6 h. ago KARIN SMYTH: 'Every day spent waiting for cancer treatment is day of added worry

Health Minister Karin Smyth, who has previously spoken about her skin cancer diagnosis, writes for The Mirror on new cutting-edge machines to deliver faster treatment

Economics

9 h. ago I'm A Celeb's Fred Sirieix 'lost for words' as he makes 'emotional' family discovery

First Dates star Fred Sirieix is the nation's favourite Frenchman but he's actually spent more of his life living in Britain than in France - and he made a moving family discovery

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9 h. ago Arsenal: David Raya sets target to join exclusive club after retaining Premier League Golden Glove award

Raya joins an illustrious group of goalkeepers to retain the Premier League Golden Glove award

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12 h. ago Wales' Japan tour can finally end two directionless years in the position the country loves most

Wales have spent two years muddling about with their fly-halves amid a 17-Test losing run, but could this summer change that?

Politics

12 h. ago US police officer resigns after wrongfully arresting undocumented teen

Leslie O’Neal of Georgia pulled over college student who then spent more than two weeks in federal immigration jailA Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation.The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta. Continue reading...

Events

14 h. ago US military shifts messaging in Africa, telling allies to prepare to stand more on their own

The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African insurgencies

Events

15 h. ago Can Pope Leo retain US citizenship while leading a foreign government?

US state department says on website it may ‘actively review’ status of Americans who ‘serve as a foreign head of state’Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church elevated him to the rare, legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the US and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘If dieting works, where’s the evidence?’ How weightlifting helped Casey Johnston love her body again

The American writer spent year after miserable year trying to be smaller. Then she stepped into a gym, picked up a barbell – and never looked back. She talks about self-confidence, her new book and the joy of eating like a ‘big beautiful horse’Before Casey Johnston started weightlifting, she had assumed it was the preserve of “people who already had some sort of talent or need for it – like you’re a football player, a firefighter or in the military, and you need to be physically capable in that specific way”. Getting started seemed intimidating: the technique, the gym environment.Cardio, however, had always felt intuitive. “You go out the door and you run until you can’t run any more, and that’s it,” she says. As was the idea that it should be punishing. As a younger woman always obsessively trying to lose weight, she ran half-marathons in sub-zero temperatures and feared eating even the calories burned by any run in case it “undid” her hard work – never mind how cold her extremitie...

Economics

16 h. ago Former TV presenter and BBC executive Alan Yentob dies aged 78

He spent decades with the broadcaster

Events

17 h. ago Welsh rugby favourite finds the perfect words as he chokes back tears in emotional farewell speech

Rey Lee-Lo has spent a decade in the Welsh capital, playing 180 times for Cardiff

Politics

17 h. ago The US military spent $6 billion in the past 3 years to recruit and retain troops

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what's been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls

Economics

17 h. ago North Korea detains three officials after destroyer launch blunder

The North Korean leader has followed up on threats of revenge after watching a brand-new navy vessel keel over on its side in a national humiliation for the countries military

Politics

19 h. ago Man who spent £12,480 to become a dog confirms human zoo is going ahead afterall

A man who spent more than £12,000 to become a life-size dog has announced that his human zoo is still open for business, after previously worrying that he wouldn't get enough bookings

Economics

23 h. ago Angellica Bell talks 'bloodied face' as she got injured in Alan Carr's company

EXCLUSIVE: Angellica Bell spent a month in the Celebrity Big Brother house and has been reflecting on her time in the competition and what she learnt about herself

Events

24 h. ago UK Border Force is in effect under military command, report says

Institute of Race Relations says MoD’s Channel role reflects global rise of ‘hyper-militarisation’ in law enforcementThe UK Border Force is in effect under military command, reflecting a wider increase of “hyper-militarisation” in policing, according to a new report on international law enforcement.A report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, says the 21st century has seen the emergence of paramilitary and “political” policing across Europe, employed at borders, during civil unrest and against public protest. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Trump refuses to accept that for Netanyahu and Putin forever war is the only option | Simon Tisdall

The US president thought he could impose peace through sheer personality, but he didn’t reckon with two leaders with so much to loseBenjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin enjoyed a friendly phone chat earlier this month, marking the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The Israeli and Russian leaders have much in common. Both claim to be still heroically battling Nazis, in Gaza and Ukraine respectively. This fiction is used to justify the mass murder of civilians, spiralling troop casualties and huge economic and reputational costs. Maybe it helps them sleep at night.Bibi and Vlad: the world’s most wanted men – and possibly the most despised.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Pete Hegseth slammed for ‘direct attack’ against military reporters: ‘Never seen anything like this’

Defense Secretary strips access to journalists and bans press from certain areas without an escort

Events

25 h. ago ‘Expect no miracle’: Ukraine braces for Russia’s summer offensive

Ukrainian troops struggle with exhaustion but pledge to fight ‘until we break the Russians’ belief that we can be defeated’ 

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27 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv under Russian drone attacks for second night running

At least seven injured as officials warn more drone and missile strikes likely, while large-scale prisoner swap continues. What we know on day 1,187See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian drones attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Sunday and injured at least seven people, as debris set an apartment building on fire and damaged homes, officials said. The head of Kyiv city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said “more than a dozen enemy drones” were flying around the capital early on Sunday. The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said the city was “under attack” but “air defences are operating”, telling citizens to stay in shelters.A day earlier, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and 250 attack drones on Kyiv, injuring 15 people in one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the war more than three years ago. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the attacks indicated Moscow was “prolonging the war On...

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28 h. ago Divers make incredible discovery in hunt for missing submarine that has a haunting history

Scientists have made an incredible discovery on the ocean floor near California during a mission to locate a US Navy submarine that sank over 100 years ago during a training exercise off the coast.

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