23 m. ago Drones strike Port Sudan in dramatic escalation of civil war

Sudan’s paramilitary hit key targets including the airport, the port and a hotel

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30 m. ago Rubbish behaviour! A third of motorcyclists have been hit by litter tossed out of car windows

Chris Palmer from Exeter (inset) says he's been hit by litter thrown at him - including cigarette butts - while riding his BMW as 37% of bikers complain about being pelted.

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44 m. ago 'I visited European seaside resort that's been left to rot for 50 years'

Once a playground for the rich and famous, the city's glamorous resorts, skyscrapers and shopping areas have been left to rot for decades. It looks very different nowadays

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45 m. ago Untameable darts crowds tell us about the future of sport – and maybe society too | Jonathan Liew

Booing and flashpoints are commonplace in a sport further along on a journey that others are taking to varying degreesLet me tell you the moment I realised Boris Johnson was fucked. It was late 2021 and there had been some talk about parties in Downing Street during Covid, but in these febrile siloed times, when the entirety of human existence has blurred into a single personalised scrolling feed, who even knows what constitutes “the news” any more? Who knows what fragments of reality ever emerge from Westminster’s furiously spinning vortex of unintelligible jargon: prorogue, backstop, Aukus, Slapps? What is a Morgan McSweeney and what time does it start?But then came the magical night, a few days before Christmas, when the darts crowd turned. As Florian Hempel swept to a routine first-round win against Martin Schindler (bit of an upset, to be honest, but you never write off Flo at the Palace), Alexandra Palace rocked to strains of “Boris is a cunt”. Fans held up signs reading “Work...

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51 m. ago Halle Berry ditches underwear for sheer Met Gala outfit rivalling Bianca Censori

Halle Berry oozed confidence as she hit the 2025 Met Gala red carpet in a custom nude illusion ensemble, which has been compared to Bianca Censori's controversial barely-there looks

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60 m. ago Drone strikes hit Port Sudan airport and army base in third day of attacks

Loud explosions reported at dawn and plumes of smoke as RSF targets Sudanese government’s seat of powerDrones have struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan, officials said, the third straight day the seat of power of the government, which is aligned with the Sudanese army, has come under attack.The country’s main fuel depot was hit on Monday, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city that had until Sunday been considered a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing a two-year war. Continue reading...

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80 m. ago Inside the Met Gala! Famous stars risk the wrath of Anna Wintour as they break her golden rule on fashion's biggest night

Celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Sydney Sweeney, Rihanna and Gigi Hadid flocked to New York City on Monday night to attend the invite-only 2025 Met Gala.

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84 m. ago China’s service sector hit by trade war; Ford predicts $1.5bn profit hit from Trump tariffs – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsTrump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers toldAmerican children face paying higher prices for Barbie dolls due to the Trump tariffs on imports.Mattel, the toy manufacturing giant, revealed last night that it plan to raise prices on American toys due to tariffs, and is also looking to move some manufacturing out of China.Accelerating diversification of its supply chain and further reducing reliance on China-sourced product,Optimizing product sourcing and product mix, andWhere necessary, taking pricing action in its U.S. business.In an uncertain macro environment that has intensified due to the potential impact of tariffs, we are focused on what we can control.We are improving our supply chain agility, taking decisive cost actions to mitigate financial impact where possible, and ensuring we can continue to serve our customers and consumers. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The Extraordinary Miss Flower review – secret life exposed through treasure trove of love letters

Nick Cave and Richard Ayoade are among those reading out the posthumously discovered missives that inspired an album by Emilíana Torrini, who soundtracks this gorgeous filmYou’d be forgiven for not having heard of Geraldine Flower, the subject of A new film from artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the pair behind the 2014 Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. (Cave makes an appearance here reading a letter or two.) Flower was not famous in her lifetime and in fact, after watching the film we’re none the wiser about how she spent her later years. But when she died in 2019, a suitcase packed with hundreds of love letters written to her by smitten men in the 60s and 70s was found in her London flat.The letters inspired a 2024 album by Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini (called Miss Flower) and also this intriguing, gorgeous and creative documentary – a film somewhere between an installation with songs and an extended music promo. It features Torrini and her band perf...

