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News : BBC
Bondi gunmen threw explosives at start of attack and practised shooting weeks before, police allege Videos also show the pair allegedly training in rural Australia and making statements in front of Islamic State group flags.
Why the railways often seem to be in such chaos over Christmas Attribution
University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk Attribution
Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, officials say Attribution
Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be banned under new plans Attribution
Science & Environment Posted
Image in Epstein files that features Trump reinstated after backlash Attribution
Bake Off, Strictly or Amandaland? The TV highlights over Christmas Attribution
In rebel-held Myanmar, civilians face devastating air strikes and a sham election Attribution
Hospitals working to get patients home for Christmas after five-day doctor strike Attribution
David Walliams dropped from Waterstones Children's Book Festival Attribution

News : New York Times
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Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Called Its Removal ‘Political.’
Russia Dismisses Reports of Progress in Ukraine Peace Talks
Jordan Gale for The New York Times
Victims React to Released Files
How Epstein Got Rich
Long-Haul Trucking Was a Refuge for Sikh Immigrants. Until Now.
Immigration Crackdown Creates Fault Lines Among Baptists

Sport
: Telegraph

Boycott interviews Root
LiveEngland chasing 435 and mission impossible after losing Duckett and Pope The Ashes
LiveJake Paul vs Anthony Joshua: Ringwalks up next and latest updates Boxing
Joshua’s sordid fight against Jake Paul is a disgusting charade Boxing
AnalysisCan Paul beat Joshua? His big punch will be a pebble thrown at a tank Boxing
Wolves fire chairman Jeff Shi with owners deeply unhappy with abysmal season Football
Mohamed Salah says sorry for Liverpool outburst Football
Why Spurs do not plan to replace Vicario in January Football
Rugby unionLeicester crush Gloucester as Smith shows Tigers what they will be missing



 

News : London Evening Standard
Fresh fury over secret courts letting energy firms break into homes
US tourist suing Royal Albert Hall over fall during guided tour
Busy night of small boat Channel crossings after record December day
Liverpool parade crash driver ‘bit through my ear, chewed it up and spat it out’
Will there be a white Christmas? Met Office issues new update for snow
Streeting says he wants to avoid strikes next year as doctors return to work
Karen Carney: Sharing dancefloor with Strictly finalists was biggest honour
Severe delays on Northern Line after late engineering work
Photographer Paperboyo celebrates 10 years transforming landscapes
Accused Bondi gunman recorded terror attack motivation video, police say
Activity bar collapses putting 6 London locations at risk of closure

News : Sky

Bondi Beach shooting suspect trained with father before attack, police say
On the streets of Venezuela's capital as US threatens military intervention
Doctors return to work after five-day strike
Fears Palestine Action hunger striker will die in prison after 43 days without food
Russian general killed in car bomb explosion | Ukraine war latest
'My therapist was supposed to be looking after me... but I stopped caring about me'
Major incident declared as sinkhole affects canal
NHS reported to police after 'butcher surgeon' evidence destroyed
Fears grow over AI bubble - and here are the pressure points that could burst it
Puppy farming, snare traps and trail hunting to be banned, under new reforms
Epstein survivor describes 'wilful blindness' around financier
'It's so painful': Shane MacGowan's sister on the struggle to avoid his music
Monday's national newspaper front pages
'Just a chance' of a white Christmas, says Met Office
US in 'active pursuit' of third vessel off Venezuelan coast, officials say
Images of Trump among documents reposted to Epstein files release after apparent removal

News
: Telegraph

Christmas Charity Appeal 2025 Support four charities whose work speaks to the spirit of Christmas
Don’t call migration a threat to Britain, says EHRC chief Mary-Ann Stephenson warns against demonisation of immigrants and claims leaving ECHR would be a mistake
Bondi gunmen threw ‘tennis ball bomb’ Pictured: Father and son appear to be training with rifles in Australian countryside
Russian general killed in suspected Ukrainian car bomb attack Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov could have been blown up by Kyivs special forces, investigators say
Tories overtake Labour in polls for first time since Johnson
Palestine Action hunger striker complains she isn’t getting her vitamin
Shoplifters get away with stealing every minute in theft ‘epidemic’ Epstein files
Trump ‘had nothing to do with removal of Epstein photos’
Sex toys and shotguns: What happened when Andrew invited Epstein shooting at Sandringham
TV is in crisis. Would we be better off going back to three channels? From satellite televisions promise of choice to todays costly streaming platforms finding something to watch has never been harder
Watch: Starmer impersonator booed at Royal Variety Performance Dead Ringers impressionist mimics Prime Minister at Royal Albert Hall prompting jeers from crowd

News : Guardian
Trump administrationTrump administration recalls nearly 30 career diplomats around world
FBISister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal
Trump news at a glanceJustice department restores Epstein files image featuring Trump after outcry
Andrew Mountbatten-WindsorPhotos reveal how ex-prince gave Jeffrey Epstein access to British high society
AmericasUS intercepts second merchant vessel off coast of Venezuela in international waters
Ukraine war briefingKyiv’s forces battle Russian push to break through in Sumy region
Notes and queriesShould we turn the internet off?
Ashes 2025-26‘RIP’: Australian media revels in ‘deeply lamented’ death of Bazball
Barney RonayArrogant England’s cricket machine collapses like a castle of dust in 11 days
ReportStarc breaks England hearts again as Australia retain the Ashes
ReactionStokes vows to remain captain as McCullum admits regret over preparations

