16 m. ago Trump triggers global financial meltdown: Shares plummet across the world over fears he will slap a 20% tariff on EVERYTHING imported into America and cause worldwide recession

Donald Trump has vowed to hit foes and allies alike with levies on so-called 'Liberation Day', April 2.

Economics

31 m. ago John Lennon’s son Sean becomes latest male to hit out at Snow White star Rachel Zegler

The 23-year-old Disney star is at the centre of an online ‘smear campaign’

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41 m. ago Trump triggers gobal financial meltdown: Shares plummet across the world over fears he will slap a 20% tariff on EVERYTHING imported into America and cause worldwide recession

Donald Trump has vowed to hit foes and allies alike with levies on so-called 'Liberation Day', April 2.

Economics

44 m. ago Screamboat review – rodent IP horror sends Mickey Mouse on a ferry rampage

A genetically modified mouse goes on the rampage in bloody Disney pastiche that offers Sharknado-level performances and kill scenes hindered by poor lightingHere’s another draining bout of horror opportunism, spawned in this instance by the copyright expiring on Disney’s Steamboat Willie, the 1928 landmark animation that launched Mickey Mouse into the world. Scurrying on to screens months behind the similarly motivated The Mouse Trap, Steven LaMorte’s bloody pastiche opens with a quote coyly ascribed to “Walt D” before plodding mirthlessly in the pawprints of those recent Winnie-the-Pooh carve-ups, demonstrating no greater brio, invention or wit. Its mock Mickey is a genetically modified super-violent pipsqueak (played by Terrifier breakout star David Howard Thornton, in mangy rodent costume), let loose from the sewers by blundering engineers; rather than the jaunty steamboat his predecessor commandeered, he wreaks murderous havoc on a grimy approximation of the Staten Island ferry,...

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44 m. ago LIVE: Long delays and cancellations after train fault near Manchester Piccadilly

Commuters have been hit with disruption

Politics

57 m. ago Sydney Sweeney reunites with Glen Powell amid romance rumours after calling off wedding

Actress Sydney Sweeney spent time with co-star Glen Powell and his family after being hit with romance rumours before she called off her wedding to Jonathan Davino

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66 m. ago The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 review: is everybody in this hotel a sex pest?

It’s the penultimate episode, and things are still grinding slowly into place for the finale

Events

68 m. ago Myanmar earthquake: Terrifying moment skyscraper window cleaner clings on for life as quake hits

More than 1,640 people are confirmed to have been killed in the devastating earthquake that rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand last week, according to officials

Events

82 m. ago UK shares fall after Starmer holds Trump talks in frantic last

Donald Trump has vowed to hit foes and allies alike with levies on so-called 'Liberation Day', April 2.

Politics

99 m. ago Date set for every home in England to get up to 5 recycling bins in new plan

The Govermnent today said the recycling scheme will collect food waste weekly, plastics, paper, green waste and 'plastic film'

Politics

1 hour ago Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead | Nathalie Tocci

Whether it is by declaring a trade war or by bullying Greenland, visceral hatred is driving American policyThe “Signalgate” scandal confirmed what Europeans already knew. The Trump administration’s disdain for Europe is deep and the transatlantic fracture is structural. While our leaders publicly play down the significance of the unravelling that is manifestly under way, few actually sound as convinced in private.Hopes persist that Europe can prevent the most extreme manifestation of the collapse in the relationship, be it an invasion of Greenland, the withdrawal of US forces from Europe’s Nato member states or an all-out trade war. Most urgently, European leaders are focused on ensuring that if (or perhaps when) the US throws Kyiv under the bus, it is Europe collectively that will somehow succeed in securing a free, independent and democratic Ukraine. But there should be no illusion that this will happen by working in synergy with Washington or even with its tacit approval.Nathalie...

