65 minutes ago 'Our son was arrested in Dubai over holiday fling, each day is an uphill battle'

"This ordeal has taken a terrible toll on us, both emotionally and financially."

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81 minutes ago Jamie Carragher ranks top five Liverpool players ever as he criticises Mohamed Salah

Jamie Carragher has ranked Mohamed Salah among the Liverpool greats, while also criticising the forward's "selfish" decision to speak out about his future at the club

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87 minutes ago Police find driver using shoe laces to operate windscreen wipers during Storm Bert

An uninsured driver used shoe laces to operate his windscreen wipers during Storm Bert’s severe weather on Saturday, 23 November.

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1 hour ago Extra bank holiday 'planned for next year' as UK set to celebrate major anniversary

World War Two veterans, around 70,000 of whom remain in 2024, have given their full support to the prospective plans that could give Britons an extra four-day weekend

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1 hour ago Max Verstappen backlash brought up as Red Bull chief Helmut Marko gets the last laugh

Helmut Marko saw enough potential in Max Verstappen to let him become F1's youngest ever driver with Red Bull, despite critics claiming it was too "dangerous" for the now four-time world champion

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3 hours ago Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’

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3 hours ago How late $300bn deal left a sense of dissatisfaction and betrayal at Cop29

While an agreement on climate finance was eventually reached in Baku, many poorer countries were outragedThe Lamborghini showroom and a Tiffany branch sit at either end of Baku’s long boulevards beside the Caspian Sea. Adorned with grand 19th-century mansions, all plaster nymphs and columned facades, that were built by the first oil millionaires, they are a testament to the enduring power of fossil fuels. Oil has been very good to Azerbaijan.It flows out of the ground here, and gas has seeped out, ignited and burned naturally in the area for so long that the country’s symbol is a flame and its nickname is the Land of Fire. Baku was the world’s first oil town, with wells exploited as early as the 1840s. Ilham Aliyev, the autocratic president, calls oil and gas “the gift of God” to his pe...

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4 hours ago Regrets, feminism, and Trump’s ‘fascination’ with Putin: key takeways from Merkel’s memoir

The former German chancellor’s book Freedom gives insights on Brexit and her East German upbringingAngela Merkel was notoriously discreet and privacy-conscious as Germany’s chancellor, rarely veering off message during her 16 years in office.In her eagerly anticipated political autobiography Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, she has hardly turned into a gossipmonger overnight. But across 721 pages – published on Tuesday in German and English thanks to nine different translators working on chunks of the book simultaneously – there are glimpses of a Merkel previously unseen. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Family of Brit teen who faces 20 years in UAE prison over fling with UK girl speaks out

Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, north London, was arrested for having a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old girl while he and his family were on holiday in the United Arab Emirates

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