It was a stunning upset for the Conservative Party leader, who was first elected in 2004.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan’s continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui after fellow ‘Class of ‘92’ veterans John Higgins and Mark Williams do battle

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People urged to avoid area and 80 evacuated as huge fire breaks out at electrical substation in Maida Vale

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Videos and pictures of the fire shows thick black smoke and flames coming from the property in Somerset

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President Trump brushes off his plummeting approval ratings and condemns the polls as ‘FAKE’ as he marks his 100th day in office

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Black smoke and flames were seen erupting in rush hour today near Warwick Avenue station

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Follow live for the latest UK pre-order updates from The Game Collection, Amazon and more

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The decision came as preparations get underway for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis

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This was a vote against delusions of a ‘51st state’ and economic warfare, rather than an endorsement of the Liberals’ policies

Yesterday, as Canadians went to the polls, US president Donald Trump suggested that if Canada became part of America, they could vote for him instead. But in truth, Canada becoming the 51st state wasn’t a prerequisite for Canadians to vote on Trump. It was Trump who set the stakes of this election anyway, beginning almost as soon as he took office. His threats against Canada, both economic and existential, were the backdrop of this campaign. An unexpected crisis on our doorstep.

And now, the Liberal party, led by Mark Carney, has won a fourth term in office, a result that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago, before Trump’s unprecedented intervention.

Colin Horgan is a Toronto-based writer and a former speechwriter for Justin Trudeau

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‘Empire’ actor claimed that rumours about legendary singer’s sexuality made him decline role

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Spain and Portugal report power supplies almost back to normal after day of chaos across the Iberian Peninsula

Portuguese infrastructure minister Miguel Pinto Luz has once again suggested that the power cut originated outside Portugal, as the search for answers continues, Diário de Notícias reported.

Lisbon metro appears to be back up and running.

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Benidorm’s usually bustling streets were deserted as a power outage affected Spain and Portugal on Monday, 28 April.

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The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’

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Purcell received a 25 per cent reduction in sanction due to full cooperation during the investigation

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Residents claimed that the suspected cat killer used a needle to inject a substance into one of the cats, and another resident told FOX 11 Los Angeles that they found their cat hanging from a tree.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are on trial at Newcastle Crown Court accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree

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The trucker jacket is from US brand Huckberry

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Prices were largely driven higher by a 17.4% rise in chocolate confectionery prices in the four weeks to April 20.

Stewart also mocked Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary and JD Vance meeting the Pope before his death

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As Putin makes his grand three-day truce announcement, Ukrainians on the ground are immediately dismissive of claims he is serious – there are good reasons for that, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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Paid-for citizenship offer must be scrapped under European Court of Justice ruling

Spanish power distributors said on Tuesday morning that more than 99% of power has been recovered.

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Indian authorities arrest over 500 people and demolish homes in security crackdown sweeping Kashmir

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $254 billion budget that includes a deal with lawmakers to add a charge for mask-wearing suspects.

Jurors have been selected and opening statements are due on Wednesday in a case that has captured global attention

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The limited-edition treat draws inspiration from Dubai chocolate

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It came as parent firm Associated British Foods said it saw ‘weaker sales’ across the budget fashion chain’s UK and Ireland stores.

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Researchers say there may only be about 1,000 of the reptiles left

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The former X Factor judge has opened up about the online abuse she suffered

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Mikel Arteta is fine-tuning the Gunners for ‘the game of our lives’ against PSG in the Champions League last four

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For their 14th wedding anniversary, Prince William and Kate Middleton are heading to Scotland where they fell in love at the University of St. Andrews.

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit. These remains are dated to the second century A.D.

Expert crash reconstruction witness Dr. Daniel Wolfe received information about prior testimony and sent notes to Karen Read's defense team during first murder trial.

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an office

There are not many romantic novels that include Brexit, Boris Johnson’s ICU stay and the “Edstone”. Then again, not many political novels begin with a classic meet-cute. Jessica Stanley’s UK debut, Consider Yourself Kissed, is – to misquote Dorothy L Sayers – either a political story with romantic interludes, or a romance novel with political interludes. It is also the kind of book that, for a certain kind of reader, will immediately become a treasure.

That meet-cute, then: Coralie, a young Australian copywriter, and Adam, a single dad, swap homes for a single night. Adam looks like a shorter, younger Colin Firth; Coralie waits in vain for him to tell her that she looks “like Lizzy Bennet, a known fact at school”. Coralie considers Adam’s neat bookcase of political biographies, including – to her joy – those of Australian politicians. Adam considers Coralie’s piles of “those green-spine books by women”. They fall in love, books-first, fairly instantly. And the reader who knows immediately that battered green spines mean Virago Press, and that what is being implied by Coralie’s careful collection is key to not just her character, but the character of this novel as a whole – that reader will also be irresistibly, hopelessly in love by chapter three. (If this meet-cute does nothing for you, you’re in the wrong place.)

