President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada, blaming the country for wildfire smoke that has blanketed large swaths of the United States.

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable,” the Republican president wrote on Truth Social Friday afternoon.

Trump added that he planned to call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to discuss how his government intends to respond.

“Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal,” Trump continued. “This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying.”

On Friday, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported 904 active fires across Ontario, Quebec and other provinces — more than 200 of which are classified as “out of control.” Fires are also burning across northeastern Minnesota.

The resulting smoke has pushed air quality to hazardous levels across parts of the United States. More than a dozen states are under air quality alerts, and officials in cities including New York and Chicago have urged residents to remain indoors when possible. NBC News’ Monica Alba also reported Friday that FIFA and the White House are in “active discussions” over air quality concerns ahead of Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey.

Carney, who leads Canada’s Liberal Party, did not immediately respond to Trump’s post.

Other Republicans have also targeted Canada over the smoke. Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno floated a range of retaliatory measures, including sanctions and restrictions on assets and visas.

Earlier in the week, four Michigan House members sent a letter to Carney criticizing Canada’s wildfire response.

“Our constituents in Michigan are once again under air quality alerts,” the lawmakers wrote. “Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients, and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them. This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to.”

Asked about the letter at a Thursday press conference, Carney pointed to climate policy differences between the two countries.

“We’re focusing on investing in clean energy,” Carney said, according to a CTV News translation. “In the U.S., there’s prohibitions now against clean energy.”

“Climate change is the responsibility of everyone, truly everyone, including the United States,” he added.

Earlier this week, Minister of Emergency Management Eleanor Olszewski said Canada is “working with urgency” to “support response efforts” to the wildfires.

“Canada and the United States have a long history of working together to fight wildfires on both sides of the border — it is a history that both countries benefit from and that we are building on during this challenging wildfire season,” Olszewski said in a statement posted to social media.

Trump’s threat comes against a broader backdrop of heightened tensions. Canada is already subject to multiple U.S. tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, including sector-specific levies on steel and autos. Since returning to office, Trump has also repeatedly mused about annexing Canada and turning it into the “51st state.”

Carney has rejected those overtures, telling Trump last year that Canada is “not for sale.” At other times, he’s shrugged off Trump’s hostile remarks. In June, he said: “We’re not gonna respond or react to everything that he posts.”

Gheorghe, 45, had been travelling with his wife after the pair were told their daughter had been involved in a collision

A father died after suffering a heart attack while rushing to the scene of a road crash involving his daughter.

Gheorghe, 45, had been travelling with his wife after the pair were told their daughter had been involved in a collision. Although the crash was described as low impact and their daughter was not seriously injured, he reportedly became unwell while driving to reach her.

The couple had left their home in the village of Vasile Alecsandri, in Romania’s Galați County, and were travelling along the DN25 near Șendreni when Gheorghe suffered the suspected medical emergency.

Despite feeling seriously ill, he managed to pull the car safely onto the roadside before losing consciousness, preventing another potential collision.

His wife raised the alarm as passers-by stopped to help. An ambulance crew travelling nearby spotted the incident and pulled over to assist.

Paramedics carried out CPR for around 50 minutes, but despite their efforts, Gheorghe could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the scene. Reports said he previously had a heart stent.

No other vehicles were involved in the incident, which was treated as a medical emergency rather than a road traffic collision.

Traffic was temporarily affected while police attended the scene.

Gheorghe’s body has been taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine, where a post-mortem examination will establish the exact cause of death.

His daughter escaped the earlier crash without serious injuries, but relatives and friends have spoken of the family’s devastation following his sudden death while trying to reach her.

Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Friday, near the Guatemalan border, sending tremors across a vast region from Mexico City to El Salvador.

While authorities have reported no severe damage or fatalities in any affected country, two individuals sustained injuries in southern Mexico.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) identified the quake’s epicenter 30 miles southwest of Aquiles Serdan, off the coast of Chiapas, at a depth of nine miles. This significant seismic event was preceded by a smaller tremor further out at sea and followed by at least 10 aftershocks ranging from magnitude 4.9 to 6.

