62 minutes ago Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures? Catherine Bennett

The Louvre’s proposed two-tier fees are a better way to fund museums than iffy corporate sponsorship dealsIntroducing, five years on, another Brexit bonus: the chance to support the renovation of the Louvre. President Emmanuel Macron has proposed paying for the “renaissance” of the Paris museum, in part, by increasing entrance fees for visitors from outside the EU.After some initial attempts to represent this as a direct insult – “Brits will be forced to pay more than EU residents” (the Mail) – even the rabidly pro-Brexit press appears to have accepted that the scheme applies globally, to all non-EU visitors: an exceptionally cunning way of Brit-targeting, even for the French. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Megan McKenna quits social media after painful health diagnosis three months after welcoming her first child

The former TOWIE star, 32, got engaged to her footballer fiancé Oliver Burke in June 2023 and welcomed their baby son, Landon, in October.

Society

17 hours ago Man claims it was cheaper to fly 1,400 miles to buy olive oil than paying for his usual bottle in UK

Callum Ryan flew to Alicante, bought a bottle of the good stuff and flew home, all for just over £7

Economics

8 hours ago Olympic champions reunite to seal Australia’s Davis Cup win over Sweden

Australia defeat Sweden 3-1 to seal home tie in next roundPeers-Ebden beat Bergevi-Goransson 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 6-2Olympic champions John Peers and Matt Ebden have reunited to seal an emphatic Davis Cup triumph in Sweden and celebrate their Australian team earning a rare tie back on home soil.With Lleyton Hewitt’s outfit 2-0 overnight in the first-round qualifying tie after the first-day singles in Stockholm, the golden veterans teamed up on Saturday for the first time since their Paris triumph to win the tie-clinching doubles rubber. Continue reading...

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47 minutes ago Call the Midwife and EastEnders star's life from bank robbery to hypothermia on set

Cliff Parisi has been a familiar face on TV screens for decades, but actors fame was far from easy after he was jailed for bank robbery as a teenager

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21 hours ago ‘No one but Jews lost their apartments’: how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back

New book reveals tens of thousands of Jews who survived WW2 were not allowed to return to homes in French capitalThe 1935 photograph shows Israël and Hélène Malowanczyk standing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment at 118 Avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement.The couple – he a hatmaker from Poland, she a French dressmaker – are smiling. Like almost all Parisians at the time, they rented their home, a two-room flat where they lived with their two young daughters. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago 'Absolutely stunning' diamond watch worth £3,195 slashed to £183 at Debenhams

Looking for a romantic gift ahead of Valentine's Day, then look no further than this stylish luxury watch.

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23 hours ago The unseen France v Wales moments as Welsh player overcome in tunnel and team

John Jones was in Paris to keep an eye on things away from the cameras as Wales faced France

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62 minutes ago Inside Call the Midwife star Cliff Parisi's life from prison stint to EastEnders exit

Cliff Parisi is much-loved for his role in Call the Midwife

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9 hours ago Kate Middleton's 'enormously difficult' struggle with royal life explained

The Princess of Wales has reportedly found it "enormously difficult" when the central focus of her engagements has been the outfit she is wearing, rather than her work prompting a huge change

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26 hours ago LookFantastic slashes price of 'lovely' designer perfume to £40 in weekend flash sale

Dubbed 'one of the best perfumes I have ever smelled' by a smitten shopper, it seems that Diamonds are a girl's best friend after all.

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26 hours ago Adam Azim preparing for big fight by reading Harry Potter and watching rom

BOXING CLEVER COLUMN: Adam Azim takes on former world champion Sergey Lipinets in his 13th outing as a professional on Saturday night at Wembley Arena

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9 hours ago EastEnders' Diane Parish 'teases trouble for Denise' amid 40th anniversary twist

EastEnders fans will be able to have their say on whether Denise Fox chooses Ravi or Jack - as Diane Parish teases huge drama ahead of the 40th anniversary special

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12 hours ago Cunha caps welcome win as Wolves beat Aston Villa and move out of drop zone