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A former FBI agent said the Trump administration's efforts to arrest illegal immigrants and gang members is making crime "go down."

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's death over the weekend marks the third victim to die since 2017.

Liverpool won the title in their first season under Arne Slot.

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Trump has cut off Ukraine aid, brokered and lost a ceasefire in Gaza and took a sledgehammer to world commerce

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For US foreign policy, Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were the weeks when decades happened.

In just over three months, the US president has frayed alliances that stood since the second world war and alienated the US’s closest friends, cut off aid to Ukrainians on the frontlines against Vladimir Putin, emboldened US rivals around the world, brokered and then lost a crucial ceasefire in Gaza, launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and seesawed on key foreign policy and economic questions to the point where the US has been termed the “unpredictable ally”.

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Trump has wasted no time in trying to remake the US in his image – with results that are sweeping, vengeful and chaotic

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He has blinged it with gold cherubs, gold eagles, gold medallions, gold figurines and gilded rococo mirrors. He has crammed its walls with gold-framed paintings of great men from US history. In 100 days Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into a gilded cage.

The portraits of Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan and other past presidents gaze down from a past that the 47th seems determined to erase. Trump is seeking to remake the US in his image at frightening speed. The shock and awe of his second term has challenged many Americans’ understanding of who they are.

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In this warm documentary, three siblings clear out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire where among the happy memories are those of cruelty

This warm, gentle documentary from Suzanne Raes is about a family – and a family home – that might have interested Nancy Mitford or Wes Anderson. Maybe it takes a non-British film-maker to appreciate such intense and unfashionable Englishness; not eccentric exactly, but wayward and romantic. It is about a trio of middle-aged siblings’ from the Impey family who take on the overpoweringly sad duty of clearing out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire. The huge medieval manor house Cumnor Place, with its dozens of chimneys, mysterious rooms and staircases was bought by their late mother, the neuroscientist Jane Impey (née Mellanby), with the proceeds of the sale in 1966 of a postcard-sized but hugely valuable painting, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint George and the Dragon.

Impey died in 2021 and her husband, author and antiquarian Oliver Impey, died in 2005; this left their grownup children with the task of coming to terms with the memory of growing up in what is clearly an extraordinary place. It is magical and chaotic, haunted by these two dominating personalities, full of books, papers, paintings (who knows if there is another one that might be as valuable as the one Mrs Impey sold to buy the place?), huge grounds with a swimming pool, bizarre objects and items everywhere which speak of Oliver Impey’s preoccupation with the image of the dragon.

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The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportations

Law-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world.

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Through executive orders, funding freezes, and immigration enforcement measures, colleges face mounting pressure to reform to the Trump administration's crackdown on "woke" campuses.

Ronnie O’Sullivan is hunting an eighth title at the Crucible

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The decisions you make about your lifestyle during middle age can significantly impact your health and overall quality of life in the years to come.

Misha Agrawal died at age 24 -- just two days before her 25th birthday, her family has announced.

In 2019, the couple sparked speculation they had secretly married when they were spotted wearing matching gold rings, but a rep for the actor was quick to deny the rumours.

Donald Trump cast a long shadow over Canada’s national election - and many voters noticed

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Here are the obligations each airline has, and what you can expect if you experience delays

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Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have temporarily shut more than half of tourist resorts in the scenic Himalayan region following a deadly attack on tourists

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Grand slam doubles champion Max Purcell has accepted an 18-month ban for breaching anti-doping rules, with the Australian saying he has developed a nervous tic and anxiety because of the case.

The 27-year-old entered a voluntary provisional suspension in December after admitting to breaching Article 2.2 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program “relating to the use of a prohibited method”.

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‘Women’s rights are considered “woke” now……’ one X user wrote

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‘It’s like I never existed,’ former ‘Bake Off’ winner said

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A powerful speech in the Bundestag made her famous and has inspired young voters to fight back against the far right

The latest tattoo on Heidi Reichinnek’s lower right arm reads “Angry Woman”. A “present to myself”, she says, after the unexpected return to the German parliament of her party, Die Linke (The Left), in February’s elections.

Months before the vote, it had been widely predicted the far-left party, successor to the east German communists, would be decimated. But the naysayers were proved wrong: Die Linke won nearly 9% of the vote, an increase of almost 4% on the previous election, giving them a healthy 64 seats in the new Bundestag.

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The global banking giant increased provisions for loans expected to turn sour by 202 million US dollars (£150.7 million) in the first quarter.

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The music superstar announced her tour in February, the morning after her 2024 country project won three awards at the Grammys, including album of the year.

Arsenal and PSG both go searching for long-awaited silverware when they meet in the Champions League semi-final on Tuesday night, with Mikel Arteta needing to overcome the club with whom he won his first European glory

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Residents of Chimney Rock, North Carolina, are still working to rebuild homes and businesses after Hurricane Helene pummeled the area in September 2024.

