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Death Toll in Dominican Republic Roof Collapse Hits 218

The number of dead in a roof collapse in Santo Domingo keeps rising. Officials have not said how many people were in the club at the time of the disaster.

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Rescue workers at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Wednesday, the day after its roof collapsed, killing over 200 people.
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She’s got the Midas touch: Shirley Bassey songs – ranked!

As a new compilation with unheard material is released, we assess the Cardiff legend’s diamonds and deep cuts

Shirley Bassey apparently hated this Bond theme, protesting that the lyrics were nonsensical. She never performed it live. It’s certainly not up to previous standards, but the disco version that accompanies the film’s end credits is worth hearing – better than her attempt to rejig This Is My Life for the 70s dancefloor.

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© Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

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The Masters 2025: day one at Augusta – live

  • Follow updates as 2025’s first major gets under way
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Noah Kent qualified for this year’s Tournament by finishing runner-up at the US Amateur. One of five amateurs in this year’s field – along with US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester, NCAA individual title winner Hiroshi Tai, US Mid-Am champ Evan Beck and Latin American Amateur winner Justin Hastings – he’s made back-to-back birdies at 3 and 4, and like Davis Riley before him, can now always say he once led the Masters. A fast start for Wolverhampton’s Aaron Rai on debut, too, with birdies at 2 and 3. Rai has yet to make a serious impression on any of the majors, but he broke his PGA Tour duck last year at the Wyndham, formerly the Greater Greensboro Open, so knows what it takes to enter the winners circle. Sandy Lyle’s first victory in the USA was at the Greater Greensboro, incidentally, for anyone interested in extremely tenuous omens.

-2: Z Johnson (5), Kirk (5), Kent -a- (4), Rai (3)

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© Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

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Will Trump’s tariff chaos be China’s gain in global trade wars?

As China retaliates against tariffs, it is also making strategic manoeuvres on EU and Asia to maximise opportunities

On the basis of Napoleon’s dictum “never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake”, there was a large incentive for China to do precisely nothing as Donald Trump displayed his determination to lose friends and induce market panic. Indeed, the Chinese advocates of passivity cited a social media meme attributed to President Xi Jinping: “Do nothing. Win.”

Initially it was tempting for China to sit back and watch the US’s former allies recoil at Trump’s disruptive war on globalisation and let them realise that, by comparison, China represented an oasis of stability, modernity and predictability.

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© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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‘Summer House’ recap: Lexi Wood calls out Ciara Miller for flirting with Jesse Solomon

We’re recapping season 9 episode 10 of “Summer House” with “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real. Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke hash out their issues in an explosive argument, Jesse Solomon questions relationship with Lexi Wood and things heat up between Lexi and Ciara Miller. “Summer House” airs Wednesdays at 9pm ET on...

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