4 h. ago Inside the troubled upbringing of Chelsea's new £60m star: Joao Pedro's father went to prison and his mother sacrificed meals to help the striker achieve his dream

Back in 2002, Joao Pedro and his family's lives changed forever when his father, Botafogo star Chicao, was handed a 16-year prison sentence for being accessory to murder.

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4 h. ago Death in Paradise fans thrilled as detective returns to iconic role in spin

The spin-off series, Beyond Paradise, is already filming in Cornwall, and fans are delighted.

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5 h. ago Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins will scare the pants off you in the horror film of the year

The makers of Talk to Me, Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou, have returned with a movie that raises the terror game to frightening new levels

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6 h. ago Viral and cringeworthy kiss cam moments from Olivia Rodrigo's big blunder to Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander's VERY tense moment

The Kiss Cam is an iconic staple of American pop culture, responsible for some of Hollywood's funniest - and most awkward - moments.

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6 h. ago A doctor laughed in my face when I said I felt like a ghost was touching my body

For nearly 20 years, UK author Chris Bridges lived with bizarre, unexplained symptoms, numbness, fatigue, and sensations that felt like ghostly touches. Doctors told him it was stress.

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6 h. ago Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary

The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.• Five key Norrington recordingsThe conductor Sir Roger Norrington, whose death was announced yesterday at the age of 91, remains still the maverick presence that classical music needs. His mission wasn’t only to make us hear the repertoire we thought it knew through the prism of the techniques and playing styles of its time, rather than the ossifications of later traditions. He was also an irresistible firebrand in performance, whose energy wasn’t only about inspiring his performers to get closer to the music they were playing, it was also an invitation to his audiences that their listening should be involved too. Norrington wanted everyone to feel the urgency of Beethoven’s rhetorical power and rudeness, from the radiance of one of his favourite pieces, the Missa Solemnis, to the emetic ...

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6 h. ago Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’

The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda JacksonBorn in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, she won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence and was later cast as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. Her stage credits include Wicked, The Vagina Monologues and Dickens’ Women; her TV work includes Trollied and Blackadder. In 2002, she was made OBE, and in 2022 received a BBC Audio Drama lifetime achievement award. She takes Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits to the Edinburgh fringe at the Pleasance at EICC, Pentland theatre from 9-24 August. She lives in London.When were you happiest? On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Air India pilot's final words as he left home on day of plane crash that killed 260 'after he turned off fuel switches'

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the senior pilot onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plummeted into a residential area, killing 241 people on board and 19 people on the ground.

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8 h. ago Coleen Nolan emotional as she gives major update on brother's cancer after sister's death

Coleen Nolan has opened up on her family's well-being in her latest newsletter, exclusively for the Mirror

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8 h. ago Mum 'stabs baby to death' in front of family as cops 'haunted' by what they saw

Jacinta Beth Sells, 31, is accused of fatally stabbing her baby during a drug-fuelled "family violence incident" in front of other relatives, including a "young person", in Perth, Australia

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9 h. ago ‘We got upset, then we got angry’: the couple who took on one of the UK’s biggest cold

When clients started getting random calls about making personal injury claims, Jan and Michael Reed set out to discover who was stealing data from their family-run garageMichael and Jan Reed can remember the moment their family business received its first indelible blow. It was 2015 and three of their regular customers were standing in the reception of their accident repair centre in County Durham. It had been a busy period and, unusually, all three had come to collect their cars at the same time.One had got a call from an accident management company trying to persuade him to make a personal injury claim. Unusually, the caller knew the make and model of the car and the date of the accident. The second man said the same had happened to him. By the time the third customer confirmed he had also got the cold call, the three of them were pulling out their phones. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Swinney's latest plan to achieve independence branded 'utterly hollow'

First Minister vows to ‘turn the heat up’ on Westminster for independence referendum as part of new strategy

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10 h. ago Britain is great at muddling through. But imagine if its leaders knew where they were heading | Timothy Garton Ash

Starmer’s successful ‘reset’ with Europe highlights an underlying incoherence. The only rational long-term strategy is to rejoin the EU, but our politics is far removed from thatLike a chronic ailment, strategic incoherence gnaws at everything Britain does in the world. Keir Starmer’s real achievement in resetting relations with mainland Europe – witness the recent visits of the French president Emmanuel Macron and the German chancellor Friedrich Merz – does not obscure, and in a way even highlights, this deeper confusion.After 1945, Winston Churchill envisioned Britain’s global role at the intersection of three circles: the British Commonwealth and (then still) empire; the Europe whose postwar recovery and unification he strongly supported; and the United States. As Commonwealth countries have formed stronger ties elsewhere, the first circle is no longer of strategic significance. Having committed itself in the 1970s to the most developed political and economic form of the second c...

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11 h. ago Death toll grows from torrential rains in South Korea with thousands unable to return home

Four people have died and two are missing after four days of heavy rain as authorities warn of landslides and floodingTorrential rains that lashed South Korea for a fourth day on Saturday kept nearly 3,000 people from returning to their homes, as the death toll reached four people.Rain is forecast to last until Monday in some areas, as officials urged extreme caution against the risk of landslides and flooding, with warnings issued across most of the country. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and themIn Gaza, being a helpful, loving child can be a death sentence. Heba al-Ghussain’s nine-year-old son, Karam, was killed by an Israeli airstrike because he went to fetch water for the family, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lulu, was killed because she went to give Karam a hand.The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir

Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomyEvery nation has literary classics that shape its cultural identity. Germans have Faust, Goethe’s play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil. Faust has been performed, referenced and read in schools for more than two centuries now. Interestingly, the most tragic character in this tragedy is not the protagonist, but his “love interest”, Gretchen – a teenage girl groomed by the old man, impregnated and socially ostracised. Her solution? She drowns her “illegitimate” newborn child, accepts her death penalty and rejects Faust’s offer to save her from prison. In God’s mercy, the Christian girl seeks salvation and off goes Faust with the devil to new adventures in Faust, Part Two.What would Gretchen do today, I wonder. Her fate is not only a result of sexual abuse and an inherently misogynistic mora...

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17 h. ago What Spain’s celebrations revealed about the Women’s Euro 2025 favourites

Spain 2-0 Switzerland: The world champions celebrated winning their first knockout match at the Women’s Euros and plan to achieve much more

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17 h. ago Woman fractured skull before ex 'strangled her to death in luxury Surrey hotel'

Samantha Mickleburgh, from Axminster, Devon, was found dead at a hotel in Surrey after she arranged to stay in a room with her ex - it was later found she had been strangled to death

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17 h. ago Pete Hegseth replaces first woman to lead US naval academy with US Marine Corps general

Yvette Davids, who took the role in January 2004, will be succeeded by Michael BorgschulteThe first woman to lead the US naval academy is being reassigned, with defense secretary Pete Hegseth moving to replace her with a Marine Corps general, defense officials confirmed Friday.The decision marks the first time in the nearly 180-year history of the academy that a Marine Corps officer has been nominated to take charge. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Pete Hegseth replaces first woman to lead US naval academy with Marine Corps general

Yvette Davids, who took the role in January 2004, will be succeeded by Michael BorgschulteThe first woman to lead the US naval academy is being reassigned, with the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, moving to replace her with a Marine Corps general, defense officials confirmed on Friday.The decision marks the first time in the nearly 180-year history of the academy that a Marine Corps officer has been nominated to take charge. Continue reading...

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