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1. Everton v Liverpool LIVE: Team news as Slot makes major call on Ekitike replacement for Merseyside derby

   Liverpool got to the Hill Dickinson Stadium for the first time, looking to maintain their grip on fifth-place in the Premier League

2. Learner driver charged after fatal crash outside Australian Comic-Con event

   Twenty-year-old man dies while another man of same age is seriously injured and hospitalised

3. Mamdani addresses rap career past and drops new bars

   Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, addressed his rap career past before dropping some bars on the We Outside by Sidetalkpodcast about his recent efforts to tackle the city’s potholes.

4. India summons Iranian envoy after tankers come under fire in Strait of Hormuz

   Attacks disrupt vital oil route used heavily by Indian shipping

5. Mandelson crisis shows Starmer is ‘either a fool or a knave’, says former chancellor

   Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said there is “no way questions wouldn’t have been raised” when The Independent’s political editor David Maddox asked for details about Peter Mandelson’s security vetting.

6. Olivia Rodrigo makes surprise appearance at Coachella after dropping new track

7. Andy Burnham allies seize on Mandelson crisis to plot path for Manchester mayor to make Westminster comeback

   The mayor of Manchester has been one of the most talked-about threats to Keir Starmer’s leadership in recent months

8. Britain's chief rabbi says Jews are facing a campaign of violence after spate of arson attacks

   The U.K.’s chief rabbi says British Jews are facing a “sustained campaign of violence and intimidation” after an attempted arson at a London synagogue

9. Former Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith denies committing war crimes in Afghanistan: ‘Proud of my service’

   Ben Roberts-Smith, freed this week on bail, is charged with five counts of war crimes over the alleged murder of five unarmed Afghan civilians ⁠between 2009 and 2012

10. North London synagogue targeted in another attempted arson attack on Jewish property

    It follows recent similar incidents in other parts of north London