54 m. ago Trump tariffs could disrupt UK medicine supply, Wes Streeting warns

Government looking to mitigate impacts of ‘extremely volatile and turbulent backdrop’, health secretary says

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81 m. ago Italian teams cannot cope with modern football’s intensity. They need a reboot | Philipp Lahm

Fifteen years on from a Serie A side winning the Champions League, Atlético Madrid are the blueprint for return to the topI am also a child of Italian football. My school was called AC Milan. The 4-0 win against Barcelona in the 1994 Champions League final was the benchmark in my training for how a team attack and defend together. What distances do we keep? Who is responsible for winning the ball? When are cross-field passes forbidden? No other game was shown more often by our Swedish chief instructor Björn Andersson; he must have seen it a hundred times.My other experience of Italy: I suffered heavy defeats during my career. In my youth, playing against Italian teams was a nightmare. At tournaments in Sicily, Viareggio or Sardinia, we got nothing for free and always took a beating. Later, we lost the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup and the 2012 Euro with the national team. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Why was Leicester’s Jeremy Monga forced to wear a blank shirt on Premier League debut?

Monga had to wear a blank shirt due to rules on gambling sponsorships as he became the second-youngest Premier League player of all time

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88 m. ago London and Wall Street expected to open higher after calm returns to Asian markets

Less turbulent day’s trading came despite wars of words over tariffs between Washington and Beijing

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1 hour ago Bloke stabbed with steak knife after threesome turns into violent robbery

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Alan Dugdale, 51, and Jamie Burrows, 37, went back to the victim's house after he saved Dugdale's life when he overdosed on the street

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2 h. ago Coronation Street and Emmerdale star dies suddenly as tributes paid

John Saint Ryan, star of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, has died at the age of 72 after suffering a heart attack, his family have announced in a heartbreaking statement

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2 h. ago The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isaac) is narrated, with consummate weirdness, by Charles Dickens (Kenneth Branagh). It’s in fact based on a story Dickens wrote for his children (and wasn’t published until 1934, decades after his death). The idea is that Dickens is telling the story of the New Testament to his young son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis) and Walter’s impish cat, explaining to the King Arthur-obsessed Walter how Jesus was the real King of Kings and all that. And so we see Walter and Charles, in their mid-19th-century garb, wandering through scenes of JC’s life nearly two thousand years earlier, from the nativity to the crucifixion – much like Scrooge and his spectral buddies in A Christmas Carol as they wander through past, present and future Christmases. It rather drags out what is already a pretty long running...

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2 h. ago Wall Street traders on Trump tariffs: ‘Without doubt, we’re hitting a recession’

Traders leaving the New York stock exchange were trying to make sense of another day of volatility – what comes next?Traders leaving the New York stock exchange after the bell closed on Monday were sanguine about what had been, by an measure, a day of mood swings on Wall Street, as waves of volatility shook the stock markets, each one created by another deluge of headlines around Donald Trump’s trade war and global economic uncertainty.“The markets opened down a lot, then there was a rumor that the tariffs were off, and they went back up, then all bets were off again and it went down,” said Steve Kos of Option Circle, who offered a series of trading day comparisons as he walked out on to Broad Street in lower Manhattan. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Coronation Street confirms Rovers Return future in Jenny Connor shock after star 'let slip' major spoiler

There's more to come for the beloved boozer in the ITV soap

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3 h. ago Mum of young sailor locked up in Middle East in tears as he returns home

Owen Haggerty was banged up in Bahrain for trying to stop a street brawl in February.

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3 h. ago Coronation Street spoilers as Theo exposed, Carl causes chaos, Sean hits rock bottom and Sarah's new love interest

Debbie Webster also makes an announcement and Lou Michaelis causes havoc in the ITV soap next week

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3 h. ago Coronation Street star bags sinister new role on Channel 5 thriller after ITV soap exit

Chris Gascoyne left Coronation Street in late 2023, ending a 23-year stint. Now the soap legend returns to the small screen for Channel 5 as he embarks on a new thriller.

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4 h. ago ‘I thought I was going to die – and it was so freeing’: Blink

His gleefully puerile take on punk brought him fame, an art collection and a Beverly Hills mansion – then the band split and he was diagnosed with lymphoma. How did he bounce back?Mark Hoppus is prodding at his phone, attempting to find a photograph of the swimming pool at his mid-century modernist home in Beverly Hills. “The house was built in 1962. It has this really cool circular design – the whole house is a semi-circle, built around the pool, and the pool kind of mimics the semi-circle of the house itself, then it goes out into a normal pool shape,” he says. “So it looks like a dick. I have a dick-shaped swimming pool,” he nods.There is more prodding. For a 53-year-old cancer survivor, he is oddly boyish – and not merely in his enthusiasm for swimming pools that look like genitalia: his skin is unlined; his hair stands up in a vertiginous, spiky quiff; he is wearing a pair of Vans skate shoes. “I’ll look it up on Google Maps so you can see it let’s go to satellite view. It...

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7 h. ago Coronation Street star who played Charlie Whelan dies aged 72 and won't have funeral

John Saint Ryan, who played Charlie Whelan in Coronation Street in the early 1990s, has died at the age of 72, but he will not have a funeral as he donated his body to science

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7 h. ago Garbage piles up on Birmingham's streets as a sanitation strike in the UK city enters its 5th week

Stinky garbage is piling up on the streets of the U.K.'s second-largest city and causing chaos a month into a strike by trash collectors

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7 h. ago Coronation Street and Emmerdale pull in record viewers after making major change to shows

Coronation Street and Emmerdale have been pulling in record viewers after making one recent change to compliment their recent hard-hitting storylines. The change took place in October.

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7 h. ago ALEX BRUMMER: This really is a global catastrophe, but the PM hasn't grasped just how vulnerable we are

Wall Street trader Bill Ackman is one of Donald Trump's most faithful backers in the financial world.

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8 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Reunion on BBC1: Sign language speaks louder than words in this powerful deaf thriller

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: It's one thing to hear a man tell his estranged daughter, 'I've missed you.' It's quite another to see him clutch his hands to his heart in wordless anguish.

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8 h. ago Missing toddler found alive curled up in freezing ditch by heat

Officers managed to find the child, wearing just a diaper, curled up in a ditch

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9 h. ago Celebrity Big Brother star Colson Smith breaks silence on pal Jack P Shepherd doing show

Coronation Street star Jack P. Shepherd entered the Big Brother house this week and pal Colson Smith has addressed the news after being on Celebrity Big Brother himself last year

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