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1 hour ago Changing Rooms legend Anna Ryder Richardson's very different career running a zoo

A name that inspired living room design across the UK Anna Ryder Richardson's life has taken a different turn since becoming the owner of her own zoo

Society

2 h. ago The Greater Manchester cemetery that still bears the scars of the Second World War

Weaste Cemetery is the final resting place of some famous Salfordians - but it is also well-known for what happened here during the Christmas Blitz of December 1940

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2 h. ago AP PHOTOS: 80 years after World War II, Germany is still searching for its fallen soldiers

In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, and then German soldiers lowered them respectfully into a large, freshly dug grave as a military band played a solemn tune.

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2 h. ago 80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II

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2 h. ago A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to revive it as prison

Visitors to one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist destinations point to cost, feasibility and its legacy of Indigenous incarcerationIn the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay, on a windswept rock, lies a crumbling former federal prison that’s now at the center of Donald Trump’s latest real estate proposal: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” he announced on Truth Social over the weekend, to “serve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE.”On Monday, the day after Trump’s declaration, throngs of tourists queued up for the ferry at Fisherman’s Wharf to visit the island. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Manchester United aren't famous anymore? Wait for the reaction if they reach the Europa League final

Europa League winners have qualified for the Champions League for ten years but suddenly it is a problem for some.

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3 h. ago Sergio Agüero: ‘Dad never said I played well. He didn’t want me to become cocky’

Now the subject of a documentary, the former striker opens up on his strict upbringing in Argentina, the heart troubles that ended his career and that Manchester City goalDuring a visit to Madrid in 2007, Anatoliy Byshovets, the then head coach of Lokomotiv Moscow, said watching Sergio Agüero was like visiting the Prado. Pep Guardiola said he was a legend. Jorge Valdano said he could invent anything, anywhere, a unique footballer who had lost all fear, although he was wrong on that. Lionel Messi said he did the impossible. Diego Maradona said Agüero reminded him of himself, phoning one day to apologise for not playing him more. “I was a dickhead,” Maradona said.Sometimes it can feel like the one person who never said Agüero was good was the one person he really wanted to. When the former Manchester City striker announced he was retiring at the age of 33, forced to stop by a heart problem, all the stress accumulated beneath the surface since his debut at 15, his dad called and said h...

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3 h. ago Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU | Simon Nixon

It would be open to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and give governments more bang for their buck as the continent rearmsOf all the shocks to have hit Europe over the past three months, none is more devastating than the realisation that the continent may no longer be able to count on a US security guarantee. Even if Donald Trump’s disdain for Europe had been telegraphed well in advance, few imagined a world in which a US president would publicly humiliate the head of state of a European ally in the Oval Office, cut off intelligence sharing in the middle of a war or cook up a one-sided peace deal with Russia over the heads of Kyiv and its European allies.What has made the shock worse is the brutal revelation of Europe’s inability to defend its own interests. Even as European leaders plead with Trump that a peace without robust security guarantees for Ukraine is no peace at all, their position is fatally weakened by the fact that they are in no position to provide those security guara...

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4 h. ago SNP Minister's husband hurls 'weirdo' insult in clash on trans people and changing rooms

EXCLUSIVE: SNP Councillor Robert Innes hit out at people who are “obsessed” with “genitalia” in a debate on the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.

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4 h. ago A woman who disappeared from Wisconsin more than 6 decades ago has been found safe

Audrey Backeberg disappeared from a small city in south-central Wisconsin 62 years ago after reportedly hitchhiking with her family’s babysitter and catching a bus to Indianapolis

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4 h. ago Ruben Amorim is getting what he wanted from Manchester United positional switch

Man United's formation switch under head coach Ruben Amorim has meant Alejandro Garnacho has had to adjust to a new role.

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