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More than 30 British nationals are among thousands of people missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal, as rescue teams continue searching areas buried by mud and debris along the border with Tibet. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is sending a Rapid Deployment Team to Kathmandu to reinforce the British embassy’s response. The specially trained staff are due to arrive on Saturday and will help British nationals travelling through the airport, support families seeking information and liaise with Nepali officials and emergency responders. The team will also work with relatives in the UK who are waiting for news of loved…

Dutch authorities have issued a national warning over ecstasy tablets moulded in the shape of Donald Trump’s head after tests found they contained a potentially lethal concentration of PMMA. The Trimbos Institute, which monitors drug use and addiction in the Netherlands, said several of the tablets had been submitted to testing centres in recent days. A separate tablet was also analysed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute. The pills are made in different colour combinations. They feature an image of the US president on one side, while the reverse is marked “NL” and “Trump” on either side of a break line.…

A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration cannot use immigration law to revoke the visas or pursue the deportation of non-US citizens because of protected political speech, including criticism of Israel and support for Palestinians. Judge Noël Wise of the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued the 90-page decision in San Jose on Friday, August 28, in a case brought by The Stanford Daily and an international student identified as Jane Doe. The ruling found that provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relied upon by the administration violated the First Amendment’s…

William Jewell College football player MicahJo Barnett died on Saturday after suffering a medical emergency during the Missouri college’s season opener against Fort Lewis College. The game in Liberty was suspended during the first quarter after the incident on the William Jewell sideline and was later called off. Barnett was a junior running back studying business administration. William Jewell College Athletics confirmed his death in a statement, saying the college and the Liberty community were mourning the loss of a member of the Cardinals football programme. “Our thoughts and prayers are with MicahJo’s family, our students, the Cardinal Football family,…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch from Florida on Sunday, opening a new era of wide-field astronomy with a camera capable of producing images containing almost 300 million pixels. The £3.3 billion observatory is scheduled to lift off at 7.26am local time on August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre. Roman is designed to survey the universe at a speed and scale far beyond that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Its 288-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will capture sharp infrared images across an area at least 100…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has erected a large sign declaring “Lake Ontario – Now and Always” after Donald Trump ordered the Canadian-American body of water to be renamed “Lake America”. The blue sign was unveiled on Saturday at Fifty Point Conservation Area in Grimsby, near Hamilton, on the Canadian shore. It carries the same message in French: “Lac Ontario – Aujourd’hui et pour toujours”. In a video posted on social media, Mr Ford described the lake as “a crown jewel of our province and our country” and accused Mr Trump of targeting Canada because Ontario had resisted pressure from Washington.…

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has landed back in the United Kingdom after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) named and shamed him for being an ‘illegal alien.’ Yiannopoulos, who previously served as Kanye West’s chief of staff and was an editor at the fringe right-wing publication Breitbart, was deported from the US on Friday, Angelina Vicknair, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed to the Daily Mail. The controversial commentator was arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana on Thursday and was placed in a holding facility after getting off a flight. ICE shared a photo of Yiannopoulos in detention…

Up went to the board to indicate four minutes of added time and out went the Tottenham fans, heading for the exits and the drizzle of the High Road.They were damp and deflated, and when the final whistle sounded those who remained summoned what energy they could boo their own team off as Newcastle celebrated victory in N17 for the third season in a row.They have seen it all before. Too often last season, when Spurs won just three of 19 home games and lost 10.Roberto De Zerbi wanted nothing to do with that miserable record when asked about it…

It was a special trip to Scotland that revealed a potential rift between Sir David Beckham and his eldest son Brooklyn – who was noticeably absent.However, despite the fallout that had been brewing in the background, the football star has raved about the time he had north of the border as he praised the Scottish wilderness instructor who made his getaway memorable.Former Manchester United star Sir David has given a glowing endorsement to outdoorsman and wilderness instructor Zeki Basan as the Scot prepares to lead a wild skills workshop in Sutherland.Mr Basan, who was raised in the Cairngorms, came into…

The intimate group of mourners included Parton’s nephew and head of security Bryan Seaver, who announced her death at the age of 80 on Tuesday.