62 minutes ago Bride defended for refusing to walk down the aisle with her mother’s boyfriend

‘Your wedding, your rules,’ one person responded on Reddit

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1 hour ago Nine Premier League clubs in transfer scramble for teenager as selling club target record sale

Slavia Prague and Senegal's 19-year-old left wing-back El Hadji Malick Diouf is the subject of huge interest from both the Premier League and Europe ahead of the January transfer window when he is sure to be one of the hottest young talents on the market

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1 hour ago Shocking moment Brad Pitt 'faints' on the track at Las Vegas Grand Prix

Brad Pitt, the star of movies such as Fight Club and Bullet Train, was seen collapsing to the ground as he fainted on the grid on the track of Formula One's Las Vegas Grand Prix.

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2 hours ago ITV I'm A Celebrity fans question campmate's absence as they share frustration

I'm A Celebrity's new series is airing on ITV at the moment and fans have shared disappointment over some campmates seemingly getting more screen time than others on the show

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2 hours ago South Africa condemn Wales to 12th straight defeat to leave Gatland on brink

Wales 12-45 South AfricaSpringboks score seven tries without reaching top gearAnother week, another record defeat. This time Wales went down 45-12 to South Africa, which is the worst beating they’ve ever had from them in a home game. It’s their 12th straight defeat, at the fag end of a year in which they’ve lost every single game they have played.The worst thing about this one was that they played pretty well, in a way. It was a performance full of grit and determination anyway, but that only leaves you with the uncomfortable truth that this thumping defeat was about as good as it was ever going to get for this team. They simply don’t seem to have anything better in them. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Jimmy Thelin gets honest as Aberdeen lose unbeaten record with players thrown down 'prove our identity' challenge

The Dons slumped to a 2-1 defeat to St Mirren to suffer their first league defeat

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2 hours ago The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

The sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, to a crypto entrepreneur is a grim concept that has little to do with disruptionPaulina Brandberg, the Swedish minister for gender equality and work life, has a phobia of bananas so severe, her aides check rooms for the fruit before she’s due to enter them. Like other sufferers of this most unlikely of conditions, she is triggered by the merest traces of banana: a skin mouldering in a far-off wastepaper basket; a lingering smell; the sense that until recently something bendy and yellow lurked next to the perfectly innocent apples and oranges in the bowl on that coffee table.We can only hope, then, that the minister was – trigger warning – nowhere near the big auction house news of last week, in which a banana sold for $5.2m (£4.1m) at...

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3 hours ago Terrifying moment masked thug brandishes zombie knives outside Nottingham school

Members of the public can be seen confronting the machete-wielder in the video, with one heard saying: "Think you're a f****** hard man with a knife? Get gone."

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3 hours ago The moment I knew: a huge water balloon hurtled towards me – and he jumped in front of it

In her first year of university Chantelle Van Niekerk didn’t want a relationship. But then she met Rico, her intellectual and emotional equalFind more stories from The moment I knew series hereIt was January 2003 and I was about to start my studies at the University of Johannesburg – and had officially sworn off relationships. I’d had two serious relationships in high school, both with older boys, where I felt I needed to change who I was in order to be with them. I was done trying to please others and saw university as my fresh start to be truly me.The university had a start-of-the-year tradition – the campus residences would create and parade their floats for charity. My group was tasked with folding blommetjies vou (polystyrene-filled cellophane flowers) for our float, which was base...

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3 hours ago Formidable Scotland stand in way of Wallabies’ rare shot at grand slam glory | Angus Fontaine

Australia are daring to dream after the rousing revival of the past fortnight but a tough test awaits in icy, sub-zero conditions at MurrayfieldFor the Wallabies, the Test against Scotland at Murrayfield is the biggest of 2024. Joe Schmidt’s men are resurgent after upsetting England and walloping Wales. They are playing high-speed, ultra-tough, adrenaline-charged rugby with style and a smile. Beat the boys in blue in Edinburgh and they get a golden shot at history, with only Ireland standing between them and Australia’s first grand slam in 40 years.This will be the 35th Test in a fiercely-contested 97-year history between the nations. In their last six clashes at this arena, each have three victories apiece, with the last two going to the wire – Scotland winning 15-13 in 2021, Australia...

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