48 m. ago Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expected to resume on Tuesday

Marine robotics firm to renew its search more than decade after plane disappeared with 239 people onboardThe search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is expected to resume on 30 December, more than a decade after the plane disappeared with 239 people onboard in one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.A renewed search by Ocean Infinity, a UK and US-based marine robotics company, had begun earlier this year but was called off in April because of bad weather. Continue reading...

Politics

48 m. ago UK needs £800bn of new funding by 2040 to meet defence pledge, says report

Unfunded projects include construction of new barracks, munitions factories and spending on naval hubs

Economics

79 m. ago Scottish Labour MP performed kidney transplant on Christmas Day to give patient the 'gift' of life

EXCLUSIVE: Zubir Ahmed, who represents Glasgow South West at Westminster, has volunteered to work in hospitals at Christmas for nearly two decades.

Science

2 h. ago Here are some people you’ll find in every local community Facebook group | Jess Harwood

Some of them are exactly the kind of members you want to meet, others not so much Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Usman Khawaja locked in for fifth Ashes Test with ‘no indication’ of retirement plans

Australia coach Andrew McDonald guarantees veteran will play at SCG39-year-old’s future beyond series finale against England still in doubtAustralia coach Andrew McDonald has guaranteed Usman Khawaja will play at the SCG, but is unsure if it will be the veteran’s last Test.After turning 39 earlier in December, Khawaja’s future will continue to be a talking point until he announces his retirement. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago World Darts Championship 2026 schedule and results as Luke Littler and Rob Cross meet in round three at Ally Pally

A record 128 of the world’s best darts players contend for the world title at Alexandra Palace this year

Politics

8 h. ago Three inmates hijacked Lyft and kidnapped driver for 10 hours after escaping Georgia jail, FBI says

Female Lyft driver says she was held captive for up to 10 hours and faced threats of ‘being shot, raped, and tortured’

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10 h. ago Football fans told to snitch on fellow supporters in crackdown slammed as 'woke nonsense'

Football fans have been told to ditch bad language after supporters found posters on their seats at one Football League game that urged fans to snitch on foul-mouthed fans

Sport

12 h. ago US strikes on Nigeria and Syria are ‘consistent’ with policy to combat IS, Republican says

House armed services committee’s Mike Turner denied that military strikes showed new Trump approach to US forcesUS warns of more Nigeria strikes as Abuja talks of ‘joint ongoing operations’A senior Republican on the US House armed services committee has said that the country’s recent military strikes in Nigeria and Syria are consistent with American foreign policy to combat Islamic extremism that have existed across Donald Trump’s two presidential terms.Mike Turner, an Ohio congressman, said on Sunday that the strikes are a “continuation of our conflict with [the Islamic State]”. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Daughter of 'YouTube mom' Machelle Hobson who was accused of torturing her young children for views recalls relentless abuse in harrowing detail

The daughter of the ' YouTube mom' Machelle Hobson has shared what it was like to receive death threats from her own mother, after being locked up for days on end.

Events

12 h. ago Trump holds ‘productive’ call with Putin ahead of Zelenskyy meeting

US president to meet Ukrainian counterpart for crucial talks in Florida

Politics

12 h. ago World Darts Championship: Anderson wins thriller, Cross sets up Littler clash

Anderson holds off Wattimena, Ryan Searle throughCross books last-16 meeting with Luke LittlerHe’s just turned 55. He hasn’t won a major in seven years. He doesn’t practise anywhere near as much as he used to, wouldn’t do the Premier League even if he won the world championship, and secretly wouldn’t mind losing so he could get home to see the kids. And still. In this or any year, dare you count out Gary Anderson?Over seven taut sets in which both players occasionally touched the hem of greatness, the 2015 and 2016 world champion edged out the rapid Jermaine Wattimena of the Netherlands, winning a nerve-shredding deciding set by five legs to three. The pace was pleasingly frenetic, the standard sublime, the cinema unrivalled. Remarkably it was exactly the same scoreline by which Anderson beat Wattimena in the same third round eight years ago. “I was getting palpitations, never mind flashbacks,” Anderson joked. Continue reading...

Politics

13 h. ago Student died after beard transplant 'botched by estate agent posing as surgeon'

Mathieu Vigier Latour, 24, travelled to Istanbul for the £1,082 procedure - a fifth of what he would have paid in France - but the operation was a disaster and he tragically died by suicide

Events

14 h. ago Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy lands in Florida for Trump peace talks; call with European leaders to take place during meeting

Ukrainian president will meet US president at his Mar-a-Lago home later today for their first in person meeting since OctoberThe Ukrainian military said on Sunday that it hit the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region in an overnight drone attack.The strike caused a fire and damages were still being assessed, Kyiv’s General Staff said. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy lands in Florida for Trump peace talks; call with European leaders to take place after meeting

Ukrainian president will meet US president at his Mar-a-Lago home later today for their first in person meeting since OctoberThe Ukrainian military said on Sunday that it hit the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region in an overnight drone attack.The strike caused a fire and damages were still being assessed, Kyiv’s General Staff said. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago How the ‘chrono diet’ can boost your sex life, sleep and brainpower – it’s all about the RIGHT timing

LIFE can feel like it’s all about timing, whether it’s being in the right place at the right time to meet the love of your life, or saying the right thing at the exact moment to avoid disaster or win promotion. But can we apply that kind of thinking to our diets? Wouldn’t it be...

Events

15 h. ago Texas dad helped rescue his kidnapped teenage daughter by tracking her mobile phone, police say

A 23-year-old man was arrested after the girl, 15, was found in a pick-up truck in a wooded area two miles away

Events

15 h. ago Inmate on the run after Christmas prison break was jailed for county lines drug dealing

Mahad Elmi is being hunted by police after setting up a drug dealing operation using a teenager to sell crack and heroin trafficked from London to Cardiff

Events

15 h. ago Trump and Zelensky to discuss three key issues as they're set to meet today... while Russia launches thousands of strikes on Ukraine

The US President is hosting his Ukrainian counterpart at Mar-a-Lago, where he has been spending the holidays, at 1pm EST, the White House said.

Politics

15 h. ago My harrowing night in ‘prostitute haven’ The Blade where ‘kids as young as 12 are branded and forced to work streets’

ON a bracing December night, young women wearing nothing but lingerie and seven-inch heels lean into car windows to scout out their next customers. Shockingly, it is an all-too typical scene in this seedy Downtown neighborhood known as 'The Blade', which in recent months has been unmasked as the epicenter of a sickening US sex...

Economics