11 h. ago Watch: Donald Trump’s latest brag backfires as camera operator expertly fact

Donald Trump was factchecked by a cameraperson live while making false claims about the attendance to his 2024 campaign rallies.

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59 h. ago Watch: Moment UK ambassador to US reveals Donald Trump’s surprising first words to him

Lord Mandelson, now serving as US Ambassador to the UK, revealed on BBC’s Newsnight that Donald Trump greeted him with an unexpected compliment during their first meeting.

Politics

5 d. ago Watch in full: Mark Carney reacts to Donald Trump meeting after repeated 51st state threats

Watch as Mark Carney spoke to the media after meeting Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, 6 May, for the first time since the newly elected Canadian prime minister won the federal election.

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6 d. ago Watch live: Mark Carney reacts to Donald Trump meeting after repeated 51st state threats

Watch live as Mark Carney speaks to the media after meeting Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, 6 May, for the first time since the newly elected Canadian prime minister won the federal election.

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6 d. ago Watch in full: Donald Trump and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney meet for crunch trade talks

Watch as Donald Trump welcomes Mark Carney to the White House on Tuesday, 6 May, for the first time since the newly elected Canadian prime minister won the federal election.

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6 d. ago Watch live: Donald Trump and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney meet for crunch trade talks

Watch live as Donald Trump welcomes Mark Carney to the White House on Tuesday, 6 May, for the first time since the newly elected Canadian prime minister won the federal election.

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7 d. ago Salvage operation to recover Mike Lynch superyacht begins off Sicily

UK tech entrepreneur and his daughter were among seven killed when the Bayesian sank in a violent stormA 55-metre (180ft) barge carrying a heavy-lift crane has begun work to raise the British-flagged superyacht Bayesian from the seabed off Sicily, where it sank last summer killing seven people including the UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.The barge, named Hebo Lift 2, with its 700-sq-metre deck, specialist diving apparatus and a remotely operated underwater vehicle, arrived last week in Porticello, a fishing port near Palermo, where marine salvage experts have started operations to raise the Bayesian. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Judge cautions prosecutors in healthcare exec murder trial to refrain from public comments

Comments from legal team and Trump administration officials could prevent Luigi Mangione from getting a fair trialDuring a 25 April proceeding in Luigi Mangione’s Manhattan federal court case for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson last year, the judge implored prosecutors to watch what they say – including top honchos of Donald Trump’s justice department.Judge Margaret M Garnett pointed prosecutors to a district court policy barring lawyers on both sides from making “public commentary that could impede Mr Mangione’s right to a fair trial”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Experts seen starting £20million operation to raise the doomed Bayesian almost a year after superyacht tragedy

The vessel sank in a freak storm off the fishing village of Porticello, Sicily, last August, killing seven - including billionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18.

Economics

8 d. ago Experts start complex recovery of a superyacht that sank off Sicily, killing 7

Marine salvage experts on Sunday have began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coasts the British-flagged superyacht “Bayesian,” which sank last summer killing UK tech magnate Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others

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3 w. ago The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossipThe future Edward VII looks out from a white marble bust at the start of The Edwardians: Age of Elegance. His eyes have a familiar exophthalmic bulge beneath heavy Saxe-Coburg lids. The sculptor has turned the prince’s head a fraction, to give him a flatteringly distant air of authority, but is otherwise faithful to the facts: Edward’s love of upturned wing collars, of informal jackets and the wide tie knot he popularised, known to this day as the Windsor.Edward (1841-1910) – Bertie, as he was familiarly known – was the eldest son of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. She is said to have blamed the boy, or at least his chronic philandering, for her husband’s premature death. Prince of Wales until the age of almost 60, waiting...

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3 w. ago Watch: Donald Trump hugs and comforts mother of murdered Rachel Morin

Donald Trump hugged and comforted Patty Morin, the mother of murdered Rachel Morin, in a special White House meeting.

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