Residents in Tapachula, a major city on Mexico’s southern border, described the initial shaking as mild before it gradually intensified.

“We were upstairs on the second floor when it started shaking; we thought it would pass, but then it got stronger, so we all went downstairs and evacuated in an orderly manner to the front courtyard,” Alejandra Mendoza, an administrative employee at a public hospital in the city, explained to The Associated Press.

Demetrio Martínez, head of the city’s Civil Protection agency said that a Haitian migrant woman in her 30s suffered a nervous breakdown and jumped from a height of about four meters (13 feet) from an apartment building. She was taken to a hospital with fractures, but her life is not in danger, the official added. He said that there was another minor injury from a broken window at a nearby business.

In Guatemala City, the earthquake frightened residents because of how long it lasted. Many people poured into the streets in the middle of rush hour as the workday was beginning and several buildings were evacuated.

Guatemala’s National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) reported no immediate damage. Social media users posted videos of some landslides, especially on roads heading west.

The Ministry of Education suspended in-person classes in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Suchitepéquez and Retalhuleu, near the quake’s epicenter.

In the Mexican capital, where buildings in certain areas creaked and shook, the earthquake alert did not sound because, the government said, “the energy radiated by the earthquake during the first few seconds did not exceed the activation thresholds.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that preliminary reports showed no damage. The navy recommended staying away from beaches for six hours because of tsunami risk.

The Meteorological Service of Chiapas alerted that there could be tsunami waves up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) off the coast of Mexico and Guatemala.

In the town of Suchiate, located along the river that separates Mexico from Guatemala, coastal areas are being monitored for tsunami risk, according to Mayor Elmer Vázquez Gallardo.

In San Salvador, the earthquake was also felt strongly, but no deaths or damage were reported, although the Ministry of Environment reported another earthquake of lesser intensity off the coast of the department of Usulután, in the eastern part of the country.

The region is prone to earthquakes, many that can be deadly. Earlier this year, a strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico, killing two. Hundreds in Mexico City were killed in a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in 2017.

If ever there was a symbol of how far away America and Iran are from their short-lived ceasefire, this billboard is it.

Portraits of Donald Trump, his wife and his children, behind US flag-draped coffins have been put up in Tehran’s Palestine Square.

The US President is at the top, wife Melania and daughter Ivanka below and then at the bottom are his other children Barron, Donald Jr, Tiffany and Eric with the White House in the background.

It came as US missiles struck Iran’s bridges, railways and water facilities for the seventh night in a row. 

Both sides traded blows in the biggest escalation of fighting since the US resumed its bombing campaign six days ago.

Mr Trump followed through on his threat to target civilian infrastructure that is also used by the Iranian military.

Washington hopes the attacks will cripple the regime’s civilian infrastructure, forcing Tehran to ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

In fresh comments, Mr Trump claimed the US is ‘winning big in Iran’ and that ‘you will see the fruits of that labour very, very shortly’.

Pictured: A damaged bridge following US strikes across Iran for the seventh consecutive day 

The billboard includes a Persian sentence meaning ‘blood for blood’ and is hanging in Palestine Square in the Iranian capital

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It has been reported that a number of bridges were destroyed in the airstrikes. At least seven people were killed.

US missile attacks hit the city of Bandar Khamir, on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.

And the US military’s Central Command (Centcom) said it hit dozens of targets in its latest bombardments.

The strikes also appeared to have collapsed a tower at Iran’s Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for landlocked, neighboring Afghanistan.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the image of the surveillance tower appearing to collapse. 

That image had circulated on social media via activists prior to Hegseth sharing it.

Chabahar port, which Iran had been running with support from India, has been a repeated target of American airstrikes.

Iranian state media acknowledged a third round of strikes on the facility without immediately acknowledging the tower’s collapse.

The country has warned that it will return to ‘full-scale war’ if US strikes against it continue for another two or three days.

