42 m. ago Pope Francis funeral live: Trump and Zelenskyy among world leaders gathered for ceremony

Funeral in St Peter’s Square is being presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ReAt least 130 foreign delegations, including about “50 heads of state and 10 reigning monarchs”, would attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, the Vatican said on Thursday.Heads of state and government who have confirmed their attendance at the funeral include Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Javier Milei, the president of Pope Francis’s native Argentina. Francis had a delicate relationship with politics in his home country, but Milei hailed his “goodness and wisdom”.We will be present at the pope’s funeral, as is only right. Continue reading...

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42 m. ago Pope Francis funeral LIVE: Trump, Zelensky and Prince William arrive at the Vatican for historic service

More than 130,000 people have filed past the Pope's coffin as it lay in state in St Peter's Basilica since Wednesday

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69 m. ago Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?If you find it difficult to think of a river as alive, try picturing a dying or dead river. This is easier. We know what this looks like. We know how it feels. A dying river is one who does not reach the sea. A dying river’s fish float belly-up in stagnant pools. Swans on the upper Thames near Windsor now wear brown tidemarks on their snowy chest feathers, showing where they have sailed through sewage. I recently saw a Southern Water riverbank sign badged with a bright blue logo that read “Water for Life”. The sign instructed passersby to “avoid contact with the water. If you’ve had contact with the water, please wash your hands before eating.” In parts of this septic isle, fresh water has become first undrinkable, then unswimmable, then untouchable.How did it come to this – and where do we go from here? The crisis is one of imagination ...

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70 m. ago In Kent, the ‘silent Reform voter’ may give Nigel Farage his greatest victory

On the campaign trail in Ramsgate, the Reform leader was keen to talk immigration and his distrust of the Tories Continue reading...

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70 m. ago London Marathon 2025: John Terry, X Factor winner and the celebrities running this year

Footballers including John Terry and Jack Wilshere, plus singer Alexandra Burke, are among the famous faces taking to the London Marathon start line on Sunday morning

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70 m. ago Prue Leith's husband shares home life update as she confesses 'I haven't got much longer'

Great British Bake Off's Dame Prue Leith recently admitted she 'can't do everything' she would like to do as she opened up about how she likes to spend time with husband John Playfair

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80 m. ago Real Madrid XI vs Barcelona: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Copa del Rey final today

The latest edition of El Clasico comes at a bad time for Real Madrid

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82 m. ago Barcelona XI vs Real Madrid: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Copa del Rey final today

Barcelona have received some mixed news on the injury front ahead of the big game

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89 m. ago Celebrity Big Brother viewers hit back over Jack P Shepherd win after same 'fix' complaint

The Coronation Street star was announced by hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best as the CBB 2025 champ

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90 m. ago Crystal Palace XI vs Aston Villa: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for FA Cup today

Crystal Palace will look to progress to the FA Cup final for just the third time

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92 m. ago West Ham XI vs Brighton: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Premier League today

Graham Potter is missing a key midfielder as he returns to his old stomping ground

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94 m. ago London Marathon 2025 prediction: Kiplimo and Hassan to make history in the capital

Read the latest odds and tips ahead of the 2025 London Marathon on Sunday

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95 m. ago Chelsea XI vs Everton: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Premier League today

Enzo Maresca has decisions to make before Conference League semi-final tie against Djurgarden

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1 hour ago Pope Francis funeral LIVE: Pontiff's coffin sealed as Trump and Zelensky arrive in Rome for historic Vatican service

World leaders including US President Donald Trump, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be in attendance

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1 hour ago FA Cup semis, Celtic’s title chase, Copa del Rey final and more – matchday live

Premier League and FA Cup: 10 things to look out forToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And mail us or post BTLA headline that certainly grabbed my attention this morning was David Moyes’s analogy of what it is like to manage Everton under new owners TFG.We’ve got a new lover coming in and we have to make sure we like them and it all goes well. People have been brought in to do it before and it didn’t work [with Farhad Moshiri]. We need to hope that we can say: ‘This is how it should be going, this is what Everton are required to do and this is how we need to do it.’”I love the frenzy around finishing fifth this year they’re all brilliant, aren’t they? We finished fifth last year. Why is it such a disaster that we finished fifth? Around this time last year, I was asked to lose a game [against City]. And I was wrong for wanting to win it. We finished fifth but it’s not a good story. A better story is my tenure has been a disaster and it continues to be. I just think that the kind of h...

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1 hour ago Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser, dies aged 41

Giuffre’s family issue statement confirming she killed herself at her farm in Western AustraliaVirginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.Her family issued a statement on Saturday confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Live: Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Saturday, April 26)

All of the latest news from across Wales and further afield

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2 h. ago Virginia Giuffre dead UPDATES: Family's tragic statement as last picture emerges

Sex trafficking survivor Virginia Giuffre, 41, was found to have taken her own life at her farm in Western Australia as her distraught family shared a statement

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2 h. ago Eubank Jr v Benn feels like a mistake – bad TV pretending to be good sport | Barney Ronay

Without their fathers’ surnames there is zero chance the mixmatched catchweight contest would take placeBack in his pomp as an era-defining, generational dog-torturer, the great Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov did an interesting experiment with shapes. This involved showing a dog called Vampire a combination of circles and ovals. Circles meant he was about to be fed. Ovals meant no food and possibly, maybe, at a push, being electrocuted.Before long Vampire was showing the familiar conditioned response, salivating when he saw a circle, shying away from the oval. At which point Pavlov began to show him shapes that were weirdly pitched between the two, not quite an oval, not quite a circle, half a food promise, half something else, until eventually Vampire snapped, yelping and running around in circles, unable to interpret the truth of the thing in front of him. So, top work there everyone. Another dog successfully confused. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Pudding for breakfast? Latest internet fad is a dream for those with a sweet tooth

Topsy-turvy food trend trickling into supermarkets as sweet treats no longer reserved as an end-of-dinner finaleThe idea of pudding as a sweet finale to lunch or dinner is being inverted by the rise of the breakfast pudding. This topsy-turvy food trend includes everything from chia seed puddings designed to taste like cookie dough, overnight oats that resemble tiramisu and Weetabix biscuits transformed into what could be mistaken for vanilla cheesecake.TikTok is the main instigator of the trend, causing dieticians, fitness influencers and homecooks to do battle with viral recipes. The process tends to involve soaking base ingredients such as oats and chia seeds overnight with natural plant additions such as dates and cacao powder or somewhat less healthy, processed items such as melted chocolate bars and spreads including Lotus Biscoff, a brand of caramelised biscuits. There are recipes inspired by Snickers, Kinder Bueno and Bounty bars alongside others modelled on cinnamon rolls an...

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