16 h. ago Peak behind the circus tent in this month's best historical fiction; THE SHOW WOMAN by Emma Cowing, THE ELOPEMENT by Gill Hornby, CLEOPATRA by Natasha Solomons

From sequins, to Austen to the Great Pyramids of Giza. Eithne Farry has picked out the best of May's historical fiction

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3 d. ago Urgent appeal issued to find missing man in Greater Manchester

Colin was last seen on Monday night

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3 d. ago Urgent appeal issued to find missing GP last seen eight days ago

Zakariya Waqar-Uddin was last seen in Lancashire last week and is believed to have been travelling to Middlesbrough

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5 d. ago Appeal issued to find missing woman not seen for almost two months

Mutiat, who is also known as Grace, has not been seen since March 21

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7 d. ago Urgent appeal issued to find missing woman last seen three days ago

Police say Laura may have travelled from Greater Manchester to Birmingham

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8 d. ago An Israeli woman on her way to give birth was killed in a West Bank attack

A woman who was nine months pregnant and on her way to the delivery room is dead after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on her car

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9 d. ago Urgent appeal issued to find missing Greater Manchester woman

Kendel, 58, is missing from home

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1 week ago Desperate family of missing Brit teen issue appeal after she vanishes in Thailand

Bella May Culley, 18, was last known to be in the Pattaya area and last spoke to her family on Saturday - her relatives are appealing for help to find her and are 'going out of their minds'

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1 week ago She was the first woman to climb to the roof of the world...but three months later the mountains claimed her life

As the lone figure approached the summit of Mount Everest buffeted by winds zipping around its dizzyingly steep and treacherous slopes, the sense of achievement was palpable.

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1 week ago Urgent appeal issued to find girl, 16, missing for three days

Korena is believed to be in Greater Manchester

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1 week ago Disabled woman, 34, earning £2,300 benefits a month says she hates council house because it's making her dog 'depressed' and giving her a blocked nose and sore throat

EXCLUSIVE: Zkiah Smith, 34, (pictured) from Greenwich, says her dog Bruno is suffering because of the council house she lives in.

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2 w. ago Urgent appeal issued to find woman who went missing from hospital

Irena has been missing since the early hours of the morning

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2 w. ago Woman killed by alligator after relaxing rowing trip turns into horror mauling

Two people were canoeing in the lake when an alligator attacked the woman, police in Florida said. It comes just three months after another woman was bitten by an alligator in the same beauty spot

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2 w. ago French lover of murdered Brit expat Karen Carter breaks his silence with tribute to 'lovely lady'

Mr Guerrier, the lover of the woman stabbed to death in Tremolat last month, was seen this morning picking up some post close to his home in the Dordogne village

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2 w. ago Daughters of mum missing from east London since 2017 issue fresh appeal

Daughters of mum missing from east London since 2017 issue fresh appeal  Sky News

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2 w. ago Man killed on MSC Virtuosa is second to die in tragedy on luxury ship in 8 months

Police have launched a murder probe following the death of a 60-year-old man on board the MSC Virtuosa - just eight months after a woman went overboard the 18-deck ship and died

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2 w. ago 'I lost eight stone on weight loss jab but stopping it created awful side effect'

A woman, who used the weight loss drug Mounjaro for nine months, has revealed some of the side effects she's experience while coming off the jab, admitting she's put on 7lb in just five days

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2 w. ago Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost

A love triangle plays out across generations in this brilliantly panoramic tale of family tiesAmerican author Eric Puchner’s latest novel is a colossus: a vast, bright behemoth of a book, panoramic as the Montana skyline. Dream State opens in 2004 with the image of a young woman, a month before her wedding, diving into a perfect lake whose “blue expanse of water” reflects the “overlapping peaks of the Salish range”. From this Edenic outset, it traverses decades, barrelling through our present day into a projected future: dipping in and out of the lives of a tight cast of characters as they succeed and fail; love and fall out of love; change and stay the same.The young woman is Cece. She has stepped out of the lakeshore family home of Charlie Margolis, a cardiac anaesthesiologist to whom she’s engaged. Route 30 traffic noise aside, the place is a bucolic idyll, marked by abundance and continuity: orchards filled with “ancient apple trees”, “raspberry bushes, magically replenishing”, ...

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2 w. ago Corrupt police officer and a taxi driver who raped a woman among the vile criminals jailed this month

These are some of the criminals who ended up behind bars in April

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3 w. ago LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling

Charities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans peopleFourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.The UK supreme court ruled last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred only to “a biological woman” and to “biological sex”, with subsequent advice from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as. Continue reading...

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