87 m. ago Education Secretary says Birbalsingh’s account of meeting ‘not as it was’

Bridget Phillipson met Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been commonly described as Britain’s strictest headteacher, earlier this month.

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2 h. ago LIVE: Massive fire breaks out in Wythenshawe as smoke billows from scene

Residents reported hearing 'explosions' earlier this morning

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2 h. ago LIVE: Massive fire breaks out in Wythenshawe as smoke billows from scene and homes are evacuated

Residents reported hearing 'explosions' earlier this morning

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2 h. ago NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch next week – what you need to know about the search for life beyond Earth

In its next mission, NASA will map the entire sky in search for the building blocks of life

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2 h. ago Nostradamus issued eerie Pope Francis prediction as Catholic Church's fate questioned

Conspiracy theorists have stumbled across the predictions of 16th-century French prophet Nostradamus, which contain a chilling warning about the future of Pope Francis and the Catholic Church

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3 h. ago Jos Buttler defends England selection but pinpoints where bowlers must improve after Australia defeat

Australia chased down a mammoth total as England suffered an early Champions Trophy blow

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3 h. ago Innocent man freed after 30 years in prison: ‘Everybody is looking at their phones now’

One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered his release was his mother’s grave

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3 h. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley

The stakes couldn’t be higher and the risks couldn’t be greater when the prime minister visits Washington this weekFor British prime ministers, with their ideas about the world shaped by the histories of Churchill and Roosevelt, Maggie and Ronnie, and the rest of the folklore about the transatlantic alliance, the prospect of a visit to the White House usually causes tingles of excitement. One of our senior diplomats once offered me an explanation of the allure: “The red carpet is laid out, the national anthems are played, all that stuff is very seductive.” This will be customarily accompanied by ritualistic words about the importance and invincibility of the “special relationship”.Number 10 lobbied hard to get Sir Keir Starmer across the Atlantic early in the second term of Donald Trump and, until recently, Downing Street people were telling themselves that an encounter between the two men needn’t be a disaster and might even turn out to be a success. In the weeks since Trump’s re-e...

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4 h. ago M4 closed in both directions after human remains found on the carriageway

A stretch of the M4 near the River Severn was closed for several hours until early Sunday morning.

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5 h. ago Airdrie took a good point from Thistle, we would've crumbled months ago, says defender

Mason Hancock reckons Airdrie have come a long way since their poor early-season form run

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6 h. ago 'Sleepmaxxing' is the viral trend taking over TikTok but experts warn against one thing

A new trend is sweeping across TikTok, and for once, it’s not about waking up earlier or squeezing more productivity into the day but how you can optimise your sleep

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6 h. ago Man, 29, bitten by shark off Queensland coast in second attack in a month

A 17-year-old girl died after being bitten by a shark in the north of Brisbane earlier this month

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9 h. ago Heartbroken Gen Z are getting tattoos of the viral anglerfish for this reason

The deep sea fish that swam to the surface off the coast of Tenerife has inspired a new tattoo trend on TikTok but the reason might point to deeper societal issues

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9 h. ago Thousands at risk of losing their homes in the Amazon rainforest as terrifying sinkholes threaten to swallow their homes

The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth.

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10 h. ago Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison visits mother's grave and ponders ubiquitous cellphones

A Hawaii man released after spending 30 years in prison for a murder he has always denied committing has spent his first day of freedom visiting his mother's gravesite and marveling at how much the world is different

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10 h. ago Identity of mystery woman spotted at Chiltern Firehouse with Jack Grealish is revealed

Jack, who recently welcomed his first child with girlfriend Sasha Attwood , shouted: 'She's not with me!' as they left the restaurant before he got into his car alone.

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11 h. ago SARAH VINE: How on earth can we trust the BBC after this shocking piece of propaganda?

The BBC's documentary about the lives of children living in the conflict zone was trumpeted as an honest account. But its been pulled after it was revealed its narrator is the son of a Hamas minister.

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11 h. ago Fashionable baby bouncers, jumpers and even car seats may delay development, researchers find

Early years specialists warn bouncers, jumpers and car seats may hamper infants' efforts to learn to walk and increase the risk of obesity, calling the phenomenon 'container baby syndrome'.

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13 h. ago Taylor Swift LOSES nearly 150,000 followers after getting booed at the 2025 Super Bowl

Taylor Swift has reportedly lost nearly 150,000 followers on Instagram after she was booed while attending Super Bowl LIX earlier this month in New Orleans.

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