Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea

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Brentford boss Thomas Frank thought his side had held off the Premier League leaders and would be earning a point - only for two late Darwin Nunez goals to hand Liverpool victory in London

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The Tory leader said on Thursday that her party would look at ways to reduce the pension bill by removing benefits from some elderly people

Economics

Mikel Arteta could only watch on as Arsenal went through every emotion in the 2-2 draw with Aston Villa after leading 2-0 before the hour mark

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Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne ParkGauff v Bencic in action; Draper v Alcaraz to comeThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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Earlier this week, Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to the support the US has given to Ukraine.

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Man United legend Denis Law passed away aged 84 on Friday and there are plans to pay tribute at Old Trafford.

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Liverpool looked set to drop points at Brentford but two late goals from substitute Darwin Nunez handed Arne Slot's side a hard-fought victory to keep them top of the Premier League table with a gap to those below

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Arsenal hold narrow half-time lead

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Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk still hasn't signed a new contract with the club, leading to fresh rumours that he could still head to pastures new in the summer

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Victoria's descendants may have sat upon half the thrones of Europe but, as this book shows, a crowned head was no guarantee for a happy life.

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According to public health nutritionist and author of 'Nutrition for ADHD and Dyslexia', Dr Emma Derbyshire, there really are surprising foods that can impact behaviour.

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ARSENAL 2-2 ASTON VILLA: VAR rules out a late Kai Havertz winner for handball as the Gunners blow a two-goal lead to slip further behind Liverpool at the top of the Premier League

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Mikel Arteta’s side look to keep up the pressure on league leaders Liverpool

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The Israeli Prime Minister's declaration comes as families of hostages held in Gaza brace for news of loved ones, while Palestinians prepare to receive detainees.

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Former deputy prime minister kicks off run for top job with video of Trump disparaging her for being tough negotiatorChrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, kicked off her bid to lead Canada by boasting: “Donald Trump doesn’t like me very much” in a campaign video that quickly went viral.For Freeland, who led Canada’s re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade agreement (Nafta) with the United States and Mexico during Trump’s first term, video of Trump disparaging her for being a tough negotiator is a selling point. Continue reading...

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The latest Manchester United transfer news and rumours as we take a look at the latest surrounding potential incomings and outgoings in the January transfer window.

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Cardiff City manager Omer Riza was sent off in the closing stages of his side's 3-0 win over Swansea City after becoming enraged at Goncalo Franco for barging into him

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Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne ParkGauff v Bencic in action; Draper v Alcaraz to comeThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead against Aston Villa on Saturday, denting their Premier League title hopes and seeing star Raheem Sterling come in for more criticism

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Liverpool currently lead the way in the Premier League table, with Arsenal sitting just four points behind Arne Slot's Reds ahead of this weekend's round of matches

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Benjamin Netanyahu warns ceasefire with Hamas is ‘temporary’ as first hostages expected to be released on Sunday

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Trump’s former White House strategist fires latest volley in MAGA civil war as he compares tech titans to Imperial Japan’s generals giving their unconditional surrender

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Manager’s refusal to be spooked in the face of more dropped points paved way for leaders’ late surge to victoryThis was a really good game for Arne Slot. On an afternoon when Liverpool had 35 shots in 90 scoreless minutes, then won the game with their last two in added time, and when those goals were scored by Slot’s first substitute and created by his fourth, it was above all a very good game for the idea of process, control and calm intervention.Admittedly these are not generally qualities associated with a late match-winning, mane-tossing, nostril-snorting two-goal Darwin Núñez salvo. But this was how it played out at the Gtech under Slot’s hand. Núñez doubled his league goal tally for the season. He resembled, as ever, and at all moments , a footballer being chased around the pitch by a swarm of invisible bees. He also came away looking on the metrics like a precision stealth weapon deployed at just the right moment. Continue reading...

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West Virginia celebrated the life of NBA great Jerry West, the school’s all-time leading scorer, at its sellout game against No. 2 Iowa State

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Dramatic images have captured the moment a World War II shell was detonated by the Royal Navy Bomb Squad after it was found in an Isle of Wight garden.

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Mr Trump's key advisers are also debating whether to put Sir Keir Starmer 'at the back of the queue' of world leaders invited to Washington after tomorrow's inauguration.

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This brief, fragile pause is a chance for all involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict to accept that violence does not work The ceasefire in Gaza, due to begin tomorrow, will bring welcome relief from daily violence but amounts, at present, to little more than a fragile, temporary pause in a conflict that is far from over. Israel has not achieved its principal war aim, as defined by its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: the total elimination of Hamas. Nor has Hamas achieved its objective: the destruction of Israel. The leaders responsible for the 7 October 2023 terrorist atrocities are dead. The organisation’s capabilities are severely reduced. But it has survived – which its supporters claim is a victory for Palestinian sumud (steadfastness).Most of the 98 remaining Israeli hostages, alive and dead, will not be freed in this first phase of the ceasefire, which is to last for six weeks. There is no agreed “day after” strategy for devastated Gaza, where nearly 47,000 Palestinians...

