74 m. ago Elizabeth Struhs death: father jailed for 14.5 years as sect faces sentencing for eight

Jason Struhs is the first of 14 members of Toowoomba religious group the Saints to be sentenced for Elizabeth’s 2022 death by withholding insulinFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe father of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs has been sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison, with a minimum of 80% to be spent behind bars, for the death of his eight-year-old type 1 diabetic daughter by denying her life-saving insulin.Jason Struhs was the first of 14 members of Toowoomba-based religious sect the Saints to learn his fate at a sentencing hearing in the Queensland supreme court on Wednesday, after they were found guilty of manslaughter over Elizabeth’s January 2022 death by diabetic ketoacidosis.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 h. ago BRIT Awards 2025: Charli xcx is awarded the Songwriter Of The Year prize after receiving the most nominations across five categories

After receiving a record a record number of nominations, the hitmaker will be in attendance at Saturday's ceremony in London's O2 Arena.

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7 h. ago BRIT Awards 2025 announce winner of Songwriter of the Year as fans say star was 'robbed'

The BRITs Songwriter of the Year award which recognises exceptional songwriting talent in the industry has been revealed - but fans say one artist was 'robbed'

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15 h. ago Aldi Scotland announces CHAS as the official charity partner for its 2025 Supermarket Sweep

Aldi Scotland has proudly announced Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) as the official charity partner of its long running and hugely popular Supermarket Sweep initiative for 2025.

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23 h. ago Brit Awards 2025: When are they on, presenters and live performances

From Sam Fender to Sabrina Carpenter, here is everything you need to know about the Brits - the annual celebration of the best music

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41 h. ago Rangers put former captain Barry Ferguson in charge until end of season

Philippe Clement was sacked by club on Sunday evening‘We appreciate Barry and his team stepping into the role’Rangers have placed their former captain Barry Ferguson in charge of first-team affairs until the end of the season following Philippe Clement’s sacking.Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat by St Mirren proved to be the final straw for Clement, with the club announcing the Belgian’s departure on Sunday night after 16 months at the helm. The surprise loss left second-placed Rangers 13 points behind Old Firm rivals Celtic in the Premiership and came after a damaging Scottish Cup reverse to minnows Queen’s Park on 9 February. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago 2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts

The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandalsA gossipy account of the lives of Roman emperors has entered the bestseller charts – 2,000 years after it was written. Sex scandals and foreign policy failures don’t only beleaguer the modern politician, it turns out: in the early second century, the scholar Suetonius chronicled the dramas of the first set of Roman emperors, and now, their indiscretions and eccentricities have been dug up in a new translation which is proving popular in bookshops.The Lives of the Caesars, translated from Latin by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland, made the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week. Publisher Penguin Classics said that the book is the first of their hardback nonfiction classics to appear on the list. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Jodie Foster's son makes rare appearance alongside her at SAG Awards 2025 red carpet

Jodie Foster and her son Charlie made a rare appearance together at the 2025 SAG Awards in Los Angeles. The 62-year-old star was joined by her 26-year-old son who hopes to break into acting,

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4 d. ago Rihanna tipped for Glastonbury 2025 as she 'plans UK residency' and music comeback

Brit Award winner Rihanna has long been speculated to perform at Glastonbury Festival over the years and there's now more rumours of her potentially performing in the UK soon

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4 d. ago Celebrate Mother’s Day 2025 in Style: Discover The Charm of Soho And Carnaby Street

Celebrate Mother’s Day 2025 in Style: Discover The Charm of Soho And Carnaby Street  London Post

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4 d. ago Woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann charged with stalking

Julia Wandel allegedly sent letters, calls, WhatsApps and visited family of missing girl A woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has been charged with stalking the parents and siblings of the missing girl by turning up at the family home, leaving voicemails and sending messages.Julia Wandel, also known as Julia Wandelt, was arrested at Bristol airport on Wednesday and appeared in Leicester magistrates court on Friday, Leicestershire police said. Madeleine went missing in 2007 shortly before her fourth birthday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago After SSAFA helped her return to the RAF, Scots woman sets out to run London Marathon to give back

Nicola McKie turned to SSAFA when her struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) took over her life. To give back she is running the 2025 London Marathon to raise funds for the Armed Forces charity.

