65 minutes ago Your dental habits could be making you gain weight, claims oral surgeon

Your oral hygiene routine can have a profound impact on your gut health, wellbeing, and weight

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2 hours ago Jacqueline Jossa 'hurt and upset' over Dan Osborne split claims as family home up for sell

Jacqueline Jossa is said to be 'hurt and upset' following claims that she's split from husband Dan Osborne after reportedly putting their £1.6million Essex home on the market

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14 hours ago Shoppers claim air fryer is 'just as good' as a Ninja, and it's £118 cheaper

''I’ve had a ninja air fryer and this is just as good. Aesthetically looks far better too.'

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9 hours ago Lotto players urged to check tickets now as £4m winner yet to claim jackpot

The National Lottery is urging players to check their tickets and get in touch if they think they may have won, with a lucky winner due to get a massive £4million windfall

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64 minutes ago Scottish farmer looking to quit farm as sea eagles 'devastate' his flock with attacks

The issue with the sea eagle for one farmer has intensified after he claims one of the birds killed a healthy full-grown ewe

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4 hours ago Conor was happy and healthy until he lined up for his Covid vaccines. Now he can't work, spends most of his time at home... and will never forget a doctor's five

A young man claims he was so driven to despair by debilitating heart issues he suffered after having the Covid vaccines that he almost took his own life.

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70 minutes ago Ibiza hotel where 'cocaine served on cornflakes' and owner claimed to have slept with 3,000 people

Sex, drugs and swimming pools - one Ibiza hotel that was a celebrity haunt threw huge parties full of hednosim and cocaine, according to its founder and former owner

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9 hours ago EastEnders' Jacqueline Jossa 'shocked and upset' over Dan Osborne split claims as she sells £1.6m family home

Jacqueline Jossa is reportedly 'upset' over rumours that she has ended her marriage to TOWIE star Dan Osborne as the couple place their family Essex home up for sale

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16 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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36 hours ago St Johnstone v Motherwell: Cup clash gives fringe players a chance to stake a claim, says Well boss

Stuart Kettlewell urges his stars to step up to the plate in the face of injuries

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91 minutes ago 'I truly pity the Royal Family': Lady Colin Campbell claims sensational Vanity Fair article on Meghan Markle vindicates her, as she laments that her 'warnings' were ignored

The socialite, who has been a vocal critic of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, pointed to a damning profile published by the magazine.

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85 minutes ago STEPHEN POLLARD: The release of the Israeli hostages is a moment to celebrate, but the Gaza conflict is far from over. Now Trump must tackle Iran's poisonous role

Nothing better illustrates why the Gaza ceasefire deal is so tenuous than the sickening scenes today.

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28 hours ago Coronation Street star reveals he's so skint he can't turn his heating on as he claims BBC cancelled TV job due to anti

The Irish actor, 64, who is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, revealed that 2024 was his worst ever year in the entertainment industry.

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26 hours ago Manchester United £150m transfer theory raised after spectacular Jude Bellingham claim

Real Madrid and England star Jude Bellingham was previously wanted by Man United before signing for Borussia Dortmund from Birmingham City in 2020.

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3 hours ago Woman at war with council over 'public' alleyway after fencing it off and claiming it was part of HER garden

A woman is at war with her council over an alleyway that she claims is part of her land after she gated it off and paved a £4k driveway over it.

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2 hours ago 'Removed from reality': SNP attacks Scotland Office minister over claims Labour has ended austerity

Kirsty McNeill MP claimed in an interview that Labour has ended austerity.

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37 hours ago Taylor Swift surfaces with family in NYC after Justin Baldoni 'brought her up' in Blake Lively lawsuit

The sighting comes amid claims she was was left 'perplexed' by Justin Baldoni 's supposed claim that Blake Lively enlisted her to 'pressure' him in his explosive new lawsuit.

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38 hours ago People over State Pension age with impaired hearing could be due up to £434 each month

Make sure you or an older family member are not missing out on extra support through Attendance Allowance.

