40 minutes ago 'We live in Mallorca – here's how we really feel about tourists after protests'

Thousands across Spain have taken to the streets in recent months to protest against the tourism industry, but what do people in Mallorca really think of tourists?

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44 minutes ago Devastating reason Liam Payne remained in Argentina after girlfriend flew home revealed

Liam Payne was reportedly 'forced' to remain in Argentina after his visa to travel to the United States was rejected - leading to him missing his friend Niall Horan's concert

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52 minutes ago Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ‘seen in underground tunnel before October 7 attacks’ as IDF releases footage

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have released footage that they claim shows Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, strolling through an underground tunnel hours before the October 7 attacks took place.

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84 minutes ago Brit uni student discovers breed of 'hidden' snake that likes to live in attics

A Bournemouth University student found that the 2-metre Aesculapian snake was drawn to urban areas and liked to climb up walls and into attics to hibernate — and to lay eggs

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99 minutes ago Hackney teachers warn borough will end up 'childless' as more schools face closure

Teachers have warned that secondary schools in Hackney could have to close in six to seven years as pupil numbers continue to drop

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99 minutes ago ‘It’s a monster task’: can culling ferrets and rats save one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies?

Puffins, Manx shearwaters and kittiwakes on Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland have been dying. Now islanders and experts think they have the solutionThe dramatic sea cliffs, crags and stacks of Rathlin Island, county Antrim, rise more than 200 metres above the Atlantic Ocean and host one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies, including hundreds of endangered puffins, attracting up to 20,000 birders and tourists a year.On a spectacularly sunny day in September, the cliff faces are devoid of birds, with the puffins already having made their annual migration to spend the winter months at sea. Instead, Rathlin’s cliffs are dotted with roped-up figures in harnesses and bulging rucksacks, directed from above by a Scottish mountaineer, via a walkie-talkie. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Liam Payne 'forced' to stay in Argentina for one reason before balcony fall death

One Direction's Liam Payne – who tragically fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this week – was unable to leave the country as planned, sources have claimed

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1 hour ago My ex shared revenge video of me and said 'you're finished, check your Snapchat'

Holly Whitmore, 36, from Birmingham, was left 'devastated' when her ex-boyfriend shared an explicit video of her without her consent to thousands of people on social media

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2 hours ago Britain’s wealth gap is growing, its malign effects seep into all aspects of life. It’s a national disaster | Will Hutton

Wealth distribution reeks of unfairness and poses as big a threat to the country’s wellbeing as climate changeBritain is a wealthy country, but the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world. Accelerating since the financial crisis, wealth inequality casts a shadow over all our lives, affecting health, housing, education, productivity, enterprise, the media and even the vitality of our democracy.It has reached the point, a Fairness Foundation report last week argued, that the threat to our collective wellbeing means it should join climate change and terrorism on the government’s national risk register. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Why Sinwar’s ‘warrior death’ will win him martyr status in Gaza and beyond

Intrigue surrounds the Hamas leader’s defiant final moments, but an exalted afterlife as Palestine’s champion now seems certainA discrepancy in the official Israeli account of Yahya Sinwar’s final moments has emerged since his death which appears likely to add fuel to the martyr’s cult fast developing around the Hamas leader.The Israeli autopsy carried out on Sinwar concluded that he died from a gunshot wound to his head, at odds with the initial Israel Defense Forces (IDF) version which implied he was killed by a tank shell fired into the wrecked building where he made his last stand. Continue reading...

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