66 minutes ago More and more, I sense I’m out of touch. Can my expat writing still call Australia home? | Mikaella Clements

Writing anything is an exercise in vulnerability, but the fear of writing Australia and getting it wrong is embarrassing and invalidatingI’ve lived overseas for 12 years, the vast majority of my adult life. I visit Australia every year (global pandemics permitting), but I’m no longer allowed to vote. I consider Melbourne my hometown and brag about it relentlessly, but my accent has become hopelessly mangled. And though my nationality is the first line of my standard bio – Mikaella is an Australian writer based in Berlin – it’s rarely apparent in my actual writing.My fiction already has a strange, hybrid quality; I write novels with my wife, Onjuli Datta, our two voices twining around one another with more than a decade’s worth of practice to create a shared language I step into as easil...

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77 minutes ago East Kilbride security guard pays tribute to tragic One Direction star Liam Payne

Graham McKay was part of One Direction's security team for the band's second headlining global concert tour.

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1 hour ago Are we living in Back to the Future? Scientists reveal what the cult film got right and wrong

As we mark this year's Back to the Future Day, scientists reveal what the cult classic got right - and what it got completely wrong.

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2 hours ago Sonic X Shadow Generations review – solid Sonic remaster is even better the second time around

Sonic X Shadow Generations brilliantly remasters one of the best Sonic the Hedgehog games for modern systems, with an extra Shadow-themed cherry on top.

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2 hours ago Top female footballers urge Fifa to end deal with Saudi ‘nightmare sponsor’

Letter to governing body accuses Saudis of using sports to ‘distract from the regime’s brutal human rights reputation’More than 100 professional female footballers have signed a letter calling on Fifa to end its sponsorship deal with the state-owned Saudi Arabian oil company, Aramco, accusing Saudi authorities of “brutal human rights violations”.A four-year deal signed in April will see Aramco, which is 98.5% state-owned, sponsor major tournaments including the men’s World Cup in 2026 and the Women’s World Cup in 2027. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Greggs lover buys £2.59 'Too Good To Go bag' – and can't believe what's inside

A Greggs fan was left amazed after getting her hands on 20 doughnuts, four classic savoury pastries, four croissants, six baguettes, a chicken and bacon pasta pot and two Belgian buns for just £2.59 via Too Good To Go

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4 hours ago MPs urged to back most significant overhaul of workers' rights in a generation

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on MPs to be 'on the right side of history'

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4 hours ago Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week

Warning of ‘lost generation’ in Adré and Farchana camps as Sudan’s civil war drives huge numbers across borderWhat caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?Refugees and aid agencies have warned of deteriorating conditions in overcrowded and severely underfunded camps in Chad, as intensifying violence and a hunger crisis in Sudan drive huge numbers across the border.About 25,000 people – the vast majority women and children – crossed into eastern Chad in the first week of October, a record number for a single week in 2024. Chad, one of the world’s poorest countries, hosts 681,944 Sudanese refugees – the highest number globally. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bread, sage and lemon frittata | A kitchen in Rome

A strong, penetrating flavour and lemon zest brightness ensures this visual masquerade from Sicily is a satisfyingly tasty treatThe Sicilian chef Corrado Assenza studied agronomy at the University of Bologna before returning to his home town of Noto and taking over his aunt’s patisserie shop and the land farmed by his grandparents. It turned out to be a productive collision: new knowledge meeting the empirical knowledge of a Sicilian pastry laboratory, and Corrado’s imaginative, wishful thinking. Like many people, we have visited his Caffè Sicilia and eaten almond granita and almond-and-sesame biscuits filled with bitter marmalade, and enjoyed bergamot cream, liquorice and wild fennel tea, as well as a ricotta-filled tube of cannoli decorated with a curl of candied orange.I also had the...

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