35 m. ago Covid new variant symptoms include subtle sign in your cough

New Covid variant NB.1.8.1 is one of six added to the World Health Organization's watch-list in the last few weeks, and 13 cases have been in England since January

Science

41 m. ago Three new Covid symptoms of NB.1.8.1 to know as latest strain lands in UK

The latest Covid signs to look out for may be different to typical virus expectations

Science

47 m. ago Glasgow Queen Elizabeth hospital had most Covid deaths probed by Crown Office

Prosecutors are probing the deaths at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as part of a wider investigation from the pandemic.

Politics

65 m. ago Woman to get £2,000 compensation from attacker after train station assault

The terrifying incident at Shotts station happened seconds before an announcement that a train was approaching.

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94 m. ago More red London buses go green as Sadiq Khan hits landmark of 2,000 zero emission vehicles

But it may take a decade to remove diesel buses from the capital’s streets

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1 hour ago Celebrate the new Lilo & Stitch Movie with the ultimate LEGO set and must

Fans of the new Lilo & Stitch movie will love this new Lego set - and will keep them quiet for hours.

Culture

1 hour ago What is Britain's elusive 'national character'? The Ballad of Wallis Island might just tell us | Gaby Hinsliff

Rain, cardigans and puns: a melancholic new romcom set on a windswept island hints at a relatable British identityIt is, according to no less an authority than the romcom king Richard Curtis, destined to be “one of the greatest British films of all time”. But don’t let that put you off. For The Ballad of Wallis Island – the unlikely new tale of a socially awkward millionaire who inveigles two estranged former halves of a folk-singing duo into playing a private gig on his windswept private island – isn’t some floppy-haired Hugh Grant vehicle, but a reflection on our national character that is altogether more of its times.It’s a lovely, melancholic comedy about the acceptance of failure, loss and the slow understanding that what’s gone is not coming back: an ode to rain and cardigans, lousy plumbing and worse puns, shot in Wales on a shoestring budget in a summer so unforgiving that a doctor was apparently required on set to check for hypothermia. Its main characters have not only all...

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3 h. ago In a typical class of 30 Mancunian kids, 14 face a 'devastating ill'

'Far too high'

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3 h. ago Three key signs of new Covid strain to spot as NB.1.8.1 reaches UK

These symptoms may lead to you to mistake infection for something else

Politics

4 h. ago Explain it to me quickly: What is aura farming, and is it cool or cringe?

Bertin Huynh and Luca Ittimani explain the viral term – which involves neither chakras nor tractors – to Alyx GormanBertin and Luca. You’re young people. Why are all the kids on my feeds suddenly talking about aura farming, and what does it have to do with Timothée Chalamet?Who has more aura than the Dune saga’s prophesied leader Paul Atreides? Since that role, Chalamet has become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Aura farming is all about cultivating the coolest version of yourself. Think well-tailored suits, lots of grayscale, serious stares and sharp angles. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

Events

4 h. ago Spanish police’s plea for respect backfires over photo of old women alfresco

Andalucían police used shot of women sitting on chairs on pavement in request to keep public right of way clearSomewhere towards the very top of the long list of unspoken Spanish rules – gin and tonic should not be drunk before a meal, chorizo has no place in the vicinity of a paella and children’s bedtimes cease to apply in the summer – is the silent injunction that forbids any attempts to alter the habits of the country’s cherished older people.It was unfortunate, then, that police in the small Andalucían town of Santa Fe chose the photo they did to accompany a request for people not to disturb their neighbours by sitting around the streets late at night. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago ‘She lived without fear’: daughter of Chechen activist publishes book she vowed to pen after mother’s murder

Lana Estemirova promised to tell story of her mother, a renowned human rights activist. This month it is publishedLana Estemirova was 15 in 2009, when her mother, the renowned Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and murdered. Bundled into a car as she walked to the bus stop on her way to work, she was driven out of town and then shot five times in the chest and head.The killing was widely seen as retribution for Estemirova’s fearless investigations of extrajudicial murders, kidnappings and human rights abuses in Chechnya, first by Russian soldiers and then by forces loyal to the Kremlin-appointed warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov. Nobody was ever prosecuted for the crime. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Dear Coleen: My partner wants kids but I don't want any more

I'm 42 and he is 10 years younger.

Politics

5 h. ago Union boss right to slam 'epidemic' of violence in classrooms as he steps down

Record View says schools need to be enabled to carry out proper and lasting punishments on the tiny minority of kids who think violence is acceptable.

Events

6 h. ago Symptoms of new Covid variant to spot as NB.1.8.1 reaches UK

This easily transmissible variant could cause symptoms you may not expect

Science

7 h. ago New UKHSA Covid advice as Brits told to 'stay at home' and new variant detected

The UKHSA has issued advice to Brits with Covid-19 symptoms after a new strain, called NB.1.8.1, was detected in small numbers in the UK with an increase in hospital admissions

Politics

7 h. ago Luigi Mangione 'model prisoner' but bulletproof vest 'unfairly influences jury'

Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old man charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has asked a judge in a new request to remove his shackles and bulletproof vest

Events

7 h. ago Mom 'shoots child abuser after catching him trying to rape her daughter, 12, in motel'

A mother allegedly shot a man who was trying to rape her 12-year-old daughter in a hotel room. The suspect, Bruce Pierce, 39, was left in a critical condition after the incident

Events

8 h. ago Billionaire oligarch's lover is thrown out of her home with her kids while a sports presenter hits back at 'horrific' criticism about her weight: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

As the girlfriend of Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, Alexandra Tolstoy lived a billionaire's lifestyle, enjoying a multi-million-pound home in Chelsea.

Society