96 minutes ago Who is the German Christmas market attack suspect? A Saudi doctor and far

Police arrested a 50-year-old man after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday night

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2 hours ago ‘I’m a pain in the backside ... an awkward sod’: Alan Bates on love, justice and the Post Office scandal

He became a household name after ITV turned Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice into a drama. He reflects on his fight for compensation, turning down an OBE – and getting married on Richard Branson’s island Sir Alan Bates is at home in Llandudno with his wife Suzanne. Or, as he puts it, Lady Suzanne. You might know him better as Mr Bates from the Post Office scandal. He is the man who refused to give up when the Post Office told thousands of subpostmasters that they were inept or corrupt rather than acknowledging they were victims of flawed Horizon computer technology and managerial mendacity. It resulted in the biggest miscarriage of justice Britain has known – more than 900 people convicted of theft or false accounting, 236 jailed, numerous family breakdowns and at least four suicides.For 20 years, few of us knew about the scandal. But gradually his campaign built up steam, thanks largely to his tireless work. In January, ITV turned it into a gripping docudrama, Mr Bates vs t...

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2 hours ago The Christmas that went wrong: I met my new girlfriend’s family – and talk turned to my book on masturbation

My partner’s family knew I was writing about self-discovery and self-pleasure, but I wasn’t prepared for where the discussion would take usI flew from London to New York on Christmas Eve 2014 to spend Christmas Day with Cassie’s family. It’s the sort of thing you’re supposed to do when you’ve been going out with someone for 10 years, but I’d only known Cassie a few months. She came out to her father about dating me and it didn’t go down well. Then, a few weeks later, she told him over a family dinner that I was writing a book about masturbation. Her sister and mother took her aside in the kitchen afterwards. “Why didn’t you just tell him she’s writing a book on travel, or something?” her sister asked.Spending Christmas Day together was supposed to smooth things over, but no sooner had we sat down to eat than her father asked me about what I was writing. Maybe he thought I’d changed my mind, and gone for something a bit more Downton Abbey? Cassie’s sister looked at me intently, darin...

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4 hours ago Man Utd transfer news: Ruben Amorim's request to land next Cristiano Ronaldo

Manchester United's recruitment over the years has left a lot to be desired and Ruben Amorim wants the club to seek talent from Portugal, having missed several gems in recent years

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4 hours ago Just 2 percent of people can solve this letter IQ test stumping nearly everyone

A brainteaser shared on X about a father's son's name left lots of users convinced they had worked it out - but can you answer it correctly without getting tripped up?

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4 hours ago Met Office's Christmas Day weather verdict with conditions expected to be 'double' average

Conditions are expected to improve after a "perfect storm" of adverse weather conditions and road congestion led to widespread disruption during the Christmas getaway

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5 hours ago No script. No replacement for Daniel Craig. And disastrous meetings about cashing in on the franchise. The battle royale between Amazon and powerful 007 producer that's left the next Bond film on ice

He was pushed out of a plane and still managed to grapple a parachute off his enemy in Moonraker.

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5 hours ago Suspect allegedly sets fire to sleeping woman on train and watches her burn to death

A suspect has been arrested after allegedly setting fire to a woman on the Subway at a station in Brooklyn and watching as she burned to death. The suspect is a migrant from Guatemala

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6 hours ago Claudia Winkleman teases shocking moment from The Traitors' new series that left her 'shaking'

The 52-year-old won her first BAFTA in 2023 for hosting the smash hit BBC gameshow and said the third series left her and the crew 'shaking'.

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6 hours ago Trump vows to rename Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, as Mount McKinley

Democratic former President Barack Obama renamed the mountain using the local natives’ name of Denali in 2015, after a decades-long naming battleUS president-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US president who was assassinated in 1901.Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917. Continue reading...

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