5 hours ago Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón faces backlash over offensive tweets

The Oscar-nominated star of Netflix’s musical made racist and Islamophobic remarks in several tweets from 2020Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón is under fire after old tweets uncovered a range of troubling opinions on subjects including Islam and George Floyd.The Spanish actor, who recently became the first ever openly transgender person to receive an acting nomination at the Oscars, has since deleted a number of tweets after users, including writer Sarah Hagi, uncovered them. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter have since reported the news and translated older posts. Continue reading...

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53 minutes ago Investigators recover black boxes from doomed American Airlines Flight 5342 as they hunt for answers: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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9 hours ago Amazon cuts price of bulk buy Kinder chocolate box by 8% and it's perfect to store for Easter

This Kinder chocolate deal on Amazon is perfect to save for Easter

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5 hours ago Man United transfer could finally get green light as agreement 'blocked'

Manchester United transfer news as Tyrell Malacia's short-term future could be resolved in the final days of the January transfer window

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79 minutes ago Ukraine war briefing: elderly couples among nine killed in Russian drone attack

Thirteen people wounded, including eight-year-old girl, in Sumy apartment block attack. Sweden pledges $1.2bn in Ukraine military aid, its biggest pledge yet. What we know on day 1,073See all our Ukraine war coverageA Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday. Images distributed by the emergency services showed a gaping hole in the facade of the long block of flats and rescue workers digging through debris for survivors. “This is a terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime. It is very important that the world does not pause in putting pressure on Russia for this terror,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media. National Police later said the search operation had been completed after 19 hours, with rescuers finding nine bodies in the ruins, while 13 people were wounded. Among the dead were three couples – men and women between the ages of 61 and 74 – Ukr...

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9 hours ago Musicals theatre fans issue complaint to Spotify over ‘embarrassing’ error involving hit shows

‘Riddled with typos,’ one user said

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14 hours ago Norovirus hospitalisations surge as NHS issues urgent guidance to avoid bug

Norovirus is still piling pressure on the NHS as health chiefs issue advice to families how to protect yourselves against the sickness and diarrhoea bug

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14 hours ago Sergio Aguero to become racing driver as Man City legend launches new career

The Manchester City legend is one of 11 big-name personalities taking part in Formula E's Evo Sessions, a new initiative to get celebrity figures behind the wheel of one of the world's most powerful racing cars.

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5 hours ago Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón faces backlash over offensive tweets

The Oscar-nominated star of Netflix’s musical made racist and Islamophobic remarks in several tweets from 2020Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is under fire after old tweets uncovered a range of troubling opinions on subjects including Islam and George Floyd.The Spanish actor, who recently became the first ever openly transgender person to receive an acting nomination at the Oscars, has since deleted a number of tweets after users, including writer Sarah Hagi, uncovered them. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter have since reported the news and translated older posts. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Here's what happened when I asked China's DeepSeek AI about Communist party's flaws

Efforts by autocratic states and others to use artificial intelligence to manipulate reality are a danger to democracy

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11 hours ago The 'bargain' £40 smartwatch Amazon users say is 'basically the same' as an Apple watch

The Aeac Smartwatch boasts a 4.3 Amazon rating and offers a variety of functions that makes it similar to pricier brands.

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8 hours ago Arsenal block January transfer exit as Mikel Arteta stamps his authority

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta wants to have a big squad available to him for the second half of the 2024-25 season, with the Gunners still in three different competitions

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3 hours ago Evil woman who helped murder and dismember Sarah Mayhew was 'empowered by brutality'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Criminologist Alex Iszatt believes Gemma Watts was always capable of the sadistic murder, but was 'waiting for the right person to bring it out' of her

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9 hours ago Musical theatre fans issue complaint to Spotify over ‘embarrassing’ error involving hit shows

‘Riddled with typos,’ one user said

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15 hours ago Money pit motors: Expect to lose thousands on these new EVs and luxury cars that depreciate fastest

The worst offender - a popular battery model built in Britain - loses 73% of its value after just three years of ownership, new data from motoring title Auto Express shows.

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12 hours ago Daniella Westbrook stunned by Royal Family member after meeting at Michael Barrymore's home

EastEnders and former Celebrity Big Brother star Daniella Westbrook has revealed the most famous person she ever met - and the surprising reason they used to hang out

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12 hours ago Asda: UK groceries firm brings back iconic Rollback supermarket price promotion, discounts online and in store

The supermarket is bringing back its popular price cuts - get ready for some serious savings 🛒

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9 hours ago Kieran Tierney sees instant Celtic return 'BLOCKED by Arsenal' as Gunners play transfer hardball

The Hoops have secured a pre-contract but hopes of an arrival six months prior to the deal kicking in are fading.

