5 d. ago One's behind the wheel... in heels! Kate leaves fans stunned with her down

Kate, who is patron of the Rugby Football Union, hosted a reception at Windsor Castle for the national team to celebrate their September 2025 achievement.

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5 d. ago Innovation and purpose win big at the 2025 AXA Startup Angel award night

From concussion-tracking wearables and eco-saving onion skins to toothpaste that makes brushing a game, the winners of this year’s AXA Startup Angel competition are purpose-led entrepreneurs proving that business can be bold, innovative and a force for change

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6 d. ago Trump to discuss Venezuela’s future with Machado after Maduro’s capture

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize winner had been sidelined by White House after US seized MaduroDonald Trump will host María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel peace prize winner, at the White House on Thursday for a high-stakes talks on the oil-rich nation’s future following the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.Many in Venezuela and abroad had expected Machado to take charge after an elite US military team seized Maduro in a pre-dawn raid on 3 January and transported him to a New York City jail. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago US carbon pollution rose in 2025. Experts blame cold winter, high natural gas prices, data centers

Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year

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9 d. ago 'One of the best shows in years' confirms thrilling update on second season

A Golden Globe award-winning new series from 2025 will be heading back into production very soon

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9 d. ago Chalamet a smash, Sinners shut out: the key Golden Globes snubs and surprises

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another looks unstoppable ahead of the Oscars, despite Timothée Chalamet’s triumph over Leonardo DiCaprio for best actorThe biggest backlash brewing concerns Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, lauded by critics and embraced – especially in the US – by audiences as one of 2025’s key cultural landmarks. The thriller did win two Globes – for cinematic and box office achievement and original score – but both wound up not really counting. The first is the Globes’s consolation prize (it was won by Barbie in 2023 and Wicked last year); the second wasn’t even broadcast on the telecast. Coogler missing out on screenplay to One Battle After Another was perceived by some as a slap in the face – the Oscars and Baftas separate the category into original and adapted, however, so a corrective could come. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tess Daly and Vernon Kay's family announcement after Strictly Come Dancing exit

Tess Daly hosted Strictly Come Dancing for over two decades but chose to leave alongside her co-host Claudia Winkleman at the end of 2025's series, with their final show airing on Christmas Day

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1 week ago Strictly champion Karen Carney gives 'life' update as she ditches UK after show win

The Lioness made history by winning the BBC One dance contest's 2025 series back in December

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1 week ago The5ers Wins “Best Funded Trading Service (B2C)” at Finance Magnates London Summit 2025

The5ers Wins “Best Funded Trading Service (B2C)” at Finance Magnates London Summit 2025  markets.businessinsider.com

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2 w. ago This £14 tinted moisturiser saved my winter skin and became my best beauty buy of 2025

I tested countless bases last year, but there's one I still keep coming back to, says our beauty lead

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2 w. ago My best beauty buy of 2025 was a tinted moisturiser that blurs skin and hides winter dryness

'It acts like a second moisturiser but gives great coverage'

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2 w. ago How Scandinavian clubs fell behind the WSL – can they regain lost ground?

Once they seemed an unstoppable force but a huge gap between the Nordic leagues and Europe’s elite has emerged in the past 20 yearsFor a brief period in the early 2000s, Scandinavian clubs seemed unstoppable in European women’s football. Umeå lifted the Uefa Women’s Cup in 2003 and again in 2004, using a blend of technical skill and tactical intelligence. The Swedish side were a powerhouse and attracted top talent from around the world, including Marta, widely regarded as the greatest ever female player.That dominance feels very distant. In 2025, a Norwegian, Swedish or Danish club winning the Women’s Champions League is almost unthinkable. Vålerenga were the only Scandinavian team to reach the Champions League league stage this season and they did not qualify for the knockout phase. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Key McLaren F1 signing arrives early from Red Bull ahead of 2026 season

McLaren agreed a deal back in 2024 ahead of their world championship-winning year in 2025

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2 w. ago Actor and writer Paterson Joseph: ‘Tilda Swinton asked me a question that changed everything that came next’

Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his ‘horrible’ Peep Show characterBorn in Willesden, north-west London, in 1964, Paterson Joseph is an actor and writer. A graduate of Lamda, he worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving into TV and film, with roles including Alan Johnson in Peep Show and Keaty in The Beach. He published his award-winning debut novel, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, in 2022. His children’s book, Ten Children Who Changed the World, is out now. Joseph is a judge for the debut fiction category of the 2025 Nero Book Awards. The winners will be announced on 13 January.This was taken by my sister Glenda, who had decided she wanted to get into hair and makeup. She was pulling together a portfolio and used me as a guinea pig, something my sisters had done since I was small. I was going for that slightly curmudgeonly old man express...

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2 w. ago ‘This is where it all started’: Nina Simone’s childhood home gets long

North Carolina home preserved to commemorate legendary musician and civil rights activist, and to serve as arts hubIt was a surreal experience for Dr Samuel Waymon, Nina Simone’s youngest sibling, to walk back into the renovated childhood home that he once shared with the singer and civil rights activist. On that day in the fall of 2025, Waymon, an 81-year-old award-winning composer, said that memories flooded back of him playing organ in the house and cooking on the potbelly stove with his mother as a child in Tryon, North Carolina. He was overjoyed to see the large tree from his youth still standing in the yard. Simone, born Eunice Waymon, lived in the 650 sq ft, three-room home with her family from 1933 to 1937.After sitting vacant and severely decayed for more than two decades, the recently restored home is now painted white, with elements of its former self sprinkled throughout the interior. On the freshly painted mint-blue wall hangs a shadow box that encases the rust brown va...

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2 w. ago The Guardian Footballer of the Year Jess Carter: ‘I remember not wanting to go out’

England defender publicly confronted racist abuse at the Euros and ended 2025 a title winner with club and countryThe Guardian Footballer of the Year is an award given to a player who has done something remarkable, whether by overcoming adversity, helping others or setting a sporting example by acting with exceptional honesty.Jess Carter has spent her life grappling with when to hold back and when to speak up; wrestling with being naturally herself, embodying the characteristics her parents instilled in her of being open, honest, vocal and confident, and subduing herself because, while society values those traits, in a black woman they can be viewed negatively. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Rodman’s future and Liverpool in need to buy – welcome to the women’s transfer window

With an unusually high number of elite-level players out of contract in 2026 it promises to be an intriguing JanuaryTransfer fees in women’s football have been rising at a rate of inflation that would cause anguish at the Bank of England. Last January alone, $5.8m (£4.3m) was spent in the women’s game globally and then a record $12.3m (£9.1m) was splashed in the 2025 summer transfer window, which was nearly twice as much as 12 months earlier and a four-fold increase on 2023. What can January 2026 possibly have in store?The upcoming winter window – which opens for English women’s clubs on 2 January and closes on 3 February – has already got off to a blockbuster start even before officially opening. The Germany striker Lea Schüller and Norway’s attacking midfielder Signe Gaupset are among those to have already signed for Women’s Super League clubs, but this is set to be a unique window for a different reason than merely the usual clamour for reinforcements. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Bellen d'Or 2025 winner revealed as Joey Barton, Jake Paul and Mo Salah battle for award

Daily Star Sport has picked the winner of the 2025 Bellen d'Or and who is following in the footsteps of past prize idiots such as Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Luis Rubiales and Gianni Infantino

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3 w. ago Greenwashing, illegality and false claims: 13 climate litigation wins in 2025

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plansThis year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris agreement. It is also a decade since another key moment in climate justice, when a state was ordered for the first time to cut its carbon emissions faster to protect its citizens from climate change. The Urgenda case, which was upheld by the Netherlands’ supreme court in 2019, was one of the first rumblings of a wave of climate litigation around the world that campaigners say has resulted in a new legal architecture for climate protection.Over the past 12 months, there have been many more important rulings and tangible changes on climate driven by legal action. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Strictly winner Karen Carney admits she'll 'never forget it' as Carlos Gu says she 'absolutely smashed it'

The pair were crowned the winners of the 2025 edition of the BBC dancing competition

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