16 m. ago JK Rowling blasts 'utterly deplorable' arrest of Graham Linehan after Father Ted creator was arrested by armed police for 'anti

The Irish comedy writer, who was travelling on an American Airlines flight from Arizona to London , says he was treated like a 'terrorist' after being detained as soon as he stepped off the plane.

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28 m. ago TV viewing figures for the NWSL are down: is there cause for concern?

Star names have been missing but second half of campaign should bring renewed interest after ratings spike last yearHalfway through the NWSL’s 13th regular season, the league reported TV ratings were trending down. But August has already shown glimmers of recovery and context adds important caveats to that downward slope.As first reported by Sports Business Journal, when the league took a month-long break midway through the year this July, ratings were down by 8% across their multi-platform media partnership. That partnership, which is now in its second year, was signed in November 2023 with CBS, ESPN, ION (Scripps Sports) and Prime Video for a deal worth $240m– a huge increase from their previous one-party partnership with CBS worth $4.5m. In its first year, the league saw a big uptick in viewing numbers as matches proliferated across a variety of outlets, reaching a wider audience. Continue reading...

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29 m. ago Just a picky eater or does YOUR child suffer from an eating disorder that deprives them of vital nutrients? Terrifyingly, your GP will never have heard of it... Special report by CLAIRE COHEN

Most parents remember the phase when their child couldn't seem to pick up a toy without putting it in their mouth. But Michelle Jacques remembers her son refusing to put 'anything near his mouth'.

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36 m. ago Premier League transfer window's biggest loser clear amid Liverpool and Arsenal debate

THE BIG DEBATE: Records were smashed left, right and centre in the Premier League, as all 20 clubs combined to make it most expensive summer transfer window in the history of the top flight

Sport

53 m. ago Bill Belichick’s humiliating college football debut brings only schadenfreude or sadness

The greatest head coach in modern NFL history has started anew at UNC. His first game exposed flaws that will be very difficult to fixHalf a century of unprecedented success, six Super Bowl rings as a head coach, the NFL’s greatest defensive mind; all undone by 19-year-olds sprinting past missed tackles. Bill Belichick arrived at North Carolina promising to bend college football to his will, to build the “33rd NFL Program” in Chapel Hill, and prove he still had his fastball. College football laughed.As debut flops go, North Carolina’s 48-14 beatdown at the hands of TCU is as bad as it gets. Belichick’s side didn’t just lose; they were humiliated. UNC looked unprepared, undisciplined and were overmatched against a veteran team. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago Extreme heat said to cause EVs to lose up to 44% of their claimed electric ranges

The results found that the Tesla managed 244 miles, which is 44% down over its claimed 436-mile range

Politics

96 m. ago Stephen King made one ‘brutal’ demand for violent new film adaptation

‘The Long Walk’ follows a group of teenagers forced to participate in a savage life or death contest

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99 m. ago Martin Lewis left 'devastated' after couple lose savings in 'vicious' scam

The money expert was furious to hear his likeness was used in another AI ad

Politics

1 hour ago Kim Jong Un loses 2,000 North Korean troops killed in Putin's Ukraine war

North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un has sent a devastating number of troops to their deaths on the Ukraine 'meat-grinder' frontline, it has emerged, as he arrives by armoured train in Beijing for an 'anti-NATO summit'

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1 hour ago Tributes paid to former Airdrie boss Jimmy Bone, who has died aged 75

Mr Bone steered Airdrie to the Premier Division in 1991

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2 h. ago Netanyahu says that Trump told him to ‘go into Gaza with full force’ and ‘finish’ the war

The Israeli PM claimed he is facing US pressure to abandon partial ceasefire deals with Hamas, according to Israeli reports

Politics

2 h. ago ‘A paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang

Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universeAn ancient and “nearly naked” black hole that astronomers believe may have been created in the first fraction of a second after the big bang has been spotted by the James Webb space telescope.If confirmed as a so-called primordial black hole, a theoretical class of object predicted to exist by Stephen Hawking but never before seen, the discovery would upend prevailing theories of the universe. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rightsThe arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan.Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Winners and losers of transfer deadline day: Title chasers, climbers and clubs in trouble

The summer transfer window has now slammed shut with £348.9million spent across the Premier League on Monday – here are the winners and losers of deadline day

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2 h. ago Which teams have qualified for the BLAST Open London playoffs?

Which teams have qualified for the BLAST Open London playoffs?  Esports Insider

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3 h. ago Tributes paid following death of Stirling football icon Jimmy Bone

Warm tributes have been paid following the sad death of Stirling footballing icon Jimmy Bone.

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3 h. ago Asylum seeker begs to go back to Somalia because it's 'safer than Nuneaton' as anti

Nuneaton in Warwickshire has become a hotbed of tension amid a string of anti-migrant protests following reports two Afghan asylum seekers had been arrested for sexual assault.

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3 h. ago Cooper rejects claims Reeves has been sidelined on economic policy by No 10 mini

‘Quite the reverse’, says home secretary, amid reports Starmer’s reorganisation is aimed at freezing chancellor out ahead of autumn budgetIn an interview with Sky News this morning Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, declined to guarantee that migrants will definitely be sent back across the channel this month as part of a returns agreement with France.Asked for the exact date of the first returns, Cooper replied: “It will be later this month.”We expect the first returns to take place this month. But I’ve always said from the very beginning on this, it’s a pilot scheme and it needs to build up over time.If you submit an asylum claim that lacks merit, it will be swiftly and robustly refused.Any request for asylum support will be assessed against destitution criteria. If you do not meet the criteria, you will not receive support.If nothing has changed in their country, people should not be claiming asylum at the end of a student course. We need to clamp down on that and that’s why we’r...

Economics

3 h. ago Premier League's 6 biggest transfer window losers as Man Utd and Liverpool moves collapse

Premier League clubs spent massive sums of money over the summer with the league record fee broken twice but some players and clubs were left unhappy when the window slammed shut

Politics

4 h. ago ITV Good Morning Britain migrant report sparks rage as viewers fume 'it's a total disaster'

Good Morning Britain delivered a fresh update on the government's 'one in one out' migrant agreement with France on Tuesday morning.

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