60 m. ago Antony a rare piece of spending for Spanish clubs unable to match Premier League’s wealth

Real Betis fans were overjoyed at the arrival of the Manchester United outcast but like many La Liga teams, the club were only able to buy by selling some of their starsA goat crossed the Guadalquivir, which was when they knew. They had been made to wait until the last day of summer and on the footage it was a CGI creature scuttling over the Isabel II bridge (no animals were harmed in the making of this announcement) but Real Betis had actually done it. There were four hours left on deadline day and they had signed Antony Matheus dos Santos, or Antonio of Triana as they call him. When they’re not calling him the Goat.Triana is the Betis neighbourhood, Seville’s artistic heart on the west bank of the river, and Antony could not be more popular there. Last season he arrived on a six-month loan and changed everything, leading them to a European place, a derby win that was celebrated like it was the World Cup, and a European final. He had been changed too, happy again, the footballer he...

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60 m. ago 'Best mystery series ever' now streaming for free as fans say 'I'm hooked'

A fan-favourite action drama, which stars This Is Us actor Justin Hartley, has landed on ITVX

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75 m. ago Surfer killed in Sydney shark attack performed heroic act in moments before death

Mercury Psillakis, 57, was fatally attacked by a shark at a Sydney beach on Saturday (September 6), the first deadly shark attack at the beach in more than 90 years

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2 h. ago A message from Tehran for Britain, France and Germany. You made a big mistake reimposing sanctions: pull back | Seyyed Abbas Araghchi

Europe is wrong to follow Donald Trump’s strategy. We are open to diplomacy and a new deal over our nuclear programme, but sanctions must goFor more than two decades, Europe has been at the heart of the ongoing, manufactured crisis over my country’s peaceful nuclear programme. In many ways, the European role has reflected the state of broader international power relations. Once a moderating force aspiring to restrain a belligerent America with maximalist aims in our region, Europe is today enabling the excesses of Washington.Last week, Britain, France and Germany – or the E3 – said they had activated the process to “snap back” UN sanctions on Iran. The mechanism was set up to penalize significant non-performance under the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran, the E3, the US, China and Russia.Seyyed Abbas Araghchi is foreign minister of Iran Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'Outstanding' action drama that leaves fans 'hooked' streaming for free

The first season of a fan-favourite action drama has landed on ITVX

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2 h. ago The Scottish crime author approached by James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli

Philip Miller is a former Scotsman arts journalist

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2 h. ago Black man shot at while waiting to go to work says South Carolina needs hate crime law

A Black man in South Carolina is pushing for the state to pass its own hate crime law after police say he was shot at by a white man in a racist attack

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2 h. ago Scotland must match ambitious words with meaningful action to grow economy

Closing the gap between ambition and delivery will require more than a few tweaks to the status quo

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer has ‘legal duty to stop Gaza genocide’, says Greta Thunberg

Exclusive: Activist spoke while onboard aid flotilla aiming to deliver food, baby formula and medical supplies to territoryKeir Starmer must obey his “legal duty to act to prevent a genocide”, Greta Thunberg has told the Guardian while travelling aboard an aid flotilla heading for Gaza.The Swedish activist said there was a “huge absence of those whose legal responsibility it is to step up” under international law, and called out the UK prime minister before a potential meeting this week with Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Our daughter is being controlled by a school friend. What can we do?

This is a horrible situation. It would be difficult even for an adult, so your daughter definitely needs actionOur 11-year-old daughter is in a “friendship” with a classmate, which we have come to realise is unhealthy and controlling. She was very shy and self-conscious through the early years of school and struggled to make friends, so we were initially delighted that she had found a close friend. However, we’ve become aware that there is a consistent pattern of control from this girl: demands about when and where they meet, or what our daughter can and can’t wear. If our daughter goes against her, she risks being shunned and ignored or spoken to aggressively.This girl does not let our daughter interact with others without her. There is a barrage of demanding messages and calls at home about arrangements, and we see our daughter being vigilant and tense, having to respond immediately. Sometimes there is unkindness, for example saying our daughter’s clothes are babyish. Around the c...

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3 h. ago Task star Tom Pelphrey: ‘Getting the accent right was keeping me up at night’

The actor, who gave such an unforgettable performance in ‘Ozark’, chats to Ellie Harrison about how the Netflix hit opened doors, and going head-to-head against Mark Ruffalo in Sky’s new series ‘Task’

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4 h. ago ‘We have the people’: Bernie Sanders campaigns with Zohran Mamdani as New York mayoral race enters final stretch

Pair met with thunderous applause at town hall in Brooklyn as part of senator’s Fighting Oligarchy tourZohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral frontrunner and Democratic nominee, joined the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in a rousing town hall in Brooklyn on Saturday evening where the two addressed the growing threat of oligarchic control across the US and how to fight it.The event, held at Sanders’ alma mater Brooklyn College, drew an audience of about 1,700 people. Mamdani and Sanders co-hosted the town hall as part of Sanders’ Fighting Oligarchy tour, which has included rallies in 20 states. Throughout the tour, the senator has been actively supporting and recruiting progressive candidates to run for office. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Heroic final act of surfer moments before he was killed by shark in Sydney

Experienced surfer Mercury Psillakis, 57, was killed after being attacked by a shark at Dee Why Beach in Sydney on Saturday - the first fatal shark attack at Dee Why since 1934

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4 h. ago Police condemn 'intolerable abuse' at Palestine Action protest

Police condemn 'intolerable abuse' at Palestine Action protest - as more than 425 arrests made  Sky News

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4 h. ago Ministers quietly abandon zero tolerance knife policy despite wave of youth crime

SUNDAY MAIL INVESTIGATION: In the last three years alone, 915 cases of children caught with knives or other offensive weapons have been referred to the children’s reporter.

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6 h. ago Mauled surfer Mercury Psillakis' heroic final act before he was killed by a five

Mercury 'Merc' Psillakis , 57, was bitten in half by a five-metre shark at Dee Why, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, just after 10am on Saturday.

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6 h. ago British police arrest more than 400 at a London Palestine Action support rally

British police arrest more than 400 at a London Palestine Action support rally  France 24

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7 h. ago Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

Toronto film festival: the Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmareThe specific brilliance of Lesley Manville had been on display for those who knew where to look long before her first Oscar nomination. She’d been part of the enviable Mike Leigh troupe (her first nomination should have been for Another Year) and a permanent small-screen fixture, even if the size of her roles hadn’t correlated to the size of her talent. But after Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s singular magnum opus, Manville has enjoyed a spectacular boom, a long-deserved reward for her and an even bigger one for those of us watching.The role came as she was entering her 60s, a period that can often leave female actors with grimly limited options, but she’s bucked the trend, not just through the sheer amount of work she’s found but also the unusual variety. She’s avoided the post-Book Club subgenre of mostly patronising come...

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7 h. ago Retired police officer claims her own force knocked on her door after she referred to a transgender activist by her birth name on social media

 A retired police officer says she was investigated by her former colleagues after she 'dead-named' a transgender woman on the internet. 

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8 h. ago Posing with Hamas chief, activist who's joined Greta on Gaza 'freedom flotilla'

Grinning as he gives a Churchillian 'victory' sign, Wael Nawar, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg 's Gaza 'freedom flotilla' posed with a Hamas chief weeks before setting sail.

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