43 m. ago The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster

Proponents say the measures being debated in parliament will apply only to people who are on their deathbeds. That isn’t trueYou’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder – these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to talk about; this is the narrative that pushes people into unquestioning support for their cause.But what of the people the law would include who they don’t want you to consider? Proponents keep saying that the bill is tightly drawn to exclude disabled people, because it limits eligibility to those with only six months to live. But this is patently false. The line between disability and illness – a line this bill relies on – is not a sharp distinction. It is blurry, ever-moving and dependent on social factors fa...

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75 m. ago Cassie Ventura, singer and Diddy’s former girlfriend, is at the heart of the mogul’s sex trafficking trial

The R&B star released a string of singles, an acclaimed debut album, and appeared in several movies over the course of her rocky relationship with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

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75 m. ago 'If you want to serve the government you shouldn't have to move away from your community'

Writing exclusively for the Manchester Evening News, Georgia Gould, Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office, explains why the government is moving more civil service jobs out of London

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94 m. ago The new government jobs coming to Manchester with 7,000 at former Central Retail Park site

Thousands of civil service jobs are moving outside of London

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2 h. ago Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

Cannes film festival This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family The directors fortnight sidebar of Cannes opens with a heartfelt, urgent drama about youth and desire – and destiny, sexuality and class. It is, effectively, the final movie of the late Laurent Cantet, who died last year.Cantet was working on the screenplay with his longtime collaborator and contemporary, Robin Campillo and it is Campillo who now directs – and brings to the movie his usual intelligence and clarity. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Ukraine war timeline: Key moments after Russian invasion that leads up to Putin

Volodymyr Zelensky has challenged Vladimir Putin to meet him in Istanbul, Turkey, this week in a bid to bring the conflict in Ukraine to an end - though it is not clear if the Russian leader will attend

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3 h. ago Hallow Road review – Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys race to rescue daughter in cracking thriller

Shot almost entirely inside their car, Pike and Rhys play a splintering couple trying to save their terrified teenagerHow encouraging that whatever state our film industry is considered to be in, it can still find space for a crackingly good script from a supersmart, disciplined first-timer who’s clearly been working on it for a while, planing down the edges and trimming away the fat through successive drafts. Hallow Road is the kind of property that often emerges after a spell on Hollywood’s “Black List” of much admired but as yet unproduced screenplays. It is a gripping, real-time suspense thriller with a twist of the macabre, a film about family guilt and the return of the repressed, written by National Film and Television School graduate William Gillies, a scary-movie enthusiast who here makes his feature script debut. British-Iranian film-maker Babak Anvari directs and Matthew Rhys and Rosamund Pike give forthright, excellent performances as the two leads.Rhys plays Frank, a st...

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5 h. ago Cannibal killer who murdered pals and ate them freed for chilling reason

Denis Gorin, 45, was sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony in 2018 for stabbing a man to death before eating some of his flesh. He was later freed to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine

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6 h. ago A sequel to one of Tom Cruise's most underrated movies is airing on TV tonight

Movie fans are preparing to say goodbye to actor's popular character Ethan Hunt

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6 h. ago Mental health strain of relocation among Scotland’s older adults sparks call for urgent housing reform

New data reveals how the emotional strain of moving home is impacting older adults in Scotland, as experts call for urgent reform around ageing-in-place support.

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6 h. ago At least five more MPs have decided to vote against UK assisted dying bill

With two others moving to vote in favour, and a previous majority of 55, the bill seems likely to pass next stageAt least five MPs who previously abstained on the assisted dying bill have decided to vote against it at its next stage in the commons, the Guardian understands.The shift by a number of previously absent or undecided MPs towards voting against it has led to some concern among proponents of Kim Leadbeater’s bill, which would allow an assisted death for those with a terminal illness with less than six months to live. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Lee Miller ‘buried’ frontline war experiences, archive says ahead of show

Unseen shots by US photographer to be shown at Photo London, which also features images from Ukraine conflictThe photographer Lee Miller “buried” her experiences from the frontline of the second world war, where she captured the liberation of France, according to the team behind unseen images of hers that are being displayed this week.The photographs from Miller’s time in St-Malo, France, and various sites in Germany are being shown at the 10th edition of Photo London. They depict the violent confrontations at the end of the conflict but also show more casual images of celebrating US troops. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Sony's profits rises on robust performance for music, movies and games

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony is reporting an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March thanks to the robust performance of its music and video-game operations

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7 h. ago There won't be another Buffett because no one will have his advantages

The world is moving in the opposite direction to Berkshire Hathaway

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7 h. ago Calls for Russia’s frozen assets held in Belgium to be used in rebuilding Ukraine

Brussels-based Euroclear holds most of Russia’s frozen assets, but some say confiscation could be ‘an act of war’The boxy glass and steel tower at a traffic-clogged junction on King Albert II Boulevard hardly stands out among the other buildings in the business district of north Brussels, the Belgian capital’s answer to Manhattan or La Défense in Paris.But unlike its neighbours, the institution housed in this bland postmodern building opposite a branch of Domino’s Pizza is caught up in a geopolitical maelstrom. It is Euroclear, a little-known body that houses most of the Russian state’s frozen assets and now finds itself in the middle of a debate about international justice. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The good news from Kyiv: with or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence | Nathalie Tocci

Its European allies must commit to the long-haul – but they, as much as Zelenskyy, will reap the rewardsMy train rolled into Kyiv last week as Russian ballistic missiles and drones hit the city, killing a mother and her son. I had last been in Ukraine just over a year earlier. Back then, in April 2024, the mood was dark. Frustrated by delays in western military aid, people had a palpable fear of escalating Russian territorial gains, perhaps even a collapse of Ukraine’s frontline. Today, the international context is even more fraught. The Biden administration was frustratingly slow and scared, but few doubted that the US wanted to prevent Russia from prevailing. The same cannot be said of Donald Trump, whose ideological affinity with Vladimir Putin has thrown Europe, starting with Ukraine, off balance.But despite the Trump administration’s betrayals, I found the mood in Kyiv more confident than a year previously. After more than three years of war, Ukrainians are tired, but they are ...

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10 h. ago Ana de Armas, 37, flashes her abs as she steps out in New York while boyfriend Tom Cruise, 62, prepares for Cannes premiere of new Mission: Impossible film

Ana de Armas cut a stylish figure as she exited her hotel in New York City while her boyfriend Tom Cruise appeared on the set of C à vous during the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. 

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12 h. ago Hundreds of civil service jobs moving to Scotland as part of UK Government shake

Ministers had previously announced cuts to the civil service - but now more jobs will be relocated to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

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16 h. ago Golf ball ‘rollback’ up in air with PGA of America ‘vehemently against’ plans

R&A and USGA want ball modifications to limit distanceMcIlroy drawn with Scheffler and Schauffele in US PGAWith golf still trying to extricate itself from one civil war, another looms on the horizon. The PGA of America has reiterated its stance against the rollback of the golf ball, with its chief executive stating the organisation is “vehemently against” plans put forward by the sport’s rule-makers.The R&A and USGA announced in late 2023 that all professionals will be required to use a modified golf ball from 2028. The changes would apply to amateurs from 2030. It has long been the view of many that hitting distances for leading players have become problematic, an issue that renders many traditional courses obsolete in elite competition. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago MAHA at war: RFK Jr’s inner circle accusing each other of leaking false info in expletive

At the center of the dispute is one of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s top advisers, Calley Means, whose sister, Casey Means, has been tapped to serve as surgeon general

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