59 m. ago Arsenal news: Mixed injury update for Real Madrid as training ground bust

Arsenal are preparing for the second leg of their Champions League quarter final against Real Madrid on Wednesday after the draw with Brentford on the weekend depleted their ranks

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4 h. ago JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the Vance – an Ohio State graduate – tried to lift the trophy. He didn’t appear to realize that the top of the trophy is detachable from its base. After a moment of struggle, the vice-president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy, but the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled away from him. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz’s grand coalition: gambling on a new centre ground | Editorial

The deal signed last week between the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD paves the way for vital investment in Europe’s biggest economySome years ago, hundreds of German finance ministry staff dressed in black and formed a giant zero to salute their boss, Wolfgang Schäuble, as he left office. It was a tribute to Mr Schäuble’s extreme fiscal conservatism, which had delivered Germany’s first balanced budget in the postwar period. Amid resurgent prosperity in the Angela Merkel years, the so-called black zero – symbolising a constitutional prohibition on public debt – had gradually acquired cult status.As a new administration prepares to take power in Berlin, it seems unlikely that human euro signs will welcome the latest politician to take on Mr Schäuble’s former role. But in dramatic fashion, the spending taps are set to be turned on. Via a swiftly staged March vote in the outgoing Bundestag, “debt brake” dogma was consigned to history by the chancellor‑elec...

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11 h. ago Sicilian gravedigger accused of removing corpses to resell burial sites

Arrested man was allegedly aided by a forensic pathologist said to have falsely certified the decomposition of bodiesPolice in Sicily have arrested a former gravedigger and are investigating 18 others accused of illegally removing bodies from tombs to make way for new corpses.The former gravedigger’s assistant was also arrested on Monday in the investigation dating from 2023 for alleged corruption and bribery in Trapani, on the west coast of the Italian island. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago The UK has taken British Steel back from China. But can it afford to jeopardise its trade relationship?

A last-minute takeover of British Steel has led the UK’s trade secretary to advise caution against Chinese investment in key sectors. Alicja Hagopian looks at if the UK afford to lose trade with China

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12 h. ago Watch: Katy Perry pays tearful tribute to daughter Daisy and kisses ground after Blue Origin space mission

The Firework singer fought back tears as she was told about four-year-old Daisy’s ‘proud’ expression while watching her mother go into space

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13 h. ago Nutrition expert reveals surprising reason why some women can't lose weight

American nutritionist Abram Anderson said women may struggle to lose weight due to this one common but unexpected problem.

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13 h. ago Katy Perry kisses ground as Blue Origin flight returns to Earth

Katy Perry kissed the ground as she landed back on Earth following the all-female Blue Origin flight to space on Monday, 14 April.

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14 h. ago Shoplifter killed 'wonderful human being' as he made off with socks worth just £66

Serial offender Joseph Smith made off without stopping to check on his victim as she fell to the ground

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14 h. ago Katy Perry screams and kisses the ground after being blasting off into space on all

The New Shepard NS-31 spaceship carrying singer Katy Perry and an all-female crew has returned to Earth after blasting off at 2.30pm on Monday

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14 h. ago People trying to lose weight should 'avoid' three fruits that slow slimming results

The late Dr Michael Mosley advised against eating these fruits if you're trying to shed some weight.

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14 h. ago Bruno Fernandes explains why he'd prefer Man United lose the way they did against Newcastle

Ruben Amorim's Man United side were comfortably beaten by Newcastle on Sunday afternoon, but club captain Bruno Fernandes believes there were some positives to take from the match

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15 h. ago Keir Starmer warned at least 80 Labour MPs could lose their seats as their majorities are smaller than the number of constituents who are set to have their disability benefits cut

Those opposed to the squeeze on benefits are using an analysis of data to highlight the 'real electoral risk' of the Prime Minister's actions.

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15 h. ago Veeraswamy owner: It is a rare privilege to nurture this restaurant — to close would be a great tragedy

If the Crown Estate get their way, London will lose one of its most precious places, says Ranjit Mathrani

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16 h. ago What Ruben Amorim did on touchline during Man United defeat revealed training ground problem

Manchester United are looking better in moments and Ruben Amorim is often pleased with what he is seeing in training, but it's not being translated on to the pitch.

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19 h. ago Win a £685,000 Hampshire home and a Land Rover Defender – all for just 99p

BOTB is best known for its luxury car giveaways – now they’re offering one lucky winner the keys to a brand new four-bed Hampshire home and a top-spec Land Rover Defender for just 99p.

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19 h. ago Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive tale of a mysterious death

Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fableSimon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a novel of the same name by author and travel writer Nicholas Wollaston is now re-released; it is a dreamily directionless movie which resists, or almost resists, categorisation. It seems as if it is going to be a thriller or supernatural mystery, and you can wait almost until the final credits for some final narrative flourish or definitive plot shock that would prove what it’s all been about. And in fact there is a revelation, but it is presented so coolly that you will be expecting something else to come afterwards. An unsympathetic producer might well want to cut this film by two-thirds and present it as an episode of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected, but that would be to lose the flavour and perhaps the meaning. I’m still not sure what I think about Eclipse, but it’s certainly distin...

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19 h. ago Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fableSimon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a novel of the same name by author and travel writer Nicholas Wollaston is now re-released; it is a dreamily directionless movie which resists, or almost resists, categorisation. It seems as if it is going to be a thriller or supernatural mystery, and you can wait almost until the final credits for some final narrative flourish or definitive plot shock that would prove what it’s all been about. And in fact there is a revelation, but it is presented so coolly that you will be expecting something else to come afterwards. An unsympathetic producer might well want to cut this film by two-thirds and present it as an episode of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected, but that would be to lose the flavour and perhaps the meaning. I’m still not sure what I think about Eclipse, but it’s certainly distin...

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21 h. ago DWP PIP points system explained as three health conditions to keep £4,200 support

Experts estimate that approximately a million people in England and Wales will lose their disability benefits as part of this restructuring

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28 h. ago Survivor of Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse recalls horror of being buried under dead bodies for hours

Patricia Ovalles was buried under dead bodies and rubble for six hours before being rescued thanks to her quick thinking using the phone of a dead man above her to call her son's father for help

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