6 m. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Genius Game: David Tennant's game show was baffling and boring . . . then it got even worse!

It takes a particular sort of genius to decode the rules of ITV 's insanely convoluted brain-twister.

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10 m. ago Girl, 14, and teenage boy raced to hospital after stabbing in Merseyside as police hunt 'knifeman'

Merseyside Police said armed police were called to Whitefield Drive in Westvale, Kirkby, at about 8.25pm on Wednesday following reports of two teenagers being stabbed.

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34 m. ago May Day talks to take place in bid to resolve Birmingham bin strike

Sharon Graham will head the Unite union’s negotiating team at talks on Thursday morning under the auspices of conciliation service Acas.

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34 m. ago Council workers sent strike ballots in ‘biggest vote of its kind in years’

More than 80,000 workers could take part in the vote that may see walkouts over a pay dispute.

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38 m. ago Boy, 16, and girl, 14, in hospital after stabbing in Merseyside

Police urged people to avoid the area while officers conduct their enquiries.

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59 m. ago FBI reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

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74 m. ago JoJo Siwa's ex takes new swipe at 'manipulative' Chris Hughes with TikTok video

JoJo Siwa's ex partner Kath Ebbs has made their feelings known about Chris Hughes after announcing that they were dumped by JoJo at the Celebrity Big Brother after party

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1 hour ago Police suspect 2 shootings that left 4 dead in Minneapolis were connected and gang related

Police strongly suspect that a pair of shootings three blocks apart in Minneapolis that left four people dead and two others seriously injured were connected and were gang related

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2 h. ago Georgia Toffolo clears up why she didn’t take James Watt’s name

TV personality Georgia Toffolo has revealed why she didn’t take her husband James Watt’s last name after their wedding in Scotland earlier this year.

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2 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr was 'touch and go' after Conor Benn fight as dad claims life was 'in balance'

Chris Eubank Jr was taken to hospital after beating Conor Benn at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the boxer's famous father has now shed more light on the situation

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2 h. ago Paddleboard operator jailed over river deaths was sacked as police officer

Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, made a fraudulent insurance claim, a South Wales Police misconduct hearing was told.

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2 h. ago Barclays boss warns of slowdown in dealmaking and lending due to Trump's tariffs

The bank, led by chief exec CS Venkatakrishnan (pictured) was boosted by frenetic trading activity as Trump's trade policies wreaked havoc on global markets.

Economics

2 h. ago 'I keep my chopped off body part in a jar – people are scared of me but I don't care'

A young woman has decided to literally take her body in her own hands and modified near enough most of it and has even revealed where she keeps her removed body parts

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3 h. ago Jailed paddleboard boss Nerys Lloyd was sacked from police force before river death tragedy

A South Wales Police Accelerated Misconduct Hearing found Nerys Lloyd had breached professional behaviour standards by placing a fraudulent insurance claim

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3 h. ago Coronation Street fans 'realise who's targeting Lauren' as two characters 'team up'

Coronation Street viewers are wondering if one of two characters will be named as the person blackmailing Lauren Bolton on the ITV soap, over the recent van crash

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3 h. ago Coronation Street Simon Barlow’s return 'sealed' in shock Betsy Swain twist

Coronation Street fans are convinced that an iconic resident is set to make a return to the cobbles to take down troublemaker Betsy Swain

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3 h. ago Prosecutor says officer killed in gunman's Pennsylvania hospital attack was hit by fire from police

A prosecutor says an officer killed while responding to a Pennsylvania hospital siege in February was hit by police gunfire

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4 h. ago Trump says he does not know if El Salvador would return Kilmar Ábrego García and hasn’t asked – live

Trump said he hasn’t spoken to Bukele about mistakenly deported man – despite supreme court order requiring administration to facilitate returnKristi Noem says Ábrego García would be deported immediately if sent back to USTrump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as realDonald Trump promptly claimed this morning that the contraction in the US economy had nothing to do with his tariff wars, repeated his habitual claim that this is all somehow his predecessor Joe Biden’s fault, and predicted the economy would boom when tariffs kicked in. He wrote on his Truth Social platform:This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden “Overhang.” This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE P...

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4 h. ago Secretive Czech tycoon nears £3.6bn Royal Mail takeover – but doubts remain over motives

Shareholders in Royal Mail owner back takeover by tycoon Daniel Kretinsky - but questions are being asked about what the future holds for the famous firm and its 125,000 workers

Economics

4 h. ago 11 high school lacrosse players face felony kidnapping charges after hazing ritual goes too far

The Westhill High School students have been given 48 hours to turn themselves in to police

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