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2 hours ago Foul play in Cabinet? Starmer takes time out for football amid claims 'panicking' ministers are at war over grooming gangs, benefits cuts and curbs on academies

Keir Starmer was pictured playing football as he battles on a variety of political fronts, with polls showing an alarming plunge in Labour 's support.

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5 hours ago The serial killer who was humiliated as a child by his parents for bedwetting and having a small penis then went on to slaughter women at random in death spree that claimed 17 lives

Dubbed the 'Monster of Liguria' and the 'Riviera Killer' for his terrorising of the region in the late 90s, Bilancia murdered 17 people over the course of just six months.

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4 hours ago Professional dancer Giovanni Pernice would 'love' Strictly return but says BBC has ‘moved on’

Pernice's former dance partner made claims of bullying

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5 hours ago He's an officer and a gentleman! Praise for VERY calm cop as he's harassed by YouTube 'auditor' who tries to make a complaint about being followed by security guard

The Metropolitan Police officer was approached by a man who claimed a security guard was following him as he attempted to conduct his 'private business'.

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5 hours ago King Charles and beaming Queen Camilla attend Sunday service at Crathie Kirk

Travelling in their Audi, Charles, 76, and Camilla, 77, looked relaxed as they made their way through the roads close to their Scottish estate.

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8 hours ago McDonald's slammed over 'abhorrent abuse of power' in sex for shifts scandal

Hundreds of teenage workers are suing fast food giant McDonald's - with some claiming their managers demanded sex in exchange for shifts on the rota - others say they were bullied

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5 hours ago Meghan Markle is 'like a Mean Girls teenager' and would become 'cold' and 'throw staff to the wolves' when 'something went poorly, often due to her own demands', bombshell article claims

Meghan Markle, based in Montecito with Prince Harry, has been described as acting 'like a Mean Girls teenager' and becoming 'cold' towards staff in a damning profile in Vanity Fair .

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10 hours ago Was this the moment the US public turned against the Royal Family? Inside the Meghan Markle interview where the Duchess dramatically claimed she was left suicidal by royal life as it 'silenced' her

Although the United States of America launched a successful revolution against the British monarchy in 1776, there are moments when this isn't always so obvious

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5 hours ago Should I be worried about my obsessive TikTok use? My ‘For You’ page doesn’t think so | Emma Beddington

As US users mourn their ‘Chinese spy’ being taken away, my algorithm is busy serving me queer chickens and pastry contentAs the US TikTok ban looms, users of the app there have been posting farewell messages for their “Chinese spy”, satirising the security concerns behind the ban as they offer up heartfelt appreciations of the ultra-targeted content on their For You pages.There is a lot, they claim, to be grateful for: their “Chinese spies” have soothed and amused them, steered them towards splitting with unsuitable partners and toxic workplaces, helped them recover from divorce, changed their political perspectives and sometimes their entire lives. “My ‘Chinese spy’ was brave enough to tell me I’m an autistic lesbian and I should leave my husband. And I don’t know if anyone will care about me that much ever again,” reads a typical post, over dramatic footage of the grieving author. A commenter below claims the algorithm knew they were gay four years before they knew themselves; ano...

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10 hours ago ‘Animals can feel good and evil’: film puts new perspective on Ukraine war

Collection of seven shorts due out in 2025 tells story of conflict from perspective of animalsThe occupying Russian soldiers paid little attention to the elderly woman shuffling through the farmland surrounding the villages outside Kyiv, taking her goat to pasture. But she was focused closely on them. After locating their positions, she headed back home with the goat, and later called her grandson, a soldier in the Ukrainian army, to give the coordinates.The story is one of seven episodes, based on real events from the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion but lightly fictionalised, that make up a feature film about the war in Ukraine, due out later this year. All seven of the shorts have one thing in common: they tell the story of the conflict from the perspective of animals. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago 'Diana walked amongst landmines': Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'don't know what "change the world" means', Vanity Fair article claims

A damning profile in Vanity Fair heard from those who have worked with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, including people who were involved in media projects such as Meghan's cancelled Spotify podcast.

