4 h. ago 'I played Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars and what happened after was horrifying'

Ahmed Best played Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and was so relentlessly bullied for the role that he was driven to attempt suicide - now, he's making a triumphant return to the franchise

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27 h. ago Drinking white wine and eating more fruit ‘could reduce risk of cardiac arrest’

A cardiac arrest is an emergency medical situation that usually happens without warning.

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67 h. ago Tackle vile 'pimping websites' and rip up outdated prostitution laws, MPs demand

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi warned sex trafficking on so-called 'pimping websites' is happening on an 'unimaginable scale' as calls grow for paying for sex to be criminalised

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68 h. ago US trade deal isn't certain to happen, Labour frontbencher warns after crunch talks

Pat McFadden said he was 'hopeful' that a trade deal could be reached with Donald Trump's White House, but said it was not certain after crunch talks in Washington DC

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5 d. ago In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore

In its second season, what happens in the acclaimed Star Wars thriller is hard to separate from what’s happening in Gaza nowIn the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media, which instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met with violent suppression.Andor goes there. And when it does, Star Wars fans will be forced to reckon with how this story isn’t about what happens “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”. It’s about what’s unfolding right now in Gaza. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckageSamantha thought of her partner as the most progressive man she had ever had a relationship with. Her Swedish boyfriend seemed, to her, more feminist than many British men she had dated.“I never had to ask him to clear up,” she says. “All our labour was shared. He had done therapy. He was happy to talk about his emotions.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago BRIAN VINER reviews Warfare: Brutal but brilliant, Alex Garland's film tells a terrifying battle story in real time

Alex Garland's Warfare, unfolding in real time, tells the story of what happened after a team of US Navy SEALs on a reconnaissance mission occupied a house in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

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1 week ago Global economic growth will slow amid Trump tariffs, IMF warns – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as ECB reduces main interest rate from 2.5% to 2.25%, the seventh cut in a yearTrump attacks Fed chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest ratesECB cuts rates for third time this year as Europe braces for Trump tariffsDonald Trump is awake. And he has strongly criticised monetary policy by the Federal Reserve, saying the end of Jerome Powell’s tenure as chair “cannot come fast enough”.In a post on Truth Social, the social network he owns, Trump said that Powell had been too slow to cut interest rates – contrasting its hesistance because of perceived inflationary pressures with the European Central Bank (ECB).The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!” Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. ...

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1 week ago People over 60 warned they face big tax bill on pension and 'it's happening quietly'

'Many older people will just receive a letter or notice a tax code change, with no idea why they’re suddenly being taxed on their pension income'

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1 week ago What happens next after judge warns of possible contempt prosecution over deportation flights order

A federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration appears to have willfully violated his order to turn around planes of migrants headed for El Salvador increases the prospect of officials being held in criminal contempt of court and potentially facing possible prosecution

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2 w. ago Trump claims 'if Zelensky was competent' the war in Ukraine would not have happened and says 'I'm not saying anyone's an angel, but it wasn't a question for Putin' during his presidency

Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine, before implying the Russian leader never would have invaded if he had been in power.

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2 w. ago Warning bin strikes could happen across UK as union talks collapse

Rubbish has been piling up on the city’s streets for several weeks as union pay dispute continues

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2 w. ago Shocking lightning strike wipes out five students in weather terror caught on camera

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The shocking lightning strike happened at Teerthanker Mahaveer University in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Thursday, April 10

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2 w. ago Judas Priest star Les Binks dies aged 73 as band pays tribute to 'first

Rock legend Les Binks, who was the drummer in metal band Judas Priest, has died at the age of 73, with the band celebrating his "first class" drumming in a tribute online

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2 w. ago Trump blames Zelensky for Ukrainian war saying he and 'crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin'

Taking to his Truth Social platform, the US President claimed he prevented the war from happening during his four year term, pinning the chaos on the former president Joe Biden .

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2 w. ago Why UK Government stepped in to save British Steel but didn't keep Port Talbot blast furnaces going

The UK government has been accused of 'double standards' and has been warned that the people of Wales will not forget what has happened

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2 w. ago Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi

What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize itWhere do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a deportation list. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being snatched off the street and stuck in a detention centre.I don’t know where to start and I don’t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of ...

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2 w. ago Made in Chelsea's Binky Felstead causes affordable M&S lace trouser co

Former Made in Chelsea star Binky Felstead is introducing us to our new favourite M&S find of the season

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2 w. ago Cardiff Rugby stalwarts speak out on crisis club and warn 'this cannot happen again'

The Arms Park outfit announced its intent to enter administration before the WRU stepped in to buy it

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3 w. ago Jude Bellingham issues warning to Arsenal after Real Madrid collapse: 'Crazy things can happen'

Bellingham says Real Madrid ‘are lucky’ to only be three goals down after a nightmare night at Emirates Stadium

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