1 hour ago Gynaecologist 'raped 87 patients and secretly recorded 'examinations' over 20 years that saw him insert unnecessary objects into women and caused so much pain one victim thought she would die'

Arne Bye, 55, is charged with having abused his position in order to obtain sexual contact with a total of 94 women - including two who were children at the time of the alleged assaults.

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2 hours ago Isabella Rossellini: ‘People never talk about the freedom, the lightness, that comes with ageing’

The Italian star is having a late career renaissance, including a powerful turn in acclaimed Vatican thriller Conclave. She talks about the serenity of being single, enjoying farming in later life – and what it means to be a nepo babyMost great female actors get to play a nun at some point in their career: a kind of thespian rite of passage that comes to many in their grande dame years. Isabella Rossellini, however, checked off that box in her very first screen appearance, aged 24: in 1976’s little-remembered Vincente Minnelli musical A Matter of Time, in a bit part opposite her mother, screen legend and three-time Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman.“My mum was playing an eccentric countess, who’s dying, and she thought one of the nuns assisting her dying could be me,” she remembers. “Because ...

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2 hours ago The big picture: earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan

Andrew McConnell’s shot of a young scrap collector at the remote spot where astronauts return from space captures a curious juxtapositionThe photographer Andrew McConnell first went to Kazakhstan in 2015, to witness what the Earth’s primary space portal looked like on the ground. A particular corner of the remote steppe-land, near a village called Kenjebai-Samai, was where, every three months, astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station fell to earth, having been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 400 miles to the south. McConnell had spent much of the previous years working in war zones and was keen to focus on something more life-affirming.He discovered a curious landscape that was both on the frontier of human exploration and unchanged for centuries. Over a dozen ...

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2 hours ago Coronation Street icon addresses alcoholism struggle 'drinking a bottle of vodka a day'

Curly Watts is a fan favourite among hardcore fans of Coronation Street and the actor Kevin Kennedy opens up on his alcoholism battle and a return to the Cobbles

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3 hours ago Crisis 'nowhere near over' as one in three Scots families need to borrow for emergencies

Scots have listened to Keir Starmer’s warning the economy will get worse before it improves as it emerges that families with children are struggling to fix emergencies without borrowing.

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3 hours ago Love Actually's Richard Curtis has only seen movie twice in 20 years after 'ghastly' experience

Richard Curtis opens up about his new Christmas film in an exclusive chat - and reveals that he's only seen Love Actually twice since it arrived in cinemas 20 years ago

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3 hours ago Crucial legal battle over the definition of a woman is one for our bizarre times

What was once regarded as a simple statement of fact is now characterised by some as an act of aggression

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3 hours ago Love Actually's Richard Curtis has only seen movie twice in 20 years after 'ghastly' viewing

Love Actually creator Richard Curtis has opened up about his new Christmas movie, adding that he has only ever seen the iconic film twice in the 20 years since it was released

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4 hours ago Rebel Wilson to appeal after US court rejects bid to have defamation case thrown out

The Los Angeles superior court rejected the actor’s claim that she couldn’t be sued by the producers of her film The DebRebel Wilson’s lawyers say they will appeal a California court’s decision that cleared the way for the Australian actor to be sued for defamation, in a claim that could run into millions of dollars.On Sunday, Wilson’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement that an immediate appeal would be lodged against a Los Angeles superior court decision that was handed down on Saturday morning AEDT. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Trump depends on the EU and UK to act as peacemakers more than he thinks

The US doesn’t need to spend more on Ukraine. Britain can bring funding to the table – and help Trump reboot alliancesWith Donald Trump the very meaning of words is up for negotiation. What does he really mean when he promises to “build a wall”? When he pledges to end the Russo-Ukrainian war in one day?His supporters say they don’t take him literally but seriously – but who decides what “serious” is? The very ambiguity can be part of Trump’s appeal. There’s something exhilarating in the sense one is in an exclusive negotiation with the president to define reality. It’s as if he’s welcoming you backstage from the reality show of politics to the discrete board room where meaning is made. Continue reading...

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