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3 hours ago Keir Starmer warned he must 'get serious' about growth and sign off two North Sea oil projects controversially blocked by courts

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to overrule Ed Miliband and give the green light to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil projects, which could generate billions for the economy.

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14 hours ago Olivia Attwood reveals the thing that made her break down in tears while filming 'most shocking series' of her ITV show Getting Filthy Rich and shares what she really thinks of sex workers

The TV personality, 33, revealed series three is the 'most shocking yet' and forced her to step outside her comfort zone.

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16 hours ago Money pit motors: EVs and luxury models dominate list of depreciating new cars

The worst offender - a popular battery model built in Britain - loses 73% of its value after just three years of ownership, new data from motoring title Auto Express shows.

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6 hours ago California congresswoman and her fellow liberals users blame Trump for deadly mid

A Democratic California congresswoman and other liberals have claimed that president Donald Trump is to blame for the deadly mid-air collision in Washington DC.

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13 hours ago Six Nations LIVE: Latest news as Sam Prendergast starts for champions Ireland against England

Interim boss Simon Easterby faces a key call at fly half, with Scotland and Italy also set to reveal their line-ups today

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13 hours ago How unsightly acne could be banished with drug store treatment that costs less than £20

Dominika Zrastakova, 23, from Bath, Somerset, started developing mild acne on her face aged 16, but she assumed it would 'go away eventually'. But it left her in agony and unable to sleep.

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3 hours ago Urgent warning to millions of iPhone users as Apple automatically turns on 'dangerous' feature

Apple just rolled out iOS 18.3 for iPhones , but a new default setting hiding in the software update automatically enables a 'dangerous' feature Here's how you can turn it off.

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26 hours ago Five things you might not realise are harming your heart, according to a cardiologist

We know the obvious ways to protect our heart, but there are some things we may not know are harming it

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7 hours ago How Donald Trump's personal crypto coin made him one of the world's richest people while raising fears of 'dangerous' corruption at the heart of the White House: TOM LEONARD

As they nibbled miniature lobster rolls and sipped mezcal cocktails, the well-heeled guests toasted the coming reign of Donald Trump.

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18 hours ago Rachel Reeves' Heathrow plans hit severe turbulence! Labour split erupts as London Mayor and top party donor vow to oppose third runway

The Chancellor publicly backed controversial plans for a third runway at Britain's biggest airport as she vowed to 'fight' the 'blockers' holding back the economy.

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14 hours ago Blackstone defends $80bn data centre investment as DeepSeek shakes market

US group has pushed heavily into facilities needed to feed AI boom amid breakneck spending by Big Tech

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3 hours ago Beloved Hackney rooftop bar Netil360 and nightclub NT's Loft at risk from 'luxury block of flats'

Hackney's popular venues, Netil360 and NT's Loft, have warned about plans for a ‘luxury block of flats’ nearby

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8 hours ago Why Gregor Townsend ended 34y/o's Scotland exile with Six Nations surprise pick

Gray also returns for Scotland’s opening game against Italy

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15 hours ago B&M fans 'obsess' over 'stylish' £10 wireless lamps that 'add class to any room'

Some claimed that 'nobody would ever guess' that the battery-powered lights came from the local discount home store

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4 hours ago We must reform the post or nationwide service cannot survive, says Royal Mail chief exec EMMA GILTHORPE

We want to protect what makes Royal Mail unique and continue to serve 32m addresses across the UK for the same price, however remote they may be.

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8 hours ago How Donald Trump's personal crypto coin made him one of the richest people in the world

As they nibbled miniature lobster rolls and sipped mezcal cocktails, the well-heeled guests toasted the coming reign of Donald Trump.

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26 hours ago Housing market ‘off to its strongest start in three years with sales up by 12%’

The number of homes for sale is also 10% higher than a year ago, according to Zoopla’s data.

