2 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart start time and stage 1 route as sprinters set for battle on streets of Lille

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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5 h. ago Inside Ozzy Osbourne health battles as Black Sabbath take to the stage one final time

Rock star Ozzy Osbourne is undergoing a worrying health battle as the Black Sabbath frontman prepares for his last ever gig with the band this weekend

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40 h. ago Biden’s reelection bid fell apart after he admitted ‘only thing’ he cared about was Hunter avoiding jail

Joe Biden was ‘distracted and devastated’ by his son’s legal battles during a crucial time in the reelection campaign, the authors of a new book claim

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46 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 LIVE: Jack Draper vs Marin Cilic latest score and updates

British men’s No1 out to reach third round for first time as he battles 2017 finalist

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6 d. ago Teenage boy mauled by shark at popular beach as he’s rushed to hospital with ‘serious’ arm injuries

The attack took place at Cabarita Beach in New South Wales just before 4pm on Sunday

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6 d. ago Shark attack at 'Ant and Dec beach' leaves teenager in serious condition in Australia

A shark attacked a boy at Cabarita Beach on Sunday and he is now in hospital with serious arm injuries

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6 d. ago ‘I’ve been incredibly lucky. I have heavy imposter syndrome’: Djo on viral fame, bad reviews, and life after Stranger Things

Actor and musician Joe Keery made his name on the Netflix hit as lovable jock Steve Harrington, but he never stopped making music. He discusses anxiety, his earnest new record and why he and his castmates are ‘bonded for life’“It was a crazy situation – this song that I wrote was being linked to the head of the Catholic church!” Joe Keery sounds incredulous as he recalls his latest viral moment. The track in question was End of Beginning, the wistful indie anthem from his 2022 album Decide. It first became an online hit last year, taking on a new life soundtracking TikTok users’ videos of their home towns. As it happens, the home town – or university town, in Keery’s case – that he sings about in the song is Chicago. Fast forward to this May, when Illinois native Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new pope. The song began to do the rounds all over, with fans overlaying the lyrics (“And when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it!”) over videos of the new pontiff.It was just the lates...

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6 d. ago ‘I’ve been incredibly lucky. I have heavy impostor syndrome’: Djo on viral fame, bad reviews, and life after Stranger Things

Actor and musician Joe Keery made his name on the Netflix hit as lovable jock Steve Harrington, but he never stopped making music. He discusses anxiety, his earnest new record and why he and his castmates are ‘bonded for life’“It was a crazy situation – this song that I wrote was being linked to the head of the Catholic church!” Joe Keery sounds incredulous as he recalls his latest viral moment. The track in question was End of Beginning, the wistful indie anthem from his 2022 album Decide. It first became an online hit last year, taking on a new life soundtracking TikTok users’ videos of their home towns. As it happens, the home town – or university town, in Keery’s case – that he sings about in the song is Chicago. Fast forward to this May, when Illinois native Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new pope. The song began to do the rounds all over, with fans overlaying the lyrics (“And when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it!”) over videos of the new pontiff.It was just the lates...

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6 d. ago England beat Germany to win successive U21 Euros as Thomas Tuchel casts keen eye over five stars

England won the U21 Euros for the second time in succession as Lee Carsley's side battled to a deserved triumph over Germany after extra-time in a thrilling final watched by Thomas Tuchel

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8 d. ago Bear Grylls: 'Screen time is a continual battle... Not just with the children, but with ourselves"

The adventurer is fed up with children being pacified with an iPad, he tells Claudia Cockerell

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8 d. ago Mission Impossible legend who wrote iconic theme song dies after health battle

Oscar-winning composer Lalo Schifrin, who was the brains behind the legendary Mission Impossible theme tune, has died at the age of 93, his family have announced

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8 d. ago Brian Wilson's cause of death revealed days after Beach Boys icon's shock passing aged 82

Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson's cause of death has been revealed publicly two weeks after his passing at 82.

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8 d. ago Brian Wilson's cause of death revealed after Beach Boys legend died aged 82

Brian Wilson's family announced the music legend's passing earlier this month, after it emerged he'd been diagnosed with a neurocognitive disorder similar to dementia

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9 d. ago Greece wildfires: woman charged with unintentional arson after cigarette allegedly started blaze on Chios

Greek island has been battling several wildfires that broke out at the same time on Sunday and have so far ripped through an estimated 40,000 hectaresA Georgian woman accused of accidentally igniting one of several wildfires that have raged relentlessly across the eastern Aegean isle of Chios will appear in court to face charges of unintentional arson.Greek fire brigade officials said the woman, employed as a housekeeper on Chios, the ancestral home of some of Greece’s wealthiest shipping families, had “confessed” to triggering the blaze when she negligently discarded a cigarette. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Young boy 'grabbed and followed' near UK beach as man arrested

A 9-year-old child was "grabbed and followed" close to a popular UK beach.

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1 week ago Teenage boy needed surgery after stepping on broken glass left at popular beach

Nico Divetta, 15, underwent surgery to remove broken glass from a laceration to his left foot after stepping in the sea at Aberavon beach.

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1 week ago CBB star James Whale 'spends lots of time crying' in 'final weeks' of terminal cancer battle

Speaking during what will be one of his final shows, James Whale said that he is 'actually in my last couple of weeks' and that the 'last time I saw my oncologist, he said I probably have only got weeks to go'

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2 w. ago Sister act Haim keep the spirit of Brian Wilson alive with an album of sunny California pop, writes Adrian Thrills

I Quit is ostensibly a break-up record, but even when Danielle, Este and Alana sing about heartache, they find it hard to stop the sun from breaking through.

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2 w. ago Who will have the 2025 song of the summer? We offer some predictions

What makes a great song of the summer

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2 w. ago ‘His music documented an America that no longer exists’: Brian Wilson’s brilliance, by key collaborator Van Dyke Parks

Wilson bought Parks a Volvo when he’d barely met him – and together they brought sublime poetry to pop. He remembers the making of Smile, Surf’s Up and moreIt was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor – who I met backstage at their first concert at the Hollywood Bowl – who first declared “Brian Wilson is a genius” as part of a [1966] publicity campaign. I knew that word would come back to haunt Brian and it did: from then on he was competing in a world of heightened expectations, but he did that very bravely all his life. He was basically forever competing against a previous version of himself, but as the great American beat poet Lewis MacAdams said: “If it’s not impossible, I’m not interested.” As for lyrics, you can’t beat “I’m a cork on the ocean” [in Til I Die] for a redux of thought from a Beach Boy. I will call that genius and I think the word does apply to Brian.He had so many gifts. One of them was mutual empowerment. He brought out the best in everyone around him. In the stud...

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