44 m. ago Man arrested for tearing out passport pages to hide secret trips to Bangkok

The Indian citizen was found to have four pages torn from his passport during a routine inspection at Mumbai Airport - and initially refused to tell security staff why he'd ripped them out.

Sport

50 m. ago The Lions squad shock omissions, surprise selections and unwanted Wales truth

Wales have their lowest post-war contingent on a Lions tour

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89 m. ago Prince William's friend gives brutal verdict on Prince Harry after BBC interview

Prince Harry faced even more stinging criticism for his tell-all BBC interview, with a source accusing him of having "no interest in reconciling" with the rest of the Royal Family

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1 hour ago 'Revenge' attack car arsonist caught because of 'distinctive way he walks'

After being arrested Jamie Paton launched a vile tirade of abuse at the female officer who cuffed him, including spitting in the back of the police van and telling the constable to lick it up

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1 hour ago Are you excited about the UK making a trade deal with Donald Trump?

The US president teased the announcement of a "major trade deal" with a "big, highly respected country" in a post on his Truth Social platform overnight

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2 h. ago Amazon says it’s a ‘myth’ that robots kill jobs. Here’s the reality | Benjamin Y Fong

The company is sending more packages every year – but with fewer fulfillment center workersStefano La Rovere, director of global robotics, mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, has the unfortunate task of trying to convince the public that Amazon is not in fact automating away human labor with its robotics deployments.“It is a myth that technology and robots take out jobs,” La Rovere told CNBC last year. He said robots assisted workers “by reducing walking distance between assignments, by taking away repetitive motions, or by helping them to lift heavy weights. In turn, our employees can learn new skills.”Benjamin Y Fong is associate director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and keeps a newsletter on labor & logistics at ontheseams.substack.com. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff audiobook review – a fugitive’s fight for survival

Actor January LaVoy narrates the visceral story of a girl on the run in a winter wilderness, in early 17th-century VirginiaAt the start of The Vaster Wilds, we meet a servant girl, “bony and childish small”, on the run from a disease-ridden English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The reason for her flight is not immediately disclosed, though her fingernails are tellingly bloody. Armed with a knife, a thick cloak stolen from her mistress and leather boots taken from a dead child, she heads out into the winter wilderness. There, in the face of ice storms, potentially hostile Powhatan villages and a soldier charged with task of capturing her “living or dead”, she must be fearless and resourceful to stay alive.Lauren Groff’s vivid and visceral story of survival – think Man vs Wild meets The Revenant – is set in the early 17th century when smallpox and starvation pose the greatest threat to life. Our protagonist, formerly the child of a prostitute living in a London poorhouse, was giv...

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2 h. ago Mark Williams' emotional message seconds before Zhao Xintong snooker final emerges

Mark Williams was beaten 18-12 by Zhao Xintong in the World Snooker Championship final, and the Welshman made an emotional and telling admission before stepping out into the Crucible

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Cruel and heartless:’ Parents of murder victim slam Kristi Noem after DHS secretary cites their daughter in speech

Grieving Illinois couple tell Trump administration official her use of their late daughter for political ends ‘not just deeply painful to us – it is an insult to her memory’

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2 h. ago Constance Marten tells jury aristocratic family member ‘doesn’t want me alive’

The mother, who standing trial over the death of her baby while on the run, believes she was followed by private investigators who tampered with her car, a court heard

Society

2 h. ago Mo Salah and Kevin De Bruyne behaviour branded 'childish' after transfer moves

Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne have carved out legacies as all-time greats in the Premier League since leaving Chelsea, where their talents were overlooked by Jose Mourinho

Politics

2 h. ago The Who retiring as Pete Townsend says 'Everyone needs to know the truth'

EXCLUSIVE: The Who have officially announced they are retiring from touring, but with a major twist after performing a string of final concerts across Europe

Politics

3 h. ago Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer

Exclusive: backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month UK politics live – latest updatesMore than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction.The letter from parliamentarians spanning the new intake and veterans, and from the left and right of the party, sets Keir Starmer up for the biggest rebellion of his premiership when the House of Commons votes on the measures next month. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 7 unhinged things Donald Trump did in 24 hours as he teases more about trade deal

At last, after months of wrangling and, some would argue, being nicer than we strictly speaking wanted to be to the US administration, there's enough of a deal on the table for the President to post on Truth Social about it

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3 h. ago Forever review – an absolutely adorable TV take on Judy Blume’s banned teen sex classic

The 1975 novel might be barred from US schools and libraries, but it gets a hugely important telling here. It’s powerful, sweet – and with a cast as excellent as Heartstopper’sA couple of years ago, Judy Blume noted that book banning was not only undergoing a resurgence in the US, but was at that point “much worse” than she had noticed during the 1980s. Blume is one to know: her 1975 novel Forever..., about teenage sex and desire, continues to be banned by school districts and libraries, as repression and censorship gallop on at a pace. This Netflix adaptation of Blume’s novel, which loses the ellipsis, is not only timely but important: through it, the story continues to be told, even if it is in a different medium.This eight-part series, created by Girlfriends showrunner Mara Brock Akil, is sensitive and winningly sweet, while still managing to maintain its defiance and bite. It doesn’t so much update its source material as treat the novel as loose inspiration: details are shuffled...

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3 h. ago 189 medical conditions you may need to declare to DVLA to avoid punishment

It's not just poor eyesight that motorists need to tell the DVLA about - there are almost 200 conditions that could affect your driving that you need to declare

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3 h. ago BlackRock to order senior managers back to office five days a week – reports

New-York based asset management company about to issue new guidance, according to FTBusiness live – latest updatesBlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management company, is reportedly preparing to order its senior managers to work from the office five days a week.The New-York based company is expected to tell its staff as early as Thursday that about 1,000 managing directors around the world should work in the office full-time, the Financial Times has reported. Continue reading...

Society

3 h. ago Screen time is 'killing the family dinner chat', survey shows

Children are having to tell their parents to put their phones down at the table too 👀

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3 h. ago Himesh Patel picks the most underrated project from his career

Actor tells Jacob Stolworthy about the project that never had its moment in the sun

Politics

4 h. ago Judge tells teen killer 'you will live with this for the rest of your life' as he is locked up

The boy, 14, was caged for five years today for the death of 16-year-old Kory McCrimmon in Glasgow last year.

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