35 m. ago Manchester terrorist was being investigated for TWO rapes on separate women when he carried out synagogue attack

Islamic State supporter Jihad Al-Shamie was known to have been on bail for raping a woman when he ploughed his car into Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester.

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60 m. ago The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself | Editorial

Warnings about inflated tech stocks suggest investors never learn and central bankers learn too lateThe message from global regulators this week was blunt: the AI boom is driving stocks to dotcom-bubble highs – and the world is finally listening. With so much cash riding on so few firms, any loss of faith could send shares tumbling and drag down the wider economy. China’s proposed export controls on rare earths add a fresh threat: not just to sentiment, but to advanced chip supply chains themselves. It’s a long way down from such dizzying heights if gravity reasserts itself.Warnings from the past abound in Charles Kindleberger’s history of financial crises, Manias, Panics and Crashes, which begins with tulip mania in 1636. What commonly happens, he wrote, is “that some event changes the economic outlook. New opportunities for profits are seized, and overdone.” Once the mistake is realised, there’s a panicked exit with a crash in the price of “whatever has been the subject of the man...

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71 m. ago Hamilton College quartet dance their way into Scottish Ballet

Amelie Browning (10) joins fellow-pupils Edmund Warrilow Silcock (9), Kasim Jalil (10) and Violet Carroll (11).

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2 h. ago Terrifying moment dangerous driver smashes through cones in 146mph police chase

Kieran Connor, 22, risked the lives of several members of the public after he travelled at 125mph with his lights off on the A19. He has been jailed for 22 months following the police chase

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2 h. ago Terrifying 146mph police chase caught on dashcam as driver switches lights off

Kieran Connor, 22, risked the lives of several members of the public after he travelled at 125mph with his lights off on the A19. He has been jailed for 22 months following the police chase

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2 h. ago Don't look back in anger, we're just like Liam and Noel Gallagher, co

Zarah Sultana said that if Noel and Liam Gallagher could mend their relationship to get Oasis back on stage she and Mr Corbyn 'can do it' as well.

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2 h. ago ‘Ball junkie’ dogs can be addicted to their toys, scientists suggest

Some canines experience ‘excessive fixation on toys’, leading to the development of cravings and withdrawal symptoms

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2 h. ago Rasmus Hojlund revival reflects poorly on Manchester United as telling point made

Rasmus Hojlund continued his explosive start to the season with two goals for Denmark, suggesting Man Utd may have blundered by offloading the young striker too soon

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3 h. ago Screen time linked to poorer reading and writing among primary school children

Researchers examined thousands of pupils in Canada.

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3 h. ago 'Battersea Beast' rapist deemed 'too dangerous to release' makes fresh freedom bid

Edward Bartley could be back on the streets in months despite having his prison release blocked twice over concerns the serial rapist, who targeted lone women, will strike again

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3 h. ago Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests

Investigation under way after flight during Storm Amy made three landing attempts in Scotland before flying to ManchesterAn investigation is under way after a Ryanair flight battling with high wind speeds during storm Amy last week landed at Manchester airport with just six minutes of fuel left in its tanks.The pilots had been taking passengers from Pisa in Italy to Prestwick in Scotland on Friday evening, but wind speeds of up to 100mph meant they were unable to land. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Who are Palestine Action? Labour peer urges more clarification on terrorist proscription

Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested for holding signs saying they ‘oppose genocide and support Palestine Action’

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4 h. ago 'Clean living' Brits splash out £5.6bn a year on organic beauty products in growing trend

New research suggests that the 'clean living' trend has moved from the kitchen to the bathroom as Brits willing to shell out more for organic beauty products

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4 h. ago Phones and smartwatches to be heavily restricted in schools in one part of Wales

The word 'ban' proved to be an issue and the guidance due to be sent out in a letter to parents next month will be watered down following feedback

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5 h. ago Monster munch: can Predator: Badlands survive the removal of its unashamedly ultraviolent roots?

Thanks to director Dan Trachtenberg, the franchise has evolved. But the pure cinematic testosterone that sustained it may have disappearedThere is a longstanding Hollywood urban myth that the original 1987 Predator movie was inspired by a joke doing the rounds about Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky series. The idea was that after the Italian Stallion beat up Dolph Lundgren’s towering Soviet superman Ivan Drago in 1985’s Rocky IV, the only opponent he could fight next would be an alien. Supposedly, screenwriters Jim and John Thomas heard this jape and wrote Predator – which, after a few rewrites, a new lead (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a change of title from their original spec script, became one of the most enduring sci-fi action films of the 1980s.In truth, the timeline doesn’t add up. The Thomas brothers were already shopping their script around in 1983, long before Rocky IV hit cinemas, suggesting the “Rocky v alien” story is probably a post hoc myth. Yet the original film is such a per...

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6 h. ago Tech, terror and Tom Hollander: Niamh Algar on her wild new TV thriller

The Irish actor started out with Shane Meadows but her career is now stratospheric. As she takes on big tech in The Iris Affair, she talks about nerves, AI nightmares – and battling a malevolent supercomputerExplosions weren’t a problem, nor were the guns, fire, multiple fights and a spell underwater – but dealing with cockroaches? The line was drawn. “That was the one stunt we weren’t allowed to do,” says Niamh Algar with a laugh, “because cockroaches are actually quite dangerous.” Plus, she says with a wry smile, you can’t train one not to bite. It’s not too much of a spoiler to say her character in the new Sky Atlantic show The Iris Affair has a run-in with a bug infestation – CGI it turns out, and fakes made by the props team – that makes her other encounters with corrupt police, internet sleuths and a potentially malevolent megaquantum computer seem tame.Algar, most recently seen in the ITV thriller Playing Nice with James Norton earlier this year, plays Iris Nixon, a genius wh...

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6 h. ago Anger over ‘sacrilegious’ graffiti art installation at Canterbury Cathedral

Responses to the project on display at the historic building have been mixed

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6 h. ago Man City have a new attacking threat just waiting to catch fire

Erling Haaland has been banging the goals in for Manchester City this season but there is another player whose stats suggest the floodgates will open soon.

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7 h. ago Heartbroken mother mourns 'beautiful' daughter, eight, who died in 'freak accident' at primary school

Olivia-Grace Huxter, eight, suffered a 'traumatic event' at the 99-pupil Penrhys Primary School in Ferndale, Rhondda, on Wednesday and later died in hospital.

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7 h. ago Ryanair flight forced to divert several times amid Storm Amy landing struggle

While there was never any real danger, passengers describe the several attempts at landing amid Storm Amy's winds

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