29 m. ago John Torode was sacked from MasterChef by the BBC for using the N

The Australian-born chef, 59, insists 'he had absolutely no recollection' of using a racial slur while drinking after a day of filming seven years ago.

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38 m. ago Where Winds Meet beta for July – how to join the final playtest for the Wuxia adventure

The new game from Everstone is set to deliver a Wuxia open-world action adventure RPG that players can get truly stuck into and lost in, set across China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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39 m. ago Judge OKs release plan for woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man

A Wisconsin judge has approved the conditional release of Morgan Geyser, who as a child nearly stabbed a classmate to death to please the fictional horror character Slender Man

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48 m. ago 'I'm a world record traveller but there are two islands left on my bucket list'

Lexie, who has 1.5 million followers on Instagram, sat down with the Mirror to share the two islands she is desperate to visit, on the same day Expedia released the 2025 Island Hot List

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68 m. ago Ministers wants tourist attractions to ‘supercharge’ EV infrastructure

Lilian Greenwood, future of roads minister, met with tourism leaders at Staffordshire theme park Alton Towers.

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88 m. ago Starmer defends lowering voting age to 16, saying people old enough to pay tax should have a say – UK politics live

Plan to give 16 and 17-year-olds vote across UK means nearly 1.5 million more people will be to have say at general electionWhile Rushanara Ali is answering the urgent question in the Commons, Keir Starmer is speaking at the event where he is announcing a “civil society covenant”.There is a live feed here.Why does this government think a 16-year-old can vote but not be allowed to buy a lottery ticket or an alcoholic drink, marry or go to war, or even stand in the elections they’re voting? It isn’t the government’s position on the age of maturity just hopelessly confused? Continue reading...

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93 m. ago Intelligence committee demands to know why ministers kept them in the dark over Afghan data breach

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has warned there was no grounds for information to be withheld from them

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1 hour ago Holidaymaker's warning after venomous spider bite ruined trip to paradise island beloved by Britons... and nearly destroyed her EAR

Halle Hizer, 20, was on a week-long sunshine break with her grandmother when she began experiencing pain in her ear.

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1 hour ago Pupil numbers in schools expected to drop by nearly 400,000 over five years

It comes as primaries in parts of England have been considering closing due to falling rolls and funding pressures.

Politics

1 hour ago Risk of undersea cable attacks backed by Russia and China likely to rise, report warns

Spate of incidents in Baltic Sea and around Taiwan are harbinger for further disruptive activity, cybersecurity firm saysThe risk of Russia- and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea and around Taiwan, according to a report.Submarine cables account for 99% of the world’s intercontinental data traffic and have been affected by incidents with suspected state support over the past 18 months. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Inside Jannik Sinner's family's luxury hotel and how much it costs to stay

Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner hails from South Tyrol, a stunning location in the Dolomites where the Italian star's parents now run a hotel that is a prime location for hikers and skiers

Society

1 hour ago Meghan shares cryptic post celebrating the birthdays of 'ladies near and far'

The Duchess of Sussex , 43, took to her Instagram Stories as she filmed herself opening a crate of her newly released rosé, which featured three bottles of the Napa Valley beverage.

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2 h. ago Trump ‘to visit Pakistan before India’ after Islamabad backs him for Nobel Peace Prize

Trump has routinely taken credit for brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, a claim that has been rejected by New Delhi

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2 h. ago Myanmar's military government recaptures strategic town from rebels

State media in Myanmar say the Southeast Asian nation's military government has recaptured a strategic gateway town after nearly a year of effort, marking a rare turnaround in the country’s northeast, where an alliance of ethnic rebel militias seized a large swath of territory in an offensive that began in late 2023

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2 h. ago 'Outback Killer' escapee Joanne Lees now after quitting UK and taking new name

Joanne Lees was thrust into the spotlight in 2001 when she survived an attack in the Australian outback that saw her boyfriend, Peter Falconio, murdered - here's what happened to her after

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2 h. ago Prime Minister says UK will ‘work ever more closely’ with Germany

The Prime Minister and Friedrich Merz signed the deal – to be known as the Kensington Treaty – at the V&A Museum on London.

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2 h. ago A9 crash: Police appeal after two young children airlifted to hospital in crash near Carrbridge

The boy, 4, and girl, 8, were taken by air ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

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2 h. ago UK payrolls down by 178,000 over last year; Bundesbank chief defends central bank independence after Trump’s attacks on Powell – business live

UK company payrolls have fallen by 178,000 in last year, pushing unemployment rate to four-year highAnalysis: The rise in unemployment shows the UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsingDeutsche Bank’s chief UK economist Sanjay Raja agrees that the UK’s labour market is continuing to cool, with both payrolls and vacancies down.Raja explains:Redundancies remain elevated with the May data showing a 114k increase in the three months to May – its highest level in three months. Jobs demand remains weak as hiring plans are near a standstill.This will continue to see unemployment rise – but we think this will be a slow grind higher as opposed to a whipsaw higher. For the MPC, despite the bump higher in inflation, the loosening in labour market should give the BoE reason to proceed with a gradual dial down of restrictive policy.The fallout in the labour market from the hikes in National Insurance Contributions and the minimum wage is not as big as previously thought. Even so, as p...

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2 h. ago Moment French coastguard hand out lifejackets to migrants on small boat as they prepare to cross the Channel for Britain

The coastguard made zero effort to stop the inflatable boat packed with mainly young men before it motored off from the coast near Calais this morning.

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2 h. ago ‘Preparation is our only option’: sirens wail as Taiwan simulates China attack in city streets

As annual drills become increasingly significant, this year’s puts Taipei civilians in urban warfare situationsUsually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shopping district of Ximen. They knew they had three minutes to get where they needed to be without being stuck in the nearest underground bunker for the half an hour.At 1.30pm exactly, deafening sirens wailed across the city, and a text hit every mobile phone warning that “the enemy has launched a missile attack toward northern Taiwan”. Continue reading...

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