89 m. ago Conan O’Brien might be the funniest man alive. Can he navigate hosting the Oscars?

The former talk show host and all-time great ‘The Simpsons’ writer is taking the helm of the Academy Awards for the first time. Kevin E G Perry looks back at his storied career and examines how he’ll handle Hollywood’s biggest night in a city still reeling from devastating fires

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89 m. ago Mohamed Salah reveals desperate desire driving Liverpool stars to title glory

Liverpool have one hand on the Premier League trophy after their 2-0 win over Manchester City on Sunday put them 11 points clear of second place Arsenal at the top of the table

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89 m. ago The 49ers find out something about Rangers in an unforgiving place where stars wear stripes – big match takedown

It’s the first time St Mirren have won back-to-back games against Rangers in 45 years.

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2 h. ago I saw Pep Guardiola team talk that showed two Man City players didn't understand roles vs Liverpool

Manchester City slumped to a second defeat in a week as they were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool at the Etihad in the Premier League.

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2 h. ago Jury selection to begin in murder trial of suspect in suburban Chicago July 4 parade

The man accused of opening fire on a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade and killing seven people is about to stand trial nearly three years after the attack

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2 h. ago ‘Lucian Freud was thrilled when Leigh Bowery stripped naked’: how a wild club kid became the great painter’s muse

When outrageous clubbers Sue Tilley and Bowery posed for the eminent artist, some of the most spectacular portraits of the century were born. Tilley talks about sex, cash and Bowery’s untimely death‘Leigh would have been livid that it wasn’t a painting of him that broke the record,” says Sue Tilley with a laugh. She’s talking about the £17.2m paid by Roman Abramovich in 2008 for a Lucian Freud nude of her, called Benefits Supervisor Sleeping. It was then the highest price ever paid for work by a living artist and Tilley thinks Leigh Bowery, the fashion icon and performance artist, would have found a way to claim the credit. After all, it was Bowery, her great friend, who got her the modelling job.Tilley is now repaying the debt by telling the Australian’s story in a new edition of her book Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon, featuring never-before-seen photos and an extra chapter on his legacy. You can’t really understand Bowery – his looks, his performances, his club Taboo...

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2 h. ago More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis

Many of the nations gathering in Rome for Cop16 have offered no plans to honour their agreement to protect 30% of land and sea for natureMore than half the world’s countries have no plans to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, despite committing to a global agreement to do so less than three years ago, new analysis shows.In late 2022, nearly every country signed a once-in-a-decade UN deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. It included a headline target to protect nearly a third of the planet for biodiversity by the end of the decade – a goal known as “30 by 30”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report

Europe estimated to have bought €22bn of fossil fuels from Russia in 2024 but gave €19bn to support KyivThe EU is spending more money on Russian fossil fuels than on financial aid to Ukraine, a report marking the third anniversary of the invasion has found.The EU bought €21.9bn (£18.1bn) of Russian oil and gas in the third year of the war, according to estimates from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), despite the efforts under way to kick the continent’s addiction to the fuels that fund Vladimir Putin’s war chest. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Patricia Arquette on Trump, communes, art and ageing: ‘When I was growing up the whole world was pretty creepy’

She won hearts with True Romance – and an Oscar for Boyhood. The actor reflects on her TV show Severance, political chaos in the US and why human beings are a disasterIf escaping the world by running for the hills looks increasingly attractive to many of us – perhaps living on a commune – Patricia Arquette feels like that too. Head to the mountains, she says. “Plant seeds and farm.” But maybe not the commune part – she lived in one as a child and it wasn’t always utopian. If our conversation is more dystopian than usual, it’s probably because we’re talking about Severance, the hit Apple TV+ show now in its second season. In the first series, we were introduced to Lumon Industries, where some workers, tasked with doing something unknown but probably malevolent with data, were willingly “severed”; their work selves detached from their outside selves, with no memory between the two. If the drama started as an off-kilter take on work-life balance, it soon morphed into something much dar...

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2 h. ago Trump names conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director

Selection of former Secret Service agent and author means two staunch Trump allies lead the principal federal law enforcement agencyDan Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent who has written bestselling books, run unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast, has been chosen to serve as the FBI’s deputy director.President Donald Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Scots husband who died less than two weeks after MND diagnosis 'let down by medics'

"I know it can take a long time to diagnose MND and there’s not a lot you can do for it, but I just feel like he was let down."

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3 h. ago Missing hiker Hadi Nazar reveals the major mistakes he made that caused him to become lost in the Kosciuszko National Park

The hiker who was lost for 13 days in the Kosciuszko National Park has revealed the big mistakes he made while bushwalking. 

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3 h. ago ‘No more excuses’: Europe under pressure on defence spending three years after Russian invasion

Continent is being told to take more responsibility for its own defence in light of US president’s overtures to PutinA few days after Vladimir Putin sent Russia’s invading forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the EU’s then foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, asked his staff for an urgent military aid plan. They came up with €50m (£41.4m) to help Ukraine.“And I said: ‘Are you crazy? We are talking about a war,’” Borrell recounted in late 2024, shortly before standing down. “Do you know what does it mean, a war? Put three zeros behind! And then we started taking things seriously.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Arsenal news: Mikel Arteta eyes new transfer target with talks 'scheduled' amid contract decision

Arsenal endured a difficult weekend and must quickly bounce back to maintain any hope of a title challenge as the Gunners consider their summer plans in the transfer market

Sport

3 h. ago Rape victim blats police and asks 'how can you trust it?' as it's revealed forces could start using AI to take down impact statements

Hertfordshire Constabulary has piloted the use of Anathem Digital Assistant to transcribe and generate documents for witness statements.

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3 h. ago Putin 'SACRIFICED his sailors to protect his nuclear secrets' in when Russian submarine sinking killed 118: Then

On August 12, 2000, just three months after Putin took office, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk suffered a catastrophic explosion during a naval exercise, killing 118 sailors.

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3 h. ago Timothée Chalamet laughs off flubbing his lines while presenting at 2025 SAG Awards: 'Shoulda done rehearsal'

Timothée Chalamet may be the youngest actor to become a two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee since James Dean, but even he has his off days.

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4 h. ago Three recent graduates killed in horror crash after Missouri high school basketball game

Ava Wolfe, Jayden Butterfield and Violet Corrado were killed in a devastating car crash on Friday night.

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4 h. ago The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast

How did Imam Muhsin change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports“As a Muslim, you always question: ‘Have I pleased God, or have I angered him or her?’”Imam Muhsin Hendricks of Cape Town, South Africa, was the world’s first openly gay imam. In early February, he was shot and killed and the identities and motives of those responsible are still unknown. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago DOMINIC LAWSON: What my chess game with a flustered Rachel Reeves revealed to me about her next move as Chancellor

Scarcely a week goes by without some example of a Cabinet minister found to have exaggerated or even made up their qualification for the high office they hold.

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