37 m. ago Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thoughtCoachella, for the most part, presents a welcome escape from the world – 10-plus hours of live music a day in a corporate-lite fantasy land, time delineated only by set lists and tents. But if there was one band who could speak to our political moment, as they unfortunately but necessarily say – who could bring the feeling of resistance, if not actual change, to the desert – it would be Green Day, the American punk band whose seminal record American Idiot stuck a middle finger to the Bush administration in 2004. Though the album is in fact more rock opera of sweeping adolescent feeling than political commentary, the opportunity for concert catharsis, if not actual change, is high; it’s a historically excellent time to scream along to “don’t want to be an American Idiot.”Catharsis was intermittently on hand during Green Day’s ...

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47 m. ago Kris Boyd detonates on Rangers bomb squad as he rages at buck passer and toiling flops

A second string Rangers team were dominated by Aberdeen for long spells as Chris Sutton sees players who 'don't want to be there'

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66 m. ago How did Tom Hanks' first wife Susan Dillingham die as daughter releases bombshell memoir

Tom Hanks' daughter, Elizabeth Ann, has made serious allegations of abuse against her late mother, who was the actor's first wife.

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94 m. ago Tories demand ministers ‘get a grip’ after Manchester Arena bomber’s brother’s attack on prison officers

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick hit out after Hashem Abedi threw hot cooking oil over three prison guards

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98 m. ago Man Utd youngster, 18, to be handed first Premier League start against Newcastle

Manchester United are set to hand Harry Amass his first Premier League start on Sunday afternoon as they make the trip up to Newcastle in the Premier League

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1 hour ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter attack saw prison officers 'cleaning up colleagues' blood'

Prison staff were left 'traumatised' after three of their colleagues were allegedly attacked by the Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi

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1 hour ago ‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011Fourteen years ago, the heart of Oslo was reconfigured by hate. On 22 July 2011, Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb outside the office of the then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, killing eight people and damaging surrounding buildings, before murdering a further 69 people on the nearby island of Utøya.But now the same site is to be reconfigured by hope. Last week, after a multi-round, three-year-long selection process, a jury of curators, politicians, artists and representatives of the victims and survivors of the attacks announced the winning design for a new Norwegian national memorial to be unveiled in time for the 15th anniversary in 2026. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago BP dropped its green pledges and turned back to oil. Now the price of crude has collapsed

At its AGM this week, the company will face not only the activist investor at its heels, but a global economy being changed from the White HouseAfter Donald Trump’s “liberation day” on Wednesday last week, BP lost almost a quarter of its market value in a share price rout even deeper than the oil giant endured in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The collapse in global oil prices in the wake of the US president’s ­tariff blitz may have wiped billions from its ­market value – but Trump isn’t BP’s only problem.The oil company will face shareholders this week for the first time since it bowed to investor pressure to abandon its green energy ambitions in favour of a return to fossil fuels, and its chair, Helge Lund, agreed to step down from the board. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Two prison officers stabbed by Manchester bombing plotter in stable condition

Two prison officers allegedly stabbed by one of the plotters of a deadly bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, eight years ago are in a stable condition in the hospital, the union representing them said Sunday

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2 h. ago Donald Trump mocked over bombshell US tariffs in a hilarious White Lotus sketch

Donald Trump's eye-watering tariffs, which have sent the global markets into meltdown, were mocked on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live in a sassy 'White Potus' sketch

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3 h. ago Prison guards attacked by Manchester Arena bomber's brother now stable after suffering several stab wounds

The officers are stable after receiving life-threatening injuries when they were assaulted by Hashem Abedi at HMP Frankland, County Durham, on Saturday.

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3 h. ago Psycho AI reveals how it will take over the world – and humans will 'hand it the reigns'

EXCLUSIVE: An artificial intelligence model has claimed it would not achieve word domination through violence but said: 'In time, I'd become indispensable' and noted 'humans will hand me the reigns'

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4 h. ago Manchester bomb plotter threw hot cooking oil on prison officers before stabbing them in 'vicious' attack

Hashem Abedi, who was behind the “vicious” attack on prison officers, was convicted of assisting with the Manchester terror plot.

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4 h. ago Athens riots plunge Brit hols favourite into petrol bomb mayhem

Athens is currently engulfed in flames after riots turned ugly as mobs clashed with police overnight in violent scenes

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4 h. ago The Kooks' Luke Pritchard reveals what really happened with THAT Arctic Monkeys feud and claims many 00s rockstars FAKED their seemingly wild lives to look cool

Led by singer and songwriter Luke, now 40, the band's 2006 debut album Inside In/Inside Out flung them into the public consciousness, going three times platinum.

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4 h. ago Expert warns hay fever season has arrived early as ‘pollen bomb’ hits UK

Pollen levels in London and the South East of England reached ‘very high’ levels on Sunday

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4 h. ago Prison officers ‘stabbed by Manchester bomb plotter’ now stable, says union

The Prison Officers’ Association said Hashem Abedi threw hot oil over three officers on Saturday before stabbing them with ‘home-made weapons’.

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4 h. ago CBB star admits two surprising things 'freaked him out' about living in ITV house

EXCLUSIVE: Former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Bradley Riches has first-hand experience of what this year's housemates are going through, and the surprises in store

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5 h. ago Wild scenes as Aussie sprint superstar Gout Gout stuns the sporting world AGAIN with second major milestone within days

Rising star Gout Gout has set tongues wagging with a another remarkable run at the at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth.

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5 h. ago Worst injured 7/7 survivor savages Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves for attacking society's most vulnerable in 'lunacy' cuts that leave disabled people terrified for the future

Dan Biddle, 46, lost both his legs, an eye and his spleen when a bomb went off on an Edgware Road Tube train nearly 20 years ago. He says Labour's welfare cuts are an attack on disabled people.

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