26 m. ago Jay Slater's final conversation with pal revealed before vanishing in Tenerife

Investigator Mark Williams-Thomas has revealed new details about the case of tragic teen Jay Slater - including a final chat he had with a pal the night before he went missing

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30 m. ago Protests over immigration raids continue across the US with more planned

Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the country, and officials in cities from coast to coast are bracing for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump over the weekend

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37 m. ago She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

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38 m. ago Spanish PM apologises to voters after MP resigns over corruption allegations

Pressure grows for snap election as judge finds ‘firm evidence’ of Santos Cerdán’s possible role in kickbacksSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has apologised to voters but ruled out a snap election after a senior member of his Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) resigned hours after a supreme court judge found “firm evidence” of his possible involvement in taking kickbacks on public construction contracts.Sánchez, who became prime minister in 2018 after using a motion of no confidence to turf the corruption-mired conservative People’s party (PP) out of government, is already contending with a series of graft investigations relating to his wife, his brother, his former transport minister, and one of that minister’s aides. All deny any wrongdoing. A former PSOE member was recently implicated in an alleged smear campaign against the Guardia Civil police unit investigating the corruption allegations. Continue reading...

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40 m. ago All Brits feared dead onboard Air India Flight 171 after plane crash tragedy

The Brits feared dead after the Air India plane crash include an influencer couple, a family of three, and an award-winning hotel manager who was travelling with his wife and two children

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45 m. ago Air India plane crash victims: British family and former Indian politician named as first victims of tragedy

Tributes have been paid to the first named victims of crash on London Gatwick-bound flight that killed more than 200 people

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48 m. ago British passenger who survived Air India crash has 'no idea' how he walked away from wreckage

The 40-year-old is believed to be the only survivor of the crash

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48 m. ago Air India passenger's chilling video 'shows nothing working' on plane before doomed flight

A man travelling on an earlier Air India flight - the same plane that went on to crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday - claimed that there were a number of problems with the aircraft

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50 m. ago Uncontested: Dazn’s $1bn story reveals why the Club World Cup is really here

Saudi-backed streaming superpower’s TV deal for Fifa’s global project is next expansionist step towards a world super league“And what exactly are you doing here, sir?” To be fair, the border guard at Miami international airport made an excellent point. As ice-breakers go, frowning over the passports and visa tickers of the long-haul crowd on matchday minus four of the Fifa Club World Cup, the border guard was at least in tune with the zeitgeist. What is football doing here?What are Lionel Messi, Trent Alexander-Arnold and the massed engines of the football-industrial complex doing hovering like an alien landing party over this fun, sinking sandbank of a city, a strip of land where the ocean seems to be punching a mulchy green hole in the asphalt every few miles, a place that from the air seems to be made entirely from deep-fried crumb, tropical weed and traffic? Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Hero pilots' desperate bid to save doomed passengers on Air India flight

Footage of the Air India passenger jet shows one major sign the two pilots did everything they could to save the plane from crashing, according to an aviation expert

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73 m. ago Army soldier killed and another hurt in helicopter ‘incident’ near Fort Campbell in Kentucky

The names of the soldiers have not been released

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73 m. ago Air India plane passenger 'shivering' after missing doomed flight by 10 minutes

A woman was meant to be on Air India flight 171 to London but missed it by 10 minutes – the plane later crashed in Ahmedabad, India, killing over 230 people on board

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74 m. ago Emma Raducanu leapfrogs Katie Boulter to British No 1 after beating Sramkova at Queen’s

Raducanu wins 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finalsBoulter falls to fifth seed Diana Shnaider 2-6, 6-3, 6-2Emma Raducanu will regain her status as the best female tennis player in Britain for the first time in two years as she continued her solid start to the grass-court season by defeating Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals at Queen’s.Raducanu, who currently sits at world No 35 in the live rankings, will return to British No 1 next week after Katie Boulter fell to the fifth seed Diana Shnaider 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday. Raducanu has not been the highest-ranked player in the country since June 2023 when she was recovering from surgeries to her wrists and ankle. She missed a total of eight months in 2023 and consequently fell out of the top 300. Continue reading...

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81 m. ago JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives

A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network

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82 m. ago First British victims of Air India plane crash named after horror tragedy

Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa and their daughter Sara have died in the crash.

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83 m. ago Iran’s nuclear programme may get bombed by Israel. That would be bad for America

Israel may bomb Iran. Only Putin and Netanyahu will gain but that suits Trump, says Sam Kiley, world affairs editor

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90 m. ago Meta sues Chinese maker of deepfake AI app that takes clothed pictures and turns them into nudes

So-called “nudify” apps take photos of clothed individuals and turn them into fake nudes, even if the subjects have not consented to having their likeness used

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92 m. ago Australia and South Africa wickets tumble to leave WTC final on a knife

Day two: Australia 212 & 144-8; South Africa 138Proteas battle back after Pat Cummins’ early blitzThis final has been dubbed “The Ultimate Test” and though almost certainly the product of a W1A-style ideas splurge back in Dubai, this tagline scarcely felt more appropriate watching the wickets tumble for a second successive day.It had looked for all money like Pat Cummins had sealed the fate of the World Test Championship mace. Thundering in from the Nursery End, a four-wicket burst after lunch had seen him claim six for 28 and with South Africa all out for 138 in 57.1 overs – 74 behind – all it needed was a further top-up of runs. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he has ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police

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95 m. ago Captain Pat Cummins answers Australia’s call before South Africa roar back in rollercoaster final

Cummins took six wickets to put Australia in the ascendancy before a late collapse kept South Africa’s hopes much alive

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