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September 20, 2024
Best universities in the UK: the Sunday Times league table revealed
LSE knocks Oxbridge out the top spots and is named our University of the Year
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September 20, 2024
China’s muscle-flexing raises prospect of an Asian Nato
A meeting of the ‘quad’ — the US, Japan, Australia and India — this weekend will underscore rising tensions in east Asia
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September 19, 2024
Supercar Blondie: the woman changing the face of petrolheads
Alex Hirschi’s Supercar Blondie social media platform generates billions of views worldwide — and made the 39-year-old wealthy enough to aff...
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September 19, 2024
Matt Forde: ‘Other comics don’t joke about erectile dysfunction’
A year ago, the stand-up and podcaster Matt Forde was diagnosed with a rare cancer. He underwent gruelling surgery and spent ten weeks in h...
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September 19, 2024
Fayed smiled at me: ‘Have you ever eaten bulls’ testicles?’
Sophia Money-Coutts recalls her encounter with the late Harrods owner, who has been accused of rape and sexual assault by more than 20 women
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September 19, 2024
Our crash course with the world’s most famous couples therapist
Esther Perel’s new masterclass is designed to boost desire in relationships. Anna Maxted and her husband, Phil, signed up
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September 19, 2024
Starmer needs optimism to beat the black hole
The economist who inspired the PM says Labour’s mission-driven objectives will only be met if they offer opportunities for investment and in...
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September 19, 2024
Lord Blunkett: Prisons review can learn from my mistakes
The former home secretary is in talks with Labour to lead a review, despite his role in ‘sentence inflation’ that has been blamed for the ov...
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September 19, 2024
When the Evening Standard had big names and deep pockets
Plus: how beer can fix the birth rate, England’s football team as the world’s worst warm-up act, and Ruby Wax’s silent retreat
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September 19, 2024
Husband of Russia’s richest woman arrested over office shootout
Security guards were killed in Moscow when Tatyana Bakalchuk said her estranged partner broke into her company’s premises
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September 19, 2024
OceanGate hearings: Titan submersible passengers were ‘excited and smiling’
A member of the support team broke down as she told the inquiry how happy everyone was as they set off on their $250,000-a-head trip in June...
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September 19, 2024
Mark Robinson denies calling himself a ‘black Nazi’ and a pervert
The Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina was described by the former president as ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’. A CNN repor...
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September 19, 2024
Allan Lichtman: Harris will win. Here are eight reasons why
He has correctly predicted nine of the ten past US elections and his ‘keys to the White House’ model, inspired by a Soviet seismologist, sug...
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September 19, 2024
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September 19, 2024
Covid study: ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ virus originated in animal market
Researchers from the United States and France made the claim after conducting the most thorough genetic analysis yet of hundreds of samples...
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September 19, 2024
French prime minister submits new government to Macron
The president had asked Michel Barnier, the former Brexit negotiator, to put together an administration that would ‘unite the country’ after...
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September 19, 2024
Omagh hum mystery solved — but source to remain a secret
Residents complained about a low-frequency noise, which seems to have subsided since the spring
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September 19, 2024
Drinking ‘is usual in Poland’ says ice cream man four times limit
Radoslaw Jaroszek was nearly four times over the legal limit when stopped by police in Great Yarmouth
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September 19, 2024
I worked at Harrods — we knew about Mohamed Al Fayed’s reputation
Female staff were often taken to Paris by the department store owner but many quit because their stories would not be believed, a former wor...
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September 19, 2024
Israel strikes Lebanon as Hezbollah leader warns of ‘punishment’
Hassan Nasrallah said that ‘red lines’ had been crossed after at least 37 people were killed by booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies
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September 19, 2024
YouTuber’s Everest video adds to French cinema’s uphill battle
Kaizen, a documentary by the streamer Inoxtag, has attracted 310,000 cinemagoers in two days, eclipsing works starring top actors
The Times
September 19, 2024
Lebanon warns Israeli invasion will be ‘doomsday’
Rami Mortada, the country’s ambassador to the UK, says the Middle East is on a ‘perilous path’ and that an escalation of the conflict could...
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September 19, 2024
We spent $1m on Disney — then were banned from its ‘cult’
The Disneyland aficionados Diana and Scott Anderson sued and lost after their membership of Club 33 was terminated. Now they are ready to sp...
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September 19, 2024
Starmer insists ‘he’s in control’ after Sue Gray pay row
The prime minister acceded to a £25,000 increase for his chief of staff, it has emerged, contradicting claims made by ministers that there w...
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September 19, 2024
Pelicot rape trial: defendant insists he thought ‘it was a game’
The first of 50 men accused of raping a drugged woman at the behest of her husband gave evidence to a court in France
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September 19, 2024
Health and safety blow to Cornish head-bumping tradition
At the beating of the boundaries ceremony in Helston, children are lifted and their heads are bumped on boundary stones, but the age-old rit...
