39 m. ago Hundreds hit by food poisoning after eating free school meals in Indonesia

President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme has been marred by mass food poisoning cases

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44 m. ago Biggest Loser star's heart attack and health battle after show finished filming

A new Netflix docuseries looks behind the scenes of the hit reality show

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62 m. ago Urgent warning for anyone going to Spain as there will be severe delays

Disruption will hit those travelling to places including Barcelona, Malaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife

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67 m. ago Predictor picks: Find out who our expert is backing this weekend... and play the game with £1,000 up for grabs

The money must go and a winner must be crowned. After selecting your seven results, there is a tie-breaker to determine an eventual winner should there be more than one player on the same score.

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75 m. ago Iceland boss will pay customers to sniff out shoplifters after thieves cost supermarket £20million in the past year

Iceland's CEO Richard Walker hoped that the incentive would encourage shoppers to act if they spotted a shoplifter and hit back at claims it was a 'victimless crime '.

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85 m. ago Chinese economy slows as Trump tariffs bite; FTSE 100 on track to hit new record

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe owner of Kingsmill has agreed to buy its rival bakery business Hovis, in a deal that could make the biggest bread brand in the country if it gets the green light from regulators.Associated British Foods, a FTSE 100 company which also owns the retailer Primark, has agreed to buy Hovis from the private equity firm Endless.This transaction will create a UK bakeries business that is both profitable and sustainable over the long term. Supporting the Hovis and Kingsmill brands with well-invested and efficient operations will also enable innovation and growth. This solution will create value for shareholders, provide greater choice for consumers and increase efficiencies for customers.Firms may be running on existing capacity rather than building new plants The July industrial value-add breakdown tells a more nuanced story than the weak fixed asset investment headline. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ‘We’re in a healthy relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together

Best known for comic roles, the couple talk about how they parlayed their marriage into a sweaty nightmare of a film – and what it’s like to share their love in publicDave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage he has compiled of the worst injuries he sustained on the set of Together, the romance-horror he stars in alongside his wife, Alison Brie. She is not to be outdone. In one scene, Brie’s character is propelled against a glass door by a mysterious force. During filming, it seemed as if her stunt double was walking up to the door “very slowly. I felt like it was not landing the beat,” says the actor. “I said: ‘Let me just do it.’ And that’s what’s in the movie, me running and slamming into the glass. Then, of course, I had a little bruise on my nose that we had to cover with makeup.”Franco and Brie were clearly willing to throw themselves – literally – into the hugely en...

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1 hour ago Heartbeat legend favourite to play lead detective in Death in Paradise

Earlier this year, Channel 5 bosses announced a new series titled Death in Benidorm

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2 h. ago Kieron Bowie Hibs 'clearance' is just rewards as David Gray insists he has no doubts over calamity keeper

Boweie hit a 30-yard stunner as Hibs edged out Partizan Belgrade after extra-time on a nervy night at Easter Road

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2 h. ago Peter Crouch makes bold Benjamin Sesko prediction with Viktor Gyokeres comparison

Manchester United only landed Benjamin Sesko after Arsenal opted to sign Viktor Gyokeres instead, but Peter Crouch believes that the former may prove a bigger hit in the Premier League

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2 h. ago How a marine heatwave is threatening Australia’s spectacular coral reefs

One of the longest and most intense heat stress events ever recorded is raising alarm – and a warning about the future of reefs worldwide• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to get the newsletter in fullWhen it comes to coral, the Great Barrier Reef steals the global limelight. It’s a bucket-list place for many and, when it gets hit by coral bleaching, it makes news around the world.But Australia has another group of spectacular reefs on the west of the continent. Many of them had managed to escape the worst of global heating, until the worst marine heatwave ever recorded for this region. Even a “hope spot” for coral reefs has been decimated by the most severe heatwave on record for that part of the world.WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch‘If the reef had a voice, it would sing’: could legal personhood help the Great Barrier Reef?Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom...

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2 h. ago Jack Nicholson's grandson hit with restraining order from ex

The ex-girlfriend of one of Jack Nicholson's grandsons has obtained a restraining order against him in the wake of a brutal alleged assault.

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2 h. ago Remember when having women in power was supposed to change everything? | Gaby Hinsliff

The careers of Sturgeon, Merkel and Ardern show how foolish it is to idealise leaders just for being womenNicola Sturgeon was always afraid of failure. But it was a very particular kind of failure she feared; one that follows a very particular kind of success. Living up to the fact of being Scotland’s first female first minister became, she writes in her new memoir, “almost an obsession”, which is arguably unhealthy but not unreasonable. To be the first woman (or indeed the first minority) in any field is to be uncomfortably aware of being on probation: the test case that sceptics will use to decide whether women in general can really hack it, but also the yardstick by which other women will judge whether representation actually makes a difference.You daren’t betray anything that looks like a sign of weakness, yet at the same time you’re endlessly under pressure to spill your guts on all the intimate stuff – miscarriage and menopause in Sturgeon’s case, pregnancy in high office for ...

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2 h. ago Premier League 25/26 predictions: Pundits pick champions, top four and relegated teams

The 2025/26 Premier League season kicks off on Friday evening as champions Liverpool host Bournemouth and pundits have already been hard at work predicted exactly how the campaign will play out

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3 h. ago Airline says all flights will be 'paused' with delays for a week

The shut-down will hit 130,000 passengers a day

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3 h. ago Alexander Isak slammed for 'disrespecting' Newcastle as Liverpool transfer saga continues

Alexander Isak has gone on strike at Newcastle, where he is refusing to play in an attempt to force through a mega-money transfer to Liverpool before the window closes

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3 h. ago Love Island's Dejon hits back at 'unfair' backlash after release of 'tell

Love Island star Dejon Noel-Williams has hit out at 'untruths' as he continues to be the subject of criticism following his time in the Spanish villa with Megan Moore

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4 h. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Tesco shoppers 'hunt' for 'gorgeous' and 'amazing' £39.50 F&F jacket

Tesco shoppers are loving the "gorgeous" new jacket that's been a hit on Instagram

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5 h. ago Parts of England to hit 30C as fire crews travel across country to battle blaze

Heat health alerts were extended into next week for much of England.

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