4 d. ago Footballer, 35, collapses and dies on pitch after sending now chilling message to fans

Enzo Pittau collapsed on the pitch before suffering a fatal cardiac arrest just before half-time, with his club issuing a statement on the death of the father of a young daughter

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4 d. ago TODAY's TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Will Young's shocking family truth on BBC show airing tonight

Will Young is tracing his family history on Who Do You Think You Are? tonight and gets a shock when he finds a connection to one of medieval history’s biggest villains

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4 d. ago `This House' makes world premiere, exploring Black history through a family's legacy in Harlem

“This House,” a rumination on love, aspiration, coping and the unyielding weight of history, made its world premiere Saturday night at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis

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5 d. ago ‘They didn’t deserve it’: emotional Erin Patterson tells murder trial of shame over messages about family

Murder accused also tells jury she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had history of ‘consulting Dr Google’Erin Patterson trial LIVEWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has told a court she wishes she never told her Facebook friends in a private group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” in relation to her in-laws, saying she felt ashamed but hoped that sharing her frustrations would mean she had a “big cheer squad” for her problems.Patterson also told the jury in her triple murder trial that she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a history of “consulting Dr Google”, and hoped to bring her family back together despite a formal separation with her estranged husband, Simon, seven years earlier. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Aberdeen medic with family history of cardiac issues aims to equip city with defibrillators

Lee Findlay's Aberdeen Defibrillator Project aims to provide defibrillators to public spaces around the city.

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1 week ago Best ancestry DNA tests for exploring your family history, tried and tested

Use a DNA kit to fill out the branches on your tree or discover more about your heritage and genetic make-up

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1 week ago Pop Idol star makes same British royal discovery as Danny Dyer after nine years

Another famous face delves into their family history on Who Do You Think You Are? and the results are shocking

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1 week ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Erin Patterson's daughter's cancer scare is revealed as mushroom murder trial hears details about family's medical history

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

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2 w. ago Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth review – a raw triumph of reinvention and resilience

(FLG)On their first LP in almost a decade, made as two members were treated for cancer, the rockers shrug off their 90s heyday with an experimental mindsetAlmost 30 years after Weak gave the London band a global smash, Skunk Anansie’s “painful truth” is facing up to middle age, parenthood, the loss of a longstanding manager, fears that their best days were behind them and two members being diagnosed with cancer. Recorded with drummer Mark Richardson in recovery and bassist Cass undergoing chemotherapy, their first album in nine years confronts such issues with candour and defiance. Opener An Artist Is an Artist stridently lays down the manifesto: over an infectious collision of electro-pop and post-punk, singer Skin insists that a true creative will not be denied by ageing or menopause. The vocalist subsequently addresses challenges ranging from the hedonistic rock lifestyle to her own family history.Musically, producer David Sitek of TV on the Radio has urged them to throw off the ...

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2 w. ago Heartbroken Fred Sirieix in floods of tears as he makes shock family discovery

First Dates star Fred Sirieix has an emotional time on BBC 1 hit series as the Who Do You Think You Are? team explain his family history and make some heartbreaking discoveries

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2 w. ago BBC Who Do You Think You Are star Aisling Bea struggles with 'shameful' family past

Comedian, actress, and screenwriter Aisling Bea delves into her family history on the BBC One show Who Do You Think You Are? and struggles with what she finds out

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3 w. ago Pope Leo’s grandfather was immigrant from Sicily, genealogists reveal

Robert Prevost’s maternal grandparents came to US from Caribbean and at one point identified as BlackEvidence that the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s bloodlines reflect the US’s legacy of immigration – and complicated relationship with race – has continued to emerge since he recently became the first American ever elected to lead the Roman Catholic church.The family history service Ancestry recently announced that a team helmed by senior genealogist Kyle Betit had determined Leo’s paternal grandfather, John R Prevost, immigrated to the US from north-eastern Sicily. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago King Charles' emotional plea to Prince William after making family 'mistake'

A new Channel 5 documentary explores how King Charles III has "made history" in the royal family, following his cancer diagnosis and Kate Middleton's own battle with the disease

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3 w. ago A New Orleans man with a history of violent allegations killed his neighbor – now a family seeks justice for their son

Leroy Stelly Jr shot Richie Smith dead in 2023 but was never charged. Now Smith’s mother and father have unearthed Stelly’s brutal past and are asking police for justiceOver a roughly 14-year period beginning in 2009, Leroy Stelly Jr faced accusations of pepper-spraying two women whom he encountered on a sidewalk and insulted as “bitches”, slapping his future wife at a bar, and threatening to shoot a construction worker while pretending to be a cop.He also called emergency operators and declared that he was “going to put a fucking .45”-caliber bullet in the head of someone who had banged on his door. He allegedly punched a guest he had over on Christmas Eve. He reportedly challenged people at a healthcare clinic with which he shares a fence “to meet [him] out on the street”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Olly Murs shares heartbreaking family decision that 'changed everything'

Singer Olly Murs shares a heartbreaking revelation while researching his family history as the told the reason behind his great-grandmother leaving her family during World War Two

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3 w. ago Olly Murs admits 'it saddens me' as he shares family decision that 'changed everything'

The Dance With Me Tonight singer, who turns 41 today, recently made a heartbreaking discovery while looking into his family history for BBC One show 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

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3 w. ago Layton Williams breaks down at discovering family connection to slavery

Actor and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Layton Williams was moved to tears during an episode of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? as he uncovered a personal connection to the history of slavery in his family.

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3 w. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing star makes discovery about family on Who Do You Think You Are?

Strictly Come Dancing finalist Layton Williams is the next famous face to take part in popular BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? as he delves into his family history

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3 w. ago BBC Who Do You Think You Are: Strictly star Layton Williams makes discovery about family

Strictly Come Dancing star Layton Williams is the latest celebrity to appear on the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? and finds out more about his family's history

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4 w. ago This American pope: Leo XIV’s bloodline reflects the US melting pot

A fraught history of race and immigration connect the new pope with his homelandPope Leo XIV, who on Thursday was elected as the first-ever US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church, has a familial bloodline that reflects his homeland’s fraught relationship with race – and why the nation’s stature as a melting pot of origins has long endured, records unearthed by genealogists show.The maternal grandfather of 69-year-old Robert Prevost, the newly minted pope, was evidently born abroad in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, according to birth records that professional genealogist Chris Smothers cited to ABC News in a recent report. When Leo’s grandfather, Joseph Martinez, obtained an 1887 marriage license to wed the future pope’s grandmother, Louise Baquié, he listed his birthplace as Haiti, which at the time was the same territory as Santo Domingo, Smothers noted. Continue reading...

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