2 h. ago Peter Andre hits back at Katie Price: Star reveals their children have been in HIS care since 2018 'for their safety'

It comes shortly after Katie, 47, urged Peter, 52, to take part in peace talks as their daughter Princess has been 'unfairly' dragged into their feud.

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2 h. ago Countries urged to ‘hold the line’ in Geneva plastics treaty negotiations

Talks continue amid warnings from environmental groups over being ‘sold out’ without meaningful or legally binding measuresTalks between nations to hammer out a plastics treaty to end plastic pollution continued behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday, the final day of negotiations, as civil society groups urged countries to “hold the line” to secure a strong agreement.With time running out to seal a deal between 184 countries, environmental groups expressed concern that frontline communities, Indigenous people and others suffering the worst impacts of the world’s growing plastic crisis were being “sold out” in an effort to secure a treaty, without meaningful or legally binding measures that would address the scale of the problem, “at any cost”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Peter Andre hits out at ex Katie Price’s ‘lies’ in furious social media rant amid Princess feud

Singer’s tirade came hours after Price called for peace talks to end their feud over daughter Princess

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3 h. ago Premier League’s big show is back, full of thrills but facing new threat to its power | Barney Ronay

Clubs are spending like the world is on fire but the title looks to be between Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and ChelseaAnd I heard, as it were, a sound of thunder. I heard multitudes marching to the big kettle drum. Not to mention, it should be said, even larger multitudes talking on the wicked and unholy internet about agent sightings, failed here-we-gos and the Alexander Isak wheel of global conspiracy.Let he that hath understanding count the number! Because, let’s face it, it really is an absolute beast of a number, 215 live Premier League games on Sky Sports alone, an endless rolling debauchery of games, of graphics that go whoosh, of arguments by the lighted dias. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Wallabies and Springboks in identity swap for clash amid thin air of Highveld | Daniel Gallan

The frenemies meet in this year’s Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park where they are expected to rip pages out of the other’s playbookOne team boasts some of the most menacing forwards found anywhere in the world. The other is developing a scintillating backline capable of tearing apart any defence. Business as usual, then, for a Wallabies versus Springboks clash. Except this time, like the characters of Freaky Friday, the two sides have switched identities ahead of the first round of the Rugby Championship.Australia might have lost the British & Irish Lions series but they were one referee’s decision at the breakdown away from causing a seismic upset. That the margin was so small was thanks largely to the thundering cameos of Will Skelton, Rob Valetini, Taniela Tupou and a handful of other meaty men who provided the front-foot grunt that was absent in the first Test in Brisbane. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy | Rebecca Solnit

Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein filesThe most violent day in the history of Washington DC, leaving aside the War of 1812, was 6 January 2021, and the instigator was Donald J Trump, who this week has endeavored to seize control of the nation’s capital, after reports that a former employee of the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) was assaulted in the city.In a sense the new event echoes the old; both are illegitimate power grabs made on the basis of lies. In 2021 it was a lie about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election; in the summer of 2025 it’s lies about crime levels. Reliable sources – including the Biden Department of Justice in January – have noted that violent crime there is at a 30-year low. Five people died as a result of that 2021 attack on Congress, and dozens of law enforcement officers were injured, some gravely, by the mob Trump incited. On his first day in office in 2025 he par...

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4 h. ago Hit horror Weapons doesn’t have a deeper meaning but that’s OK | Jesse Hassenger

A frenzied search for answers in the wake of the box office smash has some assuming there’s a weightier allegory but its power is in something simpler and more primalMajor spoilers aheadFor years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor.The real monster in these movies is parenthood, personal trauma or that old horror-movie standby, grief. Writer-director Zach Cregger is no stranger to this line of thinking; his 2022 horror movie Barbarian is very much a spooky-creature-in-the-basement movie for the #MeToo era. Now Cregger has returned with a movie that may well stymie anyone who has been trained by the last decade to search for an easy-to-track allegory within their viscerally depicted fears. His new movie Weapons has received mostly rave reviews and positive audience response. But at least a few critics and fans are pivoting from complaining a...

