34 minutes ago How a Welsh husband and wife got people all over Rwanda playing rugby and transformed their lives

A couple from Wales and university student have transformed the grassroots rugby scene in the east African country

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2 hours ago Kate Garraway admits her first Christmas without late husband Derek Draper will be 'difficult' but shares hopes she'll 'create new memories' with children Darcey, 18, and Billy, 15

During a candid chat for woman&home 's November issue, the presenter, 57, said it will be a 'tough' Christmas but looks forward to shape 'new memories'.

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3 hours ago Britain braces for Storm Ashley 'weather bombs': Met Office issues amber weather warning ahead of 80mph winds battering the country

After an unseasonably hot week for October, with some parts of the UK reaching 20C, the first named storm of the season is due to batter Britain.

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4 hours ago King Charles and Queen Camilla touch down in Sydney for royal tour – video

Minutes after a downpour at Sydney airport, King Charles and Queen Camilla stepped on to Australian soil. The scaled-down trip is the couple’s first Australian visit since the king ascended to the throne in 2022 and the first by a reigning monarch since his mother Queen Elizabeth toured the country in 2011From monarch mania to the slimline tour: how Charles and Camilla’s Australian visit will break with tradition Continue reading...

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4 hours ago It’s 60 years since The Lucky Country. Have we moved on from the bronzed Aussie male stereotype? | Frank Bongiorno and Mark McKenna

Writer Donald Horne was an astute generaliser in a golden era of them. Can we still examine Australia with his boldness?Sixty years ago, Penguin published a small paperback – Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties. Its cover was adorned by a commissioned painting – Albert Tucker’s profile of the archetypal Australian – male (of course), probably a returned soldier, his shirt open, beer mug in-hand, the ace of spades in his top pocket. Fronting a familiar, ocean-blue backdrop, Tucker’s granite-faced Aussie filled the frame, soaking up the sunshine. Like Horne’s depiction of Australia, he seemed to have no idea how he’d come to have it so good.But visible above the waves, behind the back of Tucker’s Australian bloke, there are four yachts with menacing, shark-like sail...

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4 hours ago Rail to the Reef: an easy train journey to one of the greatest natural wonders

A sleeper train with ‘thoughtful touches’ along the Queensland coast offers diverse and diver-friendly access points to the Great Barrier ReefStretching from south-east Queensland to the tip of Cape York, the Great Barrier Reef is by far the largest reef system in the world. It’s made up of 3,000 individual reefs, crosses the sea country of more than 70 traditional owner groups and, according to the Reef Authority, covers the same area as 70 million football fields. In recent years, these figures have been joined by a host of less welcome statistics, including the hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years and increasingly frequent mass coral bleaching.Seeing the reef in person brings all of these numbers to life. While rising sea temperatures are an existential threat to many corals, the ...

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4 hours ago The crisis facing Australian live music is older and bigger than just Live Nation

A recent Four Corners investigation into the entertainment behemoth was long overdue – but the industry has been bleeding out for decadesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI watched Four Corners’ investigation Music for Sale on Monday with some anticipation. The program was an overdue reckoning for Live Nation and Ticketmaster – the international entertainment behemoth, which has long faced accusations of abusing its market power by buying out venues, booking agencies, touring companies and merchandise manufacturers.The program finished to the soundtrack of Midnight Oil’s Forgotten Years – singer Peter Garrett was a prominent interviewee – playing over a nostalgic montage of some of this country’s most celebrated musicians on stage. Many artists, we were told, were too afraid to...

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4 hours ago 'Christmas will be difficult but we need new memories' says Kate Garraway on first without Derek

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway is counting down to the first Christmas without Derek who died in January after years of suffering from long covid

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5 hours ago Cole Palmer cannot solve all of Chelsea’s problems, Enzo Maresca warns

‘We put all the pressure on his shoulders – that is wrong’Blues face tricky run starting on Sunday at LiverpoolEnzo Maresca warned his Chelsea players they cannot rely on Cole Palmer to “solve all our problems” as they prepare for a gruelling run of Premier League fixtures, beginning with Sunday’s meeting with Liverpool.Following the game at Anfield, in which the head coach will be without suspended pair Marc Cucurella and Wesley Fofana in defence, the Blues play Newcastle at home in the league before travelling to Old Trafford to face Manchester United. Continue reading...

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