3 d. ago Coronation Street's Beverley Callard reveals 'major problem' on rival soap after joining

Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard has been supported by fans after she shared an update from the set of her new soap

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3 d. ago Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard, 68, supported after worrying health update

Coronation Street icon Beverley Callard has issued an update on her health after landing a new soap role in Irish drama Fair City

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3 d. ago Coronation Street's Beverley Callard issues worrying health update days after soap return

Ex-Coronation Street star Beverley Callard joined a rival soap recently and she is currently filming new scenes.

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3 d. ago England Six Nations squad announcement live: Latest updates as Steve Borthwick makes big calls

Who will be included in England’s squad as they target a title tilt?

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4 d. ago ICE live updates: School official calls on agents to release body cam from 5

Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father were taken by ICE agents near Minneapolis this week, local school officials have said

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4 d. ago Trump administration to block aid from subsizing DEI and trans rights overseas

Decision marks dramatic expansion of ‘Mexico City policy’, which abortion rights supporters call ‘global gag rule’US politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration will block organizations from using US foreign aid to subsidize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and what the administration calls “gender ideology”. The new policy will affect about $30bn in foreign assistance.The decision, confirmed to the Guardian by a state department spokesperson on Thursday morning, marks a dramatic expansion of the so-called “Mexico City policy”, which blocks non-US non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from receiving some forms of US funding if they provide abortion-related services or advocate for abortion rights overseas. Now, that policy – which abortion rights supporters call the “global gag rule” – will also apply to international organizations and US-based NGOs operating abroad. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump administration to block foreign aid from subsizing DEI and trans rights overseas

Decision marks dramatic expansion of so-called ‘Mexico City policy’, which abortion rights supporters call ‘global gag rule’US politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration will block organizations from using US foreign aid to subsidize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and what the administration calls “gender ideology”. The new policy will affect about $30bn in foreign assistance.The decision, confirmed to the Guardian by a state department spokesperson on Thursday morning, marks a dramatic expansion of the so-called “Mexico City policy”, which blocks non-US non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from receiving some forms of US funding if they provide abortion-related services or advocate for abortion rights overseas. Now, that policy – which abortion rights supporters call the “global gag rule” – will also apply to international organizations and US-based NGOs operating abroad. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances

As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?Davos live – latest updatesDonald Trump has told the Davos economic forum “without us, most countries would not even work”, but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US.Individually and collectively, they have decided “to live in truth” – the phrase used by the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and referenced by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his widely praised speech at Davos on Tuesday. They will no longer pretend the US is a reliable ally, or even that the old western alliance exists. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago New update on calls for £20,000 Personal Allowance tax threshold

More than 66,400 people have signed an online petition calling for the UK Government to unfreeze the income tax threshold.

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6 d. ago Government update on calls for major driving rule change for 'box junctions'

Box junctions are road markings of crisscross yellow lines that help keep intersections clear

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7 d. ago New update on calls for ‘apology and compensation’ for women affected by State Pension age changes

The DWP is currently reviewing its decision on State Pension age compensation with an outcome expected next month.

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8 d. ago Trump’s tariff shock suggests EU’s strategy of flattery and appeasement has failed

Next few weeks will show if Trump has finally pushed too far with Greenland levies, as calls grow for bloc to take tougher actionEurope live – latest updatesAs the sun set over the port of Limassol in Cyprus, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, last Thursday used a tried and tested formula to describe the United States – calling it one of “our allies, our partners”. Only 24 hours earlier, Denmark, an EU and Nato member state, had warned that Donald Trump was intent on “conquering” Greenland, but the reflex at the top of the EU executive to describe the US as a friend runs deep.Trump’s weekend announcement that eight countries that have supported Greenland would face tariffs unless there was a deal to sell the territory to the US was another hammer to the transatlantic alliance, mocking the notion that the US is Europe’s ally. The eight countries include six EU member states, as well as Norway and the UK, the latter unprotected by the much vaunted “special rela...

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9 d. ago Australia news live: woman dead in powerful storm as landslide and flood warnings issued for Sydney

Woman killed by tree branch as NSW SES records more than 800 calls for help. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales State Emergency Services have received over 1400 calls for help and 20 requests for flood rescues after Sydney has been lashed with torrential rain.SES Assistant Commissioner Sonya Alston, speaking to ABC News, says the main areas affected by flash flooding and storm-related incidents are Illawarra, Sydney and the Hunter area.We did have an evacuation at Narrabeen overnight due to the rapid rising waters there and the localised heavy rainfall, so that continues around that. Those particular areas with the weather also moving up north, we’ll see around the north eastern New South Wales experiencing some of that heavy winds, heavy rain and large wind gusts.We’re hoping to see a little bit of relief for the Illawarra area today. But still in that Sydney northern area. So again urging everyone to keep safe, keep inside...

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1 week ago New update on calls for £25,140 personal tax allowance for pensioners

More than 51,400 people have signed an online petition proposing the introduction of a new tax code for people over State Pension age.

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1 week ago Trump threatens to invoke rare 1807 law in Minnesota as Stephen Miller calls protestors ‘insurrectionists’: Live updates

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greeted supporters outside Capitol Hill after having lunch with Trump

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1 week ago Tribunal nurse Sandie Peggie ‘has been through hell’, Kemi Badenoch says

The Tory leader met nurse Sandie Peggie in Edinburgh on Thursday – and afterwards called on the UK Government to issue updated gender guidance.

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1 week ago Traitors LIVE updates: fans fear for furious Harriet after 'dangerous' rant

The Traitors is finally back after last week's explosive round of episodes, with the BBC show picking up after Matthew's bombshell proposition at the end of Friday's challenge

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2 w. ago ICE shooting updates: Leavitt doubles down on calling Renee Good a ‘lunatic’ as Noem vows to send hundreds more agents to Minnesota

‘Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff,’ Trump told reporters

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2 w. ago Berlin mayor faces calls to resign after playing tennis during city blackout

Kai Wegner acknowledged he had not been entirely forthcoming to public about his actions when outage beganEurope live – latest updatesBerlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, is facing calls to resign after it emerged he opted to play tennis hours after a crippling blackout triggered by an arson attack hit a large swathe of the city, and then misled the public about it.Districts in the south-west of the German capital were gradually returning to normal after the longest power cut since the second world war as Wegner acknowledged he had not been entirely forthcoming about his actions when the outage began. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Revealed: Anthony Joshua's emotional phone call from Nigerian hospital about how 'life is short', hours after the crash that killed his friends

On December 29th, Joshua miraculously survived a crash which killed two of his friends, Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Nigeria.

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