6 h. ago American woman moves to Cardiff for university and gets new obsession

Temilorun, 24, moved to Cardiff in South Wales, from Georgia in the US, back in 2023 to study at university and has been sharing the major culture shocks she's experienced

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6 d. ago How I became a Buffalo Bills fan – and learned what home means

I never cared about football. Then my Buffalonian boyfriend’s family brought me into the fold – and I discovered how failure, fandom and community intertwineOn 14 October 2024, having never supported a team before, or, to be honest, especially liked sports at all, I became a Buffalo Bills fan. I’d been going out with my Buffalonian boyfriend for more than a year, which I think in his parents’ eyes meant my introduction to the team that animates their entire hometown was overdue. They drove down to New York City, kitted me out in a Bills baseball cap, hoodie and blanket (and plastic Bills bag to hold it all in) – and took me to a game.I thought I’d seen enough Super Bowls to know I didn’t care about football, but wrapped in that staticky blanket, one of the few spots of Buffalo blue in a snake-green sea of Jets supporters at MetLife Stadium, I realized what I’d been missing: a team. Or more specifically: this team. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Prince Harry's 'golden ticket' US visa unearthed after months of speculation

Prince Harry's US visa has been a matter of hot debate ever since he moved there with his American wife, Meghan Markle, at the end of 2020. A US think tank took the matter to court

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9 d. ago The Spin | ‘They’re like time machines’: the endless magic of cricket scorecards

What may look like an impenetrable column of unexplained figures can reveal plenty of eccentric talesThere’s a scene in The Matrix when Cypher, the sardonic turncoat played by Joe Pantoliano, sits with Keanu Reeves’s Neo in front of a bank of monitors. To Neo’s eyes it’s an endless waterfall of meaningless green code. To Cypher, and to those who have learned the language, it’s not numbers and symbols but living images: “I don’t even see the code,” he says. “All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead ”A cricket scorecard works in exactly the same way. To the uninitiated, it’s an impenetrable column of initials, abbreviations and unexplained figures. But for those who know, these sheets of names and numbers are alive with incident; the shape of an innings, the rhythm of a bowling spell, the hidden drama of a partnership. Continue reading...

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1 week ago American moves to UK and has shocking realisation about her weight on Tube

As weight loss drugs become more widely available, we take a look at these ‘miracle’ medications and why for Calinda Robinson, 31, moving to the UK opened her eyes on her morning commute

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1 week ago American moves to UK and has shocking realisation about her weight on work commute

EXCLUSIVE: Calinda Robinson, 31, moved to the UK from America only to make a shocking discovery about her weight while commuting to work on the Tube leading to major changes

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1 week ago Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement

The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrogradeA cool evening air was descending on the 25-acre farmstead, blowing across the pond, around the barn, through the apple orchard and into the windows of Mike and Jenny Thomas’s two-century-old, red brick farmhouse.The dinner hour had come. Edith, five, and George, three, enthusiastically rang a bell hanging near the kitchen door, sending metallic peals back into the early dusk. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Hello Travis Kelce, goodbye Sydney Sweeney: American Eagle moves on from controversial jeans ad with freshly engaged star

Kelce’s new American Eagle campaign comes a few weeks after Sweeney’s controversial jeans ad

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2 w. ago Hozier fans in disbelief as they learn hidden meaning behind hit song Too Sweet

Hozier fans have been left in disbelief after learning the real meaning behind his hit song Too Sweet, with the singer recalling a rather embarrassing moment during a live show

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3 w. ago American moves to the UK and learns new meaning of words 'quite good'

A woman from California who moved to London has shared some of the biggest culture shocks she experienced about life in the UK, including what people actually mean when they say certain phrases

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