53 m. ago Trump says he is suing Perkins Coie law firm after it filed suit against executive order – live

US president claims he is suing law firm for ‘egregious and unlawful acts’ Nato secretary general Mark Rutte will visit the US and meet the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, according to a media notice shared by the military alliance’s press office.Rutte will visit the US on 24 and 25 April. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe | Adrian Chiles

These noisy, filthy, feral creatures make my life a misery. Is there really no way to get rid of them?Pigeons. Appalling things. I looked them up on the bird charity RSPB’s website and snorted when I came across the Where to See section. The answer is, just so you know, everywhere. Perhaps not so much outside towns and cities but in urban areas you’re never far from the sight and sound of the bloody things. If, unaccountably, you’re not familiar with this species, do feel free to get in touch and come round to my place and observe them at your leisure.Truly they are the soundtrack of my life. For years they’ve been getting into a drainage channel on the roof. Morning, noon and night they scratch and coo and jump about. The racket is infernal. I lie in bed reflecting on the filth in that gulley just above my head. I know it’s filthy, because when there’s heavy rain their revolting detritus washes down and blocks the downpipe. I have to pull their unspeakable waste out of the pipe bef...

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54 m. ago BBC presenter Seema Jaswal opens up on heartbreaking moment she stepped in to hug snooker star John Higgins as he broke down in tears on live TV

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: The moment of the World Snooker Championship so far has not been an epic encounter on the table - but an emotional embrace on TV.

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55 m. ago Dog owners say their bond with their pet is more satisfying than with their partner

Having control without negatives is why many people rate relationship with canine pet, researchers say

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64 m. ago Thunderbolts star Florence Pugh admits she is feeling the pressure of new Marvel role

Florence Pugh has admitted she feels “a lot of pressure” over her role in Marvel’s new film Thunderbolts.

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71 m. ago Warma UK secures important solar installation contract with Crown Estate Scotland

Renewable energy specialists Warma UK has been awarded a new contract by Crown Estate Scotland to install solar energy systems across its rural estate as part of the Solar North Phase 1 programme.

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72 m. ago SpudBros' amazing surprise for young fan waiting in queue leaves people with tears in their eyes

Fans of the Preston-based Spud Brothers have praised owners for a 'wholesome' gesture.

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72 m. ago Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with people who ‘don’t have his interests at heart’ as Pentagon infighting escalates

‘A lot of people [are] trying to assert dominance in an area where it’s very hard to do without cutting somebody else’

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73 m. ago Benson Boone hits out at critics for hating him for no ‘good reason’

The award-winning singer has been acclaimed by Sir Brian May and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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74 m. ago Wednesday season 2: Official teaser trailer, cast and release date

The new season is coming this summer

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74 m. ago Police hunt female Newcastle United fan after male supporter has ear bitten and is headbutted while celebrating cup win

Police have released CCTV images of a woman after a man was headbutted and had his ear bitten as fans celebrated Newcastle United's Carabao Cup victory

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75 m. ago Terrifying interactive map shows England and Wales' stalking hotspots

Younger people, particularly younger women and girls, are more likely to victims of stalking in the UK - with one area topping the list for the most number of offences

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76 m. ago Emma Raducanu vs Suzan Lamens LIVE: Raducanu leads after winning first

Raducanu returns to action after producing a brilliant run at the Miami Open last month

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76 m. ago American Music Awards: Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with 10 nominations

Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, and Shaboozey round out the top five artists with the most nominations

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77 m. ago A dwarf crocodile carried home by a hunter: Thomas Nicolon’s best photograph

‘As a species, these crocs are easy to find and easy to catch. Brice Itoua is the most skilled hunter in his village. But they kill the crocs to eat – not to sell’The Congo dwarf crocodile is a lovely species. They’re very shy and, unfortunately, very easy to find and catch. Mostly hunted for their bushmeat, these crocs only grow up to a few feet in length and during the dry season, they often spend the daytime hiding in burrows and dens at the water’s edge. Hunters use a long, woody liana vine with a hook on the end to drag them out, before binding their snout with a shorter vine and carrying them away.Last summer, I shot a story about the Congo dwarf crocodile after being given access to the Lake Télé Community Reserve by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which manages this protected area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Congolese government. Continue reading...

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77 m. ago Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia

Designers have long used nostalgia as a narrative device – but how does it reflect our own relationship with games?I finished Lost Records: Bloom and Rage several days ago, but I’m still thinking about it. Developed by Don’t Nod, the creator of the successful Life Is Strange series, it’s a narrative adventure about four girls in a town in Wyoming, who meet one summer, form a band, discover a strange supernatural force in the woods and then meet up 30 years later to dissect what exactly happened to them. It is about growing up, growing apart and processing trauma, seen through a nostalgic lens. We meet the lead characters as adults, and join them as they scour their shared past, revisiting old places – a shack in the woods, their teenage bedrooms, the local bar – and exhuming old feelings. Lost Records has an excellent feel for the mid-90s when the girls were 16: you can explore rooms and pick up artefacts such as game carts, diaries and mixtapes and, if you were around at the time, ...

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77 m. ago Trans musician Bells Larsen was forced to cancel his US tour: ‘My livelihood has been robbed’

The Canadian singer-songwriter is releasing an album about his transition. Trump’s ‘dehumanizing’ new passport rules mean he won’t perform it for US fansBells Larsen knew that releasing a low-fi, folksy album about his transition as the Trump administration relentlessly attacked LGBTQ+ people would give it an inherently political edge. But the Canadian singer-songwriter did not expect to be caught in a bureaucratic nightmare while attempting to tour the US – and ultimately have to cancel that tour due to the gender marker in his passport.On 12 April, Larsen announced on Instagram that he was pulling out of concerts to promote the album in eight cities this spring: “To put it super plainly, because I’m trans (and have an M on my passport), I can’t tour in the States,” he wrote. Continue reading...

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77 m. ago Faith Kipyegon’s audacious bid to be first woman to run sub four

Olympic champion to ‘push boundaries and dream big’Milestone ‘within reach’ despite ‘impossible’ challengeIt remains one of the most enduring images in the history of sport: Sir Roger Bannister collapsing at the finish after becoming the first person to shatter the four-minute-mile barrier. Since that day in 1954, when Bannister achieved a feat many had thought was impossible, just over 2,000 others have followed in his footsteps – all of them men.But the pages of history could soon be freshly rewritten after the Olympic 1500m champion, Faith Kipyegon, and her sponsors Nike, announced plans “to make the impossible possible” again by becoming the first woman to run a sub-four-minute mile this summer. Continue reading...

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77 m. ago Toby Jones' thriller hailed 'better than Hitchcock' but viewers have one complaint

Kaleidoscope, directed by Rupert Jones, is a British film that hit the screens in 2016 and focuses on the psychology of an ex-convict, played by the director's brother, Toby Jones

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80 m. ago The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all formsEverything about the papacy is cinematic – especially picking a new one, as shown in the wildly popular movie Conclave, with Ralph Fiennes as an unwilling contender for the top job. There is the mystery, the ritual, the vestments; the spectacle of a lone, fragile human being poised over an abyss of history and good and evil; the elevation of one flawed man to a position of supreme authority, an exaltation whose parallel to the crucifixion is sensed but not acknowledged.Discussing the onscreen representation of the pope in Conclave would risk the blasphemy of spoilerism but there have been many popes on screen, some cheekily fictional, many factual. Many a heavyweight British thesp has turned in a gamey cameo as some hooded-eyed Renaissance pontiff. Peter O’Toole was the lizardly and capricious Paul III in TV’s The Tudors (2007), pre...

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