1 hour ago Trump dances with the Village People as Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Jon Voight join star

President-elect Donald Trump hosted a high-energy rally in Washington, D.C., joined by 80s disco icons The Village People, whose hit YMCA became a rally staple.

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5 hours ago Inside Strictly live tour's 'epic' afterparties that bans photos and sees the celebs 'living like pop stars' before being left with horrible hangovers

Tasha Ghouri , JB Gill , Shane Ward and Montell Douglas feature in the line-up which travels the length and breadth of the UK in a 30-date showstopping spectacular

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6 hours ago Jingle jangle: Draft lyrics to 'Mr. Tambourine Man' sell for $508K at US auction

The draft lyrics to Bob Dylan’s song “Mr. Tambourine Man” went for over a half-million dollars at a weekend auction for dozens of items related to the iconic American singer-songwriter

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5 hours ago Chelsea: Enzo Maresca admits Tosin Adarabioyo and Axel Disasi could leave during January transfer window

Blues hit by shortage of defenders but Trevoh Chalobah’s return adds to competition for places

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70 minutes ago Ukraine war briefing: Russia suffered record casualties in 2024, claims Ukrainian commander in chief

Oleksandr Syrskyi claims in interview that 150,000 Russian soldiers died last year; Ukraine shoots down 43 Russian drones. What we know on day 1,062.See all our Ukraine war coverageRussia suffered 434,000 casualties in 2024, the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has claimed, saying it was more than the previous two years combined. Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview broadcast on Sunday evening that the figure included 150,000 deaths. Syrskyi did not give a figure for Ukrainian casualties. Ukraine’s General Staff also reported over the weekend that almost 819,000 Russian soldiers had been killed, captured or wounded since the start of the war. In December 2024, Kyiv said 2,200 Russian soldiers died in the space of 24 hours, its worst toll since the start of the war. Western tallies for Russian casualties are lower, with an assessment in October last year stating up to 115,000 had been killed and 500,000 wounded since the start of the full-scale invasion.Moscow has...

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7 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice contestant says 'it's fine' as she issues response to being first celeb eliminated

Chelsee Healey was the first contestant to leave the show

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4 hours ago Brit tradesmen being recruited for 'coolest' jobs abroad with British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey is looking for tradesmen, including electricians, plumbers and carpenters to join their team working at stations in the world's southern most continent

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10 hours ago Live updates as 'gas leak' sparks major disruption to train services in Cardiff

Trains are not stopping at Cardiff Queen Street station due to 'a gas leak near the railway'

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27 hours ago Anthony Taylor 'fine' as fighter taken out on wheelchair following Misfits Boxing 20 knockout by Darren Till

The American is fine after a scary incident following his Misfits Boxing 20 bout

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2 hours ago Fears over online fat jabs as doctors see 'alarming' rise in people taken to hospital

Some 500,000 Brits are thought to be on the drugs, which can help them lose up to 20% of body weight in a few months - but doctors have expressed concerns over the amount of people buying them online

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15 hours ago Holly Willoughby's producer husband triumphs in Saturday night ratings battle as his BBC shows Gladiators and Michael McIntyre beat ITV rivals with collective 8 MILLION viewers

While The Masked Singer, hosted by Joel Dommett, peaked with 4.1million viewers, Baldwin's Michael McIntyre's Big Show got 4.8 million.

Culture

5 hours ago Call the Midwife viewers left gobsmacked as iconic 2000s star joins BBC show

Call the Midwife viewers were left gobsmacked after they spotted an iconic 2000s star in the new episode of the hit BBC show on Sunday night

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11 hours ago Best friend of freed Brit hostage Emily Damari tells of his delight that they will soon be reunited 'after 15 months from hell' as she's released by Hamas in ceasefire deal

Emily Damari's best friend Guy Yakobi, 29, (pictured together) told of his relief and excitement following an agonising wait to see if she would really be freed by Hamas today.

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2 hours ago Brit, 75, confesses to stabbing his partner, 66, to death at their dream Italian home, telling the court she was 'obsessively jealous' and beat him

The mother-of-three, was discovered dead by police in October 2023 in the house in the Italian hilltop village of Verratti that she shared with retired IT consultant Michael Whitbread, 75.

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22 hours ago Historic theatre to reopen for first time in three years as Restless Natives musical launches 'pop

Classic 1980s comedy was partly filmed around Edinburgh

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6 hours ago Who is Christopher Macchio, the singer performing the national anthem at Trump’s inauguration?

Macchio takes over for Jackie Evancho, who performed ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at the President-elect’s 2017 inauguration

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16 hours ago Man United told £100m Milos Kerkez transfer demand after Ruben Amorim sanctions deal

Latest Manchester United transfer news as Milos Kerkez continues to attract attention with a fine display against Newcastle

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3 hours ago Model, 27, who attacked a fellow clubber, three police officers and two bouncers on a night out is hit with a hefty fine and community order

Georgia Brown, 27, was thrown out of Gossip! nightclub after she got involved in an 'altercation' with another woman during a night out in Hanley in March last year

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10 hours ago On the street where you can't get from one side to the other the wait goes on

The street was effectively cut in half when the freight train derailed last year

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22 hours ago With productivity rising faster than UK and EU, Scotland has immense economic potential

Everyone in Scotland would be more than £500 better off if productivity rose to the UK national average

Economics

4 hours ago Britain risks clean power skills shortage, says Siemens Energy UK boss

The head of the UK’s biggest wind turbine maker said the sector will need about 500,000 more skilled workers amid the push towards net zero.

