warning after nearly 100 public toilets closed in London over last decade

Charity raises ‘serious public health concern’ as three times as many public loos closed or removed by councils as were opened in past 10 years

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10 hours ago My brother and father drowned on a bright summer day. Swimming brings me closer to the two men I’ve lost | Indigo Perry

When my grief was new and raw, I discovered that feeling it was preferable to the numbness that had set in since we’d buried themLast week, I swam in the sea, slowly wading in until the water reached my hips, and then diving under the softly rippling waves. Clear jellyfish gleamed from the sand. Turning over to float on my back, I let my limbs and hair drift around me, and I thought about the spectral presence-absence of my father and brother, who drowned on a very hot summer’s day more than 30 years ago.My memories of the time when they drowned veer up in summer, especially on certain hot days ending with thunderstorms. Anyone who’s spent a summer in Victoria knows the kind of day that marks the end of a heatwave. It starts off hot, everyone kicking off their bedcovers before it’s time to get up. The temperature hasn’t dropped below 30C all night and possibly all week. The sky is a hard blue at midday, and it seems nothing will break the heat, despite the weather bureau’s promises....

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5 hours ago Agent who helped shield Trump in rally attack named Secret Service chief

Sean Curran, who has headed Trump’s details for the last two and a half years, will be the agency’s new directorAn agent who helped cover Donald Trump when a gunman opened fire at him during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has been chosen by the president-elect to lead the US Secret Service. Donald Trump Jr said his father would be naming Sean Curran, who has headed Trump’s detail as special agent in charge for the past two and a half years, to be the agency’s new director. “Sean is a great patriot and will stop all the insanity once and for all. There’s not a better person to be in this position!” Trump Jr posted on X on Friday. The Secret Service has been under intense scrutiny after Trump was wounded in the assassination attempt at a 13 July 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. After the gunman fired, Trump was shielded by Curran and other Secret Service agents who had rushed to the stage.Curran, who has served in the agency for more than two decades, took an active role in push...

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10 hours ago After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war. But we’re still clinging to hope | Al

Thousands of Palestinians are homeless, their houses reduced to rubble. It could take decades to rebuild their livesAl-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad is a writer and researcher from Gaza working in humanitarian and community workThe ceasefire news came suddenly, with an agreement we had heard before, surrounded by bureaucracy, hope and death. People all around me in Gaza – on buses, on donkey carts, in cars, on the street and in the markets – are describing it as a “war after the war”.The ceasefire is not the end of suffering. It is the beginning of everything else. It is an opportunity for people in northern Gaza, Rafah and elsewhere to mourn their loved ones who were killed and their destroyed homes. It is an opportunity to cry for those who have held back their tears for more than 15 months. We were told we could return to our homes, but those homes now lie in rubble. Most of them were levelled to the ground; some were left standing but are uninhabitable.Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad is a writer a...

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5 hours ago Cameron Diaz, 52, reveals the REAL reason behind her return to making movies after 10 year hiatus

Cameron Diaz will appear in a movie for the first time in a decade in the action adventure Back in Action, but what was the reason behind her decision to return to acting?

Politics

11 hours ago Bannockburn couple enjoy perfect start to 2025 as they celebrate new arrival

Cole's mum Amy hailed staff at the hospital for making the birth "special" after his arrival shortly after 8pm on January 1.

Events

5 hours ago Lindsey Vonn’s ‘impossible’ comeback roars on with 2026 Olympics in frame

She’s past 40 with a knee made of titanium, but Lindsey Vonn’s comeback is already bucking expectations and crackling with the promise of a fifth Olympic GamesThere’s no denying the nervous apprehension that rippled through the ski racing world after Lindsey Vonn announced her shock comeback in November. She’d walked away nearly six years earlier due to a battered right knee worn down by a string of gruesome crashes and multiple surgeries, no longer able to endure the punishing demands of the circuit. Now she was proposing a return on the wrong side of 40 with a knee made of titanium to a high-risk sport where no woman has ever won any top-flight race past 34 years old.But a funny thing happened on the way to Vonn’s humiliation. In the two months since her unretirement, she’s finished 14th in a super-G at St Moritz, before improving to sixth and fourth in her next two races at St Anton. Incredibly, she says she feels healthier now than when she called time on her extraordinary caree...