The world’s largest museum prize will award £120,000 to the winner, with finalists spanning living history, contemporary art and major redevelopments across the UK

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Louis Chilton picks a handful of great roles that deserved better than the films they appeared in

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From celebrities like David Harbour to social media users, the masses seem to be using the psychospiritual term to mean pretty much anything. Olivia Petter questions whether it’s truly helpful to adopt such a dramatic new buzzword to describe the wide range of deeply personal experiences related to personal growth

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Chinese national was first rescued by helicopter while on the Fujinomiya trail

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Ireland's prime minister (Taoiseach) Micheál Martin on Monday (27 April) called for Kneecap “urgently clarify” alleged comments attributed to the band about the killing of Tory MPs.

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A 14-year-old wunderkind has the cricket world in raptures after scoring an electrifying 35-ball century in the Indian Premier League

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‘In that moment I knew there was nothing more to do. He was in a coma’

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Interviewer revisited Palestinian West Bank 14 years after his documentary ‘Ultra Zionists’

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Mark Carney made a dig at Donald Trump in his victory speech after his Liberal Party won Canada's election.

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President Trump recently granted The Atlantic an interview – and seems to be attempting to court the left-of-center magazine's favor. Hell hath frozen over.

Israel’s genuine friends abroad, from governments to Jewish communities, must mobilise to help us end this terrible war

• Ami Ayalon is a former director of Shin Bet and a former commander-in-chief of Israel’s navy

I spent close to 40 years working as a public servant for the state of Israel, including as commander of the navy and head of the Shin Bet, protecting Israel and defending it from external and internal threats. Several weeks ago, along with 17 other colleagues who have also dedicated their lives to Israel’s security and welfare, I made a decision that the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state is so under threat that it is not just my responsibility, but obligation, to sound the alarm.

The 18 of us took out a full-page advert in two major Israeli broadsheet papers. In it, we made clear that the very fabric of the state of Israel and the values on which it was founded are being eroded. The truth is that our hostages in Gaza have been abandoned in favour of the government’s messianic ideology and by a prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu who is desperate to cling to power for his own personal gain. Our government is undermining the democratic functions of the state to shore up and protect its own power. It is forcing us into a perpetual war with no achievable military objectives and which can only result in more loss of life and hatred.

Ami Ayalon is a former director of Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet) and a former commander-in-chief of Israel’s navy

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Real Madrid could not live with his relentlessness but how will Rice fare against João Neves, Fabián Ruiz and Vitinha?

Declan Rice went into Arsenal’s Champions League quarter‑final against Real Madrid knowing it was a chance to go to another level. Rise to the occasion against the kings of Europe and people would see the midfielder in a different light. Remember the boy who was kicked out of Chelsea at 14? The tearful one who travelled across London for a trial at West Ham, went on to captain them to their first trophy in 43 years, and left for £105m? Well, the thing you need to know about him is that he has never been afraid to meet a challenge head on and make people think twice about questioning his talent.

So Rice backed himself when he faced Madrid and left Jude Bellingham, Eduardo Camavinga, Luka Modric and Aurélien Tchouaméni in the shade by producing man-of-the-match displays in both legs. He drove Arsenal on, powering them forward, bending the tie to his will. Madrid, the reigning European champions, could not live with his relentlessness. There was hype around Rice’s duel with Bellingham, but it did not live up to much. There was no debate about who dominated the battle between the two leaders of England’s midfield.

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Here are some of the stand-out plants which will be showing for the first time at Chelsea in 2025…

Dear Abby advises a woman on her family dynamics.

The company also reported that its debts swelled to 27 billion US dollars (£20.1 billion).

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Belfast rappers post apology to families of David Amess and Jo Cox after footage emerges of apparent call to kill MPs

Kneecap have apologised to the families of murdered MPs David Amess and Jo Cox after footage emerged in which the Irish-language rappers purportedly call for politicians to be killed.

Criticism of the group has been mounting – including from Downing Street and the Conservative leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch – since a video emerged from a November 2023 gig appearing to show one person from the group saying: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”

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Researchers have compared the monotreme’s traits with the Kryoryctes cadburyi, an ancient water-dwelling creature that lived in Australia more than 100m years ago

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Australia’s burrowing echidna evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an “extremely rare” biological event, scientists said in a new study of the peculiar egg-laying mammals.

With powerful digging claws, protective spikes and highly sensitive beaks, echidnas are well suited to a life shuffling through the forest undergrowth. But a team of Australian and international scientists believe many of the echidna’s unusual traits were first developed millions of years ago when its ancestors splashed through the water.

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Mammography remains the only health examination exclusively carried out by female staff

President will ease some duties on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars, administration says

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Donald Trump plans to cushion the impact of his tariffs on US carmakers by easing some duties on foreign vehicle parts, his administration has said.

“President Trump is building an important partnership with both the domestic automakers and our great American workers,” the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said in a statement provided by the White House.

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Eating more fruit and staying positive may also help lower risk, researchers find

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Jakes is handing over leadership of The Potter’s House to daughter and son-in-law

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