2 hours ago Lexus LBX review: Lexus brings its premium values to the crossover club

Gareth Butterfield spends a week in Lexus’s new compact crossover

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33 hours ago Fun home exercises for families to start this new year on a healthy note

Start the new year strong by making fitness a family affair with fun, simple workouts everyone can enjoy together!

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8 hours ago Topps Tiles boss Rob Parker to retire after company returns to sales growth

Rob Parker has announced he is leaving the business less than two months after its biggest investor called for a leadership review following a slump in sales

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2 hours ago Freedom Wars Remastered review – cult classic Vita gem is still a multiplayer diamond in the rough

One of the PlayStation Vita's most underrated exclusives gets a much-appreciated visual update, even if it can't quite shed its handheld skin.

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71 minutes ago More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

There are bold scenes for mainstream American cinema but the sexy dom/sub age gap movie can’t quite figure out what it’s saying about desireArguably the most transgressive scene in Babygirl, A24’s erotic drama from the Dutch writer and director Halina Reijn that has Nicole Kidman on the awards circuit, is the first one. The film opens with an orgasm – for both Romy Mathis (Kidman) and her husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), together, in the marital bed. But as Jacob slumbers in post-coital bliss, Romy scampers down the hall – the shot of Kidman’s bare, apple-cheeked behind recalls her first scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, one of several erotic 90s touchstones Reijn seeks to invoke and invert through the female gaze. In another room, we witness a private ritual. Her hands desperately flutter across a laptop keyboard; she prostrates on the ground, and makes herself come – for real this time – to porn.It’s a bold opening salvo for a film, a statement of sorts: this ...

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32 hours ago The Ordinary’s new serum claims to address signs of ageing with ‘growth factors’ – but does it work?

The formula’s hero ingredient is set to make a big buzz in the skincare world in 2025

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50 minutes ago Scientists say they may have found what's causing so many unexplained cancers

A major scientific review of 3,000 studies conducted by researchers from California may have found what is driving the mysterious rise of cancers in the United States.

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2 hours ago West Dunbartonshire residents face further bin collection delays as council blames 'resources and icy conditions'

West Dunbartonshire Council has announced that delays to the uplift of brown food waste bins could be possible due to resource pressures, as well as icy weather conditions.

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22 hours ago Ayr United hat trick hero George Oakley on hitting perfect treble as Scott Brown eyes January shopping

The striker was in irresistible form against Raith as he slammed a 25 minute treble to put Rovers to the sword.

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4 hours ago Mikel Arteta told which Arsenal player to build his team around after Bukayo Saka blow

Arsenal academy graduate Ethan Nwaneri has also had a fantastic impact on the Gunners’ first team and has been backed to enjoy more opportunities under Mikel Arteta in the future

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2 hours ago Freedom Wars Remastered review: It's a little dated but still a fun ride

Freedom Wars Remastered gives a PlayStation Vita classic a new chance at finding an audience on current consoles and PC, and is well worth a look for Monster Hunter fans

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2 hours ago AENO Premium Eco Heater review: Simple heat with nifty, convenient controls

Warm up your lounge or office with this smart heater from AENO, packing easy-to-use features into a slimline, stylish design that's ideal on the wall or free-standing

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26 hours ago Nivea vs La Mer review: Does this bargain cream compare to a £300 moisturiser?

Rumour has it the creams share 90 per cent of the same ingredients but how do they compare?

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7 hours ago Peter Hain urges South Africa to boycott Afghanistan game at Champions Trophy

Anti-apartheid campaigner plea to governing bodyWomen’s cricket team disbanded under Taliban ruleThe veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has called on Cricket South Africa to challenge the ban on women’s and girl’s cricket in Afghanistan before next month’s Champions Trophy.In a letter seen by the Guardian, Lord Hain urges the Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, Pholetsi Moseki, to take up the issue with the International Cricket Council before South Africa’s Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan in Karachi. In a particularly striking passage, Hain also draws direct parallels with the struggle of black and brown players under apartheid with the Taliban’s oppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Man, 43, accused of having sex with a Shetland pony after breaking into farm appears in court

Damion Ogeare, 43, is accused of having sex with the little horse in a stable after trespassing onto the farm.

