Taylor emphasises the importance of live music as a form of escapism. "Punters don't have the expendable income they once had," he says. "Being able to go to a gig on a Wednesday night, and buy a more

She says BookTok has helped her "explore genres I never would have known about otherwise" and calls it a "great tool when you're in a reading slump and want to get back into it or try a new genre".

Four Australian women and nine of their children and grandchildren have left al-Roj camp in north-east Syria, seeking to return to Australia. The group is reportedly travelling across Syria by road t

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Azerbaijan on Friday for talks on “security and energy”, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP. Kyiv and Baku enjoy warm relations, with Azerbaijan re

A man has been extradited to the UK from the United Arab Emirates and charged with the murder of Kamonnan Thiamphanit, 27, who was stabbed in Westminster in 2024, the Metropolitan Police say.

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EU leaders have agreed that the European Commission “will prepare a blueprint” on how the bloc will respond if the little-known mutual assistance clause is triggered, according to Nikos Christodoulide

A panel of global experts has been launched to provide scientific input for countries that want to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and manage the growing risks of high oil prices, geopolitical

Tiny, high defence-spending EU and Nato member Estonia, which neighbours and fears Russia, experienced a slap in the face by the US this week regarding defence capabilities. Because of its own needs i

For those around Sir Ed Davey, the answer is yes. According to this strategy, the Lib Dems continue their bottom-up grassroots approach - building on gains in the "blue wall" of former Tory seats, wh

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One influencer he calls out is a man who says "our grandads would be turning in their graves if they had seen what men were like today". He also claims that in the past, men had higher levels of testo

"When the project was commissioned, we were told officials from the department of hydrology and meteorology will be visiting the region every year to inspect the system, but we see no one coming here,

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"It's an olive branch that we're looking for. It's the symbolism of it. Acknowledgement, shaking the hand and looking us in the face and saying, 'I will continue on my promise to honour a fair trial.

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Alex de Minaur has suffered a startling defeat, crushed by the latest teenage Spanish wonder boy in the second round of the Madrid Open. On a day when Carlos Alcaraz caused consternation by announcin

"People in here are innovative - they have time to think about how to kill and damage," he says in a stream of messages to me. "You'd be surprised what they can do with razor blades and a toothbrush.

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Raaheeb, a full brother to the exceptional Baaeed, is top-priced at 10-1 to emulate his sire, Sea The Stars, by winning the Derby at Epsom in June after a convincing in the Group Three Classic Trial a

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Héctor Bellerín struck deep into stoppage time to earn Real Betis a 1-1 draw against Real Madrid on Friday, dealing another blow to the visitors’ fading title hopes. Álvaro Arbeloa’s side appeared on

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Booing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Melbourne and Sydney, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin Beach. One man was a

"You can look at it one day and it says one thing, then the next day it says something completely different."

"There was no streaming or any way to just download it, so if you wanted to hear it then you had to get out of your house, stand in line in the freezing cold in Glasgow and then go inside and have the

There has long been an issue with the sheer size of the seats spanning Scotland's sparsely-populated highlands, where you have to cross thousands of square kilometres to round up a large enough group

As a top-class athlete and nutritionist, Katie was in a great health before the illness but due to the septic shock her bowel had perforated and her lungs started to shut down as she struggled to take

Millwall moved back into the Championship’s automatic promotion position places but could only snatch a late 1-1 draw at already relegated Leicester. Substitute Macaulay Langstaff’s first goal since

'My living nightmare' - Rob Reiner's son bares soul on how he found out parents were dead The actor says the grief of his parents' brutal deaths and the arrest of his own brother left him in a "tranc

He said Jones "would be the last person in the world to want a statue of him" but would "make an exception" for this design as "I think he'd find it very funny indeed".

Sion Amlyn, policy and case officer of the teachers' union NASUWT, said: "If one weapon was found, it would be one too many, so the fact that this appears to be increasing is frightening...[and the] f

The owner of British Airways (BA) has warned of higher ticket prices as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the Iran war has led to a sharp rise in oil prices. IAG said on Friday that the situ

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