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• Helen Mirren and six Lionesses receive honours for King Charles’s birthday

  12-06-2026 23:30
  Footballers, charity founders, actors and musicians among those celebrated for service to BritainSix members of the Lionesses’ victorious Euro 2025 squad have been made MBEs in King Charles’s birthday honours list, while the actor Dame Helen Mirren has been made a Companion of Honour for services to drama.They are joined by the former rugby league player Kevin Sinfield, who has been knighted for his campaigning and fundraising to tackle motor neurone disease. Continue reading...
  
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• Arise, Sir Kevin: Sinfield knighted in king’s birthday honours list

  12-06-2026 23:30
  Rugby league great given accolade for MND fundraisingHas raised more than £11m in memory of Rob BurrowKevin Sinfield has promised to continue his quest to support those living with motor neurone disease after being awarded a knighthood in the king’s birthday honours list.The 45-year-old rugby league great has been recognised for his incredible fundraising efforts and becomes the second former player from the sport to be knighted, after Billy Boston’s elevation this time last ye
  
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• Wyatt-Hodge fires England to Women’s T20 World Cup record score to sink Sri Lanka

  12-06-2026 23:28
  Group 2: England, 219-1, beat Sri Lanka, 132, by 87 runsWyatt-Hodge unbeaten on 105 for hosts in openerEngland got their World Cup campaign off to a flyer with an 87-run win against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston on Friday evening, thanks to a thundering century from Danni Wyatt-Hodge.This was a statement win by England, whose batting firepower has recently been questioned but who powered their way to 219 – the highest total by any team in the history of the tournament – for the loss of just
  
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• Katie Boulter stuns Rybakina for biggest win after Raducanu starts Queen’s party

  12-06-2026 23:23
  British No 3 produces her greatest performanceEmma Raducanu finds her best tennis to defeat CirsteaKatie Boulter battled hard with Elena Rybakina and she emerged from the longest day of her career with her greatest victory, a special performance from the British No 3 yielding a 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 win over the world No 2 and Australian Open champion.Emma Raducanu was also a winner on Friday, defeating Sorana Cirstea, the seventh seed and one of the most in-form players in the world this year 6-4, 6-2
  
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• Supersub Cyle Larin rescues point for Canada against Bosnia and Herzegovina

  12-06-2026 23:21
  “History is about to be made,” the understandably giddy stadium announcer said in the seconds before kick-off and while this was not the perfect start, Canada will not forget Cyle Larin’s equaliser against Bosnia and Herzegovina in a hurry.Trailing to Jovo Lukic’s first international goal, Larin stepped off the bench and pulled the co-hosts level with his first touch, lashing in 121 seconds after his entrance. It felt like a shot that carried pent-up frustration at being
  
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• George Furbank gives Saints farewell gift to seal thrilling playoff win against Leicester

  12-06-2026 23:21
  Semi-final: Northampton 45-31 LeicesterSaints await winners of Bath v Exeter in finalIn recent years the semi-finals of the English Prem have been a reliable home banker. Not since Harlequins famously overturned a 28-0 deficit to beat Bristol after extra time in 2021 has any away side prospered and that trend continues. Northampton are into next week’s final after a ripper of an East Midlands derby that reflected well on all involved.A first-half hat trick by the Saints’ centre Tom L
  
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• The Alien Autopsy Scandal review – an exquisite, playful look at how a faked video swept the world

  12-06-2026 23:00
  The story behind the grainy footage of a dummy filled with butcher’s off-cuts is an extraordinarily eccentric and knotty joy – with the hoaxers resembling Scooby-Doo baddiesYou will, no doubt, be familiar with the 1995 footage of a supposed alien autopsy. Since its yikes-inducing TV debut, the jittery black-and-white film is estimated to have been viewed by a billion people. Still, for better or worse, here it is again: a scrum of faceless hazmat suits hover over the corpse of a pot-
  
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• Wigan underline their class with Super League hammering of Wakefield

  12-06-2026 22:57
  Wakefield 10-48 WiganWarriors dismantle hosts for sixth win in seven gamesThe Super League table rarely lies, and it certainly doesn’t usually have too many glaring abnormalities at the halfway point in a regular season. But a quick glance at the running order right now tells a slight mistruth; Wigan Warriors may not be top, but they are quite clearly the best side in the competition right now.There is a four-point gap between Wigan and the two sides joint-top of the table, Leeds Rhinos an
  
