45 minutes ago City as big as Austria where some 'never see sun' – but you'll have never heard of it

A gigantic megacity larger than some European countries has sprung up in Southwestern China, so dense that the people living on its lower levels never see sunlight

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49 minutes ago Milton Keynes stabbing: All we know after two women 'murdered in horror attack'

Neighbours on Santa Cruz Avenue in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, remain shocked following the Christmas Day attack, whick killed two women and has left two more people seriously hurt

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55 minutes ago People are only just realising truth behind 'see it, say it, sorted' slogan

A pair of train passengers who had an argument about British Transport Police's 'see it, say it, sorted' slogan have made people think twice, with some only just realising what the phrase really says

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62 minutes ago People still don't know what time between Christmas and New Year's is really called

As the excitement of Christmas Day fades away, we find ourselves in an odd period of festive downtime where leftover snacks, sweets and crisps dominate and nobody knows what day it is

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62 minutes ago Beyond Paradise star Kris Marshall's astonishing net worth as show returns for Christmas special

Kris Marshall has been a regular fixture on our screens in BBC’s Death in Paradise and Devonshire spin-off Beyond Paradise in recent years - but how much is he worth?

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63 minutes ago Send more convicts to open prisons to ease overcrowding crisis in jails and reduce reoffending, urges Labour adviser

David Gauke, the ex-Tory justice secretary who is now leading Labour's sentencing review, claimed the current prisons crisis offered 'an opportunity' for change.

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67 minutes ago Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy 'agrees to police interview' after tragic hotel death

One Direction star Liam Payne tragically died on October 16 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his death is still being investigated

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68 minutes ago Corden thanks fans after Gavin And Stacey finale: It means more than you’ll know

The finale saw more than 12 million people tune in.

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84 minutes ago Pictured: Father who was 'stabbed to death' in his own home in the early hours of Christmas Day

Mr Price was victim of a suspected attack at the house where he lived with his parents in the quiet Staffordshire village of Norton Canes

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92 minutes ago As Trump returns to the White House, and Putin’s forces advance – what next for Ukraine in 2025?

Ukraine is facing an array of issues heading into 2025, underscored by the anxiety of what the re-election of Donald Trump could mean for the country’s future. Tom Watling speaks to politicians, military experts and aid workers to discover what next year could look like

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1 hour ago Ancient disease which wiped out 50million people discovered in DNA of Egyptian mummy

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and intestines, making it the first found outside medieval Eurasia

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1 hour ago Researchers discover the hobby that cuts your risk of dementia in half

Scientists think processing the vast amounts of information encountered online can benefit people's brains, while social media use may help to combat loneliness

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2 hours ago Meet the Party Jean – the answer to your New Year’s Eve prayers | Jess Cartner

If you can’t be bothered with an LBD, opt for a classic that’s casual but shouts party pizzazzThere is a moment about halfway through Christmas dinner when the cracker hats have slipped askew, shoes been kicked off under the table and belts un-notched, that marks the official end of the season of Making An Effort. A frenzied month of putting on mascara in the work loos and shivering on the way home because you are wearing your fancy coat instead of your warm one is over, up in flames along with the Christmas pudding brandy. Time to breathe out, shift into a lower gear, adjust to the sacred interlude of cheese and telly, half-eaten chocolate reindeers and gap-toothed jigsaws that is Twixmas.So it can feel a little tricky, a few days later, to go full jazz-hands for New Year’s Eve. But that’s what we are doing. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film

The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptationsWe are all drawn to archetypal stories. Fairytales, folktales, fables, myths: we tell them over and over again because they always have meaning in our lives. We can always see reflections of ourselves in Hansel and Gretel, Oedipus and King Lear. They can mean different things at different stages of our lives and be interpreted in different ways by individuals sitting in the same audience.Bram Stoker’s Dracula is among them. It one of the most influential novels of the turn of the last century and, along with the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Jesus Christ, among the most adapted works in cinema history. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago White British people aren’t under threat from multicultural Britain – they are part of it | Kieran Connell

Reform would have you believe that multiculturalism is an act of exclusion. In fact, the opposite is the caseAs the dust settled on last summer’s English riots, I found myself taking part in a radio discussion on the question: has multiculturalism failed? It was a depressing response to events that were themselves deeply depressing: an all-too-vivid reminder of how acute Britain’s problems with racism and Islamophobia continue to be. Yet the radio discussion also showed how multiculturalism acts as a scapegoat when it comes to concerns about issues such as immigration and community cohesion. For decades now, multiculturalism has functioned as Britain’s bogeyman.There was opposition to the term almost as soon as it began to gain traction in the late 1970s and 80s. Initially, multiculturalism was associated with policies that some local councils introduced to address inequalities in education. What this meant in practice was things such as an expanded religious education curriculum, t...

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2 hours ago Gavin & Stacey: The Finale review: We’ll miss these characters – Oh my Christ, they were lush

This Christmas special is about half an hour too long and the script recycles the least interesting elements of what’s gone before, but it still makes for lovely festive telly

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2 hours ago Manmohan Singh: Reluctant prime minister and architect of India’s economic reforms

Indian and world leaders pay tributes

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3 hours ago Ruben Amorim makes telling Manchester United admission as January transfer update given

The latest Manchester United news as we take a look at some of the stories around Old Trafford following a 2-0 defeat against Wolves on Boxing Day.

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4 hours ago The Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’

Michael Schur says 2008 sketch ‘didn’t feel right to me in some way’

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5 hours ago Court hearing set for man accused of fatally burning woman on New York City subway

A court hearing is scheduled for the man accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and fanning the flames with a shirt as she burned to death

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