39 minutes ago Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights

Images by Fred W McDarrah feature in a new exhibition that follows key moments of community and liberationThe Manhattan photographer Fred McDarrah came to prominence documenting the Beat movement that overtook Greenwich Village in the 1950s, capturing, among others, Jack Kerouac (who sat for a portrait in McDarrah’s apartment) and one of the earliest photos of a very young and unknown Bob Dylan. It was this portfolio that made his name at the Village Voice, where he would work for an astonishing 50 years, but toward the end of the 1960s McDarrah began to photograph an entirely new movement sweeping over the Village.In spring 1966 at Julius’s Bar, a short walk from the Stonewall Inn, four gay men – Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons and Randy Wicker – engaged in what they termed a...

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39 minutes ago Student has 'whole life' stolen within minutes of arriving at university after suitcases snatched in broad daylight

Heather Williams, 20, had been travelling for around 17 hours to get to the UK

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49 minutes ago Rod Stewart bluntly admits 'my days are numbered' as he's revealed as first Glastonbury act

Sir Rod Stewart admits he’s fully embracing life as he prepares the play Glastonbury in the summer of 2025, the same year he turns 80, although he's conscious that his "days are numbered"

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78 minutes ago 'I was sick of my local dating pool so now I travel to date men in different cities'

Kirst Irvine has transformed her dating life thanks to a little-known house-sharing app that has allowed her to spend up to a month at a time dipping her toes in multiple cities

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95 minutes ago Conor McGregor makes announcement on future fight plans after losing assault case

Conor McGregor was last week found to have assaulted Nikita Hand in a hotel in 2018 with the UFC star now required to pay over £200,000 in damages

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1 hour ago ‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India

Official attitudes are hardening towards the minority group amid an anti-Muslim crackdown, say activistsFor Rohingya refugee Hussain Ahmed, the hope that his children might receive a formal education to secure a better adulthood than his own was what “kept him going”. After fleeing to India from Myanmar in 2016, he began working as a construction worker in a country where he is not allowed to seek legal employment. Then he met with a new hurdle.“For the last few years, I have been running from pillar to post, trying to get a local government-run school to enrol my 10-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. I cannot afford the fees of privately run schools, so the government ones were my only hope. But all of them turned my children down,” says Ahmed, who lives in the Khajuri Khas area...

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1 hour ago Stratford stabbing horror as man 'wounded 19 times with screwdriver' as cops release CCTV

Police found a man who had been stabbed up to 19 times in the head, abdomen and back, with a screwdriver on August 19 in Stratford. He sustained life-changing injuries as a result of the attack

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1 hour ago Man United transfer news LIVE: Geovany Quenda 'approach', Ruben Amorim 'wish', Ait

Keep up to date with the latest Man United transfer news and gossip following Ruben Amorim's opening draw at Ipswich Town.

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2 hours ago Storm Bert UK flood chaos goes on as 132 warnings in place including 'danger to life' alert

Storm Bert has left many homes across the UK submerged under water after roads became raging rivers and winds battered parts of the country with speeds of up to 82mph

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2 hours ago Ruben Amorim's first Man United setback is a blessing as new reality laid bare

Ruben Amorim will be hoping that expectations have slightly dampened at Manchester United after a disappointing draw away at Ipswich Town in his first game

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