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• SpaceX to list on US stock market at historic $1.77tn valuation

  12-06-2026 22:36
  Initial public offering for aerospace and AI company made Musk the world’s first trillionaire as share prices jumpedShare your views on SpaceX’s stock market debutSpaceX made the biggest stock market debut in history on Friday after nearly two and a half decades as a private company. Public trading began around midday with a starting share price of $150, which quickly jumped by a double digit percentage and sent the company’s valuation above $2tn, where it remained through mark
  
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• Fraudster jailed after scamming London renters out of £77,000

  12-06-2026 22:36
  Frederic Priestley, 32, falsely advertised property he did not own for rent on Facebook, obtaining payments and depositsA man has been jailed after defrauding more than 30 people out of more than £77,000 in a rental scam, police said.Frederic Priestley, 34, from Southwark, London, falsely advertised a property for rent on Facebook between April and September last year. Continue reading...
  
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• Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’

  12-06-2026 22:12
  Unidentified officer removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UKA police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has been removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UK.The officer, who has not been named, is being investigated over allegations of using the technology to “create evidential material in a number of cases” and perverting the course of justice. Continue readin
  
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• Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK

  12-06-2026 21:56
  Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’A judge has imposed lengthy custodial sentences on four Palestine Action activists who smashed up drones and other equipment at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s UK factory after ruling that there was a “terrorist connection” to their offending.Charlotte Head, 30, and Leona Kamio, 30, were each jailed for five years and Fatema Rajwan
  
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• Blake Lively awarded legal fees but no damages in Justin Baldoni dispute

  12-06-2026 21:55
  
  The Gossip Girl star can recover legal fees and costs arising from It Ends With Usco-actor’s countersuit Blake Lively can recover some legal costs from fellow actor and director Justin Baldoni but not punitive damages and other relief she sought after settling her legal claims over their 2024 film It Ends With Us, a judge ruled on Friday.Judge Lewis J Liman said in a written ruling that Lively can recover legal fees and costs related to her defense against a countersuit Baldoni brought aga
  
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• ‘Tickets are very expensive’: Mexican president Sheinbaum explains why she did not attend World Cup opener

  12-06-2026 21:51
  President gave ticket to a young female soccer fan‘I gave it to someone who couldn’t go, who loves football’The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, explained on Friday why she was absent from the Estadio Azteca during Mexico’s opening match with South Africa, saying tickets to the match were unaffordable for most Mexicans and that she had given her ticket to a young female soccer fan.“Stadium tickets are very expensive,” Sheinbaum said during her daily morni
  
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• ‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success

  12-06-2026 21:30
  The American author received ‘thousands of rejections’ over two decades before finally hitting gold with her first published novelJust as I am about to interview this year’s Women’s prize winner, debut American novelist Virginia Evans, at the party on a drizzly evening in a leafy London square, we are interrupted because someone wants to congratulate her. The fan is Richard Curtis.A warm-hearted weepy with a sprinkling of gentle humour, Evans’s prize-winning novel T
  
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• US-Iran peace deal remains elusive as Trump and Tehran trade conflicting claims

  12-06-2026 20:23
  US president dismisses Iranian media reports agreement is close, despite earlier suggesting a deal could be signed this weekendMiddle East crisis – live updatesProspects for an immediate end to the war between Iran and the US remained uncertain on Friday amid a chaotic series of conflicting claims and counter-claims by US and Iranian officials about ongoing negotiations.Donald Trump seemed to distance himself from his earlier comments that suggested a preliminary agreement could be signed
  
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• Scotland become faithfuls or traitors before World Cup opener against Haiti

  12-06-2026 20:08
  Robertson said game helped pass time in training campScotland play 83rd-ranked Haiti on Saturday in BostonAndy Robertson has revealed an unorthodox way Scotland have prepared for their World Cup return, with the captain organising a game of Traitors for the squad during their buildup camp in the United States.Scotland’s meeting with Haiti in Boston is their first World Cup game since 1998. Much has been made of Scotland’s togetherness in the lead up to this tournament. Robertson did
  
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• Chaotic talks on a US-Iran deal continue on the Trump rollercoaster

