2 h. ago Mohamed Salah turns it up to 11: devotion, dexterity – and a new deal? | Jonathan Liew

Arguments around the Liverpool star’s future keep adding up, but what if we’re all asking the wrong question?There are numbers, of course, if you choose to want them. Records enough to drown in. Discourse piled sky-high. Here: a colourful infographic setting out his most recent milestones, begging your finger for a double-tap. Here: a TV host in expensive trainers pointing at a very large screen. First for contingent goal involvements. First for final-third shimmies. Look at that shot throb velocity: up a staggering 0.28 on last season. After the break, some nonentities will debate today’s hot question: is Mo Salah enjoying the most venomous Premier League season ever? Stay tuned. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Isle of Skye dad came last in parents' sports day race and 'knew something was wrong'

James Coull also lost control of his legs while walking home

Sport

2 h. ago ‘Trump has no affection for Ukraine’: Soldiers remove US patches in anger at president

Cloth patches have been worn by Ukrainian soldiers as a sign of solidarity with the US, but members of the military are angered by Donald Trump’s overtures to Russia

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2 h. ago Three US women tragically found dead in hotel room next to 'gummies and alcohol' while vacationing at Belize beach resort

Three American women were found dead in a luxury Belize beach resort, with authorities investigating possible drug overdoses. Hotel staff discovered their bodies on Sunday.

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3 h. ago Britain’s insistence on total Ukrainian victory was misguided – it’s time for a realistic compromise | Robert Skidelsky

By refusing to back negotiations for the past three years, the UK has become irrelevant to the search for peace – we must change courseOn the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, British policy towards the war is in a mess. The continuing official British position, echoed by all the main media, has been “no peace without a Ukraine victory” – meaning, centrally, the expulsion of Russia from all territories seized since 2014. President Trump’s active search for a compromise peace tears up this script.When a long, consistently pursued policy ends in a shambles, it is time to reflect on what was right and what was wrong about it, and what might still be done to reinsert Britain into a process to which it has become largely irrelevant.Robert Skidelsky is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and author of Keynes: the Return of the Master and co-author of How Much Is Enough? Continue reading...

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4 h. ago It’s grand theft AI and UK ministers are behind it. Oppose this robbery of people’s creativity | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alastair Webber

The plan to weaken copyright law, allowing tech firms to profit for free from people’s talent, is an outrage, and the nation would sufferWe are father and son: one has written 16 musicals and counting, the other cofounded The Other Songs, a leading independent record and publishing company. Our work has employed thousands globally, nurturing the next generation of talent. Copyright is the foundation that protects this, and all creative work: from music, theatre and literature to film and art. Copyright ensures creators retain control and are fairly compensated. It underpins the creative economy. Put simply, it allows artists and creatives to make a living. Endless studies have shown what a benefit that creativity – music, theatre, dance, art, film, TV, the list is endless – has on the rest of society.Yet, today, the UK government is proposing changes that would strip creators of this protection. Under the data (use and access) bill, AI companies would be allowed to take works, past ...

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5 h. ago Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children

At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia In the summer of 2007, I joined a group of 30 Russian and English students to work on a month-long summer camp at a state orphanage for mentally and physically disabled children in the Pskov region, south of St Petersburg. We lived in a house nearby, or in tents pitched in the garden. Every day, we walked up to the orphanage to put on developmental activities, sporting events, solve puzzles, play games, stage shows and go on camping trips.I volunteered at the orphanage, in the village of Belskoye Ustye, for almost a decade, but it was the first visit that made the biggest impression. I had seen nothing like it. My closest reference point was probably workhouses or orphanages from a Charles Dickens novel. I vividly remember the smells – cooked food, unwashed bodies, chlorine and urine – and...

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5 h. ago More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detentionAt least 160 healthcare workers from Gaza, including more than 20 doctors, are believed to still be inside Israeli detention facilities as the World Health Organisation expressed deep concern about their wellbeing and safety.Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical NGO, said it had confirmed that 162 medical staff remained in Israeli detention, including some of Gaza’s most senior physicians, and a further 24 were missing after being taken from hospitals during the conflict. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Readers' letters: Think big and replace the 'Star of Caledonia' with a massive wind turbine

A reader comes up with an intriguing alternative to the planned Star of Caledonia sculpture at Gretna

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6 h. ago Three female tourists found dead in Belize resort as chilling last moments caught on CCTV

Three female tourists were tragically found dead in a beachside resort in Belize over the weekend after hotel staff tried to contact them multiple times on Friday

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7 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Jobsworth councils treat their residents with contempt. Here I share the stories from readers like you that will make your blood boil

First it was council staff bursting into tears and given a day off to compensate for the trauma of having to deal with the people who pay their wages.

Events

10 h. ago Nigel Farage viewed favourably by more people than other leaders – poll

The proportion of people saying the UK was heading in the wrong direction has remained high.

Politics

10 h. ago Special needs schools employ more teachers without qualified teacher status

Special schools in England face ‘more severe’ staff shortages than the average school, research has suggested.

Politics

12 h. ago 'Next Hooters' Twin Peaks with 'lingerie Friday' already here amid bankruptcy fears

Twin Peaks (not the David Lynch TV series) has been attracting more and more US punters with ice cold beers, 'great food' and staff working in their underwear on Fridays

Politics

13 h. ago Barry Ferguson lifts lid on Rangers whirlwind: how he got staff, blunt verdict, Charai talks, playing style

New Rangers boss vows to play ‘attack-minded’ football

Politics

13 h. ago ICC urged to investigate Biden for ‘aiding and abetting’ Gaza war crimes

US-based nonprofit Dawn also accuses ex-secretary of state Antony Blinken and ex-Pentagon chief Lloyd AustinA US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense secretary Lloyd Austin, for their “accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza”. Continue reading...

Events

15 h. ago India demands more UK visas as the price of a free trade deal with Britain

Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal said that allowing British companies access to India's services sector would require greater access for its staff.

Economics

15 h. ago The Pope wrote resignation letter 12 YEARS ago in case he became too ill to continue

The Pope is suffering from kidney failure, pneumonia and an infection in both lungs after he was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on Valentine's Day.

Politics

15 h. ago Police searching for man in connection with east London murder probe

Jason Junior Romeo, 20, was fatally stabbed outside an address in Bodney Road, Hackney, on Tuesday.

Events

15 h. ago Ukrainian soldiers remove US tribute patches from uniforms in anger at Trump

Cloth patches have been worn by Ukrainian soldiers as a sign of solidarity with the US, but members of the military are angered by Donald Trump’s overtures to Russia

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