Wolves likely have the most OTT entrance music in the Premier League: a drum’n’bass version of Whole Lotta Love belted out over a back drop of pitchside flamethrowers and lightning flashes on the hoardings. You half expect WWE wrestlers to emerge from the tunnel, not a football team, but on this night Wolves lived up to the bombast and delivered a full metal racket of a performance to take a desperately needed three points.A crashing drive from Jean Ricner-Bellegarde after a sweeping move across the field looked to have been enough to decide this game, only for Matheus Cunha to make it safe for Vitor Pereira’s side with a fabulous solo goal in added time. He twisted he turned, he held the ball up, then the Brazilian finally fired across Emiliano Martínez inside the far post, inspiring excelsis in the Jack Hayward stand. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Neymar heads home from £322m Saudi calamity still a prisoner of his potential | Jonathan Wilson

Brazilian’s injury-blighted career highlights iniquities of the game, from inflated expectations to curse of celebrity excessNever go back, but sometimes going back is all that remains. Just 18 months after he joined Al-Hilal, Neymar and the Saudi club have agreed to terminate his contract, allowing him to return to Brazil and rejoin Santos. Al-Hilal paid £77m to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain on a salary of £2.5m a week. He will be paid 85% of that for the remainder of this season, meaning he cost the club £322m for seven appearances, three assists and one goal. Like so much of Neymar’s career, it all seems such a dreadful waste.His is a story almost designed to highlight the iniquities of the modern game, from the impossible pressures placed on young players to the curse of celebrity and financial excess. Neymar’s great misfortune was to emerge just after Lionel Messi. Argentina had seemingly found a second Diego Maradona, so Brazil needed a second Pelé. When, in June 2011, ...

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12 hours ago Cunha shows worth to finish off Aston Villa and move Wolves out of drop zone

Wolves likely have the most OTT entrance music in the Premier League: a drum’n’bass version of Whole Lotta Love belted out over a back drop of pitchside flamethrowers and lightning flashes on the hoardings. You half expect WWE wrestlers to emerge from the tunnel, not a football team, but on this night Wolves lived up to the bombast and delivered a full metal racket of a performance to take a desperately needed three points.A crashing drive from Jean Ricner-Bellegarde after a sweeping move across the field looked to have been enough to decide this game, only for Matheus Cunha to make it safe for Vitor Pereira’s side with a fabulous solo goal in added time. He twisted he turned, he held the ball up, then the Brazilian finally fired across Emiliano Martínez inside the far post, inspiring excelsis in the Jack Hayward stand. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago EastEnders' Denise Fox star 'caught out' as she teases huge 40th anniversary twist

It's getting closer to EastEnders' highly anticipated anniversary week, as Denise Fox star Dianne Parish teases what's to come for her interactive love story twist

Events

13 hours ago Ravens’ Justin Tucker faces accusations from three more massage therapists

Three more massage therapists allege sexual misconductRavens kicker denied initial claims in initial investigationThree more massage therapists allege Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior during massage sessions, the Baltimore Banner reported Saturday.The allegations follow a report published by the Banner on Thursday in which six other women made similar accusations. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication

Only medical cannabis can stop Louis’ epileptic seizures, but the NHS refuses to supply it. Chris Petit and Emma Matthews have turned their fight into a filmThat uniquely valuable British writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit, creator of downbeat classics such as Radio On from 1979 and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman from 1982, may not these days find it easy to get an outlet for his work; this would be appear to be his first feature credit for 15 years. But he and co-director, editor and partner Emma Matthews have emerged with a deeply personal movie: painful, complex, challenging and engaging.Petit and Matthews riff and free-associate on the themes of memory, memory-loss and the moving image on video and celluloid, but at the centre of this is an urgent story from their own lives. In his early teens, their son Louis, now 22, a talented artist and musician, began to have epileptic seizures that wiped out his memories of childhood; some of these were of the type nicknamed “Ali...

