6 h. ago JD Vance asks 'why don't Ukraine and Russia stop killing each other and start trading'

US Vice President JD Vance has spoken out as Trump’s new 28-point plan was reportedly handed across to Kyiv officials with the US President's second in command asking why don't Russia and Ukraine stop killing and trade instead

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21 h. ago Welcome to the Ashes, the classic cricket rivalry that never really starts or stops

Some say the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is now pre-eminent, but there is nothing more intense than Australia v EnglandIf it feels like the buildup to this Ashes series has lasted 842 days that is because it pretty much has. Test cricket’s oldest rivalry resumes on Friday inside Perth’s 60,000-seat thunderdome and with it, mercifully, comes fresh fuel for the ever-raging fire.Because on one level the Ashes never really starts or stops. Since Stuart Broad nicked off Alex Carey at the Oval on 31 July 2023 – the final act of a dramatic 2-2 draw – the sides have been tracking each other, all while their supporters chip away from afar. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago David Squires on the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes

Our cartoonist looks back at cricket’s biggest rivalry as we gear up for seven weeks of joy, despair and animosityBuy a Squires cartoon in our Print ShopDavid’s latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...

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4 d. ago I'm a Celeb review: Who seems pleased with themselves and who is mildly delirious

It's only just started but that hasn't stopped us asking who is already getting on our nerves as the Daily Star's TV man delves deep into the jungle

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4 d. ago Man City's £12.5m star of the future might finally get what he needs

Sverre Nypan completed a season-long loan move from Manchester City to Middlesbrough in the summer but he's experienced a stop-start campaign thus far.

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5 d. ago I'm A Celebrity's Martin Kemp opens up on recent chainsaw accident

Martin Kemp has shared that his chainsaw accident, that left his hospitalised just weeks before I'm A Celeb starts, was not going to stop him entering the jungle

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5 d. ago Get your free Ben Stokes mask and as warm up here's the best Ashes sledges ever

It’s the biggest rivalry in cricket – England versus Australia so why don't we tell how to get a free Ben Stokes mask AND give you some of the best sledges ever

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6 d. ago Chelsea news: Endrick verdict reached as Moises Caicedo's Real Madrid price tag emerges

After winning four of their last five Premier League matches, Chelsea finally seem to have found a degree of consistency following a turbulent, stop-start beginning to the season

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7 d. ago People with large gardens 'should be paying through the nose' to water them, climate change advisor says

Baroness Brown of Cambridge said that if water companies started charging more per litre for water, they could help stop taps running dry in the coming decades.

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1 week ago One popular kitchen item 'startles' rats and stops them coming into your home

Rats and mice are looking for a warm place to spend the winter, and that could mean your home. But there's a simple way to keep them out without using traps or poison.

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1 week ago Shades of De Bruyne, Real Madrid worry and contract conundrum

Manchester City's star midfielder is enduring a stop-start campaign as he seeks to find form and fitness

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2 w. ago Chelsea’s crash tackle king exposes Tottenham’s confused mess of a team | Barney Ronay

Spurs resemble a pile of sticks leaning against a wall with the rampaging Moisés Caicedo happy to dismantle themSitting through this tightly stitched but still oddly shapeless game of football, you kept thinking: what does this remind me of? The trapped energy, the collisions. The sense of something always but never really happening.Oh yes. Watching the full 90 minutes of Chelsea’s narrow but still comfortable 1-0 defeat of Tottenham was like staring at one of those hypnotic drunken city centre brawls that appear on social media from time to time, where nothing ever really seems to start or stop, where the whole things is just a kind of tortured flailing, but one that must also be pored over endlessly in the comments. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tottenham’s confused mess of a team exposed by Chelsea’s crash tackle king | Barney Ronay

Spurs resemble a pile of sticks leaning against a wall with the rampaging Moisés Caicedo happy to dismantle themSitting through this tightly stitched but still oddly shapeless game of football, you kept thinking: what does this remind me of? The trapped energy, the collisions. The sense of something always but never really happening.Oh yes. Watching the full 90 minutes of Chelsea’s narrow but still comfortable 1-0 defeat of Tottenham was like staring at one of those hypnotic drunken city centre brawls that appear on social media from time to time, where nothing ever really seems to start or stop, where the whole things is just a kind of tortured flailing, but one that must also be pored over endlessly in the comments. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago SNP Government can't blame Westminster for problems and then underspend budget by £1bn

"The SNP government needs to stop playing games and start using the powers and resources they have to change lives."

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3 w. ago The glaring problem in Man United's starting XI they need to stop ignoring

Manchester United made it three Premier League wins on the bounce on Saturday but there are still improvements to be made.

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3 w. ago Kevin De Bruyne injury: Napoli confirm huge blow for Belgium star

Former Man City midfielder has seen a superb start in Italy abruptly stopped

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3 w. ago LORD ASHCROFT: ID card scheme is a classic Starmerite intervention

Huge majorities think the plan would be an invasion of privacy and open to hacking and abuse, with only a small minority thinking it would help deter illegal migration.

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3 w. ago ‘He didn’t deserve that’: widow speaks out after husband’s violent death at ICE facility

Stephany Gauffeny says her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, had his ‘arms restrained to the bed and handcuffs on his feet’ as he lay dying in the hospitalWidow of man shot at ICE facility wonders if political violence is to blameA few hours before the Texas sun set, Stephany Gauffeny held her newborn son close to her chest as she started walking in a cemetery. The grave she stopped at had no headstone, but Gauffeny, 32, had written her husband’s name on a red ribbon.She married Miguel García-Hernández in 2016, nearly 10 years before he was shot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas in late September. Continue reading...

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