94 m. ago Daniel Lapin, Ukraine’s next big boxing hope, on Usyk bonds after Russia ‘broke’ early career

Light-heavyweight is a trusted member of Oleksandr Usyk’s camp and hopes to star on Saturday’s Wembley undercardDaniel Lapin pulls up a video on his phone and, having chatted away for 40 minutes, lets the images do the talking. Or, more accurately, the sounds. It is a scene he captured in the early hours of a Kyiv morning during the spring and what stands out above everything is the awful, incessant, gathering buzz of the Russian-controlled drones that plague Ukraine’s capital almost every night. Sleep is rendered impossible for residents during those attacks, partly due to the sheer noise and in huge degree to the fear that you, or your loved ones, will be struck next. “After a night like that you don’t want to train,” he says. “It can go on five nights in a row. You don’t want anything, you’re just walking around like a zombie.”On Saturday, though, Lapin will be fully alert to the task at hand. The light-heavyweight is Ukraine’s next boxing hope, his promise and pedigree immense, ...

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2 h. ago Business news live: Jaguar Land Rover announces job losses, Barclays cuts mortgage rates as low as 3.75%

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3 h. ago UK's grimmest STI hotspots revealed and one area should be given a wide berth

Islington in London tops the list as the riskiest place in England for catching an STI, with a staggering risk score of 94 out of 100 - nearly double the national average of 50

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3 h. ago How DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

More than 100 emails expose the extent to which authorities in southwest Florida were left unaware of plans to build a sprawling immigration detention centre in the Everglades

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4 h. ago North Korea abruptly bars foreigners from recently unveiled ‘world class’ beach resort days after Lavrov visit

North Korea halts foreigners’ access to Wonsan-Kalma tourism zone, citing temporary suspension of official tourism

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4 h. ago Foreign investors return to London as FTSE 100 outperforms Europe

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4 h. ago Love Island beauty talks 'grim' showers as she makes bold cleanliness claim

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island star Samantha Kenny has opened up about the grim reality of the ITV villa as she dished the secrets of the show at Shein's VIP party in Ibiza

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4 h. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets higher after week of records for indices

FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets higher after week of records for indices  Yahoo

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4 h. ago Pregnant woman with seafood allergy forced off plane over tuna dish on in

Abbey Holling (pictured), 24, and her mother were left stranded in Corfu after 'vile' easyJet staff allegedly ignored her concerns about her life-threatening airborne allergy.

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4 h. ago Amazon reduces 'powerful' £100 smart watch that's 'stylish and functional' to £23

Amazon shoppers have praised the "sleek and powerful" smart watch, which has been massively reduced

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5 h. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets creep higher after week of records for indices

FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets creep higher after week of records for indices  Yahoo

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5 h. ago Diane Abbott’s Labour suspension must be resolved ‘as swiftly as possible’, says minister – UK politics live

Treasury minister James Murray said Abbott’s claim that ‘this Labour leadership wants me out’ was ‘absolutely not the case’Good morning and welcome to our coverage of UK politics. We’re now in recess but we’ll still be bringing you all the news from across the country including continued reaction to the suspension of Diane Abbott.This morning, a minister has denied the veteran MP’s assertion that “it is obvious this Labour leadership wants me out”.That’s absolutely not the case.What’s happened is Diane has made some comments which come on the back of previous comments which she made and for which she apologised some time ago.The details of more than 100 Britons, including spies and special forces personnel, were included in a massive data leak that resulted in thousands of Afghans being secretly relocated to the UK.The voting age will be lowered to 16 across the UK by the next general election in a major change of the democratic system.Labour significantly outspent the Conservatives...

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5 h. ago Business news live: Jaguar Land Rover to cut jobs, Marks & Spencer give staff extra discount

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5 h. ago Plans unveiled for NI’s first new championship links golf course for 100 years

The £30 million course will be located at Bellarena in the region’s north west.

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6 h. ago Should you turn your appliances off at the wall to save money?

There can be many ways to save money and avoiding things such as vampire power is one of them.

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8 h. ago The Open 2025: second round updates from Royal Portrush – live

Latest updates from the second day of the 153rd OpenLive official leaderboard | And you can email Scott and we’re back. Less than nine hours ago, the first day of the 153rd edition of the Open Championship came to a close. Now we’re up and running again! Friday promises to be another Homeric odyssey, and we’ll be blogging about it ♫♪ all day looooooonng♫♪. Here’s how the very top of a star-studded leaderboard looked at the end of play last night -4: JS Olesen, Li, Fitzpatrick, Bezuidenhout, English -3: Jordan, Scheffler, Kaewkanjana, Hatton -2: N Højgaard, Westwood, Fowler, R Højgaard, Rai, Harman, McNealy, Rose, Glover, T Kim -1: Mickelson, Burns, Rahm, Lowry, Axelsen, Z Johnson, Garcia, Hidalgo, Leonard, Niemann, McIlroy, Finau E: J Smith, Kanaya, Schauffele, Svensson, Hillier, Novak, Burmester, McCarty, Im, Langasque, MacIntyre, Kimsey, Kokrak Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Panasonic dishes out £100 takeaway vouchers and 15% off 'first class' OLED TVs

Panasonic customers can save hundreds on a new OLED smart TV this month and bag a £100 voucher for Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo.

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9 h. ago 'My husband wanted to hire a hitman to kill me for £100,000'

Audrey Hunter split from ex Robert Hunter in 2023 but later discovered his disturbing claims.

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10 h. ago I tried ketamine and it left me with marshmallow face and wearing nappies

Jack Curran, 29, first tried the illegal class B drug at 16 when his friends started experimenting with substances - and it ruined his life

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12 h. ago Boden shoppers race to buy luxury coat reduced to £100 while it has £150 summer discount

"I love, love, love this mac coat. It's very high quality, the colour is fabulous and fit is true to size"

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