2 h. ago Trump tariffs come into effect in ‘seismic’ shift to global trade

‘Baseline’ 10% import levy takes effect at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses on Saturday, with some higher tariffs to begin next weekUS customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump’s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week.The initial 10% “baseline” tariff took effect at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses at 12.01am ET (0401 GMT), ushering in Trump’s full rejection of the post-second world war system of mutually agreed tariff rates. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Cristiano Ronaldo tipped to complete shock purchase of LaLiga club

Cristiano Ronaldo wants to add an elite football club to his business portfolio and identified a team to buy, but the five-time Ballon d'Or winner is unwilling to compromise on one aspect

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6 h. ago Four types of PIP claimants with highest chance of £749 award

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed proposed plans to reform Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

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9 h. ago Labour 'plotting to delay AI copyright law for up to four more years'... while tech firms carry on 'burgling' creatives

The government reportedly wants to conduct a full 'technical review' of its proposal to give Big Tech firms an exemption from copyright law when training AI models.

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10 h. ago Perfect: Seven get engaged at one Ed Sheeran gig as singer admits becoming a 'trend'

Ed Sheeran has revealed a trend for public proposals taking place during his concerts - with fans tending to pop the question as he plays popular love songs Perfect and Thinking Out Loud.

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10 h. ago Forgotten retro tech stored in your loft that can now fetch hundreds of pounds

Gadgets from decades ago are in demand from collectors and nostalgia hunters, with some phones or game consoles from the 80s and 90s now worth a small fortune

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12 h. ago Richard E Grant says Barry Keoghan will be ‘fantastic Ringo Starr’ in biopics

Sony Pictures announced a collection of four films about The Beatles with Keoghan set to play drummer Ringo Starr.

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13 h. ago Video shows Kanye West's LA church building up in flames in arson fire less than two years after he bought it

Newly unearthed video shows Kanye West's Los Angeles church building going up in flames as dozens of firefighters battle to extinguish the blaze, less than two years after he purchased it.

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15 h. ago US ‘testing’ if Russia is serious about peace in Ukraine, says Marco Rubio

Secretary of state says Putin ‘will have to make a decision’ as US officials appear to be growing impatientThe US will know within weeks whether Russia is serious about pursuing peace with Ukraine, the secretary of state said on Friday, warning that Donald Trump was not “going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations” with Russia.“We’re testing to see if the Russians are interested in peace. Their actions – not their words, their actions – will determine whether they’re serious or not, and we intend to find that out sooner rather than later,” Marco Rubio told journalists in Brussels after talks with Nato allies. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Save big on your next holiday with Club Med discount codes and travel deals

From The Bahamas to Val Thorens, Club Med’s exclusive collection of resorts has you covered

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15 h. ago The row between Manchester's tallest tower and £150m tourist attraction

'The proposed development does not complement the heritage assets but instead subsumes [them]'

Economics

16 h. ago Antiques Roadshow guest roars 'never!' as she learns VERY lucky reason her grandfather's lantern is worth a fortune

An episode of the popular BBC show visited Floors Castle, Scotland and saw members of the public bring their collectables and heirlooms.

Culture

17 h. ago Last McDonald's meal purchased in Iceland 'still looks fresh' after over a decade

Hjortur Smarason bought a McDonald's hamburger and fries on the last day the fast food chain operated in Iceland in 2009. It has now been more than 15 years and the meal largely looks the same

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18 h. ago ‘Get round table and drop opposition,’ No 10 tells Unite amid Birmingham strike

The council declared a major incident earlier this week in a bid to increase collections of bin sacks amid a huge pile-up of waste on the street.

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19 h. ago Get a 'beautiful and radiant tan' with St Tropez's Golden Getaway kit that's now 50% off

The iconic brand St Tropez has recently released the Golden Getaway Kit, a hand-selected collection of St.Tropez's best-selling minis, guaranteed to deliver a 'flawless' beach-worthy glow - and right now, it's half-price

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19 h. ago Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?

The Inside Out studio’s latest, long-awaited project is a neon-drenched star-straddling adventure featuring an orphan, a tardigrade and a wannabe astronautPixar’s film-makers are famously asked to pitch three unique ideas when proposing new projects. In terms of Elio, unique is very much the operative word. Presumably that pitch went somewhere along the lines of: “A lonely kid is mistaken for Earth’s ambassador by a UN-style council of sentient celestial bath bombs dipped in day-glow glitter and floating in a malfunctioning lava lamp.”If you thought Inside Out, with its candy-coloured Freudian crisis management team, was pushing it, the studio’s latest project may make you suspect Pixar has fully surrendered to the void, and is now making films for children who are made of sherbet and tie-dye, rather than flesh and bones. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago US’s Rubio shrugs off market falls at Nato press conference – Europe live

US secretary of state says ‘markets will adjust’ during press conference following Nato summit in BrusselsAsked further about Ukraine, Rutte lists a number of projects by Nato member states, including Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic.He says that “the shortest answer” to question on safety guarantees is to adopt measures that make sure that “Putin will never, ever try again to get one square kilometer or one square mile of Ukraine in the future, that he knows that there is a deterrence and a defence by which Ukraine can never be attacked in the future.” Continue reading...

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21 h. ago David Lammy says he regrets Trump has embraced protectionism, something not seen in US ‘for nearly a century’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementAn anti-abortion campaigner at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic, PA Media reports. PA says:Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted at Poole magistrates’ court of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023.The case involved the 64-year-old from Bournemouth holding a sign saying “Here to talk, if you want”.But I think our approach should be to slightly stand back and think, what does Britain want, and can it get from the rest of the world, and what can we contribute?And in that regard, it’s important to realise that the rest of the G7, except the US, collectively are the same size as the United States. And I would have thought a very sensible thing to be doing is having a serious co...

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21 h. ago Furious Macron tells European firms to freeze billions in US investments

The bloc has already responded fiercely to the US President's decision to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all EU goods sold to the US.

Economics

22 h. ago Former Racing Bulls F1 boss' brutal verdict on Liam Lawson vs Yuki Tsunoda says it all

Franz Tost led the team now competing as Racing Bulls for almost two decades following Red Bull's purchase and knows both Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson very well as a result

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