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New Liverpool signing Alexis Mac Allister admits playing his part in Argentina’s World Cup victory gave him a taste for more trophies and he believes he will be able to fulfil that aim at Anfield. The 24-year-old’s arrival on a five-year contract signals the start of manager Jurgen Klopp’s much-vaunted midfield rebuild which will likely …

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Divers removed plastic from the Cornish seabed and joined teams from all over in a global clean up for World Oceans Day. They removed beach litter, including a vape and plastic water bottles, as well as debris from fishing nets under the water at tourist hotspot Mullion Cove. They were part of a 40-strong global crew …

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Pink’s daughter Willow Hart joined her rock star mother on stage during the UK opening night of her 2023 European tour Summer Carnival. Wearing a pink striped dress with a rainbow belt, the 12-year-old sang their duet Cover Me In Sunshine, a song she released with Pink in 2021, for the special performance in Bolton. Her proud father Carey Hart …

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All Uber Eats couriers will use zero emission vehicles by 2040, the company has announced. Deliveries are currently made by people using cars, motorbikes and bicycles. Uber Eats also plans for all restaurants providing food for the service to use sustainable packaging by 2030. At an event in central London, Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said: “Driving emissions to zero, …

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Three people on a giant inflatable duck had to be rescued after it drifted out to sea. Eyewitnesses reported how the men pumped up the duck, nicknamed Quackers, at Westward Ho! beach in Devon and took it out to sea along with a friend on an inflatable kayak. After five minutes, they had drifted out …

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A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular video app TikTok, has said in legal papers that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong. Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the US, says those …

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s foundation has donated £10,000 to a fundraiser aiming to get a book of “raw” and “inspirational” stories from ethnic minorities into every state secondary school in the UK. A Colourful View From The Top is a novel which features entrepreneurs, executives and “thought leaders” from ethnic minority backgrounds, and …

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London has held its position as the fourth most expensive city for expatriates in a global cost-of-living study. New York in the United States was ranked first in the long-running research, overtaking Hong Kong, which previously held top spot for four years but was pushed into second place in 2023. The annual report was carried …

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Government targets to increase levels of cycling and walking in England are set to be missed, according to a new report. Delivery of active travel schemes has been “patchy” and the Department for Transport (DfT) “does not yet know” if local authority projects “have been of good enough quality”, public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) …

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The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf have agreed to merge commercial operations under common ownership, the PGA Tour has announced. The shock announcement comes after a year of unprecedented disruption in the men’s professional game following the launch of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit. “After two years of disruption and distraction, this …

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