1 hour ago Man Utd want government to help deliver wider regeneration around new stadium

United have ambitious designs – a new 100,000 capacity stadium – but first need to acquire a piece of privately-owned land near the Stretford End.

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6 h. ago ‘Our world is combustible’: Kathryn Bigelow on AI, Andy Warhol and nuclear Armageddon

The record-breaking Oscar winner explains how her new film, A House of Dynamite – starring Idris Elba as the US president – is rooted in her cold war childhood and the urgent threats we all face todayKathryn Bigelow has been thinking about death: hers, and mine, and yours as well. History will always remember her as the first woman to win a best director Oscar, which she did in 2010 for The Hurt Locker. But in her new film, A House of Dynamite, history may not have long to run. It is the story of a nuclear missile, launched at an American city. The rest is about what happens next. Bigelow would like you to consider Armageddon.“Someone I know said the bomb for the audience is realising this is possible,” she says. She smiles. “I’m glad if people come away from the movie as concerned as I am.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Soaring NHS medical negligence bill quadruples to £60billion, with nuclear decommissioning the only larger liability on the government's balance sheet

A rising number of claims, larger payouts and spiralling legal fees have all fuelled the rise, the National Audit Office says.

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17 h. ago Jack Draper splits with coach due to 'family reason' just days after appointing Andy Murray ally

British No.1 Jack Draper has split with his coach of four years, James Trotman, just a week after hiring Sir Andy Murray’s old coach, Jamie Delgado

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18 h. ago Andy Burnham launches key weapon to make Bee Network 'one of the safest transport systems in the world'

It will be overseen by the cop who commanded GMP's response to the Crumpsall terror attack

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35 h. ago Electric bills 'could soar 20 per cent in the next five years', UK's top energy supplier warns

Rachel Fletcher, regulations director at Octopus, said the costs of Whitehall policies, including green levies to expand renewable power and nuclear, were increasing energy bills.

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37 h. ago America's nuclear bombers spotted on mission over Venezuela as conflict escalates

Flight trackers spotted three B-52H Stratofortress bombers leaving the US and hovering near Venezuelan airspace in what some analysts are calling a bold display of military power.

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42 h. ago Caelan Doris returns as captain but Ireland suffer key injury blow ahead of November internationals

Doris missed the British and Irish Lions tour through injury but will skipper Andy Farrell’s squad this autumn

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44 h. ago From Heat to thermals: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro have paired up to flog puffer jackets

Thirty years after they first shared a screen, the pair of Hollywood icons are back! With an advert for coatsReaders of a certain age will remember the sheer nuclear impact of Michael Mann’s Heat on its release in 1995. Not only was it formally ambitious and wildly influential, but it also represented the first time that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro had ever shared a screen.This, more than anything, was the film’s big draw. Two men, each justifiably thought of as the greatest actor to ever work in the medium, bristling against each other in real time. Their scene together in the diner was billed as the greatest spectacle in cinema since King Kong climbed the Empire State Building. Pacino v De Niro was Fischer v Spassky. It was Einstein v Bohr. It was Foreman v Ali. There was genuinely no way to overstate how momentous the pairing was. Continue reading...

Society

45 h. ago Teacher struck off after ‘explicit’ sexual conversations with pupils

Newly qualified English teacher banned for two years after ‘extremely misjudged’ remarks to pupils

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47 h. ago Andy Murray's thoughts on wife Kim say it all as he admits 'it's hard sometimes'

Andy Murray has opened up on his family life, including his relationship with wife Kim, as well as the sacrifices made by his parents

Politics

47 h. ago 'Russia can take Kyiv in 3 days' as calls for 'tactical nuclear weapons' will clear path

Propaganda tsar Vladimir Solovyov chillingly warned that Russian troops could take Ukraine's capital city in just three days, using nuclear weapons that would leave the land uninhabitable

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53 h. ago More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London | Andy Bull

Royal Albert Hall to host Grand Sumo Tournament marking only the second time a full competition is held overseasThey play Major League Baseball at the Olympic Stadium, Tottenham’s ground is a second home for the National Football League, the National Basketball Association is staging a game at the 02 Arena next year, and South Africa just beat New Zealand in a rugby Test at Twickenham, but it’s been a long time since London has hosted anything on the scale of the Grand Sumo Tournament taking place at the Royal Albert Hall this week. Forty wrestlers have flown over from Japan to compete in it. That’s around six tons of elite athlete to be fed, watered, transported and supported.“We’ve actually had to source and buy new chairs which can take up to 200kg in weight,” says Matthew Todd, the Royal Albert Hall’s harassed director of programming. “Our usual standard is only 100kg.” They’ve also had to reinforce the toilets. “It’s the ones that are screwed into the wall which are the most ch...

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63 h. ago Inside the Scotland dressing room as Andy Robertson dishes out brutal reality check with World Cup poser

The dismal display in the 2-1 win over Belarus saw Steve Clarke and skipper Robertson unleash inside Hampden

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64 h. ago Russian and US generals share WW3 threats with plot to 'wipe out UK with nuke'

US and Russian generals are trading warnings of an Armageddon reality, with Moscow accused of plotting to wipe out Britain and Nato vowing to crush any Russian move on Poland.

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64 h. ago Andy Robertson asks key question of Scotland squad amid criticism and reveals what he 'didn't agree with'

Scotland captain frustrated with performances in wins over Greece and Belarus

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64 h. ago Andy Robertson calls for 'perspective' on Scotland slog with World Cup in sight

The skipper couldn't hide from the lacklustre showing against Belarus

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65 h. ago Putin's closest ally issues chilling nuclear war threat after Trump remarks

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a chilling nuclear war threat after Donald Trump said he would send Tomahawk missile systems to Ukraine

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66 h. ago Putin’s top ally warns if Trump gives missiles to Ukraine it could lead to ‘nuclear war’

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko tells Washington that gifting Tomahawks to Kyiv ‘will escalate the situation’ in Eastern Europe and force a Russian retaliation

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66 h. ago Russian and US generals swap WW3 threats with plot to 'wipe out UK in nuke tidal wave'

US and Russian generals are trading warnings of an Armageddon reality, with Moscow accused of plotting to wipe out Britain and Nato vowing to crush any Russian move on Poland

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