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Jill Gomez obituary
Jill Gomez, the soprano celebrated for her lustrous voice and vivid stage presence, has died aged 83. She rose to prominence in the early 1970s and became a fixture at Glyndebourne, Covent Garden and English National Opera, praised for performances including the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s…
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Couple are mercilessly rammed down by speeding G-Wagon stolen by four teens who led police on hours-long chase, cops say
A married couple were killed in New Jersey after a Mercedes G-Wagon, allegedly stolen and driven by four teenagers fleeing police, crossed the centre line and smashed head-on into their car. Alice Stilwell, 67, and Robert Barr Jr, 54, died in the crash near Mays Landing, roughly 18 miles from Atlantic City, in a case…
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Woke Boston mayor goes on fever-pitched hunt to track down and threaten business owners renting parking spots to ICE agents in her city: ‘This is unhinged’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has clashed publicly with the US Department of Homeland Security after urging local business owners not to rent parking spaces to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The row began after a federal procurement notice showed ICE seeking 249 consecutive parking spaces in the city’s central business district, prompting Wu to write…
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Hugo Weaving stars in bingeable airport chaplain drama
Netflix’s new eight-part series The Airport Chaplain stars Hugo Weaving as Tobias Wallace, a real-life-inspired airport chaplain who inserts himself into virtually every crisis at his airport, from lost luggage to domestic violence and grief counselling. Reviewer Michael Sun praises the pacy, “moreish” show, co-created by Elise McCredie and Jude Troy, for being thoroughly bingeable,…
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Teen who stabbed university student in the heart while he was on the phone with his girlfriend after falling out over fake Rolex found guilty of manslaughter
A jury at Leicester Crown Court has found 19-year-old Harper Dennis guilty of manslaughter after he fatally stabbed fellow student Khaleed Oladipo, 20, near De Montfort University in Leicester. Dennis was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter, possessing an offensive weapon and failing to provide his phone’s PIN, following a two-week trial. Prosecutors said…
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Kemi Badenoch poised for Tory reshuffle within weeks as she steps up attack on Andy Burnham and Reform
Kemi Badenoch is preparing to reshuffle her shadow cabinet ahead of the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham in October, as she takes an increasingly combative stance against Labour’s Andy Burnham and Reform UK. The changes are being driven partly by personnel departures rather than dissatisfaction, though speculation is also swirling around some senior figures,…
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Trump Threatens Lake Ontario Renaming as Canada-US Trade Dispute Escalates
A trade dispute between the United States and Canada escalated sharply after negotiations between the two countries broke down, prompting Washington to impose 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods, including hockey equipment and alcohol, while threatening a further 50% levy on cars, car parts and steel from 1 January. President Donald Trump…
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Apple desktop refresh brings M5 Ultra and M6 in September 2026
Apple has detailed how its new M5 Ultra chip, launched for the latest Mac Studio, compares with the outgoing M3 Ultra, revealing a redesigned “quad-die” architecture that fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips together — a first for Apple silicon, replacing the previous two-Max-die design. This matters because the Ultra chip targets professionals doing demanding…
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Pebble Time 2 review: The perfect smartwatch for a select group of people
Pebble, the pioneering smartwatch brand that collapsed in 2016, has returned with the Pebble Time 2, reviewed by Engadget as a deliberately minimalist device aimed at users who feel modern smartwatches have become bloated. Rather than competing with general-purpose wearables from Apple, Samsung and Google, the watch focuses on core functions such as notifications, music…
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Cross-border tensions flare as Canada-US trade talks collapse and Kremlin warns Burnham on drones
Carney rejects Trump’s tariff “attack” as trade war looms, a Kremlin adviser threatens British drone factories, and Murdoch family feuding is exposed in newly unsealed court papers.