57 m. ago World Snooker Champs final ref was forced to bang on commentary box window after disturbance

Desislava Bozhilova is set to become only the second woman to referee a World Snooker Championship final, just three years after she was forced to hush the BBC commentary team

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67 m. ago Championship final day: title, playoff and relegation places to be decided – live

Championship updates from 12.30pm BST kick-offsLive scores | Latest tables | Relegation lurks for quintetPortsmouth (4-2-3-1) Killip; Devlin, Shaughnessy, Atkinson, Ogilvie; Potts, Lang; Blair, Pack, Murphy; Bishop.Subs: Schmid, Poole, Bramall, Dozzell, Hayden, Gordon, Ritchie, Saydee, O’Mahony.Hull (4-2-3-1) Pandur; Lewie Coyle, Egan, Hughes, McLoughlin; Crooks, Puerta; Kamara, Gelhardt, Joseph; Joao Pedro.Subs: Lo-Tutala, Jones, Lincoln, Burns, Alzate, Drameh, Amrabat, Palmer, Burstow. Continue reading...

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72 m. ago NHS symptoms of 'silent killer' often mistaken for other conditions

It takes an average of four and a half years to receive a diagnosis

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74 m. ago Why are some trying to silence our film on Columbia’s Gaza protests? | Hamza and Badie Ali

The Encampments tells the story of campus activism last year. But Palestinian films are facing intimidation campaignsRecently, The Encampments opened at the Angelika Film Center in New York to a record-setting box office for an independent film – along with a storm of controversy. For us, as the distributor, the atmosphere was far from celebratory. The theater was forced to hire additional security, notify police and prepare staff for harassment in response to protests and threats from people who hadn’t even seen the film.What is so dangerous about Palestinian films? Continue reading...

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74 m. ago I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

Growing up, I had so many questions about Marshall, my hippy older sibling who left home and got embroiled with the Manson Family cult. Years later, I embarked on a quest to find out his true storyOne morning in March 1995, my father and I were having coffee at the kitchen table when somehow the conversation deviated to my brother Marshall. As always, I had questions.“He was tall for his age,” my father said, gazing at the memory of his estranged son, as if he was standing beside us in the kitchen. “At school they always wanted him for the football team. His hair was red, deep red like your grandmother’s, and his eyes ” my father paused, searching for the right comparison. “Copper. His eyes were copper-coloured and he’d tan so well in the summer he looked as if he’d been dipped in wood stain.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women

More than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth in the first 90 days of the president’s aid freeze

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2 h. ago Woman killed by bomb outside Greek bank in early morning horror blast

A woman was killed fter a bomb she was allegedly trying to plant outside a bank in Greece blew up in her hands.

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2 h. ago Badenoch apologises for local election results as Reform warned there are ‘no simple answers’ – UK politics live

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Headteachers are taking legal action against Ofsted, England’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders.The National Association of Head Teachers said it had lodged a claim for a judicial review against Ofsted “over the potential impact of their inspection proposals” and for inadequate consultation over its new system of grading schools.Somehow the focus on school leader mental health and wellbeing has got lost along the way during Ofsted’s consultation process.We must not forget that the catalyst for these changes was the tragic death of Ruth Perry and widespread acceptance that the inspection regime was placing school leaders under intolerable pressure. However, there appears to have been very little thought g...

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3 h. ago Woman killed in Thessaloniki bomb explosion as she 'planned to target bank'

The 38-year-old woman was killed at around 5am Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. She was reportedly carrying the bomb to place it outside a nearby bank, police said.

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3 h. ago Locals in one of Britain's prettiest villages mourn as two of their best

On Wednesday at around 5:30pm, a pair of geese lost their lives when a driver hit them as they attempted to cross a busy road in Bourton-on-the-Water.

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3 h. ago Woman killed in Thessaloniki bomb explosion as police probe Greece bank attack plot

The 38-year-old woman was killed early Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki after a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands

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4 h. ago Welsh parents of marketing manager killed in skydiving tragedy issue statement

The parents of 32-year-old Jade Damarell say they 'miss her beyond words'

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4 h. ago Francis Ngannou releases statement on motorcycle crash which killed 17

The fatal accident occurred in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde

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4 h. ago Woman dies in Greece after bomb explodes in her hands during attempted attack

The 38-year-old was reportedly attempting to leave the explosive device outside a bank in Thessaloniki

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4 h. ago AD FEATURE: University of Wales Trinity Saint David reignites Welsh student's creative spark

It was an open day that helped Luke decide to undertake a Fine Art course at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David

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4 h. ago I was in prison with one of Britain's most notorious child killers... he strutted about like he was king of the hill

The killer was housed at Lancaster Farms Young Offenders Institute while he awaited trial for a murder which shocked the nation.

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5 h. ago 9 playground crazes and toys of the 1990s you'll remember if you went to school back then

If you went to school in the 1990s, this retro photo gallery is bound to bring memories flooding back.

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5 h. ago World's top 10 deadliest animals revealed: Biggest killers may surprise you... and the apex predator that DOESN'T make the list

Hippos, snakes and lions are among the most dangerous animals in the world, but some of the deadliest predators for mankind are a lot more surprising.

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6 h. ago My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in London. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ‘I know I might not come back’: the young Ukrainians enlisting early to fight Russia

Kyiv has brought in new incentives for those under 25 in an effort to repopulate the frontline as the war grinds on“I’m not just here to avenge my brother,” says Luntik, 20, one of Ukraine’s newest soldiers, as he takes a break from training. He has joined up, he says, to try to liberate the territory of Ukraine from the Russian invaders: “When the thief is coming to your house and you are afraid he might harm you or kill your wife, you will take actions and, if necessary, kill the thief.”The mild spring day, somewhere in Kharkiv region, belies the seriousness of the conversation. Luntik is one of a dozen or so young recruits, all aged between 18 and 24, who have agreed to join Ukraine’s army before the age of 25, at which men can be forcibly mobilised. The lure is a bonus of 1m hryvnia (nearly £18,000), 0% mortgages and a short one-year contract; the scheme, launched in February, is a fresh effort to repopulate Ukraine’s frontline. Continue reading...

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