2 hours ago Tourist spot with famous long name teams up with Mastercard to solve payment issued

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales is one of the locations included

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4 hours ago FBI employees questioned about involvement in Jan. 6 cases as Justice Department weighs firings

Thousands of FBI employees who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are being asked to complete in-depth questionnaires about their involvement in the inquiries as the Trump administration's Justice Department weighs disciplinary actions that could result in firings

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52 minutes ago Barclays customers 'left out of pocket' by outage get compensation message

People with Barclays accounts were unable to access their funds or use online banking due to a technical issue over the weekend - the bank has now apologised

Economics

4 hours ago Miss Austen review – Keeley Hawes is magnificent in this absolute treat of a period drama

Arguably the greatest act of literary vandalism in history becomes masterly TV, as we see Cassandra Austen destroy thousands of her sister Jane’s letters following her death – out of loveThis year is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Janeites rejoice (in suitably restrained and quietly sardonic fashion)! Brontë devotees – I suppose you had better go for a long walk across a large moor until it is one of your lot’s time to shine again.Until then, it is all things Austen. Expect genteel celebrations from Bath to Hampshire and screen and print schedules stuffed with tributes to, dramas inspired by and features about the great woman and her works for the next 12 glorious months. First off the televisual blocks is Miss Austen, an adaptation of Gill Hornby’s book of the same name, which tells the story of the just-beginning-to-be-famed Regency novelist through the eyes of the beloved sister who long survived her, Cassandra – played by Keeley Hawes with her customary controlled...

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18 hours ago Who has left Dancing on Ice so far? 2025 departures and who is still in ITV show

All of the stars who have skated away from Dancing on Ice this season ⛸

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4 hours ago Inside lives of 'world's six loneliest people' who shunned modern life

We're stepping into a year of chaotic tech bros as the likes of Elon Musk have more power than ever, this bunch decided to get off-grid before the bots come for us all...

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25 hours ago Justin Baldoni accused of 'bogus claim' as New York Times DENIES 'early access' to Blake Lively's complaint

The New York Times has issued a strong rebuttal to allegations made by Justin Baldoni in his amended lawsuit against Blake Lively. The New York Times issued a statement rejecting the allegations.

Society

4 hours ago Marcus Rashford joins Aston Villa on loan with option for permanent deal

Villa could buy forward in summer for £40mRuben Amorim not worried if Rashford scores regularlyMarcus Rashford’s loan move to Aston Villa was confirmed by Manchester United late on Sunday evening, with the club wishing him “good luck for the rest of the season”.The forward’s departure comes after Ruben Amorim refused to play him since mid-December due to “training reasons”. In a statement United said: “Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has joined Aston Villa on loan until the end of the 2024-25 season. Everyone at Manchester United wishes Marcus good luck for the rest of the season.” Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Mom uses hair dryer to 'warm' infant son but burns him to death when she passes out: report

Authorities accused the mom of being under the influence of a controlled substance at the time

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4 hours ago Senior USAid officials put on leave after denying access to Musk’s Doge team

After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them to lock out workers and read emailsUSAid has put two senior security officials on administrative leave after a tense standoff with members of Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency (Doge) seeking access to sensitive data from the agency, five current and former USAid officials have told the Guardian.USAid director of security John Voorhees and a deputy have been put on administrative leave after they blocked efforts by Doge members to physically access restricted areas, the people said. The demands led to a tense standoff during which a senior deputy to Musk threatened to call the US marshals in to grant access to the building. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Civil servant is left homeless after Barclays payment issues mean she unable to buy her new family home

Paola Mereu, 39, sold the house her and her husband and their two daughters, aged one and seven, lived in at Uxbridge and were meant to buy their new home in West Sussex on Friday.

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6 hours ago Bombshell OnlyFans probe reveals shocking scale of alleged crimes against 100s of UK women

Police files obtained by a Mirror investigation reveal more than a thousand crime reports linked to OnlyFans in five years including claims of coercion and control, rape, sextortion and revenge porn

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7 hours ago Future of US aid agency in doubt after website goes dark and officials put on leave

President and ally Elon Musk have launched an assault on the Agency for International Development

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9 hours ago Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system

System disperses trillions of dollars in US government spending each year, including social security

Economics

9 hours ago Mathys Tel 'makes Man United decision' as Ruben Amorim targets transfer deadline day deal

Bayern Munich winger Mathys Tel has informed Vincent Kompany that he wishes to depart the club before the January transfer window closes

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7 hours ago USAID officials on leave after protecting classified docs from Elon Musk’s DOGE

The USAID officials had a legal obligation to bar staffers without proper security clearance from seeing classified documents, according to reports

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9 hours ago Trump faces tariff backlash from business as trade war sparks inflation fear

Experts warn aggressive levies against US allies will hurt consumers and roil supply chains

Economics

14 hours ago Elon Musk backs mission to Mars to investigate remarkable 'square structure' seen on the red planet as Joe Rogan brands bizarre feature 'wild'

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has backed a mission to Mars to investigate the remarkable 'square structure' (pictured) that was captured on NASA's Mars Orbiter Camera.

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13 hours ago Pregnant teen wife's chilling last text before being dissolved in bath of acid

Arnima Hayat, 19, had been a gifted medical student, but all her dreams were shattered by her controlling and abusive husband, Meraj Zafar, who murdered her while she was pregnant

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9 hours ago Unai Emery moves quickly to agree second Aston Villa transfer after Marcus Rashford deal

Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford were undergoing medicals on Sunday as Aston Villa boss Unai Emery races to strengthen his squad following several departures this month.

