36 minutes ago Prince Andrew wrote email to Jeffrey Epstein telling him to 'keep in close touch' AFTER date he claimed he'd cut him off

The Duke of York pledged to 'keep in close touch' with Jeffrey Epstein despite claiming he had cut all contact with the paedophile weeks earlier in his infamous Newsnight interview.

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22 hours ago The Last Days of Budapest by Adam LeBor: I almost hope my family died in an air raid

In Adam LeBor's new book, The Last Days of Budapest, Ysenda Maxtone Graham unearths the tragic plight of Hungary's Jews.

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7 hours ago Bee Network bosses speak out on school bus ‘teething issues’ after complaints

"It's disgusting, honestly"

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4 hours ago New American Airlines crash footage shows moment doomed plane barrel rolled into river

The Washington DC aviation disaster was the deadliest in more than two decades of US history, killing 67 people, and has left a raft of questions officials hope to answer with an investigation

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33 hours ago Former Royal Ballet School dancer gets settlement over teacher's alleged cruel acts

Ellen Elphick claimed a Royal Ballet School teacher pointed out the parts of her body she was disgusted by and would cut off due to their size - she has won the first legal settlement of its kind over body shaming in ballet

Culture

14 hours ago A £1.65m hope for blood disorder patients is now on offer in Manchester

The gene-editing therapy is expected to offer a cure for some people with the inherited blood disorder

Science

4 hours ago Bombshell Prince Andrew emails appear to show contact with paedo Epstein lasted longer than he said

Emails appearing to show contact between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein have emerged where the royal is believed to have told the paedophile to 'keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon'

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9 hours ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal get Watkins boost, Nypan hope; Man Utd agree Quenda deal; Tel to Tottenham hijack

Premier League clubs out to secure huge deals before deadline

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7 hours ago Woman felt ‘disgusting’ after alleged rape by Chinese PhD student, jurors hear

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of drugging and raping 10 women in London and China

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14 hours ago Bargain hunters, rejoice! Discount beauty has arrived at the Bicester Village outlet shopping centre | Sali Hughes on beauty

It’s not only the prices that make a trip to the designer outlet worthwhile, it’s the hope of tracking down cherished discontinued itemsMillions flock to Bicester Village each year for discounted fashion at designer outlets. Now it has its sights set on beauty. I visited before Christmas and my fear of finding skincare-slightly-on-the-turn and sad-looking eyeshadows in shades of mint and mauve proved unfounded.Fragrance was well served, with a festive pop-up store by Byredo, selling even its bestselling candles, fragrances and hand care at what seemed a smallish discount. There were also permanent outlets for Creed, Penhaligon’s, Roja and Molton Brown, all with up to 60% off the RRP. Neom had 30-odd per cent reductions on its luxury candles and I couldn’t work out why, given that they were still full price elsewhere. (Slightly wonky labels? Overstocking? They looked great to me.) Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Woman felt ‘disgusting’ after alleged rape by Chinese student, jurors hear

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of drugging and raping 10 women in London and China.

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6 hours ago Arne Slot reveals Mohamed Salah talks as Liverpool hope for contract agreement

Reds forward continually linked with money-spinning move to Saudi Arabia

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35 hours ago First Nations to fight for billions in treaty payments in Canadian court

Group in northern Ontario argues crown failed to honour agreement and capped annual payments in 1874 at $4A group of First Nations in Canada is turning to the courts in the hope of securing billions of dollars in compensation, after accusing the government of failing to engage in “meaningful negotiations” for money owed under a 175-year-old treaty.“The governments’ refusal to come to grips with their treaty obligations has continued 175 years of broken promises, lies and neglect,” Wilfred King, chief of Gull Bay First Nation, said in a statement announcing plans to seek compensation that is “just, liberal, generous and honourable”. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Donald Trump snaps ‘You want me to go swimming?’ when asked if he’ll visit US crash site

Authorities have given up hope of finding any survivors after collision at Ronald Reagan Airport, near Washington DC

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7 hours ago Prince Andrew: Timeline of scandals as its revealed he was in touch with Epstein months longer than claimed

Late monarch’s middle child has seen his reputation damaged over his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and ties to alleged Chinese spy

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26 hours ago MMA star Bryce Mitchell says Hitler was 'a good guy' who wanted to get rid of 'greedy jews' in disgusting anti

Mitchell, who competes in the featherweight division of Dana White 's MMA promotion, praised the former Nazi leader for wanting to 'purify' Germany from 'greedy Jews'.

