55 minutes ago Footage inside doomed Azerbaijan Airlines flight before it crashed with 100 souls on board

The footage has been shared on Twitter - reportedly taken before the passenger flight went down.

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69 minutes ago The Christmas that went wrong: I ended up in A&E with burns from my mother’s gravy

After two horrendous weeks with chickenpox and norovirus, I thought I was finally better on Christmas Day. But I had reckoned without a jug of scalding BistoThe strangled half-scream I emitted as we all helped ourselves to turkey and trimmings let the entire family know that something was very wrong indeed. The pain was searing, like the heat of a thousand suns concentrated on to a single centimetre of skin. “You need to go to A&E,” said my mum, a retired nurse. My heart sank. The A&E department of Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital was the last place on Earth you would want to find yourself on Christmas Day, of all days.It was 2006 and, as my wife drove me to hospital, I slumped in the passenger seat in hideous pain, feeling ravenously hungry and intensely sorry for myself. It had all started two weeks earlier when my wife had delivered the news I had been dreading since becoming a father. “It’s finally happened,” she said gravely. “Lydia’s got chickenpox.” Continue read...

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69 minutes ago ‘It changed my idea of what games can be’ – the 31 games readers couldn’t put down in 2024

From the grisly Space Marine 2 to the glorious Metaphor: ReFantazio, it’s time for Pushing Buttons subscribers to share their games of the yearHappy Christmas, Pushing Buttons readers! My sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s read the newsletter this year, and to all our new subscribers. Writing this newsletter and reading your correspondence remains my favourite part of my job. It means a lot that so many of you have written in to say that you look forward to Pushing Buttons landing in your inbox every week.Thank you also to the Guardian’s brilliant newsletter team, who have worked hard all year to get these missives to you on time even when I’ve submitted them horribly late. (I’m sorry, team. Relatedly: if games publishers could stop dropping huge news right around my deadline in 2025, that would be amazing.) Continue reading...

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70 minutes ago 'Genius' method to remove fresh red wine stains in seconds with no scrubbing

Nancy Birtwhistle was on This Morning at the beginning of December to share her incredible hack to getting red wine stains out of tablecloth - the tip is handy as many people enjoy hosting guests for dinner

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70 minutes ago Princess Anne's savage Christmas gift for King Charles that pokes fun at him

The King and his younger sister, Princess Anne, share an incredibly close bond - and one Christmas he received a hilarious gift from her which poked fun at his long wait for the throne

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71 minutes ago Trump shares Christmas message as Denmark responds to Greenland threats by boosting defense: Live

Danish defense minister says country will spend $1.5 billion to ensire ‘stronger presence’ in Arctic

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2 hours ago Shameless icon Tina Malone shares touching Christmas tribute to late husband

Shameless star Tina Malone lost her husband earlier this year after he tragically took his own life aged just 42, and this will be her first Christmas since then

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3 hours ago Inside ITV star Kelvin Fletcher's split from wife Liz who once banned herself from watching Emmerdale

Kelvin Fletcher, who played Andy Sugden in Emmerdale, has been married to Liz Marsland for 14 years and the couple share four children together.

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3 hours ago Cleaning expert reveals 'controversial' condensation hack and everyone's saying the same

Lynsey Crombie, aka the Queen of Clean, shared her groundbreaking tip on Instagram with her 371,000 followers, and many said they were eager to try it

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3 hours ago Tina Malone shares heartbreaking way she's spending Christmas after husband's tragic death

Tina Malone has heartbreakingly revealed how she'll spend the first Christmas without her husband, Paul Chase, after he tragically passed away earlier this year aged 42

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