2 hours ago Driving instructor fined for parking on double yellow lines because learner wanted to visit shop

Merseyside Police officers stopped a learner driver who was parked up while the person behind the wheel went into a shop, with members of the public praising the force

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5 hours ago 'Humiliated' schoolgirls forced to take off shirts for male teachers before going home

End of term celebrations at a school in Dhanbad, India, ended in parent fury as teachers demanded girls took off their tops and went home without them after for a traditional celebration

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21 hours ago Irish woman, 21, dies after falling 500 feet while male friend grabs onto bush

The victim died after falling from the infamous Caminito del Rey pathway, close to El Chorro village in Malaga, where another person also fell to their death less than a month ago.

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23 hours ago British woman, 20, dies after falling 500 feet while male friend grabs onto bush

The victim died after falling from the infamous Caminito del Rey pathway, close to El Chorro village in Malaga, where another person also fell to their death less than a month ago.

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8 hours ago I'm a psychologist and this romantic gesture could indicate your partner is a narcissist

'It entails making promises to change, promises about future events or future wants that the other person - you - in the relationship wants,' said Los Angeles-based psychologist Dr Ramani.

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25 hours ago 'British' woman, 20, dies after falling 500 feet while male friend grabs onto bush

The victim died after falling from the infamous Caminito del Rey pathway, close to El Chorro village in Malaga, where another person also fell to their death less than a month ago.

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17 hours ago Comedian Sara Pascoe reveals she is 'glad I gave birth at 40' after witnessing her mother's sacrifices as a young parent

Sara Pascoe revealed that she's glad she waited until she was 40 to have children, after seeing her mother miss out on the carefree experiences of young adulthood. 

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24 hours ago ITV Masked Singer's Bush 'exposed' as 90s TV icon with fans completely convinced

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they know who is behind the Bush costume - with one person in particular convinced they know the answer to the question

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29 hours ago The freezing cold flats where one person has been sleeping in a hat, scarf and gloves

'It's like an ice box'

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32 hours ago ‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice

As her ground-breaking biography of Aboriginal activist Tracker Tilmouth is re-issued, the acclaimed Australian author remembers her late friend and talks about her latest novel, PraiseworthyOn the day she decided she had finally finished Praiseworthy, after almost a decade of writing and rewriting until she was happy with every one of its 700-odd pages, Alexis Wright went out to her garden in Melbourne’s north-east, and started furiously weeding. “It was like another edit!” she laughs. “And that garden was weeded within an inch of its life.”Wright, an Indigenous Australian novelist – one of the Waanyi people from the Gulf of Carpentaria – has written four novels since 1997. Her most recent, Praiseworthy, described by the New York Times as “the most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century”, was an exhilarating, exhausting labour. “It took me a while to come down from it,” the 74-year-old says. “I didn’t realise how much emotional, physical ene...

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