2 h. ago New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon

Less than 1% of our country’s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restrictedIt’s a remarkable feat that a small, isolated island nation of just five million people has managed to stake a claim to one of the largest ocean territories in the world.New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) spans more than 4m square kilometres – an area 15 times the size of our landmass.Rt Hon Helen Clark is a former prime minister of New Zealand, and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) New Zealand. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Love Island fans 'work out' who's already been dumped from villa after Maya Jama bombshell

Love Island fans are convinced they already know which female Islander has been dumped from the villa after Shakira was left single in the opening episode

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3 h. ago Riot police deployed as UK town set alight after petrol bombs thrown at police

A crowd of around 2,500 people took to the streets in Ballymena, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, to protest the alleged sexual assault of a female by two boys on Saturday, June 7

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3 h. ago Riot police sent into Belfast: Petrol bombs thrown after sex crime vigil turned violent

Chaos unfolded in Ballymena, Co Antrim, in Northern Ireland, as 2,500 people gathered to show support for a female who was sexually assaulted. Two teenage boys, both 14, have been arrested and charged with attempted rape

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5 h. ago ITV Love Island fans threaten to switch off after rumbling who's already been dumped from villa

Love Island viewers have been left fuming after 'working out' which female Islander has been dumped from the villa after Shakira was tasked with stealing one of the coupled up boys.

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6 h. ago Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution lays bare shocking figures, but it doesn’t have any answers

Documentary from the dyslexic TV chef shows that it’s far easier to identify problems than it is to locate their solutions

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7 h. ago Fears of damage to nature from Labour planning reforms overblown, minister says

Matthew Pennycook dismissed anxiety from campaigners that Planning and Infrastructure Bill could lead to a weakening of environmental law.

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8 h. ago Trump warns ICE protestors 'If they spit, we will hit' as he lays blames for inspiring riots

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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9 h. ago PHOTO ESSAY: Spain's wildest pilgrimage, El Rocío, brings together faith, nature and partying

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a river ford to reach the tiny hamlet of El Rocío in southern Spain for Pentecost weekend.

Culture

10 h. ago Thousands harmed and 87 dead after NHS equipment failures in England

‘Shocking statistics’ prompt calls for government funding to replace broken and obsolete medical devicesWoman suing NHS trust after blade broke off during surgery and lodged itself in her bodyAlmost 100 people have died and 4,000 have been harmed after equipment malfunctions in the NHS in the past three years, prompting calls for more government funding to upgrade broken and obsolete medical devices.A defibrillator advising paramedics not to administer a shock, an emergency alarm system on a neonatal ward failing, and the camera on an intubation device going dark were just three failures after which patients died. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago I spent a month alone in the pitch dark. This is the terrifying moment I spiraled towards madness...

Reeling from the loss of his unborn child and the breakdown of his marriage, former MMA fighter Traver Boehm spent 28 straight days in complete darkness.

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12 h. ago As a child I showed little interest in my mum’s sewing skills. After she died, I realised what I’d missed out on | Nova Weetman

She filled my wardrobe with patchwork skirts and home-knitted vests and a dark-green corduroy coat – things that I would kill for nowThere is a photograph of a very young me wearing a homemade A-line denim dress with a peace sign boldly embroidered on the front. Mum made me the dress for an anti-nuclear rally sometime in the mid-1970s. I don’t remember wearing it that day, or being carried on my dad’s shoulders as we marched with thousands of protesters, but I do recall wearing many of the other clothes Mum made me as a child.There was a lemon floor-length cotton number that she pintucked by hand for my role as the narrator in the school play that would swish around my ankles as I walked across the stage. And a white cropped top that she splattered with neon paint, designed to show up under the fluorescent lights of the Blue Light disco when I was in my Wham phase and trying to attract a boy I liked from school. But my favourite was the spotted taffeta bubble skirt of my dreams that...

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13 h. ago Capture pictures of Scottish wildlife to celebrate biodiversity and win a free holiday

Wildlife lovers across the UK are invited to capture nature’s beauty in Verdant Leisure’s Wild Shot competition

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13 h. ago 'Neither Reform nor the Tories give a damn about us Muslim females. They are just using the burka to incite hatred'

Zia Yusuf left Reform last week over calls to ban the burkha, but is now back in the Farage fold, but those who pick on minorities should not be trusted. Ever - writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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13 h. ago Alcaraz’s ridiculous victory over Sinner sets tone for next decade of rivalry at top of tennis | Tumaini Carayol

The frenzied last few games of the 2025 French Open final will go down as one of the greatest stretches of play in grand slam historyFive hours into the madness, when their legs should have been fading and sanity departing, the miraculous French Open final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner ascended to even greater heights. So much had already happened. For a long time, Alcaraz had been dominated with the same ruthless efficiency Sinner reserved for the rest of the field and he soon stared into the abyss, trailing triple championship point at 3-5, 0-40 in the fourth set.That moment would instead mark the beginning of Alcaraz’s unprecedented, preposterous comeback as he completely turned the match around. He soon closed in on victory, leading by a break in the fifth set against a weary opponent. With his back to the wall, time running out, Sinner produced a transcendent return game as Alcaraz served for the title at 5-4 to draw level again. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Popular herbs that keep house flies away are easy to grow at home

House flies can be a pest at this time of year, but there is a natural way to repel them - and you may already have the solution growing in your garden

Society

14 h. ago The 10.30pm dinner: is British food culture becoming more Spanish?

Forget propping up the bar or dancing the night away - the new face of UK nightlife is restaurant reservations that stretch into the early hoursName: 10.30pm dinners.Age: Previously unheard of. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Secret video reveals gas chamber deaths of egg industry hens

Exclusive: World-first footage exposed of birds past their egg-laying days being suffocated for supermarket meat

Society

15 h. ago Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Glyndebourne, SussexBarrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead rolesThe Glyndebourne season continues with a revival by Donna Stirrup of Barrie Kosky’s 2015 staging of Handel’s Saul, widely regarded as one of the festival’s finest achievements and the production that cemented Kosky’s reputation in the UK as a director of remarkable originality. This is the first time I’ve seen it, having missed both its opening run and the 2018 revival, and it strikes me as an example of Kosky’s work at its finest: probing, insightful, sometimes witty, sometimes dark, always utterly engrossing.Premiered in 1739, Saul has often been compared to King Lear. There is much of Shakespeare in this portrait by Handel and his librettist, Charles Jennens, of the Old Testament king whose mind slowly disintegrates under the challenges presented to him politically and privately by David after the death of Goliath. Continue...

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15 h. ago Government may have failed to comply with law on protecting birds – watchdog

The Government has a legal obligation to maintain populations of wild birds and ensure they have enough suitable habitats.

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