17 h. ago Moment BBC Question Time audience turns on Labour minister for 'outrageous' claim most small boat migrants are women and children

More than 14,800 people have arrived in Britain after making the crossing so far in 2025 - making it the worst start to the year on record.

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19 h. ago Moment BBC Question Time audience turns on Labour minister for 'outrageous' migrant claim

More than 14,800 people have arrived in Britain after making the crossing so far in 2025 - making it the worst start to the year on record.

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26 h. ago ‘We were sinking. I let her go’: how growing numbers of women are risking all to reach Europe by boat

The tragic drowning of seven women and girls just metres from the port of La Restinga has highlighted the growing number of female migrants crossing to the Canary Islands from west AfricaThe four women and three girls were just metres from the pier in the port of La Restinga in El Hierro, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, when they drowned on 28 May. Rescue teams had begun disembarking the first people early that morning when the vessel capsized.Photos and videos of the chaotic scenes show the boat partially submerged and completely overturned, with several people struggling to swim around it and others trying to climb on to the wrecked boat. Underneath, about 15 women and girls were trapped and fighting to get to the surface. Seven would not make it. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Wimbledon reveals record 2025 prize money – but defends finals start time change

Carlos Alcaraz will receive a record sum if he defends his Wimbledon title this year

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54 h. ago Summer McIntosh, 18, matches Phelps with third world record in five days

McIntosh breaks 400m IM world record in 4:23.65 timeThird record broken in five days for Canadian teenager18-year-old matches Phelps’ 2008 mark for single meetSummer McIntosh broke her third swimming world record in five days on Wednesday night, clocking 4:23.65 in the women’s 400m individual medley at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria, British Columbia.The 18-year-old from Toronto lowered her own world record of 4:24.38, set earlier this year, and became the first swimmer to break world records in three different individual events at one long course meet since Michael Phelps at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Superman trailer has fans flocking to buy tickets at a blistering record pace besting any movie in 2025

Warner Bros. released a new trailer for Superman on Wednesday, as fans flocked to pick up their tickets just as they went on sale, seemingly at a record pace.

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63 h. ago Lady Gaga tickets and how to get yours from resale websites after general onsale

Lady Gaga fans can still get tickets to the star's The Mayhem Ball live tour dates in 2025 after the first run of dates sold out in record time.

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67 h. ago Spain leave out record scorer Jenni Hermoso from Women’s Euro 2025 squad

The 35-year-old forward has been overlooked for the tournament in Switzerland

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3 d. ago Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh sets second swimming world record in three days

18-year-old adds 200m IM record to 400m freestyle markOlympic champion also recorded third-fastest 800m freestyleSummer McIntosh set a world record for the second time in three days at the Canadian swimming trials on Monday with the 18-year-old eclipsing Hungarian great Katinka Hosszu’s 200m individual medley mark set 10 years ago.Three-times Olympic champion McIntosh, who set a world record in the 400m freestyle on Saturday, touched the wall in two minutes, 05.70 seconds to knock 0.42 off Hosszu’s time from the 2015 world championships in Kazan. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Madleen aid boat LIVE: Greta Thunberg attempts to reach Gaza despite Israel threat

Greta Thunberg and other activists are on the Madleen, a British-flagged boat operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, on which they intend to reach the Gaza Strip

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5 d. ago Madleen aid boat LIVE: Greta Thunberg says she's been 'intercepted and kidnapped'

Greta Thunberg and other activists were hoping to reach the Gaza Strip on the Madleen, a British-flagged boat operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, this morning

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6 d. ago Ruthless people smuggler who charges £1,200 to transport migrants to the UK boasts: 'French gendarmes do nothing. Do not worry. I am the police'

The Syrian trafficker was demanding £1,200 for a place on an inflatable boat leaving from northern France on Tuesday.

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1 week ago New 2025 record as nearly 1,200 migrants reach UK in small boats in one day

Defence Secretary says scenes of hundreds boarding boats are ‘pretty shocking’

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1 week ago Sir Keir Starmer has 'lost control of Britain's borders' after almost 1,200 small boat migrants cross the Channel in single day

One of Sir Keir's senior cabinet ministers admitted the latest Channel scenes were 'pretty shocking' as a surge in dinghy crossings overwhelmed French and UK border patrol vessels.

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1 week ago Migrant rescues in English Channel meant coastguard was too busy to come to aid of stricken yacht

Border Force, RNLI and several French vessels scrambled with the coastguard at around 5am yesterday to deal with reports of 15 small boats attempting to reach UK shores.

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2 w. ago Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years

Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030There is an 80% chance that global temperatures will break at least one annual heat record in the next five years, raising the risk of extreme droughts, floods and forest fires, a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has shown.For the first time, the data also indicated a small likelihood that before 2030, the world could experience a year that is 2C hotter than the preindustrial era, a possibility scientists described as “shocking”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Liverpool hold talks over record Florian Wirtz deal in ‘busy’ summer plans

Chair Tom Werner says busy transfer summer has begunVan Dijk delighted to have been given trophy by HansenThe Liverpool chairman, Tom Werner, has confirmed the club’s busy summer has already begun with the Premier League champions in talks over the record transfer of Florian Wirtz and close to wrapping up a deal for his Bayer Leverkusen teammate Jeremie Frimpong.Liverpool are favourites to sign the £126m-rated Wirtz after he turned down a move to Bayern Munich and Manchester City pulled out of the running. The Anfield club have started negotiations over a fee with Leverkusen, who want £126m for the Germany international. That would comfortably eclipse Liverpool’s current record transfer, the £85m that brought Darwin Núñez from Benfica in 2022, but the club hope to structure a deal that would see Leverkusen accept a lower initial fee plus achievable add-ons. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The longest standing ovation at Cannes? A whopping 22 minutes

That’s the length of a sitcom episode...

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3 w. ago ‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is the heart of the inferno

With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water • Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last yearWildfires engulfed vast swathes of South America last year, devastating ecosystems, closing schools and grounding flights. With its worst fire season on record, Bolivia was especially hard hit. “We felt powerless and angry to be unable to protect what is ours,” says Isabel Surubí Pesoa.Surubí Pesoa was forced to migrate to the nearest town after the spring that fed her village in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands dried up after the fires and the drought that preceded it. “It’s very painful,” she says. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How to get tickets for Coldplay's 2025 tour despite selling out in record time

Despite tickets selling out in record time, some are still available to be snapped up

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