23 minutes ago Ronnie O'Sullivan punches table as Barry Hawkins dumps him out of UK Snooker Championship

Eight-time UK Championship winner Ronnie O'Sullivan has been knocked out on the first day of the 2024 event by Barry Hawkins, with the legendary snooker star seen punching the table

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35 minutes ago Neymar slams Man City star Rodri for comments on Vinicius Jr following controversy

Neymar has hit back at Ballon d'Or winner Rodri following the midfielders advice to Vinicius Jr after the winger felt he was snubbed at the award ceremony

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35 minutes ago Keir Starmer played the China card in Rio – and sent a message to a hawkish Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall

The PM and other western leaders are cosying up to Beijing. If the president-elect imposes punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, he will give Xi the upper handBoth were lawyers before they became politicians, but that’s where the similarities between Keir Starmer and Richard Nixon end. The former US president resigned in disgrace at the height of the Watergate corruption scandal exactly 50 years ago. Britain’s prime minister may have been unwise to accept free tickets from Arsenal FC – but he’s not in Nixon’s league.Except, perhaps, was there just a touch of Tricky Dicky about Starmer’s meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, at last week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro? Watergate aside, Nixon is famous for his groundbreaking 1972 visit to Beijing, which opened the way to normalised r...

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35 minutes ago Coronation Street's Maureen Lipman reveals wedding dance to be choreographed by Strictly icon

Coronation Street star Maureen Lipman has revealed the special role Strictly Come Dancing legend Arlene Phillips will play at her wedding

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35 minutes ago Strictly star Tasha Ghouri cruelly taunted by bullies who mocked her disability

Tasha Ghouri, 26, is one of the leading favourites to win Strictly Come Dancing this year - and the talented star isn't going to let online trolls stand in her way

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35 minutes ago Man United guaranteed to be without seven stars vs Ipswich as Ruben Amorim blow confirmed

Manchester United injury news with Ruben Amorim set to be without a host of key players as he gets to work against Ipswich Town

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38 minutes ago DAN HODGES: Out of touch Starmer should be talking to furious farmers and freezing pensioners

So, Sir Keir Starmer has finally decided to grace us with his presence. After another week of globe-trotting, he flew back to a sub-zero Britain.

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53 minutes ago Family of Briton, 18, facing jail in Dubai over holiday romance say they are living a ‘nightmare’

‘He is only 18 years old, very scared, and his mental health is starting to decline,’ family says

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58 minutes ago Voices: It’s been more than twenty years – how is Wicked still defying gravity?

Call me the Wicked Witch of the West, but the last thing the world needs is yet another revival of the same tired musical, writes Emma Clarke. Can we not come up with new material instead?

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62 minutes ago Conor McGregor fires homophobic insult at Jake Paul as boxer taunts him over rape case

Conor McGregor sent a vile homophobic message to Jake Paul who taunted him just hours after the UFC star was found to have assaulted a woman in a Dublin hotel

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