87 m. ago Alan Shearer tears into VAR with Man United rant after Everton penalty controversy

Everton had a 94th-minute penalty overturned against Manchester United after VAR deemed Harry Maguire had not fouled Ashley Young and recommended an on-field review.

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95 m. ago Pope Francis, 88, had 'tranquil' night in hospital, Vatican says

The Pope, 88, will miss Sunday prayers for a second week

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2 h. ago Our teenage son died on the bathroom floor of a remote holiday cottage he had no idea of the deadly danger that lurked inside

Tom Hill, 18, died after he fell unconcious on the bathroom floor of a holiday cottage as the portable gas heater leaked deadly carbon monoxide into the enclosed room.

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2 h. ago Rise of the OAP drivers: Number of centenarians with full driving licences has TRIPLED in a decade

Britain has more drivers over 100 years old than ever before. MailOnline can reveal. Now a slew of recent deaths at the hands of older drivers has raised the topic of re-testing.

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2 h. ago Julen Lopetegui: ‘Of course we could have played better. It was our fault’

Spaniard on the ‘pain and anger’ of his sacking at West Ham and rejecting an immediate return to management“And then suddenly they sacked me.” Julen Lopetegui is running through the reasons to be cheerful – safety secure, 17 shots at the Etihad and the physical stats, an identity emerging, a winter window and a kinder calendar coming – when he uses one of only two English lines in as many hours, delivered as if the final page of a story. The other, not entirely incidentally, is “no comment”, and a smile accompanies both. Five weeks from his sacking at West Ham, the anger and hurt has subsided, on the surface at least. The period of mourning, as he puts it, is over.“My father died and, although you can’t compare them, personal and professional mourning came together,” Lopetegui says. Offers arrived, but it was too soon. Instead he headed to Mexico, where he is building a hotel with his brother Joxean, a former pelota player, and as he arrives at another hotel, this time in Madrid, it...

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2 h. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increasesYou know the drill: plastic and glass containers go in the blue recycling bin, paper and cardboard in the blue sack, vegetable matter in the green compost bin, and the rest in the grey general rubbish bin. Households up and down the land go through variations of these familiar refuse-sorting tasks each week. But where does it actually all go?Into the trucks that pick them up, yes, but after that? It’s a kind of act of faith that we imagine our detritus that we’ve carefully – or not so carefully – categorised is transported to the right location where appropriate measures are taken to dispose of it in the most sensible and ecological manner. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Pope Francis had ‘restful night’, Vatican says, morning after respiratory crisis

Pontiff had fallen into critical condition, receiving high flows of oxygen and blood transfusions in hospital as he battles complex lung infection Pope Francis had a “restful night” in hospital, the Vatican said on Sunday morning, after announcing on Saturday that he was in critical condition following a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis linked to pneumonia and a complex lung infection.The 88-year-old pope received “high flows” of oxygen to help him breathe, it was announced on Saturday. He also received blood transfusions after tests showed low counts of platelets, which are needed for clotting, the Vatican said in a late update. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley

The stakes couldn’t be higher and the risks couldn’t be greater when the prime minister visits Washington this weekFor British prime ministers, with their ideas about the world shaped by the histories of Churchill and Roosevelt, Maggie and Ronnie, and the rest of the folklore about the transatlantic alliance, the prospect of a visit to the White House usually causes tingles of excitement. One of our senior diplomats once offered me an explanation of the allure: “The red carpet is laid out, the national anthems are played, all that stuff is very seductive.” This will be customarily accompanied by ritualistic words about the importance and invincibility of the “special relationship”.Number 10 lobbied hard to get Sir Keir Starmer across the Atlantic early in the second term of Donald Trump and, until recently, Downing Street people were telling themselves that an encounter between the two men needn’t be a disaster and might even turn out to be a success. In the weeks since Trump’s re-e...

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2 h. ago Prince Harry’s ‘alarm bells’ over Meghan Markle’s shock move with children

As Meghan tentatively 'drip-feeds her children' into the public eye, royal expert Duncan Lancombe warns 'it's a tap they won't be able to turn off - royal celebrity never fades'

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3 h. ago ‘It wasn’t right how it ended for me at Man City – I couldn’t say no to joining Liverpool'

Kolo Toure left Manchester City in 2013 after falling out of favour under Roberto Mancini and opted to remain in the Premier League by joining Liverpool on a free transfer

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4 h. ago Sarwar and Swinney must now accept the circle cannot be squared on gender debate

It was not a good week for self-identifying ‘progressive’ male politicians

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4 h. ago ‘Was this a big mistake?’: How Vera Drew defied Warner Bros and turned the Batman universe trans

‘The People’s Joker’ reframes the iconic DC Comics villain as a young trans comedian. After years of legal uncertainty, the film is finally out in UK cinemas. Louis Chilton speaks to its inimitable director and star

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4 h. ago Inside Kelly Brook's 2 stone weight loss journey as she shows off figure in bikini

Kelly Brook has undergone a major transformation over the last five years, dropping two stone and four dress sizes

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5 h. ago Ohio bathroom law targeting transgender students has brought internal strife to some campuses

An Ohio law designating school bathrooms for use by people based on their sex at birth kicks in soon

Society

5 h. ago German voters head to polls facing world of change as far right waits in the wings

Europe holds its breath as world’s third largest economic power and most populous EU country faces crossroadsGerman voters go to the polls today but it is a different world from when the campaign began only a few weeks ago.Nearly 60 million ­people are choosing a government that will have to grapple with the breakdown of the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump and new threats to European security just as the country’s vaunted economic model is hitting the skids. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Arsenal news: Gunners confirm transfer as Mikel Arteta escapes another injury worry

Arsenal were defeated by West Ham at the Emirates on Saturday after they failed to find the net but escaped more bad news on the injury front and confirmed a transfer in a busy weekend

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5 h. ago 'My son faces a lifetime of chemotherapy but now strangers are rallying round to help us'

“Oliver was usually an outgoing lad... now he’s not allowed in any public places, he can’t mix with other people because he is immunocompromised.”

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6 h. ago Liverpool news: Virgil van Dijk drops clear transfer hint as Arne Slot shares Man City theory

Liverpool renew rivalries with former title rivals Manchester City on Sunday and Reds captain Virgil van Dijk has once again spoken out on his future ahead of the game

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8 h. ago Met Police under fire after recruiting more than 1,000 officers without checking their references over the course of more than a year

The Met police hired more than 1,000 officers without checking their references before they started at the force.

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