2 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: No Trump tariff on Russia as his officials host Putin investment tsar

Kryvyi Rig hit while Kharkiv endures barrage of Shahed drones; Nato foreign ministers including Marc Rubio to meet in Brussels. What we know on day 1,135 Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Deadly ballistic missile strike on Zelenskyy hometown

Kryvyi Rig hit while Kharkiv endures barrage of Shahed drones; Nato foreign ministers including Marc Rubio to meet in Brussels. What we know on day 1,135 Continue reading...

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17 h. ago 'You would never believe it was once a petrol station': striking £1.5m new townhouse for sale in Kentish Town

Highgate Road has been home to a petrol station since the 1950s. Now, six luxury townhouses stand in its place

Economics

24 h. ago ‘Women give birth on the ground’: Congolese forced to return home find devastation

Residents of Sake – given 72 hours by M23 rebels to leave camps in Goma – find a ghost town with homes in ruins and no way to make a livingCongolese people forced to return to their home town from displacement camps when the M23 rebel group advanced on the city of Goma earlier this year have described scenes of devastation, with hundreds of homes destroyed by fighting and no opportunity to work or access aid.As M23 entered Goma, a regional humanitarian hub that hosted hundreds of thousands of people displaced by previous rounds of fighting in the region, more than 100,000 people left camps around the city to return to their homes. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago ‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos

Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang memberFor as long as anyone can remember Andry José Hernández Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town’s youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Paisley businesses get new homes in town centre thanks to grant funding

The two businesses have moved into new premises after receiving support from Renfrewshire Council

Economics

2 d. ago The 'booming' Greater Manchester town with affordable homes and glorious scenery named one of UK's best places to live

This old mill town, which sits between Manchester and the Peak District, has been hailed by The Times in its 2025 list of the best places to live in the UK

Society

3 d. ago Bargain hunting in UK town home to the world's most expensive seaside street

Rosaleen Fenton wanting to look behind the headlines during a trip to Dorset's Poole, a town known for being home to 'Millionaires Row, one of the most expensive stretches of seaside property in the world

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4 d. ago Rapper Young Scooter dead after jumping fence in Atlanta police chase

Authorities say 39-year-old suffered an injury after jumping a fence when fleeing police and later died in the hospitalA rapper signed to fellow lyricists Future and Waka Flocka Flame died on his 39th birthday in his home town of Atlanta after injuring his leg while running from police and jumping fences, according to authorities as well as multiple media reports.The death of 39-year-old Young Scooter, born Kenneth Edward Bailey, was confirmed by Atlanta’s Fulton county medical examiner’s office, as Variety first reported. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago How Gene Hackman's wife was being tailed by a creepy stalker before they both died, as told by one of the key witnesses. GUY ADAMS reveals truth about final days and inside story of family rift

One morning in December, Betsy Arakawa helped her elderly husband Gene Hackman into their truck and set off for White Rock, a small town 45 minutes from their hilltop home near Santa Fe.

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5 d. ago Fabian Hürzeler appeals to Brighton’s ‘blue heads’ to turn tables on Forest

Borrowing from the All Blacks, manager says the power of psychology has helped his side recover from 7-0 drubbingWere Fabian Hürzeler in any doubt about the importance of the FA Cup to Brighton fans, he received a gentle reminder when back in his home town of Munich. Hürzeler’s short international break, among family and friends, received a polite but pointed interruption. “Walking through the city, one of the Brighton supporters called my name and said he’s really looking forward to the game,” said the club’s head coach. “He said that we have to give everything in this game, and of course you feel it, but for me it’s important that we don’t make it artificial excitement.”Hürzeler, born a decade after Albion lost the 1983 final to Manchester United in a replay, can be excused for not knowing the lore of Steve Foster’s headband, Tony Grealish’s hirsute captaincy and the striker Gordon Smith’s “must score” miss. There are always the owner, Tony Bloom, and the club’s time-served staffe...

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5 d. ago JD Vance’s home town is bouncing back – and it’s largely thanks to immigrants

Immigrants have played a central role to the revival of Middletown, Ohio, while the vice-president has made criticizing immigrants a main theme of his political careerWhen Daniel Cárdenas from Coahuila, Mexico, first arrived in Middletown, a post-industrial city of 50,000 people in south-west Ohio, he was immediately enamored.“It’s a small town with friendly people. You have shops, big stores; there’s no traffic,” he says. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny PenThe Rule of Jenny Pen looks terrifying! Does the prospect of sudden ageing frighten you? BenderRodriguez It’s not sudden. I was in [King] Lear when I was 64 and said: “I need a wig that’s grey because he’s supposed to be 80.” Now I’m 73 and I still think inside I’m a brunette. This is the 54th year of my career. The last decade has just galloped past. I waited for something like this – a project that I latched on to. There’s been a lot of stuff that I turned down. I’m now being very pernickety about what I commit three or four months of my life to.No doubt there was also a lot of work behind it, but was playing Hector Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean films as much fun as it looked? Have you ever reinhabited the character for a brief moment, to amuse yourself or others? Liam01 Yeah, it was fun. [Dire...

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6 d. ago Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands

A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaignersAs a small fishing canoe darts across the still waters of the San Silvestre wetlands in central Colombia, Wilson Díaz leans over and dips his hands overboard. He cups some water and brings a palmful to his face, inhaling deeply. “It smells foul,” he says.Díaz, president of a fishing union in his home town of Barrancabermeja, knows the waters intimately. He has worked in the San Silvestre wetlands his entire life; the water he now says is foul has long been his family’s sustenance. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Dressing Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and a show inside a skirt: Martin Grant’s 40

From 1980s Melbourne to 2020s Paris, the Australian fashion designer reflects on some of the highlights of his career, featured in a major retrospective at the National Gallery of VictoriaMartin Grant exhibition is at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV in Melbourne from 25 March 2025 to 26 January 2026Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Inside the British ghost town time forgot that's 'like living in The Walking Dead'

Frozen in time for over a decade, the town was once home to 12,000 people – but now, it is being reclaimed by nature

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8 d. ago Girl, 13, denies taking photo of elderly dog walker to 'target him' week before 80

Bhim Kohli, 80, had walked his dog a short distance from his home to Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, near Leicester, when he sustained fractured ribs and a broken neck in an attack, the court heard.

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8 d. ago Loose Women's Christine Lampard's 'sense of fear' as she recalls growing up during the troubles in Northern Ireland

The star spoke openly about having to leave her home and bomb scares near her town

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8 d. ago Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee

Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties As the chancellor ekes out every last billion this week, it’s worth stepping back and remembering one key reason why Britain fares worse than its neighbours: Brexit. On Monday, MPs debated whether to rejoin the EU following the success of a public petition that gained 134,000 signatures. Don’t hold your breath. The government replied by quoting its not-until-hell-freezes-over manifesto pledge: “there will be no return to EU membership”. But the global Trumpquake has shaken all certainties, upended all that seemed solid. The European defence emergency has made talk of Brexit and its future less taboo on both sides of the Channel. Close observers note the ice breaking. “Things are moving in the right direction,” says Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform (CER).Nonetheless, Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that despite its hunt for growth, it has said noth...

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8 d. ago ‘Delightful’ village in Lake District is one of the UK's best hidden gems

A hidden gem in the Lake District, only a 20-minute drive from a popular town, is home to amazing views of the scenery, a beautiful church and amazing hiking trails

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