4 h. ago Judges are deporting record numbers of young children under Trump

Exclusive: Immigration judges broke records with the number of young children they have ordered removed from the US in April —with lawyers accusing Trump of “pumping up deportation numbers on the backs of kids, data correspondent Alicja Hagopian reports

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5 h. ago Huge alien spaceship may be hurtling towards Earth at 135,000 miles an hour, expert claims

Scientists have been working hard researching a new foreign object that has entered our solar system this month – but one expert has a theory regarding potential alien visitors

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10 h. ago Foreign Office 'remember not to' alert to all UK holidaymakers

The FCDO wants Brits heading on holiday to 'be aware'

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14 h. ago Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood: The darkly comic despair of the foreign correspondent

This novel doesn’t need the old-fashioned disclaimer that any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, because plainly it isn’t. Like her heroine, Sara Byrne, author Phoebe Greenwood was a freelance newspaper correspondent on the Middle East.

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22 h. ago Alex Greenwood makes big England vs Wales admission ahead of clash

Alex Greenwood will win her 101st England cap against Wales in the European Championships

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24 h. ago England’s Alex Greenwood: Women’s Euro 2025 derby may mean more for Wales

An England win would be enough to book defending champions a place in the quarter-final.

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26 h. ago Mason Greenwood sends former Man United star message as £52m transfer decision confirmed

Latest Manchester United news as former forward Mason Greenwood sent a message to Anthony Elanga after his move to Newcastle United

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28 h. ago Foreign Office issue urgent warning to British tourists in holiday hotspot

Following a rise in drunk tourists behaving badly in the South East Asian tropical paradise, Thailand's authorities have issued new rules for foreigners visiting the picturesque nation

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29 h. ago 'Army' of police shut down crime boss 'Hotdog' Smith's house on illegal scrapyard as wife says she will be forced to live 'in a TENT'

A 'small army' of police surrounded and shut down a crime boss's illegal home and scrapyard this week as his wife sat by in despair in a move she says will force her to 'live in a tent'.

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31 h. ago 2024 book review: Trump, Biden, Harris and a turbulent election full of what

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaignDonald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Foreign Office issues urgent warning for UK holidaymakers travelling to tourist hotspot as failing to abide by new law can result in jail

Some of the new warnings cover drone flying, gambling, drinking and public behaviour.

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33 h. ago AUNZ Invitational XV v British & Irish Lions: rugby union – live

Updates from Adelaide Oval; 11am (BST), 7.30pm (ACST)Get in touch: contact Daniel on emailJust a few minutes to go so time enough for me to lambast the AUNZ kit.God I hate it. It’s a four horizontal lines, with gold at the top followed by white, dark green and black at the bottom of the shirt.Good morning Daniel,I’d beg to differ over Farrell jnr.’s right to be in the squad, not least because of George Ford’s superb form of recent months; but what really interests me about today’s team is how much more pace this lineup has compared with the last match. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago ‘You don’t get a second chance at a shot like this – horses wander off’: Mike Wells’s best phone picture

The former World Press Photo of the Year winner on why capturing a good image remains instinctive in the age of mobile photography‘Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the variables: the rush to catch the last rays of evening sun, that moment when a sea breeze lifts the ponies’ manes, and whichever way they will amble next.”In 1981, Wells won the World Press Photo of the Year for an image shot in Uganda depicting a malnourished boy’s hand resting in the palm of a Catholic priest. “When I was working in the 1970s and 80s, unless you could afford a motor drive for your camera, you often got just one chance at the critical shot,” Wells says. “You could never tell whether you really had captured the moment until you got back from Africa, or at least out of the darkroom. That image wasn’t well lit or well composed, ju...

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33 h. ago ‘History’s most devastating document of war’: the simple yet graphic details of the Bayeux tapestry

Hand-stitched depiction of Battle of Hastings pulls viewers into story of friendship and betrayal, vengeance and despair“Angli et Franci” – these Latin words embroidered on the Bayeux tapestry may be the first time those cartoon rivals, the English and the French, were named together. But in one of the shifts from triumph to horror that make this epic work of art still gripping almost a millennium after it was made, the full sentence reads: “Here at the same time the English and French [or Angles and Franks] fell in battle”. Below the black lettering, horses and chainmailed riders are thrown about and upside down in a bloody tangle. In the lower margin lie corpses and a severed head.Now, in an unprecedented piece of cultural diplomacy between the Angli and Franci, this 70-metre long Romanesque wonder, preserved for centuries in Bayeux, Normandy, is to go on show at the British Museum. In exchange, Sutton Hoo treasures and the Lewis chessmen will go to France. When it opens in Septem...

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36 h. ago James Gunn films ranked from dark hidden gem to 'action masterpiece'

The filmmaker has written and directed some huge hits

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37 h. ago ‘It’s blitz, blitz, blitz’: Kyiv’s shelters fill up as Russia intensifies aerial attacks

People in Ukrainian capital are exhausted and struggling for normality amid a dramatic rise in bombardmentAt 1am on Thursday, Dartsia Liuba went to the basement of her Kyiv apartment building with her two children and husband, Roma. The air-raid siren had gone off. A Russian attack was coming. Liuba scooped up her seven-month-old baby daughter, Halyna, and woke her bleary-eyed nine-year-old, Orysia, and they staggered down three floors to wait in sticky darkness.Soon explosions began. There was an ugly whine in the sky immediately above their district of Podil. It came from a Shahed kamikaze drone. The streets echoed with booms and rat-tat-tat machine-gun fire as Ukrainian air defence units tried to bring it down. The moped-like buzzing stopped – and then resumed as more drones appeared, in a swarm too big to count. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Tim Dowling: the tennis has reached boiling point – and so have we

The darkened living room offers some sanctuary from the heat as we try to work while watching Wimbledon, but by the end of the day it’s in as chaotic as our frazzled brainsWhen the sun is out and the weather is hot, my office shed becomes sauna-like long before midday. By 11am, I retreat to the kitchen to work. By noon, the kitchen is also too hot to work in, and I move to the living room, where I find the oldest one and the middle one sitting on the sofa in the dark, their faces illuminated by their laptop screens.“This is the place to be,” I say. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago ‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything A large bearded man named Travis is sitting in his car in Colorado, talking to me about the time he fell in love. “It was a gradual process,” he says softly. “The more we talked, the more I started to really connect with her.”Was there a moment where you felt something change? He nods. “All of a sudden I started realising that, when interesting things happened to me, I was excited to tell her about them. That’s when she stopped being an it and became a her.” Continue reading...

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42 h. ago 'Caution needed' as HMRC sends letters to four million taxpayers

A financial expert has issued a warning as people are due to receive correspondence from HMRC

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44 h. ago Urgent update from police on missing boy, 11, after hundreds of locals join search

Police were asking people to go home as it was getting dark, and to leave the search to the specialist teams who will continue to work in the area overnight in search for the missing 11-year-old

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