9 h. ago Ladbrokes Cheltenham Festival offer: Bet £5 get £30 in free bets

Ahead of Cheltenham Festival next week, Ladbrokes is offering a free bets offer for new customers which includes a £5 Cheltenham ante-post free bet

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16 h. ago Sick Alice In Wonderland horror twists fairytale beyond your wildest imagination

Alice In Wonderland in a well-known Disney film based on the Lewis Carroll book, but bet you didn't know there's a grisly horror retelling of the famous children's story

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19 h. ago ‘A risky bet’: Friedrich Merz criticised over plan to lift Germany’s debt rules

Chancellor-in-waiting accused of taking part in ‘debt orgy’ after proposing loosening rules to boost defenceGermany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, is facing a barrage of criticism from opposition politicians over his radical proposals to loosen rules on running up debt to allow for higher defence spending and boost the economy.The CDU/CSU leader’s proposals for a multibillion-euro package, agreed with his potential coalition partners the Social Democrats, have been described as everything from a “bazooka” to “an extremely risky bet” by economists. He himself has called them vital “in light of the threats to our freedom and peace on our continent”. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Israel’s Shin Bet says Netanyahu policies helped pave way for 7 October

Report by security agency says ‘policy of quiet’ towards Hamas allowed it to build up resources for 2023 attackMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, has said Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies were among the underlying causes of the 7 October 2023 attack in which Hamas and other militants killed about 1,200 Israelis.In its report on the 7 October attack, Shin Bet acknowledged its own responsibility, admitting it was aware of warning signs that Hamas was planning an operation, but the agency, also known as the General Security Service (GSS), did not grasp the scale, timing and location of the planned attack. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago German borrowing costs soar by most since 1997 on ‘historic’ debt deal

Investors bet on big boost to growth after agreement to increase funding for military and infrastructure

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25 h. ago German borrowing costs soar by most since 2008 on ‘historic’ debt deal

Investors bet on big boost to growth after agreement to increase funding for military and infrastructure

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49 h. ago European rival to Musk’s Starlink in talks to boost satellite services to Ukraine

Discussions come as investors bet that Eutelsat could replace US competitor

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49 h. ago Starlink rival in talks to boost satellite services to Ukraine

Eutelsat shares surge as investors bet that European competitor could replace Elon Musk’s company

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3 d. ago Alex Pereira offers bet with Magomed Ankalaev over UFC 313 main event

The Brazilian will defend the light-heavyweight title against the Russian in Las Vegas on Saturday

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3 d. ago Who is Kieran Culkin's wife Jazz Charton, as actor references child bet in Oscar acceptance speech?

A Real Pain star wins Best Supporting Actor but that was only the start...

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3 d. ago ‘I can spit hot fire on Baby Got Back’: Sterling K Brown’s honest playlist

The star of new thriller Paradise loves musicals and feels mild shame at enjoying Vengaboys. But which star made him realise he could sing?The first song I fell in love with I was in elementary school and If I Had No Loot by Tony! Toni! Toné! was getting a lot of play on BET – Black Entertainment Television. I love the vibe. It has a good bounce. I like things that make me move and this is one song you can’t help but move to.The first single I bought I remember buying Don’t Be Cruel by Bobby Brown because everybody was jamming out to Prerogative. I bought it from Streetside Records in St Louis, Missouri, where you could listen to albums on headphones before you bought them. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national securityOscar Wilde’s quip, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”, needs updating: replace “art” with “AI”. The Amazon page for Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zapiska’s new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of the West, also lists: a “workbook” containing “key takeaways” from the volume; a second volume on how the Karp/Zapiska tome “can help you navigate life”; and a third offering another “workbook” comprising a “Master Plan for Navigating Digital Age and the Future of Society”. It is conceivable that these parasitical works were written by humans, but I wouldn’t bet on it.Mr Karp, the lead author of the big book, is an interesting guy. He has a BA in philosophy from an American liberal arts college, a law degree from Stanford and a PhD in neoclassical social theory from G...

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6 d. ago Get FREE William Hill bet inside your Mirror EACH DAY of the Cheltenham Festival

Cheltenham 2025 is fast approaching and The Daily Mirror has once again teamed up with William Hill to help you pick your winners at the UK's most beloved horse racing festival

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6 d. ago Cheltenham Festival 2025: Get FREE William Hill shop bet inside your Daily Star

We've teamed up with William Hill to offer Star readers a FREE shop bet inside your paper for every day of the festival

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6 d. ago Cheltenham 2025: First race at Festival to be run in Michael O’Sullivan’s memory

The Jockey Club and race sponsors Sky Bet have chosen to honour the jockey, who died from injuries sustained in a fall, in the race he captured in 2023

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6 d. ago UK delays final approval for second runway at Gatwick pending changes to plan

Conditional decision comes as ministers bet on expansion of London’s airports to boost economic growth

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7 d. ago UK to approve second runway at Gatwick airport if plans are tweaked

Decision comes as ministers bet on major expansion of London’s airports to boost economic growth

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8 d. ago Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is a statement echoed in the accompanying author’s note, which contends that the “point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it”. Since the publication of her extraordinarily assured debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, in 2003, Adichie’s fiction has performed this task of seeing, interpreting and questioning to huge acclaim, garnering her major awards as well as a public profile far beyond most writers, whose work hasn’t been sampled by Beyoncé.In keeping with her superstar status, Dream Count is billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making” and is perhaps the surest bet so far for this year’s Women’s prize. However, ...

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8 d. ago Man 'shoots himself on livestream after losing $500 in memecoin investment'

Arnold Haro shot himself on a livestream after allegedly losing his last $500 on a memecoin bet, but watchers then flooded the market with a memecoin in his own name

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8 d. ago Range of real ales and international brewers on offer at Livingston's pub beer festival

The Wetherspoon pub in Almondvale Avenue will host the festival from Wednesday, March 5, to Sunday, March 16.

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