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5 hours ago Horrifying new FAA revelation about airport tower at time of DC plane crash: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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8 hours ago WhatsApp urges iPhone users to update app after bug found on popular feature you'll want to fix

The latest version of the free WhatsApp app for iOS fixes a bug that means photos and videos you expect to disappear aren't actually being deleted

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7 hours ago Heartbroken families gather at Reagan National as grim search turns from rescue to recovery

‘Am I safe if our own government can’t keep our helicopters safe? Who are the ones here to protect us?’ one flyer said

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9 hours ago ‘Everyone has an impact’: how to start reducing your environmental footprint

As fires tear through California and Trump sets back efforts to curb the rise of global temperatures, what can individuals do to make a difference?2024 was the hottest year on record. Average global temperatures rose to 1.6C above preindustrial levels, according to data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) – a rise that led to extreme weather events and “misery to millions of people”, as one of the group’s experts told the Guardian.Less than a month into the new year, fires have torn through huge swathes of Los Angeles, upending the lives of thousands. Donald Trump, a climate denier, is pulling the country out of international climate agreements and setting back efforts to curb the rise of average global temperatures. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago 'Getaway driver' in £1.4m robbery that led store manager to kill himself told police 'every man loves a watch', court hears

Store manager Oliver White, 27, was restrained with cable ties during the £1.4m raid at 247 Kettles store in Kew Road, Richmond, on May 25 last year.

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9 hours ago From balabonnets to hoods – what’s behind the trend for grownup bonnets?

No longer the preserve of newborns, the bonnet is having its own catwalk moment this season. But is their cosy revival driven purely by practicality, or something deeper?Hej! Greetings from Copenhagen. I am in the Danish capital for fashion week, now regularly referred to as the “fifth fashion week” after New York, London, Milan and Paris – such is its influence in the industry and beyond.While some of the catwalk trends have divided opinion (not everyone is down for a ballet flat/sneaker hybrid) on the streets, one item gets a firm yes: the bonnet. Yes, the head covering typically associated with newborns has been seen on everyone from the street-style set outside shows to the Danes queueing at bakeries for their morning buns. It’s not just in Denmark, either. The accessory is thriving and bumping beanies off the headgear charts in London and New York. One TikTok user summed it up: “Brat summer, bonnet winter”. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox, PC (version played); Jump Over The Age/Fellow TravellerGareth Damian Martin’s dice-driven role-playing game takes you on a space road trip with the flotsam and jetsam of humanityIt’s good to be back in this far-flung future world. Like the game that preceded it, Citizen Sleeper 2 is packed with evocative portrayals of everyday life in outer space, from farmers tending zero-G crops in an asteroid greenhouse to water miners rising up against the cartel that controls them, everyone eking out a meagre existence in crumbling space stations left to rot by a long-dead mega corporation.Once again you’re cast as a Sleeper, a robot with a digitised human mind shorn of the memories of the person it was copied from. In the first game you were on the run from the firm that made you, attempting to wean your robot off its reliance on a stabilising drug. In the sequel you play a different Sleeper who has successfully managed to ditch Stabilizer, but at the cost...

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9 hours ago 5 of the best views in Rome for a breathtaking look at the Italian capital

Want to see a destination from the best vantage? Up the altitude. Here are the top spots from which to appreciate the Eternal City

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8 hours ago Flights resume out of Reagan Airport after DC plane crash as Trump makes new FAA hire: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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9 hours ago Dumfries and Galloway rugby start to start Scotland's Six Nations opener against Italy

Stafford McDowall has been named in Gregor Townsend's 15 for Saturday's game with Italy at Scottish Gas Murrayfield.

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9 hours ago Stormzy joins forces with McDonald's for 'famous order' in UK and Ireland

The collaboration is set to hit stores nationwide and in Ireland come February 12, but lucky fans in Croydon get an exclusive first taste on February 10

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10 hours ago Three Israelis and five Thais freed from Gaza as Trump envoy meets hostages’ relatives

Handover delayed by jostling crowd in Khan Younis, Gaza, with Netanyahu suspending release of Palestinian prisoners• Middle East crisis – live updatesThree Israelis and five Thai citizens held in Gaza have been freed, as Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met hostages’ relatives, reportedly telling them he was optimistic the ceasefire would hold to allow the return of all the living and the dead.The handover on Thursday of seven hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, was delayed by a chaotic crowd surging towards the group, despite an escort of heavily armed militants, jostling and blocking their passage to waiting Red Cross vehicles. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Whatsapp users sent urgent warning over popular feature as messaging app issue security update

If you use the View Once tool, there's bad news, as WhatsApp has uncovered a glitch. Worryingly, that means any pictures you've sent with View Once could still be saved on the recipient's phone.