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10 hours ago Despite the eulogies, the postwar order did little for peace – and fuelled the rise of populism | Kenan Malik

Don’t rush to mourn the end of a liberal international order that too often put order before liberalismThe historian Steven Shapin opened his account of The Scientific Revolution with the line: “There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” It is tempting to say much the same about the “liberal international order” (LIO), that “there is no such thing as the liberal international order and there are hundreds of books about it”. And this column, too.There was a Scientific Revolution. And there has been since the Second World War a global framework that has helped order international relations. But whether that framework can be described as “liberal” or embodies what champions of the LIO claim it does – “an open world connected by the free flow of people, goods, ideas and capital” that was, in the words of Antony Blinken, the outgoing US secretary of state, “America’s greatest contribution to peace and progress” – is questionable. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago ‘This is about witnesses speaking their truth’: Prince Harry gets his day in court against Murdoch’s newspapers

The Duke of Sussex and the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson are the last two claimants still suingAn extraordinary personal legal battle which has been years in preparation is to pit one of the most famous members of the British royal family against the world’s best-known media baron this week. On Tuesday Prince Harry’s lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group, owners of the Sun and the now defunct News of the World, will officially begin at the High Court in London.Fifth in line to the throne, King Charles’s younger son lives in self-imposed exile in California, but is due to appear in court in person once the case gets fully under way next month. The Duke of Sussex, 40, is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), over claims that journalists on his popular titles worked unlawfully with private investigators, delving into his private life, between 1996 and 2011. He sees himself as the last man standing in a struggle to get the newspapers to take legal responsibility for the...

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15 hours ago Sausage rolls trigger crisis for Brit bosses with wild 'food poisoning' claims

EXCLUSIVE: From tin opening injuries from food poisoning to dirty snags, sausages top the list of reasons why employees bunk off work - with number of banger-related days off growing

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7 hours ago 'I'm a tattoo artist – these four things will make me cancel your appointment'

A tattoo artist has shared the four circumstances in which she would cancel someone's appointment and not return their deposit – but some have claimed she's too harsh

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17 hours ago Registering births and deaths to be done online while driving licenses will be on your PHONE for first time

The moves come alongside claims that as much as £45 billion could be saved by modernising the public sector's antiquated computer systems and other technology.

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8 hours ago ‘Young women can fall pregnant very easily’: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps

Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy Apps promising to help women “take control” of their sex lives by predicting the days when they are fertile are putting users at risk of unplanned pregnancy by making misleading claims.Millions of women in the UK – including 69% of 18-24-year-olds – have used smartphone apps that track their periods. Many also tell them their “fertile window”: the days when they are most and least likely to get pregnant. Continue reading...

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22 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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9 hours ago Ilia Topuria makes bold prediction after Islam Makhachev breaks record at UFC 311

The UFC lightweight champion is running out of challengers after a dominant run, but the featherweight champion made a typically audacious claim to excite fans

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24 hours ago The Observer view on the Gaza ceasefire: it’s time for both sides to think again

This brief, fragile pause is a chance for all involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict to accept that violence does not work The ceasefire in Gaza, due to begin tomorrow, will bring welcome relief from daily violence but amounts, at present, to little more than a fragile, temporary pause in a conflict that is far from over. Israel has not achieved its principal war aim, as defined by its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: the total elimination of Hamas. Nor has Hamas achieved its objective: the destruction of Israel. The leaders responsible for the 7 October 2023 terrorist atrocities are dead. The organisation’s capabilities are severely reduced. But it has survived – which its supporters claim is a victory for Palestinian sumud (steadfastness).Most of the 98 remaining Israeli hostages, alive and dead, will not be freed in this first phase of the ceasefire, which is to last for six weeks. There is no agreed “day after” strategy for devastated Gaza, where nearly 47,000 Palestinians...

