87 m. ago Vicky Pattison supported over 'full circle' moment as she appears in unexpected TV role

The reality star and presenter is no stranger to appearing on our screens but she took on an unexpected TV role

Politics

95 m. ago Gunman fatally shot at Michigan church had attended services in past year

Gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, may have bee suffering mental health crisis, police sayThe man who opened fire outside a Michigan church filled with worshippers before he was struck by a vehicle and then fatally shot by security staff had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member, police said.The gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, did not have any previous contacts with local police or a criminal history, but may have been suffering a mental health crisis, the Wayne police department said in a news release. Continue reading...

Events

1 hour ago Voices: When US presidents talk of regime change, we must be careful what they wish for

With Donald Trump apparently warming to the idea of overthrowing Iran’s theocratic rulers, history reminds us that whenever the White House upturns an unsatisfactory regime, from Fidel Castro to Saddam Hussein, it contrives only to make matters worse, says Sean O’Grady

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2 h. ago Prince William tipped to hand key role 'he's not comfortable with' to Zara Tindall

Prince William is already said to be mulling over big decisions about changes he will make when he becomes King, with Zara Tindall tipped to be given an important job that has never be an real interest for William

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2 h. ago F1 movie release date: Blockbuster film starring Brad Pitt set to drop in cinemas

The film, where Pitt plays a lead role as a former driver returning to F1, will be shown worldwide in June

Culture

3 h. ago Will the UK go to war? How Britain may be impacted by Trump's attack on Iran

Britain faces mounting questions about its own role in the rapidly escalating tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States - after US airstrikes shattered three of Iran’s nuclear sites

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4 h. ago Joe Marler now plays a completely different sport after landing big BBC TV role

The former England prop has opened up about his new life after retiring from rugby last year

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5 h. ago Stephanie Davis' tragic love life as history repeats itself with split months after giving birth

Hollyoaks star Stephanie Davis played Sinead O'Connor in the Channel 4 soap and has had her fair share of headline-hitting relationships - including a fling with Zayn Malik

Events

5 h. ago Okinawa marks 80 years since end of one of harshest WWII battles with pledge to share tragic history

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago

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6 h. ago Andy Farrell’s Lions land in Australia aiming to revive the spirit of Sydney

Chest-thumping speech before the 2013 series decider is part of Lions lore and can be the head coach’s mantra for his 2025 touristsThe logistics involved in touring Australia with the British & Irish Lions have changed slightly over the years. On the first Lions tour in 1888 the 22 selected players were away from home for 249 days and, in addition to 35 games of rugby, were also required to play 19 games of what we now know as Australian rules football.It took 46 days by boat to reach their destination and attempts to hone their skills on the SS Kaikoura had to be abandoned after all the squad’s rugby balls disappeared over the side. The ship, as chronicled in the beautifully updated official history of the Lions, even had 300 stoats and weasels on board as part of a plan to deal with the rabbit population in New Zealand, their first port of call, where they played nine matches. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Kirsty Coventry is now the most powerful person in sport and faces a bulging in

Successor to Thomas Bach is already making a positive impression and displaying a more human approachA new day has broken, has it not? For several reasons, Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory speech comes to mind on what will be a historic and symbolic day for sport. Because in Lausanne on Monday, after plenty of handshakes and platitudes, the 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry will become the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year-old history.It has been, by any measure, a dizzying ascent. In 2016, Coventry stepped out of an Olympic pool for the final time in Rio. Now, nine years later, she is the most powerful person in sport. Yet as she takes charge, there are some who suspect that the new dawn will look rather like the old one – and that her predecessor, Thomas Bach, and his administration, will remain puppet masters behind the throne. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Coventry makes history and has steel to make IOC role more than a puppet show | Sean Ingle

Bach’s successor is already making a positive impression but will need all her resolve at mammoth organisationA new day has broken, has it not? For several reasons, Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory speech comes to mind on what will be a historic and symbolic day for sport. Because in Lausanne on Monday, after plenty of handshakes and platitudes, the 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry will become the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year-old history.It has been, by any measure, a dizzying ascent. In 2016, Coventry stepped out of an Olympic pool for the final time in Rio. Now, nine years later, she is the most powerful person in sport. Yet as she takes charge, there are some who suspect that the new dawn will look rather like the old one – and that her predecessor, Thomas Bach, and his administration, will remain puppet masters behind the throne. Continue reading...

Culture

7 h. ago Energy costs to be cut for businesses in Wales in new industrial strategy

The electric arc steel furnace being built at Port Talbot steelworks is one of the businesses that will be benefit

Economics

7 h. ago Endling by Maria Reva review – a Ukrainian caper upended by war

Jaw-dropping formal invention turns this witty heist tale of endangered snails and ‘mail-order’ brides into an urgent dispatch about writing during conflictMaria Reva’s dexterous and formally inventive debut novel is impossible to review without giving away a major surprise. I do this with a heavy heart: one of the pleasures of this book is the jaw‑dropping coup de théâtre that comes halfway through. Until that point, Endling offers its readers the pleasures of a more or less conventional novel.The central character is a misanthropic obsessive called Yeva who drives a converted campervan around the countryside of her native Ukraine, rescuing endangered snails. She’s hoping to get them to breed, but some turn out to be endlings – the last living member of a species. First coined in the 1990s, the word was unknown to me before I read this book, but the tragic biological checkmate it describes is older than history. Aurochs, dodos, quaggas, mammoths and Tasmanian tigers must all have c...

Events

7 h. ago American Horror Story and The Nun star unrecognisable in Sky period drama

Taissa Farmiga originally shot to fame in American Horror Story - but her role in the horror anthology series is very different from the character she portrays in The Gilded Age.

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9 h. ago ‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous fatherIf you had wandered the set of the film M3gan 2.0 last year, chances are you would have stumbled into M3gan, the terrifying humanoid doll, staring lifelessly while she waited to be called for her next scene. Sometimes she would stand in the corner of the soundstage, says Allison Williams with a nervy laugh. “The dilemma is: do you turn her around so she’s facing the wall, or do you let her face the room? Both answers are wrong.”In the sequel to the sci-fi horror M3gan, Williams resumes her role as Gemma, a roboticist who has become a crusader against rampant and reckless AI development after her creation – developed for her orphaned niece – became murderous. (She is also a producer on the second film.) Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Revealed in a shocking new book a year after the death of French screen legend Alain Delon... My father was 'the most beautiful man in movie history'

In truth, for many years there have been suspicions that this icon of French cinema was really a monster.

Events

13 h. ago Liverpool youngster sends message to senior England stars after U21s' Spain triumph

England Under-21s knocked out tournament favourites Spain with a belligerent display in their Euros U21 quarter-final, with Liverpool youngster Tyler Morton playing a key role

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14 h. ago Ashley Walters says Adolescence role made him ‘draw back’ his son’s screen time

The series examines the so-called incel culture which has led to misogyny online and bullying using social media.

Politics

14 h. ago Irish deputy premier to attend EU ministers summit in wake of US attack on Iran

Simon Harris said the EU ‘has a role to play in charting a way forward’.

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