50 m. ago Trump calls for ‘total and complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers from Venezuela in escalation of tensions

The Trump administration has placed hundreds of American troops and ships near Venezuela’s coastline

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53 m. ago Donald Trump's BBC lawsuit 'puts him on the stand' where 'he must tell the truth'

Donald Trump, the US President, is seeking up to $10billion (£7.5billion) in damages in response to the editing of a speech he made which was featured in a Panorama episode

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67 m. ago Christmas dinner shock as turkey prices jump £15 and chocolates rocket 70%

FAMILIES hoping for a sweet Christmas are facing a bitter pill as the price of festive chocolates has skyrocketed by more than 70%. A shocking new report has revealed that while inflation is cooling elsewhere, the cost of festive treats and traditional turkey dinners is still gobbling up cash. Consumer champion Which? tracked the prices...

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2 h. ago Iconic chef plans to revive high street restaurant chain six years after administration

Famous chef Jamie Oliver is still planning to relaunch Jamie's Italian onto the UK's highstreet six years after it went into administration

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7 h. ago A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park

Culture

9 h. ago Tesco to get new range of ready meals landing on shelves as shoppers rave products are ‘game changer’

TESCO are due to stock a new range of frozen ready meals from a big brand, and customers can't wait to try them. Already loved by consumers for their fridge-ready dishes, the popular brand are branching out into frozen cuisine, bringing health and convenience to meal time. Vegan cookery brand Bosh are known for packing...

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10 h. ago They thought their father abandoned them. A chance encounter set them on a much darker path

Dotty Carroll had been telling her children for decades that their father, George, had gone out for cigarettes one day and never returned. But then a chance meeting started the siblings down a path to the truth, Sheila Flynn writes

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12 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Was Trump wrong to attack murdered Rob Reiner's politics and accuse him of having a 'mind

Donald Trump appeared to blame Rob Reinerand his wife Michele's murders on the director's 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' in a new post on Truth Social this week.

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13 h. ago Liam Gallagher said 'I'm not f***ing having that' after learning truth about Rob Reiner movie

Liam Gallagher stormed off "right up the middle of Carnegie Hall" after learning the truth about a beloved Rob Reiner film, according to his brother and fellow Oasis bandmate, Noel

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13 h. ago Major European airline strikes tomorrow set to affect thousands of passengers

Strikes are set to hit airlines in Italian airports starting tomorrow - and the action could affect thousands of passengers as a result.

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14 h. ago The term 'lesbian' is dying out: Gen Z are opting for more modern identities including queer, pansexual, or asexual, study reveals

The term 'lesbian' is dying out, a new study has revealed. Gen Z are shunning this more traditional term in favour of newer options, including 'queer', 'pansexual', and 'asexual'.

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14 h. ago Ruben Amorim: Man Utd getting closer to club’s tradition of attacking football

United poured forward in the opening 45 minutes, having 17 attempts at goal and a non-penalty xG of 2.49 at the break

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14 h. ago Victoria Beckham spoofs her iconic 'little Gucci dress' Spice World scene with Andy Cohen before confessing the truth about her designer Spice Girls wardrobe

Victoria Beckham dressed to impress in one of her own designs for her Watch What Happens Live appearance on Monday night.

Culture

14 h. ago The Blackley pub bringing back a Newton Heath Christmas tradition

Origins of the Park View pub's light display, and what it means to the neighbourhood.

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16 h. ago The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art

The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s SecretJoseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante scholar whose books argue for the relevance of the great Italian art and literature of the late middle ages and Renaissance to our own times. A great populariser and advocate of the humanities in public life, he has done for Dante what his Bard colleague Daniel Mendelsohn did for Homer in An Odyssey and other books.This short volume tells the story of the Hospital of the Innocents in Dante’s home town of Florence, a building Luzzi has been fascinated by since encountering it in 1987 on his college year abroad. The Innocenti, as it is known, was the first institution in Europe devoted solely to the care of unwanted children. The first foundling, named Agata because she was left by its gates on Saint Agata’s Day 1445, had been nibbled at by mice. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Charlie Kirk show hosts slam Trump's remarks on Rob Reiner's death: 'It's terrible politics'

Hosts of The Charlie Kirk Show criticized President Trump for his harsh Truth Social attack on filmmaker Rob Reiner following the murder of him and his wife.

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18 h. ago Delizioso! Six of Italy’s tastiest local food delicacies – and where to try them

It will come as little surprise that Italian cuisine has been added to Unesco’s cultural heritage list. Here are a select few of the country’s countless regional specialitiesLast week’s announcement that Italian cuisine has been added to Unesco’s intangible cultural heritage list came as no surprise to anyone familiar with that country’s obsession with food. Unesco called Italy’s cooking a “communal activity” in which “people of all ages and genders participate, exchanging recipes, suggestions and stories”.It might have added people of all walks of life, too, because in Italy being a foodie is not the “preserve” of the chattering classes. I’ve heard building workers in a low-cost trattoria gravely discussing what starter and wine best complement a certain lunch dish, and a shabbily dressed nonna at Turin’s Porto Palazzo market enthusing over a variety of carrot available only at her favourite stall. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Mum was told her son, 4, had acid reflux — but the truth was devastating

Kirsty Benson said it was the "worst day of her life" when her son Reggie Davison was eventually diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a brain tumour which tend to grow quickly

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19 h. ago ‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banksAs a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing river, even for drinking.The 68-year-old has a long grey beard hanging over his simple tan robe and a white cap covering his equally long hair, which sheikhs are forbidden from cutting. He says he has never got ill from drinking water from the Tigris River and believes that as long as the water is flowing, it is clean. But the truth is that soon it may not be flowing at all. Continue reading...

Events

20 h. ago Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Libya’s militias battling it out for a larger stake in the country’s oil economy, but a huge firework display celebrating the reopening of one of the finest museums in the Mediterranean.The National Museum of Libya – housing Africa’s greatest collection of classical antiquities in Tripoli’s historic Red Castle complex – had been closed for nearly 14 years due to the civil war that followed the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall. Its ceremonial reopening came at the climax of a lavish show compressing Libya’s rich history and attended by diplomats and Arab celebrities, with a full-size Italian orchestra, acrobats, dancers, arches of fire and lights projected on to the fort. It did not l...

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