50 m. ago Keir Starmer breaks silence on Donald Trump’s threat to sue BBC for $1bn

Sir Keir Starmer urged the BBC to “get its house in order” following Donald Trump’s threat to sue the corporation for $1billion lawsuit.

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91 m. ago Inside the career of Man Utd's 'captain in the making' who is now suing the club for £1m

Axel Tuanzebe looked set for big things at Manchester United but in a career which has been hampered by injury he has still earned a place in the Premier League with Burnley

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99 m. ago Starmer says any attack on his cabinet is ‘completely unacceptable’ and adds Streeting is doing a great job – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch probes Starmer over ‘toxic culture’ at Downing Street The No 10 briefing row is not the only story around this morning. Amy Sedghi is writing a live blog about the ongoing turmoil at the BBC and she has details of Donald Trump saying he has an “obligation” to sue the BBC.In a related development, Reform UK has pulled out of a BBC documentary about the party amid a row over the broadcaster’s editing of the Trump speech. Robyn Vintner has the story. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago How World Cup expansion is driving Asia’s naturalisation arms race

As Asia’s allocation has now doubled, many nations look to foreign-born talent to push them towards qualificationWhen the United Arab Emirates line up against Iraq on Thursday for the fifth and final round of Asian qualification for next year’s World Cup, it is likely that over half of the home starting XI in Abu Dhabi will be foreign-born. The UAE are, however, merely another participant in a naturalisation arms race in the continent that has been boosted by the expansion of the World Cup from 32 teams to 48.Asia’s allocation has doubled from four automatic spots in Qatar to eight in North America, opening up the tournament to a new array of contenders desperate to play on the greatest stage of all. Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Australia have historically dominated World Cup qualifying, with North Korea the most recent outlier in 2010. Those six are the only teams from the Asian Football Confederation to make more than one appearance at the tournament. Continue readin...

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2 h. ago Selling The OC agent Kaylee Ricciardi's age and life before Netflix show

The newest addition to Netflix's Selling Sunset spin-off has made her mark already

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2 h. ago Kaylee Ricciardi's life before Selling The OC and history with Austin explained

Netflix has released the fourth series of Selling The OC, which sees three new agents join the Oppenheim Group's Orange County office

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2 h. ago Thailand demands apology from Cambodia over landmines that injured its soldiers

Bangkok accuses Phnom Penh of laying new mines along the disputed border

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3 h. ago Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit

US president sets Friday deadline for corporation to respond to billion-dollar legal threatTrump to sue BBC – latest updatesDonald Trump has said he feels he has “an obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat.The US president accused the broadcaster of having “defrauded the public” with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced together two parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and has given it until Friday to respond. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Rastafarian asks Supreme Court if he can sue prison for shaving his dreadlocks

Guards cut the dreadlocks he had been growing for nearly two decades

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3 h. ago Surprising real ages of Selling The OC's cast including youngest and oldest agents

The Oppenheim Group's Orange County office is back in business with a fresh-faced squad

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3 h. ago Netflix Selling The OC cast's real ages including Tyler Stanaland and Alex Hall

Selling The OC is back on Netflix for a fourth season - but how old are the real estate agents in real life?

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3 h. ago Selling the OC season 4: who are the new agents? Full cast for Netflix show

Selling the OC has a few new faces in season 4 on Netflix 👀📺

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3 h. ago Tension mounts in Belarus as leader plans to seize 1,000 trucks at closed border

Belarus’ leader is threatening to seize over stranded 1,000 Lithuanian trucks

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3 h. ago Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prisonMore than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal – a group investigating violations in Central America – says conditions at El Salvador’s sprawling “terrorist continent center” (Cecot) breached the UN’s standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. It cites “inhumane prison conditions, including prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food” and other shortcomings. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Netflix's Selling The OC cast ages from youngest to oldest agent

A new series of the Selling Sunset spin-off has just landed on Netflix

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4 h. ago Hidden tab on spreadsheet revealed woman's shocking breach of trust

Estate agent worker Frances Leach, 33, was exposed by her employer

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4 h. ago Trump says he has an ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over edited speech

US president says he intends to pursue legal action because UK broadcaster ‘defrauded the public’

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5 h. ago Estate agent conwoman steals over £66k in 'shocking' betrayal of trust

Frances Leach was trusted and described as efficient by employers.

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5 h. ago Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit – latest updates

US president claims broadcaster has ‘defrauded the public’ and reiterates his threat of launching a $1bn legal actionDonald Trump has grabbed the headlines after threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m) for what the corporation has accepted was a misleading edit of his speech on 6 January 2021 during the Capitol Hill insurrection.I wouldn’t want a board that’s guilty of groupthink, but the opposite of groupthink is different points of view. That makes the job of the chair challenging to try and organise and get consensus, but it’s important that people have a diversity of opinion on the board. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Strictly star La Voix makes awkward BBC resignation joke during live show as host left speechless

Strictly Come Dancing contestant La Voix left the It Takes Two studio speechless with a joke about resignations at the top of the BBC on Tuesday (11 November).

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