26 h. ago We are Americans living in the UK and the biggest culture shock was the bathrooms for these five reasons

The expats who have come to call the UK home have said the bathrooms have been their 'biggest adjustment' and Americans are 'not built' for them.

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47 h. ago Trump live updates: Historic stock plunge after tariff announcement leaves Americans rattled

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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55 h. ago Historic stock plunge leaves Americans rattled after Trump tariff announcement: Live updates

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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55 h. ago Historic stock plunge after Trump tariff announcement leaves Americans rattled: Live updates

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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3 d. ago Liverpool transfer news: FSG 'have already made their minds' up on Salah and Van Dijk contracts

Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are all out of contract at Liverpool this summer and the club's American owners are understood to have made a decision on their futures

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5 d. ago Hooters Nottingham and Liverpool futures decided as US parent company in administration

EXCLUSIVE: The futures of the Nottingham and Liverpool branches of the famous American food chain have been determined, at least for now, according to insiders close to the UK operation

Society

6 d. ago Politicians criticise US efforts to make EU firms reverse diversity initiatives

Officials in France and Belgium hit out at ‘American interference’ amid growing transatlantic tensionsEurope live – latest updatesOfficials in France and Belgium have hit back at American efforts to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures on Europe, which in the US has seen Disney put under investigation.Several companies across the EU have in recent days reportedly received letters informing them that the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives also applies to firms around the world looking to do business with the US government. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Former SAS hero says Britain 'can't trust' the United States with top secret intelligence after 'moronic' war plan leak

Chris Ryan feared the lives of British and American spies could be at risk following the extraordinary security blunder by senior US officials - and warned similar failures would likely happen under Trump

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7 d. ago Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya review – teenage lives at the crossroads

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools The Marabar caves in A Passage to India represent the breakdown of order and communication as well as provoking the terrible accusation that drives EM Forster’s story. Sameer Pandya plays with a similar plot device in his compelling US-based novel, including an epigraph from Forster’s classic.It is set in southern California, where three teenage boys on the brink of adulthood – stars of their high school American football team with promising college careers ahead of them – attend a party at an abandoned house in the hills. Vikram is an Indian American, while Diego, who is Latino, lives with his academic mother. MJ is white with wealthy parents. Part of the pleasure of Pandya’s writing lies in his unravelling of identity politics – a theme explored in his debut, Members Only.Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99). To support the Guardian and Observ...

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9 d. ago Trump’s executive order forces removal of ‘improper ideology’ at Smithsonian museums to promote ‘American greatness’: Live

President directs JD Vance to rid museums of ‘divisive narratives’ in latest culture war push

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1 week ago Signal 'war plan' leak shows that Trump's team is willing to 'play fast and loose' with the lives of American soldiers, former Obama diplomat Brett Bruen tells new Mail podcast

Former Obama White House staffer weighed in on the handling of the Signal 'war plan' leak by the Trump administration on new Mail podcast - Apocalypse Now?

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1 week ago What new Rangers owners are thinking about £5.5m Vaclav Cerny deal as 'interesting' chapter hinges on one thing

Speaking on Hotline Live, our man Keith Jackson reckons the American owners-to-be are well aware of the Cerny situation, and the narrow window they have to act

Economics

1 week ago Upcoming games 2025: 26 of the biggest games coming out this year including GTA 6

Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most highly anticipated game of 2025, but what else is coming out this year?

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2 w. ago Snoop Dogg offers to help heal the rift between Princes William and Harry and says 'life is too short to not make things right': 'They're brothers, man'

The American rapper, who lives close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in LA, has said he would be more than happy to act as a peacemaker between the brothers.

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2 w. ago Ashley Walters: how Adolescence forced him to confront his biggest fear as a father of eight

The Top Boy star opened up to the Standard about the Netflix drama and the moment that resonated most with him

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2 w. ago Just Another Girl on the IRT review – Leslie Harris takes on race, sex and class in 90s indie gem

Ariyan A Johnson stars as the back-talking, fourth wall-breaking high schooler who falls pregnant in Harris’s rough and ready dramaThere’s an undimmed freshness, warmth and freewheeling energy in this 1992 indie gem, and its director Leslie Harris – whose career since has chiefly involved writing and teaching – deserves a far bigger presence in US film history. Ariyan A Johnson plays Chantel, a young Black American high schooler who lives with her stressed parents and two kid brothers in Brooklyn (in an era before its gentrification) and rides the subway’s IRT Eastern Parkway line.Chantel is getting great grades in school, and plans to be a doctor, but is addicted to talking back to the teachers and won’t restrain herself, even when she’s sent to the principal’s office. Her relationship with her mother and father is just as fraught – and as far as dating goes, Chantel is not going to sell herself short. And when she finally has sex with her boyfriend Tyrone (Kevin Thigpen), dizzied ...

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2 w. ago ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several times around his neck.Loomis later renamed himself Fakir Musafar and became one of the founders of the modern primitive movement – a subculture that revolves around body modification practices including branding, suspension, contortion and binding. A Body to Live in, which premieres internationally at London’s BFI Flare film festival this week, dissects Musafar’s body of work, which explored the tension between masculinity and femininity, pain and pleasure, spirituality and S&M. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Disturbance' off coast of Florida sparks fears of another deadly hurricane season

A storm system spotted in the Atlantic Ocean sparked fears of an early hurricane season. Last year, more than 200 Americans lost their lives to hurricanes that battered Florida and other parts of the US.

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2 w. ago From Split Fiction to Monster Hunter Wilds: Here are 16 of the best games released in 2025, so far

With so many huge titles still to be come, here are 16 of the best games to have come out in 2025 so far.

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3 w. ago Houthis and US both vow escalation after wave of deadly American airstrikes in Yemen – Middle East crisis live

US says airstrikes are intended to deter rebel group from attacking Red Sea shippingJason Burke is the International security correspondent of the GuardianBenjamin Netanyahu has announced he will seek to dismiss the director of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, through a cabinet vote later this week, in a move that will prompt further accusations of authoritarianism. Continue reading...

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