26 m. ago Tom Phillips shooting: NZ police search for children after fugitive father shot dead by police – latest updates

Fugitive father who has been on the run with his children for four years was shot by police after an attempted burglary of a building in Piopio, authorities sayFull report: Tom Phillips shot dead after attempted burglary, NZ police confirmThe mother of the three children has said she is “deeply relieved” the situation is over but is also saddened by what happened today.The woman, who gave only her first name, Cat, said in a statement to New Zealand broadcaster RNZ that she looked forward to welcoming her missing children home.We are deeply relieved that for our tamariki [children] this ordeal has come to an end. They have been dearly missed every day for nearly four years, and we are looking forward to welcoming them home with love and care.At the same time, we are saddened by how events unfolded today. Our hope has always been that the children could be returned in a peaceful and safe way for everyone involved. Continue reading...

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99 m. ago Jade: That’s Showbiz Baby! review – former Little Mix star thrives in chaos on an idiosyncratic debut

(Sony)Jade Thirlwall offers a wild ride through electroclash, Eurovision drama and emotive synth-pop – albeit one she can’t quite maintain for a whole albumLast month, the indefatigable Vice magazine published a piece on the “summer of British chaos”, documenting a scene of deranged social media provocateurs existing at the crispiest fringes of our nation’s cooked identity. Writer Clive Martin defined these graven images of the algorithm as being regionally specific, lurid, rowdy, funny and hedonistic. As a former member of Little Mix, a girl band put together via public vote on The X Factor, Jade Thirlwall might not seem like the likeliest bedfellow of this unhinged movement. But the South Shields pop star’s debut solo single, last year’s Angel of My Dreams, dodged focus-grouped smoothness to present a sublimely whacked-out, thoroughly British pop vision that felt like spinning through someone else’s for you page and realising they exist in a markedly different universe from your o...

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99 m. ago Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields.Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Influencer fighting for life after being shot multiple times outside home

Influencer Lola Doll was shot outside her home on Saturday night and is now in critical condition in hospital after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds.

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3 h. ago Influencer Lola Doll critically injured after multiple gunshot wounds outside home

Influencer Lola Doll, 33, whose real name is Lolita Callender, is in critical condition after being shot multiple times outside her home, police have said

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3 h. ago Influencer Lola Doll, 33, in critical condition after being shot outside home

Influencer Lola Doll was shot outside her home in Georgetown, Guyana, on Saturday night and is now in critical condition in hospital after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds

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5 h. ago UK households told to put one plant in bathroom to eliminate damp and mould

Bathrooms are prone to mould in the colder seasons but one plant has proven to remove up to 94% of airborne mould particles in just 12 hours.

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5 h. ago EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

Toronto film festival: the bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incompleteBaz Luhrmann now has two Elvis movies under his bedazzled belt. The first is his epic biopic starring Austin Butler and now he has unleashed another called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, remixing archival material with never-before-seen footage from the singer’s residency in Las Vegas. What’s remarkable about them both, apart from the director’s obvious affinity for his subject’s showmanship, is his refusal across so many hours of jiggling and swivelling to meaningfully hold Elvis to account.Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 film acknowledged Elvis’s cultural appropriation: how his phenomenal success owed so much to the R&B, gospel and rock he grew up around and the racist institutions that put him on a pedestal while holding down the Black artists that birthed and gave that music its soul. The movie also painted Elvis as a ...

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5 h. ago They should be paying ME to live in it! Internet trolls slam price of 'UK's worst house' riddled with mould on market for eyebrow

The two-bedroom terraced home in Stantonbury, Milton Keynes, is so dilapidated that thick black mould covers the walls of every room.

Economics

8 h. ago Good Fortune review – Aziz Ansari’s big comeback comedy struggles to find big laughs

Toronto film festival: The multi-hyphenate’s directorial debut has noble intentions in its timely class commentary but his brand of humour makes for an awkward fitThe absence of big-screen comedies, once an almost weekly occurrence, has become such a widely complained-about issue that the rare novelty of one actually being made has turned into a marketing tool. Last month’s remake of The Naked Gun employed a campaign that directly addressed this problem, with an ad that played like a PSA about such a lack and why supporting one was of societal importance (the plea only mildly worked, with the film finishing with decent, but not quite decent enough, box office). At the Toronto premiere of Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, festival chief Cameron Bailey made reference to the now unusual sensation of laughing with an audience, and the actor-writer-director himself has been impressing upon people his desire to make a theatrical comedy in the billion-dollar wake of Barbie. He believes in its im...

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9 h. ago Moment knifeman slashes neck of police officer before colleagues wrestle him to the ground during arrest

Glynn Leedell, 46, charged at an officer responding to reports of threatening behaviour at Kimberworth Park in Rotherham on July 17. He inflicted a nasty wound to the back of the policeman's neck.

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9 h. ago Girl, six, locked in bedroom entire childhood freed after parents 'with no remorse whatsoever' arrested

The child, who was found in a state of neglect, was also removed from her parents' care following a police raid

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9 h. ago Antiques Road Trip descends into bitter clash as expert abandons co

Antiques Road Trip descended into bitter clash on Sunday afternoon's episode as an expert abandoned co-star during a heated row that saw them split up at the auction house

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10 h. ago 'Party house' with cinema, dance floor and bar hits the market

The five-bed home in north London is up for sale

Society

11 h. ago Claudia Lawrence 'creepy intruder' targets home sparking sinister message fears

Missing chef Claudia Lawrence's 'frozen in time' home has been raided for a THIRD time according to her 'mortified' mum who found her knickers and tapes had been moved

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12 h. ago Horror movie hailed as 'top notch in every way' finally arrives on Netflix

The American supernatural horror movie follows a troubled security guard named Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) who begins working at an abandoned pizzeria.

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12 h. ago Mario Falcone's VERY different life out of the limelight: TOWIE's original Lothario who boasted of bedding 500 women swaps partying for parenting

He arrived on the TOWIE scene in 2011 as Lucy Mecklenburgh's boyfriend, with the on/off couple's fiery romance dominating the show's storylines.

Society

12 h. ago Dunelm's new £90 linen bedding is 'just as good' as 'more expensive' brands, say shoppers

Dunelm's new Linen Bedding Set has been praised by shoppers for its quality and softness, with some saying it's just as good as 'more expensive' brands - here's everything you need to know

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14 h. ago Man who suffered stroke not given treatment because it was 'outside hospital office hours'

Graham McGowan, 53, says the time he fell ill prevented him from accessing much-needed care, with the procedure only offered from 9am-7pm, Monday to Friday.

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14 h. ago ‘Outstanding’ British drama with ‘performance a lifetime’ just landed on Netflix

The 2024 film has a stellar 95% Rotten Tomatoes rating and now viewers can find it on Netflix.

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