48 m. ago Police brace for huge London protest against Donald Trump as US President carries out unprecedented second state visit

Thousands of people are expected to descend on the streets of the capital to protest against the US President

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74 m. ago ‘Trump is a defecating fly on a camel’s back’: Palestinian artist Samia Halaby on being banned, exiled – and now celebrated

At 88, she has won a Munch award for artistic freedom – despite her pioneering work being cancelled by the US university she studied at. She talks protest, polarisation and propagandaIt’s a miracle I get out of my interview with Palestinian artist Samia Halaby alive. Not just because the creaky wooden stairs to her second-floor Tribeca, New York live-work space are alarmingly steep, but because certain people view the 88-year-old acclaimed abstract artist, a pioneer of digital art, as a dangerous security threat.In December 2023, Indiana University, Halaby’s alma mater, cancelled what was due to be the first American retrospective exhibition of Halaby’s work at the university’s Eskenazi Museum of Art. The exhibition had been three years in the making but Halaby was informed she was no longer welcome in a terse two-sentence letter from the museum’s director, citing vague security concerns. The real reason, she suspects, was the museum’s wish to distance itself from anything supportiv...

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77 m. ago Baby killer Constance Marten called cult leader 'daddy' before dumping daughter in Lidl bag

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Constance Marten and her rapist partner Mark Gordon were both jailed for 14 years after their baby daughter Victoria was found dead in a Lidl bag in Ealing, west London

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94 m. ago Third of adults ‘have thrown away new clothes in the last year’

The finding comes as the National Lottery funds a network of repair cafes.

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1 hour ago Highland crash: Two people die after horror crash on A9 road between Slochd and Tomatin

They were pronounced dead at the scene.

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2 h. ago Charlie Kirk's widow shares doting clip of him recalling their love story

Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, shared a heartwarming clip of the conservative activist telling their toddler about the first time he met the former pageant queen.

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2 h. ago Director reveals why mom who catfished her own daughter agreed to appear in shocking Netflix series

Skye Borgman, the director of a new Netflix documentary series has revealed why Kendra Licardi, 44, who catfished her own daughter for years, agreed to appear on the show.

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2 h. ago Father kills his own baby daughter on Facebook Live before taking his own life

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Wuttisan Wongtalay, 21, hanged his 11-month-old daughter Natalie, and took his own life at a deserted hotel in Phuket on Monday

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2 h. ago To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale | Clemens J Setz

Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us withIn the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking flounder. It turns out that an enchanted prince is trapped inside this fish and that it can therefore grant any wish. The man’s wife, Ilsebill, is delighted and wishes for increasingly excessive things. She turns their miserable hut into a castle, but that is not enough; eventually she wants to become the pope and, finally, God. This enrages the elements; the sea turns dark and she is transformed back into her original impoverished state. The moral of the story: don’t wish for anything you’re not entitled to.Several variations of this classic fairytale motif are known. Sometimes, the wishes are not so much excessive or offensive to the divine order of the world, but simply clumsy or contradi...

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2 h. ago Haitians yearn for home as gangs welcome them and police warn it's too dangerous

A powerful gang coalition that ravaged several communities in Haiti's capital has abruptly announced it is safe for people to return

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3 h. ago For some minority Britons the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally shows far

Westminster’s hardening attitudes to immigration are leading anti-racist campaigners to warn a far-right UK government no longer seems unthinkable“I remember my father marching against the National Front in the 1970s. It felt like it was a minority. The majority of people are still decent. But now, the far right seems legitimised and popular,” Dabinderjit Singh, a retired senior civil servant said.Singh was reacting to Tommy Robinson’s 13 September far-right “unite the kingdom” rally, which drew 110,000 people to London. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the RingsHow does one measure success? For Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the historians behind the hit podcast The Rest Is History, it could be the number of unexpected and overly familiar conversations with strangers. On a holiday high up in the mountains of Bulgaria, Holland was wandering around a secluded monastery when someone called out, “Love the podcast!”Sandbrook, meanwhile, is used to getting weird looks from fans who find it hard to compute that the man in front of them is one half of the soundtrack to their dog walks and commutes. “The weirdest thing that people say – which I’ve heard more than once – is, ‘My wife and I listen to you in bed every night,’” he says, looking mildly appalled. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency | Kirsty Major

Knowsley is a Labour stronghold. But judging by the polls and the people I spoke to, the messages of the right are truly cutting throughAt the weekend, I took the well-worn journey from London to Knowsley in Merseyside. I’ve made this trip so many times that I can execute it with military precision, arriving just in time before the train doors close, even with a toddler in tow this time around. My uncle picked us up from the station and as we turned on to the motorway, I saw St George’s flags hanging over us from the sides of bridges. Union jacks circled the roundabout just before we turned off to go to my auntie’s house. Knowsley is Labour’s fourth-safest seat in the UK, but it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency.It was a Friday evening, so we opened a bottle of wine and put pizzas in the oven. I was updated on various family milestones – a house sale had gone through, a baby bump was starting to show, the poor dog was on its last legs. My daughter entertained everyone wit...

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3 h. ago Thomasina Miers’ recipes for cod with courgettes, green olives and lemon, and a blackberry and almond slice

A fragrant parcel of baked fish seasoned with herbs and lemon, all rounded off with a fruity, nutty dessertThere is something so simple but so delicious about a parcel of fish. Like unwrapping an edible present, the smell hits you before anything else, which in this case is fennel, thyme and lemon. It is a delicate way to cook fish, so the sauce needs to have some character, and basil, olives and lemon with a slick of olive oil make a beautiful, late-summer seasoning. Round off the feast with a blackberry and crisp almond pastry slice that tastes all the better if you forage your own fruit. Continue reading...

Society

3 h. ago DWP warning as millions of Brits told to watch out for text messages

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a warning to millions of people across Great Britain who receive benefits, including the State Pension, Universal Credit and PIP

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3 h. ago Roman's £40 coatigan not only looks smart but 'keeps me warm at the same time'

"Absolutely beautiful coatigan. I wanted something smart but something that could keep me warm at the same time"

Economics

4 h. ago People are only just realising what Aldi's price tags are actually made of

A shopper was left 'mind blown' after they made a discovery while shopping at Aldi - and it turns out many people were unaware of what the price tags are actually made of

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4 h. ago ‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...‘I’m going to throw that thing into a river!” my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled after putting our four-year-old daughter to bed.To be clear, “that thing” is not our daughter, Emma*. It’s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Meta struggles to decouple from Chinese supplier of AI smart glasses

Goertek tightens grip on US tech giant’s supply chain, even as Zuckerberg aligns with Trump’s anti-China stance

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4 h. ago 'My daughter's name is so simple but even smart people can't pronounce it'

A mum has been slammed for giving her daughter an overly complicated name that doctors, teachers and other professionals struggle to pronounce - but she claims they're the problem

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