50 m. ago Israeli military strikes Iran nuclear targets; Revolutionary Guard Corps vows revenge after commander killed – live

Hossein Salami killed; Israel strikes Revolutionary Guard headquarters; Netanyahu says Iran’s main enrichment facility targetedFull report: Israel launches strikes on ‘dozens’ of targets in Iran, targeting nuclear programIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.This operation will continue for as many days as it takes We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history. Continue reading...

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57 m. ago UK weather maps show deluge of rain tonight – see full list of areas affected

The Met Office has issued yellow thunderstorm warnings for parts of the UK, with the alerts coming into force at midnight on Thursday and lasting until 6pm on Saturday

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66 m. ago ‘I’m not The Rock, right?’ Julianne Moore on action movies, appropriate parenting and twinning with Tilda Swinton

Ahead of her new film – in which she fights, dives and wrangles horses – the Oscar-winning actor discusses sunburn, age-gaps and hanging from helicoptersJulianne Moore has played some right mothers in her time. There was Amber Waves in Boogie Nights, whose pornography career and cocaine addiction costs her access to her child. Or Maude, the outre artist – “My work has been commended as being strongly vaginal” – whose determination to conceive drives much of in The Big Lebowski. Moore was the infernal, domineering mother – the Piper Laurie role – in the 2013 remake of Carrie, and a lesbian cheating on her partner with the sperm donor who fathered their children in The Kids Are All Right. In May December, the most recent of the five pictures she has made with her artistic soulmate, the director Todd Haynes, she became pregnant by a 13-year-old boy, then married and raised a family with him after her release from prison. Shocking, perhaps, but then she had already played a socialite wi...

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66 m. ago South African woman’s murder prompts anger at country’s high level of femicide

Olorato Mongale, allegedly killed by man she went on date with, is latest victim of violence against womenA wave of anger and frustration has gripped South Africa after the murder of 30-year-old Olorato Mongale, allegedly by a man she went on a date with. It is the latest in a series of high-profile cases of violence against women and children in the country.Friends of Mongale, a former journalist who had been studying for a master’s degree in ICT policy, raised the alarm when she stopped checking in with them while on a date in Johannesburg on 25 May. Her body was found that day. Continue reading...

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85 m. ago Air India plane crash latest: One black box recovered after airline confirms 241 on board killed

One of two black boxes of Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed for London Gatwick recovered from crash site, local media report

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96 m. ago Savage carer who bit lump out pal’s face and spat on police officer struck off

Danielle Gaffar, from Dundee, tried to hide the fact she’d been jailed for a brutal nightclub attack when she applied to work in social care last year.

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96 m. ago Paint roller thug left man scarred for life after battering him with tool

"Officers found the complainer with blood gushing from his nose and from a large cut to his head. He had a five centimetre cut which was glued."

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1 hour ago Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: Air India MD & CEO Campbell Wilson visits AI

Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: Air India MD & CEO Campbell Wilson visits AI-171 crash site; PM Narendra Modi inspects crash site in Meghaninagar with CM and senior officials  Times of India

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1 hour ago Israeli military strikes hit Iran nuclear targets; Iran state media says Revolutionary Guards commander killed – live

Hossein Salami reported killed; Israel strikes Revolutionary Guard headquarters; Netanyahu says Iran’s main enrichment facility targetedFull report: Israel launches strikes on ‘dozens’ of targets in Iran, targeting nuclear programIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.This operation will continue for as many days as it takes We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: Search on for Boeing 787

Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: Search on for Boeing 787-8’s black box on as aircraft company’s safety record comes under fresh scrutiny  The Indian Express

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2 h. ago Met Office says summer will return to Wales within days with temperatures reaching 25°C

We're in for a wet and thundery start to the weekend but as we get into next week the sun will well and truly have his hat on once more

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3 h. ago Man to be sentenced for attacking officers with hatchet outside police station

Alexander Dighton, 28, attacked three police officers at Talbot Green police station in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, on January 31.

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3 h. ago Families of Nottingham attack victims to hold memorial walk two years on

They will gather at St Paul’s Church on Friday morning before walking to the two locations of the attacks.

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3 h. ago Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites – live

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targetedIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.This operation will continue for as many days as it takes We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Michelin chef wins £20,000 payout after boss ranted about 'unreliable Mexicans' and 'threatened to call the Home Office'

A tribunal heard the comments came after Cesar Omar Perez Vargas walked out of a busy Sunday shift because he had been given more customers than he was contracted to serve.

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5 h. ago Literary fiction to lure you in: TO THE MOON by Jang Ryujin, THE BOMBSHELL by Darrow Farr, SARASWATI by Gurnaik Johal

Twisting rivers and plots abound in this weeks literary fiction picks

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5 h. ago Hot and humid Friday to end in thunderstorms, Met Office warns

Temperatures could hit 30C in parts of the country which would make it the hottest day of the year.

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5 h. ago Jury finds New Orleans police officer who shot and killed puppy violated rights but has immunity

A New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy violated its owners’ constitutional rights but had qualified immunity, a federal jury found

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5 h. ago Moment 'killer' attacks police officers with samurai sword as they try to arrest him after schoolboy was slashed to death in street

This is the horrifying moment police officers were attacked by a man with a sword, in footage which was shown to the jury at the Daniel Anjorin murder trial. 

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6 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: TV explorer Levison Wood embarks on biggest adventure

The former Parachute Regiment officer turned explorer, author and broadcaster, has pulled off what he can justifiably consider his greatest triumph to date...He's about to become a father.

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