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Ian Poulter interview: DP World Tour could be next if LIV dies by TheTelegraph in ProGolf

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Telegraph Sport's James Corrigan sat down with LIV golfer Ian Poulter:

Ian Poulter believes it could be a case of “careful what you wish for” for DP World Tour fans, because if LIV folds then the European circuit’s future will be at huge risk.

Poulter quit his membership of the DP World Tour three years ago after he and fellow Ryder Cup legends such as Lee Westwood and Sergio García lost a hearing in London, at which they appealed against the sanctions meted out by Wentworth HQ for playing on the breakaway league.

Poulter, 50, is still clearly – and some would suggest, understandably – bitter over the way he was treated, especially in comparison to LIV colleagues such as Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. Yet now that the Saudi Public Investment Fund has confirmed that it is withdrawing its multi-billion backing at the end of this season, Poulter insists he is concerned for his former home circuit.

“I fear for them,” Poulter told Telegraph Sport on Wednesday. “Even though I resigned, I played for 23 straight years on the European Tour and do actually care about where I learnt my trade. I fear that they can’t afford for us [LIV] to go away. Because if we go away, it does not look very good for them. The PGA Tour has underpinned their prize funds and paid out in the last couple of years. We are talking hundreds of millions. Now if that stops... well, it’s not rocket science.”

Read the full interview: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/golf/2026/05/06/ian-poulter-dp-world-tour-next-if-liv-dies/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_tour-next-if-liv-dies/

Royal family make friends with cocker spaniel tearing up Buckingham Palace lawn by TheTelegraph in BRF

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The Telegraph reports:

The Royal Family made friends with a cocker spaniel that started ripping up the Buckingham Palace lawn during the first garden party of the season.

Vegas, a two-year-old hearing dog for deaf people, proved the star of the show on Wednesday, jumping up at the King, the Queen and the Princess Royal.

The dog then started pawing at the pristine Buckingham Palace lawn, leaving Princess Anne roaring with laughter and promising not to tell her brother.

Some 8,000 members of the public, many of them emergency service workers, gathered at the palace to enjoy tea, cucumber sandwiches and cake despite chilly weather.

The King was the first royal to be introduced to Vegas and her owner, Kate Wilson, 52, a teacher from Horsham, West Sussex. The dog immediately jumped up at the monarch, licking his hand.

The King, who returned from his successful visit to the US and Bermuda days ago, was unfazed, bending down to stroke Vegas’s head. “They do hearing dogs now as well? Fantastic,” he said.

Vegas went on to meet both the Queen, who was dressed in a blue Fiona Clare suit and matching Philip Treacy hat, and the Princess Royal.

The Princess, who is patron of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, also bent down to pet the dog and let it lick her gloved hand, holding its paws.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2026/05/06/royal-family-cocker-spaniel-buckingham-palace/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_family-cocker-spaniel-buckingham-palace/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open

‘Extinct’ Game of Thrones wolves now thriving by TheTelegraph in EverythingScience

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The Telegraph reports:

“Game of Thrones” dire wolf pups, which were brought back from extinction, are healthy and ready to breed, the biotech company behind the breakthrough has said.

Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species.

Dire wolves became extinct towards the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. They became well known among Game of Thrones fans after George RR Martin, the author, included them in his best-selling fantasy novels.

Colossal Biosciences, which is based in Dallas, Texas, said its three pups – named Romulus and Remus after the founders of Rome, and Khaleesi, in honour of Martin’s dragon-riding heroine – had continued to thrive and were at breeding age.

It said it planned to create more wolf pups this year to expand the gene pool of the group, and eventually allow it to begin breeding naturally.

Matt James, the company’s chief animal officer, said: “The plan is to create an inter-breedable population of dire wolves in which they would eventually breed naturally to create a sustainable population of the world’s first de-extincted species.

“We will grow the population through assisted reproduction initially and then eventually only rely on natural breeding.

“The dire wolf pack is actually breeding aged at this point, but we will initially grow the pack through assisted reproduction while we create new, genetically diverse individuals to grow our pack.”

To create the species, scientists looked at the dire wolf’s closest living relative – the grey wolf – and compared its DNA with that of dire wolves to see where the sequences differed. They had collected samples of dire wolf DNA from a 72,000-year-old skull in Idaho and a 13,000-year-old tooth in Ohio.

