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Andrew arrested
HE LEFT the police station under the cover of darkness. Slumped in the back seat of a car, wild-eyed and exhausted, Andrew Mountbatten-windsor looked like a man with the full weight of the past and the future on his shoulders. Born in a palace and...
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British technology helped Putin destroy my home
YANA KHUDYO, 15, woke to find herself buried beneath the rubble of her home. Two of her ribs and one leg had been shattered by an explosion. It took rescuers 40 minutes to pull her from the wreckage after Igor, her 24-year-old brother, heard her...
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Reeves blocking defence cash boost
RACHEL REEVES is resisting pressure from military chiefs to spend billions more on defence, The Telegraph understands. The Chancellor has rejected requests from the Ministry of Defence to increase its budget amid fears of a £28bn funding shortfall....
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Starmer U-turns on cancelled elections
SIR KEIR STARMER has abandoned plans to cancel local elections for 4.6million people following The Telegraph’s Campaign for Democracy. In the Prime Minister’s latest aboutturn, elections in 30 local authorities will now take place in May, reversing a...
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Golden couple
Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker celebrate winning gold in the skeleton mixed team final at the Winter Olympics. Weston’s second win in the space of three days means he is the first British man to claim two Winter Olympic gold medals. Charlotte Bankes...
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Rayner turns on Starmer over pubs
ANGELA RAYNER and Andy Burnham have called for more tax support for pubs in a fresh challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s authority. The two Labour figures, tipped as potential rivals in a leadership contest, suggested the Prime Minister should cut VAT to...
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Jagger’s fiancée attacked outside Annabel’s
SIR MICK JAGGER’S fiancée has been “physically attacked” in Mayfair. Melanie Hamrick, a ballerina, said that she was grabbed from behind by two assailants after a night at Annabel’s, a private members’ club. Ms Hamrick, 38, said she was left...
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The Olympic cheating scandal you didn’t expect
Sturla Holm Laegreid gave one of the most unusual interviews in Olympics history yesterday by tearfully telling the world on live TV that he had cheated on his girlfriend. The Norwegian biathlete told TV journalists after winning a bronze medal: ‘Six...
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Streeting accused of No10 coup
WES STREETING has been accused of orchestrating a leadership coup against Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister clung on to power yesterday after Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, went public with calls for him to resign. The Telegraph can...
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Starmer plays his last card as Mcsweeney leaves No 10
SIR KEIR STARMER has been told by Labour MPS that the departure of his chief of staff will not be enough to save his premiership. Morgan Mcsweeney resigned from Downing Street yesterday after giving “wrong” advice that Sir Keir should appoint Lord...
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It’s me, Cathy
Margot Robbie at the British premiere of Wuthering Heights in Leicester Square, London, last night. The Australian actress plays Cathy Earnshaw in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the 1847 Emily Brontë novel, opposite Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff
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Rayner turns on Starmer
ANGELA RAYNER has forced Sir Keir Starmer into an about-turn over his handling of the Lord Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister’s own MPS are calling for him to consider his position after the planned release of documents relating to Lord Mandelson’s...
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Brown accuses No10 of cover-up
GORDON BROWN has dragged Britain’s most senior civil servant into the Mandelson scandal, questioning why he failed to launch an investigation last autumn. The Metropolitan Police announced a criminal investigation yesterday after emails showed Lord...
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Mandelson leaked No10 emails to Epstein
LORD MANDELSON leaked confidential government emails to Jeffrey Epstein while serving in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet, new files show. The Labour peer, who was serving as business secretary, shared market-sensitive information with Epstein that the...
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Mandelson faces order for Epstein evidence
LORD MANDELSON is set to be summoned to give evidence before Congress about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Sources close to the powerful US House Oversight Committee, which has spearheaded the release of millions of government-held files on...
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Starmer among friends
EVEN by the standards of thin-skinned tyrants, China’s leaders are supremely sensitive about how foreigners describe their country. Caught between his irascible hosts and a sceptical British public, Sir Keir Starmer has had to negotiate a verbal...
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Starmer: Use ECHR to investigate British troops
SIR KEIR STARMER called for European human rights laws to be used to investigate British troops in Iraq in a book edited by Phil Shiner, the disgraced lawyer. In the book, the Prime Minister accused the government of a “deliberate effort” to alter...
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Starmer led ‘witch-hunt’ against Iraq veterans
SIR KEIR STARMER led a legal case that opened the door to hundreds of British soldiers being pursued for alleged war crimes, The Telegraph can disclose. The Prime Minister worked free of charge alongside his close ally, Lord Hermer, currently the...