This is the moment Iran’s naval surveillance tower in Chabahar was destroyed

People stand near a damaged portion of a bridge in the aftermath of a strike, in Bandar Khamir, Iran

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, said according to state media: ‘Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses…and no political border will be safe.’ 

Earlier, Iran told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country’s power grid came under strain due to the US strikes.

Tehran’s energy ministry said that the power restrictions were necessary ‘to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.’

Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of 102F on Saturday and Sunday.

Meanwhile, in Kuwait, where Tehran said it had targeted US military sites, the electricity ministry said an Iranian attack damaged a power and water plant and urged users to ration electricity.

The Kuwaiti military said several troops had been wounded when Iranian drones targeted a number of its bases and camps.

Iran’s Guards said they had targeted US radar systems and military aircraft in Qatar to ‘punish the aggressor’, with Doha saying it had intercepted a missile attack.

An Iranian missile is launched from an undisclosed location towards US targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain

Smoke and flames rise are seen in Chabahar, Iran, after local media reported explosions

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Abu Baker, a Sudanese resident of Qatar, said he had been about to go to sleep when he heard the air alerts, hoping the interception would be out at sea.

‘Then it hit and it shook my house,’ he added. ‘I am worried that this war will drag on…but thank God we’re in a country that protects us.’

Iran’s Guards said they had attacked two US radar sites in Oman and the Al-Tanf military base in Syria. 

A Syrian military source denied there had been an attack and US forces said they had withdrawn from the base earlier this year.

In Bahrain, Tehran targeted US helicopters and planes at an airbase, Iranian state media reported, with the island nation urging citizens to take shelter.

In Iraq’s Kurdistan region, drone and rocket strikes killed nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group on Friday, the exiled Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan said, blaming the attack on Iran.

Iran’s health ministry said at least 38 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded in the country since fighting resumed.

Mediators have attempted to bring both sides back to the negotiating table and China and Pakistan called for the United States and Iran to stop fighting and resume talks

The Strait of Hormuz remains the heart of the conflict, a narrow waterway responsible for one-fifth of global oil. 

Iran has tried to assert control over the waterway and opened fire on ships after Trump reimposed his blockade.  

The BBC have released their first look at the third series of BAFTA winning drama

Time is returning to the BBC soon with some huge stars among its cast ahead of an eagerly anticipated comeback.

The BAFTA-winning TV drama, which was filmed in Northern Ireland, follows the impact of prison on those behind both sides of the bars and the writers have teased the new episodes will be “impactful and devastating”.

The third series, written by multi-award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and Samuel Bailey, is returning to our screens later this year. Set in a Young Offenders Institution, it will explore the impact of locking up teenagers and the effects on those who look after them.

It is made by BBC Studios Fiction for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, in co-production with BritBox with support from Northern Ireland Screen and was filmed in Belfast earlier this year.

While the first series focused on the tension between inmate Mark (Sean Bean) and prison officer Eric (Stephen Graham) and the second looked at the lives of the inmates of a women’s prison, the third series will focus on youth offenders.

Set in a Young Offenders Institution (YOI), it will explore the impact of locking teens up and those with the duty to care for them.

National treasure David Tennant will star as Bobby Bailey, a veteran custodial manager at the YOI. In an initial image from the show, he can be seen looking very seriously at the camera as he sits at a desk in the detention centre whilst wearing his uniform.

Siobhan Finneran, who appeared in the both the first and second series as chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell, will reprise her role.

In a synopsis for the series, Marie-Louise is set to arrive at the YOI to perform her duties as a prison chaplain, despite having lost her faith. When tragedy strikes the prison, she clashes with Tennant’s Bobby, who knows more about what led to the major incident than he is letting on.

As Bobby struggles with his guilt, two teen offenders, Peter (Ollie McNulty) and James (Louis McCartney) form an unlikely friendship as they face their first weeks of incarceration. James struggles to face his parents having committed an unforgivable act of violence, and Peter has to decide if he will ever tell the truth about the death of an innocent man, or remain loyal to his family.

