27 m. ago Football League heads for dramatic finale, Bayern chase title and more – matchday live

Writer Q&A, fan views, plus the latest news and previewsToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And email matchday liveBarney’s regular Saturday column is about a young man who, on Wednesday night, came agonisingly close to breaking the internetLamine Yamal was the buildup, the takeaway and also the TV commentary to this game, which for long periods was just Rio Ferdinand saying “OH MY GOD” a lot. In the second half you kept having to check the score to make sure it wasn’t actually 6-1 to Barcelona (Lamine Yamal 6), as opposed to a 3-3 draw and a good away result for Inter.The pandemic had a start date. But the closest we got to a national throwing-off of the shackles, our own VV day, was July 2021 and the sight of a lone England football supporter placing a flare between his buttock cheeks before releasing it into the air of central London. This was our healing moment, our iconography of closure, our own white cliffs and union flags. Continue reading...

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29 m. ago London Marathon breaks world record with more than 1.1 million entries for 2026

London Marathon breaks world record with more than 1.1 million entries for 2026  Yahoo News UK

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29 m. ago Australian federal election 2025 live: polls to close at 6pm and results to start coming in as Australia vote count begins – latest news

Voting booths set to close across Australia as last polls suggest Albanese to be re-elected as Australian prime minister. Follow today’s news livePolls tracker; Election guide; Interactive seat explorerParty policies; Micro parties explained; Full election coverageListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUnder a perfect blue sky perhaps more reminiscent of home than the customary grey of London, ex-pats in Britain have been queueing up to vote at Australia House.The wait to cast a ballot has been up to 30 minutes with the line snaking out of the entrance and up and down the pavement. Continue reading...

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33 m. ago Bereaved families urge Sadiq Khan to honour pledge to ban gambling ads on Tube

Families who have lost relatives to gambling-related suicide beg mayor to act on his 2021 pledge to ban betting and casino ads on London transport

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37 m. ago Steven Gerrard in expletive Rangers video vow as emotional ex boss turns air blue and clamps Celtic

The Ibrox hero is out of work after getting the sack at Saudi Pro League side Al-Ettifaq in January

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51 m. ago A Thai restaurant without rice? This Michelin star hotspot is serving up something entirely unique

Fresh Thai flavours meet fabulous British produce at a central London spot that leaves Tom thrilled

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52 m. ago Planned City skyscraper is threat to ancient burial ground and Tower of London, warn heritage groups

Historic England has objected to the proposed redevelopment at 63 St Mary Axe in the City of London

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52 m. ago Trump’s promised ‘golden age’ for the US economy is off to a chaotic start

Growth in the first three months was challenged by Trump’s overhaul plans, and execution of his tariffs created widespread confusion and uncertaintyDonald Trump promised to usher in a new “golden age” for the US economy – one with lower prices, more jobs and greater wealth. This week, his first quarter report card came in, and the new age is off to a chaotic start.Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank for the first time in three years during the first quarter, abruptly turning negative after a spell of robust growth as trade distortions and weaker consumer spending dampened activity. Continue reading...

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52 m. ago 31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of prisoners and to the repression of crime It resolves itself into a greater uniformity of plan and purpose than has yet been exhibited in prison architecture.The Illustrated London News in its coverage of the new facility on August 13, 1842.The piers or partitions between them are 18 inches thick, and are worked with close joints, so as to preclude as much as possible the transmission of sound. A description of HMP Pentonville in the Illustrated London News, 1843 Continue reading...

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52 m. ago Gamechanging beauty products: 17 skin, hair and wellness essentials the experts can’t live without

Stylists, dermatologists, aestheticians and nutritionists share the products they return to, time and again• Sunscreen and snail slime: what skincare experts do – and don’t do – to their skinHow often do you come across a beauty product that genuinely changes the game? Not just a nice-to-have, but something that actually works, solving a problem you’d given up on. The shampoo that really defrizzes. The foundation that lasts all day without creasing. The serum that calms, rather than irritates, sensitive skin.Most of us have drawers full of abandoned products: lipsticks that smudge, sunscreens that pill, serums that sting too much. So when something delivers, it’s a big deal – often earning a permanent spot in your routine (and a place in your emergency backup stash). Continue reading...

Society

53 m. ago Cabin crew reveals two popular drinks you should 'never' consume on a flight

In a TikTok video with over 500,000 likes, a flight attendant and travel influencer exposes the popular complementary beverages you should avoid on an airplane and why.