  12-06-2026 20:05
  Amid rhetoric, market uncertainty and tit-for-tat exchanges, the two sides are still trying to find a way out of the impasseGreat news! Donald Trump has said the US and Iran are on the verge of a peace agreement. Oil prices are down, and the stock market is up. This comes only hours after Trump warned Iran was about to be struck “VERY HARD”, a threat that had sent oil prices up and stocks down.It has been another ride on the Trump rollercoaster, keeping traders on edge, most of the w
  
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• Should you boycott the World Cup? - The Latest

  12-06-2026 20:03
  
  The football’s only just kicked off, but this World Cup has already seen its fair share of controversy. With a Somali referee barred from entering the US, Fifa president Gianni Infantino cosying up to Donald Trump and accusations of price gouging and cash grabbing, fans have been left with mixed emotions about the tournament. Annie Kelly speaks to the sportswriter and columnist Jonathan Liew Continue reading...
  
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• Rangers target Derek McInnes from Hearts as replacement for Danny Röhl

  12-06-2026 19:56
  
  Röhl expected to join RB SalzburgMcInnes turned down chance to manage Rangers in 2017Rangers are likely to move for the Hearts manager, Derek McInnes, if Danny Röhl completes a move to RB Salzburg. The Ibrox club and Salzburg are in talks over a deal for Röhl, who was appointed by Rangers last October. The 37-year-old began his coaching career elsewhere in the RB stable, at Leipzig. There is a rising sense in Glasgow that he will accept Salzburg’s overtures, with a switch li
  
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• Number of arrests after riots in Northern Ireland rises to 19

  12-06-2026 19:48
  Police call for calm before anti-racist protests in Belfast and Glasgow as MPs warn of failure over online misinformationPolice said 19 people, including a 16-year-old boy, had now been arrested after two nights of rioting in Northern Ireland following a knife attack earlier in the week.The violence broke out after far-right activists called for demonstrations in response to the attack, which was captured in a graphic video. Continue reading...
  
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• British man jailed for goading American to kill himself on video call

  12-06-2026 19:46
  Dylan Phelan, 21, of Leeds, sentenced to more than six years for encouraging the suicide of 21-year-old Travis DyerA Yorkshire man has been sentenced to more than six years in jail after admitting encouraging a US citizen to kill themselves while on a video call.Dylan Phelan, 21, was sentenced on Friday at Leeds crown court after previously pleading guilty to intentionally doing an act that was capable of encouraging the suicide of another person.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacte
  
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• The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply | Robert Reich

  12-06-2026 19:40
  The economic principles taught in school aren’t as relevant as hype, connections and total, arbitrary controlShare your views on SpaceX’s stock market debutElon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire, after his SpaceX exploration and satellite company went public on the Nasdaq on Friday.With shares priced at $135 each, Musk’s aerospace and satellite maker soared to an overall market valuation of approximately $1.77tn – which raised Musk’s net worth (which
  
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• Starmer admits he must ‘turn things around’ as US adds to pressure over defence spending

  12-06-2026 19:40
  
  Prime minister promises to fight any leadership challenge as he faces escalating row over military spending Keir Starmer has admitted that he has to “turn things around” after the resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey, in an escalating row over military spending that has prompted recriminations across Whitehall and concern from the US.Downing Street and the Treasury traded blows with allies of Healey on Friday. No 10 expressed dismay that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had
  
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• Thomas Partey out of Ghana’s World Cup opener after visa application to Canada refused

  12-06-2026 19:32
  Player had been due to face Panama in TorontoFifa says decision made by Canadian governmentThomas Partey has been denied entry to Canada and will not be available for Ghana’s first World Cup game in Toronto on Wednesday.The former Arsenal midfielder was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in July 2025 by the Metropolitan police and pleaded not guilty. Partey, who now plays for the Spanish club Villarreal, was subsequently charged with two new counts of rape in
  
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• ‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more

  12-06-2026 19:27
  
  Artists and cultural figures celebrate the great Yorkshire painter who could ‘make teabags and toothpaste glamorous’ – with a poem from a fellow Yorkshireman‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking “wow, is that what b
  
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• David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88

  12-06-2026 19:18
  
  The peroxide blond painter from Yorkshire made his name with sunkissed visions of California and never stopped breaking barriers, going on to become one of contemporary art’s most important figures
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  • David Hockney’s life in picturesDavid Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was p
  
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• The Guardian view on the Makerfield byelection: Andy Burnham is looking to beat Reform’s politics of anger | Editorial

