50 m. ago ‘We don’t want to be Americans’: Greenland leaders hit back at Trump’s push for control

‘We must decide the future of our country ourselves’

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64 m. ago Brooklyn Beckham shares emotional birthday message to wife Nicola Peltz amid legal row with parents

The aspiring chef posted a gushing birthday tribute to his 31-year-old wife Nicola

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70 m. ago Putin ally warns Russians to prepare for 'end of time' in chilling WW3 message

Alexander Dugin, ultra-nationalist philosopher described as spiritual architect of Kremlin's worldview, has urged all unbaptised Russians to be baptised immediately as 'eternity will arrive soon'

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73 m. ago Aryna Sabalenka powers past Karolina Muchova into Brisbane International final

World No 1 will face Marta Kostyuk on SundayAlcaraz beats Sinner in Korean exhibition matchAryna Sabalenka advanced to the Brisbane International final for the third year in a row after defeating Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-4. The world No 1 clinched her fourth match point at Pat Rafter Arena to advance to Sunday’s final against Marta Kostyuk, who beat the fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-0, 6-3. It was Kostyuk’s third win in a row over a top-10 opponent. She came into the match with only one win in five previous matches against the American.On Friday, in a rematch of last year’s Australian Open final, Sabalenka broke Madison Keys in five straight service games on the way to a 6-3, 6-3 win. Last year at Melbourne Park, Keys beat Sabalenka for her first Grand Slam singles title. Although three match points slipped away amid a late flurry of pressure from the Czech player, Sabalenka sealed victory when a Muchová shot sailed long. “I always try to stay in the present,” Sabalenka said. “I wor...

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77 m. ago The truth about how many drugs in the US come from Venezuela | Debunked

Donald Trump has claimed “a lot of drugs” are coming out of Venezuela - but do the figures back up the president’s claims?

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78 m. ago Shamed ex Scotland rugby star Stuart Hogg shares cryptic message after love split

SHAMED rugby star Stuart Hogg last night shared a cryptic social media post hours after splitting up with his girlfriend. It comes he split from his horse racing presenter missus less than a year after they welcomed a baby together. The disgraced sportsman, 33, shocked loved ones in November 2023 when he went public with...

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85 m. ago Jessie Buckley's carefree childhood photos reveal the Oscar tipped star's life before she was famous

She is Hollywood's most talked-about rising star following her heartrending performance as Shakespeare's wife in Hamnet.

Culture

1 hour ago Iran protests latest: Army warns of ‘enemy plots’ after Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty

At least 65 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December

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2 h. ago Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?This year marks 100 years since the first demonstration of television in London. Elizabeth II sent the first royal email in 1976. The first meeting of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers took place in 1876. All notable anniversaries. But I’m going with 2026 as the 85th anniversary of a great short story: Jorge Luis Borges’s The Garden of Forking Paths (1941). It’s about chance, labyrinths and an impossible novel. Ts’ui Pên, an ancestor of the narrator, sets himself the task of writing a novel with a cast of thousands: “an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time”. In most novels, when a character reaches a fork in the path, they must choose: this way, or that way. Yet in Ts’ui Pên’s novel, all possible paths are chosen. This creates “a growing, dizzying web of divergent,...

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2 h. ago Iran protests latest: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties climb

A human rights group says at least 65 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December

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2 h. ago Iran shuts off internet as protests blaze. A timeline of how unrest unfolded and grew

Khamenei accuses protesters of acting at Trump's behest

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3 h. ago New video from ICE agent shows tense moments before Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good

Renee Nicole Good was killed during immigration enforcement operation as tensions mount over Trump administration crackdown

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3 h. ago Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our livesIt’s been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting human rights on the internet. I’ve found myself in dozens of countries working with activists, politicians and civil servants to untangle the complex technical questions raised by the internet, and every one of our discussions ended in the same place. “OK,” they’d say, “you’ve definitely laid out the best way to regulate tech, but we can’t do it.”Why not? Because – inevitably – the US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of dozens of bo...

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3 h. ago Davina McCall shares health update after cancer diagnosis 'it was very, very emotional'

The Masked Singer UK favourite Davina McCall shared an emotional but hopeful message with fans after finishing her preventative treatment following cancer surgery

Science

5 h. ago How Audit Scotland revealed SNP's scandalous misuse of taxpayers' money

The average daily cost of a hospital bed is about £620, compared to just £145 for one in a nursing home, yet legions of people well enough to leave remain stuck on wards

Economics

5 h. ago Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lakeManoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook message.Dixon, 26, was at his family’s hunting camp near their northern Quebec home town of Waswanipi. They knew the fellow hunter who was messaging Dixon’s father, but what he wrote didn’t make sense. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back footA Cambridge college’s plan to target students from some of the country’s most elite private schools has struck a nerve. As reported by the Guardian, Trinity Hall justified the move by claiming that a focus only on “greater fairness in admissions” could “unintentionally result in reverse discrimination”. Alumni LinkedIn feeds and social media threads quickly filled with outrage, as many Cambridge graduates interpreted the move as class prejudice rearing its ugly head once again. One angry fellow at the college said it amounted to a “slap in the face” for their state-educated undergraduates.It brought back memories of the sneering snobbery at Oxford when the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, then principal of Lady Margaret Hall, introduced a new foundation year. “We don’t do hard luck stories,” sniffed one academic. “Oxf...

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5 h. ago Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisyThe attack on Venezuela and the seizure of its president was a shocking enough start to 2026, but it was only the next day, when the smoke had dispersed and Donald Trump was flying from Florida to Washington DC in triumph, that it became clear the world had entered a new era.The US president was leaning on a bulkhead on Air Force One, in a charcoal suit and gold tie, regaling reporters with inside details of the abduction of Nicolás Maduro. He claimed his government was “in charge” of Venezuela and that US companies were poised to extract the country’s oil wealth. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago 2026 already belongs to the celebrity ‘odd couple’. Why are we so obsessed with them?

From ‘Kylithée’ to Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, nothing captures the collective imagination like a seemingly mismatched celebrity couple. Jessica Burrell digs into the obsession

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5 h. ago Premier League rights may end up at Netflix despite reluctant football romance

As Netflix and Paramount Skydance clash over WBD, football rights once considered peripheral could become central to the future of UK streamingNetflix has spent years politely rebuffing Premier League and Uefa entreaties to bid for their TV rights, so it would be ironic if it picked them up by default. That intriguing outcome is a possibility as a result of the $100bn-plus takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) between Netflix and its streaming rival Paramount Skydance which will shape the future not only of Hollywood but global news.Much-hyped sports rights are a footnote in a deal of such magnitude that it will require signoff from the US government, but the implications for football will be profound, even if Donald Trump is more concerned about who owns (and presents on) CNN than which platform shows Bournemouth v Brighton at Saturday lunchtime next season. Continue reading...

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