2 hours ago With home prices and mortgage rates high, many families find the American dream out of reach

With home prices high, American families are grappling with the prospect that homeownership might remain out of reach for them for a long time

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19 hours ago Tech consortium agrees 49 per cent stake in London Spirit for reported £145m

The ECB is selling 49 per cent stakes in each of the Hundred teams.

Economics

9 hours ago Tom Cruise's thrilling blockbuster loved by fans to free to watch on streaming

The film was nominated for six Oscars in 2023

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86 minutes ago Hayley Atwell addresses speculation on Mission: Impossible future: ‘Tom Cruise and the word final are oxymorons’

Cruise has previously said he hopes to continue making the blockbuster films for decades

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7 hours ago Actor and comedian Miles Jupp: 'At school I used to eat two puddings a day'

The actor and comedian, 45, tells Tom Parker Bowles about school Nutella feasts, the glamour of frozen orange juice and why he won't taste his own cooking

Culture

17 hours ago Astronaut stuck on International Space Station for months just broke the record for total spacewalk time by a woman

Sunita Williams reached a record of 62 hours and six minutes during her ninth spacewalk

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29 hours ago Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day

Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre rampFears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in Japan, as rescue workers started building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach him.The 74-year-old, who has not been named, became trapped when the sinkhole opened up in a road near Tokyo on Tuesday, swallowing him and his two-tonne truck. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago LeBron, Lindsey Vonn, Ronaldo keep going; Faster, stronger and longer, with plenty of help

Elite athletes are competing longer and at a higher level than ever before

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2 hours ago Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem's Cotton Club

This sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington

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24 hours ago Tom McKibbin learns PGA Tour punishment decision after making £4 million LIV Golf move

Tom McKibbin has become the latest star to make the move to LIV Golf, just months after securing a full card on the PGA Tour for the first time heading into the 2025 season

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21 hours ago Tom Ford fans race to bag huge discount on bestselling Black Orchid perfume

The fragrance is a bestseller for a reason

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3 hours ago Neighbours Mbeumo and Wissa strike up special relationship at Brentford

Forwards, who live next to each other, make for an effective partnership but will potential suitors pull them apart?Maybe it was a distraction technique or just because he couldn’t believe Bryan Mbeumo would miss again. The sight of Yoane Wissa raising his arms in celebration and running towards the away supporters before his strike partner – and nextdoor neighbour – had even started his run-up for the retaken penalty against Crystal Palace on Saturday was one of the more comical moments of the season.But it said everything about the relationship between the two forwards, whose goals have made Brentford the fifth-highest scoring team in the Premier League before their meeting with Tottenham on Sunday, with both reaching double figures before the halfway mark. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Linda Nolan funeral final farewell as family celebrate a 'wonderful' life

The Nolans star, known by many TV fans for her Celebrity Big Brother appearance and by others as a theatre performer, was loved by millions

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8 hours ago Bizarre health effect experienced by man who's lived on cruise ships for 25 years

Mario Salcedo recently clocked up his 1,000th voyage with Royal Caribbean and is known as 'Super Mario' in cruise circles.

Society

25 hours ago Stunning Mediterranean island just 3 hours and £62 return flight from UK perfect for winter sun

The destination is a favourite amongst British holidaymakers and it's not hard to see why - it's within easy reach and is an English-speaking nation

Economics

27 hours ago Champions League draw as it happened: Man City face Real Madrid again as Celtic get Bayern Munich play

The two British clubs must go through Real Madrid or Bayern Munich to reach the last 16

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5 hours ago Timeline: How a year of war in Gaza has unfolded as hostages released in ceasefire deal

Ceasefire reached fifteen months after Israel vowed to wipe Hamas ‘off the face of the earth’ following 7 October attack

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7 hours ago TOM PARKER BOWLES: 'The fat on my steak has congealed and the fries are cold, but at least the service is lovely'

The timing is a little out, the fries cold, but even so, Tom rates this steak-centric spot in Chester

Politics

27 hours ago The world's best bargain cruises: Our experts select the greatest value voyages from around the globe from as little as £65 a night

The days of cruises being an elitist activity for the well-to-do are long gone. Here we've scoured the market to find our pick of the crop of the world's best budget cruises.

