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Graham Norton received €118,315 per episode of chat show

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Chat show king Graham Norton enjoyed a bumper pay packet of £2.12m (€2.47m) from his TV work for So Television last year.

Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing review – like a horror movie … only this is real life

By Ellen E Jones

In 2022, Rory Kennedy exposed the aviation safety scandal in which 346 people died – but since then, a plane door has blown out mid-flight and more whistleblowers have come to the fore. Will anyone pay for this? It is unfortunate that a sequel was required to Rory Kennedy’s 2022 documentary feature, which alleged that the profit-driven culture at a US aeronautics firm led to two plane crashes and the deaths of 346 pe

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Two jailed for violent disorder at asylum hotel

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Jonathan Glover and Charlie Land receive custodial sentences following disorder in Epping.

Troy Parrott to undergo medical at Real Betis ahead of €20m deal

By Gavin Cummiskey

Reports in the Netherlands and Spain place the Irish striker on the cusp of a move

Jah Wobble on covering the Beatles, London buses and why punk went wrong: ‘Being kind is seen as square’

By Fergal Kinney

The maverick former Public Image Ltd bassist takes us on a typically picaresque journey through his ‘Kafka-esque’ days at Transport for London, being named by Sid Vicious and his spiritual learnings Sometimes, on the top deck of a London bus, pension-age punks will politely disturb the concentration of a man on his iPad. “They’ll say: ‘Are you Jah Wobble?’” recounts the musician born John Wardle, his upbeat cockney a

Trump is full speed ahead in making money off being the US president | Margaret Sullivan

By Margaret Sullivan

Some restraint on Trump’s excesses might be accomplished if November’s midterm elections give Democrats more power Donald Trump is essentially unrestrained when it comes to enriching himself during his second term, with no sign of stopping. If anything, he’s ramping things up. The numbers so far are astonishing. He amassed $2.2bn in 2025 revenues, the Guardian and other news outlets have reported. Continue reading...

Democratic socialist Angie Nixon scores surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race

By Sam Levin and Richard Luscombe

Nixon bested Alexander Vindman to win Democratic nomination and now faces Republican Ashley Moody in November Trump-backed Byron Donalds wins Republican primary in race to succeed Florida governor DeSantis In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party’s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman. Nixon, a state representative and memb

Ireland’s soaring green fees: Some golf courses doubled prices since 2022

By David Gorman

The golf business is set for a significant boost with the Ryder Cup coming to Adare Manor in 2027

How are sports clubs coping with drought?

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Prolonged hot and dry weather is forcing many grass roots sides to postpone or relocate matches.

Stephen Libby on fashion: a summer wedding is no time for your funeral suit – have fun with colour

By Stephen Libby

The Traitors star gives his tips on how to shine at a wedding – from mismatching jacket and trousers to rocking a man bag For a long time, I didn’t enjoy going to weddings. It wasn’t the celebration or the party that put me off – it was the clothes. I felt I had to conform and wear a suit, and yet the shape and style of what was on offer were the antithesis of what I would normally wear. Wedding guest attire for wome

Most patients have multiple addictions, says addiction treatment clinic Rutland Centre

By Ronan McGreevy

Nearly two-thirds of all those entering the centre have more than one addiction, usually to alcohol and cocaine

Devastating fire caused by disposable barbecue

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The fire service confirms the blaze was caused accidentally when the barbecue ignited in a park.

Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiracy to conceal Covid-19 records

By Reuters

David Morens confessed to concealing government documents linked to grant research funding A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to ​grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under Fauci ‌as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and I

Moderna shares nearly double after skin cancer therapy breakthrough in late-stage clinical trial – business live

By Julia Kollewe

Experts have hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer OpenAI has said it has slowed down the ⁠pace of ⁠its ​AI development while it overhauled its ⁠research and training systems. The company’s researchers were ⁠caught unaware last month ​when an ‌AI agent ‌under testing hacked another AI ‌firm, Hugging Face. We are very far from everything running back to normal. We now require stronger evidence

Somalia 'coming close to another famine' - UNICEF

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Somalia is facing a worsening hunger crisis after repeated failed rainy seasons devastated crops, killed livestock and depleted water supplies.

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Tom Holland set to earn $100m from Spider-Man: Brand New Day

By Laurence Phelan

In a year that’s seen the British actor star in the season’s two biggest blockbusters – and marry his co-star from both – he is reportedly earning a huge pay packet thanks to box-office bonuses The British actor Tom Holland is expected to “make at least $100m” for starring in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, according to the Wrap. Unnamed sources “with knowledge of Holland’s deal” say he was paid $20m (£15m) upfront, about

ICC decries latest US sanctions as ‘flagrant attack’ on court’s independence

By Associated Press

Trump administration put sanctions on the international criminal court’s president and a senior trial lawyer The international criminal court on Wednesday condemned the latest US sanctions targeting senior ICC staff, including its president, as a “flagrant attack” on the global tribunal’s independence and vowed to continue seeking justice for atrocities around the world. The state department announced on Tuesday that

Robot dalmatians and a far-right rally: photos of the day – Wednesday

By Pejman Faratin

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Warning: this gallery contains sensitive images Continue reading...

'Everyone wants clarity' over Man City charges

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Arsenal's chief executive Richard Garlick speaks out on the case against Manchester City and the more than 100 alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules.

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Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra/Wilson review – white-hot intensity as Verdi Requiem shakes St Paul’s vast dome

By Flora Willson

St Paul’s Cathedral, London Elemental roars and full-frontal vocal expressivity as the UFO focuses on a mission bigger than a good performance There were climaxes in Verdi’s Requiem that would surely have registered on a seismometer as they gathered into a thrillingly elemental roar before dissipating as a series of echoed convulsions into the vast dome above. There were choral susurrations that swept over the orches

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The Rake’s Progress review – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud

By Alexandra Coghlan

Battersea Arts Centre, London The staging is awkward and balance is an issue at points, but the singers of British Youth Opera are consistently impressive Clapham – home to hundreds of young Londoners crammed into sticky-floored house-shares of a weeknight and the sweaty dancefloors of Infernos at the weekend. Where better to stage The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky and WH Auden’s 1951 fairytale-cum-morality-play about

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Glenveagh receives over €850,000 in government funding to modernise construction methods

By Stephen Conneely

The builder said the funding will go towards a number of key research and development activities

Thunderstorm warnings issued for parts of UK with flash flooding expected

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Warnings for northern England, eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland will come into force later on Wednesday.

Public reminded of importance of smoke alarms as house fire deaths up by a third

By Ronan McGreevy

Thirty-four people died in house fires last year – the most since 2017

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Who is Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's ex-defence minister?

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Ukraine's ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections - the most serious internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia's invasion.