7 h. ago 20 years on from the febrile aftermath of London's 7/7 bombings, a heart

Twenty years ago, London was a city under attack. In the summer of 2005, the capital's transport system was hit by a murderous wave of al-Qaeda bombers.

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16 h. ago Jess Glynne and Alex Scott look more loved up than ever as they step out hand

The singer, 35, and her ex-footballer girlfriend, 40, looked incredible as they were spotted laughing the day away while enjoying a walk around the capital city.

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27 h. ago ‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza

A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughterReem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children. As they trudged for hours through the ruins of Gaza towards a food distribution centre, she rehearsed over and over again with her 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son what they should do and where they should wait if an Israeli attack turned the column of hungry people into a chaotic, panicking mass and the family were torn apart.It was the last conversation she had with them. She was dead before dawn broke on Tuesday, killed by a single bullet through her forehead. Her daughter and son spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago UK households told to keep weeds and put them in specific garden location

If you've just spent hours yanking out pesky weeds from your garden, don't throw them out just yet - there's a fantastic way you can re-use them to help your garden

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3 d. ago Fans spent 27 hours in stadium toilet to watch Champions League final

They watched a historic final as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 to lift the title

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5 d. ago ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell

He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius?Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his increasingly elaborate and expensively produced videos, has 400 million subscribers – more than the population of the United States of America and equivalent to the total number of native English speakers currently alive. It’s close to twice as many subscribers as Elon Musk has X followers, and over 100 million more than Taylor Swift has Instagram followers. And that number, 400 million, does not account for the people who watch MrBeast’s videos in passing, or who are aware of his cultural presence because of their children, or who just sort of know who he is but don’t ha...

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7 d. ago He is the strongman who inspired Trump – but is Viktor Orbán losing his grip on power?

Opposition activists and journalists explain why the Orbánisation of the US may fail and how a former ally could end the Hungarian PM’s 15-year reignOn a sunny April afternoon in Budapest, a handful of reporters crowded around the back entrance of the Dorothea, a luxury hotel tucked between a Madame Tussauds waxworks museum and a discount clothing store in the city’s walking district.Most had spent hours outside the hotel, hoping to confirm reports that Donald Trump Jr was inside. News of his visit had leaked two days earlier, but much of his agenda remained shrouded in secrecy, save for a meeting with the Hungarian foreign minister. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'I spent 48 hours in EU capital city and paid less than a night out in London'

My two-day trip to Paris - the city of love - was an eye-opener to say the least and made me realise one huge plus to travelling so spontaneously

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8 d. ago ‘Worst nightmare’: Child takes over plane intercom to sing Moana song during two

After an initial two-hour take-off delay, the Orlando-bound plane spent another two hours circling its destination city

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8 d. ago Popular capital city burger and shakes diners set to expand into West Lothian

The new venue will open in Bathgate town centre later this summer

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8 d. ago Top Tory Robert Jenrick says UK city is too dangerous but is slapped down with question

Tory shadow minister Robert Jenrick has suggested the UK's capital city is too dangerous - after undertaking a vigilante fare-dodging exercise to try to expose crime

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9 d. ago How iconic Paris landmark will show support to PSG during Champions League final

Paris Saint-Germain take on Inter Milan in the final of the Champions League on Saturday night, with politicians in the French capital keen to back the city's team

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9 d. ago Tiny EU capital so high it has no airport and is 121 times smaller than London

Sandwiched between soaring snow-capped mountains, and boasting one of Europe's biggest thermal spas, this capital city may be small - but certainly packs a powerful punch

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9 d. ago Nurse was 'confident' little girl didn't have meningitis – within hours she was dead, inquest hears

Lila and her mum had gone to A&E after the little girl had spent hours suffering 'classic' meningitis symptoms, say the family's legal representatives

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1 week ago Couple can't believe what they find down seat of their 1950s classic car

A couple who spent hours cleaning out their 1950s classic car have appealed for information after making a stunning discovery under one of it's seats during their renovation work

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1 week ago Mapped: UK weather to see off bank holiday rain with temperatures to soar up to 25C

London will be even hotter than Rabat, the capital city of Morocco, and Palermo in Sicily on Friday

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1 week ago Nurse struck off after being caught filming adults and children in supermarket toilet

Pheddie Delos Reyes spent nearly three hours inside the store's toilets.

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2 w. ago Twelve people killed after Russia’s biggest air raid of war against Ukraine

Three children killed in Kyiv region after 298 drones and 69 missile strikes launched in multiple wavesRussia has launched the largest air raid in three years of the war against Ukraine in a second straight night of massive drone and ballistic missile strikes which saw the capital city, Kyiv, once again the focus of heavy attack.Across the country at least 12 people were killed, according to officials, including three children in the Kyiv region, and dozens more injured, as officials released the first assessment of casualties and damage on Sunday morning. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Deadly missile and drone strikes batter Kyiv for second night

Other Ukrainian cities and regions also hit with nine people reported killed at the same time as Russia and Ukraine are conducting a major prisoner exchange Russia has launched a second straight night of massive drone and ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine, with the capital city, Kyiv, once again the focus of heavy attack.Across the country nine people were killed, including three children in the Kyiv region, and dozens more injured, according to reports on Sunday morning. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv under Russian drone attacks for second night running

At least seven injured as officials warn more drone and missile strikes likely, while large-scale prisoner swap continues. What we know on day 1,187See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian drones attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Sunday and injured at least seven people, as debris set an apartment building on fire and damaged homes, officials said. The head of Kyiv city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said “more than a dozen enemy drones” were flying around the capital early on Sunday. The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said the city was “under attack” but “air defences are operating”, telling citizens to stay in shelters.A day earlier, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and 250 attack drones on Kyiv, injuring 15 people in one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the war more than three years ago. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the attacks indicated Moscow was “prolonging the war On...

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