6 h. ago Israel says it is 'opening the gates of Hell' in Gaza as IDF blows up tower block 'used by Hamas terrorists'

The high-rise in Gaza City was destroyed on Friday after the army said it would target tall buildings taken over by Hamas ahead of its planned push into the city.

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46 h. ago 'Tall tale' Trump exposed in photo op that shatters 6ft 3in height claim

Donald Trump has long claimed to be 6'3" in height, but recent pictures of the former president standing next to Polish President Karol Nawrocki suggest otherwise

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62 h. ago "We know they’re ugly": Manchester council reveals plan for 'inconsiderate' phone masts

You can put a phone mast up to 30m tall without planning permission in England

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3 d. ago Dwarfed by delivery Britain: Anger as 'monstrous' 60ft tall warehouses are built metres from family homes 'like a cruise ship in our back garden'

Residents in Tyldesley, Wigan, branded the colossal steel frames 'monstrous' as they became the latest structures at a 350,000 sq ft industrial site.

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3 d. ago England thrashed by South Africa with 175 balls to spare: first men’s one

England are skittled for 131 at HeadingleyBaker set for debut as Overton takes ‘indefinite break’1st over: England 8-0 (Duckett 0, Smith 8) Burger with the first over. Tall, broad, left arm, a shadow of a moustache, a doormat of a goatee, and Smith plays the first three balls watchfully away. Balls five and six however, go for four, one sent away at 27 minutes past the hour, one at 27 minutes to.Our man on the ground, Simon Burnton, reports a ground half full and filling up quickly, as the players prepare to walk through a welcoming committee of flag-waving women over 40. Just add that to our skill set. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Families horrified as 'monstrous' 60ft tall warehouses are built metres from their homes

Residents in Tyldesley, Wigan, branded the colossal steel frames 'monstrous' as they became the latest structures at a 350,000 sq ft industrial site.

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5 d. ago Why we’ve all fallen for The Summer I Turned Pretty: ‘Endless, wonderful melodrama’

The third season of the Amazon teen drama has become a certified phenomenon, encouraging watch parties and intense fan reactionsIt’s after work on a Wednesday night, and I’m at a sports bar in downtown Manhattan. It looks exactly like what you’d expect of a bar in the Financial District. Men in button-up shirts stand around a tall table with folded arms, ranting about the current season as multiple baseball games are playing on TV screens all around the bar.I feel out of place as I wait for a friend, but I know it’s only a matter of time until things change. A stream of women slowly trickles in, group by group. The mood abruptly changes when the TV screens flicker on to a clip of sparkling water. The bar cranks up the volume, a wistful three notes plays over the speaker, the brief theme song of what has become a show so popular that sports bars in Manhattan are throwing watch parties for women who, like me, are years older than the show’s protagonist. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day

Film-maker Beau Miles set himself the challenge of planting 1,440 trees and shrubs in one day. Four years later the result is ‘totally worth it’Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereOn a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small forest, which wasn’t there before.Flowering gums and she-oaks reach up nine metres tall, birds nest in their branches, while a giant tiger snake slides through the grass below.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Scott Quinnell’s son delights Welsh rugby fans as drag queen Heidi Heights

‘My dad was fine with it,’ said Steele Quinnell, who tried his father’s sport but thought: ‘Nah, this isn’t for me’Sipping coffee in Cardiff Bay during a break from his day job as a personal trainer, Steele Quinnell, a scion of the Quinnell rugby dynasty, is matter of fact about how his path in life has diverged from that of his relatives.His grandfather Derek, father Scott and uncles Craig and Gavin are renowned as literal and figurative giants in Welsh rugby – all well over 6ft tall and fearless on the pitch. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fig, ricotta and orange tart | A kitchen in Rome

Fresh figs, so beloved of the ancient Egyptians and Romans alike, are the stars of this ambrosial summer bake that works almost as beautifully with fig jamYesterday, we left a garden with a fig tree as tall as a house to catch a train to Rome Termini station, where tiny, thrill-seeking figs grow on the tracks. The fearless fig tree is a descendant of the prehistoric wild caprifig, which spread from Caria (hence the species name carica) in ancient Anatolia, across the Mediterranean. Cultivation is thought to have started in Egypt and the Levant, probably between 4000 and 2700BC; particular evidence of this is the common fig (Ficus carica) on the stone walls within ancient Egyptian tombs called mastaba, painted so their occupants could enjoy the fruit in the afterlife.Dozens of examples are described in a research paper by the professor of Egyptology Noha Hany Gerges Salama, including paintings within a fifth-dynasty mastaba of Iymery, in Giza. One painting in particular depicts two f...

