39 m. ago Netanyahu orders Israeli military to carry out strikes on Gaza immediately

Israeli PM makes announcement shortly after claiming Hamas opened fire at Israeli forces in southern Gaza

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69 m. ago Afghan, 22, arrested on suspicion of murder as 'dog walker', 49, dies and boy, 14, hurt in Uxbridge triple stabbing

Resident describes suspect fleeing before being tasered after three people stabbed in residential street Midhurst Gardens

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74 m. ago Woman's lip torn off as stray dog lunges at her face in horror park attack

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Minna Pickell had been walking her dog Zeus when a second mutt attacked her, tearing off her bottom lip which left her needing emergency plastic surgery

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81 m. ago Congress shielded gun companies from lawsuits. Some blue states think they've found a loophole

Two decades after a Republican-controlled Congress gave gun manufacturers immunity from being sued over crimes committed with their firearms, a growing number of Democratic-led states are trying to penetrate that legal shield

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99 m. ago Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan under fire over visit to Israel

The Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council said the visit was ‘deeply troubling’.

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1 hour ago Shamed Sarah Ferguson 'facing homelessness' in wake of fresh Jeffrey Epstein scandal

The former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson could be left out in the cold after she and Prince Andrew reportedly agreed to move out of Royal Lodge over the fresh Jeffrey Epstein scandal

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1 hour ago Strictly Come Dancing judge 'bans' pro dancer from replacing Tess and Claudia

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announced they were leaving Strictly Come Dancing last week, and the presenting duo have yet to be replaced

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1 hour ago Moment police Taser and arrest Afghan national after triple stabbing which left dog walker, 49, dead when he 'tried to break up fight and was slashed across the neck'

Police and ambulance crews were called to Midhurst Gardens at around 5pm on Monday where the three victims were stabbed.

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1 hour ago Cabin crew at Manchester Airport to strike for six days next month as row escalates

It will affect routes to Barbados, New York and Orlando

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2 h. ago ‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright

Forget Halloween! Real scares can happen to actors any night of the year. Big name actors, including Zachary Hart and Harmony Rose-Bremner, recall their worst moments – and how they overcame their fearsDerek Jacobi had a bout of it during a world tour of Hamlet. Bill Nighy wrestled with it in the run-up to The Vertical Hour opening on Broadway. Juliet Stevenson has likened it to “a disease”. It has even caused some to take flight: Stephen Fry disappeared from Cell Mates, while Lenny Henry left the stage during Educating Rita. “I’ve completely gone,” he said – although he did return to finish the show.Stage fright can cause the shakes but it can also trigger a complete physical freeze-up, to say nothing of a total verbal drying up – all right under the spotlight. So how and why does it take grip? Can it be overcome? And what does it feel like to be seized by the actor’s nightmare? Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Walk 100 miles in November to support good mental health for all

The Mental Health Foundation is inviting people to embrace the crisp air, get outside, and walk.

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2 h. ago Barrister told she wouldn't be successful she changed one thing about herself

Melissa Morton, a barrister from South Yorkshire, has opened up on how she overcame a university lecturer's cruel remarks about her accent to succeed in the world of law

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3 h. ago Strictly's Motsi Mabuse 'bans' pro from replacing Claudia and Tess as hosts

Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse has ruled out one person from replacing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman on the BBC competition

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3 h. ago AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction | Amandeep Jutla

OpenAI’s CEO has announced loosening the platform’s safety restrictions. He seems not to understand how humans are wiredOn 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement.“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.”Amandeep Jutla MD is an associate research scientist in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Lindsey Vonn says she has 'nothing to prove' as she prepares to return to the Olympics

Lindsey Vonn feels like she has nothing to prove in her bid to return to the Olympics at the age of 41

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3 h. ago $54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry

Brian Kelly’s departure from LSU is just the latest in a series of big money firings. It’s also a jarring state of affairs for many struggling fansAt a time when millions are at risk of going hungry and losing their medical insurance benefits, struggling Americans can at least take solace in knowing that the nation’s college football coaches are doing just fine – especially Brian Kelly.On Sunday LSU relieved Kelly of his coaching duties after his Tigers suffered a resounding home loss to Texas A&M that dropped them out of the AP’s ranking of college football’s top 25 teams. (This is after LSU was ranked as high as third in September and firmly in the top 10 for most of the season.) Kelly, who was in the fourth year of a decade-long contract worth about $100m, will be going home with more than just a box full of purple and gold office trinkets. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Silence Of The Lambs actor Anthony Hopkins, 87, on the 'pain' of not speaking to his daughter in 24 YEARS

He told The New York Times newspaper: 'My wife, Stella, sent an invitation [to Abigail] to come and see us. Not a word of response. So I think, okay, fine,' he said.

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3 h. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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3 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing judge 'bans' pro from replacing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announced they were leaving Strictly last week.

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3 h. ago Returned body parts were of Gaza hostage recovered two years ago, Israel says

Netanyahu accuses Hamas of ‘clear violation’ of ceasefire as far-right ministers call for resumption of warBenjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of a “clear violation” of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire, saying the militant group had returned body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before.Under the terms of the ceasefire, which took effect on 10 October, Hamas is required to return the remains of all Israeli hostages as soon as possible. In exchange, Israel has agreed to hand over 15 Palestinian bodies for each Israeli. Hamas has yet to return 13 bodies. Continue reading...

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