42 h. ago King Charles leads major royal event after issuing emotional Easter message

King Charles and Queen Camilla have attended the traditional Maundy Thursday service at Durham Cathedral today, where the King handed out out Maundy Money to 76 men and 76 women – one for each year of his life

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42 h. ago Maundy Thursday 2025: What is the meaning of the Christian holy day?

Maundy Thursday marks the fifth day of Holy Week in the lead-up to Easter

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44 h. ago What is Maundy Thursday? History of the holy day, what Maundy means and Maundy money explained

The King and Queen will be attending a special service at Durham Cathedral to mark the day.

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45 h. ago King Charles gives emotional Easter message ahead of Maundy Thursday service

The King and Queen will meet specially invited guests and hand out Maundy money in the service on Thursday morning.

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47 h. ago King Charles mourns 'cruelty of humanity' in emotional Easter message for Maundy Thursday

King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet specially invited guests and hand out Maundy money at Durham Cathedral on Thursday morning, where they will host the Royal Maundy Service

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47 h. ago King hails love as important virtue across religions in Easter message

The King and Queen will attend a Royal Maundy service at Durham Cathedral on Thursday.

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3 d. ago The 1980s Scottish boy's name that has a completely different and rude meaning in 2025

Scottish names normally have beautiful, fascinating, and profound meanings behind them - but not this one

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4 d. ago White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood condemns SNL’s ‘mean and unfunny’ sketch

Actor used Instagram story to address skit in which SNL cast member Sarah Sherman mocked her appearanceAimee Lou Wood has criticised a Saturday Night Live sketch that mocked her appearance, calling it “mean and unfunny”.The White Lotus star, 31, used an Instagram story to address the skit in which the SNL cast member Sarah Sherman impersonated her, using a British accent and exaggerated prosthetic teeth. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago UK and G7 allies look at lowering ‘meaningless’ cap on Russian oil exports

Limit of $100 a barrel said to be ineffective with the price of crude having crashed in response to Trump’s trade warThe UK and its G7 allies are considering tightening the “meaningless” cap on Russian oil export prices after Donald Trump’s trade war caused global oil markets to crash.UK Treasury officials are understood to be looking at plans to lower the $60 (£46) a barrel cap Russianexports after the oil market plunged this week to $59.77 a barrel for the first time in more than four years. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Inside Donald Trump's tariff war and exactly what it means for Brits in 2025

The tariffs rattled traders and investors, with trillions of dollars wiped off financial markets in the aftermath - but what does it mean for UK savings, pensions and mortgages?

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1 week ago Weird Christian relics: From the 'Holy Foreskin' to the 'head of John the Baptist' and the hand of a butcher's wife

Most biblical scholars also agree that John the Baptist really did baptise Jesus, as recorded in the New Testament. What is less verifiable is the claim that the head of John now lies in a French cathedral.

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2 w. ago ‘It means death’: Afghan women’s rights activists face deportation from Pakistan

Police go door-to-door arresting Afghans as government pledges to send millions back home to Taliban ruleMore than 50 prominent female Afghan women’s rights activists sheltering in Pakistan are facing deportation home, where they fear they will be imprisoned or killed under Taliban rule.Under a draconian policy, the Pakistan government has pledged to deport millions of Afghan nationals, after relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan severely deteriorated and attacks by militants in the border areas surged. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Amanda Knox: Complete timeline of her case and legal battles

Explore the key events in Amanda Knox’s case, from her arrest to acquittal, and the release of her 2025 memoir Free: My Search for Meaning

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3 w. ago Spring Statement 2025: What it means for Scotland in 6 points

Chancellor Rachel Reeves had moved to alleviate fears cuts could be coming to Scotland’s public services by vowing day-to-day and capital funding will be protected.

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3 w. ago What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on EarthIn September 2015, I was unemployed, heartbroken and living alone in my dead grandad’s caravan, wondering what the meaning of life was. Where was I going to find happiness, or purpose, or meaning? What was the point to all of this?Like any millennial, I turned to Google for the answers. I trawled through essays, newspaper articles, countless YouTube videos, various dictionary definitions and numerous references to the number 42, before I discovered an intriguing project carried out by the philosopher Will Durant during the 1930s. Durant had written to Ivy League presidents, Nobel prize winners, psychologists, novelists, professors, poets, scientists, artists and athletes to ask for their take on the meaning of life. His findings were collated in the book On the Meaning of Life, published in 1932. Continue reading...

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last month What a dark energy discovery means for the fate of the universe – podcast

Dark energy, the mysterious force powering the expansion of the universe, appears to be weakening over time, according to a major cosmological survey that has thrown the laws of modern physics into doubt. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay how this new finding could shed light on the ultimate fate of the cosmos, and Saul Perlmutter, who won a Nobel prize for his work proving the universe is expanding, describes how the new development could upend assumptions about how this mysterious force operatesSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

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