45 m. ago Millionaire futurist creating 'mutant humans' reveals when new race will make ordinary people 'obsolete'

Humanity is on the verge of being replaced by a race of superhuman hybrids with powers only dreamt about in movies.

Politics

52 m. ago World's most followed TikTok star leaves US after being detained in Trump's crackdown

US immigration agents arrested and later allowed the "voluntary departure" of the world's most-followed TikToker, Khaby Lame, after he "overstayed" his visa, authorities have said

Politics

58 m. ago Rasmus Hojlund Man United admission, Ruben Amorim's true feelings, Inter Milan transfer stance

Danish striker Rasmus Hojlund has suffered a difficult second season with Manchester United leading to speculation surrounding his future

Events

92 m. ago Omaze's youngest ever winner sells glam £3million mansion at massively reduced price

Lauren Keene, 24, won a £3million property in an Omaze prize draw last December, but after just six months, she has decided to sell the luxury home for £500,000 less than its value

Economics

97 m. ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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2 h. ago Furious Barcelona star 'ready to go to war' as Arsenal target closes in on transfer

Barcelona may have a difficult task in persuading Marc-Andre ter Stegen to depart the club this summer even with the signing of Espanyol star Joan Garcia expected soon

Events

3 h. ago More funding to tackle youth violence in Scotland announced amid Record campaign

The Record launched the Our Kids ... Our Future campaign in February 2023 after we highlighted a worrying trend of violence among teens.

Events

5 h. ago America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequalityOne Saturday in the spring of 2021, a little achy after receiving our first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, my husband and I decided to stay in bed and click on the first thing suggested to us by our TV. It was WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, a documentary produced by Hulu about the New York startup WeWork’s spectacular fall from grace. The film mostly chronicles the misdeeds of founder Adam Neumann, the surfer-dude dolt who turned a good idea – co-working spaces that lease small offices to tech startups – into a surreally overvalued conglomerate, before he made a mortifying attempt to take the company public that eventually ended in his forced resignation. As a consolation prize, Neumann infamously received a $1.7bn golden parachute.The WeWork cautionary tale is partly about slick marketing, which is what seems to...

Politics

5 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson opens up on prostate checks as star reflects on friends 'gone down' with cancer

It comes a year after the broadcaster and farmer, 65, revealed he was days from death before major heart surgery

Politics

6 h. ago Trump praises ‘great job’ by national guard in calming LA protests, as mayor says troops are not in the city – US politics live

Mayor Karen Bass disputes president’s claim as she thanks local law enforcement for dealing with unrest following immigration crackdownPresident Trump appears to have used federal law to order the national guard to go to Los Angeles, rather than the 18th century Insurrection Act.The national guard is a hybrid entity that serves both state and federal interests. Often, it operates under state command and control, using state funding. Sometimes national guard troops will be assigned by their state to serve federal missions, remaining under state command but using federal funding.Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest. We have an incompetent Governor (Newscum) and Mayor (Bass) who were, as usual (just look at how they handled the fires, and now their VERY SLOW PERMITTING disaster. Federal permitting is complete!), unable to to handle the task.These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLE...

Politics

6 h. ago Badenoch says organisations should be able to decide if staff can wear burkas

Kemi Badenoch also said people who come to her constituency surgeries must remove their face coverings.

Politics

7 h. ago The REAL reason why Omaze's youngest ever winner is selling her £3million mansion for a knockdown price after less than a year

Lauren Keene, 24, celebrated winning the spectacular six-bed Hollywood-style mansion - valued at £3million - but six months later has decided to cash in.

Economics

7 h. ago Craig Bellamy: ‘I loved living in Brussels it gave me freedom and allowed me to breathe’

Coach learned his trade under Vincent Kompany at Anderlecht, now he leads Wales back to Belgium for a World Cup qualifierThe last of Craig Bellamy’s 78 Wales caps came in Brussels in October 2013 and although that 1-1 draw concluded an underwhelming World Cup qualifying campaign, the Belgian capital is where he considers his coaching career achieved liftoff. He spent a little more than two years working at Anderlecht alongside his former Manchester City teammate Vincent Kompany, first as the under-21 coach and then as Kompany’s assistant, a springboard that has led him to representing his country at the King Baudouin Stadium for another qualifier, this time as a manager.It is a city Bellamy remembers fondly, despite leaving Anderlecht in September 2021, before the end of his contract, to return to Cardiff to deal with depression after struggling being away from his family. “I loved living in Brussels,” he says. “It gave me a good step back. I was completely unrecognisable – no one h...

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7 h. ago Groom forced to have his toes partially amputated after being given wedding shoes that were too tight

Martin Ralph, 61, complained about the shoes being too small and uncomfortable but was reassured by NHS staff that they just needed 'breaking in'.

Politics

8 h. ago Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith addresses future on show after 'planning to quit'

The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith has spoken out about her future on the show, after admitting that she threatened to quit the Bake Off universe entirely

Culture

8 h. ago Alisson makes admission on his Liverpool future as he reaches 'decisive moment'

Alisson has been Liverpool's No 1 for seven years but his contract is winding down as questions over his Liverpool future emerge ahead of next summer's World Cup

Events

8 h. ago No decision on winter fuel allowance until autumn, minister says

Chaotic government messaging has left millions of pensioners with no idea what the changes to winter fuel payments will look like

Politics

9 h. ago Rasmus Hojlund gives update on his Manchester United future amid Inter Milan transfer interest

Inter Milan have declared their interest in signing Man United striker Rasmus Hojlund in this summer's transfer window.

Sport

9 h. ago England make dominant start to Charlotte Edwards era — but India will provide true test of their progress

An overmatched West Indies were duly dispatched in a 6-0 clean sweep, but tougher tasks are to come for Nat Sciver-Brunt’s side

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10 h. ago Love Island bombshell who clashed with Kady McDermott unrecognisable nine years later

Love Island star Tina Stinnes entered the villa nearly 10 years ago in 2016 and immediately clashed with Kady McDermott as she decided to pick Scott Thomas to go on a date

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