3 h. ago Fox News rages that Whoopi Goldberg’s Iran take is ‘as racist as anything’ they’ve ever heard

‘This is not Jim Crow, this is not slavery, and to be making those kinds of comparisons is despicable,’ Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner fumed on Thursday.

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3 h. ago Carlos Alcaraz beats the heat in epic comeback against Munar at Queen’s Club

Top seed into quarter-finals with 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5 winAlcaraz victory longest match at Queen’s in 34 yearsOn a day of hot heads and high emotion, Carlos Alcaraz proved once again to be a master of escapology in the longest match at Queen’s Club for 34 years. With temperatures hovering over 30C on Andy Murray Arena, the Spaniard was 4-2 down in the final set, having lost four games in a row. To add to his sense of peril and woe, his serve was also misfiring and he had just hit his 50th unforced error. Yet he found a way – just as he had during the French Open final earlier this month.A few minutes – and a series of inspired winners – later Alcaraz was shaking hands with his compatriot Jaume Munar having won 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5 in an epic that lasted a little under three hours and 30 minutes. It was the longest match at Queen’s Club since MaliVai Washington faced Mark Keil in 1991, with the second set alone taking an hour and 42 minutes. As Alcaraz pithily wrote on the BBC TV courtside...

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4 h. ago EastEnders legend Ross Kemp reveals fears over his game show Bridge of Lies

TV legend Ross Kemp has opened up about his career and says he gets nervous when he's hosting his game show Bridge of Lies, in case things get too tense for contestants

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6 h. ago Brutally betrayed by her husband David Harbour, Lily Allen's next three moves have been pure genius. She's proved revenge is something money can't buy

Lily Allen just taught us all how to 'win' a breakup. No, seriously. She's won. After four years of marriage, her actor husband David Harbour allegedly cheated. Predictable. Grim.

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7 h. ago Nine Inch Nails at the O2: 'Trent Reznor is the last great art rock star'

Despite technical problems, Nine Inch Nails prove that they are still pushing the boundaries of music and perhaps the perfect band for dark times

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9 h. ago Land Rover launches new model paying homage to 1980s classic 4X4s

Land Rover has unveiled a new special-edition Defender to pay homage to a classic model that proved the incredible off-road capabilities of the British 4X4s in the 1980s.

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10 h. ago Harry Kane is mocked by fans after adopting strange 'German accent'

The striker was giving an interview from an ice bath in footage taken before Bayern's barnstorming 10-0 thrashing of Auckland City in the Club World Cup.

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10 h. ago All of Donald Trump's options in Iran as president faces biggest decision yet

Will Donald Trump bow to Netanyahu’s calls for escalation in the Middle East, hold his nerve and wait, or listen to MAGA voices urging him to pull back from the brink?

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10 h. ago Struggling with UTIs after menopause? Experts say this can make a difference

A team of experts has shared the proven strategies to help prevent UTIs for women later in life

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11 h. ago DANIEL BIRD: 'I interviewed Kim Woodburn and saw a side to her that people rarely saw'

'She was the Queen of Clean and was never afraid to speak her mind, which made me quite nervous ahead of my chat with Kim Woodburn last year – but she was a big softie,' writes Daniel Bird

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13 h. ago How 'proven winner' Andy Farrell became British Lions head coach despite first tour disaster

Andy Farrell arrives in Australia as one of the pre-eminent international head coaches in world rugby - but things were very different for the British and Irish Lions' coach on his first tour as part of a very different Lions side

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16 h. ago Phil Foden ‘wants to prove doubters wrong’ after firing Man City to victory in Club World Cup

The 25-year-old scored and created an assist in City’s 2-0 win over Wydad AC

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16 h. ago ‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back

At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivorsNatalie Fleet is nervous about this interview. Her assistant has warned me and Fleet tells me several times, before and during. “I just feel sick,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s about me or because of the subject. It just doesn’t seem to get any easier.”The subject is rape – specifically Fleet’s experience of being groomed by an older man when she was 15, becoming pregnant and having the baby. That daughter, “the love of her life”, is now 24. Since entering parliament last summer as the Labour MP for Bolsover, Fleet has spoken a good deal about rape, her life story and the lack of support for mothers whose children were conceived this way – and each time it upsets her. “My husband said: ‘I don’t want you to be the “rapey MP”,’ and I don’t want that either,” says Fleet. “But it’s...

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16 h. ago Royal expert claims Prince William's key personality trait is playing a pivotal role in modernising the monarchy

Today, is Prince WIlliam's 43rd birthday and in his now decades of public service he has proven himself to be one of the most down to earth members of the Royal Family .

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17 h. ago Man City’s Phil Foden keen to prove doubters wrong after ‘difficult season’

The 25-year-old shone as City kicked off their challenge at the Club World Cup with a comfortable 2-0 win over Wydad Casablanca.

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18 h. ago Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self

The South African artist has exhibited everywhere, bagging awards in art and theatre, while his work sells for millions. So why did he find becoming an artist so unnatural? Ahead of a major British show, he reveals allYou only have to glance at William Kentridge’s family tree to realise why he is such an outsider. His maternal grandmother, Irene Geffen, was South Africa’s first female barrister while his mother, Felicia Geffen, became an anti-apartheid lawyer. Then there’s his father, Sydney Kentridge, the indomitable QC who represented Nelson Mandela in the 1960s and fought for justice for Steve Biko in the 70s. Studying law would have been the obvious path. “Public speaking, thinking on my feet, were natural and easy skills,” said Kentridge back in 1998. “Being an artist was a very unnatural and hard thing for me to do.”That’s quite a statement. Because in the three decades since, Kentridge has conquered the international art world with the oomph and verve of an emerging twentysom...

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27 h. ago Queen's Club: Jack Draper vows to 'peak at Wimbledon' as he edges past Alexei Popyrin to reach quarter

Draper dropped the first set but held his nerve in final set tie-break to progress on home soil

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29 h. ago ‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?

Together with Sonia Friedman and Ian Rickson, the Hollywood star has helped to create a new initiative aiming to provide high-quality theater for a low priceOne night last month in the West Village, I had the pleasure of being nervous for Hugh Jackman. On stage at the Minetta Lane Theatre, the 56-year-old movie star and Broadway veteran appeared startlingly undefended and vulnerable. In character as a middle-aged university professor infatuated with his 19-year-old pupil, Jackman addressed the audience for a play called Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes with the lights up, as if helming a lecture full of shy students put on the spot; when one viewer sneezed during Jackman’s monologue, he paused to say bless you.I fretted a few rows from Wolverine, more aware of my fellow audience members’ faces and cellphones than I’ve ever been at a New York show and acutely attuned to the fact that this all could go awry at any moment. Theater is always a contract between audience and perfor...

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33 h. ago Maro Itoje to captain British & Irish Lions for first time in Argentina warm

XV features Marcus Smith, Alex Mitchell and Fin SmithTadhg Furlong also has the chance to prove his fitnessMaro Itoje will captain the British & Irish Lions for the first time in their non-cap international against Argentina in Dublin on Friday.The England skipper Itoje leads a starting XV that features Marcus Smith at full-back and will be directed by England half-backs Alex Mitchell and Fin Smith.This story will update Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Lola Young conquers her nerves and proves the Adele comparisons are justified

Pop star captivates 2,700-strong crowd with her sardonic persona and bodacious riffs at London’s Royal Festival Hall

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