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‘I feel like I’ve come home’
Suella Braverman accused the Conservatives of betrayal yesterday as she defected to Reform UK, telling its leader Nigel Farage she feels like she’s ‘come home’. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph today, the former home secretary adds: ‘Reform...
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Labour in revolt over Burnham ‘stitch-up’
LABOUR MPS are in open revolt against Sir Keir Starmer after he oversaw a “stitch-up” that blocked Andy Burnham from returning to Parliament. Loyalists on the ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) voted yesterday to bar the Mayor of Greater...
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Here for Hugh
Elizabeth Hurley arrives at the High Court in London yesterday to give evidence in the privacy claim against Associated Newspapers involving Prince Harry. She told the court she had been encouraged to sue one newspaper by the actor Hugh Grant.
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Trump strikes Greenland deal
DONALD TRUMP announced last night he had struck a deal on the future of Greenland after talks with the head of Nato. The US president said he had agreed a “future framework” for Greenland and the “entire Arctic region” during a “very productive...
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William: We need to help pubs
THE Prince of Wales has pledged to help British pubs, describing them as “crucial” for human contact and the beating heart of communities. The Prince, while ordering half a pint of cider at a pub in Stirling, Scotland, said he “absolutely loves pubs”,...
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Harry’s friends ‘to blame for leaks’
PRINCE HARRY’S friends were a “good source of leaks” who told journalists what he got up to in his private life, lawyers for the Daily Mail’s publisher have said. The Duke of Sussex attended the High Court in person yesterday at the start of a...
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4 million denied the right to vote
FOUR million people are to be denied the vote in May’s local elections in a “disgraceful attack on democracy” by Labour. The Government is expected to cancel at least 27 council elections, meaning hundreds of councillors will avoid the risk of being...
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China embassy’s secret threat to City
CHINA is to build a hidden chamber alongside Britain’s most sensitive communication cables as part of a network of 208 secret rooms beneath its new London “super-embassy”, The Telegraph can reveal. This newspaper has uncovered plans for an underground...
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Reeves to climb down on pub tax
RACHEL REEVES is preparing to reverse her decision to impose higher costs on Britain’s struggling pubs following a Telegraph campaign. The Chancellor is understood to be finalising plans to offer relief to venues facing the biggest increases in...
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Trump: I may send military to take Greenland
DONALD TRUMP is considering using the US military to acquire Greenland, the White House has announced. The US president is discussing options for taking the Arctic island, including the use of military force. “President Trump has made it well known...
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I’m a prisoner of war
NICOLÁS MADURO has declared that he is a prisoner of war as he pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism and weapons charges in a New York court. The former Venezuelan president, who was seized from his home in a daring US military raid on Saturday, said...
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Trump sets sights on Greenland
DONALD TRUMP has set his sights on a US takeover of Greenland after capturing Nicolás Maduro and saying he would run Venezuela. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” the US president told The Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was...
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Horror on New Year’s Eve
A FIRE tore through a Swiss ski resort bar as young revellers welcomed in the new year, killing at least 40 people and injuring 115. Foreign tourists are among the victims of the blaze that engulfed the packed basement of Le Constellation bar in the...
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2026 arrives with a bang (and a big bell)
Sydney Harbour, above, is a blaze of colour as new year fireworks illuminate the night sky. The Bondi Beach victims were not forgotten, inset, as an image of a menorah was projected onto the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Bali and Beijing, right,...
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Royal hit parade
The King is joined by the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne before the Trooping of the Colour earlier this year – one of a selection of pictures chosen by the Waleses as some of their favourite moments of 2025. Their other highlights included President...
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Boxing Day tragedy
A mother and two children who died in a Boxing Day fire have been identified as Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, Eve, seven, and Ohner, four. The children’s father Thomas, a police officer, survived the blaze in Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud, after escaping...
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Legend of the century
“SEE that woman over there with the long grey hair?” my mother whispered. “That’s Brigitte Bardot.” I was 10. I cared more about my next pain au chocolat than the hyper-tanned, 50-something woman bent over the olive stall a few feet away. But my...
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Charlotte in full bloom
Princess Charlotte at the Christmas Day service in Sandringham yesterday. Among the other royals attending were Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Their father, Andrew Mounbatten-windsor, was pictured driving in Windsor.
