40 h. ago European country named as most popular holiday spot for British families in 2025

It seems growing anti-tourist rhetoric and an eruption of protests hasn't been enough to deter swathes of British families, who still plan on visiting an insatiably popular EU hotspot this year

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45 h. ago British families warned over 5 essential documents needed to take children abroad

With millions of Brits flocking to EU hotspots like Spain, Italy and Greece this Easter - a legal expert has warned that certain parents will need to bring five essential documents

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3 d. ago ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door Early on the morning of 3 August 1944, a unit of heavily armed German soldiers arrived at the Villa Il Focardo outside Florence.They didn’t knock. They didn’t ring the bell. They simply smashed through the front door, marched in and started shouting for the villa’s owner, Robert Einstein, cousin of the world-famous scientist Albert Einstein. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Man infected by one of 'world's largest human parasites' after common cooking mistake

A man, from India, left medics baffled after they spotted a worm in his bladder. He later confessed that he had noticed them in his urine before - medics revealed the likely cause was a popular food item

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4 d. ago Disturbing image of one of 'world's largest human parasites' that infected man, 35, after common cooking error

A 35-year-old man from northern India sought medical help after being unable to urinate and suffering a fever for days, with the parasite emerging alive and wriggling shortly after.

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5 d. ago 8 lessons I’ve learnt that other food allergy parents should know

While each family’s experience is different, here are some pearls of wisdom that can make life with food allergies a little easier.

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8 d. ago Germany's Leopard 2 tanks have been a failure on Ukraine's battlefields according to classified document that details where they have gone wrong

Ukrainian soldiers also named a string of other high-end German military equipment, including howizters and air defence systems, that they said could not function properly on the battlefield

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2 w. ago How old your dog REALLY is: Calculator reveals your pet's 'true age'

According to the common myth, each human year is equivalent to seven dog years. However, experts say the calculations for your pet's real age aren't quite so simple.

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2 w. ago ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justiceWhat do law and literature have in common? Do they represent similar impulses towards understanding human motives and behaviour, or are they fundamentally different systems? In his new book, 38 Londres Street, lawyer and writer Philippe Sands revisits the attempts to extradite and prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, beginning in 1998, in which he was involved. He also finds himself on the trail of Walther Rauff, a former SS officer featured in Sands’s award-winning book East West Street, who went on to seek refuge in Chile, later becoming involved in the Pinochet regime’s arrangements for the detention, torture and murder of its opponents. The Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez, who trained as a lawyer but decided...

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2 w. ago Hostage families urge Keir Starmer to take ‘bold steps’ in helping to end war

Two British families of Israeli hostages have written to the Prime Minister asking for ‘diplomacy’ and ‘bold steps’ to help end the war in Gaza.

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3 w. ago Households in these Council Tax bands could save up to £400 on energy bills

The Great British Insulation Scheme could help thousands of families reduce their gas and electricity costs this year as costs on tax, broadband and more is set to rise from today

Economics

3 w. ago ‘A common humanity’: the British families who tended graves of German soldiers

Across the country men and women have cared for the resting places of their enemy’s fallen, finding peace and hopeFor some, tending the graves was an act of reconciliation. For others, it was about acknowledging shared losses and shared grief.Thousands of Germans who died in Britain during the first and second world wars were laid to rest in local graveyards. British people tended these graves for decades, even laying flowers and wreaths for their former foes. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Nigel Farage wants huge change to how NHS is paid for that would hit families in the pocket

Nigel Farage has suggested that some British families could be forced to pay health insurance to use the NHS if he was Prime Minister - but Labour analysis shows eyewatering costs

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3 w. ago Mumford & Sons stick to the same format on their latest album, Rushmere

On their first album in seven years, the British band keep to familiar territories of Ye Olde England and the dusty Americana that suits their holy-rolling emotional tone

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last month ‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations

Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UKIn graves at Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok, in Russia, lie the bodies of 663 British military personnel. Most of the dead lost their lives in the period just after the first world war, when allied troops were sent to support rightwing White forces in the Russian civil war against the Bolsheviks, while 41 are casualties from the second world war Arctic convoys.Their resting places have been tended over decades by the Russian military and by private contractors, paid by the UK’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, economic sanctions meant Britain could no longer pay for the graves to be maintained. Continue reading...

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