1 hour ago Blair Kinghorn arrives to complete Lions set as Queensland Reds await

Scotland full-back earmarked for weekend matchUntested pairing of Gibson-Park and Russell face RedsTo say the last couple of days have been a blur for Blair Kinghorn is putting it mildly. As recently as the early hours of Sunday he was celebrating Toulouse’s Top 14 title success in Paris and doing interviews clad only in a pair of budgie smugglers. Now here he is wearing a British & Irish Lions tracksuit, squinting into the Australian sunshine and trying his hardest to focus on the next onrushing target.The Scotland full-back, the last originally-chosen squad member to arrive, will not be involved in the Lions’ midweek game against the Reds but is earmarked to feature against the Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday. All being well a potential slot in the Test XV could follow but even for a class act like Kinghorn it is going to take a lot of frantic paddling below the surface to get up to speed. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago How Indigenous people find themselves on the frontline of the green transition

Renewable energy and critical minerals projects often want to mine on sacred lands but minority groups are fighting back through the courtsLocated in Wikieup, Arizona, at the meeting point of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, H’a’Kamwe’ has for centuries had sacred significance for the Hualapai tribe. They regard the hot spring, fed by water naturally stored underground in volcanic rocks, as a place for healing that symbolises their connection to the land.So when an Australian mining company announced plans to begin exploratory drilling for lithium at 100 locations on Hualapai land, including as close as just 700 metres from H’a’Kamwe’, they regarded it as a potential desecration. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Business news live: Government faces criticism to Cash ISA cuts and latest Nationwide house data

Stock markets updates and business news from Monday

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4 h. ago Another Central Asian country bans face veils as Muslim women told to embrace ‘national style’

New law prohibits women in majority Muslim country from covering their faces in public

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4 h. ago ‘I have a deep sense of survivor’s guilt’: Four people on 7/7, the day that changed the nation

Netflix’s documentary marks 20 years since the suicide bombings on the capital’s transport network that killed 52 and injured almost 800. Four of those caught up in the atrocity talk to Gabriel Tate about their experiences and their enduring legacy

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5 h. ago Hurricane Flossie: Urgent warning 75mph cyclone to batter Mexico within days

Hurricane Flossie, named by the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami, is gathering strength and meteorologists believe it will unleash its 75mph gales within days

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5 h. ago ‘My mind was shrieking: “What am I doing?”’ – when the digital nomad dream turns sour

Working remotely from a beach in a far-off land sounds like bliss – and the number of people doing it has soared since 2019. But between bouts of illness, relentless admin and crushing loneliness, many have found comfort in the 9-5 back homeJason, a 34-year-old American, is stumbling around the pool table, cue in hand. Five Saigon beers later, he will shuffle out, clamber on to a scooter and drive back to his beach hut. I know this because I’ve seen the same routine for the past four nights. Meanwhile, Eloise, 38, a French national, is gyrating on the dancefloor. Earlier, on the beach, she told me about her big bitcoin dreams – although she hasn’t got the funds she needs yet. Then there is Bex, a Briton in her late 50s whose eyes are large and wild because she has just popped a pill. She spends only a month a year in the UK – not because she wants to, she says, just to check in with family who are worried about her.Here we are together on this paradise island in south-east Asia, lap...

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6 h. ago Model mum who launched first ever festival for single parents takes 'special community' nationwide

Elaine Harris - who was previously a finalist in the UK’s Top Model competition - came up with the concept for her one parent family festivals during Covid, with her first held on the outskirts of her hometown of Dundee.

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7 h. ago Jury deliberates for 2nd day in the triple murder trial of Australian accused of mushroom poisonings

A jury is deliberating for a second day in the murder trial of an Australian woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately feeding them poisonous mushrooms

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7 h. ago Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law extinguishes last standing pro

League of Social Democrats disbands amid ‘the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent’, days before anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of NSLIn a cramped, dark office, in front of a wall adorned by some misshapen shelves, faded photographs, and a single fan battling against the summer heat, Hong Kong’s last active pro-democracy party admitted defeat.Behind them, a sticky-taped banner declared: “We’d rather be ashes than dust.” Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo paired for the first time in blockbuster exhibition at the NGV

Two iconoclasts of contemporary fashion will show side by side in the first major Australian exhibition since the London designer’s death two years agoTwo era-defining avant garde fashion designers, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo, will be brought together in a blockbuster summer exhibition announced on Tuesday by the National Gallery of Victoria.It has been more than 20 years since Westwood’s work has been exhibited extensively in Australia, and the NGV show will be the first since the designer’s death in December 2023.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Solar minigrid brings light and hope to a Goma neighborhood, offering blueprint for rest of Congo

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a flicker of hope despite widespread poverty and the city’s violent takeover by Congolese rebels early this year

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8 h. ago Starmer has no energy, vision or strategy for Britain on the world stage. He offers only weakness, decline and a disregard for the sovereignty of this nation: NILE GARDINER

In the week of the first anniversary of Starmer moving into No 10, the polling guru Sir John Curtice said that he has had 'the worst start for any newly-elected Prime Minister'.

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9 h. ago Clubber from Newcastle reported missing a week ago by his girlfriend is found in a Cambodian jail arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling

Robert Brown, 41, from Newcastle, has been arrested in Cambodia after attempting to smuggle nearly 20kg of marijuana into the UK - just hours after he was reported missing by his partner.

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10 h. ago China left off toughest tier of UK regime tracking ‘covert foreign influence’

Firs register is designed to offer assurance on activities of overseas powers seen as posing a national security risk

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10 h. ago The deadly driving act that 43 per cent of people admit to doing

More than 140 people are killed or seriously injured on England’s motorways each year due to tailgating

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10 h. ago Emmerdale spoilers: Villain returns for revenge on Joe, hospital dash and Robert drama

Emmerdale spoilers have teased a very big week ahead on the ITV soap, as Joe Tate faces a villain in a revenge twist, while there's a double hospital dash and drama for Robert Sugden

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15 h. ago Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson

We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is a government complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissentJuliet Stevenson is an award-winning actorStrongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and placards is not working. Elected representatives from every party in parliament have stood in the Commons and asked the government to act. Some government ministers themselves have condemned Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Every poll of public opinion shows that the nation demands we stop arming Israel, and wants to see an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. But none of these things are working.Keir Starmer and his cabinet remain impervious to all calls for humanitarian intervention, and Israel is still killing children in Gaza with the support of the British government.Juliet Stevenson is an award-winning actor Continue read...

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15 h. ago We need to 'bonk to save Britain' as birth rates fall and minister shares worry

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said she wants 'more young people to have children'. Data from the Office for National Statistics shows fertility rates in England and Wales dropped to 1.44 children per woman in 2023

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16 h. ago ROBERT JOBSON: A senior courtier told me what Harry and Meghan did to the heartbroken Queen. His biting words never left me

'She was really upset,' Lady Elizabeth Anson confided to the biographer Sally Bedell Smith. 'I was shocked when the Queen told me this, how she was so saddened.'

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