4 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 7 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he crosses an unthinkable line in Epstein row

Donald Trump last night did something no sitting President has done before - blowing through a democratic red line on an unprecedented scale

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4 h. ago At least 20 injured after vehicle ‘ploughs into crowd’ in Los Angeles

Up to five people are fighting for their lives in a critical condition

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4 h. ago ‘When you get old, you become young again’: remembering Fauja Singh, the marathon man

After a life shaped by grief and resilience, Singh began running at 89 and became an icon of endurance and joyThe first 20 miles of a marathon are not difficult, Fauja Singh once said. When it came to the last six miles, however, “I run while talking to God.”The fact that he was attempting the distance at all might seem, to some, proof of divine assistance. Singh was 89 when he first took up distance running, having stumbled across a TV snippet of people running a marathon, and decided to give it a go. By his mid-90s he was a marathon veteran, a record holder for his age group and even a poster model for Adidas; aged 101 – or at least so he believed, since he never had a birth certificate – he became the oldest person ever to run the distance. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Tottenham: Thomas Frank outlines key principles as ambitions align with Daniel Levy after Europa League win

The former Brentford boss has been brought in to take Tottenham to the next level

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4 h. ago Serial dating and push presents: love in the age of the algorithm is complex | Zandile Powell

Couples and singles let us into their idealised love lives online, but our role as viewers makes it more of a ménage à troisSitting in a hospital bed, pregnant Campbell Puckett, known as “Pookie”, is handed a Craie Kelly Epsom 25 Hermès bag (retailing around £20,000) by her husband, Jett. “It’s time for her push present,” he says behind the camera. The husband and wife are arguably the internet’s favourite heterosexual couple at the moment, and if they are anything to go by, the standards for modern romance are high.Jett recently gave Pookie a single instruction on one of their European getaways: “Do not leave Paris without a Birkin.” Luxury unboxings are a staple on their page.These #relationshipgoals have increasingly influenced viewers’ standards and expectations in their own relationships. The spectacle of lavish gifts and experiences can shift expectations and expressions of love towards the more demonstrable aspects of romance. “If my husband doesn’t get me a Hermès Kelly as m...

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4 h. ago 'England's pens were more miss than hit but the Lionesses are set to get to Euros final'

Our top tipster reckons England women will end up with a football winners medal - just like crazed US President Donald Trump - and says players deserve all the credit for getting to the semis against Italy

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4 h. ago 'Unknown vehicle' ploughs into crowd in LA with more than 20 injured

At least four people are in a critical condition

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4 h. ago Ross McCausland sees Rangers transfer exit options grow as chance to join two Ibrox old boys emerges

The 22-year-old is wanted by a European club while there is interest across the Big Pond

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5 h. ago Man charged after attempted murder bid on police officer outside Scots shop

Emergency services raced to a licensed premises in Clydebank after reports of a man with a weapon outside.

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5 h. ago First Nations leaders walk out of Mark Carney meeting on Building Canada Act

Concerns raised that legislation to ensure economy is less dependent on US was pushed through without consultationSeveral First Nations leaders have walked out of a meeting with Mark Carney , as an event the Canadian prime minister hoped would assuage their concerns over his Building Canada Act instead left many with growing concern that it would violate their rights.Carney has spent recent weeks promoting the act, which passed last month as part of Bill C-5 and which he says is a key part of his campaign promise to ensure Canada’s economy is less dependent on the US under Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened huge tariffs. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Gun thug 'Lil S' continues to rap on Instagram and TikTok from his cell

Shaun Ventre is attempting to forge a career in music while serving a 16 year sentence using smuggled phones

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5 h. ago Scottish crime: Man arrested in connection with 'attempted murder' of police officer in Clydebank

Police said they were called to a report of a man with a weapon

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5 h. ago First night of the Proms review – Batiashvili’s magnificent Sibelius opens the festival

Royal Albert Hall, LondonAn oddly disparate programme, including an Errollyn Wallen world premiere and a Vaughan Williams rarity, didn’t quite cohere in this opening concert, but all was outstandingly playedThis year’s Proms began with a curiously uneven concert. The programme, conducted by Sakari Oramo with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, felt oddly disparate. The main works were the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist, and Vaughan Williams’s oratorio Sancta Civitas, a comparative rarity. There was new music, too, the world premiere of The Elements by Errollyn Wallen, Master of the King’s Music. Oramo opened, however, with Arthur Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood, before segueing, without pause, into Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, the latter most beautifully done, with finely focussed strings and woodwind, but something of a jolt after Bliss’s jaunty little piece for brass and timpani in honour of the Proms’ founder.Wallen’s new work, meanwhile, didn’t...

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6 h. ago Conor McGregor could make surprise return UFC at Donald Trump's White House

Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC card at the White House and Conor McGregor could be on the fight bill

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6 h. ago The 1% Club's tricky number sequence question eliminates 17 players

The hit ITV quiz show sees 100 players attempt to answer questions that gradually increase in difficulty in a bid to win a huge cash prize.

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6 h. ago Critically acclaimed crime thriller 'you need to watch immediately' finally hits Netflix

The TV show hit our screens on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video back in 2015. The series aired 30 episodes over three successful series until 2019.

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6 h. ago Johnny Depp's rocky road back from cancellation: Pirates of the Caribbean actor is attempting to revive his career after bitter court battle with Amber Heard

Critics have slammed Johnny Depp's directorial effort, Modì: Three Days on the Wing of Madness - a biographical drama based on the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

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6 h. ago Voices: How the far right is politicising the return of the wolf – and again threatening its presence in Europe

When author Adam Weymouth retraced a journey through the Alps made by a wolf called Slavc, he discovered how the animals' rising numbers are making them targets

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6 h. ago Trump cannot dispel the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s grooming of his followers is impossible to undo. Now he is bedeviled by a conspiracy theory gapSome enchanted evening, Donald Trump saw a stranger across a crowded room.It is likely that there is hardly anyone living who knows exactly under what glowing lights Donald Trump met Jeffrey Epstein, except perhaps Trump himself and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison term for helping to procure minors for sexual abuse. Trump said in an interview in 2002, when his Epstein relationship was still tight, that it had been a 15-year mutual admiration society. Epstein was “a terrific guy” and “a lot of fun to be with,” and “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”. Epstein described himself as “Donald’s closest friend for 10 years”. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’

The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda JacksonBorn in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, she won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence and was later cast as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. Her stage credits include Wicked, The Vagina Monologues and Dickens’ Women; her TV work includes Trollied and Blackadder. In 2002, she was made OBE, and in 2022 received a BBC Audio Drama lifetime achievement award. She takes Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits to the Edinburgh fringe at the Pleasance at EICC, Pentland theatre from 9-24 August. She lives in London.When were you happiest? On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life. Continue reading...

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