55 minutes ago Cyriel Dessers revelation from inside Rangers camp as mystery Michael Stewart contact breaks rank amid exit murmur

The striker has seen his Ibrox career plunged into doubt in recent weeks

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1 hour ago Parents debate when they can finally stop giving adult children expensive Christmas gifts

Some people argue that 18 years old is the appropriate age to stop while others say the extravagent holiday gifts should always continue

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1 hour ago ITV Emmerdale fans 'work out' who is working with Peter as character 'returns from the dead'

Emmerdale viewers are convinced they have worked out who Peter's mystery ally is, and the person in question is not who they were expecting.

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1 hour ago Trapped with a killer for 77 minutes: Devastating new book gives definitive bullet

This tragedy is now added to a growing list of school massacres in America - and it evokes memories of the worst, including the 2022 shooting in the small border town of Uvalde, Texas .

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1 hour ago On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

For the past decade, the Barcelona-based visual artist Xavi Bou has devoted his work to revealing “the hidden beauty of natural movement”. His initial focus was birds; now he’s moved on to insects. In collaboration with US entomologist Adrian Smith he’s created an eye-popping series that captures – by merging multiple frames into a single image – the rhythmic flutterings of butterflies and chaotic leaps of spittlebugs and treehoppers. As well as their beauty, Bou was struck by the crucial role that insects play in ecosystems, even as their numbers plummet – it’s estimated that the biomass of flying insect species has decreased by 75% over the past 27 years. “We need to move beyond seeing insects as mere nuisances,” says Bou. “They are fascinating, essential creatures, and we owe them a great deal.” See more of Xavi Bou’s images here Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Blake Lively accuses 'It Ends With Us' director Justin Baldoni of harassment and smear campaign

Blake Lively has accused her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie and a subsequent effort to “destroy” her reputation in a legal complaint

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2 hours ago Justin Baldoni's cutting response to Blake Lively as she sues him for sexual harassment on set of It Ends With Us

Justin Baldoni fired back after Blake Lively launched a lawsuit against her former costar over claims of sexual harassment.

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2 hours ago Hungary's Orbán blames immigration and EU for the deadly attack in Germany

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is drawing a direct link between immigration and an attack in Germany where a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people and injuring 200 others

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2 hours ago It’s probably just a plane: drone experts advise calm over New Jersey sightings

Although politicians have called to shoot them down, experts say the lights are likely legal drones, planes – or starsAt first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Then, they spread. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in Virginia Beach said they saw an aircraft “unlike any other they’ve seen”. Sightings have now come from as far afield as Louisiana, Florida and Arizona. People across the US are looking up.No one seems to know for certain where these enigmatic flying objects are from or who is controlling them. But several lawmakers and much of the general public seem dead-set on one answer: a swarm of drones. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago 'My son vanished without trace – it's a total mystery but I know he's still out there'

The distraught family of Anthony Stammers, who was just 27 years old when he went missing on the day before his granddad’s funeral 13 years ago, say they believe he is alive

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