12 h. ago Japan waves goodbye to its last giant pandas amid China rift

Many spectators wore panda hats and waved flags as the pandas departed

Politics

12 h. ago BrewDog to close Aberdeenshire distillery as brand exits spirits market

The Scots brewing giant will close its distilling side of the business after 10 years.

Economics

13 h. ago Scottish Transfer Window LIVE: Celtic confirm exit, Rangers face stand off, Aberdeen move for midfielder

All the latest Scottish transfer headlines and rumours with just a week of the winter transfer window left.

Politics

13 h. ago Combat intensifies as One Battle After Another takes 14 Bafta nominations to Sinners’ 13

Paul Thomas Anderson’s gonzo caper takes slight nominations lead over the Ryan Coogler horror, with surprise five noms for British Tourette movie I Swear• Full list of nominationsSinners may have made history last week, when it became the first film ever to secure 16 Oscar nominations, but it was its awards season rival, One Battle After Another, that proved narrowly victorious at Tuesday’s Bafta nominations.Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy heads into the competition with 14 nominations, while Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller has 13. Meanwhile Marty Supreme and Hamnet are close on their heels with 11 nominations each, and Frankenstein and Sentimental Value have eight nods apiece. Continue reading...

Events

13 h. ago McDonald’s unveils SEVEN new menu items including return of ‘best burger ever’

MCDONALD’s is shaking up its menu within the next week, rolling out three new desserts, a brand new wrap and the return of a popular burger. Fans of the fast food chain, with over 1,490 restaurant locations in the UK, have just a few days left to enjoy the secret menu before a host of...

Politics

13 h. ago Lauren Sanchez is in Vogue as she cosies up to Anna Wintour at Schiaparelli show in Paris amid rumours husband Jeff is buying the fashion bible

Nicknamed 'nuclear Wintour' for her frosty nature, Dame Anna - the legendary Vogue boss, wouldn't be seen arriving at Paris Fashion Week with just anyone.

Culture

13 h. ago Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strengthI’m a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song are passed down by ear, either through recordings or – more fun – traditional music sessions. Here, players and singers get together to share, swap and play tunes, drawing from a repertoire that is always evolving. While collections of tunes are certainly notated, their scores act as a skeleton – providing the basic architecture of pitch and rhythm but rarely offering explicit guidance on how the music should be played.Delia Stevens and I are about to head out on tour, performing with the Britten Sinfonia and Robert Macfarlane in a new work called The Silent Planet, a recomposition of...

Politics

13 h. ago Angel Di Maria slams Cristiano Ronaldo 'lies' in Man Utd transfer admission

Angel Di Maria joined Manchester United for huge money in 2014 from Real Madrid but lasted just a season at Old Trafford before being sold to French giants Paris Saint-Germain

Events

13 h. ago Rihanna! Dua! The Beckhams! All the best celebrity spots from Paris Haute Couture Week

Take your seat on the fashion week front row

Politics

13 h. ago Nintendo Direct scheduled for this week, but don't get your hopes up

A bigger Direct is rumoured to be coming later.

Politics

13 h. ago Two huge TV stars are in Cardiff this week and here's how to see them

Waterloo Road and Coronation Street's Kym Marsh joins forces with Holby City star and TV cooking star, Lisa Faulkner

Politics

13 h. ago ‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games

Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressureThe latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters – from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest flicker of treachery. But one faithful stood out for her quiet determination, despite a ceaseless onslaught of suspicion and accusation. That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn’t at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer.“Minecraft was my way in, when I was 15,” she says. “I made loads of friends at school playing that.” From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. “That’s where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in,” she says. Continue readin...

Events

13 h. ago Nottingham stabbings survivor in 'nightmare' pain was 'not warned about new report'

Wayne Birkett says they were given no warning of a critical report into the NHS mental health services behind the care of the paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who went on a devastating killing spree in Nottingham

Events

13 h. ago Ole Gunnar Solskjaer set to return to work this week at Premier League club after Man Utd snub

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was linked with the interim manager's job at Manchester United before the club appointed Michael Carrick

Politics

14 h. ago A landmark David Hockney exhibition is coming to London – here’s why it will be one of the city’s best art shows in 2026

A landmark David Hockney exhibition is coming to London – here’s why it will be one of the city’s best art shows in 2026  Time Out Worldwide

Politics

14 h. ago Hidden art collection from Theresienstadt ghetto to be displayed by London Holocaust library

Hidden art collection from Theresienstadt ghetto to be displayed by London Holocaust library  timesofisrael.com

Politics

14 h. ago 'Done and dusted': Government stand firm over Andy Burnham block despite 50 Labour MPs objecting

A letter from MPs warned that denying local members a choice reinforces the notion that politics is a 'remote stitch-up' by a 'small group of people at the very top in London'

Politics

14 h. ago Now YOU can have Katie Price's exact  engagement! Travel company offers identical proposal package after Lee Andrews popped the question to her

Katie Price shocked the world when she announced she was engaged to entrepeneur Lee Andrews just a week after announcing she had split from her ex JJ Slater. 

Politics

14 h. ago Grizzly Night review – animals attack in campsite thriller of rogue bears and wayward teens

The terrifying animal at the centre of Burke Doeren’s thriller is convincingly ferocious but the supporting humans don’t match its powerDespite its lurid poster art, as an ursine rampage film this falls closer to the serious Grizzly Man/Timothy Treadwell end of the scale, rather than the Cocaine Bear one. Based on a freak August 1967 tragedy in which two women were separately mauled to death by grizzlies in Montana’s Glacier National Park (described here as a “trillion to one” occurrence), Burke Doeren’s debut grips in tooth’n’claw terms, but is considerably less sure-footed when it comes to people.Down at the park, fire season is all the rangers think they have on their plate, but they’re not reckoning with wayward teenagers and rogue bears. At the giftshop, Michele (Ali Skovbye) leans on Paul (Jacob Buster) to join her posse and help her shoo off an unwanted suitor at Trout Lake. So he leaves colleague Julie (Brec Bassinger) to a sexy bivouac with boyfriend Roy (Matt Lintz) in a s...

Events

14 h. ago Manchester United could bank £150million windfall with new Old Trafford deal

Man Utd are planning to build a new state-of-the-art 100,000 capacity Old Trafford for the 2030/31 season.

Economics