36 h. ago British man and teenager drown in incident near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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36 h. ago Two British tourists drown while swimming at beach near Great Barrier Reef

The Foreign Office said it was supporting the families of those who had died.

Society

37 h. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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39 h. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea in Australia

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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3 d. ago One in three British teenagers is now overweight or obese, new study reveals

The figure has risen by 50 per cent over the past two decades, which experts have put down to sedentary lifestyles driven by excessive screen time.

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5 d. ago Teenage weightlifters from Shotts become British Champions and power their way to world competition in Costa Rica

Reece Malone and Ged Murphy both took first place in their respective weight categories

Sport

8 d. ago Shocking moment British tourist 'attacks shopkeeper and teenage boy in front of terrified family' in Thailand

A British tourist has been arrested for attacking a shopkeeper and a teenage boy on the Thai island of Phuket.

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1 week ago Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize

Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’For the past five years, David Liu – a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts – has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldn’t unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. “Everyone thought they were being scammed,” he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The TravelSmart guide to Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine State

TravelSmart is going Down Under this week, exploring Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine State.

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2 w. ago Coronation Street fans floored to discover soap legend Tina O'Brien's connection to Adolescence's rising star Owen Cooper as he takes Netflix by storm

The teenage actor has taken Netflix by storm after the British drama hit the streaming platform earlier this month.

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3 w. ago ‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British

As the award-winning short is released on BBC iPlayer, the director and star talk about grief, breaking Somali stereotypes and a career-changing social media postWhen Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I genuinely thought it was just going to be a few people saying, ‘Oh my God, well done’,” she says. “I posted it at nine o’clock at night and thought nothing of it.” By morning, a commissioner at BBC Film had reached out, setting the wheels in motion for what would become Muna – an 18-minute short film that screened at more than 60 international film festivals, won multiple awards, and has now made its way to BBC iPlayer.Muna tells the story of a British-Somali teenager, played by Kosar Ali (Bafta-nominated for Rocks), who navigates a complex mother-daughter relationship while mourning a grandfather she never met. Her grief mirrors Mohamed’s own experience growing up. “There isn’t ...

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3 w. ago British teenage boys are being targeted on Snapchat and Instagram by Nigerian 'sextortion' gangs posing as young women

Teenage boys as young as 14 are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs who pose as women to trick victims into sending explicit images before demanding payments.

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3 w. ago British teenage boys being targeted by Nigerian ‘sextortion’ gangs

The National Crime Agency has launched a campaign to educate teenagers on how sextortion works and how to report incidents.

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3 w. ago British teenager who killed family and planned school massacre gets minimum 49 years in prison

A 19-year-old British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a high-profile school shooting has been told he will not be eligible for parole for at least 49 years

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