68 m. ago Victoria Beckham reunites with Spice Girls as band begin mysterious new project

The Spice Girls have announced their first official reunion since 2012 as all five original members gear up for a secretive new project that could hint at a permanent reunion

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87 m. ago My hell at the hands of Hamas torturers: I was stripped, hung upside down, whipped, forced to squat for 24 hours and told I'd be made to watch my mother and sister raped

Moumen al-Natour, a Gaza lawyer and co-founder of the anti-Hamas protest movement 'We Want to Live', has been arrested 20 times and tortured for his anti-government activism.

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88 m. ago Drug dealer stabbed girlfriend 18 times while wearing a bulletproof vest

Michael Ormandy met Rebekah Campbell in an Irish bar just months before he killed her.

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1 hour ago Jewish man questioned by police in London for 'antagonising' Palestine protesters by wearing Star of David

The man, in his 40s, was arrested at around 7pm on August 29 during a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington

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2 h. ago Apollo Global chief says Europe ‘at war with itself’ over finance regulation

Marc Rowan tells FT that regulators have yet to catch up with political drive to boost competitiveness

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2 h. ago What is happening with Kobbie Mainoo as private Man Utd behaviour says it all

Kobbie Mainoo has endured a difficult start to the season at Manchester United and has been frozen out by Ruben Amorim, but the 20-year-old is not giving up on his World Cup dream

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2 h. ago 'My sister put dead husband's ashes in tub but one object appeared out of nowhere'

The man was left perplexed after he noticed something sitting in the small container which held his late brother-in-law's ashes but people seem to have a theory

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2 h. ago Inside dream Greater Manchester house with its own bar and stunning garden selling for £1 million

This bespoke five-bed family home has come on the market in Bury and is an 'absolute gem'

Economics

3 h. ago John Wayne's WWII epic called 'better than Saving Private Ryan' is airing for free today

One of John Wayne's most iconic films is available to watch for free on the BBC from later today

Economics

3 h. ago ‘Rashford is a role model for me’: Abu Kamara’s journey from Hull to La Liga

Winger comes up against Real Madrid on Sunday after ‘a low-key friendly’ earned a dream loan move to GetafeA 0-0 draw is seen by 3,918 people and described by the club’s own website as “a low-key friendly”. With players’ shouts echoing off 21,668 empty seats one early August afternoon, Hull City versus Getafe Club de Fútbol was nothing to write home about. Unless of course you’re Abu Kamara: in which case, that is exactly what it was and now, two months on, he’s smiling. “I didn’t even score but I’m guessing I had a decent game,” the England Under-20 winger says. “Because if not, I don’t think they would just come up to anyone and say: ‘Do you like the idea of playing in La Liga?’”Did he ever. “At the end of the game, the sports scientist Javi [Vidal], and the technical director, Gonzalo [Fernández], came up to me and asked,” Kamara recalls. “I said: ‘Yeah, I’d be down for it.’ It’s a big league, so I take it as a massive compliment. I went back into the changing room, spoke to my f...

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3 h. ago Israel identifies body of 11th hostage from Gaza amid ceasefire tensions

Israeli military says it has remains of Ronen Engel, one of two bodies returned by Hamas late on SaturdayIsrael’s military has identified one of two dead hostages returned by Hamas, amid ongoing tensions over the Gaza ceasefire and a dispute over the reopening of the Rafah border crossing to allow in more aid.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early on Sunday it had told the family of hostage Ronen Engel that his remains had been returned. The 54-year-old was killed during the 7 October attacks at Nir Oz kibbutz and his body was taken into Gaza. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Bolivia to vote in presidential runoff that will turn it to the right

End of almost two decades of leftist rule could revive ‘war on drugs’ in change of approach to coca cultivationBolivians go to the polls on Sunday in an election that, whatever the result, will mark a complete shift to the right after nearly 20 years under the rule of the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).The country’s first-ever presidential runoff pits the centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, who won the first round in August, against the rightwing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, 65, who in recent weeks has overtaken Paz Pereira in the polls. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago A father returns from Israeli detention to find Gaza and his family shattered

Released from Israeli detention after 20 months, 45-year-old Mohammed Abu Moussa is overwhelmed as he returns to Gaza and reunites with his family

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5 h. ago ‘Why are our black boys hurting each other?’ Letitia Wright on the deaths that inspired her directorial debut

The Black Panther star made her name with intense roles in indie films before Marvel came calling. Now she’s telling her own stories, starting with a cast of ‘young kings’Days before we meet, Letitia Wright found herself cheek-by-jowl with a far-right march in London. This is the year when St George’s flags have been displayed in suburban windows and tied to lamp-posts, and when thousands of people – some more intimidating than others, especially to people of colour – have marched on the centre of the capital and beyond. A friend of Wright’s was visiting the city, and they had moseyed down to the South Bank, unaware of what awaited them. “It was jam-packed,” she says, recalling their struggle to get out of the fray. “I  was in the middle of it, and then I was out of it. They were doing their thing – and I was doing mine.”The actor has played refugees twice: once in the BBC Three drama Glasgow Girls, where she portrayed a Somali teenager, Amal, and then in the 2022 film Aisha, w...

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5 h. ago I want to marry my girlfriend, but I’m worried it may upset my young son

You are entitled to a relationship. Just make sure your son knows he won’t be loved any less and your girlfriend won’t replace his motherI am a 44-year-old man, with a seven-year-old son. His mother and I are divorced, and I moved out when he was three. We share custody; he is with me three days/nights a week – including part of the weekend. He is doing well at school and has varied interests. He is a very happy child and the most precious thing to me.I have been in a steady relationship with a remarkable woman for three years. She and my son get along beautifully; he looks forward to seeing her and she loves him very much. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Cameron Crowe on music, movies and the tragedy that shaped him: ‘I thought writing about it would cause too much pain’

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ has written a memoir about his extraordinary life on the road as a 15-year-old journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. He speaks to Adam White about early success, his surprising love of ‘We Bought a Zoo’, and his bittersweet reunion with David Bowie

Culture

5 h. ago ‘Am I going to heaven, chat?’: SNL’s Trump stops by teen podcast to ramble about No Kings, war and George Santos

SNL lampoons president’s decision to commute the prison sentence of disgraced congressman

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6 h. ago My dad cursed our family and left us. But after his death, he followed me everywhere | Jonas Hassen Khemiri

His absence shaped me. But as my father lay dying in a Stockholm nursing home, I longed to hear him explainMy father died nine months ago and last night he drove me home in a taxi.We knew something was wrong when my father stopped taking his insulin and started leaving his flat at night without his shoes because there were “people in the plants” and the floor was made of “muddy water”. After several tests, he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which causes hallucinations and a rapid decline in cognition.Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish novelist and playwright. His most recent novel, The Sisters, is his first written originally in English Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Should friendship really be a ‘one strike and you’re out’ deal?

The idea of ditching friends if they err has become more and more popular in the last few years. But it’s important to recognise our own failings ...There aren’t many experiences in life that feel the same at six as they do at 60. Where, even if you’ve advanced in wisdom as well as age and can intellectualise the circumstances and better disguise your pain, the raw emotion is identical. However, being left out by your friends hurts just as much when you’re an adult as it did when you were a kid in the playground.An old lady – her words – Mumsnet message board contributor posted an impassioned plea for advice this week, after her girl squad – not her words – began chatting about the theatre season tickets they had bought. This was the first she’d heard of it. Continue reading...

Economics

7 h. ago The unfulfilled dream of the 'most radical' UK building planned for Cardiff

It was considered the most imaginative decision possible but it didn't materialise and ended up being built thousands of miles away instead

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