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10 hours ago NASA samples scooped from asteroid 200 million miles away contain 'building blocks for life'

A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid which may contain the ‘key to life’

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10 hours ago Hundreds protest in London as jailed climate activists’ appeals are heard

Road outside high court blocked in protest against ‘draconian’ sentences given to 16 Just Stop Oil ‘political prisoners’Hundreds of protesters have blocked the road outside the high court in London, where the appeals of 16 jailed climate activists are being heard, in condemnation of “the corruption of democracy and the rule of law”.As England’s most senior judge heard arguments in the appeal of the sentences of the Just Stop Oil activists, who are serving a combined 41 years in jail, their supporters sat on the road in silence holding placards proclaiming them “political prisoners”. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Major emergency search under way after reports of person in River Thames near Wandsworth

Police were called at around 12:30pm on Thursday to reports of someone in the water near Eastfields Avenue

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11 hours ago Urgent warning to WhatsApp users as glitch allows recipients to see 'View Once' photos MULTIPLE times

If you use the View Once tool, there's bad news, as WhatsApp has uncovered a glitch. Worryingly, that means any pictures you've sent with View Once could still be saved on the recipient's phone.

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10 hours ago First look inside US fast food chain dubbed better than KFC as it opens second Welsh branch in Swansea

This will be their second ever store in Wales

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12 hours ago ‘Rape is effectively decriminalised’: how did sexual assault become so easy to get away with?

Few alleged offenders are found guilty. Many victims are retraumatised. What is getting in the way of the Australian criminal courts providing justice to sexual assault survivors?Sexual assault survivors like me seek justice as a sign of strength. Few of us end up winningGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSitting in her book-lined corner office at Victoria’s Law Reform Commission, Jennifer Coate is charting the “considerable progress” she says she’s witnessed over her decades-long career working in the criminal justice system.When she first started out as a lawyer, she says the notion of consent was “not discussed” and only victims of “stranger rapes” were taken seriously – but only if they hadn’t been out late or dressed provocatively. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Heinz 'takes decision' to axe entire food range to focus on other products

Heinz has confirmed it is axing the Weight Watchers frozen meal range from stores, leaving fans of the diet plan 'disappointed'

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12 hours ago Ollie Watkins faced with personal dilemma as Arsenal step up efforts to sign striker NOW

Ollie Watkins was the subject of an enquiry from Arsenal on Monday, but the Aston Villa forward may feel he's already missed his chance to sign for his boyhood club

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11 hours ago Comedy fans stunned as performer takes to stage – before people realise who he is

An audience member at a comedy club was left stunned when they realised the person who was about to take to the stage was actually a legendary comic who has sold out Wembley Stadium

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12 hours ago Common slow cooker mistake as experts warn it could be 'seriously dangerous'

Many users of the popular kitchen gadget are not aware of what one part of it is really meant for

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12 hours ago Dave Cherry and Jonny Gray to make first Scotland appearances since 2023

Bordeaux lock Gray, 30, has not featured for the national team since the last time Italy visited Murrayfield on Six Nations duty two years ago.

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12 hours ago Air fryer users warned against using popular cooking sprays due to potential damage

Air fryers have become a staple in many households, but there's one ingredient that people are being warned to avoid using when cooking with them

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13 hours ago Detective Chinatown 1900 review – blockbusting Chinese franchise goes back in time

Prequel focuses on xenophobia in turn-of-the-century San Francisco with surprising wit and sillinessThis prequel to the huge-grossing Detective Chinatown franchise, though focused on anti-Chinese xenophobia in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, manages to be a rare example of a Sino-blockbuster not filled with maudlin patriotism; it mostly carries its cultural message charmingly and with plenty of self-deprecating humour. At one point, an imperial Chinese investigator toughs it out in order to form an alliance with a gaggle of Irish hoodlums straight from Gangs of New York. “You held yourself so well back there,” his underlings congratulate him, before their leader’s legs give out. “Don’t let the Americans see. I’m about to pee myself!”The story here is that malevolent forces are stirring the great American melting pot. The son of local Tong leader Bai Xuanling (Chow Yun-fat, still with charisma on tap) is arrested for the murder of the daughter of racist Republican congressman Gran...

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13 hours ago Music legend Patti Smith collapses and hits head in middle of live gig

Patti Smith fell on stage in Brazil after suffering from a migraine and dizziness, just a month after she cancelled a gig and was rushed to hospital in Italy

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