75 m. ago Trump won't appoint a special prosecutor for Epstein 'hoax' as Karoline Leavitt mocks renewed interest

The White House clarified Thursday that President Donald Trump did not support the idea of appointing a special prosecutor to review files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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3 h. ago It turns out the CUB 2 Person Quick Pitch Moto Tent review is perfect for festivals

Is this the perfect festival tent?

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3 h. ago Norvegr duvet review: Can a £36,000 duvet improve my sleep quality?

Being swaddled in duck fluff is the new financial flex. Ellie Davis prepares to bed down and put it to the test

Economics

3 h. ago Enabot Air 2 Plus review: The viral TikTok robot companion, tested

This viral TikTok gadget might be stealing my likeness and identity, but I can’t get enough of it

Technology

5 h. ago Tour de France 2025: Pogacar v Vingegaard as stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Wrexham to sign player who clashed with England star and sparked fury with controversial act

Wrexham are reportedly set to fork out a club record fee for an international player who was lucky to avoid punishment after a heavy challenge on an England star

Sport

6 h. ago ‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest daysLaurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. A hug, a cuddle: that is all she needs to keep at bay the nightmarish visions that haunt her day and night, the grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist, words pressed through a clenched jaw, eyes bulging in panic. Yet on her ward at the Esquirol hospital centre in Paris, such simple gestures are impossible to come by. “When I asked for a hug,” Laurence laments, “they gave me a jar of yoghurt.”This scene, from Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary At Averroès & Rosa Parks, is as hard to watch as anything you are likely to see on a cinema screen this year. But it is especially remarkable coming from perhaps the world’s pre-eminent maker of humanist documentaries. The Frenchman Philibert is one of modern cinema’s great champions of kindness. Aged 74, he has built a career mak...

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6 h. ago Cure by Katherine Brabon review – moments of grace in meditation on chronic illness

Doubles and reflections abound in this subtle exploration of the stories we tell about sickness, centring on a mother and daughter who travel to Italy in search of healingGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKatherine Brabon’s fourth novel follows a mother and daughter with a shared experience of chronic illness who travel to Italy in search of a cure. It feels like a companion piece to her elegant previous novel Body Friend, about three women who seek out different ways of managing their chronic pain after surgery. Cure continues Brabon’s metaphoric use of doubles, mirrors and reflections to explore the social dimensions of the body in pain. It opens in Lake Como, where, we are told, in autumn “clouds devour the hills around the lake” and the water “reflects the scene of disappearance. [It] cannot help but replicate the obscuring fog.” Vera has been here before; she is now taking her 16-year-old daughter, Thea, to a small town in Lombardy, where she herself travelled with her...

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6 h. ago Ex convict Ryan Peake in Open dreamland as former bike gang member gets hero Phil Mickelson's autograph

The Australian spent five years behind bars but is playing at Royal Portrush

Events

6 h. ago From witchcraft to black cats: Four types of supernatural beliefs emerge in new study

Three sociologists found that supernatural beliefs in the United States tend to group into four types

Politics

6 h. ago Call for more transparency at council planning committee meetings addressed, says officer

A Merthyr Tydfil Council committee discussed an Audit Wales review of the authority's planning service recently

Events

6 h. ago I’m 2025 Open leader and Rangers legend’s brother is guiding me around Royal Portrush

Haotong Li leads the way in Northern Ireland and a famous Ibrox name is on course for a 36th career triumph

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6 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees with Evenepoel in trouble – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients

This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patientsIn a hospital in Waterloo, London, in the mid-1960s was a psychiatric ward full of sleeping women. Suffering from disorders ranging from post-partum depression to chronic anxiety to anorexia, the residents of the “sleep room” were sedated and woken only to be washed, fed or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). All were under the supervision of psychiatrist William Sargant, who at the time was hailed as a pioneer. Sargant claimed that a combination of enforced narcosis and ECT could fix disturbed minds. Failing that, the treatment would be surgical lobotomy.The Sleep Room is author Jon Stock’s gripping account of a scandal in which female patients were denied dignity and agency by a man who wielded absolute power over their bodies. The book is ably narrated by actors Richard Armitage, Antonia Beamish and Celia Imri...

Science

7 h. ago Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

Chua/He/Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Graf(Pentatone)The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit. As Chloe Chua points out in her notes, Mozart’s Violin Concertos were written by a teenager – so why shouldn’t a teenage violinist do them justice? Chua – joint winner of the junior Menuhin Competition in 2018, aged 11 – was 15 and 16 when she made these recordings. The framework is conventional – there are no great surprises in the tempos, and she is backed by the modern instruments of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, who give an energised but refined performance conducted by Hans Graf. So far, so traditional. And yet Chua consistently holds the attention with interpretations that are notably mature: balanced, considered and never trying too hard. The faster movements having a gentle momentum, the slow ones plenty of space; everything Chua plays has a clean, focused tone, an unfailingly elegant turn of phrase and a quiet w...

Culture

7 h. ago West Lothian prisoner who torched cell in 'pudding protest' dies behind bars

Ryan Coutts died at HMP Addiewell on July 11, aged 36. Coutts, who had an extensive criminal record, was jailed in 2019 for four years for attacking a 62-year-old with a screwdriver in Aberdeen.

Events

8 h. ago Law should change to allow review of cases of jailed officers, lawyer says

Errol Campbell was posthumously cleared almost 50 years after being convicted, with the case against him led by a discredited officer.

Events

9 h. ago Billie Marten’s Dog Eared is a brilliant, soothing album with a sense of looming danger

The Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter changes her approach for a hypnotic new record

Politics

9 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 takes the race to summit finish in Pyrenees – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

Politics

9 h. ago This Morning viewers fume show has 'lost the plot' as TikTok witches take over

This Morning viewers felt that they had to "switch off" during Thursday's show when Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard chatted to three witches who made them cast a series of spells on air.

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