68 minutes ago ‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time

Fifty years after his death, On the Road author’s spiritual reflections show him in a whole new lightHe made his name as the thrill-seeking author of the cult novel On the Road, an anti-establishment icon of the beat generation. But the extent of Jack Kerouac’s deep spirituality is now revealed in his Buddhist writings, which are to be published for the first time.About 30 semi-autobiographical spiritual and soulful stories, musings and poems – with titles such as The Long Night of Life and A Dream Already Ended – have been unearthed more than half a century after his death. All but two short snippets are previously unpublished. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Fancy moving to a new home in the sun? As Spain's golden visas bites the dust, our property expert reveals the best locations to move abroad

The sun may be setting on Spain's golden visa programme, but that doesn't mean that all is lost for Britons who want residency or citizenship somewhere abroad.

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6 hours ago Cosy winter style buys from £21 to add to your wardrobe – including luxe faux fur coat

With the cold weather we've been experiencing, now is the perfect time to upgrade your winter wardrobe with our favourite cosy style buys from River Island, H&M and more

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16 hours ago Warrington Wolves boss Sam Burgess urges Super League to develop "rock stars"

Former England captain believes the sport needs to make more of its big names like Mikey Lewis, George Williams and Junior Nsemba to start gaining the profile it deserves

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51 minutes ago Ceasefire comes into force as Israel awaits return of hostages and displaced people come to terms with devastation in Gaza – live

Hamas says it will free Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher after Israel delayed start of ceasefireFull story: Gaza ceasefire begins after delayHow will the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal work?Israeli tanks continued to shell areas in Gaza as the scheduled time of 8.30am (0630 GMT) for the ceasefire to take effect passed, Reuters reports.Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a brief televised address on Sunday that the political echelon had directed the military to delay implementation and that it retained freedom to continue attacks in the Gaza Strip as long as the ceasefire had not taken effect. Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Katie Price in talks for 'new TV show' after moving in with best friend Kerry Katona

Katie Price and Kerry Katona are said to be 'in talks' with several distribution companies regarding a new television show as they grew closer over the Christmas period

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70 minutes ago TikTok ban: VPN interest surges as Americans look for best ways to continue using app

Web searches for “VPN” spiked in the minutes after US users lost access to TikTok

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80 minutes ago Giovanni Pernice hopes to 'go back to Strictly' after BBC scandal with plan to copy co

Giovanni has admitted he's still 'upset' after being suspended from Strictly, adding he wants to follow in his former co-star Aljaž Škorjanec's footsteps and return to the show

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1 hour ago Clothes in the closets and favorite foods in the fridge: Moving day comes to the White House

Most presidents get to move into the White House once

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11 hours ago The NHS drugs that can trigger sex and gambling addictions: One dad lost £100,000 on bets after taking pills to help ease restless leg syndrome

Restless leg syndrome medicines - known as dopamine agonists - are offered on the NHS, but can cause some people to develop compulsive gambling and sex addiction, experts claim.

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25 hours ago Terrifying Netflix thriller You releases final season trailer – and fans 'lose their minds'

Popular Netflix show You will return for its fifth and final season this year after their showrunner stepped down from the role – leaving fans conflicted over the news

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2 hours ago Subversive, warm and wild at heart: David Lynch deserves all his tributes

The late director sided with the outsider and saw things in America no one else could see. His startling oeuvre changed film and television for everDavid Lynch, the director of Twin Peaks, Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, who has died at the age of 78, leaves behind the cinematic descriptor “Lynchian”, described in the Oxford English Dictionary as “juxtaposing surreal or sinister elements with the mundane” and “using compelling visual images to emphasise a dreamlike quality of mystery or menace”.Even this may not be enough for Lynch obsessives, for whom he was the ultimate countercultural outlier, the weirdo’s weirdo, who changed film and television for ever. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Katie Price and Kerry Katona lined up for new TV show after moving in together

Former glamour model Katie Price and ex-Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona are looking to join forces for a new TV show, after their on-stage success during their panto run

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2 hours ago Jon Sopel addresses whether BBC colleagues ‘hate’ him for success with News Agents podcast

The former chief political correspondent left the broadcaster in 2022 to set up rival programme

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26 hours ago BEL MOONEY: My dad made home movies of our families as our children grew up. Now my brother has edited the films

My son would dearly love to have some records of our family memories, as would I. But what can I do?

