49 m. ago Liverpool agree £116m Wirtz deal, Spurs sue Ineos and Club World Cup news – football live

Football news and analysis from the around the worldThe Rumour Mill: Garnacho set for Villa? | And email WillThomas Frank and Spurs are a good fit on paper but the north London job will be a tough one for the Dane. Frank is tactically flexible but can be a slow starter and has limited experience in managing sides competing in Europe. Plus he arrives as the love still lingers for Ange Postecoglou after the Australian delivered Tottenham’s first trophy since 2008 and the club’s first European trophy since 1984.Frank has limited experience of balancing the domestic league and Europe, the furthest he ever took Brøndby being the fourth qualifying round of the Europa League. His European record is notably poor: played 10, won three, and two of those were against Juvenes/Dogana of San Marino. His record in domestic cups, similarly, is dismal; his past history makes it unlikely a poor league season could be redeemed by other silverware – although the depth of the Spurs squad perhaps means t...

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94 m. ago 'High school teacher', 36, is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 13

Jamie Varley, 36, from Lancashire, has accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a 13-month-old baby boy, Preston Davey, whom he was in the process of adopting. 

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1 hour ago MindsEye review – a dystopian future that plays like it’s from 2012

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Build a Robot Boy/IO InteractiveA lot of work and ambition have gone into this strange, sometimes likable cover-shooter throwbackThere’s a Sphere-alike in Redrock, MindsEye’s open-world version of Las Vegas. It’s pretty much a straight copy of the original: a huge soap bubble, half sunk into the desert floor, with its surface turned into a gigantic TV. Occasionally you’ll pull up near the Sphere while driving an electric vehicle made by Silva, the megacorp that controls this world. You’ll sometimes come to a stop just as an advert for an identical Silva EV plays out on the huge curved screen overhead. The doubling effect can be slightly vertigo-inducing.At these moments, I truly get what MindsEye is trying to do. You’re stuck in the ultimate company town, where oligarchs and other crooks run everything, and there’s no hope of escaping the ecosystem they’ve built. MindsEye gets this all across through a chance encounter, and in a way that’s both light of touc...

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1 hour ago Office worker finds genius use for standing desk as people left in stitches

One office worker took to the social media site to show people his unique use for his electric standing desk, and it's certainly captured people's attention, racking up more than 1.6million likes

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2 h. ago ‘Teacher’ accused of murder and sex assault of baby he adopted

Jamie Varley, 36, faces multiple charges over the death of 13-month-old Preston Davey.

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2 h. ago Married At First Sight UK star speaks out after saving passenger from horror crash wreck

Married At First Sight UK star Amy Christophers was the first on the scene of a horror car crash in Cornwall on Saturday - but has been forced to confirm she's not injured after being inundated with messages

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2 h. ago Billionaire friend of Prince William dies after 'swallowing a bee'

Sunjay Kapur, 53, chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar, collapsed while playing a match in England on Thursday

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2 h. ago Seven men in Rochdale trial GUILTY of string of offences against two girls who were treated like 'sex slaves'

They were expected to have sex 'whenever and wherever' in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses

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2 h. ago I left my baby with my twisted ex. Nine hours later she died in the most horrific way

Kristin Fulcher, the mother of Ansleigh Marie Boatman who tragically died after her father allegedly left her in a 105F car for more than nine hours, has broken her silence.

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2 h. ago DVLA tells motorists they 'must' tax their car despite being exempt

It is a legal offence in the UK to drive a vehicle on a public road without having valid tax in most cases. There are a few exemptions for paying the tax, but the vehicle still needs to be taxed

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3 h. ago Abba legend Bjorn teases secret new band project after Voyage success

Turning 80 may slow most people down, but not Bjorn Ulvaeus - as he speaks to the Mirror about ABBA'S new project, while also toasting the continued success of the ABBA Voyage

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3 h. ago Head bangers causing havoc as smart watches dial 999 for 'collision' help from mosh pit

Police are urging festival-goers to put their smart watches into airplane mode before entering “the pit” as the wearable tech assumes they have been in a car crash

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3 h. ago Billionaire friend of Prince William dies from heart attack after 'swallowing a bee': Tributes to Indian businessman, 53, who collapsed while playing polo

Indian businessman Sunjay Kapur, chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar, collapsed while playing polo in England yesterday

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3 h. ago Billionaire friend of Prince William dies after swallowing bee while playing polo

Sunjay Kapur, 53, is a well-known Indian billionaire and chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar.

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3 h. ago Paedophile dad left baby daughter alone to die in boiling hot car for nine hours

One-year-old Ansleigh Marie Boatman was strapped into her car seat by her drunk dad Joseph Boatman at 2.30am and left alone as temperatures rose

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3 h. ago Billionaire friend of Prince William dies after 'swallowing a bee': Tributes to Indian businessman, 53, who collapsed while playing polo

Indian businessman Sunjay Kapur, chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar, collapsed while playing polo in England yesterday

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3 h. ago Liverpool agree £116m Wirtz deal, Club World Cup, Frank’s emotional farewell – football live

Football news and analysis from the around the worldThe Rumour Mill: Garnacho set for Villa? | And email YaraThomas Frank and Spurs are a good fit on paper but the north London job will be a tough one for the Dane. Frank is tactically flexible but can be a slow starter and has limited experience in managing sides competing in Europe. Plus he arrives as the love still lingers for Ange Postecoglou after the Australian delivered Tottenham’s first trophy since 2008 and the club’s first European trophy since 1984.Frank has limited experience of balancing the domestic league and Europe, the furthest he ever took Brøndby being the fourth qualifying round of the Europa League. His European record is notably poor: played 10, won three, and two of those were against Juvenes/Dogana of San Marino. His record in domestic cups, similarly, is dismal; his past history makes it unlikely a poor league season could be redeemed by other silverware – although the depth of the Spurs squad perhaps means t...

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4 h. ago ‘The best way to discover hidden gems’: why you should try out a bookshop crawl

Like bar-hopping, but for browsing books: this trend, popularised on TikTok, makes for a great day out – and can help you discover unique literary spotsWe’ve all heard of bar crawls, but what about a bookshop crawl? The premise is essentially the same – you hop from venue to venue – but instead of drinking beers you browse books. Having begun as a trend among TikTok users, mainly in the US, the idea has begun to be adopted across the globe.There are a few “official” ways to try it out for your yourself: Bookshop Crawl UK organises the London Bookshop Crawl, as well as crawls across the country, Bristol Walkfest has organised a walking tour of the city’s numerous indies, and in April, the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl ran an event for Independent Bookstore Day which rewarded participants who visited 10 shops on the day with 10% discount on books for the rest of the year. And the Global Book Crawl runs an annual event with 17 participating countries, from Ireland to Fiji. Continue readi...

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4 h. ago Prince William's billionaire pal dies after swallowing bee while playing polo

Prince William's polo-playing pal Sunjay Kapur, a well-known Indian billionaire and chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar, collapsed while playing a match in the UK

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5 h. ago Scottish councils, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, to be given full powers to introduce road charging

A new strategy cover car use charges has been announced after the Scottish Government ditched an ambitious traffic reduction target.

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