3 h. ago Trade unions join forces to demand end to ban on 'sympathy strikes'

Secondary industrial action - where a trade union asks its members to take action against their employer in solidarity with workers elsewhere who are in dispute - has been banned since the early 1990s

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6 h. ago Rivalry intensifies as Alcaraz and Sinner contest first grand slam final

French Open final between top two in the world is further proof of their dominanceTowards the final stretch of the big three’s unprecedented period of dominance, as it became clear Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic would vacate their thrones, the future of men’s tennis was clouded in uncertainty. Although there was a talented, competitive generation of players born in the 1990s waiting to take their place, the gulf in quality was significant. For a short time, there were opportunities for someone brave enough to take them.The past fortnight in Paris has again underlined how Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have emphatically shut the door on this prospect. As they prepare to face each other in a grand slam final for the first time, at Roland Garros on Sunday, it will mark the sixth consecutive grand slam that has been won by either Sinner, the world No 1, or the world No 2, Alcaraz. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Survivors are pulled from rubble after massive Putin strike on Ukraine's second city Kharkiv killed two as Trump says Ukrainians brought attack on themselves

More than 40 explosions were heard as Kremlin forces unleashed 48 kamikaze drones plus six aerial bombs and missiles on Kharkiv just before dawn today.

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12 h. ago Kids' presenter who was one of the most recognisable faces on TV quit for 'normal' job

Michael Underwood was a mainstay of children's TV in the 1990s and 2000s, presenting shows like Jungle Run, Ministry of Mayhem and Xchange

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12 h. ago Emergency workers search for survivors after aerial attack on Kharkiv kills 3

Emergency crews battled flames and searched for survivors after a massive Russian drone and missile strike hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday (7 June), killing at least three people.

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14 h. ago 'Michael Schumacher is my friend who I won F1 titles with – here's what no

Sauber F1 team principal Jonathan Wheatley considers Michael Schumacher a friend having worked together in the 1990s at Benetton and has opened up on that experience

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21 h. ago I could hear gasps in the courtroom as the 'mushroom poisoner' finally took the stand and revealed why she survived

For five weeks, the fate of Erin Patterson has hinged on a single, contested question: how did she survive the toxic meal that left three of her guests dead and the fourth in a near-fatal coma?

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28 h. ago Mark Hamill has finally ruled out a return as Luke Skywalker. Can Star Wars survive without him?

The franchise’s last remaining connection to the original trilogy has appeared in a number of recent spinoffs. What’s next, now the 73-year-old actor says he has hung up his lightsaber for good?Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker has been Star Wars’ ultimate backup plan for at least half a decade. The original trilogy has faded into the distance, and the movies set in that galaxy far, far away have become so poor in recent years that we’d all rather watch Andor. But there was always the option of plugging in Hamill – a sort of human Star Wars USB stick, primed to conjure up 1970s vibes as required. Not quite getting your fill of Force nostalgia? Here’s Luke tutoring Baby Yoda in The Book of Boba Fett. And here he is again, whinging about past mistakes in The Last Jedi. It may not quite have been Binary Sunset, or Yoda lifting the X-wing on Dagobah. But for a few shimmering, quite-possibly-digitally-retouched moments, it felt like we were back in the real Star Wars again.Back in 2023, I wro...

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29 h. ago Surviving rising bills: How you'd spend a spare £100 as household bills rise by £36bn

Watch as the public answers what they'd do with an extra £100.

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29 h. ago Football Daily | Spain, France and the unexplainable magic of the Nations League

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In common with the fiendishly complicated lunchtime TV quiz show Turnabout that was broadcast on the BBC during the 1990s, it is possible to watch and thoroughly enjoy the Nations League without having the foggiest idea what on earth is going on. Dreamed up by Uefa several years ago to eliminate the need for the kind of pointless international friendlies that – [Football Daily checks fixture list] – are taking place across Europe this weekend, the Nations League has managed to inveigle its way into the subconscious of most football fans to the extent that they know it is A Thing, even if the vast majority of them remain completely baffled by its format and are at a loss to explain why it exists.I can’t be doing with the Club World Cup, and I’ve never had much time for narcissism’s favourite goalhanger Cristiano Ronaldo (yesterday’s Football Daily). But I would love it, absolutely love it, if Gianni Infantino had no option but force ...