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21 hours ago Mike Tyson buys $13m mansion in exclusive Florida enclave as boxing icon spends Jake Paul fight cash

The 58-year-old boxing legend returned to the ring at AT&T Stadium in Texas for an eight-round bout with Paul, 30 years his junior, in Netflix's first live boxing event.

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30 hours ago Netflix fans demand reboot of noughties show soaring to popularity once again

Acclaimed actress Ana Ortiz recently appeared on a US talkshow and was asked whether the cult favourite series Ugly Betty would ever get a reboot

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2 hours ago Heineken disaster as stricken lorry spills litres of beer over street making booze river

This is the moment a Heineken lorry accidentally spilled its precious cargo all over the street as locals looked on in horror - but not everyone was too concerned

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30 hours ago 'Best Denzel Washington movie by a country mile' that is 'iconic' on TV tonight

The 'iconic' gangster film which is also based on a true story, will be airing for free on TV this weekend and can't be streamed anywhere - so mark the date in your diary

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3 hours ago Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption

Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist is the latest stage in the cultural rehabilitation of what was once architecture’s most reviled style but is now winning a new generation of admirersThis week an Oscar-tipped film, The Brutalist, opens in Britain. It’s a three-and-a-half-hour-plus saga in which Adrien Brody plays the brilliant but tormented fictional Hungarian architect László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor struggling to make a life in the postwar US. He’s a singular, solitary, single-minded genius, always working alone, in the mould of Gary Cooper in the 1949 film of Ayn Rand’s book The Fountainhead and Adam Driver in last year’s Megalopolis. Tóth is, like them, forever fighting the misunderstanding and spite of mean-spirited adversaries. He would rather shovel coal (as Cooper’s Howard Roark drilled stone in a quarry) than compromise his principles.The film’s title is a dramatic stage on the redemption arc of what was architecture’s most reviled style. Its makers evidently felt that the ...

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29 hours ago ‘It’s a PR battle’: inside the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuits

The director and star of hit summer romance It Ends With Us are facing off with lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and defamationIt Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, premiered in August to decent reviews and wide audience interest; it grossed $350m, against a $25m budget, despite a tide of press and social media speculation over an alleged rift between its director, Justin Baldoni, and its star, Blake Lively. Most of the ire was trained on Lively – for glossing over the subject of domestic violence with florals, for simultaneously promoting her haircare and alcohol lines, for being gruff with reporters in the past, while Baldoni, who played the abuser in the film, championed abuse survivors. But the movie was a hit, demonstrating the viability of female-led, mid-budget melodramas at the box office.Not that anyone remembers that now. The film has become embroile...

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29 hours ago Geordie Shore star 'addicted to surgery' after spending over £50k on procedures

EXCLUSIVE: Geordie Shore star Ricci Guarnaccio has confessed to being "addicted" to surgery after watching his female MTV co-stars go under the knife to transform themselves

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3 hours ago Watch the moment boxer suffers horror shoulder injury during Misfits Boxing event

Afghan Dan suffered a gruesome shoulder injury in his fight with Little T in Misfits Boxing 20, which forced an immediate end to the clash. After throwing a jab, he winced and held on to his shoulder.

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31 hours ago Multiple Oscar nominated film with 'best scene of acting' on TV this weekend

A star-studded cast are in the film that has one of the most quoted scenes in cinema

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6 hours ago ITV Out There Johnny star has very famous parents who 'never pushed him into acting'

Exclusive: Louis Ashbourne Serkis has opened up about his movie star parents as he appears in a gripping ITV drama opposite Martin Clunes

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29 hours ago Rafael Fernandes lands in Glasgow for Rangers move as silence broken on £2.5m Swedish option – Ibrox transfer bulletin

It's moving fast with Fernandes who could become a Rangers player imminently

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6 hours ago It was dubbed the 'Prison for the 21st Century', within days it exploded in an 'orgy of violence'

Just days after the Royal opening of Forest Bank Prison dozens of hooded inmates lit fires and barricaded themselves in their wing during a seven hour riot

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32 hours ago 'One of the best movies of all time' that 'proved Tom Cruise's talent' on TV this weekend

Nominated for multiple Oscars the film also has one of the most iconic final scenes between its main actors

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8 hours ago London leaver: 'I would never have written a book if I was stuck in Wimbledon'

Moving from a one-bedroom flat in Wimbledon to a three-bedroom Georgian conversion in Bath was a no-brainer

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30 hours ago DP World Tour's feeder circuit rebranded for start of 2025 season in new deal

Farmfoods Scottish Challenge could be among events to additional investment

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7 hours ago Horror of county lines drug warfare is laid bare in shocking ITV drama with Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes stars in ITV1 drama Out There, which explores the very troubling issue of county lines drug dealing and a crime wave sweeping the nation

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12 hours ago Virgin River fans say 'very similar' international show on Netflix is 'infinitely better'

Fans of Virgin River have discovered a 'much better' show with a very similar premise

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31 hours ago Jessica Alba's divorce from Cash Warren 'complicated' thanks to film career and $640M Honest Company

Alba's money comes not just from her high-profile movie career which includes films such as Honey, but it also is from her success as the founder of Honest Company.

