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Mulberry turns down £83m takeover bid by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group

The British handbag maker Mulberry has rejected an £83m takeover proposal from Mike Ashley's Frasers Group as too low, insisting that it will push on with a planned fundraising to support a business turnaround.

Fugee sues Lauryn Hill over failed reunion tour

Lauryn Hill is being sued by her Fugees co-member Pras Michél for fraud and breach of contract.

Botanists identify 33 'dark spots' for unknown plants

Botanists have identified 33 \"dark spots\" around the world where thousands of plant species are probably waiting to be discovered.

'I will never return' Fear and hunger hasten exodus from besieged city

Aisha had wanted to stay with her husband when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) laid siege to the Sudanese city of El Fasher this year. But as the shelling and bombing escalated, and supplies of essentials ran low, she was left with no choice.

'I chose freedom over unrealisable justice' in plea deal, says Assange

Julian Assange has said he chose freedom \"over unrealisable justice\" as he described his plea deal with US authorities and urged European lawmakers to act to protect freedom of expression in a climate with \"more impunity, more secrecy [and] more retaliation for telling the truth\".

'Nowhere is safe now' Shattered Asheville shows long reach of climate crisis

Nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina and far from any coast, Asheville was touted as a haven from extreme weather. Now the historic city has been devastated and cut off by Hurricane Helene's catastrophic flood waters, in a stunning display of the climate crisis's unlimited reach in the United States.

Most soft plastic collected for recycling by shops is burned

Most soft plastic collected in supermarket recycling schemes and tracked after collection was burned, an investigation by environmental campaigners has revealed.

'Iceman' Hof film on hold after domestic abuse claims emerge

A biopic of the Dutch extreme athlete and wellness guru Wim Hof has been put on hold after allegations of domestic violence against him emerged over the weekend.

Gaynor Lord died by misadventure after entering Norwich river, coroner finds

A coroner has concluded that Gaynor Lord, a 55-year-old woman who went missing after leaving work in Norwich and whose body was recovered from a river a week later, died of misadventure after messaging a friend that she was \"going crazy\".

BBC's Gardner criticises airline after crawling to toilet on flight

The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has described how he was forced to crawl on the floor of a plane in order to reach the toilet on a flight from Warsaw to London.

Fears missing emu Irwin may have fallen into Wiltshire river

A search is on for an emu called Irwin feared to have lost his footing and slipped into the swollen Avon River in Wiltshire.

Cruise ship stuck in Belfast for four months sets sail ... almost

The luxury cruise liner stranded in Belfast for four months has returned to the city only hours after it set sail to cheers and applause from its 125 passengers who thought when they departed they were finally on their way around the globe.

Campbell's charity was reported over claim it worked with Unicef

The model Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief project was the subject of a \"serious incident\" report filed with the Charity Commission after it claimed to be a fundraising partner of Unicef, the global children's charity, it has emerged.

Israel orders evacuation of 30 villages in Lebanon amid ground incursion

Israeli officials ordered people in about 30 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate yesterday, in the first concrete demands since the military launched what it called \"limited, localised, and targeted ground raids\" on Monday against Hezbollah.

Weathering the storm How Netanyahu has maintained his grip

At the beginning of last month, the discovery that six Israeli hostages had been killed by their Hamas captors as troops operated near the tunnel where they were being held propelled huge crowds into the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities.

Iran says missile attack on Israel was 'legal, rational and legitimate'

Iran has said its supreme leader made the decision to fire dozens of missiles into Israel as retaliation for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the recent killings of leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, two of the main groups in Iran's so-called axis of resistance.

White House US military destroyers helped see off strikes

Joe Biden ordered the US military to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting Israel, the White House said after Tehran launched its attacks.

Israel vows to retaliate after Iran launches missile attack

Salvo of more than 180 missiles fired at targets across the country. Air assault is 24 hours after Netanyahu ordered incursion into Lebanon. Tehran justifies strike as a 'legal, rational and legitimate' response.

Shapeless and petulant, the Ten Hag ghost ship drifts on

United are exposed again as aweak club who donot know what they want, orlack thenous to achieve what they do

Trescothick hopes England 'unscathed' by frantic schedule

Test squad heads to Pakistan today straight after ODI series, part ofa major fixture pile-up

Day of reckoning Past failures must inform transition to greener future

It is mere coincidence that the closure of the blast furnace at the Port Talbot steel works and the shutdown of Britain's last coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire happened on the same day.

Shop prices falling at fastest rate in three years

Prices in UK shops are falling at the fastest rate since 2021 despite a step up in fresh-food inflation as the wet weather hit UK production while the cost of olive oil and sugary snacks continues to be affected by the climate crisis.

REA gives up on Rightmove after fourth bid is rejected

The Rupert Murdoch-backed real estate company REA Group has abandoned its attempt to take over the website Rightmove after its fourth offer was rebuffed yesterday.

'Europe's first dead river' Ukraine blames Russia as toxic slick causes disaster

Serhiy Kraskov picked up a twig and poked a small fish floating in the Desna River.

Harris's economic policies more popular with voters than Trump's, polling finds

Kamala Harris's economic policies proved far more popular than Donald Trump's plans in a blind test of their proposals.

Parties plan post-election talks as Austria begins 'alarming new chapter'

Austria's main parties are preparing for tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the country's democracy, after the far right's victory in a general election in which angry voters punished centrist incumbents over migration and inflation.

Dartmoor repopulated with pine martens for first time in 150 years

Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the reintroduction of the rare species into south-west England.

'Perpetual cruise' passengers stranded in Belfast for months due to finally set sail

More than 100 passengers were poised last night to finally leave Belfast on a three-year round-theworld \"perpetual cruise\" after being marooned months in the city.

Many Jews in UK regard BBC as 'institutionally hostile to Israel'

Many British Jews have come to see the BBC as \"institutionally hostile to Israel\", community leaders have said, as they endorsed a report that concluded the broadcaster had failed to cover the Middle East conflict with impartiality.

Tories would have fared better under me, Truss says

Liz Truss has said the Conservatives would have done better in July's general election if she had stayed on as prime minister, during an often freewheeling one-off appearance at the Tory conference.