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33 h. ago ‘I’ve been crucified!’ Sarah Jessica Parker on dating, delis – and surviving three decades of Carrie haters

From being attacked for gentrifying New York to gen Z calling her toxic, Sarah Jessica Parker’s most famous role isn’t shy of controversy. As Carrie Bradshaw returns, she talks about being an antihero – and the death of fashionCarrie Bradshaw was undoubtedly not intended as a hate figure when Sex and the City first aired. But in recent years, a curious cultural shift has occurred: newer fans have started to see Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, as the most toxic thing about the horny, headline-grabbing show. An entire website, Carrie Bradshaw Is the Worst, was devoted to explaining why Carrie sucked. (The most common complaints: she cheated on nice guy Aidan; talked about herself too much.) One viral essay posited that Carrie was TV’s first female antihero. Parker, 60 and still synonymous with pop culture’s most iconic single gal, has grown to love the term.“I prefer that to any other description of her, because it allows her to be as male as the men have been. ...

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43 h. ago Gardeners urged to make drastic change to houseplants in June 'add one thing'

Experts at Gardeners' World are urging people to do this one task to ensure their houseplants survive the summer temperatures and remain as vibrant into autumn

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46 h. ago Cancer survivors 'stopped from going on holiday as insurance won't cover them'

Cancer survivors now free of the disease face premiums of thousands of pounds and sometimes can’t get cover at all

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47 h. ago Lamine Yamal inspired Spain beat France in Nations League game hailed 'best match ever'

SPAIN 5-4 FRANCE: Spain are into the Nations League final after surviving a late fightback from the French in a crazy encounter in Stuttgart

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51 h. ago Corpus Christi London survives thriller, wins Texas 3A DI baseball state championship; live scoring, updates, recap

Corpus Christi London survives thriller, wins Texas 3A DI baseball state championship; live scoring, updates, recap  Sports Illustrated

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53 h. ago Cricket star's daughter Bethan James would 'have likely survived' if medics had acted differently, inquest told

An expert witness said Bethan's cardiac arrest could have been avoided, and that she could have survived if it had been. Bethan is the daughter of former Glamorgan and England cricketer Steve James

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54 h. ago Jimmy Barnes: Defiant review – familiar but reliable territory from the indestructible rocker

If this album were any more 1990s, it would come with a Hawkeian cigar and a Rachel haircut“He’s been wondering lately, where did all the good times go?” While this line in the opening song on Jimmy Barnes’ new album is ostensibly about a couple struggling to make ends meet, it’s hard not to think of Barnes lying in a hospital bed, a recurring sight in recent years: recovering from infection, then hip surgery, then bacterial pneumonia, then open heart surgery, then hip surgery again but eventually “it’s a new day”, as Barnes sings on the second track, a sentiment delivered without a question mark.If you’re wondering where all the good times are, it seems Barnes’ answer is: wherever the hell I want them to be and, until it all ends, I’m going to be a rock star. Specifically a rock star of the late 80s and early 90s, when he didn’t have to dress down, à la grunge, or gloss up, à la ozone-depleting poodle metal, and instead slipped on a leather jacket and leaned into the camera as a fr...

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54 h. ago Menopause treatment linked to longer survival in breast cancer patients

A study has found that estrogen creams may improve survival rates, despite previous fears they could stimulate cancer cell growth

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54 h. ago Rave tapes: The most valuable cassettes from the 1990s rave scene

Voicemail recordings and lo-fi dubbing - a look back to the world of the ‘90s rave tape.

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56 h. ago Pope meets with child protection advisory board amid survivor calls for zero tolerance on abuse

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Catholic Church

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