This weekend marks the annual 'No Trousers Tube Ride' day, which is something that would probably give a nun a heart attack. We take a closer look at the London 'sausage fest' (some may say)

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Escape the January chill with this sunny city break destination, that's been dubbed the 'new Turkey'

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Three of them are mentioned by name, with a mysterious fourth teased as a ‘surprise’

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South Korea's transport ministry revealed on Saturday the black box on the aircraft, which was carrying 179 people, stopped recording just moments before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Maun Airport

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Photographer Adam Lampton discusses capturing the vice, cash and sheer excess of the special administrative region of China – a place built on contradictions“I am not a huge gambler,” says Adam Lampton. “The first time I went to Macau, fresh out of grad school, I didn’t have any money to spare – it all went on camera film. People take it all very seriously, so I was too intimidated to sit down and be the white guy who didn’t know what the hell he was doing.”As a non-gambler in Macau, the American photographer would have been an oddity – most tourists go there to “play”, hoping Lady Luck glances their way. The former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region of China, is the world’s gambling mecca. Located on China’s south-east coast, just across the water from Hong Kong, Macau’s gambling revenues often put the US’s “Sin City” in the shade. The Macau government expects its gaming revenues to hit about $27bn in 2024, while declining Nevada looks set to fall below 2023’s r...

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Twenty four hours in Dubai with The Scotsman’s Lisa Ferguson. Lisa joined Emirates Airlines for the first flight of their new Airbus A350

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Ever since the first fuzzy images of its surface were captured in 1964, Mars has sparked imaginations worldwide. As Nasa publishes its photographic archives of the red planet, will Elon Musk’s wild predictions of a crewed flight in four years come true?Last September, Elon Musk used the social media platform he had bought for £35bn to remind the world that he had bigger things on his mind than the forthcoming US presidential election. “The first Starships to Mars will launch in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens,” he posted on X. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in four years.”Then came a grand restatement of even more impressive intentions. “[The] flight rate will grow exponentially from there,” he wrote, “with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years.” For those who still doubt whether this plan ought to be quite the priority...

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Olivia Ellen Homer was left "completely blindsided," when she arrived to the capital on January 6 ahead of starting a course at Napier University.

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A woman called 999 asking for pizza delivery, but her reason for contacting police was much more sinister.

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Idris Elba's Hijack is a show that will require your suspension of disbelief — because there are so many crazy things that happen on this seven-hour hijacked flight from Dubai to London

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Actress Jorgie Porter, who is best known for playing Hollyoaks' Theresa McQueen, recently gave birth to her third child and has explained the reason behind her unique name choice

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Shahzada Dawood was one of five people killed when the Titan submersible suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' but, despite being heir to a Pakistan business dynasty, has left very little to his wife, Christine

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Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastropheApocalyptic flames and smoke are raging through southern California in the worst fire in Los Angeles county’s history. At least seven people have died. Thousands of structures have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes. The private forecaster AccuWeather estimates initial damage and economic loss at more than $50bn and has the potential to be the costliest wildfire disaster in American history. The impacts of the disruption and loss faced by community members is incalculable.While some media outlets are discussing the link between the LA fires and climate crisis, the president-elect Donald Trump and rightwing media are using this devastating event to foster misinformation including denying the role of climate crisis.Tzeporah Berman is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer Continue reading...

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WHILE the late Queen became known for her rainbow wardrobe, enabling her to stand out from the crowd, Meghan Markle was once dubbed the 'Queen of Cream'

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The Beatles were offered an eye-watering sum to reunite for just one show in 1976 – but the band turned down the proposal for a very bizarre reason relating to sharks, according to Ringo Starr

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Erika Delgado was travelling with her parents to the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena when tragedy struck the DC-9 Intercontinental flight. She was the only survivor of the disaster

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Princess Kate's first Christmas with the Royal Family at Sandringham in 2011 came with mixed feelings.

