7 h. ago Thomas Frank given no assurances over Tottenham future in lunch with key figures

The under-pressure Spurs boss had lunch with Nick Beucher, Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham on Monday.

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4 d. ago Arne Slot faces Liverpool transfer headache as star admits he could quit

Liverpool defender Andy Robertson has been a key figure for the Reds since joining them in 2017 but has just five months remaining on his contract and may not sign a new one

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4 d. ago The real Da Vinci code has been found in the painter's own artwork

Red chalk drawing called Holy Child that has been examined by scientists could hold the key to the legendary historical figure

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4 d. ago Trump says he’s been assured Tehran has stopped killing protesters as Iran reopens its airspace – live

US president says ‘important sources’ also told him executions not going ahead as Iranian airspace reopens to flights after near-five-hour closureFull report: Iran protest killings have halted, Trump claims, as Tehran says executions are ‘out of the question’Iran crisis explained: what we know so farAnalysis: why western diplomats are wary of predicting regime’s end daysPodcast: Massacres and executions: what are we hearing from inside Iran?Moving for a moment to Australia, protesters have staged a rally outside the Iranian embassy in Canberra to demand regime change in Iran.About 100 demonstrators chanted “democracy for Iran” and “King Reza Pahlavi”, a reference to the last Iranian shah’s exiled son – a key figure in the anti-government protests.I don’t want Iran to be indentured to any foreign nation the moment anybody interferes. But if it means saving one life for it, we want a measured response that we can have this bloodshed ended. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Greenlandic rock god comes out fighting Donald Trump’s 'unofficial Arctic envoy'

Now an MP, Per Berthelson has become a key figure in the opposition to a US takeover - enraged by the antics of Trump supporter Jorgen Boassen.

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6 d. ago Bruno Fernandes' prediction for Michael Carrick after fuming at Man Utd decision

Michael Carrick is set to be named as the interim boss of Manchester United and the ex-player previously impressed a number of key figures, Bruno Fernandes among them

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1 week ago Cristian Romero apologises to Tottenham fans as he takes aim at key club figures

Spurs slipped to a 3-2 loss at Bournemouth on Wednesday evening to make it two wins in 12 Premier League matches.

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1 week ago US reportedly warns Maduro ally Diosdado Cabello he could be next

Interior minister told he must back acting president, while Marco Rubio lays out three-point plan for VenezuelaThe Trump administration has reportedly put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been in power since Nicolás Maduro was seized on Saturday.Reuters reported that US officials were “especially concerned” that Cabello, long seen by many as the regime’s real No 2, could sabotage Washington’s plan to keep key figures from Maduro’s inner circle in place in the name of stability while pursuing a transition and unrestricted access to Venezuela’s oil. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump administration reportedly warns Maduro ally Diosdado Cabello could be next

Washington signals interior minister must back acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, or face Nicolás Maduro’s fateThe Trump administration has reportedly put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been in power since the dictator, Nicolás Maduro, was seized on Saturday.Reuters reported that US officials are “especially concerned” that Cabello – long seen by many as the regime’s real number two – could sabotage Washington’s plan to keep key figures from Maduro’s inner circle in place in the name of stability while pursuing a transition – and unrestricted access to Venezuela’s oil. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Andoni Iraola makes Antoine Semenyo admission as Bournemouth star nears exit

Winger has been a key figure for Cherries this season

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2 w. ago Royal double act! Isla Phillips is the spitting image of her aunt Zara Tindall as the family enjoy outing at Cheltenham Races

Aged 13, Isla Phillips, Peter Phillips's youngest daughter, bears a striking resemblance to her aunt, Zara Tindall, and could soon emerge as a key figure as we look towards the next royal generation.

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2 w. ago Iain Ballamy: Riversphere Vol 1 review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

(Babel Label)The 80s sax star leads an A-list quartet, plus a shared trumpet role for Laura Jurd and Ballamy’s son CharlieOpening 2026’s jazz reviews with a story from the mid-1980s might be risking audience restiveness, but that was the decade in which a far-sighted young saxophonist on the UK jazz scene called Iain Ballamy first appeared on this writer’s radar. The cross-generational lineup and captivating ideas of Riversphere, his first solo release in years, testify to exactly why he has stayed there for 40 years.In their 20s, Ballamy and pianist/composer Django Bates frequently joined forces as two mavericks, skilfully respectful of the classic jazz tradition while adventurously and often mischievously transforming it. They were key figures in a gifted UK generation that created some of the sparkiest European jazz of the 1980s and 90s, most influentially in the revolutionary orchestra Loose Tubes, which brought together genres from old-school swing to vaudeville, improv and ava...

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2 w. ago When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir

A DNA test showed me that theoretically I have links to a long list of countries – and that the way we look at belonging makes little senseWhile accepting that David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary is, for many, the human embodiment of Marmite – loved or hated, with not much in between – one can still question whether, for all his faults, he should “go home to the Caribbean”. Whether you agree with him over this or that utterance or the broad sweep of government policy, he has, unquestionably made his contribution to Tottenham, in north London, whose people he has represented for a quarter of a century, to parliament, as a senior MP, as foreign secretary and now as an important figure with several key portfolios.So when a lieutenant of Nigel Farage, admittedly no fan of Lammy’s, suggests, without notable contradiction or condemnation from Reform, that Lammy “should go home to the Caribbean”, one is tempted to look at that askance. But then, in the year just pa...

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3 w. ago Key figures in creation of Milton Keynes criticise UK’s new towns plan

Exclusive: Planners behind postwar new towns hit out at government over lack of ambition and commitment to social housingSenior planners involved in building the country’s postwar new towns have raised concerns about the government’s new towns programme, criticising a lack of ambition and insufficient commitment to social housing.Lee Shostak, former director of planning at Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) in the 1970s and later chair of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), said the current plan for the new towns may not help people who need homes the most. Continue reading...

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