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75 m. ago Why gardeners should leave egg shells on bird tables this spring

April, May and June represent the most important time of year for birds

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85 m. ago Australian federal election 2025 live: Australia polls, voting continues; Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton cast votes on election day – latest news

Voting booths open across Australia as last polls suggest Albanese set to be re-elected as Australian prime minister. Follow today’s news livePolls tracker; Election guide; Interactive seat explorerParty policies; Micro parties explained; Full election coverageListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUnder a perfect blue sky perhaps more reminiscent of home than the customary grey of London, ex-pats in Britain have been queueing up to vote at Australia House.The wait to cast a ballot has been up to 30 minutes with the line snaking out of the entrance and up and down the pavement. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago I attended Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour and what I saw shocked me... now I want my $700 back

I'm the first to admit that I'm not the biggest Beyoncé fan, but when I saw that she was struggling to sell tickets to her Cowboy Carter tour, I thought it would be the perfect time to go.

Events

1 hour ago My cultural awakening: Groundhog Day made me quit my job, move house and leave my girlfriend

When I saw Bill Murray’s classic comedy I realised that I was trapped in my own unfulfilling time loopI didn’t know anything about the plot of Groundhog Day before I decided to watch it 10 years ago. I remember collapsing on to the sofa after work – completely exhausted – and putting it on. My girlfriend was already asleep in the next room. Her drinking had been getting steadily worse that year, but I think we were both in denial about it. Most evenings I’d spend alone, so I’d put a movie on in the background for company.I found it funny at first, watching Bill Murray’s character trapped in a time-loop. But about 20 minutes in, I started feeling this creeping sense of dread. I remember seeing Murray’s white alarm clock going off, waking him up to begin the same day and feeling this horrible spark of recognition. It was like watching my own life play out on the screen in front of me. Continue reading...

Society

1 hour ago Poker Face: Natasha Lyonne’s seriously funny whydunnit caper is back with a cracking A

Cynthia Erivo plays sextuplets! Katie Holmes is an undertaker! And Kumail Nunjiani is the new Tiger King! The super cool, celebrity-packed show is even wilder than everThe best thing about Poker Face is that it doesn’t bother trying to shore up what it knows is a flimsy premise. Fans of the first season will recall that Charlie Cale, Natasha Lyonne’s wisecracking 70s detective homage, has an in-built ability to detect a lie as soon as someone tells it. Instead of trying to explain this gift away as the result of a gamma storm or spider bite or covert government experiment, it now accepts that, yeah, she has a “freaky little lie detector trick”, that’s the extent of the idea, got a problem with that? These days, Charlie waves away any queries about it with an “Eh”, a shrug and a cheeky nudge of the baseball cap and aviator shades.After using her talent to work her way through a series of increasingly preposterous case-of-the-week murders last time, then ending up with the mafia putti...

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1 hour ago My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in London. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago What links Esperanza Spalding and Kim Deal? The Saturday quiz

From Proxima Centauri b and Trappist-1 system to ophidiophobia, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 The longest direct flight from London goes to which city?2 Until 1752, when did the new year officially begin in England?3 Which action film hero suffers from ophidiophobia?4 AE Stallings succeeded Alice Oswald in what role?5 Which country’s president was shot by his intelligence chief in 1979?6 Which marsupial is native to North America?7 Vanwall, in 1958, was the first winner of what title?8 Who wrote Natural History, the longest surviving single Roman text?What links: 9 Lumbini; Bodh Gaya; Sarnath; Kushinagar?10 51 Pegasi b; Kepler-22b; Proxima Centauri b; Trappist-1 system?11 Miller; Marshall; O’Hanlon; Little; Gilet?12 Gun; orlop; poop; quarter; upper; well?13 Chateau de Châlus-Chabrol; Pontefract Castle; Bosworth Field?14 Birmingham (1); Liverpool (6); London (2); Manchester (4); Nottingham (2)?15 Kim Deal; Kim Gordon; Carol Kaye; Esperanza Spalding; Tina Weymouth? Conti...

Economics

1 hour ago Daniel Dubois will stop Oleksandr Usyk after 'low blow' joke – 'this time it's different'

FRANK WARREN COLUMN: Oleksandr Usyk escaped with a controversial victory the last time he faced off with Daniel Dubois in the ring but he won't get to lucky when they meet again on July 19

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1 hour ago M&S launches cooling pyjamas in time for the mini heatwave—and they already have 5 stars

With a mini heatwave on the horizon, now's the perfect time to get a pyjama set that's sure to keep you cool and comfy in high temperatures - and this new range from M&S already has 5-star ratings

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