4 h. ago New Year latest: UK welcomes 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display in London

New Year latest: UK welcomes 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display in London  Sky NewsUK welcomes new year with celebrations across the country  BBC2026 London fireworks: 'A very British way to welcome in the new year'  Sky News

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16 h. ago Every country in the world and the order they celebrate New Year's Eve

Kiribati celebrates first while it's still 10am on December 31 in the UK - but working out the order each nation celebrates New Year is more complicated than it seems due to time zones and the International Date Line

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42 h. ago Celebrity Escape To The Country fans NOT convinced as Angellica Bell tours properties in 'staged' BBC episode

The latest episode of the programme saw the TV presenter, 49, and her husband Michael Underwood, 50, go on the hunt for their dream home in Devon for £1 million.

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58 h. ago Escape to the Country fans spot 'problem' as Angellica Bell makes admission

Celebrity Escape to the Country viewers were left confused during Monday's episode

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1 week ago Inside Scotland’s most remote island whose 30 residents DON’T celebrate Christmas on December 25

SCOTLAND'S most remote island with only 30 residents is set to celebrate Christmas two weeks after the rest of the country. Locals on Foula, which lies 20 miles west of Mainland Shetland, operate on a different calendar to the rest of the UK meaning that Christmas doesn't fall on December 25. Instead, the island's handful...

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2 w. ago Rosa von Praunheim, provocative pioneer of gay cinema, dies aged 83

The film-maker, whose 1971 feature about queer life has been described as Germany’s ‘Stonewall moment’, married his long-term partner on FridayRosa von Praunheim, a key figure of the New German Cinema movement who made taboo-breaking films about queer life and scandalised the country when he outed German celebrities on live TV, has died aged 83.German media reported that Praunheim died in Berlin in the early hours of Wednesday morning, just days after marrying his long-term partner at a ceremony in the German capital on Friday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Joe Ely dead: Country legend dies months after revealing devastating diagnosis

Joe Ely has died at the age of 78 and devastated fans take to social media to pay tribute to the pioneering country star

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2 w. ago Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Libya’s militias battling it out for a larger stake in the country’s oil economy, but a huge firework display celebrating the reopening of one of the finest museums in the Mediterranean.The National Museum of Libya – housing Africa’s greatest collection of classical antiquities in Tripoli’s historic Red Castle complex – had been closed for nearly 14 years due to the civil war that followed the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall. Its ceremonial reopening came at the climax of a lavish show compressing Libya’s rich history and attended by diplomats and Arab celebrities, with a full-size Italian orchestra, acrobats, dancers, arches of fire and lights projected on to the fort. It did not l...

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2 w. ago Trump doubles down on celebrating Rob Reiner's murder: 'He was bad for our country'

Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks on liberal director Rob Reiner after the Hollywood star and his wife were apparently murdered.

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2 w. ago These hotels won awards at the ‘Oscars’ of the pool and spa industry

Luxurious wellness centres across the country were celebrated at the ceremony

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2 w. ago 'It’s properly beautiful': Manchester venue celebrates after being named best in the country

'This is intergenerational energy'

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2 w. ago In the money: Davina McCall sells East Sussex country mansion for nearly double what she paid for it

TV presenter Davina McCall and ex-husband Matthew Robertson have sold their East Sussex mansion for £6.25million. 

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3 w. ago Trump hosts Kennedy Center honorees and teases hosting skills: ‘I’m sure they’ll give me great reviews’

George Strait, ‘Sly’ Stallone and Kiss accept medals from president, who says he was ‘98% involved’ in choosing themDonald Trump on Saturday evening hosted the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for a medal-presentation ceremony, celebrating country music singer George Strait, actor-singer Michael Crawford, actor Sylvester “Sly” Stallone and the members of the rock band Kiss.“This is a great evening, it’s a great honor,” Trump said. “And I’m delighted to welcome to the Oval Office – the world-famous, most famous office in the world, most powerful office in the world – our truly exceptional 2025 Kennedy Center honorees.” Continue reading...

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