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9 d. ago Starships are meant to fly: SpaceX’s rocket finally launches after setbacks

Test flight comes after explosive failures raised doubts over founder Elon Musk’s goals to reach Mars and moonThird time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days.The stainless steel behemoth, 403ft (123 meters) tall, lifted off from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT), to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago From the streets of Baghdad, I saw a clear line to the bloodshed in Gaza | Owen Jones

The west faced no reckoning for the death and destruction it wreaked in Iraq. That made the war crimes we’re now witnessing inevitable “You destroyed Iraq.” I had to wait for my companion, the Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, to translate these words, but the thunderous look on this middle-aged man’s face already told its own story. We were standing on Haifa Street, one of Baghdad’s main thoroughfares, which runs along the west bank of the Tigris, and he had just been told I was British. “They promised that Iraq would be a heaven,” he said of the US-UK occupation. He then told a familiar tale: of being kidnapped by the sectarian militia, who flourished after the 2003 US-led invasion, and being tortured so badly that he could barely walk.We had come to Haifa Street to retrace Abdul-Ahad’s steps on a gruesome day 21 years ago. With its alleyways and tall buildings, this two-mile-long road proved ideal for urban warfare and snipers, and soon became known as Death Street. Early on a ...

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1 week ago SpaceX scraps Starship rocket launch in Texas for second time in two days

Launch delay from Elon Musk’s company marks latest in streak of setbacks, including a liquid oxygen leak on SundaySpaceX was forced to scrap the launch of its giant Starship rocket from Texas again on Monday, this time due to weather, marking the latest in a streak of setbacks for the Elon Musk-run company.The 232ft (71-metre) tall Super Heavy booster and its 171ft tall Starship upper half – together taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty – was due to take off from SpaceX’s Starbase rocket facilities at 7.30pm local time. But the launch was called off at the last minute. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Hurricane Erin warning as people 'swept into boulders' at popular seaside resort

Lifeguards have issued a safety warning at a seaside hotspot in Wales as the remnants of ex-Hurricane Erin are expected to bring tall waves to UK beaches this week

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1 week ago Huge 100m weather phenomenon captured over Scots town leaving locals stunned

The 60-year-old pulled over to film and despite seeing the unique force of nature before, said he had never seen one so tall moving eerily slow.

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1 week ago Moment massive rockfall sends '5,000 tonnes of earth' tumbling off cliff onto British beach

Approximately 10,000 tonnes of rock peeled off the 600 foot tall cliff at Golden Cap, near Seaton, Dorset, and slumped onto the beach at about 12.50pm yesterday.

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2 w. ago Your legal rights explained if you think your neighbour's fence is too tall

An expert has explained homeowners' rights if they think their neighbour's fence is too high and the legal action they can take if they believe they are being over-charged

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2 w. ago OnlyFans model who claims to be 7ft tall names the two NBA legends who have slid into her DMs amid viral fame

Marie Temara, who boasts over 3 million Instagram followers, says she's been approached online by a string of celebrities amid her recent rise to fame.

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2 w. ago Tall ships, monsoon floods and a slackline contest: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Hundreds of historic tall ships are heading for Amsterdam for a maritime festival

A flotilla of hundreds of historic ships is en route to Amsterdam for a five-day festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history

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2 w. ago WATCH: Indian Muslim Girls Stand Tall In London, Repel Pakistani Harassment Over Tricolour

WATCH: Indian Muslim Girls Stand Tall In London, Repel Pakistani Harassment Over Tricolour  Zee News

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2 w. ago Fewer but taller turbines on the cards for Dumfries and Galloway windfarm development

Foresight Group is now working on plans for six, 250 metre tall windmills at Glenmuckloch.

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2 w. ago Cotswolds town at war over Labour donor's huge Palestinian flag: Locals condemn Just Stop Oil tycoon Dale Vince's 30ft tall banner flown from his green energy firm's HQ

Locals in the town of Stroud in the Cotswolds have demanded the long-time Labour donor and entrepreneur removes the banner from his office building.

