53 m. ago 'I got my mum this stunning Dune London tote to replace her old work bag and it fits everything'

Shopping Writer Meghan got her mum this Dune London tote bag to replace her old work bag and their both 'so impressed by how much fits in it - she can carry folders, her laptop, a filofax and so much more'

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67 m. ago HMRC warning as thousands of people to be hit with extra charges

HMRC is charging people £10 per day from now

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68 m. ago Geography has given the US unrivaled security. Trump is destroying it | Gil Barndollar and Rajan Menon

The US’s greatest strategic advantage is its friendly neighbors. But its ties to Canada and Mexico are being underminedThe secret to American power and pre-eminence was best summed up more than a century ago.America, observed Jean Jules Jusserand, France’s ambassador to the United States during the first world war, “is blessed among the nations”. To the north and south were friendly and militarily weak neighbors; “on the east, fish, and the west, fish”. The United States was and is both a continental power and, in strategic terms, an island – with all the security those gifts of geography provide. No world power has ever been as fortunate. This unique physical security is the real American exceptionalism.Gil Barndollar is a non-resident fellow at the Defense Priorities Foundation. Rajan Menon is Spitzer professor emeritus of international relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and a senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute at Columbia University. Continue...

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71 m. ago French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings

Victims have had fingers chopped off by attackers in crimewave targeting online influencers and entrepreneursFrench police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom.In the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe, the man, who owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his son, was freed from a house south of Paris on Saturday night. He had been held for more than two days. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Thousands of rapes and sexual assaults reported in UK hospitals

Disturbing new figures show thousands of reports of rape and sexual assault being made from hospitals across England and Wales following an investigation by the Mirror

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1 hour ago Streeting: Reform UK a ‘real threat’ to Labour and ‘serious opposition force’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Nigel Farage’s party has tapped into the frustration of voters.

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2 h. ago Streeting says Reform are real threat and may become Labour’s main rivals

Health secretary asks public to give government time as he calls Farage’s party a ‘serious opposition force’Politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has said Reform is a real threat and could replace the Conservatives as the main opposition party by the next election, as he urged the public to give Labour the “benefit of the doubt”.The health secretary said Nigel Farage’s party was being treated as a “serious opposition force” after Reform’s success in the local elections, where it narrowly won a byelection from Labour and took 677 council seats, gaining control of 10 councils. Reform took most seats from the Conservatives, who lost 674, while Labour lost 187. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Revealed: The real reason Brooklyn Beckham snubbed dad David’s 50th birthday amid family feud

Insiders claim Brooklyn, 26, did not even call David to wish him a happy birthday

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3 h. ago The dark true story behind Netflix's Angi: Maria Angeles Molina killed her friend then used semen from a brothel to make it look as though she'd been raped and murdered

María Ángeles Molina, known as Angi, from Barcelona, killed her friend Ana Páez then used semen from brothel to make it look as though she'd been raped and murdered.

Events

4 h. ago George Lucas' sick deleted Star Wars scene as fans 'refuse to believe it's real'

Ever since it burst onto screens in 1977 George Lucas' Star Wars iconic franchise has spawned multiple movies, TV series, graphic novels and video games. But not all scenes made the final cut

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4 h. ago 'Beautiful soul', 28, dies days after saying 'he was fine' following freak accident

Kieran McCrave, 28, had just got off a tram in Crumpsall when an incident turned out to have tragic consequences

Events

4 h. ago Elon Musk creates his own Texas city dubbed Starbase as he works to colonise Mars

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars just got a little more real after he won a vote to create his very own city in Texas dubbed Starbase... yes you heard that right

Politics

6 h. ago Charging an electric car at home is still CHEAPER than filling up with petrol

The AA's latest EV Recharge Report for March shows that people who charge at home pay just 5.6p/mile for standard rate domestic charging compared to 11.8p/mile for petrol.

Science

6 h. ago Snooker Champs final ref Desislava Bozhilova's secret passion and Ronnie O'Sullivan tension

Bulgarian official Desislava Bozhilova will be in charge of this year’s World Snooker Championship final, with her secret cooking passion and past irks with Ronnie O’Sullivan

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7 h. ago Meet Desislava Bozhilova: World Snooker Championship final referee who was told 'just chill' by Ronnie O'Sullivan

Bulgarian Bozhilova will become the first woman to take charge of all three Triple Crown finals

Sport

8 h. ago ‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to proveSerhiy was just about to board a coach bound for Germany when Polish security services detained him at the bus station in the city of Wrocław.In his backpack, the officers found firelighter cubes, a juice bottle filled with paraffin, a lighter, two pocket knives, a mini handsaw and a face mask. Later, when they searched the mobile phone of the 49-year-old Ukrainian refugee, they found a pdf of a Russian-language book called Modern Pyrotechnics. It contained detailed instructions on how to start fires and detonate explosives. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Man Utd target £42.5m budget boost for Ruben Amorim as two transfer priorities identified

Manchester United are keen to offload Real Betis loanee Antony this summer but they won't hold formal discussions over a sale until the end of the season

Economics

9 h. ago Sick paedophile blindfolded girl and raped her in 'campaign' of abuse

Perry McCarthy's brave victim told a court she remained 'haunted' by his abuse while there was applause in court as the paedophile was handed a lengthy jail term

Events

10 h. ago Man Utd transfer news: Real Madrid plan scuppered as fresh Antony enquiry made

Manchester United are gearing up for a busy summer transfer window, with Antony one of several players expected to be sold by the Red Devils in the upcoming market

Politics

11 h. ago Epic Universe sneak peek as one of history's most expensive theme parks opens

Your Epic adventure awaits - Universal’s new £7billion theme park in Orlando, Florida, is a real scream says Adam Maidment, who got to check out the theme park ahead of its May 22 opening

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