2 h. ago Parents of kids on bus that hit Virginia Giuffre's car brush off her claims it was huge crash

Emmie-Rose Wright's three children - aged five, eight and nine - were on the school bus which hit the car in which Virginia Giuffre was travelling near Perth, Western Australia

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3 h. ago F1's Japanese GP has storylines that may be as fleeting as the country's cherry blossoms

The Japanese Grand Prix is only the third Formula 1 race of the season, but several storylines are developing that promise a few twists

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3 h. ago Sadiq Khan accused of citing 'Hamas propaganda' in his Eid speech by London's Israeli embassy

Israel has accused Mayor of London Sadiq Khan of spouting 'Hamas propaganda' during his video message celebrating Eid. 

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4 h. ago Inside the 'perfect' £530m British town filled with Tudor buildings, red phone boxes and cobbled streets

From red telephone boxes to Tudor cobbled streets and traditional country pubs to Gothic churches, it looks like any other quaint English village - but there's one quirk that makes Thames Town unique.

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5 h. ago Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed as mystery cash buyer of a $23 million D.C. mansion

Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, among other tech executives, also own homes in Washington, DC

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5 h. ago Tech moguls who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of his tariffs announcement

Tech executives had argued that backing Trump might improve U.S. regulatory reform and expand investments in AI

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5 h. ago London Stock Exchange meets with City executives amid pressure to sell AIM

London Stock Exchange meets with City executives amid pressure to sell AIM  Financial News London

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6 h. ago Inside Kanye West and Bianca Censori's rocky marriage as rapper splits from wife

Kanye West secretly married Bianca Censori in December 2022, just one month after his divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalised, and the couple have been causing controversy ever since

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7 h. ago Married at First Sight Australia's Carina breaks silence on brutal final vows dumping

Married At First Sight Australia's Carina Mirabile has spoken out about her 'brutal' final vows, where she dumped husband Paul Antoine after weeks of betrayal and red flags

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7 h. ago Jesus take the tariff: Why Bibles could soon get more expensive thanks to Trump’s policy

China, where Trump’s official ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles are printed, has been hit hard by the president’s sweeping tariffs

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8 h. ago Westminster Labour councillor defects to Tories blaming 'Sadiq Khan vanity projects' and London crime rates

Paul Fisher, who was elected a Labour councillor in the West End in 2022, said: ‘Sadiq Khan has failed London’

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8 h. ago Work on new care home with 65 en suite rooms could begin this year

'It is no secret that west Wales desperately needs more high-quality care services,' says firm's managing director

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9 h. ago Yale fires legal scholar amid review of possible ties to 'sham charity' for designated terror group

Yale Law School has fired a scholar it says refused to appear in person to answer questions about her possible ties to organizations deemed to support terrorism

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9 h. ago UK weather: Parts of Britain 'to be hotter than the Algarve' in April mini heatwave

Weather maps are turning red as a mini heatwave is due to hit the country on Friday, bringing sunshine and temperatures reaching a sweltering 23C in some parts of the country

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10 h. ago Russia's deadly new laser weapon can 'destroy everything' and Putin mouthpiece says how

Vladimir Putin's army has a new laser weapon that Kremlin mouthpieces everywhere are claiming is going to scare Russia's western enemies – but how does it work?

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10 h. ago At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacementsAn Israeli bombing of a school turned shelter in Gaza City has killed at least 27 people, rescuers said, and hundreds of thousands in the Rafah area are fleeing in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war amid Israel’s newly announced campaign to “divide up” the Gaza Strip.Three missiles hit Dar al-Arqam school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, the civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said, killing several children and wounding 100 people. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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10 h. ago ECB insists sale of Hundred teams will go through despite TV rights wrangle

Delays caused by negotiations around overseas rightsECB also launch review into crowded domestic scheduleThe England and Wales Cricket Board insists that the sale of the eight Hundred franchises will be completed by the end of April, despite the delays to negotiations.The governing body’s chief executive, Richard Gould, said that the high valuations were not one of the issues behind the delays, but admitted that future broadcasting rights were. “All the discussions are on a very, very sound footing,” Gould said, “we’re just trying to work out how to maximise value from sponsorships, tickets sales and broadcast revenues. They’re investing a lot of money into our game and we want to make sure that pays dividends.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Castle that was once home to the Queen of Scotland is up for sale for £1m

Six miles west of Perth city centre, the former royal abode is complete with an escape tunnel and is set over four floors, including its own separate cottage.

Economics

11 h. ago Trans teacher in Texas resigns after online attacks: ‘I’m heartbroken’

Rosie Sandri says her ‘hands were tied’ after slew of criticism, including death threats, led to her resignationA trans teacher at a Texas high school has resigned after becoming the target of conservative backlash and online attacks.Rosie Sandri came out as a trans woman about seven months ago. Her colleagues at Red Oak high school and the Red Oak independent school district were very supportive, she recalled to NBC News. Continue reading...

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