84 m. ago Gangster who 'ordered hit' on popular musician reveals chilling reason 'why he paid to have the star shot 24 times'

In the latest turn of events, BBC Eye contacted the gangster who claimed to order the murder of Indian rapper Sidhu Moose Wala in Punjab to ask him about the death.

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92 m. ago Kirsty Coventry is now the most powerful person in sport and faces a bulging in

Successor to Thomas Bach is already making a positive impression and displaying a more human approachA new day has broken, has it not? For several reasons, Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory speech comes to mind on what will be a historic and symbolic day for sport. Because in Lausanne on Monday, after plenty of handshakes and platitudes, the 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry will become the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year-old history.It has been, by any measure, a dizzying ascent. In 2016, Coventry stepped out of an Olympic pool for the final time in Rio. Now, nine years later, she is the most powerful person in sport. Yet as she takes charge, there are some who suspect that the new dawn will look rather like the old one – and that her predecessor, Thomas Bach, and his administration, will remain puppet masters behind the throne. Continue reading...

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93 m. ago When is Jake Paul fight? Date, UK time and stream for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fight

The 'Problem Child' returns to the ring for the first time since November this weekend - but he faces a potential tough night at the office against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr

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99 m. ago Fern Britton makes admission about time on This Morning with Phillip Schofield after 'mixed emotions'

The pair spent a number of years hosting the ITV show together

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1 hour ago Mounjaro: GPs are allowed to prescribe weight loss jab for first time from today

Around 220,000 people with ‘greatest need’ are expected to receive Mounjaro over the next three years

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2 h. ago Oil prices surge as Iran maintains threat to close global shipping route after Trump bombed its nuclear facilities

Brent crude futures were up $1.52 or 1.97 per cent to $78.53 a barrel as of 6am UK time. US West Texas Intermediate crude advanced $1.51 or 2.04 per cent to $75.35.

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2 h. ago 3 emerging Celtic transfer headlines as Benjamin Nygren timeline and contract details revealed

The Hoops have already brought in Kieran Tierney and Ross Doohan as they look to add further reinforcements.

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2 h. ago Murder investigation launched after death of man found 'unresponsive'

A man and two women have been arrested

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2 h. ago ‘It’s Frozen times 10’: Disney’s Hercules musical goes from zero to hero on the West End

As Disney prepares to launch its next juggernaut musical, Isobel Lewis speaks to the creatives and cast about the herculean task of translating the Greek myth cartoon to the stage – and why being faithful to the source material isn’t always the way to go

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2 h. ago Inside tiny country frozen in time 'that doesn't exist' 3 hours from UK

An eerie relic of the Soviet Union, this separatist region filled with Lenin statues and Putin souvenirs declared independence back in 1990 - but is internationally not recognised as an actual country

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3 h. ago Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached rhetoric and bloody reality widensSince the war on Gaza started, the defining dynamic has been of unprecedented anger, panic and alarm from the public, swirling around an eerily placid political centre. The feeble response from mainstream liberal parties is entirely dissonant with the gravity of the moment. As the US joins Israel in attacking Iran, and the Middle East heads toward a calamitous unravelling, their inertness is more disorienting than ever. They are passengers in Israel’s war, either resigned to the consequences or fundamentally unwilling to even question its wisdom. As reality screams at politicians across the west, they shuffle papers and reheat old rhetoric, all while deferring to an Israel and a White House that have long taken leave of their senses.At a time of extreme geopolitical risk the centre presents itself as the wise party in the fracas,...

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3 h. ago ‘It’s Frozen times 10’: Disney’s Hercules musical goes from from zero to hero on the West End

As Disney prepares to launch its next juggernaut musical, Isobel Lewis speaks to the creatives and cast about the herculean task of translating the Greek myth cartoon to the stage – and why being faithful to the source material isn’t always the way to go

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3 h. ago Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his greatest masterpiece – and now is the time to see it

Critically lambasted on its release, and so commercially unsuccessful that the filmmaker signed onto ‘The Shining’ for an easy box-office win, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an often misunderstood classic

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4 h. ago ‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous fatherIf you had wandered the set of the film M3gan 2.0 last year, chances are you would have stumbled into M3gan, the terrifying humanoid doll, staring lifelessly while she waited to be called for her next scene. Sometimes she would stand in the corner of the soundstage, says Allison Williams with a nervy laugh. “The dilemma is: do you turn her around so she’s facing the wall, or do you let her face the room? Both answers are wrong.”In the sequel to the sci-fi horror M3gan, Williams resumes her role as Gemma, a roboticist who has become a crusader against rampant and reckless AI development after her creation – developed for her orphaned niece – became murderous. (She is also a producer on the second film.) Continue reading...

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4 h. ago ‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions?

Scientists fear thousands of tonnes of chemicals dumped in mining tunnels in Alsace may seep into an aquifer, with devastating consequences for people and wildlifeEight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts, some modern-looking office buildings, a staff car park, lines of landscaped trees. The reason for the police presence, however, is what lies beneath: 42,000 tonnes of toxic waste stored under our feet.Stocamine, which lies in the old industrial town of Wittelsheim, Alsace, once held an old potash mine. Now, the mine shafts are closed, storing poisonous waste from elsewhere. Above the mine shafts is one of Europe’s largest aquifers. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs

Anyone for tennis? An insider guide to London’s new wave of social clubs  Financial Times

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5 h. ago Dear Coleen: 'Eaten up with guilt over sleeping with my brother's wife'

We haven’t spoken a word about it since, but we have to see each other at family events and things are tense between us. My brother still has no idea that anything happened.

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5 h. ago Almost 500 Police Scotland officers and staff currently on long

The figures released under Freedom of Information come at a time of increasing violence towards officers.

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5 h. ago Child killer Nyomi Fee slammed by partner in crime from behind bars

Rachel Trelfa and Fee were convicted of murdering Trelfa's son Liam who suffered fatal heart injuries similar to those found on road crash victims.

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5 h. ago Scots woman 'tortured' by thought relatives knew more about mum's murder

Gina McGavin thinks others may have known more than they let on about the murder of her mother Mary McLaughlin.

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