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3 hours ago Couple share honest review after waiting three days to try viral sandwich

Couple Dr Eman Butt and Owais Ahmed were on holiday in Amsterdam when they decided to see if the famous Chun sandwich lived up to the hype - but getting the grub was harder than expected

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26 hours ago 11 best budget mascaras tried and tested including £6 Amazon bargain and designer alternative

Mascara is a make-up bag essential, and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. These are the best mascaras our testers love for delivering length, volume – and value

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7 hours ago Peter Hain urges South Africa to protest Afghanistan game at Champions Trophy

Anti-apartheid campaigner plea to governing bodyWomen’s cricket team disbanded under Taliban ruleThe veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has called on Cricket South Africa to challenge the ban on women’s and girl’s cricket in Afghanistan. In a letter seen by the Guardian, Lord Hain urges the Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, Pholetsi Moseki, to take up the issue with the International Cricket Council before South Africa’s Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan in Karachi on 21 February.In a particularly striking passage, Hain draws a direct parallel of apartheid with the Taliban’s oppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan. “Having struggled long and hard for black and brown cricketers to represent their country like whites did exclusively for nearly a century, I hope that post-apartheid South African cricket will press for similar rights for all women in world cricket,” Hain tells Moseki. “Will South African cricket please raise the plight of Afghan women cricke...

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5 hours ago Newcastle take a big step towards silverware – Football Weekly podcast

Max Rushden is joined by Nicky Bandini, Jonathan Fadugba and Sam Dalling as Newcastle win League Cup semi-final first leg at ArsenalRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; Newcastle take a big step towards the Carabao Cup final and possibly their first major trophy since 1955 with a 2-0 semi-final first leg win over Arsenal. After so many missed chances, the panel have the inevitable ‘do the Gunners need another striker’ conversation, a chat made more relevant by Alexander Isak clinical finishing for Newcastle. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago WW2 'saved by pint of Guinness' in 1944 sups another 80 years later to celebrate

Guinness bosses sent Ken Pusey, 98, the black stuff to enjoy at Christmas after hearing how changing his plans as a teenager to go for a pint saw him avoid Nazi bombing

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28 hours ago Businesswoman books out entire Florida Keys hotel for $20,000 so she can 'relax without any riff

Former model and actress Victoria Unikel splashed out the huge sum, which was 'discounted' as it was mid-week, so that she could enjoy meditation alone on the property's private strip of sand.

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6 hours ago Labour's THREE YEAR delay on social care reforms is condemned as architect of plans warns they could be wrecked AGAIN

Andrew Dilnot said the timetable for a new review launched by Labour is 'inappropriate' - and warning that progress could be derailed again by the looming election.

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4 hours ago Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota

Three years ago, a Somali-American mom in Minneapolis founded a group for Muslim women who want to enjoy the great outdoors

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32 hours ago DWP confirms state pension 'review' will be carried out as deadline set

There are changes to state pension policy coming in over the next two years

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10 hours ago Islamesque by Diana Darke review – the diverse roots of medieval architecture

A beautifully-illustrated account of the Middle Eastern influence on Europe’s great buildingsFrom Cairo to Istanbul, the ancient cities of the eastern Mediterranean tell a story of conquest, trade and coexistence written in stone. Jerusalem’s seventh-century Dome of the Rock and its surroundings are dotted with recycled Persian, Greek, Hasmonean and Roman stonework, along with choice fragments from churches. In Damascus, the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque features intricately carved capitals from a Roman temple and relics of St John the Baptist transferred from the church it replaced. The cross-pollination extended from design and materials to people – the shimmering gold mosaics that cover the interiors of both buildings are attributed to the Byzantine master craftsmen whose forerunners decorated the churches of Constantinople and Ravenna.This sun-drenched historical patchwork could seem a long way from the gloom of early medieval Europe. But in Islamesque, cultural histor...

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5 hours ago Noel Gallagher drops suprise new single with Shaun Ryder's supergroup... and it's deranged

Gallagher described the collaboration as ‘Dylan, Dali and Ginsberg on a rocketship to the moon to have it with the Clangers’

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13 hours ago The wild reason Nicole Kidman drank an entire glass of milk while accepting the Best Actress award at the 2025 National Board of Review Gala

The Hollywood star, 57, was presented with the prestigious gong by her The Perfect Couple on-screen husband Liev Schreiber at Tuesday night's ceremony.