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‘Find me inappropriate friends’
ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR asked the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to find him some “inappropriate friends”, the latest release of the Epstein files has revealed. The documents cast fresh light on the former prince’s relationship with...
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Rea dies three days before Christmas
CHRIS REA, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who has died aged 74, rose to fame in the 1980s as a purveyor of huskily melancholic pop ballads such as Fool (If You Think It’s Over), Driving Home for Christmas and his biggest hit, The Road to Hell, a...
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In fine feather
Kefan Wang, a shaman from China, joined thousands of revellers at Stonehenge yesterday morning to celebrate winter solstice. Approximately 8,500 people, many dressed in pagan clothing, gathered at the Wiltshire site where attendees sang, played the...
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Phillipson blocks safe spaces for women
BRIDGET PHILLIPSON is blocking the publication of trans guidance that would force business and public bodies to protect women-only spaces. The Women and Equalities Secretary has given a statement to the High Court describing the proposed rules as...
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Duke accused of strangulation
The Duke of Marlborough was due in court today after being accused of three offences of intentional strangulation between 2022 and 2024. Last year, the 70-year-old separated from his wife Edla, 57, pictured with him at Goodwood.
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Teenage boy arrested over girl’s murder
A BOY has been arrested after a nineyear old girl was killed in her home. Aria Thorpe, who celebrated her birthday two weeks ago, was named as the victim by family friends. Police confirmed that a teenager was arrested on suspicion of murder after the...
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Bugged: the new MI6 boss
MI6 chiefs so rarely speak in public that when they do every aspect of their appearance is scrutinised for hidden messages or ciphers. So it is unsurprising that when Blaise Metreweli, the spy agency’s first female leader, chose to make a large,...
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William spreads some Christmas cheer
The Prince of Wales enjoys a drink with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at their Christmas party in Windsor. The Prince, who is Colonel of the regiment, helped to serve up pudding to the junior ranks. Writing on social media, the Prince said: ‘A huge...
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Peerage for women’s champion Davies
Sharron Daviesn, 63, the Olympic medal-winning swimmer, is to be a Conservative peer after campaigning to ban biological men from competing in women’s sport. She will be joined in the House of Lords by Katie Martin, Rachel Reeves’s former aide.
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Bardella: I will stop the boats
BRITAIN will be allowed to push small boats carrying migrants back into French waters under immigration plans put forward by Jordan Bardella, the man tipped to become France’s next president. In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Bardella, the leader...
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Tea for two
The Queen visited the set of Rivals yesterday where she had tea with Alex Hassell, who plays Rupert Campbell-black – a character said to be based on the Queen’s former husband Andrew Parker Bowles.
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Right wingers branded danger to children
A FORMER Royal Marine has been banned from working with children after he protested against illegal migrants, The Telegraph can disclose. Free speech campaigners said spurious safeguarding concerns were increasingly being deployed to “silence” people...
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Brothers in arms
Russian president Vladimir Putin is treated to a ride in Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial car after he landed in Delhi for a visit to discuss trade and arms. A £1.5bn deal has been agreed for India to lease a Russian nuclear submarine and Putin is...
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Purple reign
THERE were jokes about beer, football and of course that famous German sense of humour – or lack of one. At the heart of the German state visit, though, was an unexpectedly heartfelt message. The Royal family, President Frankwalter Steinmeier told...
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‘I’m over my stalker ordeal. I’m not hiding’
Emma Raducanu, the British tennis No1, has rediscovered her self-assurance and is happy to use public transport again after suffering the unwanted attention of an obsessed fan. ‘I’m not hiding from anything anymore,’ she said. Interview: Sport, back...
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Reeves clings on as OBR chief silenced
THE head of the fiscal watchdog was forced out yesterday as Rachel Reeves battled to save her political career. Richard Hughes, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), resigned amid a fiasco that saw his organisation leak the...
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Home and dry
Chloe Pinkerton is reunited with her young cousin Ava after spending eight months on HMS Prince of Wales as part of Operation Highmast. The aircraft carrier, which docked at Portsmouth Naval Base yesterday, was deployed to the Indo-pacific earlier this...
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Starmer rips up Rayner’s rights bill
SIR KEIR STARMER has scrapped a key pledge in the workers’ rights bill championed by Angela Rayner. The Government yesterday announced it was abandoning plans to allow employees to sue for unfair dismissal on day one of their employment. The...
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A red box of broken promises
• Reeves to hit millions of workers with higher rate of income tax leaving manifesto pledge in tatters • Properties, pensions and savings also targeted despite assurances that last year’s Budget was the end • Middle-classes will bear brunt of the...
