1 hour ago US war on drug cartels heats up with CIA considering lethal force on gangsters

The agency is considering what kinds of activities it could legally undertake to deal with cartels amid Trump’s plans to clamp down on them

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2 h. ago Tom Cruise hangs off moving planes in new Mission: Impossible trailer

The American actor returns to play the highly-skilled spy agent, Ethan Hunt, where he declares: ‘I need you to trust me, one last time.’

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2 h. ago Comedian and actor Kenan Thompson reveals hidden health issue after suffering in silence

Comedian and actor Kenan Thompson has opened up on his 'embarrassing' health issue after revealing he was suffering in silence while hosting Saturday Night Live

Culture

3 h. ago Has Noah's Ark been found? Scientists reveal plans to dig up boat

Scientists think they've found the remains of the wooden vessel - and now they want to prove it.

Politics

3 h. ago Air fryer fans say their 'minds are blown' after discovering 'hidden' feature that has been hiding in plain sight all along

The helpful tool was pointed out in a TikTok with social media user @bowesy5 - but it's only included in Ninja Foodi MAX Dual Zone Air Fryers

Sport

5 h. ago Viktor Gyokeres agent 'to attend Arsenal vs Real Madrid' amid transfer talk

Gunners transfer target will be represented at the Champions League clash

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10 h. ago Arsenal transfer news: Gyokeres agent in London as club confirm 'negotiation process'

Mikel Arteta’s side still have it all to play for this season with the visit of Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, and it’s reported Viktor Gyokeres’ agent will be in attendance

Sport

11 h. ago The 'clever' hidden meaning in tragic White Lotus scene after two fan favorites die in killing spree

The White Lotus fans have been left devastated after two popular characters were killed off in a epic bloodbath during the season three finale.

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15 h. ago Alec Baldwin's wife's phone call to agent sparks major career move for family

It came as a surprise to the Emmy winning actor himself

Politics

22 h. ago Beverley Knight's hidden health battle that's left doctors perplexed

Olivier Awards host Beverley Knight had to take a break from showbiz after being diagnosed with fibroids. They're one of the biggest health concerns for women, an expert says, but little is known about the cause of the condition

Society

26 h. ago 'I went bargain hunting at Stockport’s hidden gem and it was like stepping into an Aladdin’s cave'

In a Grade II-listed building just off the M60 in Stockport there's all sorts of treasure to be found

Politics

29 h. ago Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights

Book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rightsShe was, according to US wartime counter-intelligence officer Lt Paul Jensen, “our No 1 contact in French Morocco”, supporting the allied mission “at great risk to her own life – and I mean that literally. We would have been quite helpless without her.”The British intelligence agent Donald Darling had her down as an especially “cherished agent of [Charles] de Gaulle’s government”. Well aware of her importance, the UK foreign intelligence service MI6 called her “the pet lady agent” of the Free French. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Moscow court sends US citizen awaiting trial to a psychiatric hospital

Russian state media say a U.S. citizen awaiting trial in Moscow has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital

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32 h. ago Lewis Ferguson up for Napoli transfer as agent drops Bologna bombshell on eve of Serie A showdown

The 25-year-old is preparing to face his Scotland team-mates Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour on Monday

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33 h. ago ‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea

Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it’s amazingly unsmelly “Who’d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?” asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner Colm Moore runs the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore. Who indeed, yet they have had to find a way to overcome precisely this difficulty. In the coastal town of Arklow, 40 miles south of the Irish capital, they have designed a wastewater facility that seeks to act as a landmark for the town, an agent of its renewal and growth, and a good neighbour to the homes and shops and places of work that it is hoped will be built alongside. The plant consists of two calm oblongs of mysterious scale, their long horizontals echoing the line where the sea meets the sky, plus a third more domestic structure alongside, all in a marine blue-green colour you could call pale teal.The project is in illustrious company. The tra...

Politics

36 h. ago UK bans fake reviews and ‘sneaky’ hidden fees to protect online shoppers under new law

Retailers are responsible for removing fake reviews and ensuring legitimacy of new ones

Politics

36 h. ago New price rules when booking travel or online shopping from today

Changes on Sunday will also ban fake reviews, drip pricing and hidden charges

Economics

37 h. ago ‘The police were scared there would be riots’: When Wham! took Western pop to China 

The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn their ways. Forty years ago, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were the first Western band to tour China – Mark Beaumont revisits an event that influenced both Cantopop and the rebellion in Tiananmen Square

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37 h. ago I tried the hidden wine bar near a popular Welsh beach that only the locals know about

The Shed in Newton is just a stone's throw away from one of Europe's biggest holiday parks - Trecco Bay in Porthcawl - but it's a little oasis of calm

Politics

39 h. ago Liverpool news: Mohamed Salah blow as transfer target's agent shares update

Liverpool are set to meet Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday, having enjoyed a victorious return to action on Wednesday as Arne Slot's side beat rivals Everton 1-0

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