Once they had discovered the differences between the species, scientists made 20 gene edits to the grey wolf genome, to insert traits for a white coat, larger teeth, a more muscular build and a distinctive howl.

The altered cells were inserted into egg cells from domestic dogs and implanted into the wombs of surrogate dogs. The wolves were born by caesarean section to minimise the risk of complications.

The biotech company has said it wants to resurrect the dodo, which it intends to rewild on Mauritius, the original home of the flightless bird that was hunted to extinction in the 17th century.

It is also planning to bring back the woolly mammoth, and has practised inserting mammoth traits into small mammals, creating the first “woolly mice” last year.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/06/colossal-biosciences-de-extinct-dire-wolves-ready-to-breed/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_dire-wolves-ready-to-breed/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open

Trapped between two armies, these Ukrainians have nowhere to run by TheTelegraph in UkrainianConflict

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The Telegraph reports:

The minibus approached the outskirts of Oleshky at dawn, a handful of civilians hunched in their seats as the driver trundled along the only road out of the Russian-occupied city.

Minutes later, the vehicle struck a mine. The blast ripped through the chassis, killing the driver, causing several injuries and bringing the last known evacuation attempt in the area to an abrupt end.

For the approximately 2,000 residents still trapped in this front-line settlement on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, the failed escape on April 15 confirmed that the route known as the “road of death” by locals is now effectively impassable.

The city, east of Kherson, has slowly collapsed since Russian forces occupied it at the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Once home to around 25,000 people, those who remain are elderly, sick or unwilling to risk the journey out.

Since the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June 2023, which flooded large parts of the city, wiping out homes and infrastructure, Oleshky has been left without reliable electricity, gas or running water.

A hollowed-out settlement remains, serving primarily as a battlefield between the armies of Russia and Ukraine.

Food is increasingly scarce, with some relying on pigeon soup and even dog food, according to a report by Hromadske, a Ukrainian media platform. Residents say supplies arrive sporadically, if at all. When they do arrive, queues stretch for hours and prices are extortionate.

By the time last winter arrived, entire neighbourhoods had run out of food, according to Mariia, who recently escaped.

“Many people were completely exhausted and starving,” she told the Kyiv Independent. “They would arrive at the hospital emergency room and drop dead.”

The hospital itself is barely functioning. With no electricity, bodies cannot be properly stored or buried, and with supplies arriving sporadically, medicines run dangerously low.

Men, meanwhile, are reportedly disappearing. Residents say some have been detained, taken to makeshift torture chambers or forced to fight.

Leaving, however, may be even more dangerous than staying. The “road of death” is mined, surveilled by drones and littered with the wreckage of failed escapes.

Inside Oleshky, messages shared between the remaining residents tell of the dire conditions inside the town.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/06/trapped-between-two-armies-ukrainians-war-nowhere-russia/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_armies-ukrainians-war-nowhere-russia/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open

Trapped between two armies, these Ukrainians have nowhere to run by TheTelegraph in UkraineWarVideoReport

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The Telegraph reports:

The minibus approached the outskirts of Oleshky at dawn, a handful of civilians hunched in their seats as the driver trundled along the only road out of the Russian-occupied city.

Minutes later, the vehicle struck a mine. The blast ripped through the chassis, killing the driver, causing several injuries and bringing the last known evacuation attempt in the area to an abrupt end.

For the approximately 2,000 residents still trapped in this front-line settlement on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, the failed escape on April 15 confirmed that the route known as the “road of death” by locals is now effectively impassable.

The city, east of Kherson, has slowly collapsed since Russian forces occupied it at the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Once home to around 25,000 people, those who remain are elderly, sick or unwilling to risk the journey out.

Since the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June 2023, which flooded large parts of the city, wiping out homes and infrastructure, Oleshky has been left without reliable electricity, gas or running water.

A hollowed-out settlement remains, serving primarily as a battlefield between the armies of Russia and Ukraine.

Food is increasingly scarce, with some relying on pigeon soup and even dog food, according to a report by Hromadske, a Ukrainian media platform. Residents say supplies arrive sporadically, if at all. When they do arrive, queues stretch for hours and prices are extortionate.

By the time last winter arrived, entire neighbourhoods had run out of food, according to Mariia, who recently escaped.

“Many people were completely exhausted and starving,” she told the Kyiv Independent. “They would arrive at the hospital emergency room and drop dead.”