Economics

35 hours ago Ruben Amorim sets ambitious Europa League target for Manchester United

Man Utd are unbeaten in Europe this season and won five successive games in the Europa League to cruise into the last 16.

Sport

7 hours ago Artisanal cheeses are so valuable they are the target of criminal gangs. TOM PARKER BOWLES on why his favourite food is being priced out of restaurants

Top artisanal cheeses are now so valuable they're the target of criminal gangs and are being priced out of restaurants. Tom Parker Bowles weighs up their worth

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7 hours ago Daniel Levy, Spurs’ Pelé of debt structuring, may yet be vindicated | Barney Ronay

Under-fire owner has transformed Tottenham into a fully self-sustaining entity. The alternatives are hardly more palatableThere was a tender moment at the end of Tottenham’s win against Elfsborg on Thursday night as Ange Postecoglou walked out on to the pitch looking a little haunted and jittery, a strange kind of light in his eyes. It took a few seconds to work out what was up. The reason for this was he was happy. Here was a man remembering how to smile, willing his face into the right kind of shape, searching for the muscle memory.It was also a nice moment. The recent run of Bad Ange stuff, the Ange who does interviews like a policeman standing too close to you in a tiny lift, has been painful to watch. The Premier League is brutal. It will stretch you thin. And it has been rough with Postecoglou, who came with no comparable experience, who is 59 years old, and has had the air of a man finding the end of his reach, radiating sadness from every rain-sodden panel of his quilted coa...

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15 hours ago Obesity risk is 20 per cent higher for toddlers who eat too much ultra

Eaten when a boy is aged three, these kinds of products were linked to obesity by the time the child reached five.

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9 hours ago ‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins

So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatresIf a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done than good” to the arts by the new Labour government, it is safe to say things have got off to a rocky start. It is hard to imagine a slice of British society more sympathetic on principle to Labour than those working in the creative sector. Hopes were high: Keir Starmer made a powerful speech on the arts before the election. The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, began by doing everyone a service by unilaterally declaring the end of the culture wars – perhaps something not entirely in her gift, though it’s clear she was calling time on the endless spitting and sniping at the “woke” arts favoured by the previous government. And yet: all I hear is disappointment and desperation, and not only from Nicholas Hytner. There is a void where policy and action should be. In a speech in Gateshead in mi...

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23 hours ago Priest about to head on cruise found dead after locals hear terrifying screams

Richard Gross, 80, from Massachusetts, US, was tragically killed just hours after arriving to his holiday apartment in Spain. Locals recalled how they heard his terrifying screams

Events

9 hours ago How to turn a bag of chicken giblets into a classic Italian sauce | Waste not

A surprisingly luxurious sauce from such humble originsThe bag of giblets inside a good chicken includes the heart, liver, neck and sometimes the lungs, kidneys and crop (the throat muscle chickens use to grind up their food). To prepare the giblets, give them a rinse, then cut away any thick fat or ventricles from the top of the heart and liver. Cibrèo is a traditional Florentine sauce made using chicken offal, and often also includes the cockscomb, wattle and gonads, but I’ve adapted it to turn a more accessible bag of giblets into this remarkably flavourful dish. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Another major war is looming – and western support for Rwanda is fuelling it | Dino Mahtani

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are seizing control of areas within the DRC. This will only escalate unless western governments actAs if this world needs more bloodshed, here comes another major war knocking on the door of the crumbling international order. This week’s ferocious assault and capture of the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by rebels backed by troops from its tiny neighbour, Rwanda, marks an escalation with far reaching consequences beyond Africa. It also exposes the complacency of western governments, who many Congolese accuse of paving the way for this crisis.The rebellion, known as the M23, has been snowballing since 2021. In recent months, M23 seized swathes of territory as it encircled Goma, a city nestled below a group of volcanoes facing the Rwandan border. This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for Rwanda to stop supporting M23 and to remove its troops from Congolese territory, adding that the conflict had ...