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11 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer fans convinced Girls Aloud star is Snail after fresh accent clue

ITV viewers are convinced they have rumbled the identity of Snail

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22 hours ago Amazon's £70 Akitas Cordless Vacuum Cleaner becomes a hit as homeowners ditch Dyson and Shark

The Akitas 3in1 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner is one of the most popular cleaning gadgets on Amazon - and for good reason

Economics

5 hours ago Captain of ship that struck Marchioness pleasure boat killing 51 hit with fresh allegation

Douglas Henderson was acquitted over the Marchioness tragedy that killed 51 people on charges of failing to keep a proper lookout after juries failed to reach a verdict

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11 hours ago ITV Masked Singer fans believe pop icon is behind Snail costume after fresh accent clue

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they have worked out the identity of one character

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6 hours ago Brit Emily Damari smiles in mum’s arms after being freed from a 471 day hostage hell

The 28-year-old was released by Hamas alongside two other captured women - Romi Gonen, 24, and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher - under the terms of a fragile ceasefire

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11 hours ago Trump considering rejecting Lord Mandelson as Starmer’s nominee for ambassador to the US

Exclusive: With Donald Trump set to be sworn in as the 47th US president on Monday, the nomination of Lord Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US is still causing problems

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7 hours ago Terrifying handover of Israeli hostages after 417 days in captivity: Moment Brit Emily Damari and two other women are surrounded by Hamas terrorists as they climb into Red Cross van

Chaotic footage captured the scenes of the first Israeli hostage release since the long-awaited ceasefire came into effect today.

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12 hours ago Priti Patel takes swipe at Nigel Farage's Reform in fight for Donald Trump's attention

Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel says the Republicans and Conservatives have been 'sister parties' for decades - but Reform UK is just a 'pop-up act'

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7 hours ago First pictures as Brit hostage Emily Damari is reunited with her mother under Gaza ceasefire deal

The 28-year-old has been released alongside Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher

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14 hours ago AI predicts what late singer Janis Joplin would look like on her 82nd birthday

EXCLUSIVE: Janis Joplin was one of the most successful female rock stars of the late 60s, before her tragic death in 1970. Using AI, the Daily Star shows what she might have looked like today

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8 hours ago As Hamas hands over hostages including Brit Emily Damari we look at life as a Hamas Hostage

As the ceasefire starts in Gaza and the first hostages - including Brit Emily Damari - are freed, we take a look at a day in the life of a Hamas hostage

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14 hours ago Iran unveils 'secret' underground naval base 500 metres below sea level for chilling reason

Iran has unveiled a 'secret' underground naval base that gives the country the ability to protect itself from "enemies big and small", with footage of the facility shared across state broadcast channels

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9 hours ago First picture as Brit hostage Emily Damari is reunited with her mother under Gaza ceasefire deal

The 28-year-old has been released alongside Romi Gonen and Doron Steinbrecher

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15 hours ago The Masked Singer fans left stunned as they figure out Teeth is a woman

The Masked Singer fans were left with their jaws on the floor on Saturday night (18 January) as they were convinced they'd worked out the identity of one of the remaining characters

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9 hours ago Vera's Joe Ashworth star David Leon unrecognisable in hit BBC drama 21 years ago

David Leon is best known for playing DI Joe Ashworth in Vera alongside Brenda Blethyn, but he looked very different when he was in the cast of a BBC drama.

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16 hours ago MrBeast’s degrading game show is a dystopian nightmare – perfect for America in 2025

Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of TrumpThe YouTube superstar Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson vowed to make his Amazon TV series Beast Games the “biggest reality competition show ever”, and by most metrics, he succeeded.A little over halfway through its run, Beast Games has hit No 1 on Amazon in over 80 countries and is now the streamer’s No 1 unscripted show ever, with over 50 million viewers in just 25 days on the platform. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago More than 80 people killed in Colombia as peace talks fail, say officials

Twenty others injured in violence involving National Liberation Army rebels in north-east regionMore than 80 people have been killed in fighting involving rebels from the leftwing National Liberation Army (ELN) in some of the worst violence to hit the country’s north-east region in recent years.Twenty others have been injured, according to William Villamizar, governor of North Santander, where many of the killings occurred. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption

Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is the latest stage in the cultural rehabilitation of what was once architecture’s most reviled style but is now winning a new generation of admirersThis week an Oscar-tipped film, The Brutalist, opens in Britain. It’s a three-and-a-half-hour-plus saga in which Adrien Brody plays the brilliant but tormented fictional Hungarian architect László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor struggling to make a life in the postwar US. He’s a singular, solitary, single-minded genius, always working alone, in the mould of Gary Cooper in the 1949 film of Ayn Rand’s book The Fountainhead and Adam Driver in last year’s Megalopolis. Tóth is, like them, forever fighting the misunderstanding and spite of mean-spirited adversaries. He would rather shovel coal (as Cooper’s Howard Roark drilled stone in a quarry) than compromise his principles.The film’s title is a dramatic stage on the redemption arc of what was architecture’s most reviled style. Its makers evidently felt that the ...

