67 m. ago The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad | Kenneth Roth

For the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for SyriansThere are few regimes as cruel as the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There was seemingly no limit to what it would do to sustain his grasp on power, including dropping chemical weapons and barrel bombs on civilians in territory held by the armed opposition, and starving, torturing, “disappearing” and executing perceived opponents. The victims numbered in the hundreds of thousands.Since December, Assad is gone, toppled by the HTS rebel group that now controls the interim government in Damascus. The leader of the interim authorities, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has promised a far more inclusive and rights-respecting rule. The jury is still out on whether he will live up to those vows, but one place where he has fallen short is in satisfying the Syrian people’s quest for justice. Both he and international courts could play a role.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights...

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73 m. ago Dame Prue Leith recalls cat incident 'so awful' it could have stopped her TV career

The Great British Bake Off judge made a shock confession about a 'disaster' in her life

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1 hour ago David Chase’s fear for James Gandolfini when casting The Sopranos

Show’s creator apparently had one concern when Gandolfini was put forward to play Tony Soprano

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3 h. ago John Lithgow says Roald Dahl was ‘a very complicated man damaged by terrible tragedies’

Actor stars as the controversial author in the play ‘Giant’, which explores Dahl’s antisemitic statements

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4 h. ago 'We wouldn’t let our children drink dirty water. So why do we let them breathe dirty air?'

Parents decry a pollution 'epidemic' as hospital admissions for children with breathing problems soar, while Andy Burnham has defended scrapping Clean Air Zone charges. Jonathan Blades from Asthma + Lung UK says 'children should not be fighting for breath just because they're growing up near a busy road'

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5 h. ago ‘I think I’m about to die, then I see a white flash and Henry is on the bear’s back’: the hero dogs who save lives

From stopping road accidents to performing a Heimlich manoeuvre, real-life Lassies have a long history of rescuing humans in distress. Their grateful owners tell allIn August 2014, conservation biologist Steve Krichbaum was searching for wood turtles on a small plateau in a West Virginia forest. His dog Henry was exploring below, near a stream, out of sight. Henry – a fluffy former stray so joyfully affectionate Krichbaum’s former partner nicknamed him the “Love Dragon” – accompanied him everywhere, hiking, swimming and camping together.“I hear these sticks snap,” Krichbaum says. “And there are these two bear cubs running up the slope.” Concerned Henry might chase them, he turned and started shouting for him, then, turning back around, saw an adult black bear running towards him. Krichbaum tried to appear “big and loud”, waving his arms and shouting, but the bear kept charging. He ran down the slope to try to escape, but “she ran down the bank and immediately grabbed my thigh in her...

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5 h. ago How to watch Liverpool vs Tottenham – TV channel, live stream, trophy lift details

Liverpool play host to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday knowing just one point against Ange Postecoglou's side will be sufficient to claim their first Premier League title in five years

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5 h. ago The magical Alice in Wonderland play experience that kids will love in Manchester

Children can venture down the rabbit hole and have a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the new immersive Wonderland play experience in Manchester

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5 h. ago For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel

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7 h. ago How Manchester United should line up vs Bournemouth in Premier League fixture

Man Utd play Bournemouth in the Premier League on Sunday and here is how our writers think they should start.

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9 h. ago Elon Musk's secret plan to father 5,000 children: Public meltdowns in White House, toxic feuds with his harem of mothers and the shocking reason he's so keen to offer his sperm around revealed

It's traditional for people in Musk's position to save face by saying that they want to spend more time with their family but, in his case, that would raise the question: which one exactly?

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10 h. ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Fish for weapons? Yet another EU surrender we don't need to make

In one of the great ambushes of history, British negotiators found that membership would involve an invasion of our waters by foreign fishermen, which meant years of disaster.

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10 h. ago Journalist who featured on BBC Arabic called for Jews to be 'burned as Hitler did' and boasted children slaughtered by 'hero' terrorists would 'go to hell'

Last June he reported on the Nuseirat refugee camp, after an Israeli military operation to rescue four hostages held by Hamas , which led to hundreds of Palestinian deaths.

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10 h. ago 'I put them through hell': Aimee Lou Wood's father is 'grateful beyond words' for second chance with The White Lotus star after walking out on her as a toddler

Michael Wood, father of The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has told for the first time how relieved he is that the pair have reconciled years after he walked out on his family.

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11 h. ago Deadly Israeli airstrike kills 10 people: Bombs flatten three

Strikes across the region have killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials.

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13 h. ago Arne Slot will not ‘go crazy’ if Liverpool win title with a point against Spurs

‘At Feyenoord, I didn’t run three times round stadium’Slot’s side 12 points clear in his first season in chargeArne Slot will neither be the “loudest” nor “weirdest” during the celebrations if Liverpool win the Premier League on Sunday. The Reds welcome Tottenham to Anfield requiring a single point to secure the title and start the party in the Dutchman’s first season in charge.The Liverpool head coach has experience of winning league trophies, lifting the 2022-23 Eredivisie title with Feyenoord. Should Liverpool draw or win against Spurs, Slot will share in the merriment alongside his wife and children, plus some of the 46-year-old’s friends who are visiting Merseyside during a Dutch holiday. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Trio of fresh injuries as Glasgow Warriors count cost of bruising Bulls defeat

URC champions grateful for week off as they regroup for final push

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14 h. ago Pope Francis' 'final miracle' is hailed as Trump and Zelensky meet in the Vatican and US president turns AGAINST Putin for 'stringing him along' over peace plan

Zelensky and Trump had a short talk ahead of the late Catholic leader's funeral, marking their first encounter since their disastrous White House clash. The outcome has been hailed a 'miracle'

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15 h. ago Scientists have birthed a ‘super cannibal’ that never grows up. Could it be key to combating Australia’s cane toad menace?

There’s quiet optimism that gene-edited ‘Peter Pan’ tadpoles could help control one of the world’s worst invasive speciesThe toad’s eyes seemed to glow red, its warty and poison-soaked skin – normally splodged in browns – instead a porridge of creamy whites. This albino toad was produced by a team of scientists with one foot in a Sydney university laboratory and the other in a research station on the vast tropical savannahs and wetlands far away to the north near Humpty Doo.It was September 2023 and for the man who dreamed it into being, the toad was but an opening act in a radical new play against one of the world’s worst invasive species.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Aldcroft holds nerve but England will need to raise level to go all the way at World Cup | Andy Bull

Red Roses were one more mistake away from missing out on the grand slam to France but it should not have been so closeThere’s no such thing as an easy grand slam and, in the very end, England’s turned out to be as hard-won as any of them. One point up with one minute to play after conceding a sixth try at the tail end of one of the great helter-skelter Test matches, their skipper, Zoe Aldcroft, had the smarts to lead the team in a slow march back from the posts to the middle of the pitch as the clock ran on into the red. The Red Roses were, at that point, one more mistake, one more missed tackle, one more France score away from going down to their first defeat since the last World Cup, in their final match before the next one.Twickenham was only half full, but the crowd was as loud as double the number. And in all the tumult, it was the French who folded. Taïna Maka knocked the ball on from the restart. The whistle went, the ball was dead, and the game was won. Continue reading...

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