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Jeju Air flight 7C2216’s flight recorders have been recovered after crash that killed 179 people, but authorities say data relating to crucial 4 minutes prior to crash are missing

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The clever, idiosyncratic satire of workplace culture returns for a visually stunning second season. But don’t expect its mysterious plot to go easy on viewersIn my early 20s, I worked for a pub that was half drinking establishment, half massive children’s soft play area. While adult intoxication and parties for under-10s sounds like an odd commercial pairing (or does it?), it did mean that the pub’s employees had to work hard, serving pints for the adults and, for the chosen few, dressing up as a giant bear and waving to the kids assembled for little Jack’s seventh birthday party. I bring this up because I still remember a poster on the wall of the bleak staffroom that read “A smile costs nothing”. We were sweating under a synthetic bear’s head while serving soggy chips for minimum wage, so surely I was the one to be the judge of that.Severance is that poster brought to life as prestige TV. The first season was a clever, original and surreal examination of bland yet passive-ag...

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Wizz Air has confirmed an exact time when travellers should book their cheap flights and has busted common belief that last minute flights are cheaper.

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Los Angeles sports organizations are uniting to launch an “LA Strong” custom logo and apparel line that will raise money for organizations assisting those impacted by this week’s devasting wildfires

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President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal

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Case over pension scheme management highlights rising risks of legal challenges over environmentally-focused policies

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‘Together, we will achieve American Energy DOMINANCE, rebuild our Economy, and DRILL, BABY, DRILL,’ Trump vowed as he announced his environmental pick

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The Thistle drug consumption room - the first of its kind in the UK - will open in Glasgow on Monday in a bid to drive down Scotland's drug deaths rate

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A Delta Air Lines flight had to be abandoned by its hundreds of passengers using inflatable slides after an issue with the engine stopped the plane taking off in the US

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The airline, which was banned from flying to the UK, US and EU, posted an image showing a jet, the tower and the French flag, with the caption: 'Paris, we're coming today.'

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’On takeoff, something went wrong and [an] engine caught fire,’ one passenger told CNN.

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As runaway ISIS bride Shamima Begum's fate has been thrown into doubt, a legal expert warns of the chilling consequences of her possible release from a Syrian detention camp

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A mysterious object has been spotted in Loch Ness and many are hoping this could be a new sighting of the world-renowned Loch Ness Monster - Scottish folklore's most famous export

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The woman was seen hopping onto the luggage conveyor belt at Vladikavkaz Airport in Russia, with one person claiming she thought it was the fast track entrance to her flight gate

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Múte Egede open to continuing co-operation with US, but rejects Donald Trump’s attempt to buy Arctic island

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Realising she wouldn't make it to see her mum, she began to cry and the flight attendant spoke to the pilot who held the next flight so she would make it.

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A new report from U.S. intelligence finds no evidence linking a foreign power to the mysterious “Havana syndrome” injuries experienced by U.S. personnel

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The Belgian is facing massive pressure after a dismal draw with Dundee

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Instagram food influencer Lola Young decided to bake a cheesecake during her recent flight with Ryanair - but some people have branded her 'inconsiderate' and 'desperate for likes'

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The daughter’s TikTok video telling the story received over 10 million views

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Gladior Kwesiah, 26, was arrested and charged with assault and battery for allegedly slamming Hailea Soares, 31. The tiny mother of two waited to hear if she'd ever walk again.

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According to FAA data, approximately 80 percent of people who try to stowaway in external compartments on aircraft — such as wheel bays — die

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Flight attendant Cassandra Martin caught on camera the scary moment that a jet crew spotted a mysterious spherical object flying above them thousands of feet over the Bahamas.

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Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert across parts of the Deep South and south-central U.S. The National Weather Service says heavy snowfall and icy conditions are likely Friday in Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee

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RuPaul's DragCon UK event was opened with a tribute to The Vivienne, as the American actor and TV host called the drag queen his "dear" friend who was "all about love and life"

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A world leading UK Biobank study of half a million Brits could unlock the mysteries of ‘proteomics’ to prevent and cure diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis

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The Dutch defender has become one of the most recognised faces in world football at Liverpool

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The Uruguayan was substituted in the first half of Tottenham's Carabao Cup semi-final first leg clash with Liverpool after a lengthy delay in which the player received treatment on the pitch.

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