48 m. ago London rents ended the year lower than where they started for first time on record

The average London tenant is spending £63 less in rent per calendar month than at the start of last year

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48 m. ago Average UK house price records biggest increase since June 2015

The average price tag on a home jumped by 2.8 per cent or nearly £10,000 in January

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93 m. ago Tennessee declares Dolly Parton Day to honor country star’s 80th birthday

‘Her talent and generosity have made a lasting impact on the world,’ Governor Bill Lee said in his proclamation

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2 h. ago Mad theories Brahim Diaz 'missed on purpose' with bizarre penalty in mad AFCON final

Morocco star Brahim Diaz was left in tears after Edouard Mendy saved his 111th-minute Panenka penalty in the Africa Cup of Nations final against Senegal - but due to the crazy nature of the game did he miss on purpose?

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3 h. ago Brahim Diaz breaks down in tears after baffling Panenka backfires in AFCON chaos

Brahim Diaz saw his Panenka penalty saved deep in stoppage time during the Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and Morocco

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3 h. ago Call the Midwife fans left in tears just minutes in over heartbreaking death

Call the Midwife returned to screens for another episode but things took an emotional turn minutes into the BBC show airing

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4 h. ago Meet 'India's biggest fugitives' hiding out in £20million mansions and partying at Mayfair's most exclusive private members' club

Ex-billionaire Vijay Mallya smiles awkwardly next to dear friend and fellow disgraced tycoon Lalit Modi as he boasts that they are 'the biggest fugitives of India'.

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6 h. ago Antonio Conte tears into 'arrogant' Ruben Amorim over treatment of Man Utd star

Antoino Conte has accused ex-Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim of showing 'arrogance' in his treatment of Rasmus Hojlund, who's spending the season on loan at Napoli

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6 h. ago Staying single for too long could impact young people’s health, study finds

Younger Americans are lonelier than ever

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6 h. ago Iran warns world that any attack on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be declaration of war

Iran’s president makes comment in response to speculation Donald Trump is planning to assassinate or remove Iran’s supreme leaderIran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, warned on Sunday that any attack on the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would mean a declaration of war.In an apparent response to speculation that Donald Trump is considering an attempt to assassinate or remove Khamenei, Pezeshkian said in a post on X that “an attack on the great leader of our country is tantamount to a full-scale war with the Iranian nation.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago After years of criticising Davos, Nigel Farage heads to Davos

Reform UK leader has decried ‘globalist’ event but this year hopes to meet Donald Trump for Greenland talksFor years he has derided the annual gathering at Davos as a smug and conspiratorial meeting of enemies of the nation state. But this week, Nigel Farage will himself be rubbing shoulders with the “globalists” he has so reviled.Farage’s itinerary at the Swiss ski resort remains unclear, although his Reform UK deputy, Richard Tice, said on Sunday he hoped Farage would get a chance to speak to Donald Trump, who is also attending the event run by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Senegal vs Morocco live: Afcon final latest team news as host nation bid for first title in 50 years

Can Morocco make history in front of their home crowd or will Senegal become two-time champions?

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6 h. ago Inside the controversy over Flock, the AI surveillance company whose data is being fed to ICE

Cities across the nation are cutting ties with the Atlanta-based police tech firm after revelations that Donald Trump’s deportation squads have repeatedly gained access to its data. Io Dodds reports

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6 h. ago The Guardian view on microplastics research: questioning results is good for science, but has political consequences | Editorial

Errors in measuring microplastic pollution can be corrected. Public trust in science also needs to be shored up It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be a messy process. The Guardian reported last week that 20 recent studies measuring the amount of micro- and nanoplastics in the human body have been criticised in the scientific literature for methodological issues, calling their results into question. In one sense this is the usual process playing out as it should. However, the scale of the potential error – one scientist estimates that half the high-impact papers in the field are affected – suggests a systemic problem that should have been prevented.The risk is that in a febrile political atmosphere in which trust in science is being actively eroded on issues from climate change to vaccinations, even minor scientific conflicts can be used to sow further doubt. Given that there...

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7 h. ago Putin ‘may target’ another European nation as NATO unity is tested

An expert has warned the Russian despot Vladimir Putin is not done with his war

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9 h. ago Saturday Night Live: big name cameos can’t save weak Stranger Things

A$AP Rocky steals the show during Finn Wolfhard’s first ever go as host with surprise appearances from Sabrina Carpenter, Jason Momoa and moreSaturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to catch us up on all things Trump: the president (James Austin Johnson) addresses the nation from the Oval Office, bragging about his favorite Christmas present: “My very own somebody else’s Nobel prize and in my stocking: Maduro we did a reverse Santa on him.”Joined by cabinet members “Little” Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane, taking over for departed cast member Bowen Yang), who are all trying to “help me do so many legal-ish things to try to get people to stop talking about Epstein.” Said things include an impending invasion of Cuba, “trans in menswear”, new tariffs, and Greenland, only to be interrupted by Trump wandering behind them and looking out the window in a senile fugue state. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Senegal vs Morocco live: Afcon final latest updates as host nation vie for first title in 50 years

Can Morocco make history in front of their home crowd or will Senegal become two-time champions?

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10 h. ago German troops withdraw from Greenland after only 44 hours following Trump's tariff threat

Donald Trump's threat of tariffs being put in place next month if Greenland is not sold to the US may have caused a European nation to have withdrawn troops from the Danish territory

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10 h. ago Auchinleck Talbot v Celtic betting shock latest as footie bosses’ findings into fears of suspicious activity revealed

FOOTIE bosses could find no wrongdoing after looking into fears of suspicious betting activity surrounding the big Scottish Cup clash between Auchinleck Talbot and Celtic. The development comes after many of the UK's biggest gambling sites, including SkyBet, Paddy Power and bet365, suspended in-play betting markets ahead of today's match. The Scottish Sun told how...

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11 h. ago ‘Sprint toward autocracy’: Trump’s first year in office has been a norm

From gutting federal agencies to funding freezes for Democratic cities and states to sending the National Guard and ICE agents around the nation, Trump has shown himself to be the strongman many didn’t know they were electing president.

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