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September 19, 2024
Labour MP’s nurseries breached child safety rules, Ofsted finds
Jas Athwal, the MP for Ilford South and the biggest landlord in the House of Commons, has also faced pressure over conditions in his rental...
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September 19, 2024
‘Now we’re afraid of phones and laptops’: Beirut on edge after attacks
After pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon, people in the country’s capital are wary — but are expecting Hezbollah to retaliate...
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September 19, 2024
Brains of conservative voters have larger ‘fear centre’
MRI scans show that the amygdala — the organ involved in processing negative stimuli such as threats — is smaller in those who see themselve...
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September 19, 2024
John Cleese accuses Eric Idle of ‘invention’ in feud over manager
The Monty Python stars reignite their row over accusations that Cleese sacked Jim Beach
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September 19, 2024
Tributes paid to British couple killed in Mallorca flash floods
A memorial service will be held for Sarah Jane Thompson and Alexander Barrett who died while hiking in the Tramuntana mountain range earlier...
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September 19, 2024
Reform’s new boss: ‘People who pre-judge me are the real racists’
Zia Yusuf says the fact he is the child of immigrants has no bearing on his political views — and insists ‘British values’ are under threat...
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September 19, 2024
Reeves’s £10bn windfall raises pressure to drop winter fuel cut
A decision by the Bank of England will give the chancellor more financial headroom but she is likely to resist calls to ease fiscal discipli...
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September 19, 2024
Japanese boy stabbed to death in China amid rising tensions
The attack on the ten-year-old close to his school in Shenzhen comes amid often virulent anti-Japanese rhetoric
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September 19, 2024
Coming apart at the seams already? Starmer’s sartorial saga rumbles on
Our new prime minister is keen to crack on with the ‘big things’. Unfortunately for him, all anybody wants to talk about is the row about wh...
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September 19, 2024
Gabby Logan: My podcast sex chat makes my son cringe
Her discussions about sex with her husband Kenny after successful prostate cancer treatment have created a nightmare for their rugby player...
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September 19, 2024
Hollywood actor Jason Hoganson arrested a day after early release
The actor, who appeared in the 1980s film Empire State, was held on suspicion of breaching two restraining orders and assault
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September 19, 2024
Visions of Virgin Mary bring economic miracle to Bosnian town
The Vatican has given its backing to Medjugorje, where record numbers of pilgrims are expected to visit this year as an alternative to Jerus...
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September 19, 2024
Serial job applicant ‘uses AI to generate 4,600 vexatious claims’
The unemployed man has applied for thousands of jobs over the past five years and is said to have won £35,000 in out-of-court settlements,...
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September 19, 2024
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney review — her characters just aren’t normal people
The protagonists in the Irish author’s fourth novel are sensitive, cultivated, highly intellectual and have great sex. But do they have to b...
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September 19, 2024
Quarter of pupils with three Ds at A-level get first-class degrees
The university regulator finds that almost half of top degrees cannot be justified
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September 19, 2024
Amazon ‘ignoring evidence’ by ending WFH, says business secretary
Jonathan Reynolds says ‘low-growth Britain’ needs flexibility as the retail powerhouse calls staff back to the office five days a week
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September 19, 2024
Inside the underwater arms race to build the best submarines
The US, China and Russia are competing to develop the quietest and most capable vessels, using the melting seas around Norway as a proving g...
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September 19, 2024
Sweden swaps soft play for hard learning as it lowers school age
Its education system has long been held up as a model, but Sweden is going ‘back to basics’ to reverse a decline — starting by scrapping its...
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September 19, 2024
Row takes off over damaged £3m mansion below Heathrow flight path
A property investor blames planes for damaging a grade II listed property, which dates back to 1750 — and says the airport ‘abandoned’ plan...
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September 19, 2024
Emma Raducanu into Korea Open last eight after ‘saving herself’ for Asia
The 21-year-old backs up her claim that she ‘thrives’ in Asia, defeating the No8 seed Yue Yuan 6-4, 6-3 as she bids to increase her workload...
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September 19, 2024
What is Hezbollah in Lebanon — and who are its leaders?
The terrorist group, led by Hassan Nasrallah, suffered a humiliating attack by Israel this week, which may draw them into a full-blown confl...
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September 19, 2024
Ex-Arsenal footballer charged after £600,000 of cannabis seized
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, a striker for Greenock Morton, was arrested in connection with smuggling the drug through Stansted airport
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September 19, 2024
UK interest rates held at 5%
Bank of England ratesetters vote 8-1 to keep rates unchanged
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September 19, 2024