1 hour ago Woman who says smear test saved her life urges others not to delay screening

Gayle Maxwell, who was diagnosed with cancer aged 39 in 2015, is sharing her story as part of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.

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2 h. ago Spain train crash UPDATES as 21 dead and over 100 injured after high

Hundreds have been injured, with many others still trapped as the horror rail disaster continues to unfold.

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3 h. ago Mad theories Brahim Diaz 'missed on purpose' with bizarre penalty in mad AFCON final

Morocco star Brahim Diaz was left in tears after Edouard Mendy saved his 111th-minute Panenka penalty in the Africa Cup of Nations final against Senegal - but due to the crazy nature of the game did he miss on purpose?

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4 h. ago Brahim Diaz breaks down in tears after baffling Panenka backfires in AFCON chaos

Brahim Diaz saw his Panenka penalty saved deep in stoppage time during the Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and Morocco

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4 h. ago Dad's heroic act in bid to save son with leukaemia in need of stem cell transplant

A match for 16-year-old Leo Sproson, of Bromsgrove in the Midlands, was found following a Mirror appeal, but the donor has to undergo further testing before the transplant can take place.

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6 h. ago Chris Packham warns of massive change we must make to save UK's garden birds

The BBC star says people won't want to do it, but they might have to, and he hopes to show what's needed using scientific proof

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6 h. ago Stray dog found on streets of Glasgow lands forever home as new owner says 'he saved me'

Boby, who is around one-year-old, was rescued by the Scottish SPCA in Glasgow late last year.

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8 h. ago 'Villages killed, trees felled, and narrow country lanes turned into bottlenecks'

A public inquiry into rail upgrade that could leave villages 'cut off' for months has been announced.

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9 h. ago Tottenham board hold Thomas Frank talks as Spurs boss fights to save job

Thomas Frank is in serious jeopardy of losing his job as Tottenham boss following Spurs' home defeat by rivals West Ham on Saturday

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10 h. ago Incredible story of the village that saved and transformed its pub with celebrities and strangers

The heart of the village had died until the community decided that with help from Hollywood actors, rugby stars and over 1000 people they could create something special

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10 h. ago Saturday Night Live: big name cameos can’t save weak Stranger Things

A$AP Rocky steals the show during Finn Wolfhard’s first ever go as host with surprise appearances from Sabrina Carpenter, Jason Momoa and moreSaturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to catch us up on all things Trump: the president (James Austin Johnson) addresses the nation from the Oval Office, bragging about his favorite Christmas present: “My very own somebody else’s Nobel prize and in my stocking: Maduro we did a reverse Santa on him.”Joined by cabinet members “Little” Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane, taking over for departed cast member Bowen Yang), who are all trying to “help me do so many legal-ish things to try to get people to stop talking about Epstein.” Said things include an impending invasion of Cuba, “trans in menswear”, new tariffs, and Greenland, only to be interrupted by Trump wandering behind them and looking out the window in a senile fugue state. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Everything we know as trespass incident causes rail disruption in Manchester

Disruption is ongoing this afternoon

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11 h. ago British Sikhs save teenage girl in London: Inside the UK's grooming gang scandal

British Sikhs save teenage girl in London: Inside the UK's grooming gang scandal  Times of India

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11 h. ago Ten of the UK’s cosiest pubs with bed and breakfast from £99

WHAT could be better than getting out of the cold and into a cosy pub, eating traditional British fare and supping a pint of locally brewed real ale? It’s even better if you can walk out of the bar and into a room at the inn. Here, Trisha Harbord selects ten fabulous UK pubs that...

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11 h. ago Still Game star Gavin Mitchell describes moment he 'stopped breathing' after choking on dinner

The Still Game actor revealed how he choked on his dinner and was spent night in hospital

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12 h. ago Fury as family of woman mown down by cowboy builder on golf course as he fled police won't get compensation as her death 'wasn't violent enough'

Suzanne Cherry was struck by John McDonald as she was playing golf with her husband Clint Harrison in April last year.

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12 h. ago Dictator ousted but regime intact – what next for Venezuela’s opposition?

The US snatched Nicolás Maduro but, frozen out by Trump, anti-government activists are unsure how to proceedAs the harsh reality sets in that Venezuela’s authoritarian regime remains essentially unchanged even without Nicolás Maduro, activists who have spent years fighting for the country’s return to democracy are unsure about what the next steps should be.They agree that the country should very soon either hold new elections or install the retired diplomat Edmundo González – widely believed to have won the 2024 election – but neither option appears to be on the White House’s agenda at the moment. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz, Raducanu and Sabalenka ease through on day one – live

The first grand slam of 2026 is under way in Melbourne Britain’s Fery delivers upset with win over seed Cobolli Follow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch: email DanielI’m not sure why, but I can’t get commentary on Bublik v Brooksby, which isn’t helpful, but Bublik leads 3-1; Tiafoe is up a break in set three, so at 4-2 is only two games away from seeing off Kubler; Zheng leads Korda by a break at 4-3 in the fifth; and Norrie is up a set on Bonzi, but serving to stay in the second at 4-5.We’re away on Laver, Sabalenka in dayglo straight out of 1989 and Rakotomanga Rajaonah immediately makes 0-30 on her serve. Oh! And when the champ swats a backhand long, she’s down three break points! All three are saved, but then the underdog raises a fourth on advantage, thrashes a deep return, and Sabalenka nets a forehand! Rakotomanga Rajaonah need only hold five times and she’s a set up! Er yeah, let’s see Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Why America needs a new antiwar movement – and how it can win | Jeremy Varon

Demonstrations against the Iraq war proved protest works. Now we must halt destruction before it more powerfully startsIn spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this movie before.” A year after George W Bush’s declaration of “mission accomplished” – when the war had hit its peak popularity at 74% – the invasion had descended into quagmire, marked by a raging insurgency, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and US casualties nearing 1,000. For the first time, a majority of Americans judged the war a “mistake”. In this, they echoed what millions of Americans, predicting fiasco, had been saying since before its start.By the summer of 2005, with Iraq exploding in civil war, public support further eroded. Vietnam comparisons abounded. Running against the war, Democrats had blowout wins in the 2006 midterms. The new Congress empaneled the bipartisan Iraq study group, which concluded that the war had to end...

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13 h. ago ‘I looked exceptional but I was out of breath’: the bodybuilder who switched to mindful movement

Ten years ago, Eugene Teo was obsessed with lifting weights. But, gradually, he realised his extreme mindset was making him unhappy. So he changed his outlookEugene Teo, 34, began lifting weights at the age of 13, looking for validation. “I was short, skinny and I thought it would give me confidence,” he says. “Bodybuilding for me was the ultimate expression of that.”Now living on the Gold Coast in Australia, with his partner and daughter, the fitness coach spent from age 16 to 24 training and competing. At times, he lifted weights for up to four hours a day, aiming to get as muscular and lean as possible. The ideal he was chasing? “If you grab your eyelid and feel that skin,” he says, “that’s the skin thinness you want on your bum and abs.” Continue reading...

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