74 m. ago Ukraine war live: Putin cannot be trusted, says Ukraine after Russia announces ‘Easter truce’

Zelenskyy says drone attacks on Saturday show Russian president’s true attitude toward human lifeFull report: Putin announces surprise ‘Easter truce’Here are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, the RIA state news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Iconic UK band prove haters wrong as their music 'saves people's lives'

EXCLUSIVE: Once considered naff, this legendary British pop band have a strong legion of fans, with some claiming the groups tunes have been lifesaving - 'Music can be very therapeutic' says member

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2 h. ago Prue Leith, 85, admits she 'hasn't got much longer left' and is being 'pretty close' to needing a carer as she leans on beloved husband John Playfair for support

The Great British Bake Off judge, 85, admitted that she is not as sprightly as she once was and 'pretty close' to needing a carer to help her busy schedule.

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2 h. ago ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckageSamantha thought of her partner as the most progressive man she had ever had a relationship with. Her Swedish boyfriend seemed, to her, more feminist than many British men she had dated.“I never had to ask him to clear up,” she says. “All our labour was shared. He had done therapy. He was happy to talk about his emotions.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago DWP pension rules explained when someone dies and change that could impact millions

Your state pension stops when you die, but there are some exceptions depending on your circumstances and there are caveats such as your spouse's NI contributions

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2 h. ago Pictured: British couple killed in Naples cable car crash were ‘enjoying retirement’

The pensioners died in the cable car tragedy in Monte Faito along with two other people

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2 h. ago F1 driver prevented from driving at Saudi GP as team investigates problem

Gabriel Bortoleto's difficult start to life in F1 has hit another bump in the road after the Sauber team were forced to change the chassis on his car after a fuel leak

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3 h. ago British couple died after ‘cable car brakes failed 20 seconds from top’

Graeme Winn, 65 and Elaine Winn, 58, were among the four people who died in the crash near Naples on Thursday.

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3 h. ago Pray that this outlandish new social policy will fail to take flight | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s sexy southern gothic horror is a blast

Michael B Jordan stars as twin 1930s mobsters in the Black Panther director’s phenomenal-looking, blues-infused supernatural taleIn Black Panther (2018) and its sequel, Wakanda Forever (2022), Ryan Coogler directed two of Marvel’s most satisfying and textured recent movies. His 2015 Rocky spin-off Creed represents the gold standard when it comes to franchise-wrangling, honouring the original series yet standing up and fighting its own corner as a distinct movie. If anyone has earned the chance to make a passion project, it’s Coogler. But who knew that this would result in something as wild, untrammelled and thrillingly unpredictable as Sinners? Starring Michael B Jordan in the dual role of 1930s gangster twins Smoke (surly, threatening) and Stack (charming, reckless), it’s a sweltering, sexy southern gothic horror, a blues-infused vampire flick in which the music flows as freely as the blood.The brothers leave Chicago with the kind of cash that usually comes with a body count. Back ...

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3 h. ago Climatologist Friederike Otto: ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’

The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to do about itFriederike Otto is a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London. She is also the co-founder of the World Weather Attribution initiative, which seeks to determine the influence of global warming on intensity and likelihood of an extreme weather event. The project also examines how factors such as ill-suited architecture and poverty exacerbate heatwaves, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. This is the theme of her second book, Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change.The thesis of your book is that the climate crisis is a symptom of global inequality and injustice. That will be quite topsy-turvy to some people, who think global heating is caused by the amount of carbon that we are putting into the atmosphere.Yes, of course, if you just stick to the physics, then the warming is cau...

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4 h. ago British tourist faces hellhole US jail term after he caused wrong

Thomas Robb, 22, drove past at least two 'No Entry' signs before travelling the wrong way on a road in Rockland County, New York and colliding into another vehicle.

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4 h. ago Cadbury fans outraged over Easter egg 'change' but company has hit back

The Easter weekend is here, with egg hunts and chocolate devoured, often in the name of the adored Cadbury chocolate - but fans have spotted something different this year

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4 h. ago Why the date of Easter remains divisive four centuries later

The idea of a common Easter has been discussed since the 1960s, with interest peaking when celebrations coincide, as they will this year

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4 h. ago Brit couple killed in Naples cable car tragedy pictured after 'enjoying retirement'

Elaine and Graeme Winn, from Market Harborough, were named as the British pair among the four people that died on Thursday after a wire snapped and sent a cable car plummeting to the ground

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5 h. ago F1 driver removed from Saudi Arabian Grand Prix session as major problem emerges

Gabriel Bortoleto will not take part in second practice at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after Sauber were forced to change the chassis on his car following a fuel leak

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5 h. ago ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answer instantly by turning to AI tools such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Siri. Offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence has become second nature, but with mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining, some experts fear this impulse is driving the trend. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Female British Hindu monk to run her first London Marathon to challenge stereotypes

Female British Hindu monk to run her first London Marathon to challenge stereotypes  Hindustan Times

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5 h. ago Scots judo star was '24 hours from suicide' before lifesaving text

Former GB judo athlete David Millar was just 24 hours from taking his own life when a last-minute text inviting him to a breathwork session changed everything.

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