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5 h. ago Renfrewshire Council can now call upon app to tackle antisocial behaviour in area

The technology allows users to collect and submit noise recordings, diary sheets and videos.

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5 h. ago Brendan Rodgers addresses Celtic fan conspiracy theory, transfer notoriety and Daizen Maeda situation

Rodgers tackles bizarre claims over his appearance at Pittodrie

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5 h. ago Putin is floating a new nuclear deal with the US ahead of Trump talks. Here’s why

The move might dissuade Trump from imposing new sanctions on Russia

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6 h. ago Donald Trump explains how the world will know if his meeting with Putin has failed

The US President will host the Russian dictator in Alaska tomorrow for talks on ending the war in Ukraine - but he says there is a 25% chance that the summit will fail

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6 h. ago Oleksandr Usyk vs Joseph Parker talks delayed amid worrying update

Parker is the consensus next challenger to Usyk, who retained the undisputed heavyweight titles against Daniel Dubois in July

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6 h. ago This Morning star says 'we need to talk more' as she opens up about suffering two miscarriages

The admission came during an interview with Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington

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6 h. ago Katie Price calls for peace talks with Peter Andre to end Princess feud

Tensions deepened after she was left off the guest list for daughter Princess’s milestone 18th birthday

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6 h. ago Trump says Putin ‘wants to get it done’ at tomorrow’s Alaska summit, as he floats idea of second meeting with Zelenskyy – Europe live

US president says threats of sanctions may have influenced Russian president to agree to Friday’s meeting in Anchorage, Alaskain BerlinGerman chancellor Friedrich Merz’s stab at heading up Ukraine diplomacy has received measured praise at home, with a perception that Donald Trump’s declarations after Wednesday’s video conference sounded slightly less alarming to European ears than before. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Starmer embraces Zelenskyy in London ahead of Alaska crunch talks

Starmer embraces Zelenskyy in London ahead of Alaska crunch talks  Fortune

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7 h. ago Donald Trump reveals what he will do if 'bad meeting' with Putin

Donald Trump is gearing up for a meeting with Vladimir Putin to commence peace talks for the end of the Ukrainian invasion, and has warned what happens if talks go wrong

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7 h. ago Volkswagen now charges some EV owners a monthly fee to unlock full power from their electric cars

If you thought paying an extra monthly subscription to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to go ad free was bad, VW is now charging a recurring fee to unlock the full power of customers' electric cars.

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7 h. ago Putin a 'sensitive autocrat' who calls himself 'historic figure' over 'narcissist' Trump

Putin has been branded a 'sensitive autocrat' by the brains behind the book 'The Silent Language of Power' – as an expert believes Trump might 'manifest submissively' during their meeting on Friday

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7 h. ago Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos 7 & 8 album review – dramatic power from rarely heard Italian master

Tonda/Rome SO/La Vecchia(Naxos)Francesco La Vecchia draws out the fierce contrasts of Goffredo Petrassi’s later music in this new recording of his final two concertos.Though his music is rarely heard in the UK these days, Goffredo Petrassi was one of the most significant and influential Italian composers of the mid 20th century. Born in 1904, just a few months after Luigi Dallapiccola, Petrassi’s early works were firmly neoclassical, but after 1945 he began to incorporate elements from his younger contemporaries in the European avant garde. He was also a distinguished teacher; among the many who studied with him were Ennio Morricone, Peter Maxwell Davies and Cornelius Cardew.Petrassi’s eight concertos for orchestra are at the core of his orchestral output, and Naxos has now released recordings of all of them. The pairing of the last two, composed in 1964 and 1972, are typical of his later music, trenchantly argued, with fierce contrasts between strings and wind. It’s music of great ...

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