53 minutes ago Arsenal injury update: Bukayo Saka, Riccardo Calafiori, Martin Odegaard latest news and return dates

Mikel Arteta will hope to get some more key players back as massive Liverpool clash looms

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62 minutes ago Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll mounts extraordinary defence of N

EXCL: Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll has mounted an extraordinary defence of using the N-word in his comedy, MailOnline can reveal.

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78 minutes ago Psychedelic Outlaws by Joanna Kempner review – a compelling case for the use of magic mushrooms in pain relief

The US sociologist’s study of psychoactive fungi to treat little-known medical conditions such as cluster headaches is well researched and wide-ranging Of all the symptoms with which illness acquaints us, pain is famously the most difficult to quantify. Both a somatic and psychic experience, pain is a chameleon and stubbornly private. As Virginia Woolf observes in her essay On Being Ill, how can prose capture the nature of “this monster, this body, this miracle, its pain without slipping into mysticism”?If pain is challenging for a writer, it is even more so for a doctor. Is a patient who is presenting with pain in as much discomfort and distress as they say they are? And, if so, how to treat them? And what if they are a malingerer or a hysteric and by alleviating their symptoms you rei...

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83 minutes ago A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out

Definitely Maybe spoke to me as a working-class Glasgow teenager and gave me hope. Be Here Now brought it all crashing downI was visiting my brother at RAF Chivenor in 1994, where he was based as an armourer. My parents and I had driven from Glasgow for the weekend so they could go for dinner with him and his new girlfriend. I didn’t want to go. Fortunately, my brother knew that and suggested I stay in his room and ransack his music collection. “Here, listen to that one first,” he said, handing me a CD. The now unmistakable opening chords of Rock ’n’ Roll Star started. The filthy guitar riff announced the arrival of Oasis in my life, when I was 14.When I got back home, I rushed out to buy my own copy of Definitely Maybe, the band’s first album. My running trainers, jogging bottoms and S...

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84 minutes ago Home Secretary to update MPs on review into accountability of firearms officers in wake of Chris Kaba murder trial

Home Secretary to give Commons statement two days after police marksman Martyn Blake, 40, was cleared of the murder of Chris Kaba

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88 minutes ago Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta provides 'worried' Riccardo Calafiori injury update

Riccardo Calafiori limped off in Arsenal's Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk and Gunners boss Mikel Arteta is concerned about the defender ahead of Sunday's clash with Liverpool

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89 minutes ago Mikel Arteta drops biggest hint yet that Bukayo Saka will miss Arsenal vs Liverpool

Arsenal star Bukayo Saka has missed Arsenal's last two matches in the Premier League and Champions League through injury and faces a race against time to be fit for Sunday

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96 minutes ago Liam Payne's family hit with devastating fresh blow as dad 'vows to do right' by star

Liam Payne's devastated dad Geoff has reportedly vowed to stay close to the late One Direction star a week after he tragically fell to his death from a hotel balcony

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2 hours ago Home Secretary to complete review into accountability of firearms officers

It comes days after police marksman Martyn Blake, 40, was cleared of the murder of Chris Kaba.

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2 hours ago Why Scottish MSPs were in Iceland this week after Nicola Sturgeon's past visit as SNP leader

Three of Scotland’s MSPs were at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland - we take a look at why.

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