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2 w. ago Cinemagoers tutted – but in Materialists, I finally saw a true reflection of today’s dating market | Elle Hunt

The brutal reality is that if you don’t come from money, the best way to boost your finances is through a relationshipOn Sunday I took myself, with a slight hangover, to see a preview screening of Materialists, the long-awaited new film by Celine Song. Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a matchmaker with a talent for pairing her exacting clients with someone who ticks most of their boxes and is also likely to accept them. She is less cupid, more market analyst – capable of seeing through her singletons’ self-serving bluster and spin to appraise their actual worth – then matching it with someone of equivalent value.A thirtysomething woman of only average good looks, for instance, can’t hope to land a “unicorn” – a 6ft-tall high earner with his original hairline. Unicorns want to date twentysomethings – and they can get them, too.Elle Hunt is a freelance journalist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The downfall of Hollywood heartthrob Olivier Martinez: The 'French Brad Pitt' with a string of award

Two decades on from his Noughties heyday, Olivier Martinez is worlds away from the tall, dark and handsome actor after taking on bitter legal battles and little work.

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3 w. ago Wednesday's Weems star Gwendoline Christie's height, past roles and Netflix return

Gwendoline Christie is returning to Netflix's Wednesday, but how tall is the Weems actress and where have you seen her before?

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3 w. ago ‘Oh God no, Dad!’ The makers of TV’s most terrifying monsters reveal their repulsive secrets

As Alien: Earth hits the small screen with promises of creatures even scarier than the slathering xenomorphs, SFX experts tell us how they made Stranger Things, The Last of Us and more so horrifyingWhen special effects artist Aaron Sims first read the script for Stranger Things, he was struck by how vague the description was for the show’s centrepiece monster. “It basically said, ‘The Demogorgon is a tall, lanky creature that eats children,’” recalls Sims. “I’m thinking, ‘OK, that’s scary – but what does that actually look like?’” What happened when he posed this question to the series creators Matt and Ross Duffer? “They said, ‘We have no idea – come up with something.’”For Sims, who has worked on films such as The Incredible Hulk, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and X-Men, this was a relief. “When there’s already a fanbase, there is a lot of scrutiny and expectation. The fans either love it or hate it – and there’s nothing you can do. Working on The Incredible Hulk, for example, to...

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3 w. ago Australia beat South Africa by 17 runs in first men’s T20 international – as it happened

Australia battled back from a dreadful start n Darwin to win the first of three T20 matches5th over: Australia 60-3 (Green 25, David 18) So the run rate’s up and the wickets are falling. David doesn’t mind the latter, he maintains the former, thrashing Corbin Bosch’s first ball over backward point for four. It was full and wide but David has the reach to fetch what Travis Head couldn’t earlier. Bosch, tall and blond and built, looks annoyed, bowls the next into leg stump, and has David hitting to his outfielder at deep backward. That’s more the plan. No plan is containing Green though, who makes it look so easy slotting another six over long on. He’s 24 off 7 balls! Then races a single. He’s six foot seventy-three but he’s also quick enough. One ball to come, and David drives it over cover for six!Oh boy. Three down and they’re going at 12 an over. The ground DJ is playing Chappell Roan. Hot to Go. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Australia v South Africa: first men’s T20 international – live

Updates on the series opener at TIO Stadium in Darwin Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email5th over: Australia 60-3 (Green 25, David 18) So the run rate’s up and the wickets are falling. David doesn’t mind the latter, he maintains the former, thrashing Corbin Bosch’s first ball over backward point for four. It was full and wide but David has the reach to fetch what Travis Head couldn’t earlier. Bosch, tall and blond and built, looks annoyed, bowls the next into leg stump, and has David hitting to his outfielder at deep backward. That’s more the plan. No plan is containing Green though, who makes it look so easy slotting another six over long on. He’s 24 off 7 balls! Then races a single. He’s six foot seventy-three but he’s also quick enough. One ball to come, and David drives it over cover for six!Oh boy. Three down and they’re going at 12 an over. The ground DJ is playing Chappell Roan. Hot to Go. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Zoo defends asking visitors to donate unwanted pets to feed tigers

Aalborg Zoo in Denmark caused outrage following the bizarre request for live rabbits, chickens, guinea pigs and even horses under 147cm tall, to be donated, which its trained staff would “gently euthanise”.

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