38 m. ago Bake Off’s first baker exits 2025 series over disastrous Swiss Roll

The Great British Bake Off has claimed its first baker of the new series, with 30-year-old scientist Hassan leaving the tent after a disastrous Swiss Roll.

Events

3 h. ago Gianluigi Donnarumma: Manchester City confirm keeper's squad number after £26m move

The Italian chose a number he has never worn before

Economics

4 h. ago World’s biggest iceberg breaks up after 40 years: ‘Most don’t make it this far’

‘Megaberg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer warmers and could disappear within weeksNearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Trump orders end union protections for 450,000 federal workers in ‘largest union busting in American history’

Legal battles take aim at the president’s executive orders ripping up collective bargaining agreements for federal workers

Politics

4 h. ago Falling asleep in front of the telly is doing two bad things to you

Scientists found sleepers exposed to light levels equivalent to the glow from a television screen are more likely to develop depressive symptoms and extra weight

Politics

5 h. ago Argentina couple under house arrest amid search for painting stolen by Nazis

Daughter of former Nazi official and her husband to be questioned after raid on home failed to find masterpieceA federal court in Argentina has ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate a painting stolen from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam.Authorities raided a home in the coastal city of Mar del Plata last week after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting seen in a real estate photo as an Italian masterpiece registered on a database of lost wartime art. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

Events

7 h. ago Trump administration restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants means nearly all would be refused

The Trump administration is piling new restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants, making it nearly impossible for anyone holding a Palestinian Authority passport from receiving travel documents to visit the U.S. for business, work, pleasure or educational purposes

Politics

8 h. ago Manchester United only needed to spend £8m more to land world

Manchester United were still weighing up a move for Gianluigi Donnarumma in the final days of the summer transfer window but ended up signing Senne Lammens, while the Italian joined Manchester City

Economics

8 h. ago British men's willies have been measured as 'average' but it's not good news for Aussies

Scientists looked at six regions of the world to determine the length of men’s privates and Europeans - including Brits - were bang average when it came to penis size

Politics

9 h. ago Italy looks at hiding state flight paths after jamming of Von Der Leyen plane

EU member states debate how to make leaders’ flights more secure as Russia blamed for GPS lossEurope live – latest updatesItaly is considering keeping state flights secret after the satellite signal of the aircraft carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was allegedly jammed by Russia, Italian defence ministry sources said.Von der Leyen, a fierce critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Moscow’s war in Ukraine, was flying to Bulgaria on Sunday when her charter plane lost satellite navigation aids, delaying its arrival in Plovdiv, and reportedly forcing it to circle an airport for an hour. Continue reading...

Politics

9 h. ago Italy considers hiding state flight paths after jamming of von der Leyen plane

EU member states debate how to make leaders’ flights more secure as Russia blamed for GPS lossEurope live – latest updatesItaly is considering keeping state flights secret after the satellite signal of the aircraft carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was allegedly jammed by Russia, Italian defence ministry sources said.Von der Leyen, a fierce critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Moscow’s war in Ukraine, was flying to Bulgaria on Sunday when her charter plane lost satellite navigation aids, delaying its arrival in Plovdiv, and reportedly forcing it to circle an airport for an hour. Continue reading...

Politics

10 h. ago Queen Camilla cuts a stylish figure in polka dot gown as she marks 25 years of disaster relief charity during visit to Cornwall

Queen Camilla looked effortlessly elegant in a polka dot gown as she arrived for a slew of royal engagements in Cornwall on Tuesday. She paid a visit to headquarters of ShelterBox

Politics

10 h. ago Sainsbury's will use facial recognition tech to fight Britain's shoplifting epidemic

The UK's second largest supermarket chain has informed staff in two stores that it will start an eight-week trial before potentially rolling out the technology nationwide.

Science

10 h. ago Kaia Gerber, 23, wows in sexy plunging top as she joins boyfriend Lewis Pullman, 32, in leading stars at Venice Film Festival event

The model, 23, who has been seen packing on the PDA with the actor, 32, in the Italian city, wore a plunging crop top.

Culture

10 h. ago Shocking moment brazen US Open fan tries to STEAL from Jannik Sinner's bag while it's on his back

The Italian had just secured his spot in the quarter-finals of the tournament in New York City and packed up his tennis gear before heading back to the locker room.

Events

10 h. ago Man City signing Gianluigi Donnarumma selects shirt number he was banned from wearing at PSG

Italian goalkeeping icon Gianluigi Donnarumma has signed for Manchester City but the shot-stopper will not wear the No. 1 jersey despite joining to become Pep Guardiola's first choice

Events

11 h. ago Straight Circle review – boisterous border guard satire from a director to watch

Venice film festivalOscar Hudson’s feature debut, starring twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor as ritual-performing representatives of fictional warring nations, is an absurdist nightmareBritish documentary and ad director Oscar Hudson makes his feature debut in the Venice critics week sidebar with this high-concept anti-war satire, a through-the-looking-glass absurdist nightmare about realising that the otherness of your enemy is an illusion. There are some bold and ambitious images here, and some interesting split-screen work. Maybe there’s an issue about the style and substance ratio and perhaps the running time is indulgent, but this is a strong piece of work.Twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor play two soldiers of equal rank in opposing armies, called Pte Warne and Pte Arthur. They represent two nations of fictional Ruritanian weirdness, formerly at war but who have evidently concluded a tensely unstable peace treaty. Warne has a resplendent white uniform and, like the rest of his co...

Politics

11 h. ago Prince Harry and King Charles could reach 'peaceful resolution' next week

A former royal butler has shared Prince Harry's potential plans to visit Balmoral for a reunion with his estranged father when he returns to UK shores next week

Politics

11 h. ago Kaia Gerber, 23, looks chic in a plunging crop top as she joins boyfriend Lewis Pullman, 32, at Venice Film Festival after packing on the PDA

The model, 23, who has been seen packing on the PDA with the actor, 32, in the Italian city, wore a plunging crop top.

Culture