3 h. ago Masked ICE agents are showing up at courthouses. Immigrant groups call it ‘flagrant’ violation of due process

Lawyers called nationwide incidents a ‘flagrant betrayal of basic fairness and due process’

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4 h. ago Outrage over koala 'massacre': Helicopter marksmen sniper hundreds dead after devastating bushfires

Roughly 750 koalas have been shot dead by aerial snipers in Australia as part of a euthanasia programme after bush fires left many injured and starving in Budj Bim National Park.

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6 h. ago Grim update in search for Pheobe Bishop after teen disappeared on her way to an airport

The search for missing teenager Pheobe Bishop has taken a grim turn.

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7 h. ago Four foods that 'reverse' biological ageing by years, according to new study

The study found that eating foods rich in polyphenols could effectively reverse ageing.

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9 h. ago 'Supergiant' horrifying sea creature could be living in 59% of world's deepest oceans

A “gigantic” and rare deep sea creature first discovered in the 1800s, could inhabit up to 59% of the world’s deep oceans according to a new study from the University of Western Australia

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9 h. ago Mystery as two bodies found in apartment next to holiday waterpark after 'violent incident'

The victims are believed to be a foreign couple, though their identities and nationalities have not been released. National Police officers sealed off the area for forensics and detectives

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10 h. ago Blundering Home Office allowed convicted drug dealer to stay in the UK after wrongly accepting he had lived in Britain most of his life

Olajiire Obafemi Shoyombo, a Nigerian national, was jailed for three years and four months in prison in 2023 after being convicted of supplying of heroin and crack cocaine.

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11 h. ago Brits stripping for naked for tournament in UK beauty spot playing wild street game

The British Naturism national Petanque competition is on, where competitors can strip off for a battle of boules, and then party at a casino night where they are invited to BYO body paint

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11 h. ago National Lottery Lotto results LIVE: Numbers for tonight's £3.9m draw

Check the National Lottery numbers here tonight

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12 h. ago In their words: How recent presidents have honored America's fallen on Memorial Day

From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation's capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents customarily commemorate Memorial Day on hallowed ground

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13 h. ago What we know about the plane crash that killed alternative music executive Dave Shapiro

Investigators say a plane crash in San Diego that likely killed six people happened as the private plane approached an airport whose runway lights were out in heavy fog

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13 h. ago Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars

Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024Valuable tool or cause for alarm? Facial ID quietly becoming part of police’s arsenalPolice believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.A joint investigation by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates highlights the speed at which the technology is becoming a staple of British policing.Police forces scanned nearly 4.7m faces with live facial recognition cameras last year – more than twice as many as in 2023. Live facial recognition vans were deployed at least 256 times in 2024, according to official deployment records, up from 63 the year before.A roving unit of 10 live facial recognition vans that can be sent anywhere in the country will be made available within days – increasing national capa...

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14 h. ago Nine of a doctor's 10 children are killed in Israel's latest strikes in Gaza

Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 people killed by Israel strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours

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15 h. ago Israel may change tack to allow aid groups in Gaza to stay in charge of non

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance

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16 h. ago ‘A case study on psychosis’: men on why Tim Robinson’s Friendship feels a little too real

‘I was so incredibly uncomfortable,’ one man said of watching the new cringe comedy starring Robinson and Paul RuddFriendship is a nightmare – especially if you’re a guy.The new film, starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, follows middle-aged Craig (Robinson), who spends every night sitting alone, in the same chair, until he makes friends with his neighbor Austin (Rudd). But their joint adventures end in a friendship breakup, essentially because Craig is too weird. (Warning: mild spoilers ahead.) Continue reading...

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16 h. ago BBC Casualty star Barney Walsh inundated with messages after exciting news

Barney Walsh has been nominated for the Serial Drama Performance category at the National Television Awards for his role in Casualty and fans are overjoyed

Politics

17 h. ago Rating agencies in public brawl over scores for private credit

Spat stems from retracted study on grading of insurers’ portfolio holdings

Politics

18 h. ago Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress

The rallying cry from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests pushed some US cities to divert money towards housing and community servicesAfter George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, protesters who swarmed the streets across the US shouted the refrain: “Defund the police.” An idea that was once viewed as radical – to redirect money from law enforcement to other city departments and social services – became a rallying cry overnight.As a result of continued pressure, dozens of jurisdictions throughout the nation promised to reduce their police budgets. While most of them backtracked and increased law enforcement funding in the next year or two, several cities changed policies or added new public safety and homeless services departments. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago UK employees work from home more than most global rivals, study finds

Exclusive: Staff in Britain now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above global average of 1.3 daysUK workers continue to work from home more than nearly any of their global counterparts more than five years after the pandemic first disrupted traditional office life, a study has found.UK employees now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above the international average of 1.3 days, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), a worldwide poll of more than 16,000 full-time, university-educated workers across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa that began in July 2021. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago UK employees work from home more than most global peers, study finds

Exclusive: Staff in Britain now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above global average of 1.3 daysUK workers continue to work from home more than nearly any of their global counterparts more than five years after the pandemic first disrupted traditional office life, a study has found.UK employees now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above the international average of 1.3 days, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), a worldwide poll of more than 16,000 full-time, university-educated workers across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa that began in July 2021. Continue reading...

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