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LIVEKing and Queen watch Trooping the Colour ceremony ahead of 41-gun salute and flypastThe King and Queen will later be joined by other members of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for a Red Arrows flypast.
BBCAllan Taylor spent 60 years on the folk scene before retiring earlier this yearWhen Ed Sheeran recently declared his love for an obscure album he had unearthed in a second-hand record shop in New York, it was big a surprise to the English singer who made it almost 50 years ago.After buying a copy of Allan Taylor’s 1978 LP The Traveller, Ed Sheeran may have recognised something of a kindred spirit in his fellow singer-songwriter.Taylor started out performing in pubs and bars, sleeping on floors and sofas with his guitar and little else, several decades before Sheeran began his career…
Anthony PhamHarry Styles is the first artist to play 12 nights at Wembley Stadium in a single yearHarry Styles opened the first night of his record-breaking residency at Wembley Stadium by reminiscing about his audition for The X Factor, 16 years ago.”Just outside of this building, just next door in Wembley Arena, my sister brought me to London for the very first time,” said the star, who was born in Redditch and raised in Cheshire.”It was… in that building that I was put in a band. We were called One Direction,” he recalled, prompting screams from a sold-out crowd of…
BBCMarried at First Sight Australia stars say the show left them feeling unsafe and unprotected because their on-screen partners had criminal pasts which they were not told about, a BBC investigation can reveal.It comes after the British version of the show, known to many as MAFS UK, was plunged into crisis after BBC Panorama reported rape allegations from two women contestants – allegations the men involved have denied.One woman from last year’s Australian series says she was not told the man she had been matched with had a previous drug conviction and only found out after the show ended. “There…
LIVEWorld Cup 2026: USA win opening game – will World Cup fever hit the country now?All the latest reaction and highlights as USA start their Fifa World Cup 2026 with a big win over Paraguay,
ReutersNo-campaign posters feature Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, warning against “breaking with Europe”Can a country put a fixed limit on its population? That is the question Switzerland will be answering on Sunday when voters go the polls to decide on a proposal to cap their population at 10 million.The move is backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, which describes it as a “sustainability initiative” aimed at easing pressure on housing, public services and the environment.The Swiss government, all other major parties, business leaders and trade unions have dubbed the proposal a “chaos initiative”, arguing it will deprive…
NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAnthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release.In a statement published on its website, Anthropic said it was ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Claude Fable 5, a program that the company self-described as “too powerful”.”The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” the company wrote. Anthropic and the Trump administration are involved in a separate ongoing lawsuit over an order to stop government agencies using the company’s…
LIVEUSA dominates Paraguay 4-1 in US World Cup openerThe US took on Paraguay at SoFi Stadium in the opening match of Group D at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Truth SocialTrump posted footage of what appears to be the airstrike, showing a green building with a nearby shed being blown upThe US military has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in an airstrike, President Donald Trump announced on social media.”At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero,” Trump wrote.Niño Guerrero, whose full name is Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, was the longtime leader of Tren de Aragua. The gang is one of the most notorious criminal groups in Latin America and has been a…
BBC and Getty ImagesElon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday, following the record-breaking stock market debut of his company SpaceX.With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn, according to Bloomberg, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and boss of French luxury goods group LVMH, Bernard Arnault. Musk – who first made waves in the tech industry in the late 1990s – hasn’t always topped the rich list though. In January 2020, he was only the 35th richest person in the world, with…