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9 hours ago Meghan Markle's 'blunt reaction' to having Sophie Wessex as royal mentor

When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, a book claims that the late Queen was keen for Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh to act as her mentor - but it seems things didn't go quite to plan

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24 hours ago Tommy Fury is seen out for the first time since shocking alcohol revelation as he steps out with pals in Cheshire

Tommy Fury was spotted out for the first time on Saturday following his shocking alcohol revelation, which he claimed contributed to his split with Molly-Mae Hague.

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9 hours ago Mr Motivator would help Eamonn Holmes with mobility issues but host 'won't speak to him'

EXCLUSIVE: Former GMTV legend Mr Motivator claims he would be willing to help out his ex co-star Eamonn Holmes with his mobility issues - but the host "won't speak to him"

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26 hours ago ‘I’ll kiss the ground’: chaos feared amid Gaza ceasefire as families head home

Hundreds of thousands are now set to return to whatever remains of their houses or to claim bodies from the rubbleAid agencies in Gaza are bracing for chaotic scenes this week as hundreds of thousands of people try to return to homes across the territory after the expected implementation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Sunday.Before the ceasefire, which is due to begin at 8.30am local time, Israel has continued to carry out attacks inside Gaza. The local health ministry claimed on Saturday that 23 Palestinians had been killed in the previous 24 hours, while the Israeli army said it had conducted strikes on 50 “terror targets” on Friday. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis review – the gospel according to

The first ever memoir by a living pope reveals a warm, emotionally intelligent man who loves football and ‘cutting-edge’ cinema – but skates over the more controversial parts of his careerPopes seldom lack a platform or a pulpit, so they have had little need to resort to autobiography to explain themselves. What books do appear under their names in recent decades have been either dull transcriptions of interviews with tame journalists that have been heavily vetted by the Vatican, or compilations of old sermons packaged as something more than they are.I therefore approached this new volume with a certain weary caution and was pleasantly surprised. It fully justifies its bold claim to be the first ever memoir by a living pope. Indeed, Francis’s Italian ghostwriter, the publisher Carlo Musso, reveals in a brief afterword that the original plan when the book was commissioned in 2019 was that it would not appear until after his death. So why the sudden urgency? Continue reading...

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29 hours ago Major update on 'sexsomnia' soldier who claimed he raped women in his sleep horrifies victims

Joseph Short, who was jailed in May 2016, will still be subject to restrictions and monitoring after his release this week - but victims fear he could now seek revenge

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12 hours ago Rollercoaster week for the chancellor ends in relief and a lesson learned that fortunes can change very fast

Treasury officials claim there was no panic in No 11 before the economic numbers finally turned in their favourAfter a rollercoaster week which began with Keir Starmer being asked if he still had confidence in his ­chancellor of the ­exchequer and ended with the stock market ­smashing all ­previous records, the sense of relief ­surging through Downing Street and the Treasury on Friday afternoon ­bordered on elation.The teams that surround the prime minister and his neighbour at No 11, Rachel Reeves, are made up mainly of untried novices in the hard business of running a government. They are only just learning how quickly moods, including their own, can go from one extreme to the other. “It is weird,” said one. “Truly bloody weird at times.” Continue reading...

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29 hours ago Gerwyn Price hits 147 snooker break to add to darts star's array of nine

Darts star and keen snooker player Gerwyn Price has apparently posted a 147 break having rubbished Shaun Murphy's claim that he has hit a nine-dart finish

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15 hours ago Southeast Asian foreign ministers seek breakthrough in Myanmar conflict and South China Sea disputes

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea

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31 hours ago Kolkata police volunteer convicted in junior doctor rape and murder case

Father of victim breaks down as convict claims he is being framed

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18 hours ago Ministers to announce plans to claim back money from benefit fraudsters

Liz Kendall has said that legislation will ‘make sure’ that people who ‘seek to cheat’ the system are held accountable.

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31 hours ago Briton jailed in Dubai for 16 years ordered to sign document claiming his human rights are being upheld

Exclusive: Imprisoned British businessman Ryan Cornelius has appealed to the Foreign Office for help after his Dubai jailers tried to force him to sign a document claiming his human rights were being upheld, we can reveal

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