79 m. ago Kyren Wilson finds Masters form right on cue to rebound from ‘low point’

World No 2’s victory continues run of 6-2 match resultsJohn Higgins faces Barry Hawkins in late Tuesday gameKyren Wilson, the 2024 world champion, defeated Si Jiahui in impressive fashion to reach the Masters quarter-finals with the 6-2 result continuing a curious statistic: every match at Alexandra Palace this week up to their encounter had finished with the same scoreline.After edging the first frame following a run of snookers, Wilson – yet to win a tournament this season having broken his cue at the start of the campaign – looked set to build a maximum in the next, but just missed the 11th red into the bottom corner pocket as he moved 2-0 ahead. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Joseph Beuys review – the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history

Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, LondonThere’s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneouslyBorn in 1921, Joseph Beuys was the “perfect” age to fight for Hitler and he did, with the wounds to prove it. The Andy Warhol portraits that complement this exhibition, without actually being part of it, brutally catch his gaunt, ravaged face in the glare of a photo flash under the hat he wore to hide burns sustained in a plane crash while serving in the Luftwaffe. The most haunting portrait turns Beuys into a spectral negative image, all darkness and shadow, his eyes wounded, guilty, lost. This was in the 1970s when Beuys was a charismatic one-man artistic revolution, inspiring young Germans to plant trees, lecturing about flows of ecological and human energy – and, in breathtaking performances, speaking to a dead hare or spending a week locked in a cage with a coyote.All that remains today ...

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87 m. ago Heathrow third runway: Government admits it may miss sustainable aviation fuel target key to airport expansion

The Government has backed a bigger Heathrow and is now deciding how tests on economic growth, air quality, noise and climate change should be set

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90 m. ago Plan to include pregnant women in drug trials ‘a generational change’

The World Health Organisation will this year start to work with scientists and drug developers to gather more information about the safety of medicines in pregnancy. Rachel Schraer reports

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99 m. ago Attempted murderer charged with escaping prison after being found in Manchester

Kieran Cameron was arrested in Hulme two days after being reported as missing from HMP Thorn Cross

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1 hour ago Jon Stewart on the Minneapolis ICE shooting: ‘We are in a confusing, dark place’

Late-night hosts discussed national outrage over the killing of Renee Nicole Good as the Trump administration ramps up ICE operations in MinneapolisLate-night hosts recapped a weekend of nationwide protests over the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer as Donald Trump made a social media post referring to himself as the “acting president” of Venezuela. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Apology issued after people faced weeks of missed bin collections in Welsh county

The chief executive of Merthyr Tydfil Council has issued a statement explaining the reasons for the delays

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2 h. ago Pentagon invests $1bn in US missile motor unit of defence group L3 Harris

Deal marks government’s first direct-to-supplier agreement but raises questions over conflict of interest

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2 h. ago New study reveals around a quarter of dementia patients are prescribed risky drugs despite safety warnings

Roughly 25 percent of dementia patients were prescribed at least one ‘potentially inappropriate’ drug between 2013 and 2021

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2 h. ago BBC Strictly's Amber Davies sends sweet message to Nikita Kuzmin 'I miss this'

Strictly Come Dancing finalist Amber Davies shared an emotional TikTok post at the weekend

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2 h. ago New fleet of weight loss drugs are more effective than the current popular obesity medications at trial

One in eight Americans are taking a GLP-1 drug, a recent poll found

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3 h. ago Two Scots killers jailed for 34yrs after man mowed down twice BY MISTAKE by ‘best friend’ before being hit with machete

TWO vicious killers have been caged for a total of 34 years after a man was mowed down in a sick case of mistaken identity — then hacked to death with a machete. Alexander McQuillan, 27, and Richard Mullan, 21, were sentenced for the brutal murder of Michael Beaton, 35, in Greenock, Inverclyde, on November...

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3 h. ago Fresh Iran horror as protestor, 26, set to be executed within hours

Fears of mass executions by brutal Tehran regime as it clamps down on countrywide uprising and plans to execute a 26 year-old father given just ten minutes to say goodbye to loved ones

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3 h. ago Drugs and gangs exist in Venezuela, but don’t be fooled. Trump arrested Nicolás Maduro to plunder our wealth | Andrés Antillano

The US president invokes the usual suspects – drugs, organised crime, illegal migration – but this is simply a grab for resources and powerIn the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife by US military personnel. In addition to the 100 deaths recorded so far as a result of the attack, approximately 100 more were caused by US attacks on small boats in the previous months, under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking. Although it seems clear that the real intention of Donald Trump’s administration was to seize Venezuela’s wealth, the initial argument to justify the military deployment in the Caribbean was that it was to fight the illegal drugs trade and stop the flow of migrants that the Venezuelan government was allegedly causing by emptying prisons of criminals and sending them to the US.As a criminology professor who has studied Venezuelan drug trafficking for 20 y...

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3 h. ago B.C. London Drugs customer who couldn’t get refund for TV he broke takes legal action

B.C. London Drugs customer who couldn’t get refund for TV he broke takes legal action  Daily Hive Vancouver

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3 h. ago Body is found in hunt for missing student, 20, last seen leaving nightclub in Lincoln

Connor Calleja, who was a Lincoln University student, was last seen on CCTV walking along University Bridge at 2.09am on Sunday, January 11.

Society

3 h. ago 75 Hard: What happened when I tried the internet's toughest fitness challenge

Paddy McGuinness has followed celebrities from JoJo to Madison LeCroy in doing this brutal 11-week fitness challenge. But critics have called it ridiculous and dangerous. Here’s what happened when Isolde Walters tried it out

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3 h. ago Hackney record store owner vows to fight council's noise enforcement in court

Recycle Vinyl owner Rob Smith has been blocked from hosting daytime DJ shows after complaints from neighbours

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3 h. ago Body found in search for student, 20, who went missing after leaving Lincoln nightclub

Connor Calleja went missing in the early hours of Sunday morning (January 11)

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3 h. ago Even the DOJ’s expert in police shootings not being allowed to participate in Minneapolis ICE investigation

The Civil Rights Division is typically involved in probing fatal shootings by a law enforcement officer

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