56 m. ago Tesla showroom is torched in arson attack in France with £550,000 of cars destroyed amid growing fury in Europe over Elon Musk's EU 'meddling' and Trump Ukraine funding row

The Tesla showroom in was set ablaze in the early hours of Monday, destroying 12 vehicles worth a staggering £550,000 in what authorities are treating as a deliberate attack.

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76 m. ago David Squires on diplomacy and drama as the FA Cup enjoys a revival

Our cartoonist on the wild scenes, unlikely heroes and football royalty that breathed life into the old competitionYou can buy a copy of a cartoon in our Print ShopDavid’s new book, Chaos in the Box: buy it now Continue reading...

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83 m. ago This Glasgow hotel is offering Sabrina Carpenter fans 'Short n’ Suite' get ready rooms ahead of Scottish show

Fans seeing the popstar on March 11 can book a room for four hours at Yotel Glasgow to get ready ahead of her OVO Hydro show.

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87 m. ago Disney star offers apology after being slammed for touching rare Honu turtle in Hawaii

‘I was not fully aware of the situation until today, and I certainly wasn’t aware of the laws’, the actress told Hawaii wildlife authorities

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1 hour ago The new Hunger Games book is coming soon – and it’s half price when you pre

There’s already a feature film adaptation in the works

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1 hour ago UK’s ‘most welcoming city’ is also one of the most haunted – poll

Travel company Booking.com said Chester has ‘a strong sense of community’ combined with a ‘mysterious past’.

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2 h. ago Woman, 45, plummets to her death from London hotel near Waterloo station

A 45-year-old woman was sadly pronounced dead at the scene as the authorities continue to try and contact her next of kin – the incident sparked a big response from the emergency services

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2 h. ago Books from Perthshire library being taken to landfill to due to drop in demand

Valuable space in the community centre - where the town's independently run library is housed - was being taken up by books

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3 h. ago Linlithgow MP hits out at proposed changes to Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries

In a letter to Boundaries Scotland, Kirsteen Sullivan raised concerns over the proposal to divide the West Lothian local authority area into three separate constituencies — Livingston, Bathgate, and Falkirk East and Linlithgow.

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4 h. ago Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

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5 h. ago JD Vance’s traumatic past doesn’t explain his bullying of Ukraine: his ‘might is right’ doctrine does | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz

The man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy would have recognised the old eastern Europe. But he’s attacking the democratic order we yearned forEven before the shocking treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, the US had voted with Russia in the UN. Alarm bells about the security threat now facing Europe were already ringing during JD Vance’s speech in Munich in February, when he questioned the point of defending Europe’s liberal democracies from Russia.For the countries surrounding Russia, this is not just about impertinence or failing diplomacy but about potentially being wiped off the map.Karolina Wigura is a Polish historian and co-author of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty: An Essay (Why the Eastern European Mentality is Different)Jarosław Kuisz is editor-in-chief of the Polish weekly Kultura Liberalna and the author of The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the literary landscape of mid-20th-century America, one of a cohort of remarkable left-leaning intellectuals that included Elizabeth Hardwick, Dwight Macdonald, Randall Jarrell and McCarthy’s lifelong friend Hannah Arendt. The famous feud between McCarthy and the playwright Lillian Hellman – “every word Hellman writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’” – led to a $2.5m libel suit brought by Hellman but which in the end damaged her own reputation beyond repair.McCarthy was already an established critic and fiction writer when, in 1963, she published The Group, the novel that was to bring her huge popular success. It is an account of the lives of a set of young women in postwar New York and, for its time, was frank to the point of being scandalous. Anyone reading it now will wonder what the ...

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6 h. ago The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter

‘Rock star’ author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been hotly anticipated by her fansWhen Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie asked participants at her annual writers’ workshop in Lagos to introduce themselves, one woman was so excited to be close to her idol that she immediately burst into tears.“She asked someone to get me water and my heart just melted,” says writer and actor Uzoamaka Power. “[That workshop] was one of the best moments of my life.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ‘Trump is kicking ass’: supporters cheer president’s frenzied first weeks

Core voters in Georgia are keeping the faith as the US administration tears up the rule book

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8 h. ago Largest wildfire in decades rages in Japan as authorities warn it could spread

Blaze in Ofunato has spread through 2,100 hectares of land, damaged dozens of homes and forced more than 1,000 to fleeAuthorities in Japan have warned that the country’s biggest wildfire in decades is likely to spread, after it damaged dozens of homes and forced more than 1,000 people to flee.Fires continued to rage a week after they broke out in the city of Ofunato, on the north-east coast, with weather officials speculating that this year’s unusually dry winter and strong winds were to blame. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Calm before the storm: nervous Brisbane waits for Alfred’s arrival

Authorities have clearly grasped the scale of potential disaster, but the tropical cyclone won’t feel real to many in the city until the weather starts to turnWhen and where is Tropical Cyclone Alfred likely to hit?Bribie Island braces for AlfredFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrisbane residents who lived through the devastating 2011 floods recall an “eerie calm” that set upon the city.Back then, the city woke to sun and blue sky, but knowing the severe threat from rising flood waters was on its way. The driving rain had stopped, but the looming river peaks would cause most of the widespread damage.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Revealed: The 'barbaric' procedure that leaves women traumatised, in agony and no longer wanting to have sex

When Maria Waters, a 58-year-old GP from Richmond, in Surrey, went for her hospital outpatient appointment last summer, she carefully prepared. She was booked in to have a hysteroscopy.

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11 h. ago Five million Brits have been in council tax arrears over the last five years, damning survey reveals

Exclusive research from Opinium has shown that one in 10 UK adults have been indebted to their local authority at some point, as some lift tax by up to 10 per cent from April.

Economics

11 h. ago The Girl from Chapel Hill: Set to be Featured at London Bookfair 2025

The Girl from Chapel Hill: Set to be Featured at London Bookfair 2025  EIN News

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12 h. ago Swab test could help UK women avoid invasive checks for womb cancer

New method reported to cut number of false positives by 87% has been registered with regulator for approvalA new swab test could help hundreds of thousands of women a year in the UK who may have womb cancer avoid having an often painful invasive procedure to detect the disease.About 800,000 women annually go to see a GP because they are suffering from abnormal bleeding from their uterus and then undergo uncomfortable and stressful investigations to identify the cause. Continue reading...

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