97 m. ago Lennon Miller owns best Scotland player 'rogue shout' as he's hit with epic one liner after initiation song

Miller He understands the vast majority of this football-mad nation took no issue with one of our finest talents talking himself up

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2 h. ago Unrwa says Israel has abused detained staff and used some as human shields

Accusation from UN agency comes as Red Crescent medic held since deadly Israeli attack on ambulances is freed The embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has accused Israel of abusing dozens of its staff in military detention and using some as human shields.The head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, said that more than 50 staff members, including teachers, doctors and social workers, had been detained and abused since the start of the 18 month-long war in Gaza. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Gary Barlow celebrates Liverpool's Premier League win with major outfit change on tour

Gary Barlow celebrated Liverpool F.C's Premier League win on Monday night by donning the team's scarf during a live show in the city for his solo Songbook Tour.

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4 h. ago Paloma Faith appointed musical director for crucial fundraising event

Caudwell Children is excited to announce that award-winning singer-songwriter Paloma Faith will serve as musical director for The Butterfly Ball 2025 this June.

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4 h. ago UK's Eurovision entry gives unique take on hit song from Netflix show

Remember Monday have recorded a cover of a track from the Netflix film about the competition

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4 h. ago The uniting theme of Trump’s presidency? Ineptitude | Robert Reich

From deportations to human rights to the economy, the president’s actions have resulted in mayhem. Here’s a samplingSome Democrats fear they’re playing into Donald Trump’s hands by fighting his mass deportations rather than focusing on his failures on bread-and-butter issues like the cost of living.But it’s not either-or. The theme that unites Trump’s inept handling of deportations, his trampling on human and civil rights, his rejection of the rule of law, his dictatorial centralization of power, and his utterly inept handling of the economy is the ineptness itself.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

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4 h. ago UK's first trans judge planning gender ruling challenge in European Court of Human Rights

Dr Victoria McCloud suggested the UK Supreme Court judgement violated her human rights

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4 h. ago 'I'm an UFO expert – aliens exist and they are killing humans on purpose'

UFO expert Jacques Vallée, who has inspired a character in a Hollywood classic, claims that aliens exist and have been killing humans on purpose, according to his years of research

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5 h. ago Inside America's 'human sacrifice zone' where cancer is killing thousands and locals are terrified

We spoke to scared residents and upon our reporter's return, she suffered breathing difficulties doctors said could have been brought on by exposure to toxic chemicals.

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6 h. ago Tennis stars unable to shower and nowhere to sleep: Blackouts cause havoc at Madrid Open

The Madrid Open was plunged into chaos on Monday afternoon as a widespread power outage across Spain and Portugal left players without access to basic human necessities

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6 h. ago UK's first trans judge plans human rights challenge to Supreme Court gender ruling that the definition of woman is biological

Victoria McCloud claimed the judgement violated her human rights and left her feeling 'contained and segregated'.

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7 h. ago Eurovision controversy as iconic item banned from glitzy extravaganza in Switzerland

Eurovision Song Contest fans can't wait for the competition to kick off in May, but they won't be seeing an iconic flag from the show on stage - because it's been banned

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7 h. ago Bird flu warning signs everyone should know as country told to prepare for new pandemic

Specialists have stressed that a bird flu "pandemic" could be on its way after almost 1,000 cow herds have been hit by the infection - it comes just after a warning was issued in the UK

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7 h. ago Wedding kiss restrictions branded ‘bizarre’ by humanist leader at inquiry

The Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry’s worship and life events impact hearings began on Tuesday.

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7 h. ago Spotify update: how to turn off Smart Shuffle and take back control of your playlists

Fed up with unwanted song suggestions on your Spotify playlists? You can now disable Smart Shuffle permanently

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8 h. ago Championship braced for last day chaos as THIRTEEN teams still to learn fate

Leeds and Burnley are fighting it out for top spot, Bristol City and Coventry lead the play-off race, while Hull, Luton and Derby are all in trouble at the bottom

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8 h. ago Britain’s first transgender judge takes UK to European court over controversial definition of a woman ruling

Row is over supreme court ruling trans women are not legally women

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9 h. ago Evidence of Scotland's earliest human populations found on Skye

Tools and an unusual stone circle were discovered by a team of archaeologists led by a Scottish professor.

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10 h. ago ‘I felt caught between cultures’: Mongolian musician Enji on her beguiling, border

She started singing in her family’s yurt before a Goethe-Institut residency led her to jazz and life in Munich. The distance from home is ‘bittersweet’ – but both styles, she says, are about trusting your instinctGrowing up in the icy Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, singing was as natural as speech for Enkhjargal Erkhembayar. “Every day after my parents came home from working in the local power factory, they would gather with a group of friends in our yurt to unwind and someone would always begin to sing,” she says. “Soon, we would all join in, singing old folk songs to keep warm and to express ourselves long into the night.”As Enji, 33-year-old Erkhembayar is now taking this music into international concert halls, having forged a beguiling hybrid of Mongolian folk music with acoustic jazz improvisation. She anchors her performances in the circular-breathing vocal style of Mongolian long song – a folk tradition where syllables are elongated through freeform vocalisations – her del...

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10 h. ago It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders

We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change thatI have held public meetings all over Vermont and in many parts of the country. At these gatherings I almost always ask a very simple question: is our healthcare system broken? And the answer I always receive is: Yes! The American healthcare system is broken. It is outrageously expensive. It is horrifically cruel.Today, we spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. According to the most recent data, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare compared with just $5,640 in Japan, $6,023 in the United Kingdom, $6,931 in Australia, $7,013 in Canada and $7,136 in France. And yet, despite our huge expenditures, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.Bernie Sanders is a US senator and a ranking member of the health, education, labor and pensions committee. He represent...

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