28 m. ago Nearly a HUNDRED dead in Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse, with famous singer and two Major League Baseball stars among those killed

Dominican merengue singer Rubby Perez, 69, was killed when the roof collapsed at the popular Jet Set nightclub. Ex-MLB players Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco are also among the dead.

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35 m. ago Banned Grand National jockey deletes all social media after horse's death sparks attacks

The horse died on Tuesday having clearly struggled towards the end of the race

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54 m. ago Global markets fall as ‘explosive' trade tariffs kick in, but Trump claims: 'I know what the hell I'm doing'

FTSE 100 in London and Asian stock markets take another pounding with Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropping 5% as Trump’s tariffs against 60 ‘worst offender’ nations come into effect

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55 m. ago FTSE 100 Live 09 April: Heavy selling resumes, GSK and Astra slump on tariffs warning

Fear and panic returned to the world’s stock markets today after Donald Trump’s swingeing new “Liberation Day” tariffs came into force.

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82 m. ago London's FTSE 100 slumps again as Trump's savage tariffs come into force

Fears of a recession escalate as US and China slug it out in hugely damaging trade war

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86 m. ago Brexit to blame for London’s millionaire exodus, Lisa Nandy says

London is no longer one of the top five wealthiest cities in the world after losing a higher proportion of millionaires than anywhere other than Moscow, a new report indicates

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99 m. ago Death of premature daughter was ‘greatest loss’ – Sarah Brown

The Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory, which was set up in 2004, is investigating the causes of early labour.

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1 hour ago FTSE 100 Live 09 April: Heavy selling resumes as US tariffs kick in, Brent Crude nears $60

Fear and panic returned to the world’s stock markets today after Donald Trump’s swingeing new “Liberation Day” tariffs came into force.

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1 hour ago London's FTSE 100 opens heavily down again as Trump's tariffs come into force

Fears of a recession escalate as US and China slug it out in hugely damaging trade war

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1 hour ago Gladiators star announces death of baby boy after being born at 23 weeks

‘Although you were only with us for a short time, you brought us a lifetime of love’ wrote the heartbroken star

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1 hour ago London travel news LIVE: Delays on the M25 and part closure on the Windrush line and Tram

The M25, Windrush line and Tram are all facing problems on Wednesday morning

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1 hour ago GP surgeries owner Assura agrees to private equity takeover worth £1.61bn

The London-listed company will be bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Stonepeak Partners.

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2 h. ago London, Paris, Barcelona, and More Will Witness Mumford & Sons’ New Rushmere Concert: Tourists Take Note

London, Paris, Barcelona, and More Will Witness Mumford & Sons’ New Rushmere Concert: Tourists Take Note  Travel And Tour World

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2 h. ago Young people! What are they doing? It’s none of your business. (But they’re not doing great) | First Dog on the Moon

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2 h. ago Summer 2025 air traffic control strike season is now under way

Plane Talk: Just when you thought flight delays and cancellations could get no worse

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2 h. ago Universal theme park set to open an hour from London in 2031 after Government backs deal

Some 8.5 million visitors are expected to visit the resort, on the site of a former brickworks near Bedford, in its first year

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2 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

The horrifying truth behind the practices of psychiatrist William Sargant, one of Britain’s most influential mental health practitionersYou’d think a sleep room would be cosy, but the one on Ward 5 of the Royal Waterloo hospital in London, back in the 1960s, was dark and airless, a twilight zone where up to six patients – almost always young women – would lie comatose on grey mattresses for weeks, even months on end. They had come in with schizophrenia, anorexia or, in a few cases, a youthful waywardness that their parents hoped could be cured. For William Sargant, the psychiatrist in charge, the cure lay not only in prolonged narcosis but insulin shock therapy, ECT and, if need be, lobotomy. Afterwards, the patients had no memory of what had been done to them. The Sargant method was to wipe their minds clean.Celia Imrie, later a famous actor, was admitted to Ward 5 in 1966, when she was 14. To her it was “like being in a prison camp” and her recovery “owed nothing” to the “tru...

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2 h. ago Deflated Rachel Zegler breaks cover as Disney braces for $115 million LOSS over 'woke' Snow White disaster

Rachel Zegler looked somber as she was pictured out in New York City this week, following the humiliating box office performance of her latest film, Snow White. 

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2 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 09 April: Heavy selling resumes as US tariffs kick in, Brent Crude near $60

Fear and panic returned to the world’s stock markets today after Donald Trump’s swingeing new “Liberation Day” tariffs came into force.

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2 h. ago Thibaut Courtois points finger of blame after being beaten by two Declan Rice free

Declan Rice stunned Real Madrid with two brilliant free-kicks in Arsenal’s Champions League quarter-final clash at the Emirates and Thibaut Courtois has now offered his thoughts

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