60 m. ago Direct trainline to sunny European city planned in St Pancras expansion

A new direct train service from St Pancras International could stretch as far as Milan in Italy, as the station prepares for a major expansion to accommodate three times as many passengers per hour

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70 m. ago Stephen Hendry raises Judd Trump concern ahead of World Championship

Snooker legend Stephen Hendry has one concern over Judd Trump which he believes could hold the world No. 1 back from winning the 2025 World Snooker Championship

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73 m. ago Elon Musk claims US government workers to be put on leave if they fail to return to office – live

Billionaire claims workers will face administrative leave if they ‘ignored President Trump’s executive order’Musk demand for federal workers document what they do brings chaosMusk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestormHere’s a little more on Dan Bongino, the Maga podcaster Donald Trump has named as deputy director of the FBI and who will oversee the bureau alongside newly appointed director Kash Patel.The president announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives need to say so. Continue reading...

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73 m. ago Macron arrives at White House as Europeans scramble to convince Trump to stand up to Putin

President Emmanuel Macron of France became the first European leader to meet Trump at the White House Monday, as the continent rallies its arguments in defense of Ukraine.

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74 m. ago Norovirus nightmare grows as P&O cruise passengers 'drop like flies' on voyage

Guests on the P&O Iona cruise ship was hit by a suspected norovirus outbreak, with guests allegedly vomiting in restaurants, on decks and outside their cabins during a week-long voyage

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76 m. ago Missing Aberdeen twins' cause of death revealed after sisters found in river

Hungarian sisters Henrietta and Eliza Huszti tragically disappeared in Aberdeen, Scotland, last month and their bodies were devastatingly found in a river weeks later

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82 m. ago Rudderless Chelsea’s sustained slump risks making Cole Palmer restless

The 22-year-old is an elite player. How might he react if the Blues miss out on Champions League qualification again?Remember those chants of “We’ve got our Chelsea back” when Enzo Maresca’s side thumped Southampton at St Mary’s in December? Life moves quickly in west London. Two months have passed since those heady days, back when the talk was of a burgeoning title challenge, and the mood at Stamford Bridge has fractured so rapidly that the theme of a protest against the owners before their home game against Southampton on Tuesday night is – wait for it – “We want our Chelsea back”.It may seem an overreaction to a dip in form. Even so it is not hard to find fans who feel a growing disconnection with the club and struggle to understand Chelsea’s youth-driven recruitment strategy. They sense that the change pushed by the majority shareholder, Clearlake Capital, has been too intense; that too much knowledge has left the building since the end of the Roman Abramovich era. Perhaps it is...

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82 m. ago P&O Cruise passengers ‘dropping like flies’ from suspected norovirus outbreak

The cruise line confirmed that passengers had reported gastrointestinal symptoms

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83 m. ago Kenya’s Brimin Kipkorir suspended after testing positive for banned substances

AIU reveals ‘presence/use of EPO, furosemide’ in testsHe previously won marathons in Sydney and FrankfurtThe Kenyan marathon runner Brimin Kipkorir has been suspended provisionally, after he tested positive for prohibited substances, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday.Kipkorir won the Sydney Marathon in 2024 in a course-record time of 2hr 06min 18sec, and the Frankfurt Marathon in 2022 and 2023. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago This Oscars favourite will be hard to see in cinemas. Here’s why

Palestinian film No Other Land cannot find a US distributor. Drew Paul reports

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87 m. ago Julianne Moore’s freckles? How Republican bans on ‘woke’ books have reached new level

Trump administration escalates movement forged by US states to censor literature in full-scale DEI crackdownWhen the actor Julianne Moore learned her children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry, a tale of a girl who learns to stop hating her freckles, had been targeted for a potential ban at all schools serving US military families, she took to Instagram, posting that it was a “great shock” to discover the story had been “banned by the Trump Administration”.Moore had seen a memo that circulated last week revealing that tens of thousands of American children studying in about 160 Pentagon schools both in the US and around the world had had all access to library books suspended for a week, while officials conducted a “compliance review” to hunt out any books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”. Continue reading...

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88 m. ago Africa's 'oldest' abandoned railway tunnel hidden in the mountains for 149 years

The Hex River Tunnel in South Africa was built in 1876 and is still standing today, despite being abandoned more than 30 years ago - it was constructed to connect Cape Town and Kimerbley

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95 m. ago 'Incredible' technique helps stars make old clothes look brand new again

Designer Roksanda Ilincic is revisiting some of her archival designs during her Autumn Winter 2025 runway show at London Fashion Week. She's working with developers to revitalise colours and fabrics

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98 m. ago Kyiv summit and London fashion week: Monday’s photos of the day

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Scullion LAW’s Military Law Service: A force to be reckoned with

Scullion LAW is proud to announce that Senior Solicitor Stephanie Grieve has been shortlisted for the prestigious Military Values in Business Award at the Scottish Forces in Business Awards 2025.

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1 hour ago More wins, more drinks: Opening hours in pubs could extend in England and Wales during Women's Euros

Soccer fans in England and Wales might be allowed to spend more time in pubs if their teams go far at the Women’s European Championship being held in Switzerland in July

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1 hour ago Apple announces $500bn in US investments over next four years

Spending ranges from new AI server factory in Texas to film and TV content and may add 20,000 jobsApple said on Monday it would spend $500bn in US investments in the next four years that will include a giant factory in Texas for artificial intelligence servers and add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the country in that time.That $500bn in expected spending includes everything from purchases from US suppliers to US filming of television shows and movies for its Apple TV+ service. The company declined to say how much of the figure it was already planning to spend with its US supply base, which includes firms such as Corning that makes glass for iPhones in Kentucky. Continue reading...

Economics

1 hour ago Three dead and one missing after boat sinks in New York City

Two others hospitalized after speed boat capsizes off Breezy Point, Queens, as Coast Guard continues searchThree people died, two others were hospitalized and one was missing after a boat sank in New York City on Sunday, according to the US Coast Guard.One of the hospitalized people was in critical condition on Monday morning, police said, a day after the speedboat took on water 5 miles (8km) south-east of Breezy Point, a neighborhood at the tip of Queens’ Rockaway peninsula. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels

Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this weekBP is expected to ditch a target to ramp up renewable energy generation by 2030 as part of a shift back towards fossil fuels when it presents its strategy to investors this week.The chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, is poised to tell shareholders that the oil and gas company is scrapping its target to increase renewable generation 20-fold between 2019 and 2030 to 50 gigawatts, Reuters reported. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay

As well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissionsSince 2022, the Guardian photographer Alessio Mamo has been tracking the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion, which began three years ago on Monday, caused millions of Ukrainians to flee. Cities have been flattened, villages occupied and lives destroyed. At least 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and many more injured in Europe’s biggest conflict since the second world war.Aerial view of craters caused by rocket fire in a field in the liberated area between Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. Ammunition and missile residues in these craters may become a source of chemical pollution that could reach the groundwater Continue reading...

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