4 h. ago Mikel Merino confident Arsenal can do ‘big things’ despite Liverpool loss

Sunday’s clash was settled by a moment of magic as Dominik Szoboszlai’s 30-yard free-kick thundered home.

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4 d. ago Man threatened to burn down café and stab customers with a screwdriver just five days after prison release

Terrence Maughan, 40, was sentenced to 39 months in prison

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4 d. ago LEO MCKINSTRY: Drive through the Dordogne that made me realise France, which is making all the same mistakes we are, has become... Le Sick Man of Europe

The setting was so magnificent that, for a moment, I felt as if I had been transported to a sort of paradise.

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5 d. ago A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews review – a memoir of great scope and intimacy

A meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken, from one of Canada’s most admired writersAsking himself “Why I write”, George Orwell gave four reasons: aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, political purpose and sheer egoism. Asked the same question ahead of a literary conference in Mexico City, Miriam Toews mentions the teenage letters she sent from Europe to her sister Marjorie (Marj or M as she calls her) as the reason she became a writer. Sorry, that won’t do for an answer, she’s told. Try again.In a frenetic household set-up in Toronto, keeping an eye on her mother one moment, entertaining her grandchildren the next and warding off angry neighbours in between, she struggles to get her act together and makes a to-do list: “Wind Museum. Deranged skunk. North-west quadrant with ex. Conversación in Mexico City.” The skunk has distemper and keeps getting trapped in the window well. The Wind Museum is the collection she’d love to create, commemorating winds from all ...

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5 d. ago A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews review – a searingly intimate memoir

One of Canada’s most admired writers delivers a triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken Asking himself “Why I write”, George Orwell gave four reasons: aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, political purpose and sheer egoism. Asked the same question ahead of a literary conference in Mexico City, Miriam Toews mentions the teenage letters she sent from Europe to her sister Marjorie (Marj or M as she calls her) as the reason she became a writer. Sorry, that won’t do for an answer, she’s told. Try again.In a frenetic household set-up in Toronto, keeping an eye on her mother one moment, entertaining her grandchildren the next and warding off angry neighbours in between, she struggles to get her act together and makes a to-do list: “Wind Museum. Deranged skunk. North-west quadrant with ex. Conversación in Mexico City.” The skunk has distemper and keeps getting trapped in the window well. The Wind Museum is the collection she’d love to create, commemorating ...

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5 d. ago US envoy sparks uproar after telling Lebanese journalists to ‘act civilised’

Reporters demand apology from Tom Barrack, US special envoy to Syria, after his remarks at Beirut press conference Journalists in Lebanon have demanded an apology from a senior US envoy after he told them to “act civilized” and not be “animalistic”.As reporters shouted questions after the US delegation’s meeting with the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, on Tuesday, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, stepped up to the podium in the packed room and said: “We’re going to have a different set of rules ... please be quiet for a moment. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Disabled mum ordered to 'hurry up' as she cried on tarmac of major UK airport

Dr Jo Winter was travelling to Copenhagen with her daughter when airport staff reportedly refused to let her wheelchair on board - before telling her to 'hurry up' as she struggled across the tarmac

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9 d. ago Customer sets fire to cafe because he couldn't get mayonnaise on sandwich

The 50-year-old customer was livid that he couldn't to get some mayonnaise on his sandwich, resulting in him torching the building, sending everyone inside running for their lives

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9 d. ago Horror moment man sets Spanish café on fire after staff 'ran out of mayonnaise'

Flames are shown quickly erupting as the man walks away having doused the eatery in petrol after reacting in fury after being told they didn't have the sauce he wanted

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1 week ago Moment man sets fire to cafe with customers inside 'after staff refused to give him mayonnaise for his sandwich'

CCTV footage shows the man pouring gasoline over the bar at Las Postas cafe in the Spanish town of Los Palacios y Villafranca, before setting it alight.

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1 week ago Emmerdale's Mackenzie Boyd star says 'at last all will be revealed' after twist

Emmerdale fans are set to see a huge moment for Mackenzie Boyd on the hit ITV soap

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1 week ago Thursday Murder Club star Helen Mirren 'burst into tears' in heartfelt off

The Thursday Murder Club stars Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley shared an emotional moment when they reunited on set.

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2 w. ago Chris Hemsworth talks moment that 'clicked' with Avengers cast

Chris Hemsworth has portrayed the character of Thor for the past decade and he has now opened up on a 'magical' moment he had with his co-stars on The Avengers set.

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2 w. ago Chris Hemsworth shares 'magical' moment with Robert Downey Jr on The Avengers set

Chris Hemsworth has returned for Disney+’s Limitless where he looks into ways of living better.

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2 w. ago Furious customers condemn Fatboy Slim's beachfront cafe for 'crazy' prices, 'shocking' 40

The DJ has owned the lease of the Big Beach The Big Beach Café on Kingsway, in his native Hove, near Brighton, after purchasing it from Sir Paul McCartney's ex Heather Mills in 2013.

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3 w. ago 'Silent man' who has spent a decade repeatedly blocking traffic does it again

Once arrested for obstructing the highway David Hampson refuses to speak to police officers, lawyers, doctors, court staff, judges, and probation staff. Juries have found he is "mute of malice" not "mute by visitation of God"

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3 w. ago Video appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist is killed as an Israeli settler opens fire

New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank last month

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3 w. ago Activists at women's rights rally at Glasgow University are refused service at the student union bar 'over their opinions and beliefs' and signs 'that make staff feel unsafe'

Let Women Speak (LWS) had booked a private room at Glasgow University Union (GUU) where they planned to hold a social after their rally on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Wout Faes fires late winner as Leicester sink Sheffield Wednesday amid protests

Martí Cifuentes has cleared his first hurdle as Leicester manager. The former QPR coach took the time to do a lap of the King Power Stadium while his players warmed up, introducing himself to the home supporters. A late header from his substitute Wout Faes ensured that those fans went home happy – but for much of a testing opening game against Henrik Pedersen’s Sheffield Wednesday, who have had to face plenty of obstacles before a ball was even kicked this season, that looked an unlikely outcome.For Wednesday, it was an achievement to even be here. Placed under a transfer embargo by the Football League because of late payments, they have only 15 senior first-teamers on the books and cancelled their final pre-season fixture, against Burnley, after the players refused to play. They and the staff were paid their outstanding July wages on Friday after solidarity payments from the Premier League came in. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Forgotten resort frozen in time with drinks still waiting on tables 30 years later

Urban explorers have found an eerie and haunting resort town in Japan, with hotels left untouched for decades, and drinks set on tables as though guests may return at any moment

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