5 h. ago ‘Called out their names but did not get an answer’: Rescue underway for trapped tunnel workers in India

Dozens managed to escape as the tunnel in Telangana collapsed, but eight people are feared trapped

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23 h. ago Most explosive celeb spats of all time: From vicious band fights and catty name calling to Simon Cowell almost punching 90s icon in the face

Music mogul Simon Cowell, 65, has revealed during one heated exchange he almost punched his protégés and 90s boyband icon in the face.

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26 h. ago Workers feared trapped after tunnel collapses in southern Indian state

Dozens managed to escape as the tunnel in Telangana collapsed, but six to eight people are feared trapped

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49 h. ago The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan

The president punished the AP for choosing its own language, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The press must show unityIt might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Sam Fender: People Watching review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)On his third album, produced by the War on Drugs, the North Shields singer-songwriter shows just how gifted he is at pairing stadium choruses with sharp, bleak vignettesSam Fender’s third album ends with a track called Remember My Name. It’s clearly a very personal song, about its author’s late grandfather – even revealing the address of his council house, 11 Walk Avenue. The northern British references – “Chasing a cross in from the wing / Our boy’s a whippet, he’s faster than anything” – are amplified both by Fender’s Geordie vowels and the backing, provided by the Easington Colliery brass band. It’s all very specific and individual – you really don’t hear brass bands, or indeed the mention of whippets in pop very often – and yet Remember My Name seems to have something of the self-fulfilling prophecy about it. You can immediately imagine its soaring melody being sung en masse by a huge festival audience, which is, one suspects, precisely the destiny that awaits it.It’s a...

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3 d. ago ‘Beware of the bat’: how a mine in Kigali became the focus of Marburg virus research

The fatality rate for the disease is usually 88%, but during a recent outbreak in Rwanda, deaths were kept to 23%. A new approach based on studying miners may be the reason whyIn a tin mine in a Kigali suburb, just 20 minutes’ drive from the heart of the Rwandan capital, the sounds of chittering and fluttering come from behind a padlocked door. It bears a sign: “Beware of the bat.”The 10,000-strong bat colony in this tunnel harbours a deadly virus, and last year workers carried it out along with the rocks they mined. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Callum McGregor names his one Celtic regret from Bayern battle as skipper demands more Champions League 'hunger'

The captain admits that lessons must be taken from the heartbreaking knockout stage exit

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5 d. ago Tonight's rugby news as Shaun Edwards' name thrown into Wales mix and major call

The latest rugby stories from Wales and around the world on the evening of Monday, February 17

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5 d. ago I've struggled with being the fatter identical twin my whole life... despite eating the same foods as my sister

Ashley, who does not reveal her last name and runs a YouTube channel called @sistercore with her twin and older sister, talks candidly in one of her videos about her weight struggles.

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