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Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca called on "reserved guy" Reece James to show more personality in the dressing room in October and now the captain is back from injury he can see improvements

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Normal People star Paul Mescal and his girlfriend, singer Gracie Abrams, were reportedly seen having a tearful row in a London restaurant - leading some onlookers to think they were breaking up

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John Greg rated no-one higher than Law at his peak as the Rangers legend paid tribute to his former Scotland teammate

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The city was clearing the area around the Ebenezer Baptist church before the MLK Day celebration on MondayCity workers in Atlanta have killed a man living in a tent while clearing a homeless encampment with construction equipment near Martin Luther King’s famous Georgia church.The death of Cornelius Taylor on Thursday afternoon resulted from an effort to reduce the visibility of people without shelter near the city’s historic Ebenezer Baptist church as an accommodation for crowds expected in the area to celebrate King this weekend and on Monday, the federal holiday dedicated to the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. Taylor’s death has infuriated homelessness advocates and prompted a round of soul searching among city leaders. Continue reading...

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Paul Danan has been the subject of tributes this week following the news of his death and former Love Island winner Paige Turley was among those addressing his passing

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Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead to draw with Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium, with the Gunners seeing what they thought was a late winner ruled out for handball

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The author and academic on mistaking feelings for facts, the importance of education and why Kemi Badenoch will do nothing to help ethnic minoritiesRead an extract from The Science of Racism by Keon WestKeon West is professor of social psychology at the University of London. He was born in Trinidad, grew up in Jamaica, and studied in the US and France before coming to the UK as a Rhodes scholar in 2006 to do a doctorate at Oxford University.Why do you think we need a book about the science of racism? What I find frustrating, shocking and worrying is that as a society, when we talk about racism we express feelings about it and emotions and opinions, but our conversations aren’t based on facts – or science. Not only that, we make the mistake of misinterpreting our feelings as if they were facts. This leads nowhere: one person will say: “Well, I don’t see any racism, so racism is over.” And another person will say: “Well, someone didn’t hire me for a job, so racism is alive and well.” ...

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Mikel Arteta looked like he had seen a ghost. With his side leading 2-0 against Aston Villa thanks to goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz, the Arsenal manager must have felt they were within touching distance of a cathartic victory that would keep up the pressure on Liverpool.But having seen the Premier League leaders seal a dramatic late victory over Brentford earlier in the afternoon, once again Unai Emery had other plans against his former club. Arteta could only watch on in horror as Youri Tielemens pulled one back before Ollie Watkins volleyed home the equaliser to the delight of the Villa supporters and their manager, who celebrated wildly at the final whistle as he did back in March after a 2-0 victory here that eventually proved terminal to Arsenal’s title challenge last season. Yet even when it seemed they might have won it late on through Mikel Merino, Arsenal’s joy was short-lived as VAR ruled Havertz had diverted the Spaniard’s effort in with his arm to ensure ...

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Phil Hammond, the former chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, was remembered as a “very kind, fair, honest and humble man”

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Brentford 0-2 Liverpool: Nunez came off the bench to fire home two late goals and keep the league leaders on track for the title

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Tributes have poured in from all over the football world for the Man United legend

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Manchester United will welcome PDC World Champion Luke Littler to Old Trafford for their Premier League game against Brighton on Sunday - a match that will also contain tributes for Denis Law

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An overnight strike on Lyudinovo in Kaluga region ignited a key oil facility supplying the Putin war machine, then the Uzlovaya oil depot in Tula region went up in flames too

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As Donald Trump returns to the presidency, astrologer Palmist Ankur says he foresees significant challenges ahead, pointing to issues with public image, health, and leadership

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Founded five years ago, the Ski Angels spend the winter season volunteering in Meribel, France - picking up skiers and snowboarders who've overindulged.

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On the eve of his return, it’s clear that world leaders, whether they like him or loathe him, can’t ignore this unpredictable showmanMichelle Obama’s one-woman boycott of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday requires no explanation. It’s plain that the former first lady has zero tolerance and even less love for a man who delights in racist and sexist behaviour. Lots of other people, especially among US allies in Europe, would boycott Trump, too, if they could. Yet, inescapably, they must deal with him for the next four years.Such fear and loathing is by no means universally shared. A poll, published last week by the European Council on Foreign Relations, found that in China, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa and Brazil, more people welcome Trump’s return than deplore it. In contrast, people in the UK, France, Germany and a clutch of other west European countries are frankly appalled at the prospect. Continue reading...

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Social media accounts blocked for breaking Beijing rules as millions of users join up before ban takes effectNine invaluable things I’ve learned from TikTokWhen Angelica Oung received the notification that her Xiaohongshu account had been blocked for violating the social media app’s code of conduct, her mind started racing.The only picture she had posted on her account, apart from her profile headshot, was of herself wearing an inflatable polar bear suit, holding a sign saying: “I love nuclear”. What could be the problem with that, wondered Oung, a clean energy activist in Taiwan. Continue reading...

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Gary Neville has paid tribute to Denis Law after the Man Utd and Scotland icon passed away, aged 84.

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The warning comes as the two right-wing parties have been neck and neck in polls in recent weeks - with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch already facing questions about joining forces with Reform UK

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Mikel Arteta’s side look to keep up the pressure on league leaders Liverpool

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Diaries, believed to be genuine, chronicle 139 pre-war meetings between antisemitic British socialite Unity Mitford and the Nazi leaderThe diary of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader has been discovered, according to the Daily Mail.The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of aristocrat Unity Mitford’s relationship with the dictator. Continue reading...

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Arne Slot’s side were facing a third game without a win.

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'His role in the fight for truth and justice over the Hillsborough disaster will never be forgotten'

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