10 h. ago Truth behind dog rescuing cat pics in Thai floods that made people go 'animals are humans'

Southern Thailand is currently experiencing severe rain storms and flooding with at least 19 people reported to have died and 1.9million affected by the extreme weather

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14 h. ago Trump amplifies message from X user calling for his 3rd impeachment in online blunder

The president shared a screenshot from an X account that has been posting anti-Trump rhetoric since 2022

Politics

17 h. ago The truth about the world’s happiest country as economic gloom threatens crown

Finland has been named the world’s happiest nation eight years in a row

Economics

38 h. ago Trump warns the Supreme Court off ‘serving hostile foreign interests’ on tariffs in latest Truth Social rant

Trump has repeatedly claimed that tariffs — which are ultimately import taxes paid by Americans — are paid by foreign countries

Events

4 d. ago Palestine Action activist 'whipped' security guard during attack at Elbit Systems factory, trial hears

Security guard Angelo Volante tells Woolwich Crown Court the activists were ‘armed and threatening us with harm’

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8 d. ago Ken Clarke tells Rachel Reeves to raise income tax in her budget

The former chancellor has also warned that pre-budget briefing as left an ‘air of gloom’ over the economy

Economics

2 w. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Despite the economic gloom, there ARE signs of recovery. But I fear Rachel Reeves is about to spray weedkiller all over the green shoots

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, now the Office for National Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate has risen to 5 per cent, the highest for four years.

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2 w. ago Trump’s own Truth Social AI tool is calling BS on his claims about tariffs, Jan 6 and bid for Nobel Prize

The tool, powered by Perplexity, disputes many of the president’s wildest claims

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2 w. ago Falling economy air fares bring some cheer amid gloom of flight cuts

Of the 10 busiest routes in the U.S., six have seen year-on-year price reductions

Economics

2 w. ago Trump promises $2,000 payments to most Americans during Sunday morning Truth Social posting spree

The payments were offered days after Trump attended another Mar-a-Lago dinner party

Politics

2 w. ago Dark truth behind world’s ‘tantric capital’ where Brit hippies chase sexual nirvana & male gurus ‘lure students to bed’

WITH alluring promises of ‘showers of love’ and classes on how to ‘surrender in bed’, it is the sun-soaked holiday hotspot beloved by hippy Brits seeking sexual nirvana. But beneath the surface, horrified insiders warn how this destination for ‘sacred eroticism’ has become a ‘Wild West’ for corruption and sexual abuse at the hands of...

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2 w. ago Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around usAs world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the global authority on climate change science – released its First Assessment Report confirming the threat of human-caused global warming. As scientists all over the world prepare the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, we do so knowing that our work is still being overshadowed by politics. Despite all the well-intentioned half-measures, the truth is that the world is still disastrously off track to limit dangerous climate...

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2 w. ago The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faithLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of BrazilToday, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands.If we fail to move beyond speeches into real action, our societies will lose faith – not only in the Cops, but in multilateralism and international politics more broadly. That is why I have summoned leaders to the Amazon: to make this the “Cop of truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Dubai: the dark truth — It's a magnet for Londoners, but what lies beneath the wealth and glamour?

Thousands of Londoners flock to the Middle East city each year — but behind the façade is a brutally repressive regime where human rights are non-existent

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4 w. ago Madeleine McCann 'stalker' left missing girl's mum Kate 'in tears after visiting home'

Leicester Crown Court heard Kate McCann threatened to call the police after Julia Wandelt, who claimed to be missing Madeleine, turned up at the McCanns' home

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4 w. ago Trump demands a ban on ‘fake ads’ that show off his shrinking polling numbers

It was not immediately clear what advertisements Trump was speaking about

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