29 h. ago ‘Super proud’: Slegers hails Arsenal after Women’s Champions League success

Head coach says Barcelona win was ‘above expectations’‘We had to suffer but were spot on in crucial moments’The Arsenal head coach, Renée Slegers, said her team’s performance was “above all expectations” after they stunned Barcelona to win the Women’s Champions League title in Lisbon.Cited as the major underdogs before kick-off, Arsenal thwarted a Barcelona side who had won three of the past four finals, and won their first women’s European title since 2007 thanks to substitute Stina Blackstenius’ 74th-minute winner. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Channel 4 boss urges Ofcom to be ‘brave’ and back public service broadcasters

Alex Mahon also urged the Government to reconsider copyright proposals to ensure they ‘don’t harm British creativity’.

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5 d. ago I’m taking beta blockers for my anxiety – and so are many of my friends. Is that a problem?

Dreading the thought of giving a speech, or stressed about a big work event? Your GP may prescribe beta blockers to reduce the effects of adrenaline on your heart. Here’s what happened when I took themI first took beta blockers two years ago, when I was asked to give a eulogy. Terrible at public speaking on a good day, let alone at a funeral, my first instinct was to refuse to do it. I had made a speech at a friend’s wedding 15 years before and my legs shook so violently throughout that I thought I would collapse. This isn’t a case of being overcritical or dramatic: I find it almost impossible to stand up in front of a crowd and talk. It is an ordeal, for all involved – or it was before I took beta blockers.Beta blockers are a prescription medication that blocks adrenaline and therefore temporarily reduces the body’s reaction to stress. Routinely given to patients with heart and circulatory conditions, including angina, atrial fibrillation and high blood pressure, as well as to prev...

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1 week ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs silent response as family attend sex trafficking trial

Sean 'Diddy' Combs made his feelings clear after spotting his children and supporters in the public gallery of a New York City courthouse for the first day of his trial

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2 w. ago Harry Styles in 'so random' appearance in Vatican crowd for history

Harry Styles was among the thousands gathered in Vatican City to witness the inaugural public address of Pope Leo XIV following a two-day papal conclave

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2 w. ago Welsh triplets who starred in film with Keira Knightley set for 'world first' transplant

Julien, Eliot and Ryan Gregory are heading back to Wales for a "world first triplet hair transplant" after first capturing public attention on the day they were born at Witybush Hospital

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2 w. ago Europe marks 80 years since VE day as continent faces new security realities

Events to take place against backdrop of Ukraine conflict, rises in defence spending and US foreign policy shiftSolemn ceremonies will be held at war memorials in towns and villages across France on Thursday as the country honours its dead and marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, a public holiday this year, as it is every year.In Paris, the president, Emmanuel Macron, will lay a wreath at the foot of Charles de Gaulle’s statue, walk up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, rekindle the eternal flame at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and inspect the troops. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK's most infamous lag Charles Bronson denied public parole hearing as judge issues warning

A former judge has blocked the notorious inmate who is locked up for 23 hours a day from having his parole hearing aired in public, claiming his "notoriety would no doubt be increased"

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3 w. ago Five years on: how Covid changed sport for better and for worse

With the pandemic in the rearview mirror it was clearly a boost for Fifa and Saudi Arabia but harmed grassroots sport and player welfareSound the trumpets, beat the drum, let loose the buttock-rockets of hope. One of the strangest and most unsatisfying things about the Covid-19 pandemic, among a great many deeply strange and unsatisfying things, is that it never actually had a shared end date or ceremonial send-off.Jarringly so, because this was a period in the national life built around a rigid roster of public events. The numerical rules. The weekly banging of pots in honour of people you secretly consider to be serfs. Such unlikely figures as health secretary Matt Hancock appearing in public every day in order to say inauthentic-sounding things about public health, all the while resembling the doomed subcommander of an imperial space galleon who keeps announcing that he’s got the situation under control sir, just as the bridge behind him is cleaved in two and he’s sucked out into...

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3 w. ago We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart

The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti-protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to beAkiko Hart is the director of the human rights organisation LibertyWhen we beat the Conservative government over its anti-democratic protest laws in court last year, we thought that would be the end of the story. Judges in the high court had made it very clear that laws that gave the police almost unlimited powers to crack down on any protest that caused “more than minor” disruption were unlawful. It ordered that the laws should be scrapped. We celebrated. Given that the incoming Labour government had voted down these very same laws a year earlier, we believed that protest would be taken out of the culture wars arena and put back into the sacred space of fundamental rights.Yet Labour dragged us back to court, in a misguided attempt to be seen to look tough on public order. And now today, on a day of much Labour soul-searching, we’...

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3 w. ago Pilot made two fatal errors in seconds before army helicopter crashed into passenger jet

The bombshell report into the January 29 incident at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan International Airport, which also killed the three Army personnel aboard the helicopter, claims that Captain Rebecca Lobach did not follow an order to change course.

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3 w. ago Why Do We Celebrate May Day? History, date, traditions and is it a public holiday?

Summer is finally here...kind of.

Culture

3 w. ago Pete Hegseth scraps Pentagon’s Women, Peace and Security program citing DEI

Defense secretary dismissed it as a ‘woke Biden initiative’ despite it being a Trump achievement from his first termPete Hegseth, the defense secretary, has abruptly banished the Pentagon’s Women, Peace and Security program as part of his crusade against diversity and equity – dismissing it as “woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative” despite it being a signature Donald Trump achievement from his first term.In a post on X, Hegseth wrote: “This morning, I proudly ENDED the ‘Women, Peace & Security’ (WPS) program inside the [Department of Defense]. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How a law made to stop child abduction is being weaponised against mothers fleeing abuse

Award-winning barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman has spent her career advocating for vulnerable women in family law courts. In an extract from her new book, she explores how the very systems designed to protect children can end up putting them – and their mothers – at risk of more violence and abuse

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3 w. ago Kim Kardashian's daughter North, 11, is TALLER than mom as they wear pajamas in public after spa day

Kim Kardashian and her daughter North West enjoyed a lavish spa day in Los Angeles over the weekend on Sunday - after backlash over wearing pricey jewelry to the beach.

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3 w. ago The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more | Kai Falkenberg

The Trump administration is creating a chilling effect on independent reporting and public dissentThis week is World Press Freedom Day. That used to be a time when we pointed fingers at governments that kept journalists from doing their jobs – places like Turkey, where reporters are imprisoned for libel, or Saudi Arabia, where government censorship is a part of daily life. From our privileged perch here in the US, we highlighted the struggle of journalists suffering under authoritarian rule. But this year, the ones suffocating aren’t halfway around the world – they’re right here at home.In my 20 years as a media lawyer, I’ve always seen the United States as the gold standard for press freedom – a model admired by journalists around the world. But in just a few short months, the Trump administration has severely undermined those protections, creating a chilling effect on independent reporting and public dissent. Today, the White House is waging an increasingly hostile campaign agains...

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4 w. ago A former Army Captain implores: It's time for our brave service men and women to once again proudly wear their uniforms in public EVERY DAY

On May 8 and in the days before, millions of Britons will celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking perhaps the greatest moment in our nation's history.

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