8 h. ago Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told

A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted ‘a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse’ unless action is taken.

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10 h. ago Welsh councils told to only collect rubbish every three or four weeks

The Welsh Government has told local authorities a collection every three to four weeks is 'sufficient'

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7 d. ago Now Stephen Fry turns on JK Rowling: Star who narrated Harry Potter books says the author has been 'radicalised by TERFs' and is 'a lost cause'

EXCL: The comedian, who previously hosted QI, told how he used to have dinner regularly with the author and described her views towards the trans community as 'strange'.

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8 d. ago Andy Burnham's child sex abuse inquiry team 'resigned' after authorities 'lawyered up', MPs told

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared

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2 w. ago Greta Thunberg 'freedom flotilla' crewmate describes 'mistreatment' he claims she and her colleagues suffered while held by Israel

Baptiste Andre told French media that 'there were acts of mistreatment' when Israeli authorities brought the group to the port of Ashdod to be processed.

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2 w. ago King Charles told Conclave author he watched papal selection film

Robert Harris, 68, was formally made a CBE by Charles for services to literature in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday

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2 w. ago History's most extreme medical treatments – from crystal meth injections to jars full of farts

Historyis the author of the best stories every told, and it is also the author of some truly revolting and dangerously flawed medical journals too, just have a look at this lot

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3 w. ago Heartbreak for family of missing Brit as she is found in Brazil

Journalist Charlotte Alice Peet was found by police after she went missing in Brazil in February - but she told authorities she did not want to be contacted by her family

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3 w. ago Boulder attack suspect says he planned to use gun but was unable to buy one

Authorities say Egyptian national took firearm class but could not make purchase because he is not a US citizenThe man accused of attacking a a pro-Israel peace parade with molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday told authorities he planned to use a gun and took a concealed firearm class – but was denied the purchase because he was not a US citizen.Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, is facing federal and state charges over the attack which wounded 12 people as they held a weekly demonstration calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. He had planned to target the demonstration with 18 molotov cocktails in his possession but apparently had second thoughts and threw just two, according to authorities. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Author Philippe Sands was told it is ‘unacceptable’ to read Russian writer Tolstoy amid Ukraine war

‘It is complex,’ said the award-winning writer

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3 w. ago ‘Mom, am I the missing twin?’: the story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunion

US couple Marsha and Al adopted a baby girl from China because they thought she had been abandoned. Years later they read about a girl whose sister had been illegally snatched by the authorities. Was everything they’d been told about their daughter a lie?One night in September 2009, a widowed mother in Texas named Marsha was up late at her kitchen table, scrolling through correspondence, when she opened an email that would change her family’s life. It was from an acquaintance who was sharing a newspaper article – as it happens, an article I’d written from China – about government officials who had snatched children from impoverished families to supply the lucrative adoption market. The article featured an interview with a nine-year-old girl speaking wistfully about her identical twin who had been taken away. “A Young Girl Pines for Her Twin” was the headline.Marsha had two daughters from China. She and her husband, Al, both employees of the defence contractor Lockheed Martin, h...

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