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5 hours ago Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline

Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmedAngelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo Larraín, showing her declining months in Paris in 1977; the lioness in winter succumbing with ecstatic defiance to illness and loneliness. Maria broods over her “medication” and neglects to eat, and she is impossibly difficult with the servants, housekeeper Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher) and valet Ferruccio (Pierfrancesco Favino), who are the aghast witnesses to her decline – and she is beginning to relinquish the idea that she will ever sing again. The whole thing is interspersed with pharma-fuelled hallucination-flashbacks to the days of her celebrity pomp, but also further back to her traumatised girlhood in Nazi-occupied Greece.This film has had a mixed, sometimes frosty reception; I ...

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17 hours ago Coffee can slash the risk of a heart attack and stroke by a third, scientists say

Research suggests the time you enjoy an espresso or flat white is more important to your health than how much you drink.

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5 hours ago Perverts by Ethel Cain review: enter this dark and twisted church of stomach

If you’re also a freak for dark ambient and drone music, this deeply unsettling album is for you

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25 hours ago OnePlus 13 review: The 'flagship killer' has returned to take the crown once again

EXCLUSIVE: Daily Star tech reviewer Adam Cailler has spent nearly one month with the new OnePlus 13 device, and was more than impressed with the new flagship phone from the brand

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7 hours ago A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust comedy is a masterpiece

The writer, director and actor effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this film about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show as the more mischievous cousinWith no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just given us a masterpiece. This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America’s third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it, at confronting what their parents and grandparents found too painfully recent to revisit, or necessary to forget in order to survive. And partly it’s about family, male friendship and growing older. The movie affects a cool, sauntering tonal balance, teetering between the trivial and the world-historically important, with even the title glancing at the idea of someone being annoying or experiencing authentic suffering.As writer, director and joint lead actor, Eisenberg generously allows his fi...

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29 hours ago Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour

Trailer Park Boys spinoff sends the eccentric musos – and a vanload of cats – off around Europe with predictably uncertain resultsTrailer Park Boys is a long-running, multiplatform Canadian sitcom that non-Canadians with a taste for bawdy comedy may know if they’ve let Netflix’s algorithm churn up deep catalogue cuts in the middle of the night. For everyone else, bemused but not entirely unamused with this latest product, the basic setup is that this film is a mockumentary supposedly being filmed by a Dutch crew, and starts out in a trailer park in Nova Scotia in the company of various eccentric working-class chaps, some of whom are ex-convicts.In this feature-length offering, salty but sweet Bubbles (Mike Smith, also the film’s screenwriter) and his unfeasibly thick-lensed spectacles decides singing country songs for retirement-home residents isn’t enough of a career. With a bit of pluck, gumption and the power of montage, he soon assembles a beat combo he colourfully dubs Bubbles ...

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7 hours ago The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen review – smartphone nation

Is technology really to blame for bad behaviour, or is something else afoot? People who walk along the street with their heads down, staring at their phones, are enemies of society. They are narcissistic babies who have unilaterally derogated from the social contract that says you should look where you’re going to make sure you don’t bump into people. They implicitly believe that others should do that cognitive work for them while they shuffle along scrolling for porn or doom. If, however, a normal person bumps into them they will be enraged at the unpleasant reminder that other human beings exist outside their solipsistic bubble. Meanwhile, they are walking so slowly that everyone behind them, too, is inconvenienced; they are prime contributors to urban congestion and alienation and the general breakdown of the fabric of society.All that is true enough, but The Extinction of Experience has a lot of other complaints about modern technology. Young folk these days can’t do joined...

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29 hours ago Bombshell new Lord Lucan book pulled from shelves by publisher at very last minute

The book contained new evidence on the notorious 1974 murder and claimed Lord Lucan was alive in Australia - but publisher the Little, Brown Book Group has pulled the plug

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7 hours ago A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece

The writer, director and actor effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this film about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show as the more mischievous cousinWith no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just given us a masterpiece. This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America’s third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it, at confronting what their parents and grandparents found too painfully recent to revisit, or necessary to forget in order to survive. And partly it’s about family, male friendship and growing older. The movie affects a cool, sauntering tonal balance, teetering between the trivial and the world-historically important, with even the title glancing at the idea of someone being annoying or experiencing authentic suffering.As writer, director and joint lead actor, Eisenberg generously allows his fi...

