67 m. ago World Snooker Championship 2025: Results, draw and schedule in full

Ronnie O’Sullivan has admitted he could still withdraw as he bids for a record eighth title at the Crucible

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72 m. ago Dad and son killed as sinkhole swallows them whole in 'red alert' Italy floods

Father and son Leone and Francesco Nardon plunged into a sinkhole caused by massive flooding in northern Italy that has forced officials to issue a cluster of red alerts

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81 m. ago Gangnam Style to Baby Shark: YouTube’s 20 greatest viral hits

After two decades of video sensations, here’s a reminder of the streaming platform’s most unforgettable clips – year by yearFrom weird elephant videos to revolutionising TV: 20 years of YouTubeYouTube is 20 years old. Although video had existed online before, YouTube’s ease of use – for the first time sites could easily embed video into their content – made it revolutionary. As such, we now live in a world where people watch more YouTube than anything else. But how did we get here? Perhaps the best way to find out is to trace the most significant videos produced in each of its 20 years. Continue reading...

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81 m. ago What links dachshund, bad actor and African kigelia tree? The Saturday quiz

From grunge anthems and deodorant to weasel and woodpecker, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which trend started on a bridge in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia?2 Which grunge anthem was inspired by a deodorant?3 Where is the Roodee, the world’s oldest working racecourse?4 Who was the legendary ninth-century female pope?5 What Chinese book of divination contains 64 hexagrams?6 Which two countries are named after the line of zero degrees latitude?7 What fabric is made with the help of bombyx larvae?8 Who is the only writer to win the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes?What links: 9 Pudong; Lantau Island; Urayasu; Marne-la-Vallée; Lake Buena Vista; Anaheim?10 Dachshund; African kigelia tree; bad actor; angry Brexiteer?11 Atomic; Bullet; Crazyhouse; Dunsany’s; Entangled?12 Vaalbara; Ur; Kenorland; Columbia; Rodinia; Pannotia; Pangea?13 Évariste Galois; Alexander Hamilton; Mikhail Lermontov; Alexander Pushkin?14 Colossae; Corinth; Ephesus; Galatia; Philippi; Rome; Thessaloniki?15 Cane t...

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81 m. ago Morbidly obese dad sheds over 22st after ditching takeaways and wins Slimming World award

An inspirational slimmer lost more than 22st after doctors told him to prepare for the worst.

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81 m. ago Readers' Letters: When did 'activism' become a career in itself?

Shouldn’t an ‘activist’ have lots of real world experience, wonders reader

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81 m. ago Jak Jones explains reason why he can shock Crucible again despite 'stressful' season

EXCLUSIVE: Welsh snooker star Jak Jones explains his quiet season and why he believes he can repeat his Crucible heroics of 2024 when he reached the final

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81 m. ago 'I sulked mourning the death of my boxing career but I can be world champ again'

Two-time featherweight world champion Josh Warrington thought his boxing career was done and dusted - but he returns against Asad Asif Khan on Saturday night as he bids to go out of the sport on his terms

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1 hour ago ACLU makes emergency bid to Supreme Court to halt ‘imminent’ new wave of deportations under Alien Enemies Act

The lawyers warned that the migrants’ deportation could be ‘imminent’

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2 h. ago How to watch World Snooker Championship 2025 for free: TV channel and live stream for Crucible tournament

Reigning champion Kyren Wilson is first up as Ronnie O’Sullivan returns

Society

2 h. ago 'The UK supreme ruling could further weaponise the trans community

It's about working for a world where trans people can just 'get on their lives with privacy, dignity and safety'

Events

2 h. ago Iranian minister says nuclear deal possible if US does not make ‘unrealistic demands’

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will resume talks in Rome on SaturdayIran’s top negotiator believes reaching an agreement on its nuclear programme with the US is possible as long as Washington is realistic, as the two sides prepare to resume talks in Rome on Saturday.Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, and the US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will begin indirect negotiations through mediators from Oman, after their first round in Muscat, which both sides described as constructive. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Appeals court pauses Judge Boasberg’s contempt probe against Trump administration

A federal appeals court late Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt investigation against the Trump administration after he accused officials of failing to comply with his order regarding deportation flights to El Salvador last month.

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3 h. ago Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration

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3 h. ago Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life

Tentative evidence for life on a distant world is exciting, but unconfirmed. As new telescopes bring exoplanets into sharper focus, is the truth out there?Towards the end of his life, the cosmologist Stephen Hawking was asked about the odds of finding intelligent alien life in the next two decades. “The probability is low,” he declared in 2016, and took a lengthy pause before adding: “Probably.”This week, other scientists from the University of Cambridge reported tentative evidence for two compounds in the atmosphere of a planet, K2-18b, that sits in the constellation of Leo 124 light years away. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The biggest cartels in the world as Mr Big 'works to shift kilos of cocaine'

An underworld source claims the Dubai-based gangster, who is wanted by cops across Europe, has built up international connections since moving to the Middle East.

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3 h. ago Dubai Mr Big fuelling gang wars in Scotland "working with biggest cocaine cartels in world"

The Dubai-based gangster fled Scotland after the Encrochat group was cracked by cops but his operation has since grown massively.

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4 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv sanctions three Chinese companies accused of helping Russia

The companies are believed to have helped produce Iskander missiles used by Russia in the conflict; Trump says he could soon ‘pass’ on peace talks. What we know on day 1,151Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Judges pauses Trump policy restricting passport choices for transgender people, finding it’s rooted in ‘irrational prejudice’

Judge found that group of nonbinary and transgender plaintiffs were likely to succeed on argument that Trump administration violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection

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5 h. ago Judges pauses Trump policy restricting transgender passport choices, finding it’s rooted in ‘irrational prejudice’

Judge found that group of nonbinary and transgender plaintiffs were likely to succeed on argument that Trump administration violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection

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