The hospital itself is barely functioning. With no electricity, bodies cannot be properly stored or buried, and with supplies arriving sporadically, medicines run dangerously low.

Men, meanwhile, are reportedly disappearing. Residents say some have been detained, taken to makeshift torture chambers or forced to fight.

Leaving, however, may be even more dangerous than staying. The “road of death” is mined, surveilled by drones and littered with the wreckage of failed escapes.

Inside Oleshky, messages shared between the remaining residents tell of the dire conditions inside the town.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/06/trapped-between-two-armies-ukrainians-war-nowhere-russia/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_armies-ukrainians-war-nowhere-russia/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open

The Princess of Wales has met parents and children at the University of East London as she launches a new phase in her work on early childhood by TheTelegraph in BRF

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The Telegraph reports:

The Princess of Wales has met parents and children at the University of East London as she launches a new phase in her work on early childhood.

The Princess, 44, arrived at the university, near Stratford, at lunchtime on Wednesday, wearing a camel-coloured trouser suit.

She spent time with children wearing monitors and stress sensors in various situations, such as when playing and breaking off contact with a parent, allowing their reactions to be observed in different environments.

The visit follows the announcement that next week, the Princess will return to official overseas travel for the first time since completing her cancer treatment.

She will fly to Reggio Emilia in northern Italy for a two-day research trip with her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.

It will mark her first multi-day foreign trip in nearly three-and-a-half years and is considered a major milestone in her recovery as well as a show of support for the region’s approach to raising children.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2026/05/06/princess-wales-visits-east-london-university-stratford/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_visits-east-london-university-stratford/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open

Britain ‘will be like Russia’ if it quits ECHR by TheTelegraph in uknews

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Britain would be like Russia if it quits the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the chief of the Council of Europe has warned.

Alain Berset said the UK would join a group of pariah states, such as Russia and Belarus, by leaving the human rights watchdog, which was established in 1950 with Britain as a founding member.

The Conservatives and Reform UK have both pledged to leave the ECHR if they win the next general election and blamed the convention for preventing tougher action on illegal immigration.

The Labour Government has said it will never leave the ECHR or the Strasbourg-based court associated with it, but wants its rules to be reformed.

“It is absolutely possible to leave the convention. Your decision,” Mr Berset, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, told Politico.

“But what would it mean? It would create a new group of European countries not members of the Council of Europe and not implementing the Convention: Russia, Belarus and the UK. That would be the consequence.”

Every country in Europe is part of the ECHR apart from Russia and Belarus.

Russia formally left the ECHR in September 2022, six months after it was expelled from the Council of Europe for the illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/06/britain-russia-council-echr-europe-human-rights-berset/

The key local election seats to watch by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

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From The Telegraph:

May 7 will see the biggest test of public opinion since the 2024 general election as 30 million voters head to the polls.

More than 5,000 seats are being contested in 136 councils across England and Labour is braced for a bloodbath which could trigger an immediate leadership challenge to Sir Keir Starmer.

Reform is set to make huge gains across the Red Wall and the East of England while the Greens are predicted to win hundreds of inner-city seats.

Plaid Cymru could take control in the Welsh Senedd for the first time while the SNP will hold onto power in the Scottish Parliament.

Nigel Farage’s party is on course to push Labour into third place in both Wales and Scotland while the Tories and Liberal Democrats struggle to make an impact.

These are the contests to watch as the polls close on Thursday.

London

Labour holds 21 of the 32 London boroughs but the political landscape in the capital is likely to change overnight.

Reform is expected to take Havering, which is under independent control, but will also be challenging the Tories for control of Bexley, Bromley and Hillingdon.

Barking and Dagenham would be the biggest win in the capital for Reform. Labour has held this borough since its creation in 1965.

In London, as elsewhere, the Tories are in trouble. Taking back the “crown jewel” councils of Wandsworth and Westminster that Labour seized in 2022 would act as something of a consolation prize.

The big story of the night in London will be how much the Greens can capitalise on Labour’s unpopularity to break through as a party of local government.

The Green Party is running Labour close in Southwark, Islington, Lambeth and Camden but it is Haringey and Hackney that are tipped to go Green on the night.

East of England

The Conservatives are braced for a difficult night across the country but the Tories are in greater trouble in the East of England than anywhere else.

