10 h. ago Man accused of trying to abduct a child at Walmart released on bond after new video surfaces

Mahendra Patel, 57, said he asked a woman with two children to help him find Tylenol but she accused him of trying to kidnap her son

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12 h. ago Kieran Tierney stung by anticlimactic Arsenal ending as returning Celtic hero's dreams dashed

The Scotland defender has missed out on the chance to bow out of the Emirates as a Champions League winner

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18 h. ago Steph Gilmore: ‘I was looking for something more, in myself and in my surfing’ | Kieran Pender

The eight-time world champion has returned to a very different looking WSL tour this week after some time out spent travelling and recuperatingStephanie Gilmore, the most successful women’s surfer of all time, is back. Last weekend, the 37-year-old returned to the World Surf League (WSL) for the first time in two seasons, as a wildcard at the Gold Coast Pro. But unsure of how she would fare, against competitors who had not even been born when Gilmore first started winning WSL events, the Australian came armed with a good excuse.“I’m playing on stage with Spiderbait,” Gilmore said ahead of a concert which took place on Sunday on the sidelines of the event. “So I’ve actually got something that’s taken my mind off the surfing, which is kind of nice. Maybe it’s a cop-out, but if I don’t do well in the competition I can just blame it on all the band practice I have to do.” Continue reading...

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21 h. ago If Brendan Rodgers lands a £30m Celtic transfer kitty he'll prefer 4 finely targeted premium talents – Keith Jackson

Celtic have obliterated their transfer model and Kieran Tierney's arrival is evidence Rodgers will push for more of the same

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21 h. ago The body language behind how Trump dominated 'nervous' and 'weak' Mark Carney while taunting him about Canada could becoming 51st state

At the Oval Office on Tuesday, Donald Trump played host in a meeting that appeared, on the surface, to celebrate the enduring friendship between the US and Canada.

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22 h. ago The body language behind how Trump dominated 'nervous' and 'weak' Mark Carney while taunting him about how Canada could become 51st state

At the Oval Office on Tuesday, Donald Trump played host in a meeting that appeared, on the surface, to celebrate the enduring friendship between the US and Canada.

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25 h. ago Beyond the Island: New film to chart Scottish surfer Ben Larg's first steps into big wave arena

A new documentary will show how an altercation with a local surfer in Portugal threatened to derail the Tiree-based athlete’s career just as it seemed to be taking off, writes Roger Cox

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29 h. ago ‘You might find it scary’: artist Huma Bhabha squares up to Giacometti with wellies, skulls and teeth

The Pakistan-born sculptor was nervous to show her irreverent work – made using plastic bags, pincers and chairs – beside the Swiss existential hero’s but tells us ‘they’re enjoying each other’s company’Two tonnes of Huma Bhabha’s works greet you before you even reach the entrance of her new exhibition at the Barbican in London. They are four powerful ancient-looking giants, with rough-hewn surfaces, gouged and blackened (the effect achieved by first carving in cork, then casting in patinated bronze). With their enormous skull heads towering above you, baring pincers and rows of teeth, it’s as if you’ve stumbled on the set for an apocalyptic sci-fi film. “It seems they’re suddenly here, as if they’ve just come out of the elevator,” Bhabha says affectionately.Bhabha is here to install her work alongside 10 sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, her first public display in the UK since 2020. “Encounters: Giacometti” is the first in a three-part exhibition series organised with the Giacomet...

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39 h. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s drift and Tory collapse: Reform fills a vacuum they created | Editorial

Faragism’s rise isn’t a surge of enthusiasm – it’s a symptom of exhaustion with two parties failing to offer vision, justice or renewalSir Keir Starmer promised change – and, in a way, he has delivered it. Gone are the days of bold, expansive pledges; in their place are cautious, measurable goals: 6,500 new teachers, 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week. Yet voters, oddly ungrateful, remain unmoved. Perhaps it is because these modest gains barely scratch the surface of national decline. The government has touched lives, just not in the ways it promised. Cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners and proposed reductions in disability benefits have landed with jarring force. Sir Keir’s managerial style may promise stability, but voters expected transformation. The result: disillusionment with a government delivering change – but not the change voters thought they had chosen.Labour’s poor local election showing could be shrugged off as low turnout in the shires. The party wo...

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42 h. ago Pictured: Boy, 13, who drowned after jumping into a canal on Bank Holiday Monday

Delvin Musakwa failed to surface after leaping into the canal in Exeter, Devon.

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47 h. ago Bank Holiday tragedy as boy, 13, dies after jumping into canal

The 13 year old failed to surface after leaping into the canal in Exeter, Devon.

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47 h. ago Bank Holiday tragedy as boy, 13, dies after jumping into Exeter canal

Emergency services were called to Clapperbrook Lane East in Exeter following concern for the welfare of a child after they failed to surface from the water - the 13-year-old boy died in hospital

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52 h. ago 'I visited two countries in 24 hours and it cost me under £100 – here's how it's done'

Steph Gibbs and her sister Sam, 34, travelled from Reading to two European hotspots in under 24 hours with a budget of under £100 - and now she's revealed how you can do the same

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53 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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55 h. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial: Celebrity names surface during jury selection in sex trafficking case

Potential jurors for Diddy’s trial on sex trafficking charges asked to look over extensive list of celebrity names that included Michael B Jordan, Mike Myers and Kanye West, among others

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57 h. ago Three people killed and nine missing after boat capsizes off San Diego coast

Small boat overturned by high surf near California, with four rescued and hospitalized, says US Coast GuardThree people were killed and nine others, including two children, were missing after a small boat capsized in choppy waters off the coast of San Diego, California, on Monday.The fatal disaster appeared to be an apparent migrant smuggling attempt, officials said. Four other people were rescued after the “panga”-style open fishing vessel washed ashore near Torrey Pines State Beach were transported to hospital, according to US Coast Guard officials. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago ITV Emmerdale Steph Miligan star floors fans as she shares rare snaps with twin sister

Emmerdale's Steph Miligan star confirmed she has a twin sister with a series of stunning snaps

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62 h. ago Man who had 63 convictions before he was 21 in court AGAIN after breaching stalking ban

Kieran Hibble, 28, of Rawlings Crescent, Colchester, has racked up a slew of convictions after committing his first offence at 13-years-old.

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62 h. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial live updates: Celebrity names surface during jury selection in sex trafficking case

Potential jurors for Diddy’s trial on sex trafficking charges asked to look over extensive list of celebrity names that included Michael B Jordan, Mike Myers and Kanye West, among others

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63 h. ago Three people killed after small boat capsized off San Diego coast

Boat overturned by high surf near California left four others injured and US Coast Guard searching for nine missingThree people were killed, four were injured and nine others are missing after a small boat overturned early on Monday in high surf off the coast of San Diego, California.Vessels and helicopters with the US Coast Guard were searching for the missing while the four injured were sent to hospitals, authorities said. Coast Guard officials said they did not know where the 12ft (3.7-meter) boat was coming from before it flipped. Continue reading...

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