84 m. ago Novak Djokovic v Taylor Fritz live: US Open result and score from blockbuster quarter

Djokovic escaped with a 6-4 7-5 3-6, 6-4 win to set up a semi-final clash with Carlos Alcaraz

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88 m. ago Students without legal status are dropping out or delaying college as states revoke tuition breaks

Across the country, tens of thousands of college students without legal status are losing access to in-state tuition as part of an immigration crackdown carried out by President Donald Trump and his allies

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92 m. ago Sun, sex, but no sangria? The Balearics’ booze crackdown might just save their tourist industry | Dimah Ajeeb

The islands say they no longer want to be Europe’s cheap, consequence-free party playground. But is the move upmarket working?Last summer, Spain’s Balearic Islands launched one of Europe’s toughest crackdowns on alcohol-fuelled party tourism. In popular resorts such as Magaluf in Mallorca and Sant Antoni in Ibiza, tourists spilled out of bars at dawn, clutched cheap bottles from late-night shops, and treated entire neighbourhoods as giant open-air nightclubs.Local people were fed up. Noise complaints, violent brawls and clashes between residents and intoxicated tourists became routine. Rents rose while longstanding neighbourhoods became hollowed out into seasonal party zones. Pilar Hernando, from Palma, Mallorca told Reuters in 2024: “Prices go up, rents go up, everything goes up except salaries.” Hernando had to move into a caravan owing to the lack of affordable housing. Average rents have risen 158% over the past decade in the Balearics, with Palma now among the most expensive ci...

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92 m. ago Novak Djokovic quells fightback to set up Carlos Alcaraz clash in semi

Djokovic defeated fourth seed Taylor Fritz in a tense quarter-final.

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1 hour ago Xi, Putin and Kim: behind the choreographed image that could symbolise a shift in the global balance of power

In an unprecedented spectacle the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea led a group of more than 20 world leaders at a victory day parade in BeijingFull report: Xi Jinping appears with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at China military paradeIt is an image that, had it been published just a few years ago, would have been dismissed as a piece of mischievous photo-shopping: the leaders of Russia and China, accompanied by the head of a pariah regime whose mission to arm his country with nuclear weapons had been opposed at the United Nations by his two companions.But dramatic shifts in the geopolitical landscape – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, crucially, the re-election of Donald Trump – have combined to bring Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un together in what many observers are calling a dramatic redrawing of the global balance of power. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Djokovic gets into it with the US Open crowd and improves to 11

Novak Djokovic has reached his record-tying 14th U.S. Open semifinal and record-extending 53rd semi at all Grand Slam tournaments with a 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Taylor Fritz

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2 h. ago Hero delivery driver stormed burning flat in bid to save tragic stranger

Carl Nielsen kicked the door of the flat in as fire ravaged the building in Dundee on Saturday.

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2 h. ago Family of terminally ill girl with rare genetic condition in desperate plea for specially adapted room

Little Eireann MacFarlane is one of just six people born with a genetic abnormality which requires 24 hour care.

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2 h. ago Massive trove of Epstein files released by GOP includes infamous missing minute from jailhouse video

The House Oversight Committee has released a massive trove of Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein, the same day lawmakers pushed a bill to force out the documents.

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2 h. ago Arsenal news: Granit Xhaka's role in transfer emerges as Mikel Arteta comes under fire

Ecuador international defender Piero Hincapie became Arsenal's final summer signing and the Bayer Leverkusen loanee has spoken after completing his deadline day move

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2 h. ago Man City sign seven players and lose 31 after hectic summer transfer window

Manchester City's transfer business extended past deadline day with several deals announced on Tuesday

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3 h. ago Cardi B is CLEARED in civil assault trial after epic MELTDOWN outside court over pregnancy rumor

Cardi B has been cleared of assault after she was sued for $24million over an alleged 2018 altercation.

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3 h. ago Northwestern professor found and taken to hospital after being reported missing

The professor left her home on Monday to go on a walk and went missing for more than a day, according to police

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3 h. ago Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the westXi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west.Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, are among dozens of world leaders attending the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the Japanese War of Aggression. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 'I'm a gardening expert and not doing this one thing could host you hundreds of pounds'

As trees begin to shed, an expert has warned that you should take care to pick up any fallen fruit or you risk inviting a whole host of problems into your garden

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4 h. ago Republicans release 33,000 pages of Epstein files in move to avoid controversial vote to force Trump to hand over documents

The House Oversight Committee has released a massive trove of Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein, the same day lawmakers pushed a bill to force out the documents.

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4 h. ago China’s victory day parade live: Xi Jinping appears alongside Putin and Kim Jong

Xi Jinping is showing off China’s military hardware at event attended by leaders from Russia, North Korea, Iran and MyanmarThe parade has commenced, they are singing the Chinese national anthem.Photos have emerged showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepping off his armoured train at Beijing Railway Station accompanied by his daughter, Kim Ju-ae. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Moment suspect flees undercover cops during car stop arrest attempt in North London

Witnesses shared footage of a man escaping from his car as swooped on the High Road in North Finchley at about 12noon on Tuesday.

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4 h. ago Carers with health conditions could be due up to £180 per week from DWP

Unpaid carers can claim certain other DWP benefits without jeopardising their Carer’s Allowance funds

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4 h. ago Cardi B cleared in civil suit that claimed she spat at and scratched a security guard

A jury has ruled in favor of Cardi B in lawsuit where a security guard accused her of assault during the rapper's first pregnancy

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