35 m. ago Mahmoud Khalil says his arrest was part of ‘Columbia’s repression playbook’

Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport himMahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying “the groundwork for my abduction” and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.Khalil, a green-card holder who is in custody in Louisiana as his case moves through the courts, was detained on 8 March. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him under a provision in federal immigration law that permits the state department to deport non-citizens considered to be a threat to US foreign policy. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago Labour scraps review into 'woke culture' in the Armed Forces

Last month, the Daily Mail revealed that diversity-hiring practices had contributed to a 30 per cent shortfall in pilots at the ranks of flight lieutenant and squadron leader in the RAF.

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2 h. ago Didsbury floods LIVE as 30 homes 'under threat' after water main bursts on street

Emergency services are on the scene in Borrowdale Crescent

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2 h. ago Didsbury residents 'forced to flee' after major water main bursts with 30 homes under threat

A water main has burst on Borrowdale Crescent in Didsbury

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2 h. ago Decapitated body found in middle of street as city rocked by Mexican cartel civil war

The cartel civil war that has been rocking Culiacán in Mexico since September 2024 shows no sign of stopping as another victim was found dead in the street on Friday night

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3 h. ago Man City zero in on Kevin De Bruyne replacement 24 hours after transfer bombshell

Kevin De Bruyne will leave Manchester City at the end of the current season and the club have already begun their search for a replacement - with a top target in mind

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4 h. ago Woman approached casket to say goodbye to mum at funeral when her eyes suddenly opened

When the family of Helen Mercer went to view her body and say their final goodbyes in Chicago, Illinois, they were horrified when her eyes popped open because her body was not properly embalmed

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6 h. ago NY public schools tell Trump administration they won't comply with DEI order

New York state school officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding

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7 h. ago Black Alien unrecognisable in rare photos before extreme mutilation of skin and body

Anthony Loffredo, better known as the "Black Alien Project", has spent years on his extreme body modifications and tattoos, but throwback photos show just how different he looks

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7 h. ago Nick Rockett holds off I Am Maximus to win thrilling 2025 Grand National – live reaction

Willie Mullins-trained horse ridden to victory by sonTom Jenkins’s best pictures from AintreeAnd send Simon an email with your thoughtsWilliam Hill Handicap Hurdle (1.20pm)And they’re off Jipcot, always held up in the past, is up there in the very early stages Building Bridges has taken over the lead Dartan and Timmy Tuesday are also prominent Act Of Authority and Double Powerful are at the back no fallers with a circuit to go and not much change in the running order for now but Bill Joyce has gone at the first hurdle in the back straight he’s up and going on riderless Building Bridges has kicked clear with Dartan who is under pressure Timmy Tuesday comes with a challenge Deep Cave comes late and gets there close home.I love that ITV still open up their National day coverage (as the Beeb used to) with the theme music from the 1984 film Champions based on the victory of Bob Champion and Aldaniti in 1981. I still haven’t seen the movie but I found it for a quid last year on DVD. Conti...

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8 h. ago Phone footage appears to contradict Israel's account in troops' killing of 15 Palestinian medics

A video on the phone of one of 15 Palestinian medics killed by Israeli forces in Gaza shows that their emergency vehicles had their lights and sirens flashing and their logos clearly visible when they came under a barrage of gunfire from troops lasting more than five minutes

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8 h. ago Mum removed from Ryanair plane after being unable to pay £7 Pringles bill

She was asked to leave the Ryanair jet when it landed at the airport after she was unable to pay for a packet of Pringles, a bottle of water and a can of cola

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8 h. ago A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-inIt’s a curious choice of title. A Minecraft Movie implies that this cynical intellectual property-rinsing exercise is one of numerous film adaptations of the enduringly popular sandbox video game. Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. What becomes clear is that one of the key elements in the game’s popularity – the latitude it affords gamers to create their own experience – is a big stumbling block for any film adaptation of Minecraft.In the absence of a single fixed storyline the screenplay can follow, A Minecraft Movie has a cobbled-together feel, borrowing a device from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – and, in Jack Black, a star – and superimposing an all-purpose quest-for-an-artefact structure o...

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9 h. ago Melania Trump’s secret to getting through hard times? Love (actually)

The first lady spoke about (wait for it) diversity as she presented awards to courageous women from around the worldLet’s take a quick break from the increasingly dreadful news for a little check-in, shall we? So how are you holding up right now? How are those stress levels? Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Mum hauled off Ryanair flight by cops when she couldn't pay £7 for Pringles

Ann-Marie Murray, 55, was on a flight from Tenerife to Bristol on March 28 and asked for the crisps, water and a cola costing £7 from Ryanair crew members when her card payment failed

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10 h. ago Woman unmasks dad as evil killer as she solves cold case murder of teen 30 years on

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The mutilated body of 17-year-old Melanie Road was found by a milkman and his 10-year-old son and sparked a nationwide manhunt, but her killer was only caught three decades later

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11 h. ago Boy, 15, dies after lake tragedy at Beckenham Place Park in south

The death is not being treated as suspicious

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12 h. ago Boy, 15, dies after getting into difficulty in lake in London park

The Metropolitan Police said the search had been stopped after a boy was found on Friday night.

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12 h. ago Beckenham Park lake search called off as body found in hunt for missing boy, 15

A body has been found in the search for a 15-year-old boy who went missing yesterday while swimming in a lake at Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham, London at around 3pm

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12 h. ago Ceferin gives little away over Uefa future while Infantino has wind in his sails

Uefa’s president could yet do a volte-face and run for office in 2026 as he enjoys success of new-look Champions LeagueAs Uefa’s delegates filed into a long, low-ceilinged room it was tempting to wonder what difference a year makes. Sava Centar in Belgrade places function ahead of form and there was little of the Parisian grandeur that adorned the governing body’s annual congress in 2024. Nor were there as many fireworks on display, although plenty of the issues that will define European football over the second half of this decade flickered persistently around the edges.Last year’s event turned into the Aleksander Ceferin show, the Uefa president drawing a scandalised reaction by pushing through an extension to the term limits for his role before pulling the rug away by announcing he would step down in 2027 anyway. Uefa had already been rocked by the acrimonious departure of its head of football, Zvonimir Boban, and the sense was that internal posturing risked diverting focus from ...

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