  12-06-2026 19:08
  A win for Labour would show how the party can speak to working-class insecurity without scapegoating minoritiesThe resignations from the heart of government this week will only deepen the anti-Westminster mood ahead of the Makerfield byelection. The departure of the defence secretary, John Healey, and his deputy illustrates that Sir Keir Starmer’s problem is not just his unpopularity. It is that his claim to competence is being challenged from the inside. When ministers resign saying that
  
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• The Guardian view on literature in wartime: words do not stop when the bombing begins | Editorial

  12-06-2026 19:07
  Writers do not only document the horror of conflict; they speak to a future that must exist beyond itLast week, thousands of readers gathered for a literary festival in Kyiv, risking air raids to hear from writers. Four brutal years of war have not destroyed the appetite for writing, but fuelled it. Russia’s extensive and systematic attempts to destroy Ukrainian culture, and therefore identity, have rightly received widespread attention. Over 700 libraries were damaged or destroyed outrigh
  
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• Ugly scenes in Belfast expose a broken politics | Letters

  12-06-2026 18:59
  Readers respond to nights of rioting in the city fuelled by anti-migrant rhetoric I agree with John Harris’s analysis (Cars burn in Belfast, bricks fly in Southampton – and the ubiquitous cry of ‘civil war’ goes up again, 10 June). He misses one obvious point, though. Since the election of the first Thatcher government in 1979, there has been a continuous attack on the rights and living standards of working-class people, such that we are now seeing a decline in healthy li
  
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• Ten years after the vote, we have some new slogans for the Brexit bus | Letters

  12-06-2026 18:59
  Readers respond to an article by Jonathan Freedland about our entire political and cultural landscape being shaped by the referendumJonathan Freedland is right to highlight the disastrous role played by David Cameron and George Osborne in using the prospect of an in/out referendum to garner votes in the 2015 election, with a view to dropping it if the expected coalition with the Lib Dems emerged (Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus, 5 June).But
  
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• Readers’ top 100 novels cause a stir | Letters

  12-06-2026 18:59
  Letter writers challenge what appears and what doesn’tAlex Clark writes that The Lord of the Rings “is, strictly speaking, a trilogy” (Move over Middlemarch! Readers’ top 100 novels, 6 June). Strictly speaking, it isn’t a trilogy but a single work of fiction originally published in three volumes for practical reasons. None of the three volumes can stand alone. Compare, for example, the late David Lodge’s Changing Places, Small World, and Nice Work – a pr
  
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• From Celtic culture to Norman wisdom, the English should delight in their hybridity | Letters

  12-06-2026 18:59
  The origins of the English nation long preceded the Anglo-Saxons, says Rev Dr Richard Cleaves. Plus a letter from George NicholsonRev Dr John Caperon, writing about the Bayeux tapestry’s visit to Britain, appears to think that “the real origins of the English nation” lie in the “pre-1066 Anglo-Saxon culture” (Letters, 9 June).This is utterly outrageous. A little respect is due to the Danelaw and the Vikings, to the Celts of the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries, to
  
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• Mary Hooper obituary

  12-06-2026 18:48
  My mum, the author Mary Hooper, who has died aged 81, left school aged 15 with no qualifications. Her last school report said: “Far too noisy and talkative.” When she was a young mother in the 1970s she read a short story and thought “I could do better than that,” wrote one up and sent it to Jackie magazine. To her surprise, it sold for £14.She went on to write hundreds of stories and more than 100 books for children and young adults, before YA was an official genre
  
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• CBS News hires Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as global correspondent

  12-06-2026 18:32
  British journalist becomes one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari WeissCBS News has hired the prominent British broadcaster Trevor Phillips as its senior global affairs correspondent in a significant hire for embattled top editor Bari Weiss.The network said that reporting by Phillips, who currently presents the flagship Sunday political show on Sky News in the UK, would appear “on all CBS News programs and platforms”. Continue reading...
  
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• Who is Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary replacing John Healey?