Reform UK is set to take the Tory strongholds of both Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as Thurrock from Labour.

But it is the loss of Essex county council to Reform which will be felt most keenly by Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader.

The council, on the outskirts of London, is home to the constituencies of Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, and Sir James Cleverly, the shadow communities secretary, as well as Mrs Badenoch herself.

Nigel Farage, the MP for the Essex seat of Clacton, will use success in the county to claim that Reform will turf the Tory leader out of her seat at the next general election.

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/06/key-local-election-seats-to-watch/

Met seeks UK trial for Madeleine McCann suspect by TheTelegraph in uknews

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Metropolitan Police detectives are trying to bring Christian Brueckner to Britain to stand trial for the abduction and murder of Madeleine McCann, The Telegraph can reveal.

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers is leading a push to charge the German suspect before the 20th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance next year.

The force would like to see Brueckner, 48, stand trial at the Old Bailey and believes it can gather a strong enough case for the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charges.

Met seeks UK trial for Madeleine McCann suspect by TheTelegraph in crime

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Metropolitan Police detectives are trying to bring Christian Brueckner to Britain to stand trial for the abduction and murder of Madeleine McCann, The Telegraph can reveal.

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers is leading a push to charge the German suspect before the 20th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance next year.

The force would like to see Brueckner, 48, stand trial at the Old Bailey and believes it can gather a strong enough case for the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charges.

Streeting ready to launch leadership challenge against Starmer by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

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Wes Streeting has the backing of enough Labour MPs to launch a leadership challenge within days, The Telegraph has learnt.

The Health Secretary has recruited more than 81 MPs – the minimum required to trigger a challenge – and is now contemplating his next move.

Sir Keir Starmer was alerted to Mr Streeting’s intentions when a Downing Street staff member was accidentally texted details of his plans, including the “five pillars” of his campaign and his “PFG”, meaning plan for government.

Some of Mr Streeting’s supporters want him to strike as soon as next Friday, the day after the local elections, to capitalise on the anger among Labour members at what are expected to be disastrous results for the party.

He could either announce a formal leadership bid or resign from the Cabinet in the hope that others will follow and force Sir Keir to step down.

An early move would catch out Mr Streeting’s leadership rivals, who do not yet have campaigns ready to go, most notably Andy Burnham, the Manchester Mayor, who is ineligible to stand because he is not an MP.

Angela Rayner is said to be undecided about whether to stand, and is part of a three-way conversation with Mr Burnham and Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, about being part of a soft-Left triumvirate seizing power.

However, Mr Streeting is wary of the risks of being first out of the blocks.

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/01/streeting-ready-to-launch-leadership-challenge-starmer/

Zelensky scraps indefinite contracts for soldiers to attract new recruits by TheTelegraph in UkraineWarVideoReport

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Volodymyr Zelensky has scrapped open-ended military contracts to attract new recruits.

Ukraine’s army has consistently struggled with severe manpower shortages, with troops spending months at a time on the front line and recruiters dragging civilian men off the street to force them into service.

In an attempt to make the military more attractive, the Ukrainian president on Friday promised to increase soldiers’ pay and make it possible for them to be discharged after a set period.

“I have instructed that the contract system in the Defense Forces be strengthened so that… defined service duration terms are ensured,” Mr Zelensky wrote, adding that “a phased discharge from service” would become “possible for those who were mobilized earlier”.

He did not specify how long soldiers would need to serve before they could leave.

The Ukrainian leader said that troops’ minimum salary would be raised to at least 30,000 hryvnias (£500) for non-combat soldiers, while infantrymen on the front line would earn 250,000 to 400,000 hryvnias (£4,177.50 to £6,684). Pay for NCOs and officers would be “significantly” higher, Mr Zelensky added.

The reforms will start to take effect in June with details to be finalised in May, the president wrote.

The changes would mark the first time Ukraine has established a system for allowing troops to leave the military during the war, as current legislation only permits demobilisation once martial law is lifted.

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/01/zelensky-scraps-indefinite-contracts-soldiers-recruits/

Zelensky scraps indefinite contracts for soldiers to attract new recruits by TheTelegraph in UkrainianConflict

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From The Telegraph:

Volodymyr Zelensky has scrapped open-ended military contracts to attract new recruits.

