3 h. ago ‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

The Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential timesEarly on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister human impact: the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, is “advertised as non-persistent; but tell that to Dewayne Johnson // and his non-Hodgkin lymphoma”. In 2018, a jury ruled that Monsanto’s glyphosate weedkiller, Roundup, caused the former groundskeeper’s cancer.Solie’s admission – that real horror can’t be prettified – recalls Noor Hindi’s viral 2020 poem, Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying. We can’t “treat poetry like it’s some kind of separate thing” to what’s going on around us, says Solie, speaking to me in Soho, London, the morning after finding out she has won the TS Eliot prize for her collection Wellwater. “We all have to keep our...

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26 h. ago Londoner wins over £10m on the lottery — but hasn't come forward to claim prize

The National Lottery has encouraged the lucky winner to claim the multimillion pound prize before it’s too late

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54 h. ago Australian Open star banned from claiming £112,000 prize money as he seeks talks

There have already been some unexpected results at the 2026 Australian Open but one early winner has run into a problem when it comes to his prize money

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3 d. ago Masters snooker final prize money – How much does the winner get?

The 2026 Masters draws to a close on Sunday, with players vying for a huge six-figure grand prize in what is fast becoming one of snooker's most favoured events

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4 d. ago Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – she must be freed

Editorial: The Nobel Prize winner’s continued incarceration is a burning injustice that must be righted – she is the only democratic hope for Myanmar

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5 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel trolls Trump after taking Nobel Peace Prize medal from the actual winner: ‘It’s like a pacifier’

The talk show host also poked fun at the meagre gift that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado was given by the president in return

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5 d. ago Why Trump still isn’t a Nobel Peace Prize winner despite being gifted Machado’s medal

White House sources said Machado had committed the ‘ultimate sin’ by accepting the award in the first place

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5 d. ago Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado gives her medal to Donald Trump

In a social media post, Trump wrote: ‘Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Maria!’

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5 d. ago Nobel Peace Prize winner gives medal to Donald Trump in Oval Office meeting

Maria Corina Machado said she had given her medal to Trump, saying it was in recognition of "his unique commitment with our freedom"

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6 d. ago Trump to discuss Venezuela’s future with Machado after Maduro’s capture

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize winner had been sidelined by White House after US seized MaduroDonald Trump will host María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel peace prize winner, at the White House on Thursday for a high-stakes talks on the oil-rich nation’s future following the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.Many in Venezuela and abroad had expected Machado to take charge after an elite US military team seized Maduro in a pre-dawn raid on 3 January and transported him to a New York City jail. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Lotto winning numbers LIVE: National Lottery results for January 14 £13m jackpot

The National Lottery Lotto can only Rollover 5 times, meaning tonight is a Must Be Won draw - so thousands can expect to win a boosted cash prize if there is no jackpot winner tonight!

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8 d. ago BBC Traitors star's telling social media post 'confirms' they won show

The Traitors star did exactly what they said they would do if they won the jackpot prize, sparking rumours that the winner has accidentally been revealed

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8 d. ago Mystery National Lottery winner finally claims £15m prize two months later

National Lottery operator confirms claim received in ‘life-changing win’

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9 d. ago You can’t give Nobel Peace Prize to someone else, committee tells winner Machado before Trump meeting

Warning comes after U.S. president says he would be ‘honored’ to accept prize if offered by Venezuelan opposition leader during meeting in Washington

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1 week ago ‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president

The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on sciencePaul Nurse is a turn up for the books. A Nobel prize-winning geneticist, former director of the Francis Crick Institute and erstwhile head of Rockefeller University in the US, his CV marks him out as one of this generation’s most eminent scientific figures.But his presidency of the Royal Society, a position he has taken up for a second time, makes him rarer still. No other scientist in centuries has had a second term at the head of the academy. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner is barred from giving her trophy to Trump despite arguing 'he deserves it'

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has declared it impossible for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to give the Nobel Peace Prize over to Donald Trump.

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1 week ago Lottery winner has just one month left to claim £1million prize

The money will be handed over to charities if it isn't claimed by the start of February

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1 week ago María Corina Machado to publish book on political vision for Venezuela amid upheaval

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner will lay out vision for the country in book publishing in USVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will publish a book in the US that lays out her vision for Venezuela’s political reconstruction as the country faces significant upheaval.The 120-page work titled The Freedom Manifesto is being released by Regnery Publishing, a conservative book publisher acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in 2023. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What Luke Littler has bought with mammoth £3.3m darts winnings including personalised car

Back-to-back World Darts Championship winner Luke Littler has earned millions of pounds in prize money as a teenager but has been selective with his spending so far

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