28 h. ago Tottenham XI vs Newcastle: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup, injury latest for Carabao Cup

Question marks remain over two key defenders

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55 h. ago Ryanair major ticket change as 3 key questions answered on November 2025 plan

The budget airline is making a big change to tickets at most airports

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4 d. ago A third of Brits have problems getting to sleep, according to new study

Two thousand responses to sleep questions were analysed to highlight key patterns – such as how often people struggle to drift off and how often their sleep quality impacts daily life

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5 d. ago Grieving family slam Ryanair over 'generic' reply after mum dies before holiday

Whena grieving daughter tried ti change the name on her flight ticket after the death of her mother, Ryanir charged a £100 fee and offered a generic message when she complained

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7 d. ago Four key questions about Jeffrey Epstein that Virginia Giuffre’s tell

Abuse survivor’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl provides disturbing reminder of how much remains unknown about the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking operation

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7 d. ago Thibaut Courtois says La Liga plan for match in Miami ‘distorts the competition’

Courtois: ‘La Liga does whatever it wants because it suits them’Protests from players have been ignored in official broadcastsReal Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has launched a scathing attack on La Liga, criticising the league’s decision to stage Barcelona’s away match against Villarreal in Miami on 20 December, saying it “distorts the competition”.The fixture, which is set to take place at the Hard Rock Stadium, would be the first La Liga fixture held outside Spain and the first European league match staged abroad. While Uefa has “reluctantly” approved the plan, Real Madrid and other teams in Spain’s top flight have expressed their opposition. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson says DfE failed to plan for school closures during Covid crisis

Former PM tells inquiry that children ‘were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society’Boris Johnson laid blame on the Department for Education (DfE) over its lack of preparation for school closures at the outbreak of the pandemic, telling the Covid-19 inquiry that he assumed detailed planning was going on behind the scenes.“We were focused on trying to delay the peak of the pandemic and we thought that the closure of schools, if it had to be used at all, would be a measure of last resort,” the former prime minister said. He added: “It was my impression that the work was being done. I certainly, let me put it this way, I certainly assumed that the work was being done.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Prince Andrew 'must answer key questions' over new probe, says ex

The Metropolitan Police are said to be "actively looking" at a probe after the Duke of York allegedly gave a royal protection officer Virginia Giuffre's date of birth and confidential social security number

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7 d. ago MPs question why key parts of IT infrastructure is hosted abroad after AWS outage

Major banks, gaming platforms and HMRC were among sites affected by Amazon Web Services’ fault

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1 week ago Trump’s peace plan is just about holding together, but may be unravelled by two unresolved issues | Rajan Menon

The withdrawal of Israeli troops and the establishment of an international stabilisation force are key in securing long-term peace, but the plan is dangerously vague on these issuesTwo years of death and destruction in Gaza ended once Israel and Hamas signed off on Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. A ceasefire is in place. Humanitarian trucks have begun to roll in. Hostages and prisoners are being exchanged. Israel has begun a first-phase pullback from the territories it controls, and under Trump’s plan its troops will eventually be deployed in a buffer zone along Gaza’s land border.Given these developments – all part of the opening phase – dismissing the momentous changes in Gaza is to deny reality. There have already been disputes over the return of the bodies of Israeli hostages, but there are unresolved longer-term problems that could derail the ceasefire and imperil the rest of the Trump plan.Rajan Menon is a professor emeritus of international relations at the City College o...

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1 week ago Tax hikes will ‘devastate’ London’s live music venues and raise ticket prices, warns O2 boss

Tax changes could result in higher ticket prices, fewer concerts and some grassroots music venues closing down, with London particularly vulnerable

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1 week ago ‘Decision to do this secretly is surprising’: NGV returns painting lost in Nazi era to Jewish family

The museum has declined to answer key questions about the decision to return the artwork, prompting the New York-based researcher who uncovered the story to challenge the NGV’s handling of the caseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe National Gallery of Victoria has quietly returned a 17th-century painting to the descendants of a Jewish family who lost it during the Nazi era, without public announcement or explanation.The painting, Lady with a Fan by Gerard ter Borch, was removed from the NGV’s website in early September. The only public trace of its return appeared weeks later, in an update to the Lost Art Database in Germany. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Warning new tax plan will ‘devastate’ London’s live music venues resulting in ticket price hikes and closures

Tax changes could result in higher ticket prices, fewer concerts and some grassroots music venues closing down, with London particularly vulnerable

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1 week ago Nicola Jennings on the deficiencies in Trump’s Gaza plan – cartoon

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2 w. ago Andy Robertson asks key question of Scotland squad amid criticism and reveals what he 'didn't agree with'

Scotland captain frustrated with performances in wins over Greece and Belarus

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2 w. ago Three key questions answered ahead of major Ryanair boarding pass change

From November 12, Ryanair is operating a '100% Digital Boarding Pass' system - but how do you get one and what happens if your phone dies or you can't get WiFi or mobile data?

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2 w. ago Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now? | Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with what they could acceptDonald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza demands atonement from Palestinians for the horrific acts of 7 October, not from Israel for the barbarity that followed. It calls for Gaza’s deradicalization but not an end to Israel’s messianism. It micromanages the future of Palestinian governance while saying nothing about the future of Israel’s occupation.It is riddled with ambiguities, devoid of timetables, arbiters or consequences for inevitable eventual violations. If all goes according to plan – if the deal’s vagueness is not exploited to torpedo it; unavoidable clashes over subsequent phases do not get in the way of the first stage; Arab and Muslim states maintain pressure on the United States and the United States gets Israel to comply – life for Gazans will transition from utter hell to mere nightmare. Their condition will shift from defenceless pr...

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2 w. ago Who will keep the peace in Gaza? Experts warn Trump’s ceasefire deal offers no guarantees of stability

One of the key questions emerging from Donald Trump’s Gaza plan is where, if and how US troops will be deployed to help keep the ceasefire in place

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2 w. ago Sam Ryder: From Russian bunkers to Wembley — how graft, gratitude and good timing changed everything

EXCLUSIVE As he gears up to play Wembley Arena, Sam Ryder tells the Standard how a gig ticket changed his life and why ‘your path doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s to be a success’

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2 w. ago Railway engineering work in Lanarkshire this Christmas is revealed

Passengers are being encouraged to plan ahead for journeys over the 2025-26 festive period.

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