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4 d. ago This is the year the Oscars found God – but can they keep the faith?

From Conclave to The Brutalist to A Real Pain, films about religion are unusually well represented at the Academy Awards – some with decidedly unorthodox themes• Warning: contains spoilersWhat Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell said of New Labour – “We don’t do God” – applies also to the Academy Awards. The secular gong-dispensing rite annually sweeps religion off its proverbial red carpet. The last best picture winner to deal with the subject was 2015’s Spotlight, which hardly proselytised for organised religion – it dramatised the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church. You have to go back to 1973 to find a movie with a priestly protagonist that really beguiled the Academy: William Friedkin’s horror movie The Exorcist received 10 Oscar nominations, winning awards for screenplay and sound.This year, though, may be different. Two leading contenders, The Brutalist (10 nominations) and Conclave (eight), put faith front and centre. And let’...

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5 d. ago Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research

A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidenceLiving to old age is quite literally the best thing that any of us could hope for, given the alternative. It’s a cruel irony, then, that many of us who make it that far will begin to lose our sense of who we are due to dementia. If you’re 65, you’ve got about a one in 20 chance of developing the most common form, Alzheimer’s disease, in the next decade. At 75, it’s about one in seven, while those fortunate enough to reach 85 face a one in three chance.Given the toll this illness takes on sufferers and those around them, hundreds of millions of families around the world are desperate for a medical breakthrough – and for years, headlines have suggested that it might be imminent. Scientists had identified the cause of Alzheimer’s, they promised, and potential cures were already being tested. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir

Heidi Reichinnek’s speech went viral on TikTok – and sparked a surge of support from voters who reject the mainstream’s xenophobiaI was shopping for groceries the other day in Berlin’s neglected northern outskirts, when I remembered a joke. A banker, a social welfare recipient and an asylum seeker are sitting at a table. There are 12 cookies in front of them. The banker takes 11 cookies and says to the social welfare recipient: “Watch out, the refugee wants your cookie.”It came back to me as I witnessed a young white mother completely losing it at the checkout. At first I thought it was the prices that had caused her fury, though there was no indication of that; I was probably just projecting my own anxieties about money on to the woman’s tantrum. It took me a moment to realise that she was accusing another woman, also a mother but not white, of standing in her way on purpose. She shouted that this was her country and we should all step out of her way and that soon we would see. Two...

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6 d. ago Martial law was Yoon Suk Yeol’s answer to ‘legislative dictatorship’, insurrection trial hears

Lawyers for impeached South Korean president who caused chaos argue that court has no jurisdiction to put him on trial for ‘act of governance’Lawyers for Yoon Suk Yeol have told a court in Seoul that the impeached president declared martial law in late 2024 to prevent the country becoming a “legislative dictatorship” controlled by his political opponents.The claim came as Yoon became the first South Korean president to stand trial in a criminal case, brought over his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago BRIT winner Ella Eyre launches school outreach initiative Mic Drop

Ella Eyre, the BRIT Award-winning singer, has launched a new initiative called Mic Drop Talks, aimed at inspiring young students.

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6 d. ago Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are amicable at Ferrari for now – but it won’t last

Ferrari’s new jackpot F1 duo have different strengths behind the wheel but are both vying for the same prize at the end. Kieran Jackson explains why fans should not be fooled by early warmth between the pair

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6 d. ago Carlos Sainz prediction spells trouble for Lewis Hamilton with Ferrari history repeating itself

Former Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz has given his verdict on how Lewis Hamilton will fare against the team's 'golden boy' Charles Leclerc during 2025 F1 season

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7 d. ago Gemma Atkinson leaves fans distracted with loo snap as she grins and tells them 'stay classy'

The Hits Radio host took to her Instagram page as she revealed she'd soon be off to The BRIT Awards 2025 and is preparing her look

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