51 m. ago Txiki Begiristain’s secret to succeeding with Pep Guardiola during Man City’s glory years

Begiristain left Man City this summer after 13 years as the club’s director of football

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60 m. ago Britain's asylum capital warns it faces a migrant 'disaster': Glasgow's SNP leader fears city will be unable to cope with surge of homeless refugees amid Labour's hotel crackdown

The leader of Glasgow council has warned of 'disastrous' consequences if thousands of refugees head to Scotland when Labour kicks them out of migrant hotels in England.

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88 m. ago Center Parcs staff reveal what guests don't see and what it's really like at holiday park

Center Parcs staff have revealed what it's really like to work for the family holiday retreat - and it may surprise you to find out what really goes on behind the scenes

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90 m. ago Omar Marmoush injury latest as Man City star set for scan ahead of Manchester United derby

Omar Marmoush picked up an injury on international duty and the Manchester City forward could now be a doubt for Sunday's derby.

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1 hour ago A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna review – a woman’s ambitions in Pakistan

This novel fizzes with energy as it follows the parallel lives of two siblings and exposes the crushing divides of gender and classI admired Dur e Aziz Amna’s precise and lyrical first novel, American Fever; the protagonist – an exchange student from Pakistan to rural Oregon – staying with me long after I encountered her. She has now delivered a superb second novel that features another fascinating central character, though in a much darker, more disturbing context.A Splintering is the story of Tara, one of five siblings from a poor farming family in the hinterlands of Pakistani Punjab. This is the kind of landscape where age-old codes of manhood, with brother or son as provider and adjudicator of women’s lives, still rule. Tara, gazing at the stars from their courtyard at night, wants to get away from the squalor of Mazinagar (literally, past city), where most people live and die unnoticed, and build a life full of money and possessions in the city. She has no romantic notions...

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1 hour ago Serious flood warning issued at Welsh caravan park with eight other areas under threat as Met Office warns of more heavy rain

There are a total of 8 warnings in place across Wales on Wednesday morning, with Natural Resources Wales warning that immediate action is needed in some areas

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1 hour ago Firms could be given freedom to set their own contactless card limits

The contactless card limit has been raised in steps over the years, currently standing at £100.

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2 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: Central line breakthrough despite London Underground walkout 'carnage'

Central line resumes service between between White City and West Ruislip/Ealing Broadway

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2 h. ago Qatar accuses Israel of 'state terrorism' for strike on its capital which killed five Hamas members at peace talks

US President Donald Trump said he was ‘not thrilled’ by the attack which has been widely condemned by the international community

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2 h. ago Unleashed City can lead the UK's escape from low growth despair

Gilt yields are higher than they were under Liz Truss’s regime.

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2 h. ago Zookeeper is eaten alive by pack of lions in front of horrified tourists after stepping out of his car at Thai safari park

The beasts pounced on the worker when he stepped out of his jeep in the open enclosure at Safari World in Bangkok at around 11 am local time.

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2 h. ago 13 players could miss Man City vs Man Utd after new injury scare on international duty

Both Manchester City and Manchester United have injury concerns heading into Sunday's derby at the Etihad Stadium following a bruising international break for the clubs

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2 h. ago Erling Haaland sends ominous message to Man Utd ahead of Manchester derby

Erling Haaland underlined his goalscoring form ahead of the Manchester derby as the Manchester City striker smashed five goals as Norway hit 11 in their World Cup qualifier

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2 h. ago Know someone heading to Paris? Here are the 15 beauty buys you should be asking them to pick up for you

Headed to Paris or know someone who is? Forget Notre Dame keyrings and overpriced macarons: the real delights are to be found in the city's pharmacies.

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2 h. ago Zohran Mamdani’s identity may seem complex but to Ugandans he is simply their ‘own son’

Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, has faced backlash in the US over his identity – but in Kampala, Ugandans of Indian descent are unquestioningly considered AfricanAmid the trees clustered with jackfruit and the boda boda motorcycles weaving precariously around Kampala’s congested roads earlier this year was a campaign poster for Katongole Singh, an immaculately coiffed candidate who positively beamed alongside the president, Yoweri Museveni.With a Sikh Indian surname and an indigenous Ugandan first name, Singh is no rarity in the Ugandan capital, where people of Indian descent have lived for more than 125 years. Many people here boast a multi-hyphenated “African Indian” identity – as indeed does the Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the 33-year-old running for mayor of New York City. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Paris cleaned up the Seine – and gave swimmers a new way to beat the heat. Will your city follow suit? | Helen Massy

This summer, locals and tourists enjoyed new river-bathing sites. As global heating escalates, we need more of these ‘cool islands’Sign 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 moreAfter la rentrée, when adults and children alike across France head back to work and school after the seemingly endless summer holidays, you would be forgiven for thinking autumn is upon us. But, weather permitting, enthusiastic swimmers in Paris will be able to prolong that holiday feeling into September – by taking a dip in the River Seine.For nearly 100,000 swimmers, one of the highlights of this summer in the city has been being able to take a splash in the cool river waters at one of the three free public bathing spots, made available this year for the first time in over a century.Helen Massy-Beresford is a journalist based in Paris Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Voices: ‘A bully’s tool’: Readers slam new home secretary’s ‘desperate’ immigration rhetoric

Our community is dubious of Shabana Mahmood’s visa suspension plan – and accused Labour of pandering to Reform and ‘making threats like an empire’

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3 h. ago Man United injury latest as three could miss Man City game amid Matheus Cunha wait

The latest Manchester United injury news as Ruben Amorim sweats over the fitness of three players for their impending trip to Manchester City.

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3 h. ago Manchester named among UK’s best cities for an autumn getaway

The Times described the city as "all red-brick converted mills and warehouses set off by butterscotch leaves and red ivy"

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3 h. ago A moment that changed me: I’m a chef who joined the Ukrainian army – and it transformed how I live and cook

When I opened my first restaurant, just before the war began, I was a perfectionist. My time in an army unit taught me about discipline and what’s really importantEvery chef longs to open their own restaurant so, when I did, it felt like a dream. I had been away working in some of the best restaurants in Europe. My business partner had a great spot for a restaurant in the centre of Dnipro, my home city in Ukraine, and we opened to rave reviews. My team and I were all a similar age and we had a shared vision: to create modern Ukrainian food.But by February 2022, just three months later, we knew war with Russia was likely. I was already in touch with friends in the army and, if Russia invaded, I knew I would fight. When the war started, all the team gathered in the restaurant and I said I would understand if anybody wanted to leave Dnipro and move west, where it was safer, which lots of people were doing. Nobody wanted to. We decided that anyone who wasn’t going to join the army would...

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