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‘Cheap iPhone Deal’: Warning Over Scam Sites Selling Latest Apple Mobiles

Apple has just launched a range of new iPhones, including a foldable handset, just as you decide it is time to replace your own ageing mobile. But you balk at the £1,199 price tag for the cheapest of ...

My Partner’s Sister Has Published A Family Memoir That's Unfair To Him. Should We Cut Ties? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

My sister-in-law wrote and published an emotionally charged “memoir” of family dislocation and trauma, in which she massaged the truth of her family’s past to portray my partner as emotionally damaged...

Missouri Coach Blasts Kansas Over Slavery References After Border War Win

The latest edition of the Border War between Missouri and Kansas turned out to be a mere skirmish for a half.Robert Woodyard Jr produced back-to-back turnovers soon after the break, and Austin Simmons...

IDF Soldier Filmed Shooting Palestinian In Leg Amid West Bank Settler Standoff

An Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian man, wounding him in the leg, as settlers confronted villagers by grazing livestock on Palestinian-owned land in the town of Faqqua in the occupied West Bank.Eyew...

Formula One 2026: Spanish Grand Prix Qualifying At The Madring – Live

PreambleKimi Antonelli does not need luck. Last year his promotion to the second seat at Mercedes looked premature and he was exposed on occasion, but he thoroughly absorbed every lesson and is a dese...

Julia Donaldson: ‘Am I The Gruffalo Granny? Not Really. I’m The Mouse’

In 1999 a journalist asked a then-unknown author to share her millennium wish. The author, who was 51 years old and had published only one book before, said she hoped her new one, out that year, would...

Bayeux Tapestrymania Has Gripped Britain. But What Does It Say About Our Own Age of War and Upheaval? | Charlotte Higgins

I have seen the Bayeux tapestry four times since childhood, and loved it on each viewing, for the sheer miracle of its survival and the glorious vividness of its detail. But the fourth time, earlier t...

Can Chatbots Feel – Or Even Dream? Meet The Man Leading The Fight for AI Rights

One afternoon, while relaxing at his 66-acre cattle ranch two hours’ drive from Houston, Michael Samadi made a wisecrack that changed the course of his life. Nobody else was around to hear it. Or were...

Nearly 50,000 Yemeni Civilians Flee As Houthis Advance Along Red Sea Coast

Nearly 50,000 people have fled a sudden advance by Houthi forces in western Yemen, with entire villages emptied and families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, according to ...

‘They’re Lifesavers’: The Birmingham Clinic Giving Hope To Traumatised Asylum Seekers

Azad*, an asylum seeker from Iran, recounts his story in a gentle and mild manner, seated in the stillness of a therapy room at a trauma clinic in Birmingham.The centre, which opened its doors in July...

The Rapid Houthi Advance In Yemen: Why It Matters and What’s At Stake

Violence has erupted again in Yemen, where a rapid advance by the Houthis in recent days is threatening another waterway critical to global shipping.More than 1,000 people have been killed or wounded,...

George W Bush’s Impunity Led To Trump’s Lawlessness | Kenneth Roth

If George W Bush’s abusive response to the September 11 attacks had been prosecuted rather than swept under the rug, Donald Trump would be less able to pursue his lawless policies. We can’t rewind his...

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts: Second Song Review – Shaky Album Occasionally Strikes Gold

You can’t fault Neil Young for his industry. Second Song is his second new album of 2026: the first, a double live set called As Time Explodes, was released just over three months ago. Indeed, at 80, ...

More and More Animals Are Moving Into Our Homes As Theirs Get Chopped Down and Dug Up | First Dog On The Moon

The echidna in the pantry, the koala in the boudoir, the skink in the sink. All true!Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop ...

‘People Think Fame Is A Magic Wand’: Jarvis Cocker On Old Songs, Young Fans And His Granny’s Verdict On Pulp

When the director Garth Jennings first moved to Paris, Jarvis Cocker, who was living there, dropped in on his old friend. “And I nearly got you arrested,” the Pulp frontman recalls. It was bonfire nig...

Scherzetto Review – Toni Servillo Brings Gravitas To A Dithering Neapolitan Ghost Story

It’s always good to see the veteran Italian star Toni Servillo at Venice; in fact, the festival is pretty much unthinkable without him. But this initially promising prospect – adapted from a novel by ...

‘Our Forefathers Are Coming Back’: Naga People Celebrate After Oxford Museum Agrees To Return Remains

Anthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that human remains belonging to their ancestors that had bee...

The UK’s Sanctions On Israeli Settlements Are A Great Victory – But Must Be Only The Beginning | Em Hilton

The announcement on Tuesday by the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, of an import ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as a comprehensive sancti...

Twenty-five Years After 9/11, The Daughter of A Hero Remembers The Mother She Lost

Anna Sweeney Rossman was only 5 years old when her mother, flight attendant Madeline “Amy” Sweeney, died aboard an airliner that terrorists hijacked and deliberately flew into the World Trade Center o...

From Chris Rock To Helen Mirren: 10 Films To Look Out For At The Toronto Film Festival 2026

Defining Toronto’s place within the fall festival season has become a little harder in recent years. As fewer studios and film-makers want to brave the risks that come attached to premiering on such a...