19 m. ago Enzo Maresca gives update on Chelsea future and hits back at Man City links: ‘100 per cent speculation’

It was reported this week that Maresca could be high on Manchester City’s list if Pep Guardiola leaves the club at the end of the season

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36 m. ago Man pulled down trousers in street and shouted 'I'm a paedophile'

Rhys Phillips' disturbing behaviour was early in the morning and witnessed by people in passing cars and buses

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40 m. ago A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre

Thousands of people have returned to Australia's Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people

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40 m. ago UK weather maps turn bright orange as dangerous rare event to hit Britain

New forecasts show the exact day parts of the UK could be hit by freezing rain, which can leave roads and runways covered in slippery ice

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52 m. ago New update on heating payments for pensioners, people on disability benefits and low income households

Thousands of people have already received payments with the vast majority expected before New Year.

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59 m. ago NHS urges people taking warfarin to be mindful of foods that affect 'how it works'

The 'anticoagulant' medication is used to treat and prevent blood clots in people at increased risk - here's what you need to know

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63 m. ago 'Blood rain' hits Iran: Incredible footage shows the moment the landscape turned crimson due to rare geological phenomenon

Fears that the End Time may be approaching resurfaced after an island in the Middle East turned crimson red this week.

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83 m. ago Dubai hit by severe floods as UAE city experiences worst rainfall in 76 years

Dubai has been hit by major floods as torrential rain leaves streets filled with water, with authorities urging people to stay indoors as the weather is expected to continue through Friday

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95 m. ago Coronation Street's James Bailey actor says 'it was really hard' as co

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jason Callender has admitted it was 'really hard' to see his co-star leave the ITV soap

Politics

1 hour ago Anger spreads over Afcon schedule as Morocco seek to end half

Fifa’s lack of concern for African football’s key money-spinner has led to inadequate preparation timeWith the hosts, Morocco, taking on the island nation of Comoros in the Africa Cup of Nations opener in Rabat on Sunday, there is no mistaking the excitement across the continent. Football is akin to a religion among Africa’s largely young population, with 60% of its 1.5 billion people under the age of 25.But the timing of this Afcon, to be played over the Christmas and New Year period in Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, Tangier and Fez, has never happened since the tournament began in 1957, igniting a storm of anger throughout the African football community. Continue reading...

Politics

1 hour ago Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee

Rejoining Erasmus should just be a first step – as the economic evidence piles up, the need for closer ties with Europe could not be clearerMonth by month, Labour is bringing us closer to Europe. This week, the UK announced it is rejoining the Erasmus+ youth exchange programme. This will open the door beyond the many young people who attend university – its remit includes FE students, apprentices, and youth and school groups. A whoop of excitement greeted the announcement, with opportunities for those involved in education, training, culture and sport, and a commitment to maximise take-up by disadvantaged young people. Widening experience, encouraging adventure: Erasmus+ may help cure Britain’s monolingual handicap and the catastrophic decline in language courses. Last year in the UK, less than 3% of A-levels were in languages.This all eludes Europhobes such as Andrew Neil, who posted on X that “extra taxes now being inflicted on working people will be used to finance some ‘study’ i...

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1 hour ago AD FEATURE: Introducing Homestore Interiors in Swansea, the one

Take a look inside the family-run store that has been assisting the people of Swansea & beyond with their home makeovers for over three decades

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2 h. ago Thierry Henry shares advice for young players after winning BBC SPOTY lifetime achievement award

Thierry Henry reflected on winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award as he encouraged people to “believe in yourself”.

Sport

2 h. ago People call me a gold digger but I wear it like a badge of honour – my lover’s friends insist he gets a prenup

A WOMAN who is 26 years younger than her fiance has revealed that his friends are demanding he get a prenup before they say ‘I do’. You can’t help who you fall in love with - and as if it were destiny, Paige, 29, and Jamie, 55, lived on the same parallel street before he...

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2 h. ago Travis Head piles on pain with hometown hundred as Australia tighten grip on Ashes

Third Test, day three: Australia 371 & 271-4; England 286England trail by 356 runs to leave series hopes hanging by a threadThere were flickers of hope for England on the third day in Adelaide but like some of the murmurs thrown up by Snicko during this pivotal third Ashes Test, they were never entirely convincing. Instead, courtesy of Travis Head’s hometown hundred, Australia manoeuvred their way into a position of outright dominance.At stumps the hosts had reached 271 for four and built a lead of 356 runs. As a 53,700-strong crowd filtered out, the majority did so beaming. They had watched Head only further his cult hero status: an unbeaten 142 from 196 balls that meant England would need a record chase on this ground to prevent going 3-0 down in the series. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago As the US invests in fossil fuels, young climate activists push back in the courts

In this week’s newsletter: A generation is using the legal system to demand accountability for climate harm• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereRikki Held grew up on her family’s ranch in Montana, watching the land transform amid the climate crisis. The Powder River, which runs through the property, has sometimes dried up during drought, leaving crops and livestock without water. At other points, rapid snowmelt and heavy rains have caused flooding and eroded riverbanks, making the land difficult to use.Two years ago, the 24-year-old and a group of other young people won a groundbreaking legal victory, intended to prevent those impacts from worsening. In August 2023, a judge ruled in favour of plaintiffs in Held v Montana, in which 16 young people accused the state of violating their constitutional rights by promoting planet-warming fossil fuels. The state’s supreme court affirmed the judge’s findings late last year, but plaintiffs say lawmakers have since p...

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3 h. ago Federal regulators to begin sifting through wreckage of North Carolina plane crash that killed 7

Federal investigators will begin sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed all seven people aboard, including retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family

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3 h. ago Australia set to launch gun buyback scheme after horror Bondi Beach attack

The PM is proposing a gun buyback scheme as part of the country's vow to tighten rules around gun ownership following the tragic death of 15 people at Bondi Beach

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3 h. ago ‘I had to plunge the knife into the canvas’: Edita Schubert wielded her scalpel like other artists wield a brush

In her day job, the ‘first lady of Croatian avant garde’ sliced up cadavers at Zagreb’s anatomical institute. In her studio, she used the same medical instruments to make art that surprises to this dayEdita Schubert lived a double life. For more than three decades, the late Croatian artist worked at the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Zagreb’s medical faculty, meticulously drawing dissected human bodies for surgical textbooks. In her studio, she made art that resisted every attempt at categorisation – often using the very same tools.“She was producing these really precise, technical illustrations which were used in medical textbooks,” says David Crowley, curator of a new retrospective of Schubert’s work at Muzeum Susch, in eastern Switzerland. “She was right in the middle of that practice She was totally unfazed about being in dissections.” Her anatomical drawings, notes Marika Kuźmicz, the museum’s curator, are still published in handbooks for medical students in Croatia ...

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3 h. ago A chef’s Christmas: Anna Haugh’s Irish family favourites – recipes

Red chicory leaves with blue cheese, honey and walnuts; a big jug of caramelised swede and honey soup; a turkey wellington with red wine gravy, cranberry relish and a hispi and sprout slaw; and a showstopping yule log to finishChristmas lunch in my family is about as traditional as it comes, and is pretty much the same every year no matter who’s house we’re at (including at least three monumental rows about things that happened years ago). Everyone chips in, too, even the kids – well, they’ve got to earn their dinner somehow. Rather than shooing them off to watch cartoons while the adults do all the work, we make sure they’re hands-on in the kitchen alongside us, especially with the annual yule log. Not only is this a valuable life lesson, it also helps develop and strengthen our family culture. The children get to share in that sense of pride at a job well done, too, and everyone feels a part of the occasion. And isn’t that what Christmas is all about? Continue reading...

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