55 m. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing star has been taking 'secret lessons' as they plan major career move

The professional dancer, who joined the BBC One dance show back in 2021, has been looking ahead to the future

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64 m. ago Palestinian boy at centre of BBC Gaza documentary row says he fears for his family's safety amid 'harassment'

Abdullah al-Yazuri has spoken out after the BBC pulled the Gaza documentary he narrated, expressing fears for his family's safety amid harassment claims

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75 m. ago Voices: I have no idea what a ‘situationship’ is, but I think I’m in one – and it’s dreadful

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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77 m. ago Trump warns people of Gaza ‘you are dead’ if Hamas does not release hostages

Roughly 60 hostages remain in Gaza – with 35 of them believed to be dead

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1 hour ago Pope Francis rests after peaceful night during third week of hospital treatment for pneumonia

Pope Francis was resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia

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1 hour ago Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be aliveSamuel Butler’s 1903 novel The Way of All Flesh carried with it an implied subtitle. In the book of Kings, from which Butler drew his title, the dying David tells his son Solomon, “take thou courage and shew thyself a man”. Butler’s inference was clear enough: here is a book about what it means to live, what it means to die, and what might be a worthwhile way to fill the time in between.Flesh, the sixth book from Booker-shortlisted David Szalay, has more than just a biblical allusion in common with Butler’s masterpiece. Thrillingly, in an age when we arguably have weaker stomachs for such things, it also shares its bold ontological and artistic ambitions. In Flesh, Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a ma...

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1 hour ago Commercial director behind £100m deal resigns in latest setback to RFU

Stuart Ramsey to leave next month for role in triathlonChair has also quit and chief executive is under pressureThe Rugby Football Union’s commercial director has resigned in another setback for the beleaguered ­governing body. ­Stuart Ramsey, who was ­instrumental in securing a £100m naming rights deal for Twickenham with Allianz last year and recently agreed a partnership for England teams with Apple, will leave the RFU next month for a new role in triathlon.Ramsey’s impending departure follows the resignation of the RFU chair, Tom Ilube, last December over an executive pay row with the news coming a few weeks before a special general meeting of the RFU, which will determine the fate of the chief executive, Bill Sweeney. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Donald Trump warns Gazans they are 'dead' if they hold hostages as he sends 'final warning' to Hamas

US President tells Hamas leaders: ‘Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is over for you’

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2 h. ago Discovery opens up ‘new class of potential natural antibiotics’

Researchers in Israel discovered a part of the body known to recycle proteins can also generate bacteria-killing chemicals.

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3 h. ago BBC The Apprentice's Dr Jana Denzel quit because he was being 'set up to fail'

Dr Jana Denzel told Lord Alan Sugar he was not the "right fit" for The Apprentice when he quit the programme suddenly but sources close to the contestant have offered fresh detail

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3 h. ago Voices: Under Trump, the global order that America helped to build is crumbling

It is already clear the US president is hellbent on ushering in a new dawn in which traditional alliances are abandoned – and nations must fend for themselves, says Tobias Ellwood

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5 h. ago Inside Jermaine Jenas and wife Ellie Penfold's split months after text scandal

Jermaine Jenas and wife Ellie Penfold split this week, less than a year after Jermaine parted ways with the BBC after being accused of sending inappropriate texts to female colleagues

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6 h. ago Devastating reason only one of Gene Hackman's dogs died revealed by friend

Mystery still shrouds the tragic passing of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, as their German Shepherd and Labrador were found alive but the Australian Kelpie was not

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6 h. ago Trump tells Hamas 'You are DEAD' as he warns terror group 'I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job' in Gaza

President Donald Trump has put out another dire threat to Hamas, after the White House confirmed direct talks with the group to try to secure the release of American hostages.

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6 h. ago Now Hamas chief's son who appeared in Gaza documentary turns on the BBC

A Hamas minister's teenage son who narrated the BBC's pulled Gaza documentary has warned the corporation he holds it responsible if 'anything happens' to him.

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9 h. ago Heartbreaking reason only one of Gene Hackman's three dogs died revealed by pal

The death of one of Gene Hackman’s dogs remains shrouded in mystery, but a friend has shed light on why two of the dogs managed to survive.

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9 h. ago Denise Richards shares the reason she will never get divorced from husband — ‘even if we hate each other’

The actor has been married to Aaron Phypers since 2018

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10 h. ago Trump posts fresh ultimatum to Hamas as US enters direct talks with group

US president tells group to ‘release all of the Hostages now ... or it is OVER for you’ as White House enters negotiationsDonald Trump has posted a fresh ultimatum to Hamas, telling the group to “release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you”.“‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye,” he wrote in a social media post on Wednesday, in an apparent reference to the beginning of direct talks with the group. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Trump says it is ‘over’ for Hamas unless hostages are released

US president says Washington will send ‘Israel everything it needs to finish the job’ in Gaza

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10 h. ago Antiques Road Trip's newest expert leaves BBC viewers saying the same thing

Tahmina Ghaffar made her Antiques Road Trip debut on Monday's episode of the BBC show with expert David Harper

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