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1 hour ago Sport must step up and be part of the social revolution to reach ‘lost boys’ | Cath Bishop

Gareth Southgate wants role models to offer a different path from toxic influencers. Do those in sport have the will to do so?Amid all the pressing problems of the day, one crisis has cut through: the acute need for greater support, care and steady role models for young men, addressed powerfully through the Netflix series Adolescence, explored in the Centre for Social Justice paper Lost Boys and discussed in parliament. Then came the BBC Richard Dimbleby lecture by the former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate, reinforcing the importance of belief and resilience for young people in a challenging world.Southgate continues to embody how sport and society can connect in a new way. The question now is whether the rest of sport – its leaders, coaches, athletes, volunteers and fans – stands ready to take up the cause and whether sport has the collective vision, will and competence to do so effectively. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men? | Rachel Connolly

The cliche of the loutish, emotionally inadequate boyfriend is everywhere. The truth is more complicatedHow is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial man named Josh with a robot girlfriend named Iris. Iris was designed to be the perfect girlfriend, and so she regards Josh with total devotion and admiration, and prioritises their relationship above all else. She has a head full of fake memories, such as the one of the day they met, when they were both in the same supermarket and he clumsily upended a display of oranges, sending them rolling across the floor. This caught her attention. She has been programmed to regard this as the best day of her life.Like so many things you watch and read now, Companion is intended to reflect a familiar trope back at the viewer in an exaggerated but unchallenging fashion. It’s a pantomimed version of a wildly imbalanced heterosexual relationship, a port...

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1 hour ago Spring has sprung! Weather maps reveal where will hit 20C this week as Britain basks in balmy sunshine

The country is set to enjoy highs of 17-18C, which may even climb to 20C by Thursday, with the south east of the UK expected to enjoy the best of the sunshine.

Events

1 hour ago New DWP data prompts' inevitable' triple lock review – how it affects your pension

The state pension will rise by 4.1% from next month, but experts have warned that a review of the triple lock is now "inevitable" as new Department for Work and Pensions figures are released

Politics

2 h. ago PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Day, Monday, March 31, 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Culture

2 h. ago The Tallis Scholars review – inspired pairing of Palestrina and Pärt brings shining warmth and clarity

St George’s BristolThe consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo PärtThis year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, the Italian composer who took the name of his native town, just east of Rome, now part of the metropolitan city. In director Peter Phillips’s inspired pairing of Palestrina with the music of Arvo Pärt in the year of his 90th birthday, there was a particular frisson in knowing that in January, the Tallis Scholars had sung this very programme in the cathedral of Sant’Agapito Martire in Palestrina, where the young Giovanni Pierluigi may have been a chorister and was certainly organist from the age of 19.Phillips has described Palestrina as the “most consummate of renaissance composers”: it may surely be said that the Tallis Scholars are the consummate vocal ensemble. Opening with his motet Surge Illuminare, the 10 Scholars immediately brought a shining warmth t...

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2 h. ago 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto PinochetThis is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy – part history, part moral investigation, part memoir – that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now in Ukraine, whose Jewish population either fled before Nazi occupation or, like many of Sands’s extended family, was thereafter wiped out. Two Jewish lawyers who got out early were instrumental in creating the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide that were introduced at the Nuremberg trials. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Living Together review – how Austrians teach immigrants to find their place in society

New arrivals sit in drab spaces and are learn how to fit in, in a film that quietly addresses the costs of integration to minority groupsThomas Fürhapter’s documentary sheds light on the challenges of adjusting to a new culture as it follows a series of “integration classes” offered to immigrants in Vienna. The film opens in the nondescript corridors of an administrative building, which lead into sun-filled but impersonal meeting rooms where these sessions take place. As the participants discuss their worries and uncertainties, these colourless spaces transform into sites of passion and community.Conducted in multiple languages, the seminars grapple with culturally specific issues faced by different minority groups. Topics of discussion range from Austrian ways of greeting, to more serious concerns such as racism and domestic abuse. In talking about the present and the future, people also reveal pieces of their past: some moved to Austria for love, others fled the horrors of war. De...

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3 h. ago Trump is the first US president to nakedly behave like an American emperor

If we see Trump for what he is and try to understand how he thinks, we will be better prepared for the onslaught, argues Alastair GJ Stewart

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