26 h. ago 'A harsh reality is biting for London returners whose country homes have lost value'

London leavers who moved to remote rural areas are struggling to recoup their money as they move back to the capital, says buying agent Philip Harvey

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39 h. ago 5 games released in 2025 guaranteed to take you back to the good old days of gaming

Gone are the days of picking up a new title, racing home to insert the disc and spending the weekend getting lost in a whole new world

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5 d. ago ‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspectiveOne morning in Denver as artist John Knuth was getting his exhibition ready at the David B Smith Gallery, the police knocked on the door to check he wasn’t housing a dead body. “They said, ‘We’ve got a report of a lot of flies in here. Is there a dead body or anything rotting?’” Knuth recalls to the Guardian over Zoom.The hundreds of flies emerging from Knuth’s gallery were actually his collaborators. For over a decade, Knuth has been creating paintings using the regurgitation of tens of thousands of flies. “When flies eat they digest externally,” explains Knuth. “They’re in a constant state of regurgitation. They land on a surface, puke up, suck it back in. Puke up, suck it back in.” After feeding the insects a mixture of acrylic colored paint and sugar water, the flies spend several weeks expelling the mixtures on to h...

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6 d. ago ‘I had a home, apartment, career’ the Guardian’s Gaza diarist on the life he lost – and his journey into exile

The anonymous writer has seen horror after horror in the 21 months since he was driven from his home in Gaza City. How has he kept going? And does he have any hope left?On the morning of 7 October 2023, the author of the Guardian’s Gaza diary woke up planning to play tennis. “This year I decided to take care of my mental and physical health,” he wrote in his first entry, published six days later. “This means no stress, no negative energy and definitely more tennis.”Instead, with the news full of how Hamas had broken out of the territory, killing 1,200 people, he found himself scrambling desperately for the documents showing he owned his apartment in Gaza City, in the north of the strip. “If our building gets bombed, I need evidence that this apartment belongs to me,” he wrote. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently | Simon Tisdall

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine’s overs...

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9 d. ago Miles Teller praises wife Keleigh as couple rebuild after losing everything in LA fires

Teller and his wife were among many celebrities who lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades

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1 week ago TikTok star Livvy Dunne reveals how she lost Yankees legend Babe Ruth’s home in bottom of the ninth

Apartment is being sold for $1.59 million

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1 week ago Is England v Netherlands on TV? Channel, time and how to watch ‘must

The Lionesses could find themselves heading home from the Euros if they lost to the Netherlands on Zurich

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1 week ago The real Salt Path revealed: How inspirational hit book and film 'hid tawdry real tale of a £64,000 embezzlement, police arrest and land owned in France'

An investigation has reportedly discovered that The Salt Path's protagonists, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, are in fact Sally and Tim Walker and lost their home following theft accusation.

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2 w. ago France seeking end to years of hurt and internal conflicts at Euro 2025

Squad strife and a lack of team ethic have left a talented nation laden with doubt as they hunt a first major trophy“I want people to stop asking me: ‘Why haven’t France won anything when you’re one of the best teams in the world?’” Marie-Antoinette Katoto, like all her teammates, has only one dream this summer: to win the Euros.To do that, though, they have to come to terms with a history of tournament failures with the most recent one coming at the home Olympics last year, when they were knocked out by Brazil at the quarter-final stage. “We have had opportunities and twice failed to win it at home in France. We have to have the humility to admit that,” admits Sakina Karchaoui, one of the team’s vice-captains, referring also to the 2019 World Cup on home soil, when they lost to the USA in the quarter-finals. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dad cut his own throat with chainsaw – but cops thought his wife had attacked him

Christopher York, 65, was trimming hedges at his home in Chesterfield, Derbys. when he lost control of the £120 Bosch chainsaw and it cartwheeled 180 degrees to slice his jaw

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2 w. ago Good Morning Britain star Ranvir Singh 'terrified' and unable to walk after drink spiking

Presenter Ranvir Singh has revealed a traumatic drink-spiking episode from years ago, describing how she lost hearing and mobility with no memory of getting home

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3 w. ago The 'stupid' joke that cost me £500MILLION: How 'King of the high street' lost his home, his company and almost his sanity with the quip his jewellery was 'total crap'

EXCLUSIVE: Gerald Ratner's company, Ratners Group, was the biggest jewellery retailer on earth, owning H. Samuel, Ernest Jones, Leslie Davis and even Watches of Switzerland.

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3 w. ago In London and Paris, we’ve experienced vicious backlash to climate action. But we’re not backing down | Sadiq Khan and Anne Hidalgo

Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step upSadiq Khan is mayor of London and Anne Hidalgo is mayor of ParisAs mayors of two of the world’s great cities, we see every day how the climate emergency is already reshaping people’s lives, affecting the people and places we love. From deadly heatwaves and devastating floods to rising inequality and health crises driven by air pollution, the costs of inaction are not theoretical; they are measured in lives taken, homes destroyed and business revenue lost.Ten years ago, the Paris agreement was signed, marking a turning point in the global fight against climate breakdown. But today, progress is being undermined by a deeply concerning threat: a surge in climate deniers and delayers spreading virulent disinformation. We mustn’t let this hope disappear as the world gathers in Belém at the end of 2025 for Cop30.Sadiq Khan is mayor of London and ...

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