88 m. ago A spoonful of sugar? How about five! How Dick Van Dyke stays sprightly ahead of his 100th birthday

As he prepares to turn 100 next month on December 13, legendary American actor Dick Van Dyke shows no signs of slowing down.

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1 hour ago ‘Horribly wrong’: US veterans condemn Trump’s politicization of military

Experts infuriated by president accusing Democrats of ‘sedition’ for urging soldiers to refuse illegal ordersVeterans have condemned the politicization of the military after Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of “sedition, punishable by death” after a small group of them released a video in which they urged US soldiers not to follow any “unlawful” orders.The extraordinary exchange was sparked after Democratic lawmakers with military or national security backgrounds – the Congressional representatives Maggie Goodlander, Jason Crow, Chris DeLuzio and Chrissy Houlahan, and the senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin – posted a video on Facebook addressed to US service members. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Republicans will be left holding the bill for Trump’s policies in the midterms | Sidney Blumenthal

The abject obedience of GOP members for the president has not augured well in the 4 November electionsThe elections of 4 November were the end of a grandiose illusion. After his 2024 victory Donald Trump claimed he had an “unprecedented and powerful mandate”, that his “mandate” was “massive”, and that his “Maga movement” was irresistible, the wave of the future. It lasted 10 months, in which he had betrayed his chief promise to lower inflation, turned the public against him on every issue and Republicans at last faced a battering by voters.Trump’s image of omnipotence has rested upon a pyramid of dread. His ability to maintain the servility of the Republican Congress, whose members are intimidated by the danger that if they defy him he would support primary opponents to run against them, has been the political foundation for all the other forms of fear he incites throughout American institutions. Trump could not have leveraged himself as “dictator on day one” without congressional a...

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1 hour ago New London restaurant Akì serves Kobe beef amongst Art Deco interiors

New London restaurant Akì serves Kobe beef amongst Art Deco interiors  wallpaper.com

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2 h. ago Influencer with Tourette's Syndrome sparks debate after posting driving video which shows her closing her eyes behind the wheel due to tics

An American influencer with Tourette's Syndrome demonstrated that some of her tics stop her from watching where she is going while she is behind the wheel.

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2 h. ago I tasted Baileys, Coole Swan and Aldi's Irish Cream — one is best by miles

The taste is consistent throughout without that alcohol 'hit'

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2 h. ago Yarde vs Benavidez: Start time, undercard and how to watch fight tonight

Britain’s Anthony Yarde makes a third – and final? – attempt at winning a world title, challenging American David Benavidez for the WBC light-heavyweight belt

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3 h. ago Australia v England: hosts chasing 205 to win Ashes first Test on day two – live

Hosts closing on target after another wild day in Perth Ashes top 100 players | Get The Spin newsletter | Mail Rob43rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of the over he finally gets a reprieve, a single to cover. Atkinson bumps Lyon but the ball sails way over his head.42nd over: Australia 128-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 3) Lyon single first ball puts Doggett back on strike. Ohh, dropped catch! In at short leg, Pope under the mitre, and the ball reaches his fingertips but goes down rather than up. Mark Wood keeps peppering Doggett, who by the end of the over has faced every delivery so far today but two. The sixth ball he decides he’s had enough and aims a big drive, inside edges it, gets a run to fine leg, and keeps the strike. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novelFifteen years ago, discussing the success of his six-volume autofictional work My Struggle on Norwegian radio, Karl Ove Knausgård said he felt as if he had “actually sold my soul to the devil”. My Struggle had become a runaway success in Norway – a success that would subsequently be repeated across the world – but the project provoked anger in some quarters for its portrayal of friends and family members. This was a work of art that came at a price. Hence, for its creator, its Faustian aspect.That experience lies at the root of Knausgård’s latest novel, The School of Night, the fourth volume in his Morning Star sequence, in which his typical character studies and fine-grained attention to the minutiae of daily life are married to a compelling supernatural plot involving a mysterious star appearing in the sky and the dead returning to life. Volumes one and three, The Morn...

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5 h. ago England skittled once again as first Ashes Test motors towards early finish

Australia took nine wickets for just 99 runs in the afternoon session.

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5 h. ago Sam Noakes ready to serve up world title win over Abdullah Mason

Sam Noakes challenges for a world title for the first time tonight when he takes on American Abdullah Mason in Saudi Arabia tonight

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6 h. ago Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye

Anti-AI and pro-beauty, Leo XIV has proved an unlikely custodian of culture – and a patron of meaningful work in a world of algorithmic slopSo, who figured that Pope Leo XIV would end up being kind of cool? Not me. Although as a lapsed Catholic I had little stake in the conclave race, I felt that there was something unglamorous, dare I say godless, about a first-ever supreme pontiff born in the US, let alone one hailing from Chicago, the same city as Hugh Hefner, Hillary Clinton and Kanye West. There were greater apprehensions beyond taste, too. Would this finally be the ordination of the reinvigorated Maga movement after the death of the compassionate Pope Francis? When Leo appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica wearing the traditional red mozzetta cape eschewed by his predecessor, it was too easy to jump to conclusions.By the grace of God, the red mozzetta was a red herring. Very quickly, American conservatives went into meltdown over the pope’s patent anti-Maga leanings a...

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7 h. ago The amateur American football team in London that is changing lives and producing NFL talent

The amateur American football team in London that is changing lives and producing NFL talent  The New York Times

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8 h. ago Zak Crawley makes second duck before England take control of first Ashes Test

Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope guided the tourists to a 99-run lead at lunch on day two in Perth.

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8 h. ago Ashes 2025 live score: Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope push lead towards 100 after early dismissal of Zak Crawley

England lead by 94 runs but Mitchell Starc strikes in first over of second innings to dismiss Crawley

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8 h. ago 'I tested Baileys, Coole Swan and Aldi's Irish Cream and one is better by miles'

I put three Irish Creams to the test just in time for Christmas - and here's what I thought

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11 h. ago How the shape of your beer glass can change how your drink tastes

Researchers enlisted 49 men and women - all regular beer and wine drinkers - but did not tell them the purpose of their study.

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12 h. ago Coronation Street star poses beside 'sex slave' speech hate preacher who was banned from the UK

The actor Qasim Akhtar, 34, who played Zeedan Nazir in the ITV soap, is seen smiling as he is embraced by American cleric Uthman ibn Farooq.

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12 h. ago The sailor reviving the lost art of canoe building in New Caledonia

Dozens of traditional boats made as part of a project to reconnect with culture and ‘start of conversation’ on ocean rightsIn October in Lifou island, a double-hulled canoe was pushed into the lagoon - a small act that marked a deeply symbolic moment.It was the first launch of a traditional canoe on Lifou in generations, an event that brought together the island’s three chiefly clans in a rare show of unity. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Former US intel director's daughter convicted of murder in fatal stabbing retrial

Prosecutors in Maryland say the daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte has been convicted for a second time in the fatal stabbing of a friend after a drunken argument

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