96 minutes ago ‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname

Women are challenging the law that prevents them giving their kids both family names without father’s consentWhen 43-year-old Rebecca Lee took her birth mother’s Korean surname, it was a revelation. “I was adopted and got a Dutch name but I never felt completely Dutch,” she says. “When, a few years ago, I first went to Korea, things fell into place. You don’t just go ‘one, two, three’ and change your name, but now I feel more whole.”The entrepreneur from Groningen split from her husband and wants to give her five-year-old daughter “Lee” as part of a double-barrelled surname – but she cannot, under a Dutch law that some women, a leftwing MP and legal experts believe is unfair. Continue reading...

Politics

96 minutes ago The Christmas that went wrong: The day was saved by the new friend I’d made on a drunken night out

I was alone in New York during the pandemic, in the aftermath of a breakup and unable to go home. A Korean family taught me to believe in the kindness of strangersLike many Jewish families, the Wolfsons take Christmas extremely seriously. Latkes and smoked salmon are served before homemade cranberry sauce and brussels sprouts. My dad’s hand-painted menorah, which he made during the ceramics cafe boom of the early 2000s, sits proudly underneath the Christmas tree.As such, I had never missed a Christmas with the family – although there had been some near misses. In 2019, we spent Christmas by my dad’s hospital bed after his stroke – us sipping on hospital canteen gingerbread lattes, him having Christmas dinner in the guise of vanilla-scented protein, fed through a tube. In 2020, I saw my family only from six feet away, double-masked and on the doorstep. I delivered presents, but they were not opened for a few days, to let any stray virus dissipate. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Heavenly scone recipe tastes like 'eating a cloud' and 'always impresses'

Sarah Rossi, from the blog Taming Twins, says her raspberry scones are the best you can make - and have a secret ingredient that makes them like "a heavenly cloud"

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2 hours ago Here comes the Bezos bride: How Lauren Sanchez has been prepping her look for blockbuster Christmas wedding

Wedding bells may be ringing soon for Lauren Sanchez and her billionaire hubby-to-be, Jeff Bezos - and she's showing all the signs that she's ready to walk down the aisle.

Politics

3 hours ago Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez to marry this week as secret plans for $600M Christmas wedding revealed

The billionaire Amazon founder, 60, and his ex-TV news anchor fiancée, 55, are marrying in Aspen the weekend after Christmas, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Society

4 hours ago Thousands of women with breast cancer may soon be told they don't need ANY treatment... as top surgeons reveal an extraordinary breakthrough that could change everything

A breast cancer diagnosis is almost always followed by invasive biopsies, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone treatments. But could all that be set to change?

Science

4 hours ago From Birds of a Feather's camel in Milton Keynes to Leslie Ash's turkey fire drama... The Christmas TV secrets they didn't want you to  know

A Christmas TV special is as much a staple of the Big Day as The Queen's - and, latterly, The King's - Speech.

Events

4 hours ago Pitch at Palace dossier is found at £1million secret HQ of Prince Andrew 'spook'

A box full of books detailing the work of Prince Andrew's business initiative in China was left dumped outside the £1 million property that served as Yang Tengbo's HQ.

Economics

6 hours ago Lara Trump drops out of running for the Senate, teases ‘big announcement’

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law was floated as a possible replacement for Marco Rubio, the president-elect’s choice for secretary of state

Politics

6 hours ago UK should designate China a national security threat, claims Priti Patel

Shadow foreign secretary accuses China of ‘all sorts of incursions in our country’

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