57 m. ago Texas floods latest: Hundreds gather at high school to honor the 120 dead while 170 still remain missing

More than 170 people still missing in Kerr County and Texas Governor Greg Abbott fears more could soon be ‘added to that list’

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59 m. ago Police ‘very concerned’ for missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga as search expands beyond WA

The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since visiting a general store in Western Australia’s wheatbelt regionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe search for German backpacker Carolina Wilga, who went missing in a remote part of Western Australia at the end of June, has broadened out across the country.The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since she visited a general store in the small town of Beacon, in WA’s north-east wheatbelt region, on 29 June. Continue reading...

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74 m. ago Transfer news LIVE: Arsenal get Gyokeres boost; Madueke bid; Chelsea surprise; Kudus medical; Man Utd latest

Huge deals close to completion as summer window kicks into gear

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76 m. ago Business news live: UK economic activity revealed and Nvidia set record as world’s first $4tn company

Stock markets updates and business news from Thursday

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76 m. ago Wimbledon 2025 live: Swiatek takes on Bencic as Sabalenka goes up against Anisimova in semi

The women’s semi-finals have arrived, with two big names aiming to set up a massive final

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77 m. ago LIVE updates as fire breaks out at north Manchester industrial estate

People are being urged to keep doors and windows closed

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80 m. ago Drivers warned to remove three common items from their car today

It comes as a heatwave is expected in parts of Wales towards the end of the week

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2 h. ago ‘We were speaking English, but not the same language’: What happens when an American falls in love with a Brit

Lena Dunham’s Netflix romcom ‘Too Much’ centres on a New Yorker who gets together with a British musician, and all the cultural and linguistic differences that come with that. US writer Amanda Whiting, who met her husband at university in the UK, opens up about the experience of falling for someone in (British) English

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2 h. ago Texas floods latest: NASA joins search with specialised aircraft as death toll rises to 119 and 170 still missing

More than 170 people still missing in Kerr County and Texas Governor Greg Abbott fears more could soon be ‘added to that list’

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2 h. ago How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot

Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possibleImagine the furore if a Guardian columnist suggested bombing, say, the Conservative party conference and the Tory stronghold of Arundel in Sussex. It would dominate public discussion for weeks. Despite protesting they were “only joking”, that person would never work in journalism again. Their editor would certainly be sacked. The police would probably come knocking. But when the Spectator columnist Rod Liddle speculates about bombing Glastonbury festival and Brighton, complaints are met with, “Calm down dear, can’t you take a joke?” The journalist keeps his job, as does his editor, the former justice secretary Michael Gove. There’s one rule for the left and another for the right.The same applies to the recent comments on GB News by its regular guest Lewis Schaffer. He proposed that, to reduce the number of disabled people claiming benefits, ...

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2 h. ago Dog owners urged to follow one walking rule during UK heatwave

The Met Office is now warning pet owners to avoid walking their dogs during certain times of the day, following the news of a third heatwave for later this week.

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2 h. ago LA tunnel collapse LIVE: Workers trapped as shaft at construction site caves in

More than 100 firefighters have been deployed to Wilmington, Los Angeles, where an industrial tunnel - thought to be linked to the huge Los Angeles County Sanitation District operation - has caved in

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2 h. ago Asian shares mostly gain after big tech rally on Wall Street

Asian shares are mostly up after a rally in big tech stocks in U.S. trading led the broader market to a higher close, lifting the Nasdaq to an all-time high and helping Wall Street claw back most of its losses from earlier in the week

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2 h. ago UK weather maps turn red across the country as 15 cities set to bake in 30C this weekend

The UK is bracing for another heatwave this weekend, with temperatures set to rise across the country - and a health warning has been issued as it's expected to reach 30C

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2 h. ago Texas floods latest: NASA joins search with specialised aircraft as death toll rises to 119 with 170 still missing

More than 170 people still missing in Kerr County and Texas Governor Greg Abbott fears more could soon be ‘added to that list’

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2 h. ago Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid

Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good

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3 h. ago ‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant

I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill meI first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves full of her first editions, organised in chronological order. Pat was 73 and knew she was about to die; she had been, it was rumoured, diagnosed with cancer or some other terminal disease. I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left to live and had spent so much time writing about how to get away with murder. I fantasised that she might try to kill me.The story of how I ended up in that house begins a few months earlier, in Zurich, with me on a blue tram, on my way to dinner at the house of Anna and Daniel Keel, a couple I’d grown friendly with. Anna was a brilliant painter for whom I had been modelling since I was 17. Her studio smelled like oil paint, instant coff...

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3 h. ago ‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely survivingThe pain of going to bed hungry is becoming familiar for Jamila Rabea. It’s hard to sleep. The meagre rations of bread, tomato paste and tea she spends much of her day trying to gather, she gives to her children. Five of them live with her in a shelter built from tarpaulin, cloth and scraps of wood.Like many of the refugee families living here in a makeshift camp to the east of the Yemen port city of Al-Mukalla, she has had to leave home because of the bombs and fighting. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Man City have two candidates for key loan moves that could make or break Etihad careers

Manchester City have two teenagers on the fringes of the first-team squad but both could do with loan moves next season to aid their development.

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3 h. ago Wales team announcement Live as Taulupe Faletau misses out and big change made

The Wales coach has named his side for the second Test against Japan in Kobe this Saturday

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