4 h. ago Apple CEO Tim Cook called Greg Abbott to press him to stop the state’s proposed online child safety laws, report reveals

The tech boss had a cordial conversation with Greg Abbott last week, but made it clear that Apple was interested in stopping the bill, according to sources

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6 h. ago Tim Dowling: let my tortoise’s humiliating mishap be a lesson to him

A freak thunderstorm soaks the middle one on his way to our house (he’s come to raid the fridge), but the real drama is the toppled tortoise After an hour’s work on a hot morning I leave my office shed and return to the kitchen for a coffee. Halfway there I find the tortoise lying on his back on the path. He can’t have been there for more than an hour, as he wasn’t there when I came out.“What happened to you?” I say, setting him on his feet. But it’s pretty obvious what happened: he tried to exit the garden bed by climbing over the border of diagonally laid bricks and overbalanced. It’s an obstacle he surmounts without difficulty between five and 10 times a day in the warmer months, but occasionally – perhaps once every four years – he puts a foot wrong. So far, I have always been there to turn him back over. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Tottenham must learn lesson from Man Utd's disastrous Erik ten Hag moment

MAC OF THE NET: Ange Postecoglou has given Daniel Levy a dilemma at Tottenham after winning the Europa League and ending the club's trophy drought amid a disastrous domestic campaign

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13 h. ago I've lost my job over Tiktok driveway stunt: Builder admits he only has himself to blame for video that falsely claimed drive was torn up after homeowner refused to pay bill

Alex Gray told MailOnline he had 'more than learned his lesson' after sparking outrage with a stunt that was viewed almost one million times.

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14 h. ago Apple sees stock drop after Trump threatens 25 percent tariffs unless they build iPhones in America

President Donald Trump made the threats after he reportedly met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House earlier in the week

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18 h. ago Humiliated Lorraine's absences have 'become a joke': Insiders reveal savage story of ITV bloodbath to KATIE HIND, truth about 'awful' show and why final blow was so 'mortifying for Lorraine'

ITV bosses - after telling staff of an impending bloodbath of cuts - called on just one of those present for an individual meeting. That person, of course, was Lorraine Kelly.

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19 h. ago Apple has had few incentives in the past to start making iPhones in US

Unhappy that Apple intends to source nearly all of its U.S. iPhones from India, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 25% tariff on the popular device unless the tech giant moves production to the United States

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23 h. ago Trump threatens tariffs on beloved iPhones as he chews out Apple's Tim Cook: Live updates

Donald Trump is tearing into Apple and threatening a new 25 percent tariff on iPhones if the company does not manufacture the product in the U.S.

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23 h. ago Trump’s ambush of South Africa’s president shows how low the US has fallen | Justice Malala

Instead of embarrassing Cyril Ramaphosa, the US president’s ‘gotcha’ moment illuminates the fact-free reality show that is Trump’s AmericaDonald Trump should really try harder.When the US president unexpectedly and dramatically dimmed the lights inside the Oval Office on Wednesday and played a video clip of the alleged burial site of white victims of “genocide”, he meant to embarrass and humiliate his guest, Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa. It was his “gotcha!” moment after four months of relentless social media attacks, executive orders, boycotts, and threats of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Teen told she had anxiety collapsed and 'died' in front of schoolmates

Sixth form student Evelyn Walker began her day as usual until she began to feel unwell before her first lesson

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26 h. ago Kate Middleton has sweet reaction to 'mishap' that was caught on camera

Catherine, the Princess of Wales – also known as Kate Middleton – was seen experiencing a 'mishap' during her recent trip to Scotland. But her reaction has warmed hearts

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30 h. ago Expert warns of common mistake landing drivers hefty fines and invalidated insurance

Car insurance experts have issued a stark warning over a common mistake that hundreds of Brits commit each year. The mishap could leave drivers with hefty fines and invalid insurance

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35 h. ago ‘When power can define madness’: China accused of using mental health law to lock up critics

More than a decade after China passed a groundbreaking mental health law, victims and activists say that involuntary hospitalisation remains commonZhang Po was barely one year out of school when an out of control mine-cart barrelled into him deep in a pit in Anhui province, causing injuries that ended his brief career as a coalminer. Since the accident in 1999, he has been living off disability allowances provided by his former employer in Huainan, Anhui’s coal city. But in 2024 Zhang was sent to hospital once again – this time to a psychiatric ward.Zhang was sectioned for 22 days in June after he protested outside the office of his former employer, demanding an increase in his disability allowance. “I endured more than 20 days of humiliation in there. There was no phone, and my belt and shoelaces were taken away,” Zhang said in a recent interview with Chinese media. Zhang said that he was forced to take medicines and tied to his bed for several hours a day. After the three weeks in...

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38 h. ago Rangers transfer plan kickstarts after takeover crew 'lesson' with Bajrami exit 'likely' and Jefte stance clear

The new owners are set to take their Elland Road experience and apply it to a busy summer at Ibrox

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40 h. ago Taylor Swift: I wish I'd NEVER met Blake! New humiliation for Lively as singer outs the glaring 'red flags' she missed during their 10

When Blake was first being called out for her apparent refusal to take seriously the domestic violence storyline in her new movie, Taylor did as any best friend would - she stuck close by.

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47 h. ago North Korea tries to HIDE its sunken warship by covering it in tarpaulin after humiliated Kim Jong Un is forced to watch it capsize at bungled launch ceremony

Satellite images appear to show the naval destroyer languishing on its side alongside the dock where a launch ceremony had been held, with Kim Jong Un in attendance.

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55 h. ago Sirens review – Julianne Moore’s utterly addictive cult drama is preposterously fun

This endlessly entertaining study in class and family is a witty, star-packed treat that zips through five tight episodes. Here’s hoping for a second seasonAre you ready for some fun? Don’t you deserve it? I think we all do – life’s awful – so I gladly present to you Sirens, which is The White Lotus meets all the good series that Nicole Kidman has been in, with just a dash of Ryan Murphy-esque camp to make it all go with an especially zingy swing! Welcome!It is a tale of two sisters and a superrich villain whose cult-like lifestyle threatens to come between them. Older sister Devon (Meghann Fahy – yes, of White Lotus fame, taking a much meatier part this time and running with it) is a semi-functioning alcoholic who is caring for their increasingly difficult father while working a minimum wage job at the local falafel joint and banging her married boss on the side. When she sends little sister Simone (House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock and astonishing child actor in Tim Minchin’s hea...

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58 h. ago Celebs whose famous hairstyles are NOT real: After Nicole Kidman's wig mishap, the other stars whose natural hair is very different from the look fans know so well

Katy Perry 's jet-black wavy mane with her fringe is often what comes to mind when you first think of the singer, who hails from Santa Barbara, California - despite her being born with light hair.

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59 h. ago Reeves reeling from triple blow: On humiliating day for Chancellor, PM U

The Chancellor was out of the country at a G7 meeting in Canada as the Prime Minister announced a screeching reverse on her hated decision to axe the winter fuel payment for 10 million pensioners.

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62 h. ago A look at Tottenham bosses who failed to win trophy as Postecoglou ends drought

Postecoglou is the first Tottenham head coach to win silverware since Juande Ramos in 2008.

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