Alongside Tennant and Finneran, the cast is set to feature EastEnders star Jo Joyner as Nicola, Boiling Point’s Vinette Robinson as Erica Bailey and The Responder’s Warren Brown as Albie. Meanwhile star of Such Brave Girls Daniel Ryan will also be in the show as Custodial Manager Jennings.

The first series won two BAFTAs, one for best mini-series and another for best actor, which went to Sean Bean. Stephen Graham was nominated for best supporting actor.

Meanwhile, the second series won three Royal Television Society Awards. Tamara Lawrence, who played Abi, a mother serving a life sentence after killing her baby whilst suffering from postpartum depression, won the award for leading female actor.

Jodie Whittaker, who played first offender Orla who loses custody of her children whilst in prison, was also nominated. Bella Ramsey, who played Kelsey, a heroin addict who discovers she’s pregnant whilst in prison, won an award for supporting actor.

The third series was confirmed in November 2025.

At the time of its announcement, Samuel Bailey, who co-wrote the series with Jimmy McGovern said: “It’s been an absolute honour to work with Jimmy on Time series 3, and with the brilliant cast put together by the team, I think this series will be just as impactful and devastating as Time 1 and 2.

“I’m particularly excited for audiences to meet the lads playing our young offenders, who are all remarkable actors that I know we’re going to be seeing a lot more of in the future.”

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You could have more in your pension pot than you think

Martin Lewis has urged people to understand what he calls a ‘superpower’ around how pensions work. He shared several tips about pensions on his BBC podcast, to help people get to grips with how these retirement pots work.

One point he had huge emphasis on is understanding how tax relief on your pension contributions works. He said this is a vital principle to know as it is “the big pension superpower”. He explained: “It is a savings pot, but it’s tax-efficient because when you put money into your pension, it comes from your pre-tax income. This is really important.”

He shared some figures to show how this works. Normally you pay income tax on your income, so if a basic rate taxpayer earning £100 would have £20 taken away in tax. But if you put £100, the whole amount goes in.

‘You’re £40 up’

Mr Lewis said: “If you put it towards your pension, the entire £100 goes towards your pension. So, you’re effectively that £20 up. If you’re a higher-rate taxpayer, normally for every £100 you’re paid, £60 would be in your pay packet, but you can put the whole £100, so you’re £40 up.”

He also explained another way you could be getting more than you think paid into your pension – as your employer is obliged to top it up. Mr Lewis told his listeners: “Plus, if it’s a workplace pension, then most people are auto-enrolled into the pension scheme, and that means not only do you get the tax benefit, but your employer has to contribute too.

“The minimum amount is: you are putting in 5 per cent of your income, it has to give you 3 per cent on top, so you’d have an 8 per cent contribution. And all of that goes into this investment vehicle, if you like.”

The rules state that a minimum 8 per cent of the employee’s salary has to go in. This can be divided as you choose between a contribution from the employee and an amount from the employer. Either side can also pay in more to have a higher overall contribution.

How do your pensions grow?

It’s worth understanding how your pension pot grows over time. Mr Lewis pointed out that your pension is not just sitting in a standard bank account—it is actively working for you in the stock market.

The money expert said: “The thing to understand about the pension itself, the pension pot, you can choose to have it in a whole different range of investments. You can go really sophisticated and be picking your own investments, and you could do single shares, although that’s high risk, inside something like a SIPP, a self-invested personal pension.

“Or you could go to a sort of a robo-investment firm where you just say, ‘I want medium risk,’ and it will pick a whole load of shares for you in a broad spread of investments to try and ride out the market. It is just an investment fund.”

You can draw down from your private pension from the age of 55. This access age is increasing to 57 from April 2028.

“Every restaurant has a story and ours began with our mum daring to dream.”

A son has led tributes as the woman behind a popular Belfast city centre restaurant has passed away.