  12-06-2026 18:28
  Ex-paratrooper described by colleagues as straight shooter has long seemed destined for role but may not get longMPs who know Dan Jarvis are not surprised he accepted the cursed job of defence secretary – even knowing he may last only a few weeks in the job. The former paratrooper, once touted as a leadership contender, has long seemed destined for that role, having worked his way diligently through ministerial ranks, a South Yorkshire mayoralty and the shadow cabinet.“He’ll ha
  
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• ‘The absence becomes the point’: the steady march of barely there shoes

  12-06-2026 18:26
  Dear Frances offers the latest take on ballet flats, offering ‘a glove-like fit wearability’ – which is fine if you have nice feetWhen is a shoe not a shoe? On sale this month is a pair that seems to pose the question – the no shoe-shoe is the work of the cult brand Dear Frances and the latest in a steady march of shoes that are barely there; a take on naked dressing but for the foot.The Balla shoe, which the brand calls a “sock shoe”, covers almost the entire
  
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• Martin Rowson on the resignation of John Healey – cartoon

  12-06-2026 18:12
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• ‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that won her the Women’s prize

  12-06-2026 17:59
  The BBC’s chief international correspondent was awarded the prestigious nonfiction prize for The Finest Hotel in Kabul – which she hopes will bring more attention to the Taliban’s draconian treatment of womenWomen’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfictionLyse Doucet first checked into Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Christmas Day 1988, as Soviet troops were withdrawing from Afghanistan at the end of a decade-long occupatio
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love review – who’s she singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good

  12-06-2026 17:58
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  Gossips have rushed to the lyrics for details about her personal life, but the rest of us can just get on with luxuriating in Rodrigo’s funny, Cure-infused craftWith a certain crushing inevitability, the arrival of Olivia Rodrigo’s third album has been accompanied by a lot of frenzied decoding of its lyrics for references to Louis Partridge, the British actor whose relationship with the singer ended late last year. One magazine ran a 1,200 word essay, complete with annotatio
  
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• Leeds man jailed for 6 years for encouraging US citizen to commit suicide

  12-06-2026 17:44 via bbc.com
  
  A group of men including Dylan Phelan, encouraged 21-year-old Travis Dyer to carve their initials into his skin, spend money on drugs and alcohol and take his own life.
  
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• ‘Go Knicks!’: from Wu-Tang to Trump, New York is gripped by basketball fever

  12-06-2026 17:34
  
  City has become caught up in the drama as team stands on brink of a first NBA championship in 53 yearsAfter the New York Knicks’ furious comeback over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night, the last place anyone in the city wanted to be was at home. Taylor Swift and Larry David were among the celebrities who lingered at Madison Square Garden after the final buzzer sounded on the 107-106 victory as Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York washed over the arena.The former Knick Iman Shump
  
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• Remove Windrush payout scheme from Home Office control, campaigners urge

  12-06-2026 17:29
  Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent bodyThe prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control.About 70 public figures have signed an open letter backing a call by the Windrush Justice Community Collective (WJCC) for a radical overhaul of the scheme, which was set up to compensate those, mainly Black Britons, who were wrongly classed as illegal migrants and stripped o
  
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• Rachel Nicholson obituary

  12-06-2026 17:27
  My friend Rachel Nicholson, who has died aged 91, is known as an artist whose paintings possess rich colour, extraordinary focus and stillness, yet she began making them only in her 40s.Rachel was born in London, one of triplets born to the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She, her sister Sarah and her brother Simon spent a childhood shaped by her parents’ need to maintain their own careers. At first they were cared for at a training school for nursery nurses. When the family mo
  
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• What we know about how Northern Ireland's riots were organised

  12-06-2026 17:25 via bbc.com
  
  Northern Ireland has seen three nights of violence after footage of a knife attack on Monday night spread across social media.
  
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• Three more men jailed for Henry Nowak protest violence

  12-06-2026 17:13 via bbc.com
  
  A total of 13 men have so far been jailed over the disorder in Southampton last week.
  
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• Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

  12-06-2026 17:00
  Exclusive A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France, sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing” and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s pen
  
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• Defence row exposes tensions over how to keep UK safe

  12-06-2026 16:46 via bbc.com
  
  Ex-Defence Secretary John Healey has said the defence investment plan is "well short of what is required".
  
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• Donaldson denies meeting sex abuse accuser to 'nip in the bud' allegations

  12-06-2026 16:14 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
  
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• ‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing

  12-06-2026 16:09
  With more than 177,000 people forcibly disappeared since 2011, short doc Maybe Tomorrow captures ‘the violence of waiting’ experienced by familyWhen Wafa Mustafa was a child, she remembers her father playing the music of Umm Kulthum non-stop at home in Syria, humming along to the legendary Egyptian singer’s melodic tones. One day, in an effort to encourage his daughter to appreciate music, he asked her to take a pen and paper and write the lyrics of a song she loved. Wanting to
  
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