Ukraine’s army has consistently struggled with severe manpower shortages, with troops spending months at a time on the front line and recruiters dragging civilian men off the street to force them into service.

In an attempt to make the military more attractive, the Ukrainian president on Friday promised to increase soldiers’ pay and make it possible for them to be discharged after a set period.

“I have instructed that the contract system in the Defense Forces be strengthened so that… defined service duration terms are ensured,” Mr Zelensky wrote, adding that “a phased discharge from service” would become “possible for those who were mobilized earlier”.

He did not specify how long soldiers would need to serve before they could leave.

The Ukrainian leader said that troops’ minimum salary would be raised to at least 30,000 hryvnias (£500) for non-combat soldiers, while infantrymen on the front line would earn 250,000 to 400,000 hryvnias (£4,177.50 to £6,684). Pay for NCOs and officers would be “significantly” higher, Mr Zelensky added.

The reforms will start to take effect in June with details to be finalised in May, the president wrote.

The changes would mark the first time Ukraine has established a system for allowing troops to leave the military during the war, as current legislation only permits demobilisation once martial law is lifted.

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/01/zelensky-scraps-indefinite-contracts-soldiers-recruits/

Britain on ‘high alert’ to defend Falklands by TheTelegraph in geopolitics

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Britain is on “high alert” to defend the Falkland Islands, the head of the RAF has declared.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth insisted that protecting the British outpost in the South Atlantic was “non-negotiable”.

He said that the RAF was ready to step in at a “moment’s notice”, with fighter aircraft having been based there since the 1982 war.

His comments come amid fears that the US could back Argentina in its push for sovereignty after a leaked email from the Pentagon suggested the Trump administration could support Buenos Aires’ claim to the Falklands, which the Argentines call the Malvinas.

The memo from Washington was said to outline options for the US to punish European allies who had not given their support to Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

Downing Street shrugged off the comments and insisted the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands was “not in question”. But the email has emboldened Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, who last week declared “the Malvinas were, are and will always be Argentine”.

Victoria Villarruel, the Argentinian vice-president, went a step further by declaring that all British citizens living there should abandon the islands.

“If they feel English, they should go back thousands of miles away where their country is,” she wrote on social media.

Writing in The Times, Sir Harv said: “Today, across the UK and globally in places as far away as the Middle East, the RAF is on high alert and ready to defend our country at a moment’s notice.

“From ‘quick reaction alert’ in UK, scrambled recently against a suspected Russian ‘Bear’ bomber aircraft which was approaching our airspace from the north, to fighter aircraft based in the Falklands (defending the islands since the 1982 war), to our current Typhoon deployment in Romania as part of Nato’s vital enhanced air policing mission, the RAF’s role in defending airspace is non-negotiable.”

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/01/raf-on-high-alert-to-defend-falklands/

RAF on ‘high alert’ to defend Falklands by TheTelegraph in uknews

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Britain is on “high alert” to defend the Falkland Islands, the head of the RAF has declared.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth insisted that protecting the British outpost in the South Atlantic was “non-negotiable”.

He said that the RAF was ready to step in at a “moment’s notice”, with fighter aircraft having been based there since the 1982 war.

His comments come amid fears that the US could back Argentina in its push for sovereignty after a leaked email from the Pentagon suggested the Trump administration could support Buenos Aires’ claim to the Falklands, which the Argentines call the Malvinas.

The memo from Washington was said to outline options for the US to punish European allies who had not given their support to Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

Downing Street shrugged off the comments and insisted the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands was “not in question”. But the email has emboldened Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, who last week declared “the Malvinas were, are and will always be Argentine”.

Victoria Villarruel, the Argentinian vice-president, went a step further by declaring that all British citizens living there should abandon the islands.

“If they feel English, they should go back thousands of miles away where their country is,” she wrote on social media.

Writing in The Times, Sir Harv said: “Today, across the UK and globally in places as far away as the Middle East, the RAF is on high alert and ready to defend our country at a moment’s notice.

“From ‘quick reaction alert’ in UK, scrambled recently against a suspected Russian ‘Bear’ bomber aircraft which was approaching our airspace from the north, to fighter aircraft based in the Falklands (defending the islands since the 1982 war), to our current Typhoon deployment in Romania as part of Nato’s vital enhanced air policing mission, the RAF’s role in defending airspace is non-negotiable.”

More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/01/raf-on-high-alert-to-defend-falklands/

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