53 minutes ago Is it true that the more lip balm you use, the more lip balm you need?

Are chapsticks as addictive as some claim? We ask an expert to clarifyEver found yourself stuck in a loop of applying more and more lip balm, wondering whether it’s because the product’s becoming less effective with each application, or your lips are becoming reliant on it for moisture and dry out more easily when you don’t apply it?Dr Rosalind Simpson, a medical dermatologist from the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology at the University of Nottingham, says: “Lip balms don’t contain products that cause tolerance. But it can feel like this due to other factors.” Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Australia news live: Antoinette Lattouf gives evidence in case against ABC; NAB becomes first of big four banks to cut fixed

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor names sites of more study hubs for regional uni studentsThe federal government has announced the sites of 10 additional study hubs, which operate to improve university accessibility to students living in regional Australia.Bringing university closer to where you live will encourage more people who otherwise might decide not to go to university at all to give it a crack. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Australia news live: Ita Buttrose said ABC owed Antoinette Lattouf ‘nothing’, court hears; NAB becomes first of big four banks to cut fixed

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor names sites of more study hubs for regional uni studentsThe federal government has announced the sites of 10 additional study hubs, which operate to improve university accessibility to students living in regional Australia.Bringing university closer to where you live will encourage more people who otherwise might decide not to go to university at all to give it a crack. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Australia news live: Antoinette Lattouf gives evidence in case against ABC

Follow today’s news live‘Why can’t she come down with flu or Covid?’ former ABC chair wrote in email about Antoinette Lattouf, court hearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor names sites of more study hubs for regional uni studentsThe federal government has announced the sites of 10 additional study hubs, which operate to improve university accessibility to students living in regional Australia.Bringing university closer to where you live will encourage more people who otherwise might decide not to go to university at all to give it a crack. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Australia news live: Crisafulli warns Queensland flood ‘black zone’ residents to stay away; Allan claims new Liberal leader is ‘extreme right

Disaster funding activated for parts of Townsville and other affected areas. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor names sites of more study hubs for regional uni studentsThe federal government has announced the sites of 10 additional study hubs, which operate to improve university accessibility to students living in regional Australia.Bringing university closer to where you live will encourage more people who otherwise might decide not to go to university at all to give it a crack. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Sir Julius Chan: death of last of PNG’s founding fathers marks end of era

Sir J, as he was known, led the formation of PNG’s banking and finance systems before going on to lead the nation twice as prime ministerThe death of Sir Julius Chan, one of the founding fathers of Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975, marks the end of an era.Sir J, as he was known, was the “last man standing” from PNG’s first post-colonial government until he died last week at the age of 85 in Huris, New Ireland Province.Lucy Palmer, a former foreign correspondent in PNG, was the researcher and writer for Playing the Game: Life and Politics in Papua New Guinea, by Sir Julius Chan, published by the University of Queensland Press in 2016 Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Student completes Europe to South America solo row after 97 days at sea

‘Obviously it feels nice to be done,’ said Zara Lachlan.

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9 hours ago First picture of talented basketball players who died in horror crash that killed two others

Four university students died when their car collided with a second hand shop shortly before 4.40am on Saturday.

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10 hours ago Senior USAid officials put on leave after denying access to Musk’s Doge team

After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them to lock out workers and read emailsUSAid has put two senior security officials on administrative leave after a tense standoff with members of Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency (Doge) seeking access to sensitive data from the agency, five current and former USAid officials have told the Guardian.USAid director of security John Voorhees and a deputy have been put on administrative leave after they blocked efforts by Doge members to physically access restricted areas, the people said. The demands led to a tense standoff during which a senior deputy to Musk threatened to call the US marshals in to grant access to the building. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Pictured: Talented basketball players killed in horror crash as tributes are paid after deaths of four students 'on their way home from night out'

The four University of Essex students all died at the scene of the suspected high speed crash in Colchester on Saturday.

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14 hours ago Water companies ‘misleading public over colossal volumes of sewage being dumped in our rivers'

Researchers from the University of Manchester claim they have uncovered ‘widespread use of greenwashing’ by England’s nine major water companies - including United Utilities

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15 hours ago Four university students killed in horror crash 'on way home from night out' are named by police as horrified witnesses claim smash was so violent 'officers couldn't make out what make the car was'

Four university students in their 20s killed in a horror crash in Colchester, Essex, on Saturday on their way home from a night out have been named by police.

