5 m. ago Pope Francis funeral latest: World leaders arriving to pay respects at historic Vatican ceremony

More than 200,000 people are expected to attend the funeral, along with major world leaders

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14 m. ago Pope Francis funeral: world leaders to join thousands of mourners for ceremony – latest updates

Funeral to begin at 10am local time in St Peter’s Square and will be presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista RePope Francis’s funeral will be held in St Peter’s Square in Rome at 10am local time. The outdoor service, which will be led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the college of cardinals, is expected to be attended by dignitaries from 170 foreign delegations, as well as tens of thousands of ordinary people wanting to pay their respects.Once the funeral mass has finished, Francis’s coffin will be taken, in procession, to Santa Maria Maggiore. The Vatican announced that people will be able to visit Francis’s tomb in the basilica from Sunday morning.On BBC One, newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti will present the broadcaster’s coverage, with a BBC News special beginning at 8.30am on Saturday and scheduled to continue until 12.30pm.Sky News presenter Anna Botting will host a live from Rome, with commentary from the former governor of Edinburgh Castle, Maj Gen Alastair Bruc...

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15 m. ago Watch live: Pope Francis’ funeral takes place at the Vatican in Rome

Watch live as Pope Francis’ funeral takes place at the Vatican in Rome today (Saturday 26 April), with tens of thousands of people attending to mourn the late Pontiff.

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37 m. ago James Martin's 'weird' confession after deciding against marriage and having children

James Martin, 52, boasts an impressive collection of cars, thought to be worth around £5 million, and describes them as his 'kids with wheels'

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42 m. ago 'I visited Manchester's bogies and brains exhibition and the kids didn't want to leave'

'It’s science that’s both serious and silly'

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63 m. ago The Latest: Mourners race to get standing room spot in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ funeral

As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being laid to rest

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67 m. ago Households suffering with 2 symptoms urged to wash bedding immediately

People suffering from constant sneezing and itchiness around their eyes should wash their bedding now in a bid to ease their symptoms and get a better night's sleep

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82 m. ago The North Wales seaside town with a secret beach tourists don’t know about

One visitor described it as a 'hidden gem' where you can escape the crowds

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84 m. ago Experts warn of the common red flags to look out for to prevent being scammed

“People need to be encouraged to talk, scam silence needs to end”

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92 m. ago Six 'dodgy' Greater Manchester pubs that people were wary of drinking in for good reason

Some of the region's boozers have gained a reputation for being 'rough' or a bit 'dodgy' over the years. Here, we look at the inside story of six notorious lost pubs

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96 m. ago ‘I haven’t slept for two days’: Kharkiv residents reel from Russian attacks

Exhausted residents point out latest drone strike came hours after Donald Trump’s rare rebuke to Vladimir PutinAbout 1am on Friday, Yuliia Verbytska woke to the sound of an air raid siren. She grabbed her teenage children – Dmitry, 17, and Olexiy, 12 – and sat in the corridor, checking her phone. In the sky above came an ominous whine. Minutes later, a Russian drone crashed into the disused soap factory down the road in Polyova Street. There was an enormous explosion.“We don’t have a shelter in our building, so we hide behind two concrete walls. All the neighbours sit together. You wonder if this is your last moment,” she said. Friday’s raid followed a massive attack on Thursday on Verbytska’s home, Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, and on the capital, Kyiv, where 12 people were killed. “I haven’t slept for two days,” she said wearily. Continue reading...

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96 m. ago ‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

Pop’s top matriarch is finally getting the credit she’s due. She talks about her shock diagnosis, conspiracy theories about her family, and the Instagram posts that get her in trouble with her kidsIt’s been a decade since Tina Knowles started dictating her life story into her phone for her grandchildren and future great-grandchildren. She wanted them to know their history – her early life and world were so different from theirs, she might as well have been from another planet. Knowles, the youngest of seven, born to a docker and seamstress, grew up poor in segregated Texas. Her grandchildren, born to Knowles’s superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, are growing up in Los Angeles and New York with unimaginable wealth, but under unimaginable scrutiny.A couple of years ago, Knowles started writing a book that was supposed to be her behind-the-scenes take on the outfits she had created for her daughters’ music careers – the dazzling triple-denim looks she had cobbled together from fab...

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97 m. ago 'I went for a salon treatment but walked out with a cancer diagnosis'

Margaret Gardiner, 65, who won the Miss Universe pageant in 1978, revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer after having a simple beauty treatment

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97 m. ago 'I gave up English city life to move to stunning rural Wales – then disaster struck'

EXCLUSIVE: Enfys Malone left the Welsh countryside behind after turning 18 but she recently returned with a husband and two kids after bravely leaving her life near the city behind

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2 h. ago The small Welsh village where 119 people are fuming about one house

Some locals claimed the HMO conversion could 'ruin' the area

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2 h. ago New tribal national park in North Dakota aims to preserve rugged and scenic landscape

A new tribal national park in North Dakota is opening a little-seen area of the rugged Badlands to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts

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2 h. ago 15 best Welsh ice creams worth travelling for to make sunny days even sweeter

It's ice cream season - who are we kidding? It's always ice cream season

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2 h. ago A bushel of fruit and vegetable motifs give decor a healthy farmstand vibe

Fruit and vegetables motifs are all over decor these days

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2 h. ago Giorgia Meloni faces awkward weekend at funeral of pope whose values she opposed

Italian PM and pontiff could not have been further apart on issues such as migration, climate crisis and economyIt is an awkward weekend for Giorgia Meloni. The Italian leader will host a gathering of world leaders to say goodbye to a much-revered pope whose public views – from the treatment of people fleeing war to the climate crisis – were diametrically opposed to hers.While Pope Francis was a staunch advocate for asylum seekers, and blessed the vessels that saved refugees at sea, Meloni once said Italy should “repatriate migrants back to their countries and then sink the boats that rescued them”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Travel warning to Brits travelling to Turkey after people are seen fleeing out of homes and jumping for their lives

More than 150 people have been injured

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