48 minutes ago Magdeburg: Memorial service held in Magdeburg as police confirm four women among those killed in Christmas market attack

Social media videos show casualties lying on the ground surrounded by a heavy police presence

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48 minutes ago Anthony Joshua breaks silence on Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk fight result with one

Oleksandr Usyk has now fought Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua twice over the last three years - also fighting Daniel Dubois during that time - and remains undefeated

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57 minutes ago European country remains completely under the radar and snubbed by tourists

With a coastline overlooking the Adriatic and Ionian seas, this country offers a stunning Riviera with beautiful beaches and coves that can easily rival those found on the shores of one of its neighbours, Greece

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62 minutes ago Magdeburg Christmas market attack suspect Taleb A in court as five killed and 200 injured

Germany authorities have confirmed that four women - aged between 45 and 75 - and a nine-year-old boy were killed during Friday's horrific attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany - with the death toll expected to rise

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2 hours ago Inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic: ‘It’s sad seeing the monkey do cocaine’

The unexpectedly brilliant ‘Better Man’ dives into the rise, fall and rise again of one of Britain’s greatest pop stars who is depicted as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee. Adam White speaks to its director Michael Gracey about monkeys, mayhem and why Robbie was nervous about Gary Barlow seeing the script

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2 hours ago How Scotland and Trident would benefit the most from 2.5% defence spending rise

Labour has committed to increasing defence spend, but Sir Keir Starmer has not said when the target of 2.5 per cent of GDP will be achieved

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3 hours ago We didn’t make it to the Paralympics, but we still have hope: the Gazan paracyclist

As part of the Guardian’s Gaza Voices series this year, Hazem Suleiman told of how the roads he trained on had been destroyed. Now, he’s raising money for other amputeesHazem Suleiman is a member of the Gaza Sunbirds, a paracycling team based in Gaza. A former footballer, he lost a leg as a result of being shot in protests at the Rafah border in 2018. We first spoke to him five months ago as part of our Gaza Voices series on everyday Palestinian life. At that time, Suleiman, who also photographs and documents life in Gaza, was dealing with the toll of displacement from his home in Rafah to the town of Khan Younis.He and the other Sunbirds had been training hard, hoping to represent Palestine in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, but after the Israeli assault on Gaza following Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023, they were unable to realise this dream. They did at least achieve their goal – to compete in an international competition for the first time – in May this year: the Para-Cycling Ro...

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3 hours ago Exclusive: photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community

Automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest show images of the Massaco people, who are flourishing despite environmental threatsRead more on this story: New images show Brazil’s uncontacted people are thriving – but with success comes a new threatRemarkable images taken by automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest reveal an isolated community that appears to be thriving despite pressure from ranchers and illegal encroachment into the Amazon.The pictures, of a group of men, offer the outside world its first glimpse of the community – and give further evidence the population is growing. The group is known as the Massaco after the river that runs through their lands, but no one knows what they call themselves, while their language, social fabric and beliefs remain a mystery. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv strikes Russia in major drone attack 1,000km from frontline

High-rise residential buildings hit in Russian city of Kazan but no casualties reported; Zelenskyy reveals meetings with CIA chief. What we know on day 1,033 See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukraine staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000km (620 miles) from the frontline, on Saturday, damaging residential buildings and temporarily shutting down the airport. A drone smashed into a high-rise apartment block and damaged a skyscraper in the city of more than 1.3 million but there were no casualties, local officials said. Videos posted on Russian social media networks showed drones hitting a high-rise building and setting off fireballs. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said two drones hit a 37-storey apartment block and that Ukraine had been targeting an unspecified industrial facility but that it suffered no damage.Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Saturday without specifically mentioning the strike on Kazan: “We will definitely contin...

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6 hours ago Add three natural ingredients to your grass now or regret it in spring

Gardeners have been told to add three natural ingredients to their grass now to ensure it remains stunning, robust and healthy in the spring. Here's what to do

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