Comment: Palace have transformed into serial winners this season and the emotions before Saturday’s FA Cup final against Manchester City are almost overwhelming, writes former Independent sports editor Ed Malyon

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Mohammad Younis Khan was among 40 residents seeking shelter in a cowshed when shelling began in Gingal, a scenic mountain village in north Kashmir on the Indian-controlled side of the de facto border with Pakistan. Men, women and children sought refuge in the 3-meter-by-4.2 meter (10-feet-by-14 feet) space, which they felt offered greater safety than their brick and cement homes.

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Madrid's international airport has for months been the site of homeless encampments amid a growing housing crisis in Spain, where rental costs have risen especially fast in the country's capital and also in Barcelona

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Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game against 140,000 people worldwide

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The 26-year-old got on the end of Reece James’ cross in the 71st minute to power home his seventh goal of the season.

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The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful

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Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Basel, Switzerland, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest

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A work sabbatical is increasingly passé. It’s all about taking an indefinite career break, with a growing number of millennials and Gen Z quitting their jobs and hitting the road, future plans be damned. Helen Salter digs into why – and how – they’re doing it

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Sean O’Grady gets to drive some extremely fast cars as he tries out the latest smart tyres from Pirelli

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As the perpetually building-climbing Ethan Hunt faces ‘The Final Reckoning’, Adam White and Louis Chilton rank all eight of the Mission movies (so far?) – from the one with Philip Seymour Hoffman to the one with all the slow-motion doves

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The esteemed writer speaks with Claire Allfree about the misconceptions of his royal role, why all nature poetry is now innately conservationist – and that infamous and ‘scary’ Morrissey interview

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Blume’s willingness to treat teen fiction with the utmost candour has always ruffled feathers, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. Netflix’s provocative new adaptation gets at the core of what makes the author such a unique and vital figure

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President’s only positive policy area rating in new poll is on border security

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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned unrelated questions on several different issues back to an insistence that white genocide is ‘real.’ It was responding to a code manipulation said xAI

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Testimony in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial has opened a window into what prosecutors say was the sordid world of group sex, drugs and violence beneath his glittering, jet-set persona

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Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social mission

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Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests

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In 1971, Oregon became the first state in the nation to pass a “bottle bill."

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A fugitive known as Colombia's “Contraband King” corrupted agents in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with expensive trips, fine dining and even prostitutes

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F1 heads to Europe for the first time this season as Imola hosts the Emilia Romagna GP

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Storms Friday afternoon tore roofs off buildings, ripped bricks off of siding and downed trees and power lines.

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Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election

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A shooting inside a Las Vegas athletic club has killed two people including the suspect with at least four injured. Officials say that gunfire erupted Friday afternoon inside the gym and three people who were injured were transported to local hospitals, with one in critical condition. A spokesperson with the police department said in a press conference there is no longer a threat to the public.

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Las Vegas police say a shooting inside an athletic club has killed one person and the suspect with multiple people injured

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Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into them

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Lowry missed the cut by a single shot on two over par.

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Recordings of then-president’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur regarding misplaced classified documents released more than one year after transcripts

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‘Stories of Surrender’ captures the U2 frontman’s one-man show at New York’s Beacon Theatre

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Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it sold advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the war in Gaza and aided in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages

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Fitzpatrick carded five birdies and two bogeys in his 68 at Quail Hollow but has world No 1 Scottie Scheffler for company

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Idaho police has released the names of six tourists from China, Italy and California who were killed when a pickup truck collided with their van in a fiery crash near Yellowstone National Park earlier this month

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The board that oversees California’s toxic substances agency unanimously voted Thursday to remove a controversial proposal that would have weakened a state hazardous waste disposal rule

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Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez has also been accused of smuggling people, narcotics, cash, and weapons for CJNG cartel

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Hamilton is already 90 points behind drivers’ championship leader Oscar Piastri, but maintains he should be judged after a few years despite early difficulties in red

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The Irish talk show host will once again provide his witty commentary for the BBC broadcast

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The legendary BBC presenter has designed his first – and ‘I hope my last’ – Chelsea garden

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Police raided the former college basketball star’s apartment after package from Thailand addressed to him was flagged at airport

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A 28-year-old woman described how she survived for weeks outdoors in California’s eastern Sierra mountains by foraging for food and drinking melted snow after a solo camping trip went awry during harsh winter weather

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It’s beaten by only the most expensive Scandinavian destinations, new research shows

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More than 800 million people are living with obesity globally, world heart report highlights

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