Known as “the woman behind 2Taps”, Brenda O’Neill co-founded the popular tapas restaurant in the Cathedral Quarter with her late partner Syd. The 61-year-old passed away on July 7 after a short illness.

She has been remembered with immense fondness, being described as a wonderful mother, grandmother and business leader, who exuded warmth and a passion for the restaurant she took a chance to open in 2005.

Speaking about his mum, Jarron O’Neill Watson said: “Every restaurant has a story and ours began with our mum and Syd daring to dream.

“After falling in love with Spain, its people, its food and its way of bringing people together, they wanted to bring a little piece of that to Belfast. That dream became 2Taps.

“My mum gave us so much more than a restaurant. She taught our family, our colleagues, our suppliers and our loyal diners what hospitality really means.

“Our wee mummy taught us to work hard. Stay humble. Be kind. Look after our people. Never think any job is beneath us. She lived those values every single day.”

Brenda raised three children on her own with resilience. She built businesses, created opportunities, and always found more love to give.

Jarron added: “My mum was one of the hardest grafters my sisters and I have ever known but what made her truly special wasn’t how hard she worked – it was how deeply she cared. She could talk to anyone.

“She made people feel seen. Food was never just food to our mum. It was how she showed love.

“Everything you see in 2Taps today carries a little piece of her. The flowers. The music. The warmth. The welcome.

“When our mum retired, my sister Victoria and I took over the running of the business. Although our hearts are broken, we’re grateful mum is finally at peace and we will proudly carry on her 2Taps legacy with love.

“Last week mum left us with these words which we will cherish forever. “All three of you were the best thing that ever happened to me in my whole life”. We will continue to do our best for her every day.”

Brenda’s mum ‘The Nanny’, her sisters Denise and Jill, and her children Victoria, Amy and Jarron, are grateful for the support shown to their family and have requsted donations, if desired, be made to Simon Community in Brenda’s memory: https://brendaoneill.muchloved.com/.

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Jet2 flight LS167 took off from Glasgow Airport at around 3.30pm on Thursday bound for Arrecife Airport in Lanzarote

Passengers travelling from Glasgow to Lanzarote experienced an unexpected delay after their Jet2 flight was forced to divert to Portugal following a medical emergency on board.

Jet2 flight LS167 took off from Glasgow Airport at around 3.30pm on Thursday bound for Arrecife Airport in Lanzarote. However, more than halfway through the journey, the crew declared an emergency and diverted to Portugal.

The Boeing 737-800 had been cruising at around 37,000ft off the Portuguese coast, approximately two and a half hours into the flight, when pilots issued a squawk 7700 emergency signal and changed course for Faro Airport on the Algarve.

A squawk 7700 is the internationally recognised code used by pilots to alert air traffic control that an aircraft is experiencing an emergency. The code gives the flight priority to land, with emergency services typically deployed as a precaution. It does not indicate the nature of the emergency, which can range from a technical issue to a medical incident.

In this case, the diversion is understood to have been prompted by a passenger medical emergency, according to aviation website AirLive. Emergency crews were waiting for the aircraft when it landed safely in Faro.

Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 shows the aircraft flying south over the Atlantic Ocean alongside Portugal’s west coast before making a sharp turn and descending rapidly towards Faro.

The aircraft touched down at around 6.20pm local time, where it remained on the ground for approximately two hours.

After the unscheduled stop, the flight departed Faro at around 8pm before continuing to Lanzarote, eventually arriving at Arrecife Airport at around 9.35pm.

It is not known whether the passenger requiring medical assistance continued their journey or remained in Portugal for treatment.

The Daily Record has contacted Jet2 for comment.

Today, Uranus angles towards Pluto, making this the perfect time for new beginnings. Creativity, perspective and authenticity come naturally.

Aries, Taurus and Gemini, seize an exciting opportunity. Change can be daunting, but it’s time you embraced it.

Be open, and inspiration will come to you from unexpected places and people. This cosmic reset is exactly what you needed.

