68 m. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates as Archer strikes after visitors’ batting collapse

England dismissed for just 172 in their first innings after winning the toss and electing to bat first in Perth

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73 m. ago What Mitchell Starc did in the Ashes spoke volumes as England collapse amid Steve Smith jibes

England won the toss and opted to bat at the Perth Stadium on the opening day of the Ashes series

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1 hour ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates as Archer strikes after England batting collapse

England dismissed for just 172 in their first innings after winning the toss and electing to bat first in Perth

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2 h. ago BBC Children In Need chair resigns after conviction for crash that had 'life

Terry Duddy has resigned as chair of BBC Children In Need just weeks into the role after he was convicted of causing serious injury by careless and inconsiderate driving

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2 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score with Ben Stokes bowled and visitors in trouble

Ben Stokes’ side face Australia in Perth to kick off the Ashes down under, with the visitors winning the toss on Friday

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3 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates with visitors in trouble after Ollie Pope dismissed

Ben Stokes’ side face Australia in Perth to kick off the Ashes down under, with the visitors winning the toss on Friday

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4 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates with visitors in trouble after Joe Root duck

Ben Stokes’ side face Australia in Perth to kick off the Ashes down under, with the visitors winning the toss on Friday

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5 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates as Stokes wins toss and elects to bat

Ben Stokes’ side face Australia in Perth to kick off the Ashes down under, with the visitors winning the toss on Friday morning

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6 h. ago Fugees member Pras is sentenced to 14 years after desperate plea to Trump to be pardoned

Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars following his conviction for orchestrating an illegal foreign lobbying scheme.

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7 h. ago Key ally abandons Venezuela’s Maduro while he pleads for talks as US has ‘new options’ to topple tyrant if he won’t quit

A KEY ally of Venezuela has suddenly abandoned Nicolas Maduro - with the dictator pleading for peace talks in the face of US-led regime change. Colombia said it would prefer the Venezuelan despot to hand over his power - recognising the looming threat of an American invasion. With Donald Trump amassing a menacing military build-up...

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7 h. ago Why nuclear war is closer than ever: That's the chilling verdict of historian SERHII PLOKHY who reveals the FORTY countries which could blow the world apart... and the timebomb that could trigger ash

I was born and have lived my entire life under the threat of universal extermination that followed that summer's day in 1945 when, in the New ­Mexico desert, the first nuclear bomb was exploded.

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7 h. ago Florida rapist executed for killing his former manager who 'knew he was going to kill her'

Richard Barry Randolph was convicted of murder, armed robbery, sexual battery and grand theft and sentenced to death in 1989 - Minnie Ruth McCollum died six days after the brutal attack

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7 h. ago Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign

Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel was convicted in 2023 after a trial that included testimony from actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former US attorney general Jeff SessionsThe Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.Michel, 52, declined to address the court before US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him on Thursday. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Mistake after mistake: The full damning verdict of the Covid inquiry

Explosive claims by the Covid inquiry that 23,000 lives were lost because of a one-week delay raised eyebrows on Thursday night.

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8 h. ago Poor diets that leave millions lacking eight key vitamins and minerals

Researchers said unhealthy diets and mass consumption of ultra-processed foods is fuelling dangerous deficiencies.

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9 h. ago Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign

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11 h. ago Fentanyl dealer’s conviction tossed after only 11 jurors hand down verdict: ‘It defies logic’

Richard Leal, 33, was convicted in April of manufacturing or delivering between four and 200 grams of fentanyl

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11 h. ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia v England score and updates from eagerly

Ben Stokes’ side face Australia in Perth to kick off the Ashes down under, with a major call on Mark Wood and Shoaib Bashir expected at the toss

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11 h. ago US troops INVADE Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout

Six signs saying 'warning: restricted area' were plunged into the sand at a beach in Northeast Mexico called 'Playa Bagdad.'

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12 h. ago Republicans warn Bondi not to bury Epstein files after law’s passage

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 daysUS politics live – latest updatesWithin hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein, dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”. Continue reading...

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