8 h. ago Hegseth stumbles his way through drone video with Metallica track playing in the background

Watch Pete Hegseth in an awkward drone video as he issues a new directive aimed at increasing the US’ arsenal of unmanned aerial systems, all while Metallica plays in the background.

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1 week ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Raducanu eases through, Alcaraz survives huge scare, and more – live

British hopefuls Kartal, Tarvet and Fery advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz survives huge scare, Raducanu in action, and more – live

British hopefuls Kartal, Tarvet and Fery advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman admits letting child under 10 drive car barefoot through dark village

Sophie-Leigh Gemmell, 32, from Crimond, Aberdeenshire, let a child under 10 drive a motor vehicle as she was seen peering over the steering wheel as music played in the background

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1 week ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz in action, Sabalenka wins but Medvedev out – live

British hopefuls Kartal and Tarvet advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz and Sabalenka in action, Kartal and Tarvet win – live

Kartal stuns Ostapenko, world No 733 Tarvet advancesEmail John! | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wimbledon 2025: Kartal stuns Ostapenko; Alcaraz, Sabalenka and Raducanu in day one action – live

The first round matches get under way at SW19Email Michael | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brighton’s transfer push backed by ‘physicality’ and cutting

Tony Bloom has already bought three players this summer and can act quickly thanks to in-depth background researchIt may not have been Tony Bloom’s week at Ascot for once but at least the Brighton owner could console himself by securing yet another signing for his football team before the summer solstice was here.Confirmation of the Italy Under-21s defender Diego Coppola’s arrival on the south coast as Lake Forest finished a disappointing fifth in the Queen Anne Stakes took Brighton’s buys to three and the club are expected to announce any day that Olivier Boscagli is joining on a free from PSV Eindhoven. In with Coppola, who has joined from Verona, have come Sunderland’s 19-year-old playoff hero, Tommy Watson, for £10m and the Greece Under-21s striker Charalampos Kostoulas for £30m. Talk about getting your business done early. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago From tradwife to radwife: abandoning perfection in favour of the ‘good enough’ life

No they don’t cook from scratch, sometimes forget the sunscreen and often miss work deadlines, but at least their kids are wearing secondhand clothes Meet the new gen of radically normal mumsMost mornings, I’m woken at 6am by my alarm (the baby crawling on to my head). I stretch, go downstairs, fill a bowl with iced water and, the theme of Transformers playing in the background, write my journal (a list of emails-I-forgot-to-reply-to). I drink hot water with cider vinegar to regulate my blood sugar levels, followed by tea using the baby’s leftover milk. Dragging a chilled jade gua sha spoon across my face in an attempt to reverse the ageing process, I then make my young sons’ porridge. While they eat, I plunge my face into the iced water until I can’t breathe, and begin my three-step routine (two La Roche-Posay serums followed by SPF). Some mornings, I run. Others, I cry into a coffee, albeit one made with organic milk, before taking a mushroom gummy to take the edge off the da...

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4 w. ago Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance

Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murderPat O’Connor’s Northern Irish movie from 1984, adapted by author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, holds up very well for its rerelease; better in fact than most of the movies and TV drama made about and during the Troubles. It has an unhurried, thoughtful and very human quality; Helen Mirren won the best actress award at Cannes for her performance here and in fact it is very well acted across the board by a blue-chip cast.Mirren plays Marcella, a woman from a Catholic background, married across the sectarian divide to a reserve police officer murdered at his parents’ farmhouse by an IRA man who had bullied a bewildered local guy into being his getaway driver; this is Cal, played by the gauntly intense John Lynch. Cal lives with his widowed father; a gentle performance by Donal McCann, who was Gabriel Conroy in John Huston’s...

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