46 m. ago US military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth

US forces in recent weeks carried out at least eight strikes against boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing about 40 peopleUS politics live – latest updatesThe US military on Monday carried out three deadly strikes on four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, announced Pete Hegseth, the Trump administration’s defense secretary, on Tuesday.Fourteen were killed in the attacks while one survived, Hegseth said in an X post. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago Pep Guardiola issues Erling Haaland injury update after collision with goalpost in Man City defeat

Erling Haaland’s goalscoring streak finally ended in the defeat by Aston Villa

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64 m. ago $54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry

Brian Kelly’s departure from LSU is just the latest in a series of big money firings. It’s also a jarring state of affairs for many struggling fansAt a time when millions are at risk of going hungry and losing their medical insurance benefits, struggling Americans can at least take solace in knowing that the nation’s college football coaches are doing just fine – especially Brian Kelly.On Sunday LSU relieved Kelly of his coaching duties after his Tigers suffered a resounding home loss to Texas A&M that dropped them out of the AP’s ranking of college football’s top 25 teams. (This is after LSU was ranked as high as third in September and firmly in the top 10 for most of the season.) Kelly, who was in the fourth year of a decade-long contract worth about $100m, will be going home with more than just a box full of purple and gold office trinkets. Continue reading...

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65 m. ago James Trafford will one day be England number one – Man City boss Pep Guardiola

Trafford remains uncapped by England but has been named in every squad selected by Thomas Tuchel so far.

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66 m. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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71 m. ago Over half a MILLION ChatGPT users exhibit signs of mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts every week, OpenAI warns

In a recent blog post, the AI giant warned that 0.07 per cent of its weekly users showed signs of serious mental health emergencies.

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76 m. ago Ryan Reynolds’ massive net worth after split from Hollywood star and finding love again

Alongside friend and business partner Rob Mac, Ryan Reynold has transformed the fortunes of Wrexham AFC, who face Welsh rivals Cardiff City in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night

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83 m. ago Pep Guardiola sends clear Kalvin Phillips message as decision made for Swansea vs Man City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola explains his Kalvin Phillips thinking ahead of the Carabao Cup fourth round tie.

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1 hour ago Man City confirm fresh Erling Haaland injury blow as Pep Guardiola delivers update

Guardiola also confirms defensive pair are ready to feature on Wednesday

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1 hour ago Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders

Asif Kapadia’s film draws an absorbing portrait of the Liverpool legend whose career was blighted by the Heysel stadium and Hillsborough disastersAsif Kapadia has curated an absorbing portrait of footballer Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool’s legendary player and then player-manager, using a quilt of archive clips with voiceovers. It takes us through his childhood in Glasgow and his sparkling career at Celtic, at a time when the stars were hardly financially better off than the fans, before Dalglish arrived at Liverpool, effectively taking over Kevin Keegan’s position. Kapadia makes his central focus the mysterious inner trial, perhaps Dalglish’s hidden ordeal, that took place between 1985 to 1989; from Heysel to Hillsborough.Dalglish was the easygoing, level-headed everyman whose destiny it was to take the city’s woes on his shoulders. He became player-manager just after the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985, when there were 39 deaths as a result of a riot at the dilapidated Belgian ground b...

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1 hour ago Rodri injury truth as Pep Guardiola gives update and Man City handed double boost

Manchester City injury latest as Pep Guardiola provides an update on Rodri, Erling Haaland and others ahead of the Swansea City Carabao Cup tie

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2 h. ago Koblenz is the cosy German city that welcomes visitors like locals

On the search for the perfect autumn break, Katie Mather finds intriguing history, traditional restaurants and delicious wine on the banks of the Mosel and Rhine

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2 h. ago More than 2,000 civilians, mainly women and children, are executed in 48 hours as Sudanese city is captured by paramilitary group

The western Sudanese city of El-Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare.

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2 h. ago Strapped for cash: why Francis Ford Coppola is flogging his watches

Megalopolis’s grand self-funded folly has left the director at least $85m out of pocket, so he needs a helping handThe bad news for Francis Ford Coppola is that he made Megalopolis at exactly the wrong time. A long, pretentious, semi-coherent arthouse film about progress through architecture, starring Jon Voight’s erection and a man who can stop time for no apparent reason, was probably always going to struggle to make money.But to make it for over $100m of his own money and release it in 2024, in an age where the bulk of the public have largely given up on visiting the cinema, was disastrous. Its box office gross, in the end, was just $14.4m. For comparison, that puts it roughly in line with the gross of a French language biopic about Charles Aznavour released the same year. But that film cost four times less, didn’t open in any English-speaking countries and wasn’t about the proposed construction of a glowing golden city. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Celtic Boys Club abuse victim Gordon Woods admits he’s close to death in emotional social media post

A CELTIC Boys Club abuse survivor has told how he is receiving “end-of-life” care just a day after his daughter's 16th birthday. Gordon Woods took to social media to tell his followers that this would be his “last post” endured a 50-year battle for justice. The 71-year-old was one of 28 ex-starlets who took the...

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2 h. ago Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group

Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent daysReports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region last week.Video released by local activists showed a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Outrage as Sarah Ferguson sold £4.2m property months before 'demanding new royal home'

Sarah Ferguson recently sold a lavish London property that she owned in one of the capital city's most affluent neighbourhoods, but she reportedly let it go for a whopping £400,000 loss

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2 h. ago Next Celtic Manager Odds: Who is the favourite to replace Brendan Rodgers permanently?

Brendan Rodgers made the surprising decision to resign from the post after his relationship with the board deteriorated

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2 h. ago Blue Ivy, 13, looks just like mom Beyonce as she glams up for charity ball

BEYONCE'S daughter Blue Ivy, 13, looks just like her mom after getting glammed up for an event. The teenager stepped out with her grandma Tina Knowles last night at the Angel Ball in New York City. Blue looked ultra glamorous in a pale pink satin dress, with a huge feather boa draped over her shoulders....

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3 h. ago One long walk or shorter strolls? Scientists reveal which is better for your heart

Just a 15-minute walks - or around 1,500 steps in a row - could be enough to give your heart a good workout

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