2 h. ago Net closes in on Valerie with new footage of dachshund after more than 500 days at large on Kangaroo Island

Team leading South Australian search says risk of disrupting other wildlife has made it hard to capture missing pet dogElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcasNew footage of Valerie the miniature dachshund, missing since 2023, shows her sniffing around a trap and capering with a food box.But more than 500 days since she escaped from a pen on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, Valerie is still at large.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Seven autism signs in young girls that parents shouldn't ignore

Autism is often missed in girls, as its signs differ significantly from the classic symptoms typically seen in boys.

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3 h. ago Gareth Southgate makes major career change as Gary Lineker prediction comes true

Gareth Southgate is yet to return to football management since resigning as England manager last summer and has now made a significant change away from the sport

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3 h. ago Hero teenager praised for leaping into choppy seas to try to save his barrister father when he got into trouble while on holiday in Tenerife

British judge Stephen Howd, 57, died off the coast of Santa Cruz after sea conditions changed while he was swimming with his son, an inquest on Monday heard.

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4 h. ago China’s Xi Jinping is in Vietnam to figure out how to ‘screw’ the US, says Trump

US president issues scathing view of Chinese counterpart’s motivations amid escalating trade war with Beijing Xi Jinping’s tour of South-east Asia this week is likely intended to “screw” the United States, President Donald Trump has suggested, as the Chinese leader embarks on five-day tour of some nations hardest hit by Trump’s tariffs.China’s president arrived in Hanoi on Monday, where he met Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, called for stronger trade ties, and signed dozens of cooperation agreements, including on enhancing supply chains. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Hero teenager praised after leaping into choppy seas to try to save his judge father when he got into trouble in the water while on holiday in Tenerife

British judge Stephen Howd, 57, died off the coast of Santa Cruz after sea conditions changed while he was swimming with his son, an inquest on Monday heard.

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9 h. ago Fury as Sandbanks restaurant is liquidated with £600K in debts with thousands owed to local suppliers

Andy Price abruptly closed the The Tandy eatery in January with the loss of all the staff after running into financial troubles. The restaurant is reportedly in debt to 52 different creditors.

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10 h. ago Hackers insert Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s voices into crosswalk signals

AI-generated prank messages played at various locations across Silicon Valley

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10 h. ago Luka Modric sends clear message as Swansea confirm Real Madrid legend has joined club

Luka Modric has made a significant investment in Swansea City and will also take on a role as co-owner of the Championship club in a major coup for the Welsh outfit

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10 h. ago Army called in to help with Birmingham bin strike amid public health crisis fears

The all-out strike by refuse workers in the Unite union began on March 11 and has led to a significant public health emergency as piles of rubbish have mounted in the streets

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11 h. ago F1 news: Max Verstappen could leave Red Bull as F1 team makes decision on axing driver

Red Bull are concerned that Max Verstappen could walk away amid their struggles with other Formula 1 teams likely to leap at the chance to sign the four-time world champion

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12 h. ago Why having untreated high blood pressure could be a RISK FACTOR FOR dementia

For years we've known high blood pressure is bad for your health. It raises your risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Now it's clear high blood pressure is also a major cause of dementia.

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12 h. ago LVMH sales fall sharply in warning sign for the luxury industry

Slowing demand in the US and ongoing struggles in China will raise concerns for an industry grappling with Trump’s tariffs

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12 h. ago The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz’s grand coalition: gambling on a new centre ground | Editorial

The deal signed last week between the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD paves the way for vital investment in Europe’s biggest economySome years ago, hundreds of German finance ministry staff dressed in black and formed a giant zero to salute their boss, Wolfgang Schäuble, as he left office. It was a tribute to Mr Schäuble’s extreme fiscal conservatism, which had delivered Germany’s first balanced budget in the postwar period. Amid resurgent prosperity in the Angela Merkel years, the so-called black zero – symbolising a constitutional prohibition on public debt – had gradually acquired cult status.As a new administration prepares to take power in Berlin, it seems unlikely that human euro signs will welcome the latest politician to take on Mr Schäuble’s former role. But in dramatic fashion, the spending taps are set to be turned on. Via a swiftly staged March vote in the outgoing Bundestag, “debt brake” dogma was consigned to history by the chancellor‑elec...

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13 h. ago 'I spent four days searching for my lost cat – where I found her left me heartbroken'

Charlie Harris was left heartbroken after finding her missing cat and with the 'trauma' only worsened by the fact the she had been 'lied to' for four days about her pet's disappearance

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14 h. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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14 h. ago Germany's public services and towns are 'overwhelmed' by immigrants and the country must take fewer asylum seekers, incoming chancellor says

Friedrich Merz said immigration figures 'need to significantly' come down below six figures amid pressure on public services and towns.

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14 h. ago Hungary adopts constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings

The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identitiesEurope live – latest updatesHungarian lawmakers have voted through a controversial constitutional amendment that campaigners described as a “significant escalation” in the government’s efforts to crack down on dissent and chip away at human rights.Backed by the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his rightwing populist party, Fidesz, the amendment passed on Monday along party lines, with 140 votes for and 21 against. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings

Amendment also enshrines recognition of only two sexes, providing basis for denying gender identitiesHungarian lawmakers have voted through a controversial constitutional amendment that campaigners described as a “significant escalation” in the government’s efforts to crack down on dissent and chip away at human rights.Backed by the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his rightwing populist party, Fidesz, the amendment passed on Monday along party lines, with 140 votes for and 21 against. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Why having 'normal' blood pressure could be a sign of dementia

For years we've known high blood pressure is bad for your health. It raises your risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Now it's clear high blood pressure is also a major cause of dementia.

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