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11 hours ago Terrifying handover of Israeli hostages after 417 days in captivity: Moment Brit Emily Damari and two other woman are surrounded by Hamas terrorists as they climb into Red Cross van

Chaotic footage captured the scenes of the first Israeli hostage release since the long-awaited ceasefire came into effect today.

Events

17 hours ago Biden’s checkered foreign policy legacy looks like a blip in era of America First

The outgoing US president rallied support for Ukraine but his stance on Gaza delighted no oneWhen asked about his foreign policy doctrine in 2014, Barack Obama described it as an attempt to “avoid errors”.“You hit singles, you hit doubles; every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run,” he said. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Gaza ceasefire: Brit Emily Damari among three Israeli hostages released by Hamas

Hamas has now handed it's first three hostages to the Red Cross, as part of the first phase of its ceasefire agreement with Israel - including British-Israeli Emily Damari

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18 hours ago ITV Masked Singer's Teeth leaves viewers speechless as they 'work out' true identity

The Masked Singer fans were left stunned during Saturday night's episode as they thought they'd worked out the identity of one contestant, Teeth - who they now believe is a woman.

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13 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer's seven big secrets exposed from backstage chaos to strict contracts

The show is hosted by comedian Joel Dommett

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19 hours ago The Masked Singer viewers speechless as they 'work out' Teeth is a woman

ITV viewers were left stunned this weekend as they learned the celebrity inside Teeth on The Masked Singer isn't a man.

Politics

13 hours ago Lewis Hamilton hit with fresh George Russell warning amid concern after Ferrari move

Lewis Hamilton has seen a decline in recent years, with Max Verstappen now the dominant force after winning the last four drivers' championships - while he also struggled to outshine team-mate George Russell

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20 hours ago A Complete Unknown review – Timothée Chalamet radiates charisma in evocative Dylan biopic

James Mangold’s handsome portrait of the enigmatic singer’s stratospheric early career boasts a barnstorming lead performance yet often slips into heavy-handednessIt’s a remarkable performance. Star of the moment Timothée Chalamet inhabits the loose-limbed, live-wire physicality of the young Bob Dylan and makes an impressively good fist of capturing the frayed hessian of his distinctive voice. Acoustic guitars are plucked and harmonicas honked with the effortless fluency of someone who learned to play almost before they could walk. Chalamet’s Dylan sucks so fervently on his cigarettes it’s as though he’s breathing in the genius of the musical heroes who came before him. But while he radiates insouciant charisma and channels the once-in-a-lifetime talent, he reveals next to nothing about Dylan as a person. This is not necessarily a failure in Chalamet’s acting. It’s a deliberate choice – the film is called A Complete Unknown, after all, and it’s a manifesto as much as a title. But it...

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14 hours ago Blow for Donald Trump's 'Tory toadies' Liz Truss and Priti Patel after huge inauguration change

Despite a 3,500 mile trip and braving freezing temperatures, the weather has sidelined the plans of Suella Braverman, ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss, Priti Patel, and Tobias Ellwood

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25 hours ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: The biggest stars you have never heard of...

When it comes to the winners on the BBC's smash hit show The Traitors, Claudia Winkleman's wardrobe surely comes out top.

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14 hours ago From stiff necks to ‘lazy glutes’: why these unloved muscles could prevent injury – and how to train yours

Never heard of your lower trapezius? Don’t know your rotator cuff from your neck flexor? To alleviate common injuries, it’s time to get to know them Killer abs, beefy biceps and perky pecs are classic signifiers of strong, well-exercised bodies, but not many people walk into a gym with a goal of building up their teres minor. This more low-key muscle, along with several others, is often underappreciated and weak, even among fitness fans. Neglecting such muscles as the teres minor can cause overuse of other muscles to compensate, or a lack of stability around a joint, which can lead to common painful injuries. And as anyone currently in musculo-skeletal pain knows all too well, it’s preferable to build up these forgotten muscles before you end up on the physiotherapist’s waiting list with an agonising shoulder, hip or lower back. Here are those elusive muscle groups to look out for. Continue reading...

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26 hours ago Special effects expert who staged crazy bank heist... straight out of one of his movies

Gary Robert Hill stormed into the Arab National Bank in Mayfair last summer with an imitation firearm after he hit financial hardship when he was forced out of his job in special effects

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15 hours ago Senior police officers 'ignored grooming gangs in Rotherham because they prioritised other crimes to hit Home Office targets', leaked report reveals

A leaked report by the police watchdog has revealed police officers prioritised crimes like burglary and robbery to meet Home Office targets while failing to protect girls from grooming gangs.

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