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16 hours ago Forget the pundits – here’s how philosophers see America’s moral divide over Trump

How can neighbors have such a fundamental disagreement about seemingly basic concepts of rightness and justice?In 2016, it was easy for the left to process Donald Trump’s election as a fluke – thanks to the electoral college, he’d essentially won on a technicality. But as he took office once again this month after winning the US popular vote, there is a sense that his every action comes with the tacit endorsement of the voting public.Trump is, of course, far from the first American leader to be accused of cruelty. What’s striking about him is that he doesn’t pretend otherwise. Presidents in recent memory at least paid lip service to compassion; the new one has made exclusion, spite and bullying his brand. He seems to celebrate violating the basic rules we’re taught from infancy: be kind to others, share resources, welcome those who may seem different. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Spurs claim first league win in seven weeks as they battle past Brentford

Tottenham were in no position to spurn a crucial goal off somebody’s backside and, give or take a few centimetres, that is exactly what they were handed here. Their season had been in freefall but a first league victory since 15 December was well earned, particularly given the scratchy resources at Ange Postecoglou’s disposal. Another makeshift backline, in which Archie Gray was outstanding, withstood one of the division’s toughest physical examinations and deserved their luck at the other end through Vitaly Janelt’s first-half own goal.The Brentford goalkeeper Hákon Valdimarsson, making his first top-flight start due to Mark Flekken’s injury, should have spared Janelt’s blushes in dealing more decisively with the corner that struck his teammate. But he was less culpable three minutes from time when Pape Sarr, finishing deftly after being played through by Son Heung-min, made the points safe. Postecoglou, who knew his team would have to scrap, leapt off the bench and punched the air...

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19 hours ago Doctor found passed out at desk was 8 times over drink driving limit after drinking gin on shift

Dr Lewis Vickers, a consultant physician and cardiologist at University Hospital Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, downed a bottle of gin before starting his on call shift

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16 hours ago Colchester car crash: Four dead university students named as vehicle left 'unrecognisable'

Four students from the University of Essex died in a horror car crash in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning, as police urged people to keep their curtains shut

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20 hours ago You’re Cordially Invited review – Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are the draw in wildly uneven wedding comedy

Two weddings, one double booking and a series of cliches are the order of the day in Nicholas Stoller’s Bride Wars-lite comedyAny film combining the comedy talents of Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon is unlikely to be entirely terrible. That said, the wildly uneven wedding clash comedy You’re Cordially Invited is certainly in the vicinity of terrible on numerous occasions. Ferrell plays Jim, the smothering, widowed dad of Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan); Witherspoon is Margot, the overprotective older sister of Neve, played by Meredith Hagner. When, due to an administrative snafu, Jenni’s and Neve’s weddings are double booked at the same venue, Jim and Margot are determined that their loved ones will still get their day to remember, no matter the cost to the rival party or to personal dignity. Wedding catastrophe cliches abound (cakes, hair and frocks take the brunt of the physical comedy). Ferrell’s crocodile wrestling scene notwithstanding, this just feels like a Bride Wars rip-of...

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17 hours ago Four people killed in horror crash were 'university students returning home from night out' as it's claimed the smash was so violent police 'couldn't tell what make the car was'

Four people killed in a horror crash are believed to be university students in their 20s who were returning home from a night out in Colchester on Saturday.

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24 hours ago ‘Female narcissism is often misdiagnosed’: how science is finding women can have a dark streak too

Research into ‘dark personality traits’ has always focused on men. But some experts believe standard testing misses the ways an antisocial personality manifests itself in womenPicture a psychopath. Who do you see in your mind’s eye? Chances are it’s a man. And chances are your answer would be similar if you were asked to picture a narcissist. From Charles Manson and Ted Bundy to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump, most famous people we consider psychopathic or narcissistic are male. That’s even the case for fiction – think Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman or Norman Bates.Scientists long assumed that women were simply too wonderful to be significantly psychopathic or narcissistic, and didn’t bother to study the possibility much, according to Ava Green from City St George’s, University of London. But research over the past few decades is increasingly challenging this stereotype, suggesting women can have a dark streak, too. Much like in autism or ADHD, such traits just expre...

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24 hours ago Freak hammock horror leaves woman quadriplegic but what boyfriend did shocked her

University student, Erin Field's life changed forever when she sat on a hammock that had been attached to a chimney, which crashed down onto her causing catastrophic injuries

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28 hours ago DWP confirms April 2025 increase to universal credit, PIP and attendance allowance

Millions of people will see a rise in their benefits in the coming months

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26 hours ago We’re closing the loopholes that allow paedophiles to use AI to sexually abuse children | Peter Kyle

Technology has changed how predators operate. Now a raft of new offences will stop those who create heinous content escaping punishment Technology moves fast. Legislation can be slow. For decades, that has felt like a fundamental fact of public life. But the gap between our laws and the world they are supposed to govern feels wider than ever. While the internet has transformed every element of our society, the state has not kept up.Most of the laws that prohibit the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse imagery have been in place since the 1990s. Back then, Photoshop was in its infancy. The physical photographs that paedophiles shared were no less vile, but they were easier for the police to seize and destroy.Peter Kyle is secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Continue reading...

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