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13 hours ago Lucky Liverpool? Possibly, but their spotless results make it hard to argue | Jonathan Wilson

Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor formLiverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition. They have won fewer league games by more than three goals than Tottenham have, but ended the day nine points clear at the top with their closest rivals to play the defending champions on Sunday. If Liverpool do, as they surely will, go on to win the title, it will have been an old-fashioned sort of success, a league won not by the spectacular or the flamboyant but by consistency and calmness, by ruthless accumulation.This was Liverpool’s sixth 2-0 win in the league; more than a quarter of their games so far. It’s a scoreline that speaks of control, of winning games with a little to spare, taking freakish equalisers, ill luck and odd refereeing decisions out of the equation, without being flashy and demanding overexertion: 2-0 is the scor...

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16 hours ago The reasons Wales' attack is so bad as fans try to work out what's going on

After being kept off the scoreboard in Paris, clearly things aren't working for the Welsh attack

Events

15 hours ago Siblings or dating? The science behind why some couples look like each other

Coming across a romantic couple that looks like they could be siblings isn't all that unusual, and there is actually solid science to explain why this happens. Can you guess which pairs are couples or siblings?

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18 hours ago 'Deplorable' France v Wales incident casts shadow as Warburton accuses star of 'revenge mission'

The France outside-half marred his team's win against Warren Gatland's side with a shocking tackle in the 70th minute of the Six Nations opener in Paris on Friday night

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16 hours ago France v Wales winners and losers as Adam Jones makes difference but Gatland on the brink

Wales got taken to the cleaners in Paris but there were a couple of positives

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31 hours ago Love Island's Katie Salmon is seen for the first time since the tragic death of her ex

The former Love Island star, 29, looked stunning in a sheer black long-sleeved top, flashing a glimpse of her bra underneath.

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18 hours ago Emily in Paris star Lily Collins and husband Charlie McDowell welcome baby girl via surrogate and reveal name

The 34-year-old daughter of Genesis legend Phil Collins shared the news on Instagram

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19 hours ago Romeo Beckham enjoys romantic dinner date with new girlfriend Kim Turnbull

David and Victoria Beckham's son Romeo Beckham and girlfriend Kim Turnbull enjoyed a romantic meal in London following his dad's BOSS event a day earlier

Politics

19 hours ago Lydia Bright models Nobody's Child 'colour of the season' suit during 'magical' Paris getaway

Lydia Bright looked chic in the timeless two-piece suit from Nobody's Child, which she paired with a rugby shirt – a trend that's been causing a stir on social media

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21 hours ago Irish TV broadcasters claim Wales are so bad they're damaging the Six Nations

Former Ireland centre and wing Shane Horgan didn't hold back in his criticism of Wales after yet another defeat to kick-off the 2025 Six Nations tournament in Paris

Politics

21 hours ago Lily Collins and husband Charlie McDowell announce birth of their first child

‘Emily in Paris’ star also shared the baby’s name, which seemed to have been inspired by her love of Scandinavia

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26 hours ago 7 of the best free museums in Paris: From ancient apothecary to magnificent Monets

These Parisian galleries, archives and exhibitions are admission-free throughout the year

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26 hours ago Stanley fans snag limited edition Valentine's Day cup with surprise romantic addition

Water bottle brand Stanley have welcomed another Quencher into their collection and it's the definition of heart-eyes

Politics

26 hours ago Justin Bieber looks disheveled as he flashes tattooed chest in NYC amid growing fan concern

A disheveled-looking Justin Bieber was seen stepping out in New York City on Thursday night. Fans have shared worries in recent weeks over his somber looks and unkempt appearance.

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30 hours ago Justin Bieber looks tired and disheveled as he flashes tattooed chest while stepping out in New York City

A disheveled-looking Justin Bieber was seen stepping out in New York City on Thursday night. Fans have shared worries in recent weeks over his somber looks and unkempt appearance.

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32 hours ago Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over ‘direct impact’ of Trump’s climate retreat and aid freeze

Samoa’s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is ‘very disappointing’ and puts the survival of Pacific countries at greater riskLeaders and environmental advocates in the Pacific have expressed alarm over Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and freeze foreign aid, warning the moves will accelerate the existential threats they face as nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis.The Paris agreement is the world’s main effort to address the impacts of the climate crisis. Trump has called it “unfair” and a “rip off”. Continue reading...

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