2 h. ago What happened to Jim Chapman and Tanya Burr's missing dog: Everything you need to know

Jim Chapman and Tanya Burr called their 15-year relationship quits in 2019, but fans have been adamant to know what happened to their dog Martha – a mystery that's now been solved

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2 h. ago The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis

Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish lifeIn 1948, the German Jewish author Gabriele Tergit travelled to Berlin. There, in ruins, was the city in which she was born and grew up, reported on, then chronicled in fiction. Tergit had been one of the shining lights of interwar Berlin’s flourishing journalistic scene; she had also married into one of the city’s most prominent Jewish families. In 1931 her debut novel announced her as a literary phenomenon.Then the Nazis came to power. Tergit was on an enemies list. She fled, first to Czechoslovakia, then to Palestine, and finally to London, where she lived from 1938 until her death in 1982. Never again did she call Berlin home. When she visited after the war, she found no real place in the conservative postwar German literary world – and no real audience for The Effingers, her newly completed magnum opus. A versio...

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3 h. ago Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources

Concerns over recording of meetings at coordination centre excluding Palestinians that was set up to provide support for Trump’s Gaza planIsraeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions.The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Being together helps us with our grief, Southport families say

BBC Breakfast journalists have been following the families for the last nine months as part of a documentary.

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3 h. ago Prince Harry’s UK security under government review, reports say

Home Office has reportedly ordered threat assessment amid long-running row into Duke of Sussex’s safetyPrince Harry’s security arrangements while in the UK are being reviewed by the government, according to reports.Harry wrote to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, shortly after her appointment and submitted a formal request for a risk assessment to the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec), which is overseen by the Home Office, a source close to the prince said in October. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago The Curious Case of Mike Lynch by Katie Prescott review – the extraordinary story behind the Bayesian tragedy

A meticulously researched account of the controversial businessman’s rise and shocking demiseAt least two terrible ironies surround the death of Mike Lynch. One lies in the name of his superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of 19 August 2024. He had named the boat Bayesian to honour Bayes’s theorem, a mathematical rule that helps you weigh up the probability of something given the available evidence, which served as Lynch’s guiding light over the course of a tempestuous career. The theorem was “a beautiful key to our minds”, Lynch believed. But it was entirely incapable of predicting the outcome that morning, when the yacht capsized during a storm, killing seven people, including Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and his US lawyer, Chris Morvillo.A second irony lies in the fact that Lynch had just come through the trial of his life, one he felt was bound to end in jail, where he thought he could die. Somehow, to everyone’s astonishment, an American ju...

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4 h. ago ‘When the church door opens, it’s like a miracle’: the phone app that’s a key to Italy’s religious art

A cultural initiative in Piedmont is unlocking a trove of priceless medieval frescoes in rural churchesThe Santa Maria di Missione chapel in Villafranca Piemonte, northern Italy, stands at the end of a long cornfield. Behind it, the mountains rise gently, their outlines caressed by the sun. The colours of autumn frame the 15th-century frescoes that embellish the structure’s interior, painted by Italian artist Aimone Duce, of the Lombard school. The chapel is the municipality’s oldest religious building, serving about 4,000 inhabitants, and stands on the site of a pre-existing building dating back to 1037.Inside the small chapel, my footsteps echo softly against the walls, breaking the stillness of the surrounding countryside. The sharp scent of plaster mingles with the earthy smell of the fields outside, carried in on the wind along with the sweetness of wheat. Light filters through the narrow windows, catching the vivid hues of a fresco that depicts the seven deadly ...

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5 h. ago 'I splashed out a Shark gadget that sucks up carpet stains from my pet'

'I found it to be light to carry around and super handy, as well as space-saving'

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6 h. ago ‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth

He is the prickly, hotheaded journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Making Cover-Up, a film about his astonishing life and countless scoops, was never going to be easyOne morning last month, Seymour Hersh set off to buy a newspaper. The reporter walked for 30 minutes, covered six blocks of his neighbourhood, Georgetown in Washington DC, and didn’t see a single sign of life. No newsstands on street corners selling the glossies and the dailies. No self-service kiosk where you can slide in a dollar and pull out a paper. “Finally, I found a drugstore that had two copies of the New York Times in the back,” Hersh recalls. He bought one for himself. He can’t help but wonder whether anybody bought the second.Hersh was born in Chicago in 1937, the year the Hindenburg airship blew up and the aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific. That makes him a man of hot metal, the media’s ancient mariner, with metaphorical newsprint on his f...

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6 h. ago Whistleblower felt 'dismissed' after complaining about Labour MSP's links with sex offender

EXCLUSIVE: Emails obtained by the Record show concerns were raised with Labour nearly one month ago about Pam Duncan-Glancy's continued friendship with disgraced Sean Morton.

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9 h. ago Businesswoman accused of killing two schoolgirls with poisoned chocolate raspberries after 'secret affair'

Zulma Guzmán Castro is wanted in 196 countries for allegedly poisoning two teenagers after having a relationship with the dad of one of the girls. She denies the charges against her

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10 h. ago Ed Sheeran defends writing brutally honest songs about his relationship with wife Cherry Seaborn

Ed Sheeran has defended writing brutally honest songs about his relationship with wife Cherry Seaborn - after rumours of marital strife between the pair began circulating.

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12 h. ago Rod Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster in tears as he makes moving marriage revelation

The 80 year-old rocker recalled how their relationship was almost stopped in its tracks after they first met

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13 h. ago Packers v Bears, Cardinals v Rams, Bills defeat Bengals in thriller: NFL week 14 – live

Steelers edge Ravers in key AFC North matchGet in touch with Graham via emailIt’s GOOD! Ravens 3-0 Steelers 10:58, 1st quarterTyler Loop boots one from 36 yards to give the Ravens an early lead in the battle for the AFC North. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Liverpool 'decide Mohamed Salah's punishment' as Anfield chiefs make Arne Slot call

Mohamed Salah has spoken out on his fractured relationship with Liverpool head coach Arne Slot after being benched for three successive games, with major doubt over his squad involvement

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13 h. ago Nigerian state secures release of 100 out of 265 kidnapped schoolchildren

Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappingsNigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear.In November 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool future in doubt as Arne Slot faces Inter decision

Forward may be dropped from Champions League squadSaudi clubs set to renew interest during transfer window Mohamed Salah could be omitted from Liverpool’s Champions League trip to Milan to play Inter on Tuesday after his outspoken attack on the club and Arne Slot.Salah’s future at Anfield is in question after the incendiary interview he gave at Leeds on Saturday, in which he accused the club of throwing him under a bus. The 33-year-old also claimed he no longer has a relationship with Slot, who omitted the forward from his starting lineup for a third game in succession. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Edinburgh Rugby reaction: Young duo shine, home record in tact, Everitt verdict on flashpoint

Head coach proud of landmark win over French giants

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14 h. ago Kate Middleton's 'juggle behind closed doors' as royal expert lifts lid on royal's homelife

Royal experts say Kate is a guiding light to her three children, George, Charlotte and Louis, and that behind closed doors she's a normal mum wearing 'flat pumps and no make-up'

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15 h. ago Urgent hunt for two men who 'ran into river after crashing car while fleeing police'

Patrol officers attempted to stop a car that was being driven with a defective rear light for a routine check on Friday night. The vehicle failed to stop and after a short pursuit crashed into a wall.

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