1 hour ago Andy Carroll and Lou Teasdale's 'final straw' which led to very public split

Andy Carroll, the former England footballer, and girlfriend Lou Teasdale split recently having had a 14-month relationship after meeting at Glastonbury in June 2024

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2 h. ago Megadeth announce they are retiring: ‘Don’t be sad, be happy for us all’

Frontman Dave Mustaine says he is writing the thrash metal band’s final album and they will embark on a farewell tour in 2026Call it a symphony for dissolution. American thrash metal giants Megadeth have announced they are retiring and that their forthcoming album will be their last. They will also embark on a farewell tour in 2026.“There’s so many musicians that have come to the end of their career, whether accidental or intentional,” Megadeth founder and frontman Dave Mustaine shared in a statement on Thursday. “Most of them don’t get to go out on their own terms on top, and that’s where I’m at in my life right now. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago How Britain went 'crazy' for VJ Day: Dancing, bonfires and kissing as the nation celebrated Japan's defeat and final end of WWII

On August 15, 1945, and in the days leading up to it, tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the British capital and elsewhere to celebrate the end of the Second World War,

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3 h. ago Migrant hotel resident accused of sexually assaulting three women in as many weeks

Qais Al-Aswad, 26, who resides at Four Points By Sheraton Hotel, Brighton Road, Horley, Surrey has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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4 h. ago VJ Day 80: 'Forgotten hero' who survived deadly Burma jungles finally recognised

Charlie Richards fought in the jungles of Burma, seeing his best friend die. Now he says this could happen again unless 'lunatics' Putin and Trump bash their heads together and see sense

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5 h. ago Prosecutors file more attempted murder charges against Minnesota man who killed lawmakers

A Minnesota man accused of killing a top Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another is now facing new and upgraded state charges in a fresh indictment

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5 h. ago Elizabeth Taylor's son reveals how he REALLY feels about Taylor Swift name

The 35-year-old billionaire pop star previously name-dropped the late Hollywood screen siren in her 2017 hit song, ...Ready for It

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5 h. ago Feds seek death penalty for member of radical ‘Zizian’ group accused of murdering US border agent in Vermont shootout

Prosecutors charged Milo Youngblut, 21, with murdering Border Patrol officer David Maland — one of six deaths connected the enigmatic

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5 h. ago Premier League clubs to have final say on playing matches abroad as vote option emerges

Spanish football will break new ground this season after Villarreal and Barcelona were given permission to play their LaLiga fixture in Miami on December 20 - but English football will not follow suit for now

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6 h. ago Trudy Appleby, 11, vanished from outside her Illinois home in 1996. Cops have now charged a man with her murder

Jamison Albert Fisher was charged with the murder of Trudy Appleby, who went missing when she was 11 in 1996.

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7 h. ago How many Strictly Come Dancing celebrity contestants are there for 2025 series

Fans have spent the week finding out who's getting ready to showcase their dance moves

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8 h. ago Countries urged to ‘hold the line’ in Geneva plastics treaty negotiations

Talks continue amid warnings from environmental groups over being ‘sold out’ without meaningful or legally binding measuresTalks between nations to hammer out a plastics treaty to end plastic pollution continued behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday, the final day of negotiations, as civil society groups urged countries to “hold the line” to secure a strong agreement.With time running out to seal a deal between 184 countries, environmental groups expressed concern that frontline communities, Indigenous people and others suffering the worst impacts of the world’s growing plastic crisis were being “sold out” in an effort to secure a treaty, without meaningful or legally binding measures that would address the scale of the problem, “at any cost”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago The end is near: Megadeth to release final album and embark on farewell tour

Call it a symphony for dissolution

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8 h. ago This is a moment for European leaders to decide what they want

Editorial: When Putin declares victory, as now looks likely, the question of how willing the ‘coalition of the willing’ will be in its continued defence of Ukraine is a crucial one that few seem ready to answer – and one on which Keir Starmer must continue to take a lead

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8 h. ago Member of cultlike Zizian group faces new murder charge in border patrol agent’s death

A woman accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a Vermont traffic stop in January has been indicted on murder and other new charges that make her eligible for the death penalty

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8 h. ago Peter Andre livid as he shares bombshell statement about Katie Price

Peter Andre took to social media to hit out at ex-wife Katie Price and call out her 'repeated lies' as he says he is ready to speak out after staying silent for 16 years

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9 h. ago The Biggest Loser’s Bob Harper says Jillian Michaels didn’t reach out to him after ‘widowmaker’ heart attack

Harper and Michaels worked together for 12 seasons of the weight-loss reality series

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9 h. ago 3 people charged with helping suspected killer of 4 are accused of giving him shelter, phones

A prosecutor says three people charged with helping a Tennessee man accused of fatally shooting four people are suspected of providing him with shelter, phones and rides as he evaded authorities after the killings

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9 h. ago Hit horror Weapons doesn’t have a deeper meaning but that’s OK | Jesse Hassenger

A frenzied search for answers in the wake of the box office smash has some assuming there’s a weightier allegory but its power is in something simpler and more primalMajor spoilers aheadFor years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor.The real monster in these movies is parenthood, personal trauma or that old horror-movie standby, grief. Writer-director Zach Cregger is no stranger to this line of thinking; his 2022 horror movie Barbarian is very much a spooky-creature-in-the-basement movie for the #MeToo era. Now Cregger has returned with a movie that may well stymie anyone who has been trained by the last decade to search for an easy-to-track allegory within their viscerally depicted fears. His new movie Weapons has received mostly rave reviews and positive audience response. But at least a few critics and fans are pivoting from complaining a...

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10 h. ago He spent years denying his identity after fleeing the US to avoid rape charges. Now, a court has finally convicted him

Nicholas Alahverdian, also known as Nicholas Rossi, among other aliases, could face up to five years in prison for raping a woman in 2008

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