17 m. ago Celtic launched a jerry can of petrol into an already smouldering fire but there’s only one party really at fault

The club accused UEFA, the media and even Brendan Rodgers but Michael Gannon believes only the board is at fault

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20 m. ago Prince Harry longing to bring his family back to the UK, pals say

The Duke is due to spend four days solo in the UK this week, but would love to make another trip in the future with wife Meghan and their two children so they can "see where he grew up"

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38 m. ago The ‘bizarre’ referral of the US housing finance agency chief to oust Lisa Cook

Former officials and experts say Bill Pulte’s request for inquiry into Fed governor’s alleged fraud is ‘unusual’The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency embraced a highly unusual process to accuse Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, of committing mortgage fraud, former officials and experts have said. One former high-ranking official called the director’s involvement in a criminal referral “bizarre”.William Pulte, a businessman and major GOP donor whom Donald Trump appointed to head the powerful housing agency earlier this year, has accused Cook of committing mortgage fraud by misrepresenting her homes as a primary residence, potentially securing more favorable mortgage rates. The justice department formally opened a criminal investigation into whether Cook committed fraud and has issued subpoenas related to the transaction. Cook’s lawyers have called the discrepancies a “clerical error” and she has denied any wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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38 m. ago How to make perfect nanaimo bars – recipe | Felicity cloake's How to make the perfect

This Canadian staple has long been interpreted differently, with various nuts and biscuit bases, but which version nails it?Canadians are famously nice – think laid-back Keanu Reeves, sunny Pamela Anderson, the charmingly incompetent Inspector Gadget – except when it comes to their beloved nanaimo bars. Get the ratio of this three-tier national treasure wrong, as the New York Times stood accused of doing in 2021, when its Instagram account posted a picture of squares that one user described as “an insult to Canadians everywhere”, and you’ll discover you can push them only so far.The Times is not alone in attracting ire. So popular are nanaimo (pronounced nuh-NYE-mo) bars, named after the British Colombian logging and mining town where they are said to have originated, that Canada Post put them on a stamp in 2019 only to face similar howls of outrage, albeit in Canadian: “One hesitates to be critical,” Nanaimo’s mayor explained carefully, “but it’s not a very accurate depiction.” Con...

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46 m. ago The Voice of Hind Rajab should have won Venice’s top prize. But the result wasn’t a cop

Many felt Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza docufiction was robbed when Jim Jarmusch’s latest took the top prize. Yet accusations of moral cowardice on the part of the jury are naive and unfairThere are standing ovations and there are jury decisions.Jim Jarmusch’s droll, quirky, very charming film Father Mother Sister Brother got a mere six minutes for its standing ovation at Venice – though one day we’re going to have to introduce some Olympic-style standardisation to these timings. But it got the top prize, the Golden Lion, from Alexander Payne’s jury. Continue reading...

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51 m. ago Sir Keir Starmer and his very glamorous wife Lady Victoria join King Charles and Queen Camilla for church service at Balmoral

King Charles and Queen Camilla were joined by the Prime Minister for the traditional Sunday service at Crathie Kirk this morning. 

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98 m. ago ‘No outreach’ to Epstein victims despite Trump’s vow to investigate, lawyers say

Nine attorneys tell Guardian they have not been contacted by justice department – state of affairs they call ‘atrocious’For more than six months, Donald Trump and his justice department have insisted they would get to the bottom of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, but nine attorneys – who have represented approximately 50 Epstein survivors – told the Guardian they have not been recently contacted by the justice department.The revelation casts doubt on the effort by the Trump administration to fully investigate Epstein’s crimes and activities and reveal everything that the government knows about him. It comes as Trump faces intense political pressure, including from his own base, over his social ties to Epstein, who was famed for courting rich and powerful figures into his circle. Continue reading...

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98 m. ago Au Pair and 'married lover hatched twisted BDSM plot that led to double murder'

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, 23, claims she and her married 'lover' Brendan Banfield hatched a twisted BDSM plot that led to the deaths of Joseph Ryan and his wife Christine

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99 m. ago Met Police hits out at ‘exceptional abuse’ at Palestine Action protest

London force arrests more than 425 people supporting proscribed group

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1 hour ago Teenagers are prouder to be British than their parents, poll shows

Research reveals half of 16 and 17-year-olds are proud of their national identity, but almost three in ten support abolishing the monarchy

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2 h. ago Schoolgirl victim of the Southport stabbing brands killer Axel Rudakubana a coward and declares 'that's all he's ever going to be'

The teen was stabbed three times in her arm and back during the attack last July which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.

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2 h. ago They've got a type! As Kevin Costner's new love's likeness to his estranged wife is revealed, which male stars have dated their ex's doppelgängers

Kevin Costner's new romance has got tongues wagging - for a very intriguing reason.

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2 h. ago Wealthy businessman is ordered to tear down Indian gastropub built 188m from Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Rakesh Singh, 57, has lost his battle over The Cask N Tandoor (pictured), which sits just 188m (618ft) from Anne Hathaway's Cottage in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire.

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2 h. ago Voices: What teen influencer Carlo Acutis becoming a saint says about Pope Leo’s Catholic Church

As the British-born Italian teenager is canonised, following a campaign by his wealthy family, Catherine Pepinster asks how the Catholic Church can honour the deserving people whose supporters don’t have the means to lobby on their behalf

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2 h. ago Emergency alert test ‘may put domestic abuse survivors at risk’

There are fears the sound may reveal hidden phones

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3 h. ago Military sites could be used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers, minister says – UK politics live

Starmer to ‘go up a gear’ as ministers consider changes to human rights laws in bid to head off Reform UKThe most significant moves in Starmer ’s reshuffle d cabinetConservative party chair Kevin Hollinrake has accused Reform UK of copying the former government’s migration policies.Speaking on Sky News this morning, Hollinrake said:All Reform are doing now – a few weeks ago they were talking about towing the boats back to France and they realised they couldn’t do that.And all their plans now are a copycat – exactly the plans that we had in the last government. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Charlotte Dawson 'strict' verdict as she ditches romance with fiancé after sexting scandal

Charlotte Dawson and fiancé Matt Sarsfield have put their romance on pause, as she says juggling life with three kids has left little time to focus on their relationship

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3 h. ago I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far rightSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWhen my dad went to school in the 1970s, the kids used to pretend he was invisible. Every day he would try to make conversation and play with the other children, and every day he would be ignored. One night it got so bad that my grandma found him crying himself to sleep, unable to process, as an eight-year-old, why no one would want to talk to “the brown kid”. This kind of social exclusion was sadly all too familiar in postwar Britain – my white grandma had endured her own share of abuse ever since she fell in love with my Sri Lankan grandad in 1966, committing the family’s original sin of interracial marriage.When I heard these stories as a child, they felt like terrible...

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3 h. ago Geraint Thomas' huge net worth and luxurious wedding venue he owns with wife

Geraint Thomas will bring his career to an end at Cardiff Castle on Sunday

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4 h. ago Dave Grohl's wife decides on fate of marriage year after secret love child bombshell

The Foo Fighters frontman's wife Jordyn Blum, 49, was left heartbroken after the singer admitted he had welcomed a fourth child 'outside of his marriage'in September 2024

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