Russia suspects a major act of sabotage over 'three explosions' which sank its military cargo supply vessel Ursa Major in the Mediterranean.

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The former Manchester United and England ace pulled out all the stops for his first family Christmas at their lavish £60million home on Miami waterfront.

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A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people across a dozen countries

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Everything you need to know about the Masked Singer Christmas special

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Evidence is piling up that Russian air defences hit the aircraft on Wednesday December 25, killing 38 people.

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His solution for Christmas leftovers has left people's stomach's rumbling.

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There is exquisite detail and piercing clarity in these observations from a writer’s notebooks as she faces terminal cancerAnd the Walls Became the World All Around, its title taken from a line in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, is gashed, keening, forensic. It has been finessed from 13 notebooks kept by the Swedish poet and artist Johanna Ekström who, just a week before she died of cancer in spring 2022, asked her friend Sigrid Rausing to transcribe them with a view to publication. Such an unusual – perhaps even onerous – request. Then again, Ekström’s parents were writers and literary grandees; Rausing is the publisher and former editor of Granta: no life without books.And the Walls is less about cancer than it is about winter. Early sections take place during the slowdown and muteness of the pandemic. Ekström’s mother Margareta is mute – unable to speak, or even read or write, after suffering a huge stroke in the mid-1990s. “N”, a translator with w...

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The moist, ungovernable hippo combines the aesthetic of a potato and the iron will of a toddler – and her name means ‘bouncy pork’. Here’s how she became 2024’s most in-demand mammalIt’s been a rough year and we all craved solace. Thankfully, the universe provided in the moist, ungovernable form of a baby pygmy hippo. To the uninformed, here is a brief primer on 2024’s hottest It-mammal.On 10 July 2024, a female pygmy hippo was born at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand, to mother Jona and father Tony. The zoo launched a public poll to choose a name for the infant. There were three meat-themed names to choose from: Moo Deng (bouncy pork), Moo Sap (minced pork) and Moo Daeng (red pork). Moo Deng won with 20,000 votes and soon captured the world’s imagination. Photographs of the infant – a slippery, chaotic and yes, bouncy beast shaped like a large potato, with a rolling eye, frequently open mouth and seemingly strong opinions – brought wonder to a jaded world. Continue reading...

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People think you can only eat turkey at Christmas, but this lean meat can be enjoyed all year around. It's super good for you and could make your winter soups extra tasty

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