1 hour ago Tanks to roll through Washington as Trump hosts US military parade

Parade – ostensibly to mark US army’s 250th birthday – takes place as president turns 79 and comes amid large protestsThousands of troops accompanied by dozens of tanks and aircraft will stream through the National Mall in Washington DC for a military parade billed as celebrating the US army’s 250th birthday on Saturday – which also happens to be the day Donald Trump turns 79.The president has long desired to hold a military parade in the capital, and is finally getting his wish months after returning to the White House for a second term, and days after ordering federalized California national guard and US marines to the streets of Los Angeles in response to protests against deportations. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago What was proposed as a basic taste by a chemist in 1908? The Saturday quiz

From Euphoria and Tattoo to Miniminter, KSI and Zeraa, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What was proposed as a basic taste by chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908?2 At the centre of the Milky Way, what is Sagittarius A*?3 Which Booker prize-winning novel has no named characters?4 Miniminter, KSI and Zerkaa are members of which collective?5 The helots were people subjugated by which city-state?6 Which official censored British theatre until 1968?7 Which sculpture stands by the A1 in Gateshead?8 San Miguel beer and Tanduay, the world’s bestselling rum, come from where?What links:9 Laputa; Nublar; Saint Marie; Skull; Sodor; Utopia?10 Castellaneta; Kavner; Cartwright; Smith?11 Frederick of Utrecht, 838; Thomas Becket, 1170; Óscar Romero, 1980?12 Chairman of ways and means; first deputy; second deputy?13 Dubris; Londinium; Verulamium; Venonis; Viroconium?14 Euphoria and Tattoo; What’s Another Year and Hold Me Now?15 1858 medical textbook; Shonda Rhimes and Ellen Pompeo? Continue read...

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3 h. ago Amanda Holden’s Wimbledon whites maxi dress ‘clings to all the right places’ and is crease

Amanda Holden has stepped out in yet another amazing look, this time wearing a 'flattering' tailored white maxi dress from Karen Millen that 'clings to all the right places'

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4 h. ago Tim Dowling: Why are my friends erasing me from their holiday memories?

I try to think of another detail from the weekend that will convince them of my presence, but absolutely nothing comes to mindAfter a sometimes fraught four-hour car journey, my wife and I and three friends arrive at a remote, sea-facing house in Greece. I’ve been here once before, a couple of years ago, but my memory of the place is fragmentary. I’ve remembered, for example, that you can’t get the car anywhere near the house – you have to lug your stuff across a beach and over some rocks – and have packed accordingly. But the view from the top of the rocks still comes as a disheartening surprise.“I forgot about the second beach,” I say, looking at the house in the distance. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it | David Reynolds

His ostentatious birthday parade is his latest reimagining of America’s past. He’d do well to remember that pride must be rooted in honestyDavid Reynolds is the author of Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the leaders who shaped himToday the US army will parade in style along the National Mall in Washington DC to celebrate its 250th anniversary. This also just happens to be the 79th birthday of President Donald J Trump. As commander-in-chief, he will take the salute from a viewing platform on Constitution Avenue.But this is not a mere vanity project, as some critics have claimed. History really matters to the US’s 47th president. One of Trump’s last acts before reluctantly leaving the White House in January 2021 was to publish a report by his “1776 Commission”, created to “restore understanding of the greatness of the American Founding”. Deliberately, the commissioners included few university historians because universities were described as often being “hotbeds of anti-Americanism...

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5 h. ago All 32 teams at FIFA Club World Cup 2025 from UEFA giants to African minnows

Chelsea and Manchester City are gearing up for their opening games at the Club World Cup with Real Madrid and Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain among the favourites

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11 h. ago Small boats? Now migrants are coming by luxury yacht, writes SUE REID. So are the numbers arriving EVEN WORSE than we think?

The sleek blue and white vessel worth £70,000 had been hired by man with an Austrian passport from a reputable boat charter company operating at a quayside office in Brest.

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11 h. ago Remembering the British victims of the Air India plane crash

Here are the British victims of the deadly Air India plane crash, which claimed the lives of all but one of the 242 passengers onboard.

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11 h. ago Chilling final sighting of Brit revealed before he vanished from Brazil Airbnb

Denis Kopanev, 33, was wearing a dark-coloured baseball cap, a white shirt, and a matching beige jacket and trousers when he left his holiday let in Rio de Janeiro on Monday

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12 h. ago Historian likens becoming MBE to receiving ‘monumental bunch of flowers’

Alistair Moffat, 74, is recognised for services to literature and culture.

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12 h. ago Author Dame Pat Barker thought honours letter was income tax bill

Dame Pat, 82, was first honoured with a CBE in 2000 for her services to literature, and on Friday received her damehood.

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12 h. ago Diddy trial recap: Judge set to dismiss juror from case over ‘inconsistencies’ and Kanye West makes surprise appearance

Kanye West arrived at Diddy’s sex trafficking trial on Friday in an all white outfit, making a notable nod to the disgraced mogul’s infamous “white parties.”

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12 h. ago Air India crash victims to be remembered at Trooping the Colour

Black arm bands will be worn by the King and senior royals on Saturday.

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13 h. ago Diddy trial recap: Juror dismissed from case over ‘inconsistencies’ and Kanye West makes surprise appearance

Kanye West arrived at Diddy’s sex trafficking trial on Friday in an all white outfit, making a notable nod to the disgraced mogul’s infamous “white parties.”

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16 h. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago How smoking became 'cool again': Stars like Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX can't help lighting up despite years of anti

From Charli XCX's cigarette-filled Brat tour to Sabrina Carpenter using a fork as a cigarette holder in a music video, the all-too-familiar white sticks have snuck their way back into pop culture.

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16 h. ago Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed

Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’ Middle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Kanye West briefly shows up at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial

Ye, as he is now known, was asked if he was at the courthouse to support Combs, to which he responded ‘yes’Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, briefly came to the New York sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday to support the hip-hop mogul, a longtime friend.Ye, dressed in white, arrived at Manhattan federal court before noon while the trial was on a break. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Jail bosses investigate video showing 'prison governor walking out of city centre brothel'

EXCLUSIVE: Footage shows a man dressed in a grey suit and a white shirt walking out of a door between two shuttered shopfronts in Sheffield.

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17 h. ago Diddy trial live: Kanye leaves courthouse after just 40 minutes after surprise appearance to support Combs

Kanye West arrived at Diddy’s sex trafficking trial on Friday in an all white outfit, making a notable nod to the disgraced mogul’s infamous “white parties.”

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