Economics

12 hours ago Special effects expert who staged crazy bank heist... straight out of one of his movies

Gary Robert Hill stormed into the Arab National Bank in Mayfair last summer with an imitation firearm after he hit financial hardship when he was forced out of his job in special effects

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36 hours ago David Lynch was working on new show before his death, says Netflix CEO

Ted Sarandos said the proposed show was ‘filled with mystery and risks’

Economics

7 hours ago Netflix viewers find 'one of the best horror films of century' on the platform

The release from 2022 has bowled over Netflix viewers

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13 hours ago Netflix subscribers say 'infinitely better' alternative to Virgin River is a 'masterpiece'

Fans of Virgin River have discovered a new Netflix show that is said to be "much better"

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11 hours ago Upcoming Danny Boyle film 28 Years Later is inspired by Brexit, says writer of horror sequel set to hit screens

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle 's new zombie apocalypse film was inspired by the 2016 Brexit referendum, a writer has revealed.

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13 hours ago Huge rise in pupils given extra time for exams to help soaring numbers of children with special educational needs

Around 420,000 pupils are being given additional time to finish exam papers, four times as many as a decade ago, according to Ofqual, the exam regulator.

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15 hours ago Anthony Hopkins is supported by wife Stella Arroyave at the Joy Awards in Saudi Arabia after his home burned down in the LA wildfires

The Oscar-winning actor, 87, tragically lost his home in the Pacific Palisades fire , the largest raging within the LA area which has destroyed thousands of structures.

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16 hours ago Louie Barry fits the Celtic mould of fan favourite as Aston Villa insider delivers glowing reference

The 21-year-old is on Brendan Rodgers' wishlist as he looks to add to his ranks in this window

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15 hours ago Vanity Fair blasts Harry and Meghan with 10 bombshell revelations since quitting firm

The popular fashion magazine has put Prince Harry and Meghan on blast for their actions over the past five years, criticising their life living the 'American dream' and their Netflix and Spotify cash grabs

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16 hours ago Cameron Diaz says ‘best 10 years’ of her life were during acting hiatus

Charlie’s Angels star has recently returned to acting in her new Netflix film ‘Back in Action’

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17 hours ago LA firefighters helped by lull in winds, but more fire weather in forecast

Crews make progress but strong winds anticipated in Los Angles basin next week, carrying potential perilAnother round of fire-provoking Santa Ana winds are anticipated to sweep across the Los Angeles basin next week, carrying new peril as the area continues to assess the damage of the wildfires that devastated the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities 10 days ago.“We’re looking at more Santa Ana winds and high fire danger. It could be a prolonged event next week,” said Alex Tardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in San Diego. “The bottom line: we’re in uncharted territory this deep into the winter, or rainy season,” in having barely any rain, he added. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Ollie Watkins completes comeback as Aston Villa dent Arsenal’s title bid

Mikel Arteta looked like he had seen a ghost. With his side leading 2-0 against Aston Villa thanks to goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz, the Arsenal manager must have felt they were within touching distance of a cathartic victory that would keep up the pressure on Liverpool.But having seen the Premier League leaders seal a dramatic late victory over Brentford earlier in the afternoon, once again Unai Emery had other plans against his former club. Arteta could only watch on in horror as Youri Tielemens pulled one back before Ollie Watkins volleyed home the equaliser to the delight of the Villa supporters and their manager, who celebrated wildly at the final whistle as he did back in March after a 2-0 victory here that eventually proved terminal to Arsenal’s title challenge last season. Yet even when it seemed they might have won it late on through Mikel Merino, Arsenal’s joy was short-lived as VAR ruled Havertz had diverted the Spaniard’s effort in with his arm to ensure ...

