38 m. ago Two brilliant recipes for the bank holiday – come rain or shine

Whether you're dusting off the barbecue or keeping things cosy in the kitchen, these two punchy, flavour-packed dishes are perfect for the long weekend – whatever the weather brings

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86 m. ago Kyiv bombarded by Russian missiles and drones as civilians take shelter in subways

Ukraine's capital has been hit by a Russian drone and missile attack, with residents forced to take cover in underground subway stations amid a flurry of explosions

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2 h. ago Creepy Scots circus school teacher touched up students during trapeze lessons

Rodolfo Rivas Franco, 53, preyed on his students during trapeze classes at Spinal Chord in Glasgow between September 2018 and April 2022.

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3 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Multiple injuries as Russia attacks Kyiv with drones and missiles

Explosions heard across capital and fires ignited while Russia and Ukraine begin largest prisoner swap of war. What we know on day 1,186See all our Ukraine war coverage Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile attack by Russian forces overnight into Saturday, triggering fires and injuring at least eight people, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said. Explosions and machine-gun fire were heard throughout the city and many Kyiv residents took shelter in underground subway stations. Debris fell in at least four districts, said the Kyiv military administration, with six people requiring medical care. Pictures posted online showed smoke billowing from the top of one block of flats and flames leaping from part of another as emergency crews trained water on it.Russia and Ukraine on Friday began a major, complicated exchange of military prisoners of war and civilians, write Peter Beaumont and Pjotr Sauer. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said the first phase brought home 390 Ukrainians,...

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4 h. ago Chagos outrage! Extraordinary pledge that could help our enemies is buried in smallprint of £30billion surrender deal

MPs and ex-military chiefs lined up to warn that the 'grotesque' and 'dangerous' clause, buried in the treaty's small print, risked aiding Britain's enemies.

Economics

6 h. ago Emun Elliott shines in The Gold as the BBC heist drama goes global

The Edinburgh actor explains why forty years after the biggest bullion heist in history the Brinks-Mat story still fires the imagination

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6 h. ago Bank Holiday weekend weather: Heavy rain forecast for most of UK

A Met Office meteorologist said it will be a ‘wetter end to the final week of spring’

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7 h. ago Brits face Bank Holiday Glumday as they're battered by wind, rain and even floods

Humidity will soar before ‘longer spells of rain’ will arrive on Tuesday with ‘fresher’ winds driving down temperatures, and some places have been warned of flooding

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8 h. ago Chris Sutton warns Celtic they're screwed if they fall into Scottish Cup Final trap as year of the underdog can't be dismissed

Sutton has seen Hoops batter Aberdeen before this season but also how Crystal Palace and Newcastle have upset the odds

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9 h. ago Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute for aiding migrants

The Trump administration has been releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S. border with Mexico after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers

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10 h. ago Trump’s Harvard visa threat could wipe out several of school’s sports teams

Trump visa move threatens 21% of Harvard athletesForeign-heavy teams like crew, squash could foldHarvard: Ban ‘unlawful,’ vows to fight for studentsSome of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision announced on Thursday that would make the Ivy League school with the nation’s largest athletic program ineligible for international student visas.Seven of the eight rowers on the men’s heavyweight crew team that just won the Eastern Sprints title – and is headed to the national championships – list international hometowns on the school’s website. Mick Thompson, the leading scorer last season, and Jack Bar, who was a captain, are among a handful of Canadians on the men’s hockey roster; 10 of the 13 members of the men’s squash team and more than half of the women’s soccer and golf rosters also list foreign hometowns. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago ‘Welcome rain’ forecast on Bank Holiday weekend after 30 dry days in parts of UK

Spring has so far been sunny and dry with above average sunshine and temperatures reaching the mid to high 20Cs.

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12 h. ago Met Office gives verdict on the weather this half term and many won't be happy

Any half term outdoor fun you have planned could well be disrupted by heavy rain showers

Society

13 h. ago Kangaroo tries to drown a man after the two 'threw punches at each other like a boxing match' when the animal attacked him

'I just remember being under water and kicking and screaming,' Don James said. The marsupial is believed to have become 'very distressed' when it became trapped in a flooded area in Australia.

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13 h. ago Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81

Death confirmed by Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he and his wife foundedThe Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose dramatic black-and-white photographs of the Amazon introduced the rainforest to the world, has died. He was 81.His death was confirmed by the Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he founded with his wife of six decades, Lélia Wanick Salgado. In a post on Instagram, the institute described Salgado as “much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time”. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago BBC series with 95% Rotten Tomatoes rating and starring Hugh Bonneville gets first

The Gold will be back on screens very soon as the second series of the BBC drama will pick up from where the first season left off.

Politics

14 h. ago Multimillionaire's son avoiding prison for his involvement in sale of stolen £4.8 million Golden Toilet is 'laughable', art theft expert Christopher A. Marinello tells new Mail podcast

Fred Doe, 37, was convicted following a trial in March of attempting to broker the sale of around 10 kilos of the stolen gold on behalf of burglar and family friend James Sheen, 40.

Economics

15 h. ago Gardeners told to put one item in their garden this summer to keep flies away

Flies can be an issue in the warmer months and people are always on the hunt for the best way to keep them at bay - and it turns out that you can make a simple DIY trap using plastic bottles

Politics

16 h. ago Hundreds of workers trapped deep underground in South African gold mine

Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three-kilometre-deep Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg

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16 h. ago The online jewellery shops that are worth their weight in gold

From independent designers to affordable brands, find your new favourite accessories

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