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12 hours ago Woman stabbed in broad daylight attack in Kirkcaldy as police hunt knifeman

The 21-year-old was rushed to Victoria Hospital for surgery after the attack on Wednesday January 15 at around 11.30am.

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7 hours ago BORIS JOHNSON: We're now run by a small cabal of Starmer's Lefty legal chums who rejoice in the humiliation of Britain

BORIS JOHNSON: Most readers remember the horror inflicted on this country by the IRA. We grew up in semi-permanent fear of their outrages.

Politics

13 hours ago China’s economy hits 5% growth target but rate among slowest in decades

Latter part of 2024 ‘recovered remarkably’ after stimulus measures, says National Bureau of StatisticsBusiness live – latest updatesChina’s economy grew by 5% in 2024, in line with government targets but at the slowest rate since 1990 outside the Covid pandemic, according to official data.Growth accelerated through the year, with an expansion of 5.4% in the final quarter, up from 4.6% in the third quarter, according to Beijing’s National Bureau of Statistics. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Instead of aiming for 10,000 steps a day, a walking expert recommends walking for 15 minutes after meals

This 15-minute habit will have an immediate effect and benefit your health for decades to come

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13 hours ago Young dad, 21, issues grave vape warning after £12 habit put him in a coma for two weeks

James Johnson, 21, says he would constantly puff on the £12 IVG 2400 vape during long night shifts as a bouncer to have 'something to do' and one vape would only last two days

Events

7 hours ago Mask rules update for Welsh hospitals as latest figures released on five

As Welsh hospitals continue to face the onslaught of multiple viruses, Public Health Wales has released new statistics revealing the extent of infections

Politics

14 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

Events

8 hours ago Zuckerberg promised Trump crony Stephen Miller he would not ‘obstruct’ president

President-elect has criticized diversity policies within corporate America and promised to end them

Politics

15 hours ago ‘I was stuck for 12 hours with no water': Inside crisis in London A&Es as patients face ‘horrendous’ waits

A severe flu wave has left hospitals overwhelmed and staff at breaking point. The Standard speaks to patients feeling the impact

Events

8 hours ago So where will Michelle sit out Trump's inauguration? Inside Barack Obama's property empire including $12million Martha's Vineyard mansion, beach

The couple, with four stunning homes to their name, have built a property empire worth $27million during their 32-year-long marriage.

Politics

15 hours ago Fraser Thornton claims Rangers in decline for a DECADE as he brands away form 'horrendous' and makes protest banner quip

The new Ibrox supremo surprised well-heeled supporters with an appearance in a hospitality lounge to outline plans

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8 hours ago London's Guy’s Hospital among first to prescribe Wegovy weight loss jabs on the NHS

London’s Guy’s Hospital is among first NHS hospitals to prescribe weight loss drug

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15 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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8 hours ago Kate Middleton's hospital visit was a masterclass, unlike Meghan Markle's LA fires disasterclass, our experts discuss in PALACE CONFIDENTIAL

The Princess of Wales made a heartfelt visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London on Tuesday, where she had previously received cancer treatment.

Politics

16 hours ago Nathan Aspinall in Bahrain hospital drama as INSECT BITE leaves him feeling the chill at Darts Masters

Apsinall feared he'd have to miss the World Series event after doctor sent him to get elbow bite checked out

Events

8 hours ago London's newest exhibition venue set to open at Battersea Power Station within weeks

Exhibition space bills itself as first built entertainment and cultural exhibition space next to Battersea Power Station

Politics

16 hours ago Deaths of 56 babies and two mothers at NHS Trust 'may have been preventable' as whistleblower blasts 'appalling care'

The hospital's two maternity units - Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital - are rated 'good' by England's healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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9 hours ago How an €83 million inheritance feud with Germany’s playboy prince could tear apart Otto von Bismarck’s dynasty

A bitter inheritance feud is plunging the Bismarck dynasty into scandal, exposing decades of grudges and tarnishing a once-revered legacy

Politics

17 hours ago New 'alcohol poisoning' warning in Turkey holiday hotspot as 33 dead and 4 arrested

Authorities say 33 people have died and another 43 hospitalised after drinking bootleg alcoholic drinks laced with methanol in Istanbul, Turkey - four people have been arrested

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