7 h. ago Why the end of a prison sentence can be a most dangerous time

A new national service called Upside is helping former prison inmates re-enter society, which can be a daunting time for many

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18 h. ago What Green Day has said about Trump and MAGA as they’re set to perform at Super Bowl

Rock band are preparing to take the stage at the Super Bowl alongside MAGA-despised singer and rapper Bad Bunny

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28 h. ago Alex Honnold says he was paid an ‘embarrassing amount’ for Taipei 101 climb

Famed rock climber made history as the first person to climb the skyscraper with safety gear or ropes

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29 h. ago Alex Honnold says he was paid an ‘embarrassing amount’ for Tapei 101 climb

Famed rock climber made history as the first person to climb the skyscraper with safety gear or ropes

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62 h. ago Alex Honnold says he’s being paid an ‘embarrassing amount’ for Tapei 101 climb

‘Skyscraper Live’ will see Honnold attempt to climb the tallest building in Taiwan

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62 h. ago Brenden Aaronson enters peak form at the right time for Leeds and the US

The Philadelphia Union product has added end product to his trademark hustle – can he keep the good form going?Timing is everything in a World Cup year, and Brenden Aaronson’s has been pretty much perfect.Scoring a goal and putting in a top performance against your team’s biggest rival is something all players dream of. To do so when your family is watching in the stands and a reporter from your home town newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is in the press box makes it all the better. Aaronson did all of the above at Elland Road for Leeds United against Manchester United earlier this month. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Brooklyn Beckham pictured for first time since explosive post about David and Victoria

Brooklyn had claimed his mum "danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone"

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4 d. ago World is entering time of ‘great power politics’, warns German chancellor

Friedrich Merz says global order changing at ‘breathtaking pace’ and urges leaders in Davos not to accept new realityDavos live – latest updatesThe German chancellor has warned that the rise of “great powers” is shaking the foundations of the old world order, unravelling it at “breathtaking pace”.Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Friedrich Merz said a time of “great power politics” had begun, citing Russia’s war with Ukraine, China’s move into the “ranks of the great powers” and the radical reshaping of US foreign and security policy under Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Along comes Trump and our emperors have no clothes | John Crace

There’s no shame in not knowing what he’ll say next: neither does he. But that didn’t stop many claiming to make sense of itIn weeks like this, the mask slips somewhat. Politicians love the illusion of control. It’s the special power that differentiates them from us lower orders. They are the ones pulling all the levers. Nothing ever happens that takes them unawares. They are the ones with answers to everything. They need it to be this way. Not just for their own psyches but for ours. It’s somehow comforting.And then along comes Donald Trump and our emperors have no clothes. Their limitations on view to everyone. Scrabbling around just to stand still. Trying to make sense of the world in real time, just like the rest of us. Making it up as they go along. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politicsWind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the European Union’s power generation last year, a report has found, in a “major tipping point” for clean energy.Turbines spinning in the wind and photovoltaic panels lit up by the sun generated 30% of the EU’s electricity in 2025, according to an annual review. Power plants burning coal, oil and gas generated 29%. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci

It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him downIrish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) where AI is wholly responsible for assessing criminal guilt or innocence. You’ve heard of RoboCop. This is RoboJustice. Veteran Russian-Kazakh film-maker Timur Bekmambetov directs, bringing his usual robust approach to the big action sequences, and Chris Pratt stars as the LAPD cop accused of murder. (Longtime Pratt fans will appreciate a cameo appearance here of Pratt’s fellow cast-member from TV’s Parks and Recreation, Jay Jackson, effectively reprising his performance as sonorous TV newsreader Perd Hapley.)The film’s ostensible target is the insidious power of AI, though the movie partakes of today’s liberal opinion doublethink, in which we all solemnly concur that AI is very worrying wh...

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5 d. ago Mark Carney tells Davos the old world order is ‘not coming back’ as Trump heads to Switzerland

Carney warns US-led global system of governance is enduring ‘a rupture’ as US president flies in for showdown with European leaders over GreenlandCanadian prime minister Mark Carney has said that the US-led global system of governance is enduring “a rupture,” defined by great power competition and a “fading” rules-based order.His speech to political and financial elites at the World Economic Forum comes a day before US President Donald Trump was set to address the gathering in Davos, Switzerland. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘Sprint toward autocracy’: Trump’s first year in office has been a norm

From gutting federal agencies to funding freezes for Democratic cities and states to sending the National Guard and ICE agents around the nation, Trump has shown himself to be the strongman many didn’t know they were electing president.

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1 week ago The Traitors 2026 live: Ellie banished as Rachel and Stephen choose outcome of explosive ‘ceremonial dagger’ twist

The dagger grants one player two votes at the next roundtable

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1 week ago The Traitors 2026 live: Jessie murdered as Rachel and Stephen launch risky plot

The Traitors are facing their toughest decision yet in turret, with the heat on Stephen

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1 week ago The Traitors 2026 live: Rachel and Stephen target three new Faithfuls as Sam reveals biggest show regret

The Traitors are facing their toughest decision yet in turret, with the heat on Stephen

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1 week ago The wild Traitors theory that would change series as we know it

Eagle-eyed viewers have spotted small detail that might have huge repercussions

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1 week ago The Traitors 2026 live: Rachel and Stephen target three Faithfuls for murder after Sam’s banishment

The Traitors are facing their toughest decision yet in turret, with the heat on Stephen

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1 week ago The Traitors 2026 live: Sam banished from castle as Rachel and Stephen target three Faithfuls

The Traitors defeated the odds to take out Faithful Adam – before facing toughest decision yet in turret

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1 week ago Robbie Williams: Britpop review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Columbia)Framed as the music Williams wanted to make post-Take That, Britpop surpasses pastiche and swerves unpredictably. Homoerotic paean to Morrissey, anyone?The arrival of Robbie Williams’s 13th album has been a complicated business. It was announced in May 2025 and was supposed to come out in October, when its title would have chimed with the 90s nostalgia sparked by the Oasis reunion. Williams spent the summer engaging in promotion, unveiling fake Britpop-themed blue plaques around London and staging a press conference at the Groucho Club. There was a launch gig at storied Camden venue Dingwalls, at which he performed not just his new album in full, but his 1997 solo debut Life Thru a Lens.It was a bold choice, given that Life Thru a Lens initially threatened to derail his solo career: at the time, the now nakedly obvious supernova hits Angels and Let Me Entertain You were overlooked while people criticised Williams’s muddled attempts to fit in with, well, Britpop. On stage a...

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