92 m. ago Anita Dobson addresses huge Doctor Who twist as she takes on iconic role

Doctor Who's upcoming finale is set to confirm fan suspicion as Anita Dobson has lifted the lid on Mrs Flood's true identity and embodies an iconic villain in the Whoniverse.

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92 m. ago Anita Dobson teases explosive Doctor Who twist as iconic villain returns to BBC show

Secrets are on the bring of exposure in the two-part Doctor Who finale and Anita Dobson has confirmed suspicions that her character, Mrs Flood, isn't as innocent as she seems.

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2 h. ago Creepy Scots circus school teacher touched up students during trapeze lessons

Rodolfo Rivas Franco, 53, preyed on his students during trapeze classes at Spinal Chord in Glasgow between September 2018 and April 2022.

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7 h. ago Brits face Bank Holiday Glumday as they're battered by wind, rain and even floods

Humidity will soar before ‘longer spells of rain’ will arrive on Tuesday with ‘fresher’ winds driving down temperatures, and some places have been warned of flooding

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10 h. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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11 h. ago Is it safe to travel to Greece, Turkey, Italy and France after countries put on 'high alert'?

Recent seismic activity near Crete has set off a chain of emergency responses

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11 h. ago Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais

In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way?On 20 May, the secretary-general for humanitarian affairs at the United Nations stated that 14,000 babies would be dead unless the blockade was lifted immediately. The day before, the former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said: “Every child in Gaza is the enemy.” And now, world leaders in the UK and France threaten vague “concrete actions” if Israel “does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid”. But undefined “concrete actions” are woefully insufficient. To those leaders I say: Gaza’s children cannot eat statements.Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, declared last week: “We are destroying everything in Gaza, the world isn’t stopping us.” So let’s say what must be said, without apology: military intervention to defend Gaza is not only justified – it is required. It is humanitarian...

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12 h. ago Venezuelan workers at Disney put on leave from jobs after losing protective status

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections

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12 h. ago Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson are now directors. Here's what they say

The Cannes Film Festival has played host to the directorial debuts of three stars

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13 h. ago Kangaroo tries to drown a man after the two 'threw punches at each other like a boxing match' when the animal attacked him

'I just remember being under water and kicking and screaming,' Don James said. The marsupial is believed to have become 'very distressed' when it became trapped in a flooded area in Australia.

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13 h. ago Harry Potter star rushed to hospital for surgery days after birthday over 'inability to breathe'

The actor appeared in the fourth film in the magical franchise

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13 h. ago Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain’s 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts

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13 h. ago Stock markets plunge after Trump reignites trade war risk with threat of 50% tax on EU goods

US president’s fresh plan wipes billions off shares in UK, US, France, Germany Spain and Italy

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13 h. ago Retired singer Connie Francis admits she ‘didn’t even remember’ 1962 song that’s gone viral on TikTok

‘Pretty Little Baby’ — a Connie Francis deep cut — has somehow gone viral on social media

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13 h. ago Delta stowaway found guilty after sneaking on flight out of JFK

Svetlana Dali, a 57-year-old Russian citizen, told the FBI that she had to fly to France because the U.S. government was poisoning her

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13 h. ago Teacher suspended after holding minute’s silence for Gaza victims

Teaching unions say the teacher’s students had requested the minute’s silence

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14 h. ago Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer

Israeli leader’s antisemitism claim labelled defamatory as he is warned against pursuing a war without endMiddle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu was accused of slander and pursuing a war without end after he claimed the leaders of France, Canada and the UK were stoking antisemitism and siding with Hamas by demanding he end the two-month blockade of food and aid into Gaza.In what has become an extraordinary standoff with some of Israel’s closest allies, Netanyahu appeared to deliberately raise the stakes on Thursday night by accusing his western critics of abandoning Israel in a war for its very existence. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Airport cleaners and flooding in Australia: photos of the day – Friday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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16 h. ago James Franco, 47, and girlfriend Izabel Pakzad, 29, skip 'chaotic' amFAR gala afterparty while scandal

The American actor, 47, is said to have avoided the 'chaotic and overcrowded' event at the Domaine di Dilecta in Antibes, which was attended by scandal-plagued actor Kevin Spacey .

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16 h. ago Urban fires can mean long trips for helicopters to get water. One firefighter had a better idea

Retired firefighter Mark Whaling knows firsthand what it’s like to wait on a helicopter to refill on water while he's battling a blaze on the ground

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