News : Huffington Post
Elevating Exports with UK Export Finance
My One Wish For Parents Everywhere This Christmas: Do Less
I Went Into Nursing To Help People — Until I Could No Longer Defend What I Was Being Asked To Do
Psychologists React To THAT Post From Trump About Rob Reiner's Death
Skins Star Megan Prescott Explains How Sex Work Helped Her Take Her Power Back
Jennifer Lawrence Gave Us An Early Xmas Gift With This Dig At Leo
A Homeless Man Knocked On Their Door – He Stayed For 45 Years
Erika Kirk Makes Her 2028 Presidential Endorsement – And It's Raising Eyebrows
Broadway Hit Oh, Mary! Is Every Bit As Hysterical And Outrageous In Its West End Form
Waterloo Road Actor William Rush Has Died, Aged 31

Internet : Wired News
Here’s What’s in the DOJ’s Epstein Files Release—and What’s Missing
Americans Are Increasingly Convinced That Aliens Have Visited Earth
Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful
What Is Lossless Audio, and Do You Really Need It?
Introducing a New Chapter for Uncanny Valley
The Best Monitors for the Mac Mini
The 8 Best Space Heaters of 2025. I Tested Dozens to Find Them
The Best Planners, Notebooks, and Accessories for Organizing Your Life
The 17 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers, Both Indoors and Out
Subscriber Exclusives
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The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics

News Mail
New footage shows Bondi Beach survivors hiding just feet away from gunmen carrying out massacre - as police reveal photos allegedly showing pair training with guns weeks before
Photo of Trump flanked by bikini-clad women VANISHES from Epstein files before humiliating u-turn... as image of Princess Diana also emerges
If there's any snub more serious in today's social media-dominated world than unfollowing someone on an app such as Instagram, it's blocking them.
Princess Beatrice 'snubs her disgraced father and is spending Christmas FAR away from him... and Fergie'
The princess, 37, is set to spend the festive season overseas on a skiing trip with friends as she distances herself from her shamed father.
LIZ JONES: The 12 biggest mistakes I've made with men in the 25 years since I met my cheating ex-husband
I'd never been confident with the opposite sex, having been ­anorexic since I was 11. At parties, if a man flirted, he'd soon grow bored and wander off.
Revealed: The Albanian kingpin who is smuggling migrant crooks OUT of the UK in lorries for £2,500... even though HE should be behind bars in Britain
A Daily Mail investigation found an Albanian, who should be behind bars himself, running a network helping crooks flee for as little as £2,500 a time.
The tawdry picture of Andrew in the Epstein files that will cast a dark cloud over the Royal Family's Christmas. He has invaded their privacy and soiled their celebrations, says RICHARD KAY
Could there be a more grotesque postscript to Andrew M-W's former royal life than that photo of him draped over the laps of five young women with a wolfish grin on his face?

Misc. : Vice
Everybody’s Got a Deftones Tattoo These Days
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How to Survive Various Catastrophes
Deftones: Anatomy of a Sex Band
The Strippers of New York City, 2025
Which One Are You? Here’s Every Type of Deftones Fan
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Gavin Rossdale Told Us His 8 Favorite Restaurants in the World


Computer Weekly
European Commission renews UK data adequacy agreement, ensuring continued free flow of data
Digital Twin Consortium opens doors on four new testbeds
‘Sensitive’ data stolen in Westminster City Council cyber attack
BT: UK’s next phase of quantum progress hinges on network build
News brief: Browser security flaws pose growing risk


Politics
: BBC

Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be banned under new plans The government says its animal welfare strategy will bring "the biggest reforms in a generation".
Science & Environment Posted
No evidence Reform broke electoral law, watchdog says Attribution
Labour MSP to quit Holyrood over links to sex offender Attribution
King's Foundation chair and nominee peer admits 'misleading' doctorate claim Attribution
Foreign prison officers exempted from stricter visa rules Attribution
Watchdog hits out at potential local election delays Attribution
Inquiry ongoing after UK government hacked, says minister Attribution
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m Attribution
Farmers 'bewildered and frightened' over inheritance tax, report finds Attribution
Science & Environment Posted
Farage will not face police inquiry into spending Attribution
'Secret bugging' of SNP MSP unacceptable - Swinney Attribution
Track UK's latest migration numbers - including asylum, visas and small boats Attribution
How is Keir Starmer getting on with his pledges to deliver change? Posted
The 'fed up' Scottish town that voted for Reform UK Attribution
How did the courts backlog get so bad? Attribution
What's happening with the assisted dying bill? Attribution
From our Political Editor Chris Mason
Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point Attribution
Rachel Reeves will be hoping this Budget buys her some time Attribution

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News : Independent
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New equalities boss warns against ‘demonisation’ of migrants in UK
‘Frightening’ surge in police sex offences since Sarah Everard murder
Streeting says taxes too high as he calls for closer trade with EU
More than 800 people cross Channel in single-day record for December
Starmer has his final call of 2025 with Donald Trump
BBC facing calls to axe David Walliams show from Christmas lineup
Two teens killed and one critically injured in Tesla crash
Ukraine peace talks constructive, Russia claims after Kyiv hits ship
Police name 55-year-old man shot dead in north-west London
Electric shock dog collars banned under new government proposal The animal welfare strategy also plans to tighten protections aimed at stopping cruel breeding practices such as puppy farming
Trail hunting to be banned under new animal welfare push
The brewery battling Israeli blocks to export rare Palestinian beer to the UK
Epstein files: Trump administration defends decision to redact documents and photos
Why Starmer’s decision to cancel media briefings is bad for democracy Premium
‘Hidden crisis’ of 40,000 women going missing each year over violence
‘I was 14 when I was abducted and trafficked into a paedophile ring’
The families of missing people being trolled online
‘I was £4,000 in debt and I wanted to disappear forever’
Palestine Action activist on hunger strike taken to hospital
Nine killed in mass shooting in South Africa
UK car industry ‘on track’ to meet 2025 EV sales target

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