50 m. ago Storm Benjamin batters Britain: Heavy rain and 75mph winds bring misery for commuters as weather warnings and flood alerts covering millions of people come into force

The Met Office has issued four yellow weather warnings for up to two inches of rain and 75mph gusts from the storm - with flooding, power cuts and travel disruption all set to impact the UK today.

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78 m. ago Hollyoaks' Jorgie Porter says she 'can't be sexy' anymore after having children

Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter has made the candid admission that she is 'struggling to feel sexy' since returning to the Channel 4 soap after a bout of maternity leave

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98 m. ago Oil price jumps after US sanctions Russia’s Rosneft and Lukoil; White House considers software curbs on China – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe oil price has jumped after the US has sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies to increase pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate an end to its war against Ukraine.The White House’s new measures against Rosneft and Lukoil are the US’s first sanctions against Russia since Trump’s return to office in January. All assets belonging to the two companies in the US have been frozen, and US companies and individuals will be barred from doing business with them. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘A dark place’ – Tom Aspinall admits he thought UFC career may be over after horror knee injury ahead of UFC 321 return

TOM ASPINALL thought his career had potentially come to an end in the aftermath of his horror knee injury. The Wigan warrior’s surge up the heavyweight ranks came to a screeching halt in July 2022 when he took on Curtis Blaydes in the main event of UFC London. Aspinall’s undefeated streak in the promotion came...

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2 h. ago 'We tried Christmas food from M&S, Aldi, Lidl and Tesco and there's one winner'

The taste test includes starters, mains, desserts and treats from shops including Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose and Booths

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3 h. ago Tropical Storm Melissa lumbers through the Caribbean as islands take cover from rain

Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola

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4 h. ago Tens of thousands to attend rival rallies as Hungary’s election campaign kicks off

Budapest marches by ruling Fidesz party and opposition Tisza will take place in a highly polarised political climateTens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for rival rallies by Viktor Orbán’s ruling party and his main opponent as they kick off campaigning for elections next year in a highly polarised political climate.The anniversary on Thursday of Hungary’s thwarted 1956 uprising against Soviet rule holds a central place in the ideology of the populist far-right Fidesz party, which was once firmly anti-Soviet but has grown closer to Russia under Orbán. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa fling zingers in New York mayoral debate as they try to win over voters

Final debate was marked by heated exchanges between the frontrunners, while Sliwa quipped at Cuomo’s expenseNew York City’s three mayoral contenders had a fiery debate on Wednesday night in their final televised face-off less than two weeks before voters decide the city’s next leader on 4 November.Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa participated in a tense and often chaotic discussion. The current mayor, Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race weeks earlier, once again did not attend. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Amazon pulls waterproof car seat covers over fears they could block airbags

Motorists were told to return products made by the Waterproof Seat Cover Co in a recall notice issued on October 14

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7 h. ago New York City mayoral debate live: Mamdani, Sliwa and Cuomo trade jabs over Israel, rent and Trump

Candidates come out swinging as they vie for New Yorkers’ votes in final debate“It’s us versus them,” Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, says in his brief opening statement, in which he claims that he is the true representative of New Yorkers.Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, begins by urging the Knicks to win, and then pivots to attacking “my main opponent”, Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago New York City mayoral debate live: Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa face off for final time

The two-hour debate is likely to focus on public safety, cost of living, housing and Trump “It’s us versus them,” Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, says in his brief opening statement, in which he claims that he is the true representative of New Yorkers.Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, begins by urging the Knicks to win, and then pivots to attacking “my main opponent”, Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Go nuclear or ‘go hungry’: GOP senators warm to drastic move of killing filibuster as voters suffer and shutdown nears record

Democrats’ nuclear option had wide-reaching consequences that ultimately empowered Trump, Eric Garcia writes. If Republicans kill the filibuster to reopen the government, it might permanently break the Senate

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10 h. ago Sopranos creator David Chase to write HBO limited series on CIA drug program

Return marks his first TV series since groundbreaking mob drama, and will examine covert mind-control programDavid Chase is returning to television. The Sopranos creator will write MKUltra, a limited series on the CIA’s secret cold war-era mind control program, for HBO.The project, first reported by Deadline, will be Chase’s first series since the era-defining HBO mob drama. The dramatic thriller, based on John Lisle’s book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra, focuses on Gottlieb, a notorious scientist known as the “black sorcerer” who led Project MKUltra, the CIA’s covert psychedelic program that tested hallucinogenic drugs, hypnosis, and torture on willing and unwilling subjects from 1953 until it was halted in 1973. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Kate Scott suffers embarrassing wardrobe malfunction live on CBS Sports and shows off cat

CBS PRESENTER Kate Scott suffered a wardrobe malfunction scare while bring fans Champions League coverage. The glamorous sports broadcaster was in the studio with a host of footballing royalty. But things took a hilarious, if awkward, turn when she had to quickly react to prevent an embarrassing accident on air. She was reaching across the...

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10 h. ago Weekend Lotto jackpot stands at £10.5m as ticket holders fail to scoop top prize

Nobody matched all six main numbers for the jackpot, so it has rolled over to Saturday

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11 h. ago The average family is now spending $27,000 a year on health insurance, report finds

Workers pay 26 percent of family premiums while employers cover the remaining 74 percent, KFF’s annual Employer Health Benefits Survey found

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12 h. ago The Inbetweeners stars reunite ahead of show's reboot next year

All four of the show's main characters are said to be on board with a reboot of The Inbetweeners - and now more former cast members have added fuel to the fire

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12 h. ago Potential grooming gangs chair accuses Kemi Badenoch of 'weaponising' inquiry

Jim Gamble was the second candidate to chair the probe to pull out of the process - and said Ms Badenoch and others were using victims as a "political football" and using their voices to launch attacks on the government

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12 h. ago Top Democrat on House oversight panel demands Pam Bondi release Epstein files

Robert Garcia cited revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir in letter to the attorney generalThe top Democrat on a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case demanded on Wednesday that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, turn over files related to the alleged sex trafficker, citing revelations from the posthumous memoir of a prominent abuse survivor.Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, published this week, details how Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell groomed and manipulated her. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Newly freed George Santos promises to name kids after these MAGA icons

George Santos’ saga has made him a recognizable, and occasionally celebrated, internet figure

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