51 m. ago JK Rowling hails BBC presenter Martine Croxall for rejecting ‘pregnant people’ term live on air

The Harry Potter author, 59, took to social media to praise the BBC presenter, saying: ‘I have a new favourite BBC presenter’

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53 m. ago Donald Trump donned red MAGA hat as he approved strikes on Iran nuclear sites

The White House released a series of photos on Saturday showing President Donald Trump and his national security team in the Situation Room as they authorized military strikes on three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites

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64 m. ago Rylan Clark questions 'decision' by BBC bosses as he says 'they won't listen'

Rylan Clark has presented his BBC Radio 2 show since 2019 when he replaced Zoe Ball, but he says he has pitched another idea to bosses at the radio station

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65 m. ago Kanye West stuns tourists by visiting a gift shop in Magaluf with wife Bianca Censori after she sparked outrage with another nearly

Kanye and his wife Bianca Censori were seen browsing a snack display in the shop at the Spanish hotspot.

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66 m. ago The kindness of strangers: a gentle flight attendant made me feel I wasn’t alone

He didn’t try to tell me everything would be all right, because it wouldn’t have been. If he hadn’t been there, I would have been sobbing on my ownRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesI’d completely forgotten it was my little sister’s 40th birthday, so that morning I hurriedly arranged to send some flowers to her house. She died before she could receive them. My sister died at 11am and I got a text from the florist saying they’d delivered the flowers at 11.30am – how ridiculous. They must have sat on her doorstep for days.I got the call as I was walking through the doors at Emerald airport in Queensland, about to fly home to Brisbane. My stepdad rang me and said, “I need to talk to you about something – your sister’s died.” I was like, “What? What do you mean?” I told him I was about to hop on a plane home and that I’d call him when I got on the ground. I hung up, stunned. Continue reading...

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70 m. ago Glastonbury 2025 weather forecast update as Met Office and BBC give rain predictions

lt's worth packing for a bit of everything if you're attending the festival

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72 m. ago Gary Lineker nicked my job at the BBC and we haven't spoken in 20 years

Steve Rider has been left unimpressed by Lineker's career with the Beeb which came to an end earlier this year

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81 m. ago JK Rowling shares early verdict on first two episodes of Harry Potter HBO series

New HBO production has been plagued by controversy

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84 m. ago Rylan Clark says 'they won't listen' as he questions 'decision' by BBC bosses

Rylan Clark has presented his BBC Radio 2 show since 2019 when he replaced Zoe Ball, but he says he has pitched another idea to bosses at the radio station

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97 m. ago The Gilded Age cast: who is in season three with Carrie Coon? Full list for HBO series

The Gilded Age is back for more drama in the world of 19th century New York City 🍎

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1 hour ago TV legend traumatised after being assaulted and robbed in daylight by London gang

Broadcaster Selina Scott said she was 'stunned' following the terrifying incident in central London, and has hit out at the lack of police presence in the capital in the aftermath

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2 h. ago Serial rapist who attacked young mothers as their babies lay beside them and served time alongside Ian Huntley in Monster Mansion is found dead in jail

Ronald Cole had been in prison from the age of 29 following his last horrific crime - where he raped a 25-year-old woman as her baby son lay in bed beside her.

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3 h. ago Why don’t people hitchhike any more? Is the world more dangerous or just meaner?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhatever happened to hitchhiking? You rarely here of people thumbing a lift any more. Is the world more dangerous or just meaner? Ann Langdon, EssexPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild westReactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults think it’s a horror show. After all, the screen of a teenager’s smartphone is a shiny black hole to which access is rarely granted. “Our kids are right there,” as Greenfield puts it, “and yet we don’t really know what’s going on in their lives.”Her five-part series, which tracks the online and offline lives of a group of teenagers and young adults – the first generation of social media natives – is being tipped for an Emmy. Under the noses of their parents, she captures teenagers climbing out of bedroom windows to spend the night with boyfriends, posting sexually explicit images, tracking ...

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3 h. ago Four groups of people who don't need to pay BBC TV licence fee

The majority of people in the UK need to pay £174.50 fee to watch live TV and catch-up content on BBC iPlayer.

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3 h. ago Global alarm at US strikes on Iran amid fears conflict could spiral out of control

Politicians express ‘grave concern’ and urge all parties to de-escalate and return to talks on Iran’s nuclear programmeMiddle East crisis – latest updatesNations in the Middle East and beyond responded with alarm after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday night as the EU and the UN called for immediate diplomacy, amid mounting fears that the war could trigger a wider escalation that could spiral out of control.Qatar, which hosts the biggest US military base in the Middle East, said on Sunday that it feared there could be serious repercussions regionally and internationally. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago JK Rowling hails BBC newsreader Martine Croxall after she overrules autocue's 'pregnant people' line to say 'women'

The Harry Potter author, 59, who has been vocal on the subject of trans people and what she calls 'sex-based rights' for several years, has praised the journalist (pictured), 56, for it on social media.

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3 h. ago Olivia Attwood fumes 'too little too late' after Kylie Jenner's surgery admission

Former Love Islander Olivia Attwood fronts a new series that delves into the world of aesthetic enhancements, but believes honesty is the best policy when it comes to celebrities and their cosmetic procedures

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4 h. ago ‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely

Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda DelgadoA 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first Ice detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported from a local jail to a federal detention center, and experts have warned there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration’s “mass deportation” push across the US.Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado’s exact cause of death remains under investigation, according to Ice, but the Guardian’s reporting reveals a confusing and at times contradictory series of events surrounding the incident. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago How to make perfect cheese arepas – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

Arepas are Latin American cornbreads of the most delicious kind. But there are so many variations, so let’s start with one that’s soft on the inside, crisp on the outside and oozing melted cheese When I first came across arepas, at a food market in Williamsburg, New York, almost a decade ago, I was attracted mainly by the fact that these stuffed South American corn breads were, as the stall proclaimed in big letters: “110% gluten-free!” which meant I could share one with a coeliac friend. One bite later, I regretted my generosity: crunchy, buttery and filled with sweetcorn and salty, stringy cheese, I could easily have polished off the whole thing without any help.These, I later learned, were Colombian arepas de choclo, but arepas – flat, unleavened maize patties that pre-date European settlement – are found in many forms and flavours in many other countries, too, most notably Venezuela, but also Bolivia, Ecuador and parts of Central America. As J Kenji López-Alt notes on Serious Ea...

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