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30 hours ago Nutcracker at the London Coliseum review: ENB’s astoundingly pretty new production of the Christmas classic hits the sweet spot

This fun version delivers Quality Street levels of moreish pleasure

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7 hours ago 'I don’t care if I’m lazy – owning a robot vacuum absolutely blew my mind'

The SwitchBot S10 passed every test the Daily Star's Richard Brown could offer and has him fully convinced that we should all join the robot revolution

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33 hours ago Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror

An almighty twist and a demented finale rescue the Shaun of the Dead actor’s cartoonish homage to folk horrors – but co-star Aisling Bea deserves betterThe trouble with Nick Frost’s knowingly cartoonish and silly comedy paying homage to folk horrors such as The Wicker Man and Midsommar is that Frost has done this kind of movie before, and better. His hugely enjoyable collaborations with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End, had a perfect command of comedy horror. The tone here feels less good natured, more self-congratulatory, the comedy not quite so light on its feet. Though it comes into its own with a cheerfully gruesome gorefest in the last half-hour.Frost writes and stars alongside Aisling Bea (who really does deserve a better horror film). They play Richard and Susan Smith, an ordinary-seeming middle-aged couple with the irritating habit of calling each other “mummy” and “daddy”. The Smiths have dragged their bickering grownup kids Sam (Sebastian ...

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7 hours ago Ariana Grande and boyfriend Ethan Slater reunite in rare joint appearance a month after his ex wife spoke out

The couple happily linked arms as they posed for snappers on the red carpet with their Wicked co-stars, with the film winning three awards on the night

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34 hours ago Gordon Brown hits back at Elon Musk’s ‘complete fabrication’ over grooming gangs

Gordon Brown said Elon Musk’s attack was ‘a complete fabrication’ and accused him of ‘propagating outright lies’ about the sexual abuse and exploitation of children

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8 hours ago 'Comfortable' Berghaus walking boots that give 'no blisters' discounted by 45% on Amazon

Amazon has reduced the price of Berghaus Women's Hillwalker II Gore-Tex Waterproof Hiking Boots in a size 8 and in chocolate brown by 45% - and they're a must-have for any lovers of the great outdoors

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35 hours ago Street Trash review – grisly remake of cult horror sends exploding corpses to South Africa

A gang of homeless misfits fight for survival in this dull reboot of the 1987 American horror film This is less a remake than an echo of the 1987 American cult horror flick of the same title. As in the previous film, it contains lashings of melted flesh courtesy of practical effects, and a plot engine wherein evil powers are trying to kill off the homeless. This time though the action has been transposed from urban America to a dystopian Cape Town, South Africa, where there is seemingly no middle class: just propertied rich folk making jokes about crypto currency over their phones and everyone else.The grubby majority live on the streets, picking through trash to survive. Assorted gangs get into internecine squabbles with each other when it’s pretty obvious the real foes are the rich. That goes especially for Mayor Mostert (Warrick Grier, a cackle and a hoot) who has devised an airborne poison that liquifies people after an especially icky prelude in which they grow brightly coloure...

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8 hours ago Perth and Kinross pupils with additional support needs rises to 39 per cent

Perth and Kinross Council is conducting a review into its Additional Support Needs provision as numbers increase

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12 hours ago Coffee drinkers reap health boost – but only if they do it in the morning

Pre-lunch brewers enjoy lower risk of death, analysis finds, but benefit vanishes among all-day drinkersPeople who get their coffee hit in the morning reap benefits that are not seen in those who have shots later in the day, according to the first major study into the health benefits of the drink at different times.Analysis of the coffee consumption of more than 40,000 adults found that morning coffee drinkers were 16% less likely to die of any cause and 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease during a 10-year follow-up period than those who went without. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago A Real Pain boasts a wrecking ball of a performance from Kieran Culkin

Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-tipped comedy drama revolves around two cousins on a trip to Poland to visit their grandmother’s childhood home

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16 hours ago The most downtrodden nepo babies in showbiz! As Mel B's daughter Phoenix says celeb offspring have never faced 'so much hate', how life in the limelight is not all rosy for these rich kids

As Phoenix Brown claims the children to the stars have 'never faced so much hate', MailOnline takes a look at the rich kids for whom life is not always rosy.

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23 hours ago Simba Hybrid Luxe Mattress review: Can this mattress help relieve back pain?

The nine-layer deluxe model sandwiches cushioning foam with pressure-relieving springs

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