Economics

16 hours ago Pep Guardiola says Haaland will control his emotions as striker prepares to face Gabriel in Arsenal clash

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Erling Haaland will control his emotions as the striker prepares to face defender Gabriel again following last September’s heated clash.

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13 hours ago ‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge

Employees condemn ‘unprecedented and scary’ effort to push out those who had worked on diversity programsJeremy Wood thought he was safe from the shuttering of federal government diversity initiatives that he expected to start as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.A Raleigh, North Carolina-based career civil servant in the US agriculture department, Wood had been among those tasked with implementing policies ordered by Joe Biden to curtail discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal government. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Pregnant teen dissolved in acid bath by controlling husband in horrific murder

Arnima Hayat was a gifted medical student and had ambitions of becoming a surgeon, before her dreams were stripped away from her in a horrific fashion.

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15 hours ago Elon Musk ‘needs to be held to account’ for comments on UK – Sir Ed Davey

Mr Musk previously described the Liberal Democrat leader as a ‘sniveling cretin’.

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17 hours ago Russia and Ukraine trade blame over an attack on a boarding school in Russia’s Kursk region

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months

Events

17 hours ago ‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon

First women working as fishing guides on Laxá River, featured in new film, call for action after farmed fish escapeFor seven generations, Andrea Ósk Hermóðsdóttir’s family have been fishing on the Laxá River in Aðaldalur. Iceland has a reputation as a world leader on feminism, but until recently women have not been able to work as guides to wild salmon fishing for visiting anglers – a job that has traditionally been the preserve of men.The 21-year-old engineering student, her sister Alexandra Ósk, 16, and their friends Arndís Inga Árnadóttir, 18, and her sister Áslaug Anna, 15, are now the first generation of female guides on their river in northern Iceland, and among the very first female fishing guides in the country. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Scotland must urgently get a grip on growing problem of weapons in schools

Fifty per cent rise in the use of weapons in schools after the pandemic hit must prompt a serious response from ministers

Events

18 hours ago The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technologyNo, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing its supremacy in AI technology. Yet, for all the disruption, the Sputnik analogy reveals less about DeepSeek than about American neuroses.The original Sputnik moment came on 4 October 1957 when the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1, the first time humanity had sent a satellite into orbit. It was, to anachronistically borrow a phrase from a later and even more momentous landmark, “one giant leap for mankind”, in Neil Armstrong’s historic words as he took a “small step” on to the surface of the moon. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Euan McColm: Keir Starmer's refusal to address damage of Brexit is down to fear of Nigel Farage

While the public is now convinced leaving EU was a mistake, the Prime Minister won’t acknowledge it in case it opens the door to Reform in some Labour constituencies

Events

19 hours ago Airport expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife

On top of the added levels of noise and air pollution, there’s the non-trivial matter of demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting several waterways and rerouting a long stretch of the M25Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has illuminated the “fasten seat belts” sign. Not only have Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves run into severe turbulence over Heathrow, the flight deck deliberately steered the Labour plane into storm clouds. That’s an interesting choice for a government that was already buffeted by serious unpopularity and it’s a choice that a lot of their own party are struggling to explain to themselves. Anger about the chancellor’s new commitment to back the expansion of the London airport and others is mingled with bewilderment. A lot of Labour people are scratching their heads trying to work out why she wants to burn political capital on a hugely contentious project that couldn’t possibly be complete until long after she’s done at the Treasury and Sir Keir is gone from Number...

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26 hours ago Peter Kay hit with court summons over bitter land dispute with neighbour that could see comedian lose access to part of his Irish holiday bolthole

Kay faces not being able to access his own driveway if he loses his battle with veteran farmer Michael Quigley over his second home in the countryside in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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19 hours ago Pregnant teenage wife dissolved in bath of acid by jealous and controlling husband

Arnima Hayat had ambitions of becoming a surgeon, but while at medical school in Austrlia, she met the man who would cut her life short before dissolving her body in a bath of acid

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20 hours ago 'Political will' needed from Labour to help Scottish fishermen in wake of 5

Scottish fishermen say there is an opportunity to negotiate better access to the seas post-Brexit.

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20 hours ago Inside the Motherwell dressing room after Stuart Kettlewell's surprise departure as 'bad run' narrative binned

The exit came as a massive shock to Harry Paton and his teammates as they prepare for their clash with Celtic

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23 hours ago Canada and Mexico hit back after Trump signs order for punishing tariffs

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, announces tit-for-tat 25% tariffs and warns of impeded access to ‘vital goods critical to US security’The leaders of Canada and Mexico have hit back after Donald Trump signed an order authorizing dramatic tariffs on their goods, along with imports from China.Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, on Saturday night made a televised address announcing concrete measures including a tit-for-tat 25% tariff phased in across $155bn worth of American products. Trudeau said Trump had put US consumers’ and industries’ access to much-needed Canadian critical minerals and resources including oil, energy and timber under threat, and promised to work with Canada’s provinces to review dealings with the United States. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago 'Government contractor' charged under the Official Secrets Act with disclosing sensitive intelligence documents appears in court

Juan Joseph, 42, is accused of using his position to access security documents and then leaking them, according to counter-terrorism detectives.

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