2 h. ago Parking passes at 2026 World Cup will cost as much as $175 per vehicle

Fifa already under attack for high ticket pricesCosts are comparable to NFL parking passesWorld Cup ticket holders can expect to spend big to park their cars at next year’s tournament, with prices on Fifa’s official website reaching as much as $175 per parking pass.First reported by the Athletic, the figures are significant in the car-dependent United States – one of the tournament’s three hosts, along with Canada and Mexico – where many venues are not easily accessible by public transport. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago British state supplied victims to ‘worst sex offender in history’ as abuse continued unchecked at notorious detention centre

Investigation finds the ‘silence of many’ allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse to continue at Medomsley Detention Centre - as watchdog says victims deserve public apology

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16 h. ago Boy George makes Culture Club revelation about ‘memorable’ Tracey Emin

The acclaimed artist was in 'early rehearsals' with 1980s band Culture Club, Boy George said

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19 h. ago Boy George reveals Tracey Emin was in ‘early rehearsals’ with Culture Club

The singer said Dame Tracey decided band life ‘wasn’t for her’.

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45 h. ago Boy George says fears of meeting a transgender woman in a bathroom are 'imagined' and only circulate online as he continues public spat with JK Rowling

In his latest attack on the writer, George accused her of thinking 'men are evil monsters' and claimed that fears around trans people were 'imagined' which are stirred up on the internet.

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51 h. ago Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row

Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forcesProtesters have disrupted a preview event at a new museum in Nigeria that has become embroiled in a row over the restitution of artefacts looted by British colonial forces.In a video circulating on social media, demonstrators were seen loudly chanting: “Oba ghato kpere ise” (“Long live the king” in Bini language) while foreign and local visitors were ushered out of the Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) by security personnel in Benin City. Reporters at the scene said there was minor damage to the museum, which is due to open to the public on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Man Utd news: Rasmus Hojlund return latest as meeting held amid Ruben Amorim injury fears

Manchester United are facing major injury worries under Ruben Amorim, with Rasmus Hojlund's future and a star's loan spell also under the microscope

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5 d. ago ‘Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk’ – why investors are happy to pay him $1tn

Making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire appears to fit a US investment culture of backing high-flying innovatorsFor all the headlines about an on-off relationship with Donald Trump, baiting liberals and erratic behaviour, Tesla shareholders are loath to part with Elon Musk.Investors in the electric vehicle maker voted on Thursday to put the world’s richest person on the path to become the world’s first trillionaire, despite the controversy that is now seemingly intrinsic to his public profile. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreakCanada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull.On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce protest by the farm owners and protesters – as well as senior figures in the Trump administration, who have decried the public health effort as government overreach. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago King Charles officially strips Andrew of HRH style and prince title

Mountbatten Windsor is no longer entitled to use the terms and has been erased from roll of peerageKing Charles has officially stripped the former Duke of York, now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, of his HRH style and his prince title.Charles formally made the changes, which were announced a week ago, by issuing a letters patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, which the Crown Office published in the Gazette, the UK’s official public record. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Danes are Europe’s keenest nudists in principle and practice, survey suggests

YouGov study of six countries finds those in Denmark most likely to approve of nudism and have been naked in publicGermans may have a hard-won reputation for being Europe’s most enthusiastic nudists, but a survey suggests Danes are not only more accepting of stripping off in public, but more likely to have actually done so.The YouGov survey of six western European countries – the UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – found that Danes were the most likely to say it was perfectly OK to bare all in public places – and to have followed through. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Militants stage public mass gang rapes and slaughter 40 people at a funeral as Sudanese 'nightmare of violence' continues

People who have been forced to flee El-Fasher after it fell to the Rapid Support Forces have described horrific abuse, including rape at the hands of the militants.