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‘Dirty dozen’ tax rises to hit middle-class families
MIDDLE-CLASS families face a “dirty dozen” tax rises in the Budget as Rachel Reeves expands the welfare state. After abandoning plans for the first increase in income tax rates since 1975, the Chancellor will instead impose a string of other tax rises...
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BBC in disarray over bias claims
THE BBC chairman has insisted he will not resign despite deep divisions at the broadcaster being exposed at a public hearing. Samir Shah’s leadership of the BBC came under intense scrutiny by MPS as a fellow director said there was a “sharp difference...
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Streeting goes to war with No 10
WES STREETING has branded Downing Street “toxic” and “juvenile” amid a briefing war over threats to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership. The Health Secretary was accused of plotting against the Prime Minister by allies of Sir Keir, as they attempted to...
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We are the very best of society
TIM DAVIE has blamed “enemies” of the BBC for stoking the bias scandal engulfing the corporation, declaring the broadcaster “the very best of society”. Mr Davie took a defiant stance as he addressed staff for the first time since his resignation, in a...
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Trump to sue BBC for $1bn
DONALD TRUMP has made an extraordinary threat to sue the BBC for $1bn, accusing it of a “reckless disregard for the truth”. The US president turned the screw on the corporation as it was reeling from the resignation of Tim Davie, its director-general,...
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He was furious at critics and blind to the problem
THREE weeks ago, I bumped into Tim Davie. It wasn’t a warm encounter. We were at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where Mr Davie was appearing on stage. It is unusual to have a speaker at a book festival who isn’t promoting a book, so after saying...
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… as BBC rebukes newsreader over impartiality
Martine Croxall, the BBC newsreader who rolled her eyes while changing the phrase ‘pregnant people’ to ‘pregnant women’ broke impartiality rules. Her expression showed a ‘controversial view about trans people’, the BBC complaints unit ruled.
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Pay per mile tax to hit drivers in Budget
ELECTRIC vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in the Budget, The Telegraph can reveal. Under current plans, to be announced by the Chancellor on Nov 26, drivers of electric cars (EVS) will be charged 3p per mile on top of other road...
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The royal wave
Waves lap up in front of a boat carrying the Prince of Wales during his tour of the Guapimirim mangrove area in Brazil. At one point, he stopped the boat to speak to fishermen. The Prince is on day two of his visit to Brazil for the Earthshot Prize...
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BBC’S Trump bias exposed in memo leak
THE BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph. A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the 2024 US election, “completely...
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The devil’s not going to win, train attacker told passengers
A Knife-wielding attacker told passengers that the “devil is not going to win” as he launched a rampage on a highspeed train to London. The British-born suspect was being questioned last night by police over the 14-minute stabbing spree, which left 11...
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Andrew no longer Prince
THE KING has removed Prince Andrew’s remaining titles and will evict him from Royal Lodge. Buckingham Palace announced last night that the monarch’s younger brother would now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Confirming that Andrew had...
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Reeves eyes 2p income tax rise
RACHEL REEVES is considering a 2p rise in income tax in a move that would breach Labour’s manifesto. The Telegraph understands that the measure is being explored by the Treasury after Sir Keir Starmer refused yesterday to repeat that Labour would not...
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Farewell, Sybil Fawlty
Prunella Scales, who became a household name as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93. Her sons Samuel and Joseph said their “darling mother” had been watching the classic show the day before she died.
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Headache for the palace as King heckled over Andrew
A PROTESTER heckled the King about Prince Andrew during a cathedral visit yesterday. The man shouted questions about the Prince and Jeffrey Epstein as the King visited Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, amid mounting pressure to settle his...
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Billions wasted in migrant hotel chaos
BILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money were squandered on asylum hotels because of a “failed, chaotic and expensive” system imposed by the Home Office, a committee of MPS has found. Ministers and officials “neglected” day-to-day management of their...
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King and Pope bridge 500-year divide with a single Amen
IT WAS the moment that made ecclesiastical history. The King and the Pope joined together in prayer, marking the public end to a 500-yearold divide and ushering the Christian faith into a new era. It was quiet, simple and understated: blink, in fact,...
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Kardashian comes to town
Kim Kardashian arrived in London yesterday for the UK premiere of All’s Fair, her new legal drama on Disney Plus. The 10-part series follows a team of female lawyers who leave a male-dominated firm to open their own practice
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