3 h. ago Full list of BRIT Awards 2026 nominations: Lola Young and Olivia Dean lead with five nods each followed by comeback queen Lily Allen

Since removing gendered categories in 2022, the Award show has faced heavy backlash for the low number of female artists nominated.

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3 h. ago Olivia Dean and Lola Young lead Brit Awards 2026 as nominations mark record year for representation

This year’s nominations mark a milestone for the awards, with almost 70 per cent of shortlisted acts identifying as female or non-binary across solo and mixed-gender group categories

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4 h. ago Snow White hit with fresh humiliation as it sweeps Razzie nominations... but Rachel Zegler is SPARED

Known colloquially as the Razzies, the awards are given to the movies, performances and other talent regarded as the worst of the year.

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4 h. ago Trump blasts NATO and claims World War III would have erupted without him as he rules out using force to take Greenland: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest as Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The US President has repeated his demands to acquire Greenland amid tensions with Europe.

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4 h. ago Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man

Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibitionIt was a love letter written by one of the more important British spies of the cold war that made Tom Brass realise he had never fully known his mother.The spy in question was John Cairncross, the alleged fifth man in the Cambridge spy ring, whose spycraft also helped the Soviets win the Battle of Kursk and turn the tide of the second world war. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago A new Henry V is a barometer of our times – what can Shakespeare’s war play tell us amid global chaos? | Michael Billington

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliancesI have long argued that Shakespeare’s history plays have more urgent relevance today than his tragedies. The issues they raise – such as the nature of good governance and the difficulty of deposing a tyrant – are precisely those that still haunt us. Henry V, shortly to be given a new RSC production directed by Tamara Harvey, seems especially timely as we are living in a world where the threat of war is painfully real.It is also a play that constantly changes its meaning. James Shapiro wrote in the Guardian in 2008: “There’s no better way to know which way the cultural and political winds are blowing than by going to see a performance of Henry V.” He reminded us that in 1599, when the play was first performed, playgoers anxiously waited to hear whether an Irish uprising had been suppressed. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago World leaders in Davos must stand up to Trump. This is their chance | Robert Reich

The world needs global leaders to clearly and firmly denounce the havoc Trump is wreaking on the US and international orderHundreds of global CEOs, finance titans, and more than 60 prime ministers and presidents are in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual confab of the world’s powerful and wealthy: the World Economic Forum.This year’s Davos meeting occurs at a time when Donald Trump is not just unleashing his brownshirts on Minneapolis and other American cities, but also dismantling the international order that’s largely been in place since the end of the second world war – threatening Nato, withdrawing from international organizations including the UN climate treaty, violating the UN charter by invading Venezuela and abducting Nicolás Maduro, upending established trade rules, and demanding that the US annex Greenland.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his n...

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10 h. ago A ‘trade bazooka’, tariffs and a World Cup boycott: How Europe can hit back at Trump over Greenland

European leaders have made bullish threats of a response to Trump’s latest tariff threats. But economists tell Craig Hoyle that an extended trade war would be a ‘worst-case scenario’

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11 h. ago Rachel Zegler’s Snow White and Ice Cube’s ‘War of the Worlds’ lead 2026 Razzie nominations

Other titles nominated as the worst films of the year include Millie Bobby Brown’s Netflix action-adventure ‘The Electric State’

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15 h. ago Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr

European leaders who know their continent’s history must now see that the US president is siding with the forces of tyrannyIn January 2018, when Donald Trump was in the second year of his first term as US president, Angela Merkel, in her 13th year as German chancellor, gave a gloomy speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She opened her remarks with a warning from Europe’s past. Politicians had “sleep-walked” into the first world war. As the number of surviving eyewitnesses to the second world war dwindled, she added, subsequent generations would have to prove they understood the fragility of peace. “We need to ask ourselves if we have really learned from history or not.”Fast forward eight years. Vladimir Putin’s territorial aggression harries Europe’s eastern flank. To the west, Trump, now in his second term and guest of honour at Davos, threatens to annex Greenland. This is not a world that has internalised the lessons of the 20th century. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago DANIEL HANNAN: I can't sugarcoat it. Trump's a deluded megalomaniac who's irreparably damaged the world order and increased the risk of war

Look, there is no point in dancing around this. The most powerful man in the world is as mad as a box of frogs. Deranged, demented, doolally.

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30 h. ago Mercedes lead designer to leave team during upcoming F1 season

John Owen was key figure in titles won from 2014 to 2021Audi to unveil first car in Berlin on Tuesday eveningMercedes have announced that their leading car designer, John Owen, will leave this season as Formula One enters the first year of a major change in regulations. Owen has played a key part in the enormous success Mercedes has enjoyed in the modern era when the team secured eight consecutive constructors’ championships.There are no indications as yet that Owen intends to join another team, with Mercedes stating he will continue in his role until mid-season to manage the transition process, after which he will take a period of gardening leave and what the team described as “a break from F1”. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Mercedes lead designer John Owen to leave team during upcoming F1 season

John Owen was key figure in titles won from 2014 to 2021Audi to unveil first car in Berlin on Tuesday eveningMercedes have announced that their leading car designer, John Owen, will leave this season as Formula One enters the first year of a major change in regulations. Owen has played a key part in the enormous success Mercedes has enjoyed in the modern era when the team secured eight consecutive constructors’ championships.There are no indications as yet that Owen intends to join another team, with Mercedes saying he will continue in his role until mid-season to manage the transition process, after which he will take a period of gardening leave and what the team described as “a break from F1”. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Brits face 'severe' punishment for refusing conscription as Russia fires WW3 threat

A leading author and historian has warned that Britons could face a severe punishment if they ignore conscription in the event of World War 3 and Russia has been issuing terrifying threats

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33 h. ago British families urged to buy one appliance to prepare for World War 3

The UK Government has published a new security strategy warning of threats to the UK and urging households to prepare for potential conflict.

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34 h. ago Putin's most powerful nuke would destroy UK capital as horrific outcome detailed

With World War 3 fears ramping up on an-almost hourly basis, the Daily Star has figured out what would happen should Putin fling his most powerful nuclear weapon at us

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44 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says military innovation will ‘transform’ air defences

President says air force’s new system involves ‘mobile fire groups’ and interceptor drones as he warns of fresh Russian attacks ahead. What we know on day 1,427Ukraine’s armed forces are introducing a new facet of air defence, made up of small groups deploying interceptor drones, as the country braces for new mass Russian attacks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday. Ukraine is still reeling from a wave of Russian strikes earlier this month that knocked out power and heating to thousands of apartment blocks in freezing temperatures, particularly in the capital, and Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for air defences to be strengthened. “There will be a new approach to the use of air defences by the air force, concerning mobile fire groups, interceptor drones and other ‘short-range’ air defence assets,” the Ukrainian president said in his nightly video address. “The system will be transformed.” Zelenskyy announced the appointment of a new deputy air force commander, Pavlo Yelizarov, to o...

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47 h. ago Ukraine announces new air defence system as it braces for ‘massive’ Russian strikes

Zelensky has repeatedly called for air defences to be strengthened, including increased assistance from Ukraine's Western allies

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51 h. ago Devastation as World War II Manchester steel firm collapses with loss of around 100 jobs

'It was like one big family'

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52 h. ago Gangs of thugs killing wildlife in leafy London borough by catapulting ice cubes at birds so the evidence melts

Dozens of animals are being shot to death, blinded, left with shattered bones or open wounds in South East London every day as gangs gather after dark to slaughter wildlife for entertainment.

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