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18 hours ago Arne Slot rewarded for patience as Liverpool keep calm and carry on | Barney Ronay

Manager’s refusal to be spooked in the face of more dropped points paved way for leaders’ late surge to victoryThis was a really good game for Arne Slot. On an afternoon when Liverpool had 35 shots in 90 scoreless minutes, then won the game with their last two in added time, and when those goals were scored by Slot’s first substitute and created by his fourth, it was above all a very good game for the idea of process, control and calm intervention.Admittedly these are not generally qualities associated with a late match-winning, mane-tossing, nostril-snorting two-goal Darwin Núñez salvo. But this was how it played out at the Gtech under Slot’s hand. Núñez doubled his league goal tally for the season. He resembled, as ever, and at all moments , a footballer being chased around the pitch by a swarm of invisible bees. He also came away looking on the metrics like a precision stealth weapon deployed at just the right moment. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago European football: Atlético Madrid’s winning run ended by lowly Leganés

Goretzka double gives Bayern narrow win over WolfsburgBarcola strikes late to give PSG victory over LensIn La Liga, the Atlético Madrid manager, Diego Simeone, praised his players and told them to stay positive despite a disappointing 1-0 defeat at lowly local rivals Leganés on Saturday which ended their record-breaking 15-game winning streak.Simeone lamented Atlético’s wasted chances in a game they dominated with more than 65% of possession, three strikes off the woodwork and twice as many goal attempts as the home side, including a penalty missed by Antoine Griezmann in added time. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago British film studios to rescue Hollywood after movie industry shattered by LA wildfires

Experts and studio executives have already begun planning for a raft of devastating issues impacting the world's movie capital in the wake of the region's worst natural disaster in history

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19 hours ago I'm A Celebrity's Myles Stephenson rushes daughter, two, to hospital as she turns blue after seizure

Former X Factor star Myles Stephenson has shared his horror after his two-year-old daughter, Sahara, was rushed to hospital after suffering a seizure and a high temperature

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20 hours ago Paul Danan unseen footage shared by Love Island star pal after tragic death

Paul Danan has been the subject of tributes this week following the news of his death and former Love Island winner Paige Turley was among those addressing his passing

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20 hours ago Darwin Nunez's late heroics mask Liverpool's increasing issue under Arne Slot

BRENTFORD 0-2 LIVERPOOL: Darwin Nunez scored twice in added time to earn Arne Slot's team a win that they almost let slip with wasteful finishing in west London

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21 hours ago Tony Slattery laid bare his struggles with addiction and mental health before tragic death

The late Tony Slattery, who has died aged 65, spoke about his struggles with addiction and mental health in an interview in 2016, as well as looking back on his Irish roots

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21 hours ago New Netflix film with 24% on Rotten Tomatoes 'so bad' viewers 'couldn't get past 20 mins'

It stars Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx

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21 hours ago Robbie Williams wants to make Better Man 2 despite film bombing in USA

The Take That star opens up on hopes of another movie delving into his colourful life and career

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21 hours ago Original Gladiators now from bitter TV insult to addiction struggles and new careers

As Gladiators fans tune into the new BBC series, the Mirror takes a look at what happened to the original '90s pioneers of the show, from tragic deaths to shocking crimes

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21 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer's Kingfisher identity rumours addressed by Paul Whitehouse as he 'exposes' real celeb

The Masked Singer's Kingfisher has fans of the ITV show wondering exactly which celebrity is behind-the-mask - and comedian Paul Whitehouse has finally addressed whether it's him

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21 hours ago ‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron LadyIn 1972, a nervous Margaret Thatcher went to Laurence Olivier’s London home for a lesson on presentational skills. The most famous actor of the 20th century told the then education secretary to put a book on her head and walk around to improve her deportment. He also advised her to take long confident strides, and to use her eyes to seduce and flirt.The future prime minister went on to visit Olivier’s house for a further five lessons, details of which are revealed in a new Radio 4 play, When Maggie Met Larry. Starring Derek Jacobi, who joined Olivier’s fledgling National Theatre when only 24, and Frances Barber as Thatcher, the drama tells of the previously unknown advice on style and voice offered to the Tory politician. Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Netflix Missing You viewers all have the same complaint after 'crazy' ending

The Netflix thriller, which was released on New Year's Day, has a lot of fans - but they all seem to be saying the same thing

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21 hours ago The Masked Singer fans convinced a Netflix star is behind Bush after spotting key clue

Fans of the ITV show spotted a huge clue

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23 hours ago Ski holiday horror as chairlift collapse injures 30 with 80 still trapped in Spanish resort

Thirty were injured when several chairlifts at the resort fell to the ground the incident this morning at Astun Ski Resort in the heart of the Aragon Valley in north-eastern Spain.

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