58 m. ago Iran arrests protest leaders as crackdown intensifies amid threat of US intervention

Washington and Tehran step up war of words over Donald Trump’s threat to intervene in response to unrestIranian authorities have arrested key members of the protest movement that has rocked the country over the last two weeks, the national police chief said, as Washington and Tehran threaten each other over the prospect of US intervention in the Islamic republic.“Last night, significant arrests were made of the main elements in the riots, who, God willing, will be punished after going through legal procedures,” the police chief, Ahmad-Reza Radan, told state TV on Sunday, without specifying the number of those arrested. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Swiss bar fire owners found 'stepdaughter' dying 'in a pile of bodies' in final moments alive

Jacques and Jessica Moretti have given their most details account of the fire which killed 40 people in the Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of January 1

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2 h. ago Ruben Amorim sacking impacts Man United transfer plan after 'phone call with free agent'

Manchester United are interested in signing Marcos Senesi, having made contact with the Bournemouth defender about a potential move in the summer

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2 h. ago ITV The Masked Singer star admits she was told about one of her co

The Masked Singer UK star broken her silence on the moment she broke a show rule before stepping on the she stage

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2 h. ago Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state

Exclusive: Before Randall Gamboa Esquivel died, his health had deteriorated badly while he was in ICE custodyCosta Rican family demands answers after ICE deportation and death: ‘Have you ever smelled a cadaver?’The family of a Costa Rican man who was deported from the United States in a vegetative state and died shortly after arriving back in his home country is still urgently seeking answers from the authorities about what happened to him while he was in detention.Randall Gamboa Esquivel had left Costa Rica in good health and crossed the United States-Mexico border in December 2024, according to his family. However, Gamboa was detained by the US authorities for re-entering American soil unlawfully, as he had previously lived there undocumented between 2002 and 2013. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘People think abuse comes with working in A&E. It shouldn’t be like that’

How a hospital is helping NHS staff realise they need not accept violence, abuse and aggression on the job Hugo (not his real name), an advanced clinical practitioner, was on the night shift in A&E at Great Western hospital, Swindon, when a drunk patient started swearing aggressively at a nurse. “When I asked if I could help, he told me, ‘Fuck off you gay cunt.’ When I asked him not to speak to me like that and to return to his seat in the waiting room, he just walked up the corridor swearing and repeatedly shouting ‘gaydar’.”Hugo said he was initially more annoyed than scared, even when the patient grabbed a crutch and started swinging it about. “There wasn’t time to be frightened,” he said. “You’re just trying to protect your colleagues and the patients.” He called security and in the end the police had to arrest the patient. He said although he had experienced aggressive and violent behaviour – over the course of his career, he has been kicked, spat at, pushed and intimidated...

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3 h. ago 'Sacked Man Utd boss did two things that told me I had to leave the club'

Manchester United have cycled through several managers since Sir Alex Ferguson won them their most recent Premier League title in 2013, with mixed levels of success

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4 h. ago Syrian forces expel Kurdish fighters as US strikes Islamic State targets

Three hundred Kurds detained and further 400 evacuated following clashes in AleppoSyrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets.An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump's mystery weapon made Venezuelans vomit blood and feel like heads 'exploded'

An eyewitness account described how US forces used a mysterious weapon that caused guards to vomit blood during raid that arrested the Venezuelan dictator

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4 h. ago Paddy McGuinness, 52, reveals insanely ripped abs after major body transformation after 75

PADDY McGuinness has revealed his insanely ripped abs after taking part in an intense weight loss challenge. The TV presenter, 52, showed off the incredible results of his body transformation over two months. Paddy took part in a brutal 75-day programme, dubbed the Hard 75. He told fans "I let myself go" - and posted...

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4 h. ago Scots millionaire tycoon ‘left in tears’ at state of deserted hometown high street where he started business empire

TYCOON Sir Tom Hunter has said he was reduced to tears by the state of Scotland’s high streets - including his own hometown. The millionaire philanthropist - who made his fortune from the Sports Division empire he established - wept as he saw the amount of boarded up shops in the area. The businessman told...

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5 h. ago Police sergeant destroyed cancer sufferer's wigs in attack 'to maximise psychological harm', disciplinary told

James Evans vandalised a number of items in an act which a disciplinary hearing was told was cruelly designed to maximise the intended psychological harm' on his victim.

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5 h. ago Woman left to die alone on trolley in corridor of 'overwhelmed' hospital

A&E staff experiencing "extremely high demand" have told how an elderly woman was left to die as they were overrun and unable to care for her.

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8 h. ago My screen time is 37 minutes per day. Here’s how yours can be too

Forget a dumbphone or ‘friction-maxxing’. The secret to breaking up with your phone is simple

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8 h. ago Sir Alex Ferguson told me to sell my car and move my girlfriend out – he ran the club

The former Manchester United winger once got the wrong end of Sir Alex Ferguson during his time at Old Trafford

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8 h. ago The Lazy Sunday Quiz: Test your general knowledge with these 10 questions

Can you get the answers right in our quiz?

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9 h. ago Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI

As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot loversLamar remembered the moment of betrayal like it was yesterday. He’d gone to the party with his girlfriend but hadn’t seen her for over an hour, and it wasn’t like her to disappear. He slipped down the hallway to check his phone. At that point, he heard murmurs coming from one of the bedrooms and thought he recognised his best friend Jason’s low voice. As he pushed the door ajar, they were both still scrambling to throw their clothes on; her shirt was unbuttoned, while Jason struggled to cover himself. The image of his girlfriend and best friend together hit Lamar like a blow to the chest. He left without saying a word.Two years on, when he spoke to me, the memory remained raw. He was still seething with anger, as if telling the story for the first time. “I got betrayed by humans,” Lamar insisted. “I introduced my best friend to her, and this is what they d...

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9 h. ago ‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Why your 30s are actually the golden era for female friendships

As women are constantly told how hard it is to maintain strong friendships in their 30s, Olivia Petter examines how we might have been sold a lie

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9 h. ago I was exhausted all the time — then I was told I had a common vitamin deficiency

Constant tiredness can be easily dismissed, but I discovered that my exhaustion was caused by a common vitamin deficiency. Here are the warning signs to watch for and when to see your GP.

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