89 m. ago Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media platforms banning children under 16

Australia has added Reddit and Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children under 16 from having accounts

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2 h. ago UPS plane explodes during takeoff at Louisville airport, leaving three dead and 11 injured

Louisville Metro Police announced on social media that several agencies are responding to the scene south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, as smoke filled the sky.

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3 h. ago A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China

Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raise memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in ChinaWhen Vickie Wang, a budding standup comedian, gets on stage in New York, she’s not just thinking about what jokes to crack. She’s also thinking about which ones to avoid. “I don’t criticise the administration directly,” she said. Or if she does, she makes sure it’s not recorded for social media. “I would never publicly publish something where I directly criticise the government I think it’s a learned behaviour from China”.Wang, 39, lived in Shanghai for nearly a decade, leaving in 2022. In 2025 she relocated to the US. When she arrived, she went on a frenzy of “revenge bingeing on democracy”, going to talks, protests and diving into New York’s public library. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago UPS plane explodes during takeoff at Kentucky airport, leaving massive plume of smoke and multiple injured

Louisville Metro Police announced on social media that several agencies are responding to the scene south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, as smoke filled the sky.

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9 h. ago Ruth Langsford breaks silence on ‘new man’ rumours after Eamonn Holmes split

Television presenter Ruth Langsford has address rumours she is dating a “new man” following a picture of her posted on social media.

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9 h. ago Brooklyn Beckham's awkward response to dad David finally getting his knighthood

Brooklyn Beckham has been quiet on social media following the news that his father David Beckham would be getting a knighthood

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10 h. ago TV football commentator Lucy Ward tells court social media posts from Joey Barton left her 'intimidated' and 'physically scared'

Soccer pundit Lucy Ward, 51, said she feared attending matches after Joey Barton compared her to serial killers Fred and Rose West, because she was 'murdering' the commentary on a match.

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10 h. ago Scrutiny of social media post is matter for NI Civil Service head, Assembly told

Finance Minister John O’Dowd was speaking after Paul Givan said he had been given him a ‘clean bill of health’.

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11 h. ago Georgia Harrison and her boyfriend Jack Spacey are seen out with their newborn baby Sahara for the first time as they run errands

The Love Island star, 30, confirmed this weekend that she had given birth to a baby girl on Thursday. She took to social media on Saturday afternoon to officially announce the news.

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11 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing star says 'we've got this' as they explain absence

Strictly Come Dancing presenter Janette Manrara has been noticeably absent from social media this week.

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11 h. ago Lucy Ward says she 'knew he would get to me' as social media posts from Joey Barton left her 'scared'

The former footballer and TV commentator gave evidence in the trial

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12 h. ago Parents say social media sets unrealistic standards of the 'perfect' home

Majority of parents say social media has set unrealistic standards for what the ‘perfect’ family home should look like

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12 h. ago Lucy Ward tells jury that social media posts from Joey Barton left her ‘scared’

Barton, from Widnes, Cheshire, denies 12 counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety.

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13 h. ago Loose Women star Charlene White defends decision not to wear a poppy after 'vitriol and racism'

The ITV presenter said on social media that she wears the poppy offscreen

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16 h. ago ‘You definitely felt disposable’: models – one 27, one 62 – discuss Botox, weight loss, creativity and the threat of AI

Modelling has changed hugely over the decades. Two models from different generations discuss the highs and lows of the industry, from the joy of travel and dressing up to predatory behaviour and physical pressuresIt’s easy to think of models as people whose lives are full of glitz and glamour, who “don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”. But according to New York-based Danielle Mareka, 27, and 62-year-old Dee O, who lives in London, the reality for most models is a constant hustle to get noticed.That’s not to mention keeping up with the fashion world’s changing landscape: since O began modelling in 1983, the internet and social media have transformed the way the industry operates. And models are now navigating innovations such as AI models appearing in Vogue and the impact of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs on the sector. O and Mareka met to discuss their careers past and present. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Celebrity Traitors' Cat Burns doubles down on brutal tactic after being 'thrown under the bus' by Jonathan Ross just before finale

The singer, who has made it to the final of the BBC One show, took to social media after scenes aired last week that saw her and fellow Traitor Alan Carr vote off Jonathan, 63, at the roundtable.

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17 h. ago Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era

In an extract from his new book on the rise of Canadian basketball, Oren Weisfeld examines the pressures of being a teenage star in the modern gameAndrew Wiggins was among the first superstar prospects of the social media era. Born in Thornhill, Ontario just north of Toronto, Wiggins was known internationally by the time he was 13. It wasn’t always easy for the shy, small-town kid to embrace the spotlight.After just one full season at Vaughan, Wiggins needed better competition than Canada could provide and moved on to Huntington Prep in Huntington, West Virginia — a relatively new prep school set in a small, blue-collar, sports-oriented college town near Kansas.This is an edited extract from The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse by Oren Weisfeld. It’s published by ECW Press for $19.95 (USD) wherever you get your books. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Love Island couple confirm split as fans spot 'quiet break up' on social media

Love Island couple Harrison Solomon and Lauren Wood have split just months after meeting on the ITV2 dating show

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29 h. ago Man Utd star hits out at 'false' social media claims about 'pregnant wife'

Amad Diallo has taken to social media to respond to a post that claimed he visited his 'pregnant wife' following Manchester United's 2-2 draw against Nottingham Forest

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29 h. ago Lesbian banned by iconic gym after standing up to trans woman 'who stared at her and swore while she was naked in locker room'

Tish Hyman was banned from her Los Angeles gym after she confronted a trans person who she said called her 'a b***h in a deep angry voice,' and she has been sharing her outrage on social media.

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