More than £900,000 has been raised for local groups bringing people together, with the appeal closing this week

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The Guardian’s 2025 charity appeal theme has been about hope: practical and inspiring grassroots voluntary projects that encourage community pride, tolerance and unity as a positive and joyful antidote to polarisation, racism and hatred.

We aim to raise £1m for our five partner charities. Donations are now just over £900,000. The appeal closes at midnight on Wednesday evening.

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The U.S. Air Force hit the streets of San Francisco for a military training mission in which the airmen were told to evade enemy capture while being hunted by military forces.

Cops walked into a "horror movie," according to Delaware County DA Tanner Rouse.

The directive states these funds should be used in Venezuela to help create “peace, prosperity and stability”

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Money-hungry fisherman and salesman are ignoring international regulations so they can reap big profits in the illegal sale of shark fins, but new research reveals this could lead to sharks becoming extinct.

The authorities in Clay County, Miss., arrested a 24-year-old man after a 7-year-old girl and five more people were killed.

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“A rock the size of a baseball was thrown through the school bus, into the bus, injuring a child,” Teaneck Mayor Mark Schwartz said in a video posted Friday on Facebook.

A 13kg deer decided to take on a 1.7-tonne rhinoceros in a curious confrontation at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland on Friday (9 January).

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Despite significant support for the shah, Iranian society may be looking for any ‘escape from a dead end’

Supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s deposed shah, were claiming the crowds out in the streets of Iran were a direct response to his call to action. They described it as a referendum on his leadership and that the response showed he had won.

Yet the issue of an alternative leadership for Iran remains unresolved. Many Iranians, eager to end the 47-year-long rule of the clerics, still view a return to monarchical rule with suspicion.

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Pau qui se déplace chez les Scarlets, Bayonne à Leicester et Clermont qui reçoit Glasgow, ont marqué zéro point à mi-parcours. Au-delà d'une qualification toujours mathématiquement envisageable, ces rencontres peuvent être un point de bascule sur leur deuxième partie de saison.

Donald Trump appeared to blindside Marco Rubio as he read a note aloud from the Secretary of State during a televised sit-down with oil industry executives on Friday (9 January).

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The Traitors' latest banished contestant, Fiona Hughes, left the Uncloaked studio in stitches as she revealed she'd been confronted by police after the show.

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A Texas teenager who had been missing since Christmas Day is alive — and promised that she would return home, but has not yet, according to police. Angeqlique Johnson, a 17-year-old from San Antonio, made contact with authorities who confirmed that she is well but would not say exactly where she had vanished nearly two...

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An "opportunist" thief who prowled London St Pancras station to steal a rucksack was caught by plain clothes police officers last week.

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Donatella Versace is just like us — she's watching Heated Rivalry too.

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Arlene Lillis, 56, was swimming off Drosch Beach on St. Croix around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when witnesses suddenly heard "ungodly screaming” coming from the water.

A use-of-force review board has cleared an Ohio police officer who shot and killed 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting

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A 13kg deer decided to take on a 1.7-tonne rhinoceros in a curious confrontation at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland on Friday (9 January).

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