30 m. ago Starmer risks clash with Trump by plotting 'reset' with EU that hails free trade, backs Ukraine's territory and condemns attacks on Paris climate deal

Keir Starmer is scrambling to seal a trade deal with the US that can blunt the impact of brutal tariffs.

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36 m. ago Dermot O'Leary shares heartfelt words from Simon Cowell as he fronts new show away from ITV

Dermot O'Leary has opened up about his time hosting The X Factor as he shares touching the touching words and advice head judge Simon Cowell gave him

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37 m. ago HSBC sounds alarm on trade war; Trump to soften blow of automotive tariffs – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe architect of BP’s failed green energy agenda will leave the embattled oil company within months as it continues its retreat from low-carbon investments following this morning’s sharp fall in profits (see last post).The oil company said Giulia Chierchia, the executive in charge of BP’s sustainability ventures, would step back from her role from 1 June 2025 to “pursue other opportunities” outside the company. She will not be replaced. Continue reading...

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53 m. ago Which new plants will we be seeing at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show?

Here are some of the stand-out plants which will be showing for the first time at Chelsea in 2025

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1 hour ago Canada election 2025 live: Mark Carney says ‘Trump is trying to break us’ after Liberal win

Prime minister says America ‘wants our land, our resources, our water’ and promises to protect countryCanada election 2025: latest results as Mark Carney seeks to stay on as PMFull report: Canada’s liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortuneA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn review – troubled minds and family mysteries

The Patrick Melrose author brings his trademark dark wit and flinty compassion to this wide-ranging sequelEdward St Aubyn’s previous novel, 2021’s Double Blind, was something of a challenge even for his devotees. Leaving aside the usual gripe that he is never quite as compelling without the shield of his authorial alter ego Patrick Melrose, the obsessive nature of the book’s inquiry into bioethics, narcosis, psychotherapy, oncology, venture capitalism and inheritance made too heady a cocktail to be more than sipped, a few pages at a time. I struggled with it until the very last scene, a charity bash where a schizophrenic young man takes his first terrified steps in employment as a waiter and happens upon a woman who, unknown to both, is intimately related to him. Their chance encounter was intensely moving and tautly suspenseful – you felt an immediate longing to know what would befall them.That longing is now answered in Parallel Lines, which picks up the narrative five years later...

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2 h. ago Canada election 2025 live: Pierre Poilievre congratulates Mark Carney after Liberal party wins

Public broadcaster and other outlets project Liberals will form next government, but it was not yet clear if they would hold a majorityCanada election 2025: latest results as Mark Carney seeks to stay on as PMFull report: Canada’s liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortuneA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Failed Soviet satellite hurtling towards Earth may hit like a meteorite, tracker warns

Space probe was designed for Venus landing but never made it out of Earth orbit

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2 h. ago 'Mushrooms are coming through the WALLS of my Manchester flat'

"I’m stressed out all the time and I’m not getting anywhere with this.”

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2 h. ago Why is Labour getting bolder on Europe? It knows even leave voters can now see the benefits | Gaby Hinsliff

With Labour losing votes to pro-European parties, an intriguing new deep-dive makes clear that the public mood has shiftedIt’s nearly nine years now since Britain lost its collective mind.More than enough time, then, to put the Brexit referendum into perspective. Leavers have moved on to the point where only 11% of British voters still kid themselves that it’s turned out brilliantly. It’s remain politicians who had started to look strangely stuck in the past, still frightened of sounding too pro-European in case they somehow woke the monster. But joyfully – now there’s a word I haven’t typed much lately – it looks like something is finally shifting.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Woman takes one item on plane to avoid 'travel chaos' and it works every time

If you're planning to travel during the summer holidays from an airport, it could spell disaster if you're not prepared for it. One woman has shared a hack to avoid it all

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3 h. ago Trump brags that he hurt MAGA ally Pierre Poilievre in Canada election — as Liberals grab win

Canada’s incumbent Liberal Party is staying in power thanks to a wave of anti-American feeling catalyzed by Donald Trump’s policies

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3 h. ago Asian American veterans share emotional stories 50 years after Vietnam War

Five decades after the end of the U.S.-led war in Vietnam, Asian American and Pacific Islander veterans are reflecting on the life-changing ordeal that was at time made more complicated by their race

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3 h. ago Chinese singles are looking for love in video chats — with thousands following along in real time

Frustrated with traditional dating, many young people in China are going on livestreamed video chats to find love

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4 h. ago ‘The eighth wonder of the world’: China’s terracotta warriors to march on Australia for blockbuster show

Perth will host huge exhibition of ancient treasures from first emperor’s tomb in June, with 40% of the artefacts leaving China for the first time everGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo thousand years ago, in a bid to conquer death itself, China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang commissioned a city of the dead: a 49 sq km mausoleum guarded by an army of clay warriors, built to defend his tomb for eternity.When farmers near Xi’an unearthed the first clay head in 1974, they cracked open one of humanity’s greatest archaeological mysteries, with more than 8,000 Terracotta Warriors discovered over the last 50 years. Now, fragments of that dream of immortality rise again – this time in Perth, where the largest exhibition of the Terracotta Warriors ever staged in Australia will head later this yearSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump dishes on awkward 1am butt dial to reporter after ducking their calls

Trump was being courted by two political reporters at The Atlantic around the same time his senior appointees unintentionally added the magazine's editor-in-chief to a high-stakes Signal chat.

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4 h. ago Canada election 2025 live: Mark Carney’s Liberal party projected to win after running on anti

Results in key electoral districts too close to determine if the party will be able to form a majority governmentCanada election 2025: latest results as Mark Carney seeks to stay on as PMA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago The BBC 'untouchables': Broadcaster blasted in damning report looking into failings and stars with 'poor behaviour'

A report, which was ordered after former news anchor Huw Edwards' paedophile conviction, declared that managers at the BBC have failed to stop bad conduct.

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5 h. ago Canada election 2025 live: first results come in as Trump told to ‘stay out of our election’

Canadians go to the polls after US president’s tariffs and talk of country becoming 51st US state upended electionCanada election 2025: latest results as Mark Carney seeks to stay on as PMA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Tucker Carlson reveals what shocked him most about his time spent in Australia: 'The most grotesque things I've ever seen'

Controversial US political commentator Tucker Carlson has shared what shocked him about Australia.

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