85 m. ago Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new albumTwenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, are to be premiered a century after the death of the notoriously eccentric and innovative French composer.Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Trump admin officials release ‘new intelligence’ claiming Iran’s nuclear program set back ‘years’

CIA Director John Ratcliffe says the bombed Iranian nuclear facilities ‘would have to be rebuilt over the course of years’

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3 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson jury to begin deliberations after judge’s charge concludes on Monday

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal mushroom lunch in 2023. Follow liveBeale turns to Patterson’s evidence about the dried mushrooms.He says Patterson said she realised on 2 August 2023 that she may have put foraged mushrooms in a Tupperware container including store-bought mushrooms that she used in the beef wellington. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Ecuador recaptures gang leader wanted in the United States more than a year after his prison escape

Authorities in Ecuador have recaptured fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as “Fito,” more than a year after his prison escape

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7 h. ago Walton Goggins’ latest venture after White Lotus revealed: He’s narrating a ‘smut’ audiobook for a sandwich company

The audiobook comes as Jimmy John’s is releasing new items, as part of the ‘S.M.U.T.’ menu

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7 h. ago Call The Midwife 'to end after 15 series as the cast of long

The heartwarming show first aired in 2012 and has since put out 14 series, totalling to more than 100 episodes following the nurses and nuns in Poplar.

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7 h. ago Trump brands Mamdani a ‘100% Communist Lunatic’ backed by ‘dummies’ who has a ‘grating’ voice

Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and state lawmaker, won New York City’s Democratic primary on Tuesday and now faces reelection bid from current mayor Eric Adams, who will run as an independent

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8 h. ago Martin Lewis issues warning to Sky customers amid potential price hikes

Martin Lewis has issued a warning to Sky customers over the 'legal way to leave' the network, with new Ofcom rules that mean you can exit a contract penalty-free

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9 h. ago Three outage: All we know as major UK network goes down for entire day

A mass outage has left Three customers unable to make or receive calls - and some say they are also experiencing problems with text messages and mobile data connection

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11 h. ago Campaigners welcome vaccine cash pledge but fear cut will see fewer lives saved

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the funds at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.

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11 h. ago Five central London schools in mergers as falling pupil numbers devastate school finances

Five schools to become just two in Westminster as school closures continue to mount in capital

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11 h. ago It’s also a ‘new era’ for share prices in the defence sector

Nato’s spending splurge has made Babcock hot – a sign fundamental change in dull income defence stocks is happening It’s a miracle. Babcock International, the defence contractor with a specialism in kitting out the UK’s nuclear submarines, has emerged from the depths. After about half a decade in which the story was mostly about cost overruns, acquisition indigestion, accounting woes, pension deficits and too much debt, Babcock is suddenly back in the FTSE 100 index and is a hot stock. The share price has more than doubled this year.Of course it’s not really a miracle because the performance is easily explained. A fix-the-basics strategy was started in 2020 under ex-Cobham boss David Lockwood and has worked. The last of the badly performing major contracts – to build first-of-a-kind Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy – is no longer spitting out provisions. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Anthropic did not breach copyright when training AI on books without permission, court rules

Judge says firm made ‘fair use’ of literature but that storage of pirated books in central library constituted infringementA US judge has ruled that a tech company’s use of books to train its artificial intelligence system – without permission of the authors – did not breach copyright law.A federal judge in San Francisco said Anthropic made “fair use” of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago JFK got a flight attendant pregnant just months after wife Jackie gave birth, new book reveals

A new tell-all biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals that John F Kennedy got a woman pregnant just months after wife Jackie gave birth

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12 h. ago easyJet holidays discount codes for June 2025 – save £100 or more

Here’s how you can save on beach resorts and city breaks with an easyJet holidays promo code

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13 h. ago SNP Government to cut jobs to help fill £2.6bn black hole as rivals blast 'gross mismanagement'

John Swinney's will try to reduce the public sector headcount.

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13 h. ago Taxi ploughs into supermarket in dramatic crash before fire crews seal off area

Fire crews sealed off the area outside the Worldwide Foods Store

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14 h. ago Swinney says sorry to Gypsy Travellers for ‘trauma’ of the ‘tinker experiment’

Scottish First Minister John Swinney made clear the policies, pursued between 1940 and 1980, were ‘wrong’.

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14 h. ago Papa Johns to open new store and the first 100 customers will get a free pizza

The store will create 15 new jobs

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14 h. ago Holyhead Port reopening delayed as Stena Line says it is 'disappointed'

It has apologised to its customers

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