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7 d. ago A moment that changed me: I thought I was a lesbian. David Bowie made me realise the truth

When I went to the Bowie exhibition at the V&A, I hoped that by losing myself in his gender experimentation I might, in turn, stumble across a clue to my own identity ...In 2011, a couple of years before the David Bowie Is exhibition opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, I came out as a lesbian. Up until that point I had been exclusively dating men, one of whom I married. Two years later, I was in my early 40s, a newly separated mother of four children, living in the US. I had started to question my gender identity, as well as my sexual orientation, and was looking for some answers.I was born in England in the early 1970s – before the advent of the internet. As a teenager, my friends and I didn’t have Reddit or YouTube to turn to when we had questions about sex; instead, we turned to pop stars, and in the 80s everyone was messing with gender. Annie Lennox wore boys’ clothes, Boy George wore girls’ clothes, and pop groups such as Erasure and Bronski Beat had members...

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7 d. ago A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China

Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raise memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in ChinaWhen Vickie Wang, a budding standup comedian, gets on stage in New York, she’s not just thinking about what jokes to crack. She’s also thinking about which ones to avoid. “I don’t criticise the administration directly,” she said. Or if she does, she makes sure it’s not recorded for social media. “I would never publicly publish something where I directly criticise the government I think it’s a learned behaviour from China”.Wang, 39, lived in Shanghai for nearly a decade, leaving in 2022. In 2025 she relocated to the US. When she arrived, she went on a frenzy of “revenge bingeing on democracy”, going to talks, protests and diving into New York’s public library. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Boy George's vile attack on lesbian banned by LA gym for confronting 'transgender patron who stared at her while she was naked in locker room'

Britain's 1980s pop icon Boy George vilely attacked a lesbian who was banned from a Los Angeles gym after she complained about a transitioning man in the women's locker room.

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9 d. ago Oil price rises after Opec+ pauses oil output hikes amid glut fears – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Opec+ pauses oil output hikes beyond December amid fears of a crude glutGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.The oil price is rising after the world’s biggest oil producers agreed to pause their planned oil production hikes in the first months of next year, to assuage fears that the global market may become oversupplied with crude.“Sanctions on Russian producers have injected a new layer of uncertainty into supply forecasts, and the group knows that overproducing now could backfire later.”9am GMT: Eurozone manufacturing PMI for October9.30am GMT: UK manufacturing PMI for October9.30am GMT: UK public sector productivity statistics2.45pm GMT: US manufacturing PMI for October Continue reading...

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1 week ago Cops launch probe after steward filmed ‘taking drugs’ at Hibs vs Rangers match

POLICE are looking into footage which appears to show a steward snorting white powder at a Hibs v Rangers match. The video, which has been circulating online, is reportedly taken at the midweek Premiership clash at Easter Road. The Daily Record says that the man in the video, wearing a high-vis security jacket appeared to...

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1 week ago Rachel Reeves considers 20% tax on assets of people deciding to leave UK

Plans for ‘settling-up charge’ predicted to raise £2bn and would follow policy in place among most G7 countriesRich people quitting the UK could be required to pay a 20% tax on their business assets as part of plans reportedly being considered by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.The Treasury has drawn up plans for a “settling-up charge” on assets; a move that would bring the UK into line with most other G7 nations and raise a predicted £2bn for the public coffers, according to the Times. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US public health officials vigilant as newer mpox variant detected

Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communitiesA newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe.The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places signals greater challenges for public health to detect cases and stop the spread. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute

Jettisoning of ex-prince became unavoidable when king’s loyalty to his brother collided with task of keeping public on sidePrince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal LodgeTo strip his brother of his titles and to evict him from his home is the most consequential action King Charles has taken since he ascended the throne in 2022.The defenestration of Prince Andrew, now to be known only as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and the removal of his cherished privilege of royal status is an act of utmost ruthlessness by a king. Ascending to the throne at the age of 73, Charles always knew he would play a caretaker role for the monarchy and so could not allow rot to set into an institution that lives and dies by public consent. Continue reading...

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