3 h. ago Football transfer rumours: Rasmus Højlund or Richarlison to Fulham?

This page is going off the ballIf the big Premier League kick-off, champions Liverpool welcoming Bournemouth, is happening then that’s still no reason to get off the transfer rollercoaster. How stupid an idea would that be?Manchester United’s hunt for Carlos Baleba of Brighton is becoming one of the summer’s sagas. A twist? United, perhaps to smoke out Tony Bloom’s boys, have decided they might not fancy him anyway and would like to sign Morten Hjulmand, the anchor midfielder who previously worked at Sporting Club with Ruben Amorim. He’d cost £50m, half what Brighton are charging for Baleba. Continue reading...

Sport

3 h. ago Briton Matt Richardson takes flying start world record one year on from Australia defection

Richardson's change of allegiance straight after the Olympics took Australia by surprise

Politics

3 h. ago Rayner demanded right for Britons to stop working during heatwaves

It comes as temperatures in parts of the UK surpassed 30C this week, during the fourth heatwave of the summer

Politics

4 h. ago Doctor reveals the best day to inject weight loss jab to avoid calorific bingeing at the weekend

More than a million Britons are now injecting themselves weekly with drugs-bought online or through private clinics-lured by promises of rapid results.

Politics

7 h. ago Teenager who murdered Briton Emma Lovell in Queensland home invasion has sentence reduced on appeal

Queensland attorney general says she is considering high court challenge to the decisionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager who murdered a British woman during a home invasion in Queensland has had his time in detention reduced by almost 18 months on appeal.But Queensland’s attorney general says she will consider a high court challenge to the decision. Continue reading...

Events

19 h. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

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22 h. ago Bella Hadid's new lychee perfume launches exclusively at Selfridges

The scent blends together lychees, wood and even a touch of birch smoke

Politics

22 h. ago As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year

Events

26 h. ago Britons risk 'losing sight' of Christian history, atheist historian Alice Roberts laments... after mocking believers at Easter

The academic, 52, told BBC History Magazine that Christianity is a 'compelling and important' part of British culture and appeared to lament the fact that belief is on the decline.

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34 h. ago Langdale Moor fire: Major incident declared as fire surges near RAF Fylingdales

A fierce moorland blaze near RAF Fylingdales has erupted into a major incident, with flames leaping firebreaks and smoke billowing across North Yorkshire

Events

41 h. ago Hidden key revealed van stashed with dodgy cigarettes and vapes behind shop

Officers found a key hidden in a secret compartment within a shop which unveiled over £10,000 worth of illicit gear

Politics

45 h. ago Astonishing moment playful dolphin joins family on their morning swim in Dorset

Lynda MacDonald, 50, and her partner, son and his girlfriend, set out for their 6am morning swim at Lyme Bay, Dorset on August 3 when they were greeted by the bottlenose dolphin.

Politics

45 h. ago Of course Mark Zuckerberg is still doing good works – he’s just switched up the definition of ‘good’ | Emma Brockes

Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to?If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York Times this week in which Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are discovered to have been running a private school out of their compound in Palo Alto, California, in violation of city zoning laws. More pertinently, the school of 14 kids, which includes two of the couple’s three daughters, is less than a mile from the school for low-income families that the couple founded in 2016. Guess which school the world’s second-richest man and his wife are shutting down?Say the word “zoning infraction” to a certain stripe of American and the effect is equal to using “queue jumper” on a Briton, but of course the broader point here isn’t one about permits. (A spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told the newsp...

Politics

46 h. ago Major lorry fire closes M25 in both directions as smoke and flames fill the sky

Delays have already reached up to an hour, with disruption expected to impact rush-hour traffic.

Events

47 h. ago M25 closure LIVE: Truck fire rips across major motorway as black smoke fills sky

A huge lorry fire is causing long delays on the M25, as photographs show multiple firefighters at the scene attempting to bring the blaze under control as dark smoke rises above the motorway

Events

48 h. ago The gorgeous Spanish villages where you can live for UNDER £500 a month, picked by experts. That includes rent, resturants, wine and trips out

With rentals prices steadily rising and the cost of living increasing, many Britons are struggling with making ends meet in the UK right now.

Society

49 h. ago ‘Incredible’ $200,000 gift allows US actor to stage twin Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows

“It’s an astonishing act of generosity that made the dream of sharing my work on a global stage in a magical city like Edinburgh a reality” – Jason Woods

Culture

49 h. ago Acid reflux drug taken by millions could HARM your digestion, warns top pharmacist

Medication taken by millions of Britons to relieve heartburn and acid reflux can have a harmful impact on digestion in the long term, a top pharmacist has warned.

Events

50 h. ago Scientists discover astonishing razortooth whale which lived 25 million years ago

A new species of prehistoric whale has been discovered in Australia

Science

56 h. ago Vince McMahon makes astonishing Hulk Hogan 'racism' claim after wrestling legend's shock death

He was the biggest name in professional wrestling, enjoying superstardom and spreading 'Hulkamania' around the world. But Hogan also endured a number of scandals

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