53 m. ago We Were Liars is the perfect YA thriller for summer – here’s where to watch

Get ready to binge the eight-episode series

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57 m. ago Shocking moment Spanish cop chokes 'thief' to death after he 'stole his phone'

The unnamed 58-year-old was out for dinner with a friend on Tuesday in the Spanish town of Torrejon de Ardoz in northeastern Madrid when a man allegedly stole his phone and ran off.

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61 m. ago Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure

Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searchedThe Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have captured imaginations over the centuries.But almost nothing is known about the life and times of actual pirates. Continue reading...

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67 m. ago Concerning moment Cher's son is found in 'zombie state' in 40C heat after 'heroin overdose'

The son of iconic singer Cher, Elijah Blue Allman, sparked concern in disturbing footage as he appeared to be in a "zombie-like" state in soaring Californian heat

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70 m. ago 'I'm old enough to date son or dad just like Bonnie Blue,' jokes Love Island icon

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island legend Anna Vakili has said it's 'annoying' that the guys that try and hit on her are in their 20s, but she has confessed she isn't ready to rule them out just yet

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74 m. ago Sunday Brunch BANS guests from being photographed holding cutlery in case it celebrates knife crime, Frank Skinner says

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Skinner, 68, appeared on the Sunday morning show - hosted by Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer - in June last year.

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82 m. ago New Rio de Janeiro law requires public hospitals to display anti

Opponents view the controversial act as part of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict abortion accessA new law has just come into force in Rio de Janeiro requiring all public hospitals and clinics run by the municipal government to display anti-abortion signs bearing messages such as: “Did you know that the unborn child is discarded as hospital waste?”Reproductive rights activists view the act as the latest example of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already has some of the world’s most restrictive laws. Continue reading...

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82 m. ago ‘This isn’t a gimmick’: the New Yorkers trying to restore the American chestnut

More than 120 years after billions of the trees were wiped out, blight-proof seeds are being plantedIt was in New York City that a mysterious fungus was first spotted on an American chestnut, a blight that was to rapidly sweep across the eastern US, wiping out billions of the cherished trees. Now, 120 years later, there is fresh hope of a comeback for chestnuts, spurred not only by scientists but also eager New Yorkers planting blight-proof seeds in their back yards and local parks.The American chestnut was once found in vast numbers from Maine to Mississippi and known as the redwoods of the east due to its prodigious size. But 4bn trees were killed off in the first half of last century by a blight introduced from Asia to which it had little defense, spread by spores carried by the wind, rain and animals. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Much loved Japanese car brand that disappeared five years ago could be making a dramatic comeback

The Japanese car firm announced it was pulling out of the UK market - and Europe as a whole - in 2020 following a sales crash triggered by the pandemic. But it could soon return...

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87 m. ago Recruiter Hays warns global slump in hirings will more than halve its profits

Shares in recruitment firm fall by as much as 20% to 13-year low after it predicts annual profits of about £45m• Business live – latest updatesA slump in hiring activity at businesses around the world means profits will more than halve at Hays, the global recruitment company has warned, sending its shares to their lowest level in more than a decadeDemand for new permanent staff has fallen sharply, reflecting “low levels of client and candidate confidence as a result of macroeconomic uncertainty”, Hays told investors in an unscheduled update. Continue reading...

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94 m. ago He attacked his partner then strangled her daughter as she lay helpless on the floor

Mark Moon, 46, was charged with actual bodily harm, strangulation and assault by beating

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96 m. ago Karen Millen revives 'By Lydia' archive collection with 16 stunning dresses

The curated collection features 16 revived looks from the archives and some of the pieces are up to 40% off

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99 m. ago The Repair Shop guest 'speechless and blown away' as restoration takes VERY dramatic turn in BBC first

The Repair Shop On The Road, a spin-off from the original beloved heirloom restoration show, returned to our screens for a new episode last night (pictured).

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1 hour ago Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days

Government issued permit to shoot young female who entered Vilnius, despite only small number left in Baltic countryEurope live – latest updatesA young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighbourhoods of Vilnius, trotted across highways and explored backyards – all while being chased by onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Moment British teenager is punched to the ground by bouncer after smashing a bottle in his face when he was asked to leave Magaluf nightclub

This is the moment a Magaluf doorman leaves a British tourist on the ground with a flurry of punches after reacting to being bottled in a horror attack.

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2 h. ago 28 Years Later boldly changes 28 Weeks Later plot twist within minutes

The film walks back a huge moment from 2007 sequel

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2 h. ago Murder investigation launched after 'defenceless' grandfather beaten to death in west London home

Family of John Murray say ‘we are struggling to comprehend why someone would harm a 75-year-old defenceless man in his own home’

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2 h. ago Bride Hard review – Rebel Wilson action comedy is hard to endure

The star makes for a charmless lead in a rubbishy attempt to mash a female-led wedding comedy and an action caperIn Apple’s 2023 car crash Ghosted, things went from worse to genuinely never been this bad when the sounds of Uptown Funk erupted during another shoddily choreographed action sequence. It was a marriage so heinous that one would be tempted to think it was parody had it not existed in a film so entirely devoid of humour and self-awareness. The Chris Evans/Ana de Armas vehicle became the new nadir of the action comedy, a subgenre that has been run down into the sewer by streamers, carelessly cobbling together big stars and bad quips on an almost weekly basis.But as dreadful as it was, there was something fascinatingly dreadful about it, a cacophony of bad decisions that became almost instructive to the industry in its of-the-moment awfulness. In this week’s Bride Hard, the latest tinny genre mix to get chucked at us, when Rebel Wilson’s shoddy kitchen-based fight scene is s...

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2 h. ago Controversial darts star who LICKED Luke Humphries caught in another disgusting act

On the back of a dramatic World Cup, the Players Championship resumed in Leicester this week, with Chris Dobey claiming victory on Tuesday and then Stephen Bunting on Wednesday.

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2 h. ago The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunismIn early June, the violence began. Rumours of a foreigner assaulting a local woman resulted in groups roaming through a small British town, breaking windows of homes belonging to “outsiders”. A few days later, the police attempted to stop mobs from reaching another nearby multiracial area. Eventually they broke through, ransacking shops and burning down a house, while local media reported that the violence had developed into “something like a fever”.Sound familiar? This isn’t Ballymena, the County Antrim town in Northern Ireland that has seen several nights of unrest in which immigrant homes were attacked after reports of an alleged sexual assault on a local girl by two teenagers, who had a Romanian interpreter read them the charges. These incidents actually took place more than a century ago, during the summer of 1919, as racial violence spread thro...

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