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Aries

March 21 to April 20

Uranus, the planet of freedom, angles to Pluto, the planet of evolution. With both in air signs, your thinking and conversations can be edgy, but not necessarily in a challenging way. If you are open to discussing ways to collaborate and co-operate with new and inspiring people, it can create excitement. Try not to resist change; instead, look to embrace it, Aries.

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Taurus

April 21 to May 21

If you are grappling with financial and career options, a willingness to embrace fresh ideas or new technology could help you make impressive professional progress. Stay flexible, as opportunities may arrive in unexpected ways. Uranus, at the heart of this, has pushed you out of your comfort zone in recent years; now you can benefit from your openness to change.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Taurus

Gemini

May 22 to June 21

Whether through travel, study or conversations with people from different backgrounds, fresh perspectives can change your outlook. Being open-minded now could lead to exciting possibilities for the future. But to really engage you, you need to feel you are driving this, and not just part of someone else’s grand vision. This is your time to seize the mantle, Gemini.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Gemini

Cancer

June 22 to July 23

For the next seven years, the planet of higher truths, Uranus, makes its way through the deepest, most reflective part of your horoscope. Today, it aligns exactly with potent Pluto, in the part of your chart that concerns transformation. A flash of inspiration could help you see something in a different and powerful way, giving you searing insights you’ve never had before.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Cancer

Leo

July 24 to August 23

New and exciting people and possibilities can be showing up in your world. Part of this is because people are drawn to your charisma, which is being burnished now that expansive Jupiter is back in your sign for the first time in many years. Although you can be at the heart of this, your openness to working with other like-minded people will help you most of all.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Leo

Virgo

August 24 to September 23

Today’s exact Uranus-Pluto trine, one of astrology’s most enabling influences, encourages you to analyse your daily routines and working methods. Small adjustments could produce impressive long-term results, particularly if you’re willing to adopt more efficient or fresh approaches. Looking after your wellbeing in new ways can also capture your attention.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Virgo

Libra

September 24 to October 23

Your creative inspiration has likely been building for some time but can now gain speed and traction. Taking a chance on an original idea could bring both enjoyment and surprising opportunities. Sometimes you can weigh your options so carefully that the moment slips by, but the chances are that you are now primed to seize the moment. How exciting, Libra!

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Libra

Scorpio

October 24 to November 22

Your gift for understanding what’s not openly obvious is powerful. Whether things are shifting around your home, family or emotional situation, or with property matters or long-term finances, if anyone can tease out more value or appreciate deeper trends, it’s you. Although you can resist change, you also know that when it comes, it’s for a reason.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Scorpio

Sagittarius

November 23 to December 21

You can really buzz with brilliant ideas now. Whether it’s at work, creatively or even socially, people can find your ideas truly captivating. There have been times when your ability to spot trends has not been welcomed; however, people simply cannot ignore what you are saying now. In romance, things can move quickly and create great excitement.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Sagittarius

Capricorn

December 22 to January 21

Tried-and-tested approaches appeal to your nature, as you are ruled by the cautious energies of the practical Saturn. In recent years, you have likely experimented with fresh ideas, but paradoxically, today these can work best when applied to more routine matters, such as managing your budget or freshening up your daily routines. It’s results that will appeal.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Capricorn

Aquarius

January 22 to February 19

With Uranus, your modern ruler, working harmoniously with Pluto in your zodiac sign full-time for the last eighteen months, you’re being encouraged to embrace personal evolution. Your confidence can grow when you allow yourself to break free from outdated expectations. You’ve often had the confidence to be different when others haven’t; now this can be your mantra.

Head here for everything you need to know about being an Aquarius

Pisces

February 20 to March 20

Uranus has a reputation for pushing us to try different approaches and embrace all that is novel. However, it is also a planet that helps us thrive when we trust our intuition. Today is a case in point. Although it is now zipping through the air sign of Gemini, this is your sector of home, emotions and family. Whatever comes up around these today is well worth noting.

Head here for everything you need to know about being a Pisces

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