38 m. ago Jennifer Garner's boyfriend issues clear message after cosy hug with ex Ben Affleck

Actress Jennifer Garner was spotted getting cosy with her ex Ben Affleck following his divorce from Jennifer Lopez as her boyfriend John Miller sends a clear message

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40 m. ago China’s retaliatory tariffs on US farm goods kick in, as trade war escalates – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsChina’s stock markets have dropped today, as the double-whammy of trade war fears and deflation weighed on investors.The CSI 300 index dropped by 0.4%, while in Hong Kong the Hang Seng index slid by 1.8%.The week starts on a sharp negative note for the Chinese stocks, as the latest inflation update showed that consumer prices in China fell the most in more than a year .Overall, the week is expected to bring more tariffs the Chinese tariffs on US agricultural and some Canadian products will start today, while the US steel and aluminium tariffs will be live from Wednesday.Monday kicks off with the same old deflationary drumbeat as China’s consumer inflation took a deeper dive than expected, slipping below zero for the first time in over a year. The data only reinforces what’s been clear for months—deflationary pressures remain firmly entrenched in the world’s second-largest economy.The property sector remains stuck in the mud, ...

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54 m. ago ‘Just be radical’: the feminist artist giving Matisse a modern punk twist

In her irreverent new exhibition, Sylvie Fleury is pairing the great modernist’s drawings and cutouts with her own fashion-focused workWhen Henri Matisse described his work as “in step with the future”, he was thinking about his revolutionary cutouts, made with collaged coloured paper, rather than, say, the evolution of the women’s movement or consumer culture. The leading Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury came of age with the latter, but when she was invited to select drawings and cutouts from the Matisse estate for an exhibition, she was struck by the enduring immediacy of his vision. “My feeling with modernist artists is that, a lot of the time, they were trying to define what was happening within the history of art,” she says preparing for Drawing on Matisse, her showwhich situating 16 of his works within and alongside her impishly feminist and fashion-focused sculpture. “With Matisse, it was more like: ‘Just do it, be radical.’”Fleury well understands the power of disru...

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54 m. ago Golf’s peace deal is no closer – is it time for PGA Tour to end talks with LIV?

With PGA Tour’s marquee event approaching and Trump’s intervention seemingly unsuccessful, the sport is at crossroadsAn opening address from Jay Monahan at the Arnold Palmer Invitational here involved almost 1,500 words. A mere 108 of them referred to the Saudi Arabian elephant in the room. Or more specifically, the status of unification talks between the PGA Tour, which Monahan leads, and the Saudi‑fronted LIV circuit.Monahan was very keen to speak about innovation, about corporate partners, about fan engagement. Fluff. A blunt reality is that any excitement created by the announcement of a framework agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has long since dissipated. No wonder: that shock press release landed on 6 June 2023. Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Two decades ago, protesters ousted a king. Now they want to bring him back

‘I was in the protests that took away monarchy, but I was mistaken’

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84 m. ago Woman arrested for locking naked partner out on freezing balcony before he died of hypothermia

Man was trapped outside overnight as temperatures dropped to 3.7C

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91 m. ago Heathrow Airport travel chaos after 'electric car explodes in tunnel'

Passengers have been advised to leave more time travelling to the airport.

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1 hour ago Netflix doc shows horrifying moment man realised he was on fire during 9/11 attacks

American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden has arrived on Netflix and delves into the decade-long hunt to find one of the FBI's most wanted men

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2 h. ago Real Housewives star 'shocked' over pregnancy news after throwing test in bin

Real Housewives of Cheshire star Eleanor "Ellie" Egar has exclusively opened up on the moment she found out she was pregnant with her first child, a baby girl, due in July 2025

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2 h. ago Busty Kylie Jenner shrugs off 'curse' claims with Timothee Chalamet kiss at tennis match

Kylie Jenner didn't let online theories about the 'Kardashians curse' keep her from cozying up to her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet on Sunday.

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2 h. ago Why this may be wrong time for Labour to push North Sea oil industry off a cliff

The UK’s renewable energy industry is not developing quickly enough to replace the fossil fuels altogether yet

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2 h. ago No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policyPredictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to the state sector have been proved wrong at their first key test, according to figures from councils in England.While critics including the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt had predicted that up to 90,000 children could flood the state sector if VAT of 20% was charged, most councils say they have seen no impact from the policy in applications to start at state secondary schools later this year. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: Switzerland’s feminist choir rewriting traditional songs

Echo vom Eierstock is opening up the overwhelmingly male Alpine folk music scene with new versions of lyrics about nagging wives and naive girlsElena Kaiser just wanted to yodel, and living in central Switzerland, that didn’t seem too much to ask for. “But as a woman you couldn’t yodel in a choir unless you were already a professional; there were simply no options,” she says. There were also the words to the songs, portraying an idyllic Alpine life surrounded by pristine nature and overseen by a benevolent God, the men in charge and the women presented either as naive girls, self-sacrificing mothers or nagging wives. Kaiser couldn’t get past them: “The beautiful melodies with these completely outdated lyrics.”So, in 2022, she founded Switzerland’s first feminist yodelling choir, and Echo vom Eierstock (“echo from the ovary”) has been rewriting traditional yodelling songs and dragging the Alpine folk music scene into the 21st century ever since. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Shayden Morris has an Aberdeen secret that is paying out big time for Pittodrie fan favourite

Jimmy Thelin's men are heading back to Hampden after dumping Queen's Park to reach the Scottish Cup last four

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2 h. ago Eighty years since the Tokyo firebombing, survivors are still awaiting recognition

More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivorsNot even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio’s memory of the night American bomber planes killed tens of thousands of people in the space of a few hours and turned her city to ash.In the early hours of 10 March 1945, around 300 B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped 330,000 incendiary devices on Tokyo and killed an estimated 100,000 civilians, in an attack that cost more lives than the atomic bombing, months later, of Nagasaki. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Boy with 95 per cent of face covered in hair sets Guinness World Record

Teenager suffers from extremely rare condition called ‘werewolf syndrome’

Politics

3 h. ago Mark Carney: Canada’s new PM calls Trump tariffs ‘the greatest crisis of our lifetime’

Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor, has been named as Canada’s new prime minister succeeding Justin Trudeau ahead of the country's general election.

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3 h. ago Every confirmed UK Bank Holiday in 2025 and exactly when they fall

Find out when bank holidays are in England- including past and future ones - as the UK is weeks away from celebrating Good Friday and Easter Monday. How can workers make the most of their time off from work?

Economics

4 h. ago Kyle Walker's estranged wife Annie Kilner raises eyebrows with major business change as relationship drama continues

For the first time, Annie Kilner has used her estranged husband Kyle Walker's name professionally in her new business venture, despite recent sightings of him with two models in Italy

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4 h. ago Busty Kylie Jenner shrugs off 'curse' claims to join Timothee Chalamet at tennis match

Kylie Jenner didn't let online theories about the 'Kardashians curse' keep her from cozying up to her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet on Sunday.

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