41 m. ago BREAKING: Huge £20K reward in hunt for killers who shot dead dad in 'mistaken identity'

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59 m. ago Ospreys sign South African after Jac Morgan news as coach rues wasted derby chances

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60 m. ago Ousmane Dembélé quietly becomes the main man after long journey to the top

The Frenchman, who has been named the best male footballer in the world by the Guardian, has benefitted from PSG’s focus on the team rather than individualsWhat makes a good player great, and a great player the best? This question has been occupying me since 2014, when the Guardian first asked me to contribute to its inaugural Next Generation feature. My job was to look for a France-based talent born in 1997 who could go on to have a stellar career.After a great deal of research, I narrowed it down from my shortlist of five by asking questions not about the players’ football ability, but about other attributes: resilience, adaptability, decision-making, creativity, work ethic, response to feedback and willingness to learn. Qualities we cannot see, and are harder to measure. Continue reading...

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60 m. ago Horror deaths of prisoners deliberately infected with multiple diseases until they died

After a Human Experimentation Complex was uncovered, they discovered the brutal ways in which the facility killed and operated on people as a part of their twisted 'research'

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60 m. ago Secret horror lab facility where prisoners infected with deadly diseases and dissected while alive

Unit 731 was a secretive Japanese human experimentation complex during the Second World War, where prisoners were deliberately infected with multiple diseases until they died

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60 m. ago Horror jail where prisoners deliberately infected with deadly diseases and dissected while alive

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The Manchu Detachment 731 was a secret research facility operated by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War - and the horrors that took place there were truly gruesome

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60 m. ago Arsenal icon questions why Gunners' injury crisis worse than 'when we went out for beers'

EXCLUSIVE: Mikel Arteta is battling a defensive injury crisis which has been deepened by Ben White being the last casualty to the injury table despite all the investment in sports science in football

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1 hour ago Disney On Ice tickets for January and how to buy them for £64 each

Disney fans can see the ice-themed magical stories kicking off as soon as the end of the month.

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3 h. ago Myth about Rangers against Hearts met head on as Jury weighs in on three

The Hoops boss is under fire while Rangers are looking to get back in the title race and our jury debates the real SPOTY award

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4 h. ago Youth suicide campaigners suffer devastating blow as parliament rejects petition to teach prevention in schools

A key demand of the Record's Save Young Lives camapaign has been met with silence after the Scottish Parliament rejected a petition to make suicide awareness and prevention training mandatory, amid a worsening youth mental health crisis.

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7 h. ago Epstein files released: All the celebrities pictured from Michael Jackson to Mick Jagger

The Epstein files have finally been released and a number of high profile celebrities have been identified in pictures which have been shared by the Department of Justice

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7 h. ago ‘This is our church’: Bondi lifesavers gather in their hundreds to honour shooting victims

Arm in arm along the shoreline, locals observed two minutes’ silence in ‘cathartic’ effort to unite the communityVictims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – videoAs he stood silently facing the waves on the Bondi shoreline, arm in arm with nearly 1,000 other lifesavers, Lockie Cook let himself feel the pain of the community’s most traumatic week in living memory.“I feel like that guard’s just dropping,” he said. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Survivors of Epstein’s abuse condemn justice department for only partly releasing files

Lawyers for victims say they have been ‘repeatedly denied justice’ while deputy attorney general says more files will be releasedAnalysis: Trump over-promises and under-deliversRepresentatives for victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein condemned the US Department of Justice on Friday for only partially releasing investigative documents while at least one survivor said she felt “redeemed” by the documents.The documents were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the disclosures by 19 December. The law allows for records to be withheld if they threaten current investigations, disrupt national security or identify Epstein’s victims. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Liverpool: Arne Slot explains January transfer problem as budget revealed amid defensive crisis

Dutchman’s squad depth is thinner than he might like, but can he reinforce in January?

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10 h. ago Timothée Chalamet features on EsDeeKid song after months of speculation about rapper’s identity

Social media rumors had previously claimed that the actor and the underground British rapper were the same person

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10 h. ago Investment in data centers worldwide hit record $61bn in 2025, report finds

Analysts see ‘global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing’ amid surge in demand from AI boomA new report finds that investment in the worldwide data center market reached $61bn this year, setting a new record atop the wave of the artificial intelligence boom.The analysis by S&P Global, first reported by CNBC, documented what the market intelligence firm called a “global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing”, to build out the massive real estate, hardware, and energy requirements driven by insatiable demand from AI companies. S&P pegged 2024’s investment in the data center market at $60.8bn, just below the 2025 number. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Dad crushed to death by 95kg granite slabs that fell off lorry and landed on top of him

A WORKER has been crushed to death in a horrific workplace accident that saw heavy granite slabs fall on top of him. Steven White, 61, was killed while offloading two slabs at his job at Blyth Marble in Larkhall, Lanarkshire. The two hunks of stone, weighing a total of 95kgs, toppled over and crushed Steven...

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12 h. ago Man, 61, who drugged, raped & shared vile vids of wife with pervs jailed for 8 years in ‘Germany’s Gisele Pelicot’ case

A DEPRAVED German caretaker has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for several years and sharing footage of the vile abuse online. Fernando P, whose identity is protected under German privacy laws, has been convicted of carrying out the appalling assaults between 2018 and 2024. The 61-year-old...

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13 h. ago British DIY giant plunges into administration owing millions in debt with over 100 jobs axed

A BRITISH power-tool supplier has entered administration with 111 members of staff losing their jobs. The DIY giant Toolstream announced the news on December 11 and blamed challenging trading conditions left over from the COVID-19 global supply crisis. The southwest based importer and distributer of DIY tools said the limited stock availability had caused financial...

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13 h. ago Best man 'bites off wedding guest's finger like an animal' in horror attack

Best man Daniel Peasnell, 33, bit off the finger of a wedding guest after being ejected from The Perch pub in Binsey, Oxfordshire for a foul-mouthed rant at his then-girlfriend

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