56 m. ago Meet Wrexham's main characters as Ryan Reynolds prepares for Championship campaign

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the Welsh club in February 2021 and Wrexham have since become the first team in the top five tiers of the English game to win three successive promotions

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75 m. ago The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?

More than 80% of China’s rare earth reserves are located in Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desertCentral Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western chains including Starbucks and KFC stand alongside street after street of busy local restaurants, where people sit outside and children play late into the evening, enjoying the relative relief of the cooler temperatures that arrive after dark in Inner Mongolia’s baking summer.But a short drive into the city’s suburbs reveal another typical, less hospitable, Chinese scene. Factories crowd the city’s edges, with chimneys belching white plumes of smoke. As well as steel and silicon plants, Baotou is home to China’s monopoly on rare earths, the metallic elements that are used in oil refining equipment and car batteries and that have become a major sticking point in the...

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96 m. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson jury to begin deliberations after judge’s charge concludes on Monday

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal mushroom lunch in 2023. Follow liveBeale turns to Patterson’s evidence about the dried mushrooms.He says Patterson said she realised on 2 August 2023 that she may have put foraged mushrooms in a Tupperware container including store-bought mushrooms that she used in the beef wellington. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Buckingham Palace's cheeky response to Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo's 'Meghan Markle' clip

Made in Chelsea stars Jamie Laing and his wife Sophie Habboo, who tied the knot in April 2023, have been updating fans on Sophie's pregnancy since the star conceived

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2 h. ago Woman fighting for life after 'BMW driver flipped car and attacked her' in Leicester

A 23-year-old man has been arrested following an incident where a woman in her 50s was reportedly attacked in the street by a BMW driver as she walked down the street

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2 h. ago Woman, 29, dies from blood clot after taking common contraceptive used by millions

Chloe Alicia Ellis, 29, died three days after she was wrongly diagnosed and discharged from hospital. She had earlier been diagnosed as having a suspected pulmonary embolism in an online assessment after she collapsed at home

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2 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: judge’s charge to Erin Patterson jury continues on day 38

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal mushroom lunch in 2023. Follow liveBeale turns to Patterson’s second alleged incriminating conduct - lying about where the dried mushrooms used in the beef wellingtons.The prosecution has labelled certain conduct as incriminating, meaning it is an implied admission of guilt, the court has heard. The defence has argued there are other innocent explanations for the conduct the prosecution relies on Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Truth about the most romantic picture of 2025: It was taken after the Cambridge ball at 5:23am. Now the rugby hunk who swept a female guest off her feet reveals all

A man and woman emerge from the stone archway in soft dawn light. He is dressed immaculately in black tie and polished shoes, his youthful complexion betraying no signs of being up all night.

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2 h. ago Woman's common sex problem turned out to be deadly cervical cancer...as smear tests are to be given LESS often

A woman hit with advanced cervical cancer at 25 has urged others to attend every screening test-after she delayed her smear due to fears sparked by 'online horror stories'.

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3 h. ago Woman is fighting for her life after 'BMW driver flipped car and then attacked her' as she walked down the street

A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the horror assault which happened at around 5.30pm on Tuesday in Leicester.

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3 h. ago ROBERT HARDMAN: A night raid on a police station using the IRA's most deadly gun, an SAS team facing mortal danger

HARDMAN: For more than three hours, on a freezing February night, the 12 men from the Special Air Service had been lying behind a low, threadbare bit of hedge near the village of Clonoe

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3 h. ago Cruise passengers to face tourist tax in major holiday destination

Travellers, including cruise passengers are set to face a new tourist tax in a major European holiday destination.

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3 h. ago Moment road sweeper vehicle reverses and kills elderly woman crossing the road: Police arrest man for death by dangerous driving

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Khatija Umarji, 77, was crossing the road on Commercial Street in Batley at around 9.55am on Tuesday when she was struck by a rood sweeper vehicle as it reversed.

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4 h. ago Greece wildfires: woman charged with unintentional arson after cigarette allegedly started blaze on Chios

Greek island has been battling several wildfires that broke out at the same time on Sunday and have so far ripped through an estimated 40,000 hectaresA Georgian woman accused of accidentally igniting one of several wildfires that have raged relentlessly across the eastern Aegean isle of Chios will appear in court to face charges of unintentional arson.Greek fire brigade officials said the woman, employed as a housekeeper on Chios, the ancestral home of some of Greece’s wealthiest shipping families, had “confessed” to triggering the blaze when she negligently discarded a cigarette. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago London train stations to get 4G and 5G upgrade in project to eliminate mobile blackspots on Britain's train lines

Deal signed to improve mobile coverage for passengers using Britain’s major train routes

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4 h. ago Crackdown on mobile signal blackspots across UK train journeys

Passengers often suffer from dropped calls and weak internet connections when travelling by train

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4 h. ago New deal will end many mobile blackspots for rail passengers, Government claims

Passengers often suffer from dropped calls and weak internet connections when travelling by train.

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5 h. ago American Airlines flight forced to turn around as witnesses see ‘flames and smoke’ coming from the plane

An American Airlines plane made an emergency return to the Las Vegas airport Wednesday morning after passengers and local observers saw smoke and flames coming from the engine.

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6 h. ago Infamous 2013 cruise that got stuck at sea without plumbing features in new Netflix documentary

Over 4,000 passengers and crew were stranded on the 14-storey Carnival Triumph liner

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7 h. ago Tube passenger who killed 'gentle' commuter with single punch learns his fate

Rakeem Miles, 23, killed Samuel Winter, 28, last August with a single punch after the AI engineer had accidentally knocked into him while on an escalator on the London Underground

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