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10 hours ago Madonna trying standup is no joke: she’s a natural comedian and genuine kook

News that the singer had done a slot in New York’s Comedy Cellar was met with derision, but she has always walked a fine line between comedy character and over-the-top pop starNew York’s famed Comedy Cellar has long been known as a testing ground for hot young talent. The Greenwich Village club hosted stand-ups like Ray Romano and Jon Stewart early in their careers, and although tourists now flock to the venue in the hope of seeing an A-lister do a surprise drop-in, young comics can still get their start there. Case in point: last weekend, Madonna did a set at the Comedy Cellar. You may be able to draw nearly 2 million people to Rio’s Copacabana beach for a concert, but in the cutthroat world of comedy, you still have to start from the bottom.A report in the Sun said that Madonna tested out material for about 30 minutes, and that she was accompanied to the club by her friend Amy Schumer, who later went on Howard Stern to big up Madonna’s act. “She has something in her that’s interes...

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32 hours ago Hope ends for finding survivors as investigators say 67 feared dead after plane crashes into military helicopter

More than two dozen bodies have been recovered as of Thursday morning, officials said

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10 hours ago Six Nations fixtures 2025: Match schedule, results, TV coverage and odds

France and Ireland look set to battle for glory again, though Scotland and England will also hope to be in the mix

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33 hours ago Shocking moment police catch paedophile in hotel room with young teenage girl after harrowing 999 call

Cops caught the pervert at a hotel in Manchester after being tipped off by a member of staff, who called 999. The bust comes amid a worrying rise in paedophiles raping children in hotels.

Events

10 hours ago Stirling Albion hope for repeat performance as former faces return to capital

The Albion squad contains a healthy contingent of former Edinburgh City faces - including boss Alan Maybury.

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35 hours ago Hope fades in desperate hunt for survivors after American Airlines plane crashes into Army Black Hawk helicopter

Plane was reportedly in pieces, no survivors reported as of early Thursday

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13 hours ago Prince Andrew told paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein they would 'play more soon' two months after he claimed he had cut him off

Prince Andrew claimed that he had cut off the disgraced American after they were spotted walking through Central Park together in December 2010

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39 hours ago Hope fades in desperate hunt for survivors after American Airlines plane crashes into Army Black Hawk near Reagan Airport

Plane was reportedly in pieces, no survivors reported as of early Thursday

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14 hours ago Justin Bieber 'disgusted' by P Diddy accusations as his lonely life is exposed

Fans of Justin Bieber have been left concerned in recent months after images of the pop star looking dramatically slimmer emerged, on top of rumours about his marriage

Politics

16 hours ago How do we introduce assisted dying? Experts and politicians hope someone else has the answer | Gaby Hinsliff

Such a profound social change needs consensus and leadership. Those tasked with seeing this through are offering neither There is something about the sound of Prof Sir Chris Whitty’s voice that inexorably takes me back. Whenever he speaks it’s hard not to think about R numbers and social distancing, masks and variants. His was the judgment we learned to trust in the days when the only certainty was that thousands were going to die; his the not-quite-inscrutable face we studied for clues that some politician had just said something stupid. For those reasons and more, I would very much like to know what the chief medical officer thinks about assisted dying for terminally ill people. But when he came before the committee scrutinising this most sensitive of issues on Wednesday, he wouldn’t say.Whitty answered all questions posed about the proposed new law, including how accurately doctors can predict that someone has only six months left. (Not entirely, though he explained that they’re ...

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21 hours ago Vick Hope flashes glimpse of her lace bra in plunging black blazer as she joins a busty Kaya Scodelario in leading star arrivals at David Beckham's BOSS launch party

Kaya Scodelario and Vick Hope led the glamorous arrivals at the David Beckham x BOSS One launch event at Lightroom in London on Thursday night.

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27 hours ago Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life• News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78It is difficult to think of a moment in pop history less receptive to a 1960s icon relaunching their career than in 1979. At that point, British rock and pop resolutely inhabited a world shaped by punk: it was the year of 2-Tone and Tubeway Army’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, of Ian Dury at No 1 and Blondie releasing the bestselling album of the year. And it was a central tenet of punk that the 1960s and their attendant “culture freaks” were, as Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren put it: “fucking disgusting vampiric the most narcissistic generation there has ever been,” and that the decade’s famous names should no longer be afforded the kind of awed reverence they had enjoyed for most of the 70s. “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones,” as the Clash had sung.And yet Marian...

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31 hours ago Lewis Hamilton 'problem' raised with Piero Ferrari as F1 Brit's dad left stunned

Lewis Hamilton endured a frustrating 2024 season with Mercedes, and vice chairman Piero Ferrari will be hope the seven-time world champion is still at the top of his game as he prepares for his Scuderia career

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35 hours ago Assistant headteacher touched her female colleagues and made 'outrageous' sexualised banter, tribunal hears

Nicola Houghton 'mortified, embarrassed and disgusted' one woman teacher with her behaviour towards both male and female staff at Rowan High School, Liverpool.

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40 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treason

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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40 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treachery

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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46 hours ago New NHS treatment gives hope to thousands who suffer from common allergy

The first-of-its-kind tablet will offer relief from severe dust mite allergies

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