63 h. ago Crowds gather outside Giorgio Armani’s Milan HQ to pay respects before funeral

Funeral chamber to be set up at Teatro Armani where people can view casket before a private service on MondayGiorgio Armani obituaryElegant, determined, a little unknowable: Giorgio Armani is gone but will never be forgottenA life in picturesTwice a year, the usually calm Via Bergognone in Milan shuts down due to excited fashion week crowds descending on Teatro Armani. Home to the Giorgio Armani headquarters since 2000, the sprawling space includes a purpose-built theatre where each show season a catwalk is constructed.On Friday, crowds again began to gather outside, but this time the mood was much more sombre. They had come to pay their final respects to the visionary Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, who died on Thursday at the age of 91. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters

Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians heldOnly one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago David Sheerin appointed as headteacher of St Margaret’s Academy in Livingston

Mr Sheerin joins West Lothian Council from East Dunbartonshire, where he served as principal teacher then deputy head at St Ninian’s High School in Kirkintilloch for a number of years.

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7 d. ago US Open tennis 2025: Alcaraz through, Krejcikova saves eight match points against Townsend – live

Follow the fourth-round action at Flushing MeadowsGet in touch with Katy via emailWith Pegula pushing and probing once again on Li’s serve at 15-30, time is starting to run out for the less well known of the two Americans. 15-30 turns into 30-40. We’ve seen this before. But then Li tears up the script, sending down a rare stinging second serve to save the break point, before holding from deuce. Pegula leads 6-1, 4-2.Pegula is still bossing it on Ashe, leading 6-1, 3-1. And a glance through today’s early results brings up the name “Hewitt”. It’s not the 2001 champion Lleyton, however, but his 16-year-old son Cruz, who’s suffered a 6-3, 6-0 defeat in the first round of the boys’ singles to the American fourth seed Benjamin Willwerth. Lleyton was in the stands watching. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US Open tennis 2025: Alcaraz through, Townsend in action after Pegula eases past Li – live

Follow the fourth-round action at Flushing MeadowsGet in touch with Katy via emailWith Pegula pushing and probing once again on Li’s serve at 15-30, time is starting to run out for the less well known of the two Americans. 15-30 turns into 30-40. We’ve seen this before. But then Li tears up the script, sending down a rare stinging second serve to save the break point, before holding from deuce. Pegula leads 6-1, 4-2.Pegula is still bossing it on Ashe, leading 6-1, 3-1. And a glance through today’s early results brings up the name “Hewitt”. It’s not the 2001 champion Lleyton, however, but his 16-year-old son Cruz, who’s suffered a 6-3, 6-0 defeat in the first round of the boys’ singles to the American fourth seed Benjamin Willwerth. Lleyton was in the stands watching. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US Open tennis 2025: Pegula eases past Li, Alcaraz and Sabalenka in action on day eight – live

Follow the fourth-round action at Flushing MeadowsGet in touch with Katy via emailWith Pegula pushing and probing once again on Li’s serve at 15-30, time is starting to run out for the less well known of the two Americans. 15-30 turns into 30-40. We’ve seen this before. But then Li tears up the script, sending down a rare stinging second serve to save the break point, before holding from deuce. Pegula leads 6-1, 4-2.Pegula is still bossing it on Ashe, leading 6-1, 3-1. And a glance through today’s early results brings up the name “Hewitt”. It’s not the 2001 champion Lleyton, however, but his 16-year-old son Cruz, who’s suffered a 6-3, 6-0 defeat in the first round of the boys’ singles to the American fourth seed Benjamin Willwerth. Lleyton was in the stands watching. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Nat Phillips gives West Brom a lift and wrecks Stoke’s perfect start to season

West Brom bounced back from a rough week with a gnarly victory to puncture the mood at the Championship’s early pacesetters, Stoke.Ryan Mason, the head coach, had seen two key players depart in the days before this trip and had to watch from the stands as he served a touchline suspension. That did not prevent his team torpedoing Stoke’s 100% start to the campaign with a win that was as hard-fought as it was deserved. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Coco Gauff fights through tears and struggling serve in US Open win

The second seed again struggled with her serve in a 7-6 (5) 6-2 victory over Donna Vekic

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1 week ago Coco Gauff fights through tears and serving woes to reach US Open third round

Gauff overcomes shaky serve in 7-6, 6-2 victoryWorld No 3 cries courtside before regroupingSimone Biles’ presence inspires US star to resetCoco Gauff walked off Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night with eyes still wet and a clenched fist raised high. The world No 3 had lived through another serving ordeal, this time against Donna Vekić, yet she emerged intact – emotionally frayed but victorious – with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win that lifted her into the third round of the US Open.The match was less a straight-line triumph than a public unravelling and recovery, a window into the psychological toll of remaking her most important shot in real time. Gauff’s seven double faults in the first set recalled the low points of her title defense last year, when 19 doomed her campaign. At 5-4 down, broken by two consecutive missed serves, she slumped into her chair shaking, buried her face in a towel and cried. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nin Pandit: Keir Starmer replaces top civil servant in Downing Street team

Keir Starmer is reportedly replacing the top civil servant in his Downing Street office. Nin Pandit, the PM's principal private secretary, runs the Mr Starmer's team at No 10

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1 week ago Major search for missing man at Edinburgh reservoir as water rescue teams deployed

Edinburgh emergency services descend on Harlaw Reservoir as water rescue teams were deployed.

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2 w. ago Woolton Hall fire LIVE: Huge Liverpool building blaze and 'stay away' warning

Woolton Hall is on fire in Liverpool with shocking footage shared on social media - the local fire service has rushed to the blaze tearing through the Grade I listed building

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The encounter was electric with jeopardy... It was worse than watching a chess match when the pieces are live grenades

Zelensky survived. The Ukrainian president's Oval Office rematch passed without diplomatic incident. The trap door under his seat was not activated. He was not served poisoned tea.

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3 w. ago Major emergency services response at reservoir as rescue teams search area

Police, fire crews and paramedics along with specialist water incident units were called to the Strinesdale Reservoir

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3 w. ago Some workers would be excluded from student loan forgiveness program for 'illegal' activity

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that could exclude teachers, social workers and nurses if their employers engage in activities deemed illegal

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3 w. ago Putin team trolls its way to Ukraine summit with Trump as it serves ‘Chicken Kyiv’ for in

Russia has been accused of sending ‘signals’ ahead of the summit in Alaska

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3 w. ago Boots team could play an even greater role in delivering NHS services in West Lothian

The challenge of retail crime was also discussed during the visit

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3 w. ago Find out how many teas to serve your tradesperson with this new handy calculator

The calculator to help homeowners figure out how many drinks to offer a tradesperson, based on how long they are going to be in the property and how chatty they are

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4 w. ago More than 100 civil servants set to be cut from security vetting and Cobra teams

The proposed cuts are part of wider plans to reduce the Civil Service headcount.

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