56 minutes ago Arne Slot already replied to Pep Guardiola's Man City title admission with 'boring' claim

Liverpool manager Arne Slot is taking it one game at a time as the Reds look to win their first Premier League title since 2020 - and his approach could be key

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58 minutes ago The circus that bought a tiny California town: ‘We’re creating our own Disneyland’

Nipton sat neglected for years until Las Vegas’s Spiegelworld turned it into a circus havenFrom 10 miles out, the tiny town of Nipton suddenly appears in the middle distance like a mirage: a huddle of lush eucalyptus trees in an otherwise impossibly vast, barren expanse of the California desert.From closer up, the place still feels dream-like. Old west-style buildings, including the Nipton Trading Post and a five-bed hotel built in the early 1900s, dot the community but are shuttered to the public. Other than the freight trains that regularly slice through the edge of town, Nipton is often completely silent. The unincorporated area is home to only about a dozen people, depending on the season, and spans just 80 acres. (“Blink and you’ll miss it,” one of the town’s caretakers says.) Cont...

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58 minutes ago I’ve written a diary every day since I was 14. What does that say about me?

Reading four decades of entries, I realise ego can take precedence over world events, life is never too dull to record – and I’ve learned not to take myself so seriously“Hello! I said to myself today that if I do five handstands and flip over it will be an excellent year and I did!” Thus, unceremoniously, began the 41-volume (and counting) story of my life. It was 1984 and I was 14, fumbling through adolescence in a scarlet beret. My likes, according to a list on the front page, included jacket potatoes and graveyards. My new year resolutions were to “see how long I can go without cake” and “improve my character.”I haven’t missed a day’s entry since that 1 January. My past crams two bookshelves in rows of page-a-day journals. It’s startling how little four decades seems when it’s repres...

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71 minutes ago Liverpool name lineup to face Southampton as two big names miss out for Reds

Trent Alexander-Arnold was taken off in the first half of the 2-0 win over Aston Villa before the international break and subsequently pulled out of the England squad

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74 minutes ago Desperate search continues for teenager missing for days on Scottish island

The 16-year-old was last seen around 8.45am on Monday

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83 minutes ago Top Russian general and 500 North Korean soldiers 'killed by British Storm Shadow missiles' in devastating attack

The strike launched by Ukraine on November 20 wiped out Lt-Gen Valery Solodchuk and also resulted with 18 Putin officers reported lost, with a further 18 wounded, it has been claimed.

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83 minutes ago Expert claims you can 'cure a cold in 24 hours' using one item you already have at home

A pharmacist has shared a "weird" but simple hack for curing a cold in just 24 hours - and you probably already have the key ingredient in your kitchen cupboard

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90 minutes ago Winter Wonderland and nine major parks are CLOSED as Storm Bert brings gale

Many Brits have seen the extreme weather conditions cause chaos in their communities this weekend, with pictures of broken fences, fallen trees and flooded roads being seen across the country.

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1 hour ago People bail out flooded homes in Pontypridd with bins in 'utterly heart

Rest centres have been set up to help support people who have been impacted by the conditions

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2 hours ago John Swinney pledges to create conditions 'for everyone in Scotland to thrive'

Swinney will say the nation’s challenges must be “understood and solved from the bottom up”.

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