Events

16 hours ago Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman to end after its second series

It comes amid sexual assault allegations about author Gaiman.

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32 hours ago Daydreaming, social awkwardness: Has the internet diagnosed you with autism or ADHD?

Autism and ADHD diagnoses are spiking. But some psychiatrists argue we’ve reached the point of ‘overdiagnosis’. So, how did we get here, and why is the internet making it so much worse?

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19 hours ago This is Ratcliffe’s Austerity United, where even the brightest talent is for sale | Jonathan Liew

Manchester United are simultaneously the world’s fourth-richest club while taking away free cereal bars for stewardsBad news for Marcus Rashford, who was described by Ruben Amorim last week as being so poor in training that he would rather play his goalkeeping coach. Great news, on the other hand, for new 63-year-old wide forward Jorge Vital, now weighing up a number of offers from Serie A and Saudi Pro League clubs, and whom Manchester United are hopeful of shifting from the wage bill before the end of the transfer window.For this cash-strapped theatre of ghosts, trying to build its new cast of dreams on the bones of the old, perhaps every pound helps. Corporate box guests at Old Trafford no longer get a free match programme each and are instead invited to download the dictated thoughts of Amorim via a QR code. Free cereal bars for matchday stewards were cut at the beginning of the season. The annual £100 staff Christmas bonus was replaced by a £40 M&S voucher. Concessionary ti...

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22 hours ago 'Mad Men' star Jon Hamm to be honored as Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year

Award-winning actor Jon Hamm, best known for his roles in “Mad Men” and more recently “Fargo” and “Landman,” will be honored as the 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals

Politics

23 hours ago Celtic and Rangers prize money for reaching European knockout stages and impact on Scottish coefficient

Millions banked but coefficient remains on cliff-edge

Politics

24 hours ago Guardiola bemoans Manchester City’s fixture schedule after Madrid draw

City face Real Madrid over two legs in February‘We have tougher schedules for the teams in Europe’Pep Guardiola could not hide his frustration with Manchester City’s fixture schedule in February after being handed a daunting two-legged Champions League playoff tie with Real Madrid.City’s failure to qualify automatically for the last-16 of the Champions League means they have to face the current holders in order to reach that stage. City will host the first leg on 11 February before travelling to the Bernabéu on 19 February. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago ‘We have tougher schedules’: Guardiola faces packed fixture list after Madrid draw

City play Real Madrid over two legs in FebruaryPremier League champions play seven games in 24 daysPep Guardiola could not hide his frustration with Manchester City’s fixture schedule in February after being handed a daunting two-legged Champions League playoff tie with Real Madrid.City’s failure to qualify automatically for the tournament’s last 16 means they have to face the current holders in order to reach that stage. City will host the first leg on 11 February before travelling to the Bernabéu on 19 February. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago This huge new Disney Treasure cruise brings a theme park experience to the seven seas

The 1,119-foot-long Triton-class ship is perfect for everyone

Politics

32 hours ago Princess of Wales wears earrings made by Welsh jewellery designer on visit to Ty Hafan

The Duchess of Cambridge has been spotted wearing a pair of Welsh designer, Hayley Jones' hooped earrings on a number of occasions, including her latest visit to Wales

Politics

38 hours ago TOM UTLEY: Memo to the Utley boys: I regret to inform you the local branch of the Bank of Mum and Dad has closed down

Few parents reading this will be surprised to learn that the Bank of Mum and Dad is fast running short of funds, with gifts of cash to help the young get on the housing ladder taking a tumble.

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