42 m. ago German election live updates: Polls open as Europe and US watch on in pivotal vote

Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history

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48 m. ago Antiques Roadshow guest floored by 'absolutely stunning' value of item they've worn every single day for 50 years

Expert Peter Planes was presented with a Rolex X Tiffany watch to evaluate on the American PBS show.

Culture

49 m. ago UK Government to invest £200 million in Grangemouth, says Starmer

The Prime Minister was speaking at the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on Sunday.

Economics

50 m. ago Bella Hadid's everyday '5 minute' makeup routine includes a £12 affordable foundation

Supermodel Bella Hadid shared her quick and easy everyday makeup routine, which includes using an affordable Milani foundation to create a flawless base in under 5 minutes

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53 m. ago Marvel and DC announce historic crossover event that will be released this year

‘I think we put together some creators and some character ideas ’ confirmed Marvel’s editor-in-chief

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58 m. ago 'We are tired of being scared': Women of Ukraine share their hopes and fears three years into Russia's war

Vladimir Putin’s aggression has led to the death of thousands of civilians and laid waste to a country. On the eve of the third anniversary of the invasion, Ukrainians tell the Standard they are bruised but not beaten.

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61 m. ago Lottery winner offers to split £400k jackpot with thieves who bought ticket with stolen credit card

Jean-David was shocked when he returned to his vehicle in central Toulouse to find that the backpack containing his credit card had been pinched - and after some investigaton found that two homeless men had used it to purchase a winning €500,000 scratchcard

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64 m. ago Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori lies naked on floor in snap promoting his new film

Kanye West has shared a naked snap of his wife Bianca Censori to promote his new movie, which is set to be the couple's latest controversial move in the public eye

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65 m. ago Chain, chain, chain: political theatre confirms Elon Musk’s Maga hero status at jubilant CPAC

Emboldened and exultant, speakers put less emphasis on baiting liberals and more on spreading the Maga gospelWhat do you give the man who has everything? A ballroom full of cheering conservative activists found out this week when Elon Musk was presented with a chainsaw by Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, who has used the power tool as a symbol of his push to impose fiscal discipline.Wearing sunglasses, a black Maga baseball cap and a gold necklace, Musk giddily wielded the chainsaw up and down the stage. “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” he declared. Members of the audience shouted: “We love you!” Musk replied: “I love you guys, too!” And he quipped: “I am become meme.” Continue reading...

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72 m. ago BMW pauses £600mn investment plan to produce electric Minis in Oxford

German carmaker’s review follows UK plant closures by Honda, Ford and JLR over the past decade

Economics

75 m. ago Scots mum shares 'proud' experience of being openly queer in fire service

Frances McQuade, 34, has shared her experience of being queer in the fire service as part of LGBTQ+ history month.

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76 m. ago Six flowers that 'bloom beautifully' all summer with 'minimal effort' when planted now

Plant expert Elise Harlock has shared six flowers to plant for a 'glorious summer garden'

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95 m. ago Nigel Slater’s recipes for sausages with spinach and cannellini beans, and artichokes, potatoes, cheese and cider

Hearty warming dishes which make the most of the best seasonal vegThey were hidden between bouquets of parsley and coriander on the green grocer’s display. Fat bunches of true spinach so fresh they stood up by themselves, their leaves as sharp as a Stone Age arrow, tied up with rubber bands. The sort of crisp-stemmed spinach that would laugh in the face of those flabby, round-ended leaves incarcerated in cellophane at the supermarket. I bought four bunches.It was a sausage-and-beans kind of night. Fat sausages from a traditional butcher, coarse-textured and freckled with thyme and black pepper. Continue reading...

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99 m. ago German election 2025 live updates: Voting begins after final poll predicts large gains for AfD

Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history

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1 hour ago Sunday Brunch's Simon Rimmer replaced as Tim Lovejoy pauses show to share announcement

Sunday Brunch host Simon Rimmer was missing from the latest live show.

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1 hour ago Liverpool XI vs Man City: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League today

Arne Slot could have Cody Gakpo back for huge showdown at the Etihad Stadium

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1 hour ago Man City XI vs Liverpool: Erling Haaland injury latest, confirmed team news and predicted lineup today

Pep Guardiola was set to decide on Saturday if star striker would be fit for massive game

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1 hour ago Mystery as body found wearing wetsuit but nobody knows who man is

While the force isn’t treating the investigation as criminal at the moment, DI Ponting said they were 'keeping an open mind'

Politics

2 h. ago Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

Events

2 h. ago New York City’s Ukrainian community ‘disappointed’ after Trump’s ‘betrayal’

As the US upends decades of foreign policy, those watching the war unfold from miles away resolve to stand strongMembers of New York’s large Ukrainian community expressed a mix of disillusionment, betrayal, defiance and acute uncertainty about what the future holds for Ukraine after tensions escalated this week between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Geopolitical events in the last week have shocked Ukrainians at home and overseas as well as US lawmakers and allies, as the US president appeared to heavily favor the Russian president Vladimir Putin to dictate peace terms on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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