1 hour ago My pub has been called racist because of its name... the legal battle could close me down

Simon Belsey, 49, fears the 300-year-old hostelry which sits on the banks of the River Wye in Hereford will have to shut after he received two legal letters from jihadist Khalid Baqa.

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2 hours ago Pitch perfect: why listening to cricket on radio soothes a world that won’t hear sense

Waves crashing. Cicadas singing. And always the burble of cricket on the radio, unifying summers and people with its gentle pleasures for an uncertain worldMy father was a man of his generation, which meant when summer rolled around and the cricket season started, he insisted on muting Channel Nine’s coverage and blasting the ABC’s radio commentary instead.Ours was a complicated relationship but one thing for which I’ll be forever grateful was the way my father shared his love for Test cricket with me. I grew up as a cricket obsessive. My love for the game survived childhood, adolescence, and even the realisation that, given I was batting No 11 for South Melbourne under-12s, my dream to open the batting for Australia was unlikely to be fulfilled. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Syria has been liberated from Russia and Iran – but outsiders still threaten its new freedom | Robin Yassin

After the fall of the Assad regime, the country now faces challenges from Turkey, Israel and the enmity of the westRobin Yassin-Kassab is co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War and English editor of the Isis Prisons MuseumThe liberation of Syria was long hoped for, but unexpected. Over the past weeks, Syrians have experienced the full range of human emotions, with the exception of boredom. On the first two Assad-free Fridays, millions of celebrants swelled the streets to chant and sing and speak formerly forbidden truths. There was a huge presence of women, who had been less visible during the years of war. Relatives are meeting again and assuaging their pain as hundreds of thousands return from the camps of exile.At the same time, millions are having to accept at last that their loved ones have been tortured to death. It now appears that most of the 130,000 lost in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons (a bare minimum figure) are dead. Dozens of mass graves have already be...

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2 hours ago Expert reveals the one thing to avoid saying during the festive season

Mental health expert and one of the top global thought leaders in psychology Mitch Wallis, sat down with Daily Mail Australia to offer some ways to survive the 'season to be jolly'.

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2 hours ago Christmas bonus! The British festive classics still racking in thousands each year

There are several songs by British artists that earn their keep in the month of December, despite not getting much airtime the rest of the year, racking up thousands in annual royalties.

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2 hours ago Miracle survival for people in plane crash stuck on minus 24C mountainside for three days

The two pilots and a passenger, aged 71, 68 and 25, managed to survive the minus 24C conditions after digging a hole in the snow and burning fuel from their downed An-2 aircraft

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3 hours ago I had 25 addresses in 20 years – but now I’ve created the beginnings of a new life | Jay Bernard

Gentrification and the cruelties of the rental market kept forcing me to move. This Christmas, I know I’ll find happiness wherever I amIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeAfter a while, you want to live alone. And then it happens and you discover everything that’s difficult about it. You realise that you didn’t really want to live alone, you were just sad and alienated in your old life.The pandemic reshuffled society in a way that could not be anticipated. Sometimes it feels as though the life I now have has come about because I stepped through a portal to a parallel world. There is a disconcerting jump cut between life before Covid-19 and life now. In the history of unstable housing that characterised my 20s and early 30s, and about which I feel nothing but regret, there was a moment when it changed from an unquestioned, if depressing reality, to something emblematic.Jay Bernard is a writer and artist Continue ...

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3 hours ago Moment Ukrainian kamikaze drone sets off 'doomsday' explosion at Russian oil depot amid 'massive' attack on Putin's war machine

The Steel Horse facility supplies Vladimir Putin 's armed forces, but also links to the Druzhba pipeline which sends Russian oil to Europe.

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3 hours ago Chelsea XI vs Everton: Starting lineup, confirmed team news and injury latest for Premier League today

Blues forced into defensive reshuffle

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4 hours ago Two US pilots shot down in 'friendly fire' over Red Sea as Houthi conflict continues

Pilots suffer minor injuries but survive incident

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