84 m. ago Revealed: Devoted mother saved her daughter, five, by pushing her away

Madia Kauser, 32, was taking the little girl, five, and her older brother for an evening walk in the park when the tree fell directly towards them.

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99 m. ago Inheritance tax will apply to pension pots... even if workers die before retirement as Rachel Reeves tries to fill financial black hole

The Chancellor announced last year that retirement savings will be subject to the levy from April 2027.

Economics

2 h. ago EastEnders fans beg 'how can this be' as beloved BBC soap couple walk out amid tears

EastEnders fans were left in tears as one popular couple appeared to split up on Wednesday evening

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3 h. ago Nuno Mendes gets PSG party started in Super Cup shootout win against Spurs

Paris Saint-Germain 2-2 Tottenham (4-3 pens)PSG score two late goals to set up shootoutIt turns out the DNA of serial ­winners cannot be developed within three months. Tottenham should have been able to announce themselves kings of the continent here in Udine, flimsy though any grand statements after a Uefa Super Cup win might be. Thomas Frank had challenged them to back up the heroics of Bilbao with a statement in the Friulian heat and, by the evening’s end, he should have been basking in the kind of start that can define a new manager’s tenure.Instead he received a reminder that there is no quick fix to some deep-rooted habits. For long periods Spurs, faced with a lethargic Paris Saint-Germain, resembled a perfectly imprinted version of the Frank playbook. They pummelled their ­opponents in the air, their two-goal lead owing much to well-executed free-kicks and plenty more havoc arising besides. On top of that they looked at ease with a three-man back line that gave a stellar atta...

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3 h. ago Tottenham lose in dramatic Super Cup final as PSG bag it on pens

Champions League winners PSG took on Europa League winners Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday evening at Stadio Fruili in Italy in the UEFA Super Cup final

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4 h. ago ‘Petty or racist’: Ex White House photographer rips Trump for ‘hiding’ Obama portrait and bucking tradition

Pete Souza, who served under Obama and former president Ronald Reagan, said that breaking a longstanding tradition of where presidential portraits are hung was ‘pretty petty’

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4 h. ago UN rejects plans by Sudan's paramilitary group for a rival government amid civil war

The U.N. Security Council has rejected plans by Sudan’s paramilitary group to establish a rival government in areas it controls

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5 h. ago Manchester United show patience and hope for big things from Benjamin Sesko | Andy Brassell

After the club’s two previous attempts to sign the forward, Ruben Amorim will be hoping they have found the real dealIt has, for a while, appeared to be destiny. Benjamin Sesko’s arrival at Manchester United was third time lucky for last season’s Europa League finalists, having attempted to make a deal for the Slovenia striker when he was leaving Domžale in 2019 and again when he agreed to fly the Red Bull Salzburg nest in 2022, eventually joining up with RB Leipzig a year down the line.Now United have their still-only-22-year-old man and if Sesko has been feted in the inner circles of European football since his mid-teens, one could suggest the wait has not only be worthwhile but that it could work in favour of Ruben Amorim as he attempts to author a dramatic uptick in the fortunes of the English game’s premier fallen giant. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Traitors and Celebrity SAS star 'involved in boozy brawl with TikTok star'

The Traitors winner and former Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star Harry Clark was reportedly involved in a 'drunken scuffle' with a TikTok influencer following a recent showbiz event

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5 h. ago How the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War will be celebrated in Bolton

Services, children's events and music will form part of the borough's commemorations

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6 h. ago Shoppers turn to cooling pillow Amazon deal as temperatures break 30C this week

"I've never had such a comfortable pillow."

Economics

6 h. ago Men can't cope under pressure! Married blokes are more likely to CHEAT than women when they're stressed, study finds

Ladies, beware - as a new study reveals men are more likely than women to have an affair during high-stress life events.

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6 h. ago Headed to halls? The ultimate uni essentials checklist for student bedrooms, bathrooms and beyond

We spotlight the essential items every fresher needs for a comfortable and successful start to uni

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6 h. ago Vice President JD Vance lands in Scotland for family holiday

JD Vance has arrived in Scotland this evening after touching down at Prestwick Airport.

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7 h. ago Little League security worker ‘threatened mass casualty event after being fired’: report

Isaiah Randall, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, allegedly threatened Little League International, ESPN and Securitas

Events

7 h. ago France acknowledges role in repression of Cameroon independence movements

Emmanuel Macron writes to Cameroonian president with findings of joint commission on country’s colonial pastFrance has acknowledged its role in decades of violent repression of independence movements in Cameroon, the latest stage in a slow process of reckoning with its brutal colonial past.In a letter to the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, dated 30 July, Emmanuel Macron said it was “up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events”. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Taylor Swift gets ultimate revenge on nemesis Kanye West with new album  The Life of a Showgirl

Taylor Swift 's newly announced album The Life of a Showgirl hasn't even dropped yet, but fans are convinced it contains a sly jab toward her longtime rival Kanye West .

Culture

7 h. ago Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Some 800 National Guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger and unbridled chaos that the only chance of survival is to cede individual rights to the determined will of the Dear Leader. That’s why fascist leaders have constantly demanded that their populations venerate all violence performed in the service of the state and revere the apparatuses of state violence, such as police forces and the military. In this scenario, state violence is not only necessary for the nation’s survival. State violence is understood as even beautiful, something the public can and must believe in.Buying into state violence this way produces something historian Robert Paxton has called a “mobilizing passion”. In his book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton described how “the beauty of...

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7 h. ago Boden's £69 dress that shoppers say make them 'feel instantly put

"I've worn it to work, out to dinner, and even just running errands when I wanted to feel a little more polished"

Economics

7 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: The march of facial recognition cameras is so sinister. Police say they get results... but they send a shiver down my spine and they should yours too

Hurrying into London's Paddington Station the other evening, I was amazed to see a large white van with odd-shaped devices and aerials on its roof'.

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