53 m. ago King Charles may have ‘scuppered’ chances of ‘unprecedented’ honour due to one decision

King Charles is due to pray with Pope Leo XIV, the first time a British monarch and a Pope have done so since the Reformation 500 years ago

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59 m. ago Livingston MP welcomes UK Government's “blitz on business bureaucracy”

At the Birmingham summit, Chancellor Rachel Reeves also announced over £10 billion in new private investment in projects across the UK, creating jobs and prosperity for working people.

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2 h. ago Mother spends $21,000 on lifelike baby dolls that look so real people stop her in the street

Mary Lee Beatson, 42, from South Carolina, parents and takes care of the lifelike creations, that aim to mimic the look and feel of real human babies, alongside four children of her own.

Economics

2 h. ago What happened to the original James Herriot from All Creatures Great and Small?

The original James Herriot was played by Christopher Timothy.

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2 h. ago The Spin | The Shane Warne effect: why some cricketers are loved by fans of their fiercest rivals

Rivalries are hard and real in cricket but the game’s capacity for fluctuating, compelling narratives creates heroes out of foesAt the most famous cricket ground in the world, inside the sport’s most revered pavilion, there is a lifesize painting of a man who terrorised English cricket for 15 years. Across the manicured green turf at Lord’s, inside cricket’s most iconic media centre, the main commentary box is named after this generational tormentor. About 84 miles away, at the Rose Bowl near Southampton, an entire stand bears his name.English cricket has every reason to hate Shane Warne. In 36 Ashes Tests he bagged 195 wickets at an average of 23.25. From his opening ball of the century at Old Trafford in 1993 to his final bow in Sydney in 2007, he seemed to operate on a different plane. This peroxided devil ruined summers and deepened cold, bitter winters, yet he became an English national treasure, the perfect reminder that cricket, above all else, is something that should be enj...

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3 h. ago ‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

Culture

3 h. ago Down Cemetery Road release date, cast and episodes as Slow Horses author's debut novel brought to life

Down Cemetery Road is a new thriller series from the creators of Slow Horses and it's coming to AppleTV+ soon.

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3 h. ago Nobody Wants This season 2 trailer song created by memorable American Idol star

Nobody Wants This season two will be dropping on Netflix this week with its trailer getting fans hyped for its return.

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3 h. ago ‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battlesGame designer and ex-Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki died last week aged 58. He was famous for his sunglasses, long black hair, leather jackets – and his penchant for using colourful second world war metaphors to describe game development, marketing strategies and just about anything else. A pugnacious talent, he rocked the boat and made waves in almost every aspect of his life.Itagaki joined Japanese game developer Tecmo in 1992, as a young programmer, where he led the creation of the fighting game series Dead or Alive, the first instalment of which was released in 1996. He famously picked a long-running fight with Namco’s Tekken series, after that company’s marketing team ran an ad that he found disparaging. The resulting one-sided beef put his fighting franchise on the world stage in the early 2000s. After Dead or Alive 3, he turned his attentions to beach volleyball as a palette ...

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3 h. ago Stranger Things creators share devastating reason beloved character won’t be back for Season 5

Stranger Things fans have been hoping for a reunion with one of the show's most popular characters

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4 h. ago Princess Diana's Nieces Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Are Creating Handbags That Reflect Their Aesthetics (Exclusive)

Princess Diana's Nieces Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Are Creating Handbags That Reflect Their Aesthetics (Exclusive)  People.com

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4 h. ago Amelia and Eliza Spencer Get Creative, Designing Bags for Aspinal of London

Amelia and Eliza Spencer Get Creative, Designing Bags for Aspinal of London  WWD

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4 h. ago Shock as thousands of gelatinous pink sea creatures wash ashore in America

The sea cucumbers aren't capable of returning to their natural habitat on their own so they will dry up and die

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5 h. ago It’s all change for Monaco as they host Spurs in the Champions League

The club’s new 38-year-old manager Sébastien Pocognoli has to improve results, change the team’s style and integrate new players – all during an injury crisisBy Get French Football NewsTime is a precious commodity that has been in short supply for Sébastien Pocognoli. The precocious 38-year-old has not needed much of it to forge a reputation as one of the most promising young managers in the game, but he has had to maximise every second since joining Monaco as he plots a course through the chaos.His first training session with his new players, last Tuesday, was a microcosm of the job at hand for the man who led Union Saint-Gilloise to their first Belgian title since 1935 last season. “In the first training session, there was too much intensity. It was pretty chaotic. I had to calm them down,” said Pocognoli, who nonetheless insists on “intensity” and set the tone himself, physically grappling with his new players as he took part in the drills as the sun set on the club’s performance...

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5 h. ago ‘Happy Diwali from a Pakistani’: Content creator celebrates festival with fireworks on London streets; viral video wins hearts

‘Happy Diwali from a Pakistani’: Content creator celebrates festival with fireworks on London streets; viral video wins hearts  The Indian Express

Culture

7 h. ago ‘They can’t dismiss Leo so easily’: how the pope has confounded conservatives

As pontiff prepares for visit of King Charles, the contours of his papacy are slowly becoming apparentWhen King Charles meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican this week, the two leaders are likely to discuss pressing global issues as well as sharing a historic moment of prayer.In the face of volatility and rising nationalism, Leo, the first North American chosen to lead the Roman Catholic church, has begun to outline the contours of his papacy after a low-key start to his five-month-old papacy. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The affordable style secrets of Claudia Winkleman's The Celebrity Traitors look

How stylist Sinead McKeefry created a reality TV icon

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7 h. ago Lazarus creator Harlan Coben's personal tragedy that inspired latest horror

Teaming up with Danny Brocklehurst once again, Harlan Coben reveals that a personal tragedy directly inspired their newest show Lazarus, starring Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin.

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7 h. ago Lazarus creator Harlan Coben unveils personal tragedy that inspired new horror

Harlan Coben doesn't shy away from the grit of grief in Lazarus, his latest show due on Prime Video. The American writer dug deep into his own experience with loss.

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8 h. ago Lazarus review – this Harlan Coben adaptation is absolutely woeful

Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin star in a thin, thin Amazon thriller. It’s horrifically badly paced, deeply repetitive and tension free – not to mention its deeply unlikely plotDame Edna Everage (and if you are too young to know of the housewife superstar that was Barry Humphries’ greatest creation, get yourselves to YouTube and gaze upon her glory, possums) once begged South Bank Show presenter and prolific novelist Melvyn Bragg to stop writing: “Give us all a chance to catch up.”I feel the same way about Harlan Coben’s TV career. With the possible revision that once we have caught up, if he doesn’t feel refreshed enough to give us something better than Lazarus, he could extend his hiatus until full reinvigoration has been achieved. Continue reading...

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