16 h. ago The most beautiful places in London you have to visit – from museums to parks and gardens

Born-and-bred Londoner Gina Jackson shares 10 of the most beautiful places in London that you should add to the very top of your list

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24 h. ago Scotland's most beautiful cities crowned as one with 'rich history' tops list

Three destinations across the country were singled out.

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29 h. ago Russians absent from world chess top 10 for first time since official lists began

A poor outing from Ian Nepomniachtchi brought up an unlikely first but Serjey Karjakin made a strong comeback at Blitz last weekIt would have been inconceivable in the glory days of the Soviet chess empire. For the first time since 1971 when Fide, the world chess body, began publishing its rating lists – then annually and now monthly – there are no Russians ranked in the classical world top 10. Bobby Fischer was No 1 in the first Fide list, published on the eve of his Reykjavik match with Boris Spassky, but after Fischer gave up active play Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov took over.In 1970, when the USSR team defeated the Rest of the World, or in the decades when Mikhail Botvinnik, Karpov, and Kasparov were the game’s supreme masters, it would have been a joke to suggest that Russian supremacy would disappear within half a century and be replaced by a rivalry between India and the United States. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Scotland's most affordable seaside towns named as 'seafood capital' tops list

The cheapest coastal spots to rent and buy have been revealed.

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51 h. ago The 20 greatest British rock bands of all time: from The Beatles to Arctic Monkeys

While rock and roll may seem to be fading in the UK, our list of the top 20 greatest bands of all time proves that the genre is far from forgotten — it’s alive and kicking in our hearts and minds

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69 h. ago Revealed: West End’s phone theft hotspot streets as numbers of London crimes soar

Oxford Street, Europe’s busiest shopping precinct, tops the list with 6,539 reports last year – nearly 18 a day

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3 d. ago Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read

It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summerLeo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina is a masterpiece. It has never been out of print. Luminaries from William Faulkner to Jilly Cooper have remarked on its brilliance. It is usually within the top 10 of any list of the “100 books you simply must read before you die”. However, I would argue that it’s a singularly poor choice of a book to bring with you for 10 days on the beach in Tenerife. Especially in hardback.I really tried. Every day, I’d read two or three pages before realising I’d read the same pages the day before, and it simply hadn’t stuck. I kept drifting off during the more complex descriptions of 19th-century property law. I simply couldn’t see what Anna saw in Vronsky; he seemed dreadful, just a slightly different kind of dreadful from her husband, Karenin. My arms ached, the sand seemed unusually gritty, and on day four, a...

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3 d. ago Alexander Zverev joins lengthening list of top men’s seeds to exit Wimbledon

Zverev is the fourth top-10 player to crash out in the first round.

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3 d. ago Full list of UK homes likely to be affected during heatwave and it's not just flats

With current UK temperatures coming close to top hot destinations like Dubai, Gov.uk has released a list of how homes can overheat and how to avoid this from happening.

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4 d. ago King and Queen’s visit to Samoa tops list of most expensive royal trips

The 11-day visit in October 2024 involved travel costs of £400,535.

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6 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s secret list of top AI talent to poach has tech world atwitter

Meta CEO reportedly to offer pay packages worth up to $100m, a gambit OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls ‘crazy’Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta’s attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors.Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks about the Meta CEO’s quest to attract top AI talent, including by offering pay packages worth up to $100m. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Manchester beats London as 'most desirable place to live in the UK'

Our northern city has topped the list of Britain's favourite cities, overtaking the capital

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7 d. ago Tiny Welsh fishing village crowned UK’s most beautiful has sandy beaches and its own dolphins

This dreamy seaside town regularly tops the list of Britain's "prettiest town" thanks to its largely "unspoilt" coastline

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7 d. ago Andrews handed Brentford job, Crystal Palace ruling delayed, transfer latest: football – live

Friday updates as the summer of football continuesAny comments or thoughts? You can mail TahaWith that, I shall pass over to Taha for the rest of the morning.Mark Levy gets in touch: “In Ben’s list of the top 10 players in the Under-21 tournament, 7 are over 21, 2 are 21, & only 1 is actually under 21! Does the competition need a new name? The under & over 21s? Mark (sitting on my balcony in the Madrid Sierra, with nothing more pressing to do!)“ Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Crystal Palace’s Uefa ruling delayed, Andrews set for Brentford job, transfer latest: football – live

Friday updates as the summer of football continuesAny comments or thoughts? You can mail WillWith that, I shall pass over to Taha for the rest of the morning.Mark Levy gets in touch: “In Ben’s list of the top 10 players in the Under-21 tournament, 7 are over 21, 2 are 21, & only 1 is actually under 21! Does the competition need a new name? The under & over 21s? Mark (sitting on my balcony in the Madrid Sierra, with nothing more pressing to do!)“ Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Crystal Palace’s Uefa hearing delayed, Andrews set for Brentford job, transfer latest: football – live

Friday updates as the summer of football continuesAny comments or thoughts? You can mail WillWith that, I shall pass over to Taha for the rest of the morning.Mark Levy gets in touch: “In Ben’s list of the top 10 players in the Under-21 tournament, 7 are over 21, 2 are 21, & only 1 is actually under 21! Does the competition need a new name? The under & over 21s? Mark (sitting on my balcony in the Madrid Sierra, with nothing more pressing to do!)“ Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Transfers latest, Van Nistelrooy exit, Savage set for Forest Green, Euro U

Friday updates as the summer of football continuesAny comments or thoughts? You can email TahaWith that, I shall pass over to Taha for the rest of the morning.Mark Levy gets in touch: “In Ben’s list of the top 10 players in the Under-21 tournament, 7 are over 21, 2 are 21, & only 1 is actually under 21! Does the competition need a new name? The under & over 21s? Mark (sitting on my balcony in the Madrid Sierra, with nothing more pressing to do!)“ Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Interactive map shows the London boroughs facing the biggest rise in population

Tower Hamlets, Islington and Camden top the list as number of Londoners approaches 10 million

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8 d. ago Who will replace Anna Wintour as the next editor of Vogue? Fashion editors and nepo babies top the list

After news broke that Wintour, 75, is stepping down from one of her roles after 37 years, the fashion world was left trying to figure out who would be the next front row fixture.

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8 d. ago Revealed: The ten London boroughs facing the biggest rise in population

Tower Hamlets, Islington and Camden top the list as number of Londoners approaches 10 million

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