35 h. ago Rev Al Sharpton meets with Target CEO over halting of DEI initiative

Activists had called for boycotting the company after it announced a roll back of diversity, equity and inclusion effortsOn Thursday morning, the Rev Al Sharpton met with Brian Cornell, the Target CEO, to discuss the fallout from the company’s decision to walk back its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts earlier this year. The meeting happened in New York at Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) headquarters, and also included the NAN national board chair Dr W Franklyn Richardson and the NAN senior adviser Carra Wallace.In January, activists in Minnesota called for a boycott of Target following the Minneapolis-based company’s decision to eliminate their DEI initiatives. Though Sharpton, one of the most prominent civil-rights activists in the US, did not directly call for a Target boycott, he supported the efforts of others to boycott, and, prior to the meeting, indicated that he would be open to calling for such an action depending on how the meeting went. Continue read...

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4 d. ago British man and teenager drown in incident near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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4 d. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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4 d. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea in Australia

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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6 d. ago One in three British teenagers is now overweight or obese, new study reveals

The figure has risen by 50 per cent over the past two decades, which experts have put down to sedentary lifestyles driven by excessive screen time.

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9 d. ago Teenage weightlifters from Shotts become British Champions and power their way to world competition in Costa Rica

Reece Malone and Ged Murphy both took first place in their respective weight categories

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9 d. ago Rory McIlroy targets 'boyhood dream' at Masters to make eight

Rory McIlroy has won three of the four majors but travels to Augusta without a Masters title to go along with his run of victories at the Open, US Open and US PGA

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1 week ago Shocking moment British tourist 'attacks shopkeeper and teenage boy in front of terrified family' in Thailand

A British tourist has been arrested for attacking a shopkeeper and a teenage boy on the Thai island of Phuket.

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1 week ago The Hibs plan to 'rattle' Rangers that worked a treat as Martin Boyle reveals historic double he's targeting

The talisman netted the clinching second goal at Ibrox on Saturday as he again led from the front for the high flying Hibees

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1 week ago Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize

Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’For the past five years, David Liu – a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts – has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldn’t unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. “Everyone thought they were being scammed,” he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Teen who sold drugs using Harry Potter house elf Dobby as an alias and left female cyclist seriously injured in car crash is jailed

Lewis Breen-Ledger, 19, went under the name 'Dobby's Packs' on Instagram and Snapchat where he offered a 'menu of different drugs'.

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2 w. ago UK's most DANGEROUS gangsters revealed: Britain's FBI reveals which criminals pose the biggest threat to our security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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2 w. ago Britain's most dangerous gangsters: Why Chinese criminals now pose biggest threat to UK security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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2 w. ago Paris Fury celebrates Mother's Day by taking entire family on a lavish holiday

Paris Fury is celebrating Mother's Day with her husband, Tyson, their seven kids as well as their extended family and friends as the glamorous gang posed for a photo on holiday

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2 w. ago Rise of the catapult killer 'influencers': Children as young as 8 are brutally killing wildlife with slingshots during school time for social media clout

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The recent emergence of youngsters brutally killing wildlife with catapults for clout on the likes of Snapchat , Instagram and TikTok is a particularly sickening one.

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3 w. ago Coronation Street fans floored to discover soap legend Tina O'Brien's connection to Adolescence's rising star Owen Cooper as he takes Netflix by storm

The teenage actor has taken Netflix by storm after the British drama hit the streaming platform earlier this month.

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3 w. ago Teenage boys are targeting girls online for sexual abuse and violence, warns National Crime Agency

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online

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4 w. ago Fearless and Network Rail Scotland campaign encouraging youths to speak up about violence and weapon possession

Initiative will feature a series of impactful videos on Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok.

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4 w. ago ‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British

As the award-winning short is released on BBC iPlayer, the director and star talk about grief, breaking Somali stereotypes and a career-changing social media postWhen Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I genuinely thought it was just going to be a few people saying, ‘Oh my God, well done’,” she says. “I posted it at nine o’clock at night and thought nothing of it.” By morning, a commissioner at BBC Film had reached out, setting the wheels in motion for what would become Muna – an 18-minute short film that screened at more than 60 international film festivals, won multiple awards, and has now made its way to BBC iPlayer.Muna tells the story of a British-Somali teenager, played by Kosar Ali (Bafta-nominated for Rocks), who navigates a complex mother-daughter relationship while mourning a grandfather she never met. Her grief mirrors Mohamed’s own experience growing up. “There isn’t ...

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last month British teenage boys are being targeted on Snapchat and Instagram by Nigerian 'sextortion' gangs posing as young women

Teenage boys as young as 14 are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs who pose as women to trick victims into sending explicit images before demanding payments.

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