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HandoutNine-year-old Rex is allergic to peas and lentilsOne morning before school, Rex, aged nine, ate a hot cross bun. Minutes later, he was struggling to breathe and went into anaphylactic shock.Rex is allergic is to peas and lentils – ingredients you would not commonly expect to find in a hot cross bun. However, when Rex’s mum looked at the packaging, it turned out the glazing used on the bun contained pea protein – causing Rex’s allergic reaction.Pea is not one of the 14 allergens required by law to be listed on food labels but earlier this week, experts said it…

Yasmin RufoCulture reporterGetty ImagesDame Helen, Brosnan, Imrie and Sir Ben complete the quartet of The Thursday Murder ClubRichard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club book series is one of the most successful of recent years – more than 10 million copies have been sold, all four books have broken UK sales records and the fifth instalment will be released in the autumn.It’s no wonder, then, that the star-studded cast of the film adaptation would be somewhat nervous about how fans will receive the movie.Speaking to the BBC, Pierce Brosnan says the nerves have ramped up over the past few weeks. “It’s a…

In a finish that puts even some of the greatest last laps ever at Daytona to shame, Ryan Blaney won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in incredible fashion, surging ahead on the last lap to beat Daniel Suarez, Justin Haley and Cole Custer as the four leaders crossed the finish line nearly completely four abreast. Blaney, who just nosed ahead as the field entered the trioval for the final time, wound out winning out over Suarez by .031 seconds.Blaney’s win is his second of the 2025 season, his second in Daytona’s summertime race after also winning in 2021, and it…

A firefighting helicopter drops water onto the Pickett Fire as it burns in the hills near a vineyard on Aug. 21, 2025 in Calistoga, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Evacuation orders are in effect as wildfires blaze across the West, including in California’s scenic Napa County. The Pickett Fire, which has burned nearly 6,000 acres, first sparked Thursday afternoon and continued to rage Saturday with 11% of the wildfire contained. The #PickettFire burning in Napa County is now 5,862 acres and 11% contained. New evacuation orders and warnings have been issued.Currently, 190 people are…

Aboubakar Gakou Of Angola Supplied/FIBA Africa The arenas in Namibe and Luanda have been electric every time Angola, hosts and now title favourites, took to the court in pursuit of their 12th FIBA AfroBasket Championship. Every rebound, every defensive stop, every shot is magnified, while any touch from their opponents is met with a chorus of boos from the crowd. The semifinal against Cameroon was no different. The game swung back and forth, with nine lead changes and 11 tied scores, each possession ratcheting up the tension. In the final seconds of the game, Angola’s place in the final came…

If you don’t know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail.Or if you’re on the other side of the budget spectrum and just need…

Jerry Adler, the behind-the-scenes Broadway veteran who served as the stage manager on the original My Fair Lady before acting on such shows as The Sopranos, The Good Wife and Rescue Me, died Saturday, his family announced. He was 96.  Adler didn’t become an actor until he was in his early 60s — this despite the fact that his cousin was famed acting teacher Stella Adler. The Brooklyn native played Herman “Hesh” Rabkin, consigliere to James Gandolfini‘s mob boss Tony, on HBO’s The Sopranos, and he was the boorish law partner Howard Lyman on CBS’ The Good Wife. On FX’s Rescue Me, he recurred as NYFD station chief Sidney…

AFPWikie, pictured with her calf in 2011, are still being kept at a facility in southern FranceA male killer whale at a closed marine zoo is being sexually stimulated by his trainers to stop him inbreeding with his mother.Marineland Antibes shut in January but managers, the French government and animal rights activists have not agreed on where or how the orcas should be rehomed.The closure comes ahead of a French law taking effect in December, which bans the use of whales in marine zoo shows.The impasse means the pair – Wikie, 24, and her 11-year-old son Keijo – are still…

You may dash for your morning commuter train, but you won’t want to rush for the sleeper to Vienna. The Nightjet train to the Austrian capital is the most illustrious departure of the day from Amsterdam. There is an art to conducting the perfect departure and the perfect arrival, the bookends of a thrilling overnight journey.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.There are four major hubs for sleeper services across western and central Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich. Then there are secondary nodes at Budapest, Brussels, Milan, Munich, Paris…

Reigning Spanish League champions recovered from a two-goal, halftime deficit to pull off a stunning comeback against Levante.Barcelona fought back from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2 at Levante with a late own-goal by the hosts in La Liga.Defending champions Barcelona needed Pedri Gonzalez and Ferran Torres to score early in the second half to equalise after the newly promoted Levante had rolled to a surprise two-goal lead at halftime on Saturday.Lamine Yamal then helped to produce the winning goal when he curled a cross